‘Tout tout go away’! Bihar govt appoints service providers for RTPS to remove middlemen!   Patna: right from the traffic to the passport offices, to mention a few random examples, Bihar has been a dream come true for middlemen of all sorts. These middlemen are so firmly entrenched in the system that it is difficult to separate the official wires and switches from that of the middlemen. The official mechanism over time becomes fully dependent on the middlemen for its daily function and corruption acquires a routine that makes it seem more official than the official way, and even the... 

Right to Public Service (RTPS) Act a big ‘hit’ in Bihar: 30,000 applications on the first day Patna: according to newspaper reports, the Right to Public Service (RTPS) Act on its very first day got the Bihar government above 28,500 applications. To use popular lingo, the RTPS is clearly a big ‘hit’ with the citizens. More important, it is also something that people were eagerly awaiting. The applications from the districts are not included in the above figure. In the coming days, the statistic on the type of applications and their relative numbers would provide one more vital index...