It was just a day or two ago that a senior corporate leader had expressed his disappointment over the pace at which business decisions get cleared. Now comes the news that “policy papers were being smuggled out of the Oil Ministry” (Feb.20). The corporate leader in question should now know where the obstacles stem from and should raise the issue before the CII and FICCI. The greed of individual industrialists is often the root cause of problems. It is also a fact that government offices lack proper security; one has heard of stories of defence secrets being ferreted out of the Ministry for a paltry monetary consideration.
T.M. Renganathan,Srirangam, Tamil Nadu
That there are well-oiled links between corporates and bureaucrats which control the levers of power was revealed by the Radia Tapes. One wonders how much more sensitive material from other Ministries has been taken away.
H.R. Bapu Satyanarayana,Mysuru
The news is just sensationalism as such “theft” has been going on for over 50 years. There is always a game of “oneupmanship” in business circles, with big business houses employing executives just to obtain information from government offices. With advances in technology, it has become easy to transfer information onto devices and smuggle out data. Foreign organisations have also mastered the art of obtaining masses of information from government departments.
M.V. Nahusharaj,Bengaluru
