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Who's working for Vizag?

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Who’s working for Vizag? TOI dated 12 September 2016 In the olden days when a shopkeeper who singly looking after his shop, wanted to go out for a bite he generally put out a board reading “CLOSED FOR LUNCH”. Old timers will remember waiting at the doctor’s clinic where a small board read “DOCTOR IS OUT, WILL RETURN AT …” Underneath was a dummy clock, the hands of which could be rotated, that gave the time when the doctor was expected back. Until then we just sat in the waiting room thumbing through old editions of the Illustrated Weekly. Lately we Vizagites are beginning to get a funny feeling that we are constantly in waiting. We are beginning to wonder if there is anyone really looking after our city. Meeting cancelled Officials in Vizag are all busy doing something else. Here is how it works. The head honcho in Hyderabad calls for a meeting. He asks the boss administrator in the state to get him some information. The boss in turn asks the principal secretary to ge