In a commendable effort to try and ensure that our top babus are heard to talk the talk - bolo the boli – but are also seen as able to walk the talk – chalo the boli – the Modi sarkar has provided them with a lingual ready reckoner by which they can translate the most commonly used words and phrases in bureaucratese into Hindi, which need not necessarily be of the shudh variety…if an officer wants to make a file notation the handy word list supplied by the Home Ministry will make the Hindi word available at the official’s fingertips
From an Editorial in The Times of India,
March 7