...by the way
How will one feel, as
a senior officer, when he is supposed to sit the whole day to attend a marathon
meeting with the chief minister of a state and other Cabinet ministers along
with his seniormost colleagues. Obviously, it will be tiring. The new
dispensation in Haryana does not care much for the comfort and dipping
efficiency of the officers. Haryana officials have not seen such a long session
of meetings ever. The Haryana government has never believed in meetings. The
trend in the government had been such that the chief minister or the chief
secretary would brief the agenda on a one-to-one basis and the respective heads
of departments would hold a meeting to implement the briefed agenda. Manohar
Lal Khattar, the current Chief Minister of Haryana, has reversed the trend in
the last week of March. He called a full-day meeting of the Divisional
Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners of Haryana. It was the longest-ever
meeting of bureaucrats to discuss the agenda of the state. The meeting is said
to have started at 9.30 in the morning and finished at 9.30 in the evening.
Bureaucrats were perplexed at the change in attitude of the new government.
Though lunch and tea were served, yet sitting for such an extended period was a
herculean task. After the meeting, some of the officers were complaining of
headaches, backaches and swollen feet. A lady officer, while exiting the
meeting, remarked to her colleague, “Why are you looking so fatigued? Just
think that we all travelled from Delhi to New York.” Everybody laughed.
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