Thank God for rare exceptions.

Apart from a rare exception all our civil servants are thieves engaged in looting the nation in cahoots with criminal politicians. That is why an honest civil servant, an extremely rare exception, is so very precious for us. Mr Ashok Khemka, an IAS officer was the Inspector General of Land Registration in Haryana when he found that the rules for village land use had been altered and land transferred to Mr Robert Vadra, son in law of Mrs Sonia Gandhi. Naturally, this raised a lot of stink last year and Mr Khemka received many death threats. The Congress government of Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda reacted swiftly by transferring him to Haryana Seeds Development Corporation as Managing Director, keeping their fingers crossed. Sadly for them it did not work. Mr Khemka has alleged that the Haryana government gave a subsidy of Rs 600 million for the use of a fungicide, Raxil for the treatment of Karnal Bunt Disease when it was not registered for that disease. Its maker, Bayer Crop Science had not obtained registration in the last 3 years. Unable to keep a good man down the Haryana government has transferred him to Haryana Archives as Secretary. ET, 05 April. This is the 44th time Mr Khemka has been transferred. Wonder if the Congress has really thought this out carefully because with the archives at his disposal and plenty of time on his hands he could discover no end of worms in the past. Meanwhile the Election Commission has asked for political parties to report all donations given to political parties every year. Presently only donations in excess of Rs 20,000 has to be reported but the EC wants this limit removed. The Law Ministry has said that the the demand has been referred to the Law Commission which is working on electoral reforms but the EC is not buying that argument saying that it can be done under existing rules. We have to remember that elections in India are a massive exercise in money laundering where all candidates use millions in black money to bribe voters. This naturally gives criminals an advantage which is why there are more than 160 MPs in the present Parliament accused of serious crimes including murder, rape, kidnapping, armed robbery and so on. Meanwhile the Comptroller and Auditor general has discovered that the Punjab government has hidden Rs 31.94 billion, raised through taxes, into various state bodies to avoid scrutiny. The CAG says that tax money should all go to a consolidated fund and such diversion is " unconstitutional ". The CAG has found that ambulances at government hospitals in Delhi were being used for transporting medicines, doctors and even dead bodies. The Delhi Jal Board has lost Rs 39.50 billion due to short billing and there is no result from Rs 6 billion spent on augmenting supplies. Among rotten criminals a few rare gems. Thank God for that.