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| No Accountability this: Officers, Ministers go Ex-Communico | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Oct 6: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's appeals to the bureaucratic machinery of the state to be accountable to the people were either only for public consumption or seem to have fallen on deaf ears as most of the official telephones of not only the officers but the Ministers themselves are either not responded or are redirected to numbers which are not in use.
While district and provincial level officers were given mobile phones on public expense so that people who find it difficult to reach such officers can contact them on phone thereby reducing their own work load substantially, most of these officers do not respond to repeated calls made on their numbers. Most unfortunately, even the Ministers do not respond calls and keep their cellphones off thereby loosing the moral authority to ask their officers to respond to calls.
Chief Minister had directed all officers not to switch of their phone, but they found an easy way of ducking the instructions. These officers now pick up only identified numbers which have been saved in their SIM cards. Even scribes have problems contacting the ministers and the officers on their cellphones when they need to seek clarification on issues of vital public interest. Most of these phones are redirected to land line numbers, majority of which are out of service. And if you manage to get them on phone sometime and complain about the un-responded calls, spat comes the reply, "we were in a meeting".
Under such circumstances, it would be better to retrieve all cell numbers issued to officers and even Ministers on public expense so that exchequer can be saved a substantial pinch. |
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