The saying that truth often depreciates while “travelling'” has another maxim to match with from the UT of Jammu and Kashmir that …” Orders are feared to get depreciated during slow travel”. In simpler words, the culture of slow, steady , leisurely, easy and relaxed way of treating official orders both from originating as well as receiving or ‘landing’ destinations or desks prevailing in the administrative system, continues to rule the roost, modern information technology era notwithstanding. Again, the culture is totally missing in Government departments about reading, noting and duly recording official circulars and orders unless they are concerning upward wage and salary revision or orders for a choicest favourable transfer and posting.
It is to be believed that it takes more than a fortnight for an order or a communiqué from the seat of the Government – the civil secretariat to reach the desks of the Heads of the Departments for handling a task, even of a sensitive policy nature. The order or circular generally in respect of the holistic development of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir is accorded the same treatment. We have, on umpteen times, stressed upon the need to bring in a culture of speed, standard, accuracy and response in the existing system to come up to the expectations of the citizens of the UT. Times have come to change for the better or quit , there being no third alternative.
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