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| Ignored senior’s question Govt's pick and choose | | Promotions, postings in top bureaucracy | | Minister assures review
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 2: The recent promotions and transfers ordered by the State Cabinet under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah have raised man an eye-brows with senior most IAS officers crying foul over pick and choose policy of the Government in promoting junior officer to top post.
Highly placed sources told that in Wednesday's Cabinet decision of Postings, a junior IAS officer was preferred on key positing while the state based senior IAS officers were allegedly sidelined or given the tasks of lesser importance. The senior IAS officers expressed dissatisfaction over the transfer and posting ordered by the Cabinet on the pretext that even IAS officers of less than 13 years of experience have been promoted and given coveted posts leaving the seniors fuming.
"When you sideline the state-based senior IAS officers, you are discouraging them which would obviously breed disenchantment and disappointment" says a senior IAS officer told, insisting not to be named.
The former bureaucrat told that Kashmir Administrative Service is a unique phenomenon in the world. "In this service, you would find officers from varied ethnic backgrounds and cultural mixes. Everyone is well-versed with the problems that the state faces. So engaging them to treat these problems is the best medicine one can think of, and this would ensure a fine balance between different ethnicities in Jammu and Kashmir and would also bring down the feeling of alienation and discrimination, if at all it exists, "he said.
"Previous coalition Government taking some of the bold decisions and starting the trend of giving reigns of the state administration in the hands of local officers and made some of the local senior officers as principal secretaries and secretaries so there is no imbalance in the bureaucratic set-up. But today in the present Government the balance has again altered, and ruling National conference Government has failed to do so which is a matter of concern," Nayeem Akhtar chief spokesperson of Peoples Democratic party told.
Senior National Conference leader and Member Parliament Dr Mehboob Beig told that the Government should ensure this balance. And the local senior IAS officers should must be put at the top. The issue calls for a deeper introspection "The local officers understand the local psyche and local environment much better. But then for this, we also need to examine if we have the officers in the pipeline to take up such positions, "he said.
Meanwhile senior National conference leader Ali Mohammad Sagar told that if the IAS officers of Valley feel any discrimination let them come forward for some complaint, the State Government will definitely look on it.
Despite several attempts, the Chief Secretary could not be contacted for comments. However when contacted Principal Secretary to Chief Minister BB Vyas said that he cannot comment on it as he is out of the state. |
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