DOGE's Failure Highlights Bureaucratic Efficiency Debate

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the US was created to make the government work better by cutting waste and firing many workers.

But it didn't work well and was shut down.

Some people in India thought we should have something like DOGE to fix our slow and inefficient bureaucracy.

However, the article says that the real problem in India is not too many bureaucrats but too few.

It also warns that just using technology and algorithms to make things efficient can be dangerous.

The state is not like a business, and efficiency should not come at the cost of democracy and social justice.

The article suggests that making the Indian state more efficient means hiring more people and making the state more democratic and accountable to its citizens.