Congress general secretary Ajay Maken has urged lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung to put an objective transfer and posting policy in place. Maken wrote a letter to Jung citing the role of various departments especially which affect the public or involve public dealing. He also reminded the lieutenant-Governor that there was a basic malice that has been affecting people at large.
While lauding Jung’s efforts of streamlining the bureaucratic functioning, Maken said that the departments and agencies that affect people’s lives and primarily involve public dealings need positive interventions at the earliest.
“The Delhi Jal Board (DJB), Departments of Value Added Taxes (VAT), Excise, Food and Civil supplies, Weights and Measures, Transport and Revenue need a rational performance-based and people-centric transfer and posting regimen at the earliest,” he said. “It is in the departments that common people at large face the most harassment and officials are prone most to corrupt means,” Maken said in the letter.
“However, I will also like to draw your attention towards a basic malice that has been plaguing efficient and accountable administration. Accordingly, it will only be logical and imperative that a transparent performance-based transfer and posting policy is put into place. It will be important to underline that such policy/code is arbitrary and takes into account fixed criteria-based postings rather than arbitrary decisions of the ‘competent authority’ to the farthest possible extent. Basic tenets like fixed tenure, ability to deliver and concurrent performance evaluation during the tenure should lie at the base of the any such policy,” the letter said.
Reacting to Maken’s letter, a senior Delhi Government official said on the condition of anonymity that the tenure of bureaucrats who are posted in public dealing departments should be fixed so that he could perform well and deliver. Citing the case of DTC, he said DTC is ailing as senior bureaucrats come and go but they are not allowed to diagnose it.