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| Empowering DCs, ADDC: Legislators senior bureaucrats unhappy | | |
Jammu, September 13 :-
Chief Minister, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad’s announcement on giving additional powers to the District Development Commissioners and Additional Development commissioners has seemingly peeved not only the legislators but also senior bureaucrats, including those in the police.
Number of legislators, while commenting on the Chief Minister’s announcement, said “we as people’s representatives have been rendered irrelevant when the Deputy and Additional Deputy commissioners enjoy more powers than the legislators.”
These legislators explained that “since the change of guard we are neither permitted to enter the civil secretariat before 3 P.M. nor our recommendations for transfer of some Government official are honoured by the concerned authorities.”
One Congress MLA said that the new policies of the Chief Minister were bound to affect the Congress in the state.He said that “when we have been reduced to nonentities unable to oblige people seeking some petty favours we cannot expect these very people to support our party in the next election.”
A couple of senior bureaucrats said that since tehsildar was a gazetted post his transfer, even if recommended by a minister, could materialize only after the approval of the Chief Minister. And various transfers were first cleared by the administrative department and once the DCs’ and ADCs’ were given the powers to transfer revenue officials from patwari to Tehsildar it would erode the authority of not only the commissioners and secretaries but of the ministers.
One senior police officer said that DCs and ADCs were already preoccupied with their revenue and allied activities and if they were told to act as watch dog against corrupt officials they will have no time to attend to their normal duties. He said the state has already Vigilance organization whose officers have been doing a good job in bringing corrupt officials under their net.
The officer said that if the present government continue to experiment with new ideas a day is not far of when it would revert to the old procedure of empowering DCs for writing the ACRs of police officers upto the rank of SPs. He said since the police authorities had protested against this procedure it had been dropped years ago. The case was similar in neighbouring states including Haryana, where the police authorities and the Deputy Commissioners locked horns on the matter.
Legislators wanted the Chief Minister to honour the set precedent under which MLAs’ suggestions and recommendations were given due weightage. |
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