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October 09, 2006
Vishy's Indian English Dictionary: gazetted officer
gazetted officer. /guh·ZET·ed·offi·suh/. Any civil servant, whose name, appointments and career movements are published in a periodic government-issued publication called a gazette. A gazetted officer performs functions similar to those performed by a notary public in the U.S., such as notarizing copies and verifying the authenticity of translations. Becoming a gazetted officer makes a bureaucrat a member of a fairly elite group—according to one source, the government's intent is to have one gazetted officer for every ten non-gazetted officers. Becoming a gazetted officer is a certain sign of having arrived amid India's teeming bureaucracy and an automatic disqualification from making statements like 'stick it to The Man'.
Posted by Vishy at October 9, 2006 10:31 PM