My contract with the Ministry was over in the month of March. I enquired early in Feb, if they would extend or should I look out and they informed that they will extend. So I didn’t bother looking out. But the file (yes in govt they still use files) was sent for only on April 1st. To cut the long story short, it took almost 20 days for the approval to come through and it was a tough time, since I didn’t have another job or project at hand. I had just paid tax, so was short of funds too. It was a good learning for me. The contract is extended only for 3 months now. Hopefully it will extend further too.