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| Undergraduate stenographers are supertime KAS | | Can be potential IAS aspirants | | Bashir Assad
SRINAGAR, Jan 3: Believe it; in Jammu and Kashmir a simple undergraduate stenographer can get into supertime scale KAS, thanks to the rule menders who have time and again bent the rules to suit their favourites.
The KAS seniority list proves this. One Sheela Bhagat at serial No.96 (special Scale) Secretariat-II presently Special Secretary to the Government having done diploma in English Stenography with basic qualification Under Graduate indicated against her name. At serial No.111 figures Hashmat Ali Khan (ST) and his qualification as indicated against his name is undergraduate, Diploma in Stenography, Hashmat is presently posted as Principal Private Secretary to Chief Secretary. Another undergraduate Stenographer, Hasan Khan at serial No.146. So don't be surprised if these undergraduates even get inducted into IAS as provided in the butchered J&K service rules.
Not too for ago, the rules in KAS were quite clear that a candidate having a graduate degree can apply for a post in the combined services and graduation is a must for all and sundry irrespective of promotees or direct recruits. There is an establishment committee headed by Chief Secretary with senior Financial Commissioners as its members who go through the records of eligible officers for promotions to the higher scales at every level. Now how these undergraduate stenographers can be appointed requires an explanation from steel-frame /stiff-necked bureaucrats.
One cannot blame political establishment for such blatant aberrations because they are not supposed to know each and every rule on the subject, therefore, a system has been carved out which assists the political establishment for realizing the goals. It is estranging to see so many stenographers who have been connecting the Ministers and Commissioner Secretaries on phones and taking dictations from them all of a sudden become policy makers.
This practice has of course defeated the very purpose of the Combined Administrative services especially the KAS and rogues in the administrative have made a mess out of it. This worst kind of cadre mismanagement happens only in J&K. Feel pity on this system of cadre management wherein a person who was taking dictation yesterday from the Minister or the Commissioner is dictating today without actually knowing anything about it or having undergone any training. They even start writing on files and putting up notes.
One fails to understand as to why in 1988 the Stenographer cadre was included in the feeding services list to the KAS which has now turned into a full circle because after getting supertimes and subsequently superannuated, they get back to their original job of stenography through re-appointments. Take for instance SK Arora, Private Secretary with PHE Minister, Manohar Lal Sharma, Private secretary with Minister for Cooperatives, Bashir Ahmad Banday, OSD to Industries Minister and the list goes on and on. All of them have retired from their services on their elevation to Special Scales and now have been re-appointed by the ministers on their original job.
It sounds strange but true it is, out of 22 sitting ministers only two ministers are having in service private secretaries while twenty ministers have appointed their blue eyed either as private secretaries or Personal Assistants or Officers on Special Duty. So much one cabinet minister has an army of retired officials around him and still he claims to be the best. Hence the show goes on.
Now as for the in-service undergraduate stenographers who have been inducted into KAS special scale, chances of them getting into IAS cannot be ruled out provided their age favors them. |
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