Some Government Departments have been promoting adhocism for reasons best know to it. Almost 160 officers have been holding additional charge in various departments and about 200 vacancies of KAS/District level posts remain vacant. Even in crucial departments like Planning, GAD, Education, Agriculture and Public Distribution, adhoc assignments have been made. We have the break up of all the departments where additional charge has been given to officers for years at end and there is no movement at any level to put an end to adhocism.
The question is why does the government adopt this unhealthy trend of adhocism in the administrative area? When there is unemployment among the educated youth bringing many pressures on the government, why does the government adopt an attitude that does not support its much publicized policy of eradicating unemployment? Evidently either there is a clear and calculated purpose of making large scale in-charge assignments to benefit the persons holding the charge or that the higher echelons want to please the ministers and VIPs by succumbing to their desire of benefitting particular persons. Obviously 160 officers given charge of additional work or departments would be getting additional pecuniary benefits as per the rules of the government. People would very much like to know the reason why such large in-charge assignments are given to officers in almost all departments.
The other surmise in this behalf is that the government does not give much importance to the functions that have been assigned to officer in the capacity of in-charge. One cannot imagine that there is any department or service in a department that has to be considered of lesser relevance or importance to the development of the state. Putting departments in charge of an officer curbs the potential of that department. There also surfaces the element of non-priority in case the additional charge does not bring pecuniary benefits to the one who has been assigned the duty of holding the charge.
The essential things that should ultimately matter are good governance and delivery. The Chief Minister has strongly supported such measures as would ensure good governance. Even a Services Act has been brought aiming at punishing the official who is found negligent of his or her responsibilities. How can good governance flow or even be expected from an officer in whose charge a department has been given temporarily or on ad hoc basis. His or her interests lie somewhere else, and his stakes are something different. It is not the charge department that will help him or her in promotion. As such, he will evince minimum interest in the charge department with the result that efficiency of functioning is impaired.
We again fail to understand the delay in filling nearly 200 positions of KAS and District level posts. Leaving KAS positions vacant is tantamount to large scale harm to the interests of the districts of respective regions. We would implore the government to put an end to adhocism by posting permanent officers to individual depurates. Secondly, the government should expedite the process of seeing prospective candidates for KAS examination and tests go through the process and raise their cadre for immediate deployment at various institutions.
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