Bribe, laxity and incompetence define offices in Uttar Pradesh
Azamgarh is the Lok Sabha constituency of the Samajwadi Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. His son Akhilesh Yadav is the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. There are many ministers in the cabinet of Shri Akhilesh Yadav who hail from the district. However, if you go to Azamgarh, you will not find anything that gives you the feel of any VIP constituency. Go to the District Hospital and witness the horrible condition of the patients. There are many class-1 dispensaries in the district with reasonably good buildings sans doctors and other medical equipment. Private doctors are literally rolling in money. People are being fleeced by the private doctors and the owners of the shanty Hospitals day in and day out because there is no choice left for them. The government finds itself thoroughly incapable of having any control over its own hospitals. I was in Azamgarh last week for three days and had to go to the many offices for a small personal work. In normal course, I should not have been ha