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| Why Speaker wants to appease LA Secy? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 18: As the successive Speakers of the J&K Assembly during the previous coalition regimes have only brought bad name to the institution by making backdoor appointments in the prestigious institution, 'adulation' by the incumbent Speaker Kavinder Gupta for the existing Secretary in recommending his name for a higher post to be created, has not gone well within political and administrative quarters nor has the move been appreciated within the Assembly Secretariat. This is being seen more as an 'appeasing' move than one which would bring transparency and accountability in the temple of democracy.
Sources said authorities in the Law and Parliamentary Affairs department which happens to be the administrative department of the Assembly are wondering as to what has prompted the Speaker to recommend elevation of the Secretary Mohammad Ramzan to the post of Secretary General at a time when the Assembly continues to remain surrounded by allegations of acts of omission and commission over the years. While the cases of backdoor appointments have resonated all through the last year and the allegations stand proved in highest anti graft body Vigilance Organisation, the elevation of the Secretary who remained at the helm of affairs all through the tenure of successive Speakers in the past sounds ironical and questionable, said an official in the Law department.
Sources also said that while the present Speaker Kavinder Gupta has tried to justify his recommendation with a 'set' of instances, which according to him should go as merit for the said officer for his elevation, this is being seen as antagonistic to the sentiment of the employees within the Assembly Secretariat who are aggrieved on a number of fronts with the work culture in the office where nepotism and favouritism besides adhocism rules roost under the present system. Sources said aggrieved employees had shot a letter and representation to the ex Law Minister last year, a copy of which is with ET as well, in which a number of instances were mentioned substantiating the allegations as to how norms and rules have been thrown to winds and how no weightage is being given to qualification, merit, ability and even seniority both in recruitments as also in giving promotions to the staff.
Sources said while there has been no transparency and accountability in the Assembly Secretariat over last so many decades, it became a hub of political appointments in the state over the coalition regimes that ruled in the state during the last one decade. Sources said it was in the year 2005 that the then Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad proposed few steps on the pattern of Parliament that were aimed to bring transparency and accountability, creation of the post of Secretary General, equivalent to the post of an IAS officer was also mooted albeit with the terms of fixed tenure of only two years for any officer's posting in the Assembly. However, this could not fructify due to political uncertainty that followed at that time. In any case, the incumbent Secretary doesn't fulfil both the terms as he is neither of the rank of IAS, said the sources, adding that he is on the present post for the last 8 years. In the backdrop of these realities, will the Speaker explain why he intends to shower 'benefits' to the incumbent Secretary….? |
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