The Government Purse
The last day of February is a big budget decision day in Delhi. Apparently, not even the ministers know what the allocations are going to be until the reports are handed out the morning of the announcements. There's a lot of secrecy at the polictical level, but unlike these decisions in the U.S., they directly affect a good majority of citizens, since many companies are still owned or run by the government. Only recently, for example, did the Indira Gandhi airport here become privately run! The airport has been a disaster for years, according to my new colleagues here, and only now are they building a new terminal, cleaning up administrative issues, and driving change in poor practices.