Portraits, 1st prize
Jan Banning
Laif Photos & Reportagen for M, NRC Handelsblad
Laif Photos & Reportagen for M, NRC Handelsblad
01 December, 2003
Suresh Prasad (56), assistent clerk at Bihar House, where officials from Delhi stay the night. India's weighty bureaucracy is an inheritance from British colonial times. Some 6,500 civil servants are employed at state level in Patna, the capital of Bihar. An estimated 45 per cent of bureaucratic positions in Patna are currently vacant due to economic restrictions.
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