Marking its one-year anniversary, the Delhi government has 'discovered' 186,000 maturity accounts that they simply forgot to pay out for a...

Marking its one-year anniversary, the Delhi government has 'discovered' 186,000 maturity accounts that they simply forgot to pay out for a decade. By identifying 30,000 women who were supposed to be 'Lakhpatis' years ago, the bureaucracy has proved that the best way to ensure fiscal discipline is to leave the money in a forgotten drawer until the inflation makes the payout negligible. The revamped 'Lakhpati Bitiya Yojana' is essentially an apology for a ten-year administrative nap.