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| BB Vyas is Commissioner Planning, Khursheed Ganai Principal Secretary to CM ! | | J&K Govt’s special information for IAS officers without an RTI application | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Jan 8: General Administration Department (GAD) is officially
responsible not only for maintaining service record of KAS and IAS
officers but also for sharing with the public every information about
these individual. Imagine what this custodian of all such official
information is telling the world at large through its official website
www.jkgad.nic.in on January 8th, 2011.
State government’s most authentic domain on the Internet however
mentions head of the GAD itself, Mohammad Sayeed Khan, as Secretary to
Government, Social Welfare Department. According to it, Bharat Bhushan
Vyas is Commissioner-Secretary Planning Department and Khursheed Ahmed
Ganai is Principal Secretary to Honourble Chief Minister. This inspite
of the fact that Khan had been appointed as Secretary GAD on August
26, 2010---the day when Vyas and Ganai swapped places in a major
reshuffle in the state bureaucracy.
The GAD website, being maintained by NIC, further mentions S S Sawhny
as Principal Resident Commissioner in New Delhi and Gowhar Ahmed as
Member J&K Special Tribunal. Mr Sawhny has actually reached
superannuation on 31-12-2010 and Mr Gowhar on May 31 last year. On the
GAD website, Chairman J&K Special Tribunal Samuel Varghese has been
mentioned as Financial Commissioner Home, Principal Secretary Home B R
Sharma as Principal Secretary Power Development Department, Mehboob
Iqbal, who had been attached to GAD on 26-8-2010, has been described
as Commissioner-Secretary R&B and Excise Commissioner G A Pir as
Secretary School Education.
Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir Asgar Hassan Samoon has been
designated as Commissioner-Secretary CAPD and Transport and actual
head of CAPD, Pradeep Gupta, has been introduced as Excise
Commissioner.
Senior bureaucrats in Chief Secretary’s office as well as GAD did not
respond to phone calls but their juniors, on the condition of
anonymity, told Early Times that nobody in the Civil Secretariat had
bothered to update information about 100-odd IAS officers in the last
12 calendar months. The list of J&K cadre IAS officers, as available
on the most authentic website of the state government, has been
compiled on 18-01-2010. Interestingly, however, the list of the
state’s KAS officers is well up to date.
“Khursheed Ganai Sahab, alongwith Asgar Hussain (now in CM’s
Secretariat), not only created the GAD domain but also kept it
religiously updated every day. His successor Basharat Sahab was
terribly keen in other practical achievements for the services but
still made it a point to keep the latest information available for the
common people. Sayeed Khan Sahab is believed to have never visited
this site, let alone updating it”, said a middle rung official in GAD.
He was, however, quick to make it clear that the responsibility of
maintaining and updating the links lay with NIC.
“How do you except bureaucrats and officials to update information
about IAS officers when both, National Conference as well as PDP, have
been seeking their expulsion from the state?” asked a former Minister
with a veiled reference to the two major political parties’ slogans of
“Greater Autonomy” and “Self Rule”. He asserted that there was no
political will to make the defunct State Accountability Commission and
the non-existent State Information Commission operation in Jammu &
Kashmir. “It’s ridiculous that the government found only one
individual (Wajahat Habibullah) suitable to head SIC and nobody after
Justice (R.P) Sethi’s resignation fit to head SAC in this country of
110 Crore population”, he observed, with a dig on the two-year-old
NC-Congress coalition.
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