In infinite wisdom Srini RamaKrishnan said the following On 1/28/10 5:48 PM:
http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services
Paying Zero for Public Services
From the page --
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Fed up with requests for bribes and equipped with a zero rupee note, the
old lady handed the note to the official. He was stunned. Remarkably,
the official stood up from his seat, offered her a chair, offered her
tea and gave her the title she had been seeking for the last year and a
half to obtain without success. Had the zero rupee note reached the old
lady sooner, her granddaughter could have started college on schedule
and avoided the consequence of delaying her education for two years. In
another experience, a corrupt official in a district in Tamil Nadu was
so frightened on seeing the zero rupee note that he returned all the
bribe money he had collected for establishing a new electricity
connection back to the no longer compliant citizen.
''
This anecdote is a bit hard to digest. Or maybe I have dealt with more
hardened bureaucrats.
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