Lousy Names for Government Agencies

According to Foreign Policy magazine, the five most inappropriately-named government organizations have been identified and they are recommended for image changes. Most prominent is the Backward Classes Bureau of India.

The magazine said the Backward Classes Bureau provides welfare services to and represents interests of poor Indians.

Approximately 50 per cent of Indians are members of "backward classes," a rather blunt designation for lower-caste Hindus and other disadvantaged religious and ethnic communities, the report noted.

In no particular order, the other four poorly-named groups are:

- KGB of Belarus,

- Central Propaganda Department of China,

- Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice of Saudi Arabia, and the

- Ministry of Lands, Land Reform, and Rural Resettlement of Zimbabwe.

Heh.