Former IAS officer Sanjeev Ahluwalia has described Indian bureaucracy as a "maze" and called for simplifying rules and writing them originally in Hindi to reduce corruption and confusion. Responding to questions about systemic issues in customs and regulatory compliance, Ahluwalia pointed to poorly drafted laws as a root cause. Advertisement

"Bureaucracy is by definition a maze, so you can't get away from that," he said in an interview with India Today. "The only difference is that in our case, the rules and regulations-and this is not new, this has always been there-have three problems: one, they are extremely and unnecessarily complicated and intrusive."

Ahluwalia made the remarks during a discussion on the recent bribery allegations levelled by Tamil Nadu-based logistics firm Wintrac

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