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| Bureaucrats rarely held accountable for wrong deeds, easily escape punishments | | Use their influence to derail investigations against them | | Bharat Bhushan
Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 10: Bureaucrats in J&K have rarely been held accountable for their wrong deeds and it is extremely difficult to challenge them. Many of them indulge in corrupt practices and then go scot free. Their political bosses shield them because they too get wrong things done through them. This is the reason that some of the retired bureaucrats in J&K have been preferred to veteran party functionaries and made MLCs by their political bosses.
After their mass exodus from the valley in 1989-1990, Kashmiri Hindus took refuge in several temples and under-construction government buildings here. 'Chandies' (ration cards) were then issued to them by the government to provide them monthly financial assistance and ration. Two bureaucrats were assigned the duty of distributing these chandies among the migrants but to the surprise of the state administration, these were also issued to the underworld dons of Jammu under their supervision. Everyone minted money and crores were bungled. There was a lot of hue and cry against the two bureaucrats but the anti-graft agencies, which are directly under the control of bureaucrats and politicians, had taken no cognizance of the newspaper reports in this regard.
The PSO of a senior police officer was caught for possessing illegal weapons. Though the senior officer was also booked by police, then DGP was alleged to have influenced the investigation and ultimately saved him.
In the "mysterious" death of SI Sandeep Pal Singh also, facts were not made public. He was incharge of anti-goonda squad of police over a decade and a half back when he was alleged to have committed "suicide" at Bakshi Nagar police station. The incident had occurred when he was being "grilled" by two of his immediate seniors.
Though a probe was ordered after repeated protests by members of the Sikh community, no one was held responsible for his death.
From day 1 of their implication in the Chopra family murders, NC leader and ex-MLC T S Wazir and business tycoon Choudhary Nagar Singh denied their involvement in the crime and said they were even ready to face a lie detector anywhere in India but no such test was conducted on them. However, after their acquittal by the court over two months or so back, the government did not bother to find out why it happened and why police implicated them if they were not involved in the murders.
Some bureaucrats play with law according to their will but are never booked under law. If a lower employee or a common man would have done so, he would have been beaten, booked and jailed.
You give money and you are exonerated of all the charges levelled against you. But the bureaucrats are rarely held accountable for their wrong decisions because they enjoy terrific powers. One encounters bewilderment and misunderstanding in the civil secretariat, district administration offices and offices of senior police officers. A common man is treated like animals at these places.
But politicians are also to be held equally responsible for this mess in administration. Some of them feel that orders on the files are sufficient for running the state and push it on the path of development and progress. But the movement of a file comes at a price. It is an open secret. An academician, who some time back got permission for running a B.Ed. college and then upgrading it to M.Ed. level, was the envey of everybody. When asked about the secret of his success, he said he put wheels on the file, so that it could move faster from table-to-table.
When he found this scribe foxed, he clarified that putting wheels meant spending hard cash, so that no queries would be made about the project and the file moved promptly to the next table. He claimed that he had spent a huge money on the concerned department.
He said if he did not bribe people, he would have to close down his business. He said corruption was part of any dealing and it was necessary to get works done in government departments. He, however, said that "there are some individual officers who do not take bribes".
J&K has been rated the second most corrupt state in the country. Because of this reason, investors from outside the state were not coming here to install their units. The bureaucrats are to held accountable for their wrong deeds and then punished. It is must for the state's development and progress. |
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