Corrupt bureaucrats in J-K are efficient: Azad

Corruption has a different connotation in Jammu and Kashmir -- the most corrupt bureaucrat is the most efficient one, says Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.

"And the most honest are the most inefficient bureaucrats," Azad told a function where he released the book by ITDC Chairman and Managing Director Pervez Deewan.

Azad said his tenure as chief minister, a post he had assumed on November two last year, had taught him the bitter lesson that 'bureaucrats or officials in the state were not honest by conviction, they were honest by compulsion.' 

However, the chief minister also noted that Deewan, who was seated beside him on the dais, was an exception as he was both honest and efficient.