Acknowledgement

This report draws on the results from an in-person survey across four different departments in Bihar:

• Health Department

• Education Department

• Social Welfare Department

• Rural Development Department

We are thankful to the departments and their leadership for their support for this project.
 
This project was funded by the International Science Partnership Fund (Grant #111218).
 
The survey was implemented by the field team of the Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) from December 2024 – March 2025. We would like to extend our thanks to the team at ADRI Patna who made this project possible.
 
Many of the questions included in the survey build on earlier work such as the Global Survey of Public Servants and have been fine-tuned and translated for this survey.

 

We are thankful to Sidharth Santhosh, Tarsha Vasu, and Rakesh Kumar Rajak for feedback on an earlier version of this report. All remaining errors are those of the authors alone.