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| In J&K Charity begins at home, but accountability does not | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 24: The state government has been issuing detachment orders of those employees/officers who manage to remain posted at places of their choice and yet draw salaries from places they are originally posted at.
For example, the wife of an influential person was appointed as a teacher against the posts advertised in Kargil district. Under normal circumstances, the appointed teacher should have reported for duties at Kargil and served there. Instead of this, the teacher was ‘attached to a school in Srinagar’ city. She remained attached at that school just a stone’s throw away from her home for three years. In yet another example of fearless nepotism, after serving in her attachment assignment, the teacher was ‘finally transferred from Kargil to Srinagar after three years’.
This means the concerned teacher was appointed for Kargil, she never served there, the poor students at the school where her original order of appointment had posted her continued to suffer for three years and she was then permanently posted in Srinagar when she hadn’t served in Kargil for a day!
In the previous state government, when detachment orders of blue-eyed persons were issued, Haji Nisar, the then minister got his wife detached from the social welfare department and she was made to report back at Kargil for duties. Although Kargil is the home town of the former minister yet he tried to prove that accountability must start from the top.
The state education minister, Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed has now again ordered immediate detachment of staff of the education department. The order says persons serving at positions of attachment must be detached and they should report at their original places of posting. The common man can only trust the sincerity of this detachment order if wives of some powerful ministers serving on positions of attachment are made to report back to places where they are originally posted.
There are two more ministers in the present government who can set examples by ensuring that their wives who are serving at places of attachment are made to report back at their original places of posting. Well, charity cannot begin from thy neighbour’s home.
In another glaring example, where both convention and propriety are flouted, we have this practice of the ministers to keep their close relations among their personal staff. In the previous government, forest minister, Qazi Mohammad Afzal harvested a wonderful crop through the good offices of his nephew who was working as a special assistant in the minister’s personal staff. A good number of ministers in the present coalition government also have their close relations posted as personal staff. For example, Ruhullah, animal husbandry minister has his maternal uncle posted in his personal staff as special assistant. One more cabinet minister is served by a very close relative who works in the minister’s personal staff. Although there is no law prohibiting a minister from keeping a close
relation among his personal staff yet democratic convention and propriety see such a practice as highly unfair and suggestive of nepotism.
It is time the state government stops playing hide and seek with the people by issuing orders which are never implemented. The government must also stop making statements of lofty conventions and propriety when ministers have their wives working as attachment staff and relatives posted as special
assistants and PROs in their personal staff. This definitely is not the way to prove the maxim that charity begins at home. |
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