The district officials can also be termed as the ping pong balls, just like in table tennis, they can be called at any point of time to the State level Office for a game of data-data, sometimes even twice/thrice in a month! In an ideal world, they were supposed to move in the field, implement schemes and report back issues to the State Office. It was the job of the State Office to plan and weed out inefficiency through this ideal reporting/feedback system but this rarely happened! Instead, it made them their bunnies, calling them at their whims and fancies. Now, the main job of ping pong balls is to remain in the district office, play with files and God only knows from where they get the data. Throughout the year, the cycle of monthly review meetings - > giving target - > collecting data - > reviewing some other target in the subsequent meeting!! - > collecting additional data goes on and on...
