I am a civil servant I find it a catch-22 scenario.

As a bureaucrat, you have enormous authority to raise objection against other people’s intiatives (including other bureaucrats’). A corrollory to this is that other bureaucrats are also in a position to stall your initiatives. The net result is that everyone is left with enormous negative powers and very little actual authority to make positive impact.

Does this mean that these checks are useless? The answer is no. As you mentioned about human frailties, it is equally necessary to put thorough checks on a bureaucrat earning Rs. 40000/- pm given to exercise discretion in crores of rupees. So what is the way out?