-SATISH HANDA

The candidates selected for IAS or IPS cadre posts are given training at Lal Bahadur Shastry National Academy of Administration at Mussoorie to become fully aware of the techniques to control both civil as well as police administration are deployed to join the departments of their choice subject to availability of vacancies. As such there is no reason that an officer of IAS or IPS lobby cannot control each others assignments successfully after completion of the training. Khatter government in Haryana state in order to prove this experiment has started offering IAS cadre posts to IPS officers and vice versa in order to prove efficiency in work, wipe out corruption and misuse of powers in government offices. However, bureaucrats in the state expressed dissatisfaction over this action.

 Information reveals, rift has been started not only in IAS-IPS lobbies but also in HCS –HPS lobbies with large number of posting took place in each others department in the state in recent past sometime. Information reveals, similar experiment was also earlier conducted in the states of Madhya Pradesh and U.P prior to Hayana state in which over a dozen IPS and IPS cadre senior officers in Haryana state government including O.P. Singh senior IPS officer was given charge of  Chief Secretary Sports Department, Haryana followed by another senior IPS officer Shatrujit Kapoor was offered position of Chief Secretary Haryana Roadways and an IFS officer Alok Verma was handed over the charge of Chairman, Haryana Public Service Commission in past sometime. Recently, state government appointed large number of HPS offers as District Transport Officer in Regional Transport Authority offices in every district, earlier the post was controlled by Additional Deputy Commissioners in the districts.

In view of such appointments reported in the state in past sometime, both IAS and HCS Officers Associations has strongly condemned state government’s decision in recent past sometime when a senior IAS Office in Haryana state Ashok Khemka who was transferred 53 times in his 27 years services in the state came to their rescue and wrote a letter to Chief Secretary Haryana in this regard referring Supreme Court of India directions dated October 31, 2013 that the transfers of an IAS, IPS, IFS and IRS cadre officer can only be made as per recommendation by Civil Service Board comprising of Chief Secretary, Finance Commissioner and another senior officer in the state but the directions are being violated. However, most of IAS cadre officers expressed unhappiness over the decision assuming that the time is not far when IPS and HPS cadre officers in Haryana state would be seen sitting on their seats in future because position of an IAS or HCS cadre officer is higher than a IPS and HPS cadre officer in a district.