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| Where's Secretary Parliamentary Affairs? | | Cabinet created post in 18 hours, failed to get incumbent in 18 months | | Early Times Report
jammu, Mar 29: Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Mohammad Sagar, demonstrated lightning speed in creating a separate post of Secretary Parliamentary Affairs in September 2010 but the Government has failed to appoint an incumbent in the last 18 months. With nobody offering an explanation in the government, hegemony of a bureaucratic lobby is said to have reduced the Cabinet decision to a joke.
It was 18 months back that the Omar Abdullah Cabinet bifurcated the Department of Law and Parliamentary Affairs into two separate departments and created a fresh post of the administrative secretary for Parliamentary Affairs on a memo drafted by Mr Sagar. The idea, according to official sources, was to spare Secretary of Law exclusively for handling matters relating to law, processing prosecution sanctions for the officials involved in corruption related cases, framing legal opinions and administering litigation, prosecution and judicial wings of the department.
However, a smart bureaucrat craftily inserted half a sentence to the text, nobody knows with or without the Minister's knowledge----"as and when the rules of appointment are framed". The bureaucrat knew the art of derailing processes much more than any other IAS or KAS officer at the Civil Secretariat. He lost no time to send the file to J&K State Public Service Commission (PSC) for drafting of the rules of appointment for Secretary parliamentary Affairs. As desired, he was obliged by one of the members and a senior official at PSC who dumped the file for good. Sources at both, Department of Law as well as General Administration Department, asserted to Early Times that PSC had not furnished any rules that could have paved way for appointment of a female officer as Secretary Parliamentary Affairs.
In fact the lady official, as well as her husband, who is an IAS officer, was subjected to untold suffering and virtually made to bleed through their nose. While allegedly obliging their friend in bureaucracy, men at the PSC created history when they prevented the victim couple's son from entering the junior scale of Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS). With top echelons of the coalition government showering no-holds-barred praise on the PSC, these men ensured that 100 marks are not counted in the merit of the victim couple's son when the results were declared on February 7th, 2011. It was only after the couple surrendered that 100 marks were counted in the boy's merit and he was placed in the junior scale of KAS.
While the lady official kept roaming on insignificant positions, her husband, who is a senior KAS officer and was inducted into IAS with 1995 as his year of allotment, was removed and posted as Commissioner-Secretary in the Government's least sought after department in September 2011. Doing this all, the smart bureaucrat attempted to appoint his own son as Public Law Officer through fraudulent means with the help of his friends in PSC. Two meritorious female candidates were removed from the merit list in order to lower the cut-off to the marks actually obtained by the bureaucrat's son in a written test.
As this operation got entangled in litigation, the bureaucrat managed reference of certain vacancies of Legal Assistants in the Law Department to State Subordinate Services Recruitment Board and got his son selected as Legal Assistant in the highest non-gazetted pay scale of 9300-34800 (Grade pay Rs 4250) when Budget Session of State Legislature was at its peak in March 2012. His merit stands at the lowest among all the candidates selected.
With none in the establishment inclined to offer comment, this newspaper would appreciate a contradiction from the government and place it prominently on front page. |
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