Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh):
Attempts to please CM
A senior IAS officer, who has been posted to various departments, is putting his heart and soul into pleasing the Chief Minister. He is handling two such departments as made him take part in meetings with the CM. He also had an opportunity to go out of Bhopal to attend a few meetings with the CM in connection with one of the departments he is dealing with. Therefore, the Sahib is going all out to gratify the CM. The sahib has set his eyes on two important departments.
He wants to get posting in one of the departments by pleasing the CM who got angry with him over an issue. Afterwards, he was sent to a department considered unimportant. He got another department because of some senior officer, but he is still away from the mainstream. Ergo he is making efforts to join an important department. There are reports that his efforts may have quelled the CM a little, but the Sahib has yet to get rid of his present situation.
For closure of file!
A retired officer is pegging away at closing a case filed against him in Lokayukta which has sought permission from the government to file challans against some officers, including the retired one. The Sahib wants the government to close the case by declining permission for his prosecution. He has already requested many people to close the case against him. The higher-ups also discussed the issue, but a decision on the file is yet to be made.
The officer is trying for a post, and he has lobbied for it. Nevertheless, the case, filed in Lokayukta for which permission has been sought for his prosecution, has become a thorn in the way of his getting the position he is vying for. The names of many other officers are connected to the case, so they are also behind the retired officer.
Bid to gain lost ground
A Principal Secretary (PS), conveyed to the loop line outside the state capital, is making all efforts to return to Mantralay. He is making rounds of Mantralay, interacting with senior officers, and seeking their help to return to any department. The officer was handed over a good position, but as he found himself enmeshed in a controversy, he had to pack up. Because the higher-ups in the government got many complaints against him, they sent him to the loop line.
The problem with the Sahib is that because he has been sent to the loop line on the one hand and because of his place of posting on the other, he may have to give up on the government house allotted to him in the state capital. PS wants to return to Bhopal. There are reports that he is seeking advice from his colleagues about how to return to the state capital. He is consulting, particularly those officers, who have come out of difficulties and regained their lost ground.
Minister’s pride deflated
A minister in the state cabinet had false pride that he was very important to the government. Just as he got the charge of a big district, he began to feel that became more influential than he had been. Nevertheless, a recent incident punctured his pride. The minister got angry at an IAS officer for his absence from a meeting. When he came out of the meeting room, the minister announced that the officer would be removed. He told another IAS officer, who was present in the meeting, to issue a show-cause notice to the officer for his absence.
Even after the minister’s ‘firman,’ the officer was neither transferred, nor any action taken against him. As the power to transfer any officer is not in the hands of a minister, nobody is giving any weight to what he was saying about shifting the officer behind whose posting in the present department stood a powerful person. This is the reason why, despite the minister’s announcement, the IAS officer was not transferred. This incident has, however, brought the minister, who was puffed with pride, to the earth.
Hopes dashed
Hopes of a senior IPS officer, who wanted an important position, were dashed.
