When
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje decides to take up an issue, she does
it with full enthusiasm and expects the bureaucracy to follow her with full
devotion. But civil servants in Rajasthan are very low profile in nature. They
seldom take the lead. But there was no option before the state civil servants
when the Chief Minister herself ‘appealed’ to civil servants to donate one
day’s salary for the government’s programme, the Mukhyamantri Jal Swavlamban
Abhiyan (MJSA).
State
civil servants had to show generosity and fall in line. Director General of
Police Manoj Bhatt did not miss a chance and happily agreed to donate the
salaries of IPS officers of the state but the recently superannuated Chief
Secretary OP Meena had second thoughts and said a decision would be taken after
consultation with IAS officers. But the Chief Minister’s desire is like an
order in the state. The Finance Department did not lose time and issued orders
to deposit one day’s salary in MJSA fund. You may wonder why OP Meena was
hesitant in announcing the one-day salary donation by state civil servants.
Meena is at the fag end of his career and retired in June itself. He did not
want to be seen as the sole decision maker on behalf of his fellow
colleagues. 
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