The government has shortlisted 284 Central Secretariat Service officers for performance audits, and many are likely to be forcibly retired. It’s good to enforce accountability and efficiency among civil servants but the due process and procedures that are laid down for premature retirement must not be given a short shrift.
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I am myself a victim of an IAS officer who instead of doing her duty for the good of the society acted negatively. Why shouldn’t such IAS be asked to resign?
The dominant emotion that should be generated through such an exercise is accountability, resting on utmost fairness and objectivity. Not an all pervading atmosphere of fear and insecurity. The public forms its own assessments, sometimes rough and ready, whether the machinery as a whole is acting with utmost impartiality and political neutrality.
The violence is condemnable. The police should act with firmness against the protestors. Second such incident in a fortnight. 2. Bilateral ties are fraying. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the House of Commons that allegations of human rights violations in Kashmir since 5th August should be ” thoroughly, promptly and transparently ” investigated. He said that he had raised with EAM Jaishankar Britain’s concerns on 7th August and that his country will carefully monitor the situation in Kashmir. He had been assured that ” detentions, potential mistreatment and communications blackouts were only temporaneous, as strictly required … And of course we would want to hold them to that understanding “. 3. If this is not internationalisation of Kashmir, one wonders what would be.