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| Administrative set-up in ‘disarray’, discipline takes back seat | | Compounding J&K’s developmental woes? | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Dec 12: Administrative set-up of Jammu and Kashmir government seems to be in ‘disarray’ and ‘discipline’ has virtually taken a back seat.
Those in the higher echelons of power are content with ordering probes and constituting commissions but even this has failed to create impact on ground. Historic precedence of senior IAS officers holding important positions in the civil secretariat has been replaced with new found mantra of ‘asking local officers to contribute in well being of their state’ and allowing ‘non-locals’ to go either on leave or on central deputation.
Chief Secretary Madhav Lal made several efforts to get some of the ‘deputation IAS officers’ back to the state. And when he got one in Naveen Choudhary, who returned to the state after serving for three years as Advisor to Executive Director (India) International Monitory Fund (IMF)
Washington, Chief Secretary is seemingly struggling to create some suitable space for him. After Mehboob Iqbal retired on November 31, speculations were rife that 1994 batch IAS officer Naveen Choudhary would be given charge of high profile PHE department.
Government preferred otherwise. Commissioner/Secretary Animal and Sheep Husbandry B.D.Sharma, who is retiring in October 2012, was given additional charge of PHE department. In a little reported move, Dheeraj Gupta, a 1993-batch IAS officer of J&K cadre, after completing his five year term as Private Secretary to A.K. Anthony, the Union Defence Minister, is learnt to have joined PMO as Director.
This makes him the third IAS officer from J&K Cadre, after Wajahat Habibullah (1968) and C. Phunsong (1972), who were both of the Joint Secretary rank, to join PMO. Another senior IAS officer, currently with one of the constitutional heads is also making knee deep efforts to return back to another New Delhi assignment. But owing to inability of government to enforce administrative discipline, sources said that senior IAS officers of Jammu and Kashmir cadre are reluctant to return home.
Furthermore, sources said that three local IAS officers, presently engaged in battle for reaching JKPSC as its members have been writing against each other to Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). A senior officer in CVC while confirming this said “The kind of stuff they are writing is shocking. They should be ashamed of themselves if they are doing this for the sake of becoming members of some commission in Jammu and Kashmir. What is government doing? They should be aware of this.”
Not only this, such is the callousness that three police officers, two of whom are IPS had to be placed under suspension for failure of command and control system. A DySP rank officer misbehaved with a lady IPS officer, resulting one filing criminal complaint against the other apart from the two officer indulgence in mud-slinging in full-public view. An inquiry was ordered but none took note of the fact that had administrative control been in place, officials said that incident would not have occurred.
State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) is defunct while the concerned department, just to pave way for one of its favorites, is delaying the entire process. Sources said that situation has reached to a point, where Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is forced to hold regular meetings with administrative heads of all departments over the fate of missives they receive from the Union Home Ministry. They added that Union Home ministry has been frequently writing to heads of administrative departments over the pace of developmental programmes and also seeking immediate replies. |
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