Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 6: The General Administration Department (GAD) has directed all the departments to complete Regular Departmental Action and inquires and DPCs by April 30 and sought Action Taken Report for the perusal of Chief Secretary, BVR Subrahmanyam.
An order (No. AS/ GAD/ Mtg/ 2019 /54-77 dated 02-04-2019) issued by the GAD has asked all the departments to conduct the DPCs and Regular Departmental Actions and inquires by the end of this month. “Conduct all pending DPCs by 30th April 2019 and complete all pending Regular Departmental Actions/inquires by 30th April 2019”, read the order.
The order has been issued after various complaints and representations made by the Government employees that the DPCs are being deliberately delayed.
The order on RDA comes after General Administration Department (GAD) last month issued a circular in which it had asked the departments to immediately act upon the recommendations of the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) or Crime Branch either for sanctioning prosecution or instituting a Regular Departmental Action (RDA).
The GAD had issued the circular after some departments were found shielding the culprits by ordering Departmental inquiries after recommendations by ACB and CB for RDA.
Such a case was exposed by Daily Excelsior recently in which Health and Medical Education (H&ME) and General Administration Departments had ordered inquiry instead of Regular Departmental Action (RDA) as suggested by the ACB against several officials of Indian System of Medicine (ISM) in spurious drug scam.
The Departments instead of taking the RDA, had ordered inquiry that too after the lapse of 17 months in spurious drug scam in ISM. The GAD had ordered inquiry against Abdul Kabir Dar and the Health Department (Govt order No. 627-HME of 2018 dated 19-11-2018) had appointed Inquiry officer against rest of the six accused officers of the ISM when the ACB had ordered RDA.
The GAD circular had said that setting up of “Enquiry Committees” is unnecessary, uncalled for and often being seen as a delaying tactic to avoid conclusion of the departmental enquiry in accordance with the rules.
“The recommendations of the ACB or Crime Branch should be immediately acted upon, either for sanctioning prosecution or instituting an RDA. If there are any facts which require taking a different view, the case should be referred back to the ACB or Crime Branch along-with the said facts within four weeks of the receipt of the recommendation from these agencies”, said the circular.
“The departments should monitor each departmental enquiry carefully to ensure its completion in a time bound manner preferably within a period of three months and its outcome shared with the General Administration Department (Vigilance)”, the circular said.
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