Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 27: Urging upon the ministers to respect the institutional propriety and prescribed mechanism in the matter of transfers, senior NPP leader and former minister Harsh Dev Singh has alleged violation of norms and stipulated procedures in the wholesale transfers of Govt functionaries in the recent past.
In a press statement issued here he said that thousands of transfers effected in various Govt Department at the present juncture when the State was faced with one of the worst ever crisis defied logic and rationale and had further raised many an eyebrows. He alleged that a large scale pre-mature transfers effected in various departments without recording the reasons for such pre-mature postings as per the mandate of the transfer policy.
Mr Singh said that the complaints regarding violation of norms and circumvention of transfer policy had poured in from various quarters including protests duly covered in the media but the concerned authorities had failed to take cognizance. He said that wholesale transfer orders issued recently in the Departments of Health, Power, Animal Husbandry, Forests, Education and Social Welfare deserved a review in particular in the light of the prevalent Transfer Policy.
Alleging gross violation of propriety and morality in transfer orders issued by various Departments, Mr Singh urged upon the Chief Minster to review them especially those issued in violation of Transfer Policy. He said that ministers must be made to realize that authority and responsibility have got to go together. He regretted that presently the ministers especially of BJP were enjoying power without accountability, transparency and responsibility.
Harsh Dev further regretted that while the corrupt officials and favourites were being given prime postings, the ‘inconvenients’ were being rubbished and maltreated. Urging upon the Chief Minister to tighten the nose around her ministers in conformity with her slogans of accountability and transparency, Mr Singh said that defiance of norms, unreasonable conduct and rule of whim followed by such ministers was breeding cynicism, disgust and anger in the hearts and minds of people. She must act fast to save the credibility of the Govt from further damage, he added.
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