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| Wani sidelined, Jain clipped….think why? | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 9
When the state cabinet had its last meeting here, among the spate of transfers and postings at the high echelons of administration and police, it carried out few interesting developments in the Education Department –both school education and higher education.
Secretary to Government, School Education department, Khizar Mohammad Wani was removed from the post and kept waiting for few days to have the further posting. Wani’s removal from the post of administrative secretary in the School Education department underlined the urgency of taking him out of the Education department and not merely a routine change of guard at the top administrative level of the department.
The fact that he was put to wait for the new orders of postings clearly reflects that he was not immediately required at any other department but the immediacy was to have him out of the Education department. And after waiting for a week, when a single order for the posting of Wani was issued, it further supported the doubts of sidelining an upright and honest officer. He was posted as Secretary to Government, Department of Technical Education.
One of the most efficient and honest officers, Wani, awarded for his honesty is now also punished for sticking to the rule book. Now what all he has to do is to look after two Government run Polytechnic Colleges and a few Industrial Training Institutes. Interestingly, the department of Technical Education never needed a full time administrative secretary as most of the times it has gone with the Secretary Higher Education or Secretary School Education.
Sources in the Civil Secretariat said that Wani was sticking to the rule book so much that it was upsetting the political bosses. The School Education Department is heavily charged with the responsibility of giving no objection certificates for running Elementary Teachers Training Course –a money minting line of activity offering the politicians an alternative to the B.Ed Colleges.
It may be mentioned here that majority of the B.Ed Colleges in the private sector in Jammu and Kashmir are owned by the political leaders including the Ministers, legislators and other top brass leaders. Now since there is a moratorium on the new B.Ed Colleges, the politicians have queued up for the ETT Colleges for which the NOC has to be obtained from the School Education Department. Some of the top politicians who have their NOC’s for the ETT Colleges in waiting are Higher Education Minister Gulchain Singh Charak, Rural Development Minister Mula Ram, Congress MLC Rajinder Singh Chib and PDP MLC Ved Mahajan. Most of these cases were running through objections, said the sources.
Another interesting development was the creation of the Department of Culture. The wings now put under the Department of Culture –Libraries, Archives, Museums etc –were till now with the Department of Higher Education. Parmod Jain is presently the administrative secretary in the Department of Higher Education. Now being divested of the key departments, Jain now has to look after only the government run Colleges as after NOC stage the private Colleges have nothing to do with the administrative department.
Moreover, the Academy of Art, Culture and Languages too has been brought under the administrative department of Culture. This is also being seen as clipping wings of Parmod Jain and also putting a counter check on the Culture Academy Secretary Rafiq Masudi who has already been questioned for backdoor appointments in the Academy. |
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