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| Vibrant PSCs imperative for creating capable bureaucracy: Baig | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 30
Underlining the importance of Public Service Commissions (PSCs) in creating capable administrative machinery to shoulder the responsibilities of nation building and implementing policy programmes of a government, the Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig said that the transparency and credibility in selection process should be the hall mark of such statutory institutions.
He was addressing the valedictory function of one-day workshop on "Transparent, Credible selection procedures for Recruitment" organized by the State Public Service Commission in connection with its Golden Jubilee celebrations at Zorawar Singh Auditorium at Jammu University on Saturday.
Equating the creation of Public Service Commission as a transition from autocracy to democracy, the DCM said that the right to equality and opportunity is the hall mark of any democratic set up adding this also, holds true to the functioning of the PSCs, whereby an individual gets an equal opportunity to participate and get selected irrespective of his affiliations. "The functioning of service commission becomes imperative in order to do away the kinship concept, which is threatening the very existence of having flawless and upright bureaucracy", he maintained.
Strongly advocating the need for accountability and transparency, Baig maintained that it is a key which dispels doubts leading to public credibility of an institution. " The Commission should hold more interactive sessions involving the academics, researchers, job aspirants and students and devise ways and means for creating more transparency and credibility through public opinion" he opined.
The Deputy Chief Minister said that the most important challenge of the commission is the credibility and it can be brought by appointing people of impeccable track record as its members. "The credibility comes by choosing the right kind of people to head the commission, whose credibility is undoubted in every spare of life rather than crabbing about the selection procedures.
Responding to the demands of the commission regarding infrastructure development, the Deputy Chief Minister said that the government is abreast with the need to modernize it and in this regard every sort of help whether material or intellectual would be provided so that the functioning of PSC does not suffer.
While commenting on so- called political interference on the functioning of the commission vis-a-vis the selection process, Baig said that by making it more transparent the interference of any sort, if any, would be automatically done away with. "I do not think there is any influence on the commission as we believe in transparency, credibility and right to opportunity", he asserted.
Dispelling the notion, of so called regional imbalances in selection process, Baig maintained that it is a handiwork of vested interests, which are bent upon creating a mole hill out of nothing.
The Vice Chancellor Kashmir University Dr. Rayaz Punjabi also spoke on the occasion and stressed on the need of holding more interactive sessions by involving academics, intelligentsia and students.
M. S. Pandit Chairman State Public Service Commission also spoke on the occasion.
The valedictory function was attended by the Chairmen of various state public services commissions, members of the state public service commission, justice (Retd) O. P. Sharma, researchers and students. |
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