Uncontrollable anger
A senior IAS officer is pulling out all the stops to control his anger. The Sahib recently took 21 days’ leave for Vipassana. The officer with a clean image is considered efficient. The only problem, getting in his way, is his anger. Sahib easily flies off the handle. During posting in an important department, his anger has deepened. After the change of government, he got a shock, and his anger somewhat reduced, but he often gets his dander up. He participates in every meeting in his present place of posting, and the impact of his anger is apparent in these meetings. A well-wisher of the Sahib and a senior colleague advised him to control his anger. Those who work with him feel that after his return from leave, he will be alright for a few days. It is, however, not easy for him to keep his wrath in check.
Changes ahead
The government is doing exercises to transfer some officers from a few important departments. There are speculations about the list of transfers. The responsibilities of some officers posted in important departments may be changed. A principal secretary, enjoying a plum posting, may be shifted to an important department where the PS was posted for a few days. There are talks about sending the ACS posted in an important department to another place of priority of the government. Similarly, there is a proposal to shift a PS posted in a less important place to a key department. Exercises were on to give an important department to the PS. Likewise, a PS who has come from a constitutional organisation is all set to get an important department. In the process, an additional chief secretary is also trying for his transfer. The Sahib wants to go to another department from his present place of posting so that he may get backhanders and more power.
Efforts on
After the transfer of a regular recruited officer to a division, some officers sent to the loop line are making efforts to go to another division. The commissioner of the division is retiring this month. The government is mulling over posting an officer to the division. Some officers have begun to make efforts for posting there. A regular recruited IAS officer, now in the loop line, wants to go to the division. He has begun to make efforts for it. For his posting, the officer has sought the help of a minister coming from the area from where the commissioner is retiring. Two promotee officers are also trying to become the commissioner of the division. These two officers posted in Mantralaya are making efforts for posting to the division through their clouts. One of them is using a senior officer to meet his purpose. The promotee officer has been in touch with this senior officer for a long time. The Sahib wants to get out of the loop line to remain in the division till his retirement.
For rehabilitation
An about-to-retire IPS officer has become active for his rehabilitation. The Sahib wants to become a member of a commission. The post of the member of the commission will be vacant together with the Sahib’s retirement. The IPS officer wants the government to post him there. The retired officer is on good terms with the politicians. Because of his connections with the higher-ups, there are possibilities of him getting the position he is aspiring for. Similarly, another retired IPS officer wants to join the position. But the chances that the government will accede to his request are thin. For another position in the commission, the government has to recruit an officer from judicial services. A retired judicial officer, who was in the commission, is trying for reappointment. The names of a few more retired judicial officers are doing the rounds for the position in the commission. The RSS and an important person will take a decision on such appointments.
Troubled by ma’am
The officers and the public representatives of a district are fed up with a woman collector posted there a few days ago. The officer has always courted controversies wherever she has been posted. Her post on social media alarmed the government that appointed her collector. But there is no end in sight to controversies. There are reports that Ma’am misbehaves with her subordinates. The public representatives of the district have requested the head of state to transfer her. The divisional commissioner is also unhappy with the woman officer’s wayward working. She hardly discusses anything with the divisional commissioner. Her name generates so much fear that even the in-charge minister of the district talks to her with caution to avoid any controversy. Because of the complaints coming from the district against the officer, the government wants to shift her. But the higher-ups in the government think if she is transferred, she may kick up a controversy.
Active again
A much-talked-about scandal of the state bureaucracy, which created ripples across the country, is back in the news. The state bureaucracy still discusses the case revealed during the Congress rule. Those who hogged the limelight in the case have again become active. These people have started reconnecting with the officers who were earlier linked with them. One of them has become active to get some work done. The man recently met an officer. During the interaction, the person concerned told the officer to help him get some work done. In turn, some people have begun to visit the residence of this man. Nevertheless, the activeness of these people has caused edginess among some officers. There are reports that these persons involved in wrong deeds, and the money they made through backhand dealings, are on the verge of exhaustion, so they have swung into action to make more money. The people in the corridors of power fear lest they should engineer another scandal.
