The
upmanship between IAS and IPS is an old story among civil servants. The Haryana
Government’s decision to post 1990-batch IPS officer Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor as
Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and
Chairman of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam appears to have stirred up a
hornet’s nest in the state bureaucracy. The IAS officers termed it as the fall
of yet another bastion to the police and it is learnt that the Association of
Haryana IAS officers is likely to take up the matter with the government soon.
Sources, however, said that the IAS officers have no reason to rancour since
the CMD’s position is not among one of their 112 cadre posts. The posting of
the IPS officers on non-cadre posts started with the
commissionerate system introduced in the previous Congress government in Ambala-Panchkula,
Gurgaon and Faridabad. This was seen as the first indication that the IPS lobby
was trying to broaden its area of influence. The IAS association reportedly
feels that it’s not a question of an appointment of an individual; the issue is
that IPS officers have no administrative experience and do not understand the
system as they are basically trained to maintain law and order. There is
another school of thought, which has been ignored by the state, that the
electricity department is purely technical and the post should go to the
seniormost engineer. IAS officers are of the opinion that if the government
wants to encourage interface between the services, let IAS officers be given
charge of the vigilance department. The real crux is not the appointment but
the feeling that officers who had been ruling in the Bhupinder Singh Hooda
regime are once again making inroads. A tweet in reaction to the appointment of
Ashok Khemka, an IAS officer who blew the whistle during the Hooda regime,
read: “A government officer who was, is or intends to be corrupt knows where
and how to obtain patronage for a choice posting”.
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