The Patient Crusader

Yudhvir Singh Malik, chairman, NHAI, and secretary, MoRTH, has championed several causes across the portfolios he has held. His current task is to ensure that India gets her infrastructure.

- Jayashree Kini Mendes

Civil servants in India are being pressed to think big. The idea is that if the bureaucracy works better, bringing in change is that much faster. With their erudite background, they are required to be farsighted, sanguine, committed, and forthright. An ame-nable social disposition and perseverance to complete tasks in hand only adds weightage to the persona. There’s more. Few civil servants are entrusted with critical portfolios and those shouldering them have been given the role based on track record. Even fewer are conferred dual roles or even reinstated in an earlier held portfolio much after moving on to larger roles. In recent times, such an honour has befallen Yudhvir Singh Malik, Secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) and chairman, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)