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| Omar better learn some lessons from Mamata | | Burning midnight oil pays | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 4: When Mamata Banerjee assumed office on May 20 with a march to the Writers' from Raj Bhavan, she stayed in office well past midnight.
Staffers at the Writers thought it was just the euphoria but it is now becoming more of a routine. Mamata has proved the age old maxim `uneasy lies the head that wears the crown' right. There are, however, other Chief Ministers in this country whose life has become Jhingalala. They watch tennis and cricket play games on their Blackberry.
A scribe has beautifully described Mamata's working. "Halogen light is streaming out of the new CMO's old colonial windows, OB vans that came in the morning are yet to return-it's well past 10 pm but West Bengal's new Chief Minister is still at work.
Mamata Banerjee has initiated a completely new work culture and officials at the Writers' Buildings are slowly getting used to a Chief Minister who works late into the night."
The Summer capital of Jammu Kashmir presents a similar look in 1986 when Jagmohan operated from the civil secretariat till later hours. People in Kashmir, by and large, do not like Jagmohan for obvious reasons but all of them candidly admit that his first term witnessed massive development. So burning midnight oil pays.
In Kolkatta, Mamata's dedication and hardwork has created a new culture in the secretariat. The `arrogant' IAS and state civil service officers are taking things in their stride. There are murmurs among a section of security staff and group D staff- the lowest rung of the government employees but no complaints. One of the peons at the CMO and chief secretary's office said: "We used to get Rs 10 to Rs 15 tiffin allowance for late hours as a lumpsum amount, not based on the extra hours. But since July 2011, it had stopped and we were told that state exchequer did not have enough funds to be released this. But it should be accruing to our credit some day we hope to get it.''
Jammu Kashmir has an entirely different story to tell. The employees afre on the streets every week to seek release of arrears of the Sixth pay commission. Has it something to do with governance? Omar better learn some lessons from Mamata. |
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