In the wake of the row between the Chief Minister of Delhi and lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung, the Central IAS Officers Association on Tuesday slammed the “unwarranted and undignified treatment” meted out to some civil servants in the Delhi Government and also expressed anguish over the “character assassination” of its members in the media.
“The Association resolved to strongly condemn the recent cases of unwarranted and disrespectful treatment meted out to some IAS officers working in the Delhi Government. It resolved to express its anguish over character assassination of IAS officers in media, using official machinery, without any substantive ground, thereby tarnishing their reputation,” said Sanjay Bhoosreddy, honorary secretary of the Association. “This undignified treatment meted to civil servants is highly demotivating and demoralising to the entire rank and file of the civil service and is clearly unacceptable,” he added.
The association has resolved to urge the President, Prime Minister, Home Minister, Chief Ministers of States and administrators of all the Union Territories (UTs) to create conducive atmosphere wherein all Government officers, including senior civil servants, can function in a free, impartial and dignified manner without becoming victims of political crossfire, he said.
The association represents 4,802 officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) working across the country. Bhoosreddy, who is a senior IAS officer working as Joint Secretary in Agriculture Ministry, was briefing the media on the outcome of a meeting of the central IAS officers’ association that held on Monday evening to discuss the controversy over the appointment of Shakuntala Doley Gamlin as Delhi’s acting Chief Secretary.
IAS association in its meeting on Monday has condemned the treatment meted out to some IAS officers and officers of other cadres. Expressing anguish over character assassination using official machinery and harming the reputation of officers without any basis, the association said that it finds this highly “demotivating” and “unacceptable”. “If we don’t get proper relief by the Constitutional authorities, we will go to court,” says IAS Association.