Smart docs

In tune with the vow taken by the State Government to curb migration from the hills to the plains through providing the highlanders with adequate medical facilities, over 200 doctors settled in the plains have been given the order to march to the hills. However, the well-intentioned move is hitting roadblocks with the reluctant doctors resorting to all sorts of excuses to spare themselves the ‘trouble’ of repairing to the ‘God-forsaken’ hills,  leaving behind the creature comforts and hefty returns of their pious practice. While some say their parents are terminally ill others say their spouses are medically unfit to follow them to the hills or their kids are too small to be taken there or they are physically handicapped to negotiate the twists and turns of the hills. Desperate to scuttle the move by hook or by crook, the wily docs are now engaged in pleasing the babus into helping them to stay put at where they are. The babus, on their part, are being torn between the pull of remaining loyal to the Government and the people they serve and that of the special care they receive from the ‘babu-smitten’ doctors.

 Incorrigible babus

The last Cabinet meeting had eyebrows raised over the babus clinging to their old ways while caring a damn for the order passed by none less than the Cabinet. What happened is that the babus brought the notes to be taken up at the meeting at the eleventh hour as usual despite the CM having asked them to make full preparations for the meeting a week ahead of it and to prepare the notes accordingly to help the ministers to understand the crux of things. To help the Babus, CM has fixed cabinet meetings to be held on the first and third Wednesday of everymonth and in case of such days being holidays on the next working day.  However, the Babus have failed to come out of their old grooves. As per the rule, very urgent matters can be brought to the cabinet meeting for immediate discussion, something that seldom happens. However, the exception taking the place of the rule, the state government seems to be in a fix, wondering what to do with the seemingly incorrigible Babus to fall in line. Intriguingly, the Babus brought the notes for the meeting much later than the stipulated time after having them duly signed by the CM. Does it mean that the CM is conniving with their pranksIJ If so the question is whyIJ  Another question follows. Are the cabinet decision taken to be trashed this wayIJ