India, Feb. 13 -- An IIT Bombay graduate and former CEO has called for India to get its own Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) like the one being run by billionaire Elon Musk in the US government to reduce wasteful spending.

"The richest man in the world is working for free to keep your government in check and we just criticise. We all know Elon the engineer. Built SpaceX, Tesla and now changing social media through Twitter. What we don't realise is how he's actively exposing inefficiencies and making a country better through initiatives like the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)," he said in a post on LinkedIn.

The techie then pitched a similar organisation in India. "Imagine if India had its own version of DOGE-a dedi...