#bueraucracy

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حکومت پنجاب کا صوبے میں پٹواری نظام شروع کروانے کا اعلان راولپنڈی: صوبے میں اراضی کے ریکارڈ کو ڈیجیٹائز کرنے کے بجائے پاکستان تحریک انصاف (پی ٹی آئی) کی پنجاب حکومت نے اصلاحات کے نام پر لینڈ ریونیو ڈپارٹمنٹس میں دوبارہ پٹواری نظام متعارف کروانے کا آغاز کردیا۔

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You know you're in Germany, when you have to pay for using the beach!

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Today in bureaucracy, college administration edition

Bloomberg's John Hechinger has a great piece today on the rise of "administrative bloat" at increasingly unaffordable public universities.

Not only are high-level bueracrats pulling in mid six-figure salaries at this institutions, but there are now armies of vice presidents, "engagement" officers and maginally useful functionaries, all of which are being paid for by taxpayers. This includes some particularly startling examples at Purdue University, where administrators must be hired before the school can even consider switching to a trimester system:  

Frank Dooley, a $172,000-a-year associate vice provost and professor of agricultural economics. Dooley and a part-time financial analyst will cost the university $212,000 a year, excluding benefits.

The associate vice provost works in an 8-by-10-foot windowless office in the building that houses Purdue’s president. Dooley plans to establish seven or eight committees of professors, administrators, students and others for discussion and fact-gathering. He expects a decision in 2015.

“I look at myself as an envoy or ambassador,” Dooley said. “My job is to make sure these seven or eight committees are aware of what’s going on in the other committees.”