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Early Times REPORTER
Jammu, July 30:
As the powerful non-state IAS officers watch from the window as how they have been relegated to the insignificant departments, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said that he made the KAS officers as fountainhead of power in Jammu and Kashmir.
Speaking at a conference organised by the KAS officers association, the Chief Minister pointed out that he had brought local officers on the centre stage of policy and decision making, saying for the first time in the history of the State local officers were holding 90 per cent key positions in the administration.
"The argument that local officers in J&K were not on top administrative positions does hold good anymore", the Chief Minister said while addressing a one-day convention of KAS Officers Association here today adding, "this casts a greater responsibility on them to perform and come up to the expectations of the people."
Azad said his government had involved in major number local officers in decision making process, assigning them key positions. He said the topmost position of Chief Secretary and Director General of Police were both held by local officers today. He said for the first time, 19 out of 22 District Development Commissioners in the State belong to J&K itself. Earlier, he said the case was reverse. Similarly, hardly a secretary to government level local officer was seen in the civil secretariat but today there were as many as 27 local IAS and KAS officers holding the position of Financial Commissioner, Principal Secretary and Secretary to Government. He said last year only as many as six important departments like education, tourism, housing and urban development and health were given under the independent charge of local officers. He said in the police department also local officers hold important positions today.
With this scenario obtaining in the civil and police administration, the Chief Minister said local officers had to prove their mettle and deliver. He said there was no room now for the blame for inefficiency being put at the door of the government for ignoring local officers in the decision making process. He said his government had changed the tradition and given local officers the responsibilities of development and progress of the State. "They have to prove worthy of the trust the government has reposed in them", he added. He said restructuring of the KAS cadre recently was aimed at bringing local officers on the centre stage of policy and decision making in the State.
The Chief Minister asked the officers to emulate missionaries in the service to people and said although they did not get perks and promotions and often had to work in climatically and politically hostile environment, their dedication to their mission could be a guiding force for the government employees who were paid for their job. He said government officials should consider themselves fortunate that they had been chosen to serve the people and receive remuneration for the services as well. He called upon them to inculcate the spirit of the missionaries in the service to humankind
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