Srinagar, Oct. 12 -- The October 7 bureaucratic reshuffle, involving 49 IAS and JKAS officers, has once again set the administrative carousel spinning. Deputy Commissioners have been shifted, departments have acquired new heads, and officers have moved from one influential assignment to another.

But one document is conspicuously missing from this elaborate exercise: the public report card of the outgoing officer.

What did he achieve? What did he fail to achieve? How much public money was spent under his watch? How many grievances did he resolve? How many did he leave behind? And what measurable difference did his tenure make to the lives of ordinary citizens?

Nobody seems interested in answering these questions.

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