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| PDP, BJP ministers go on transfer spree; order major reshuffles amid Kashmir unrest | | Alarm bells ringing? | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 11: As if the alarm bells have begun ringing, BJP as well as PDP ministers have begun ordering major reshuffle in their respective departments.
They are issuing transfer orders one after the other. If the sources are to be believed, a minister from the ruling BJP had prepared a list of 267 officials to be transferred through a single ordered until someone from the Chief Minister's office advised the Secretary of the department not to go ahead. Department had drafted the proposal, minister had granted the approval and the secretary was set to sign the order when someone leaked the news.
The moment details of the proposal reached the ears of a top official in the Chief Minister's office, he rang the Secretary and advised him not to do any such thing which could lead to people raising fingers the functioning amid the ongoing Kashmir crisis, said the sources. Secretary was told to explain reasons for such large scale transfers in the middle of the ongoing financial year and that too when no ground work is possible in Kashmir division, informed the sources.
Expressing his helplessness, sources said that the secretary informed official in the CM's secretariat that he was simply issuing the order whose details have been finalised by the minister and his personal staff. They added that the response did shock the CM's secretariat but he insisted the secretary to take a stand and ensure that the order is not issued.
If there is no way out, issue the order in parts, is what the official advised secretary of that particular department. He headed to the advice and the order was reduced to few dozen employees, asserted the sources. They confirmed that the department is mulling the option of issuing another order of around 164 officials, most of who are yet to complete their two year mandatory tenure, in the next three days.
Nothing is being said about urgency of issuing order of large scale transfers when half of the state is in crisis and district headquarters in valley paralysed, said an official. He added that the department has been carrying out transfer and posting exercise at a time when supreme priority should have been reaching out to the masses and helping the government in bringing normalcy across the state.
But it seems transfers have become the sole way of showing that the government is very much in control of the things, said an official. He further disclosed that most of the departments have readied lists ordering major reshuffles without assigning any credible reason for the same. Lists are voluminous, said an official while adding that a particular department has gone to the extent of transferring even peons from the civil secretariat.
There is only one department which has not done any major exercise since the day the new minister assumed charge and that is Public Works Department (PWD), said the official while adding that transfers should be purely to speed up public works but in Jammu and Kashmir, works seems to be last reason for someone's transfer and posting. "Those who been transferred so far would be cursing their luck. They would be asking why did they join the government service at the first place," said the official.
Citing an example, he said that an official who was posted out of his home district by a particular department not only returned home within three months but is managing three posts in his home district. "It seems as if someone has told the BJP-PDP ministers to rush with transfer and posting orders. They are in a lot of hurry," added the official working with a cabinet minister of PDP. |
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