Dilli Ka Babu
Dilli Ka Babu
The Uttar Pradesh government under chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is yet to settle down. Observers attribute the confusion to the young chief minister being unable to run his administration without interference from the many power centres in the Samajwadi Party, including his father Mulayam Singh Yadav. So Uttar Pradesh continues to witness a revolving chair spectacle of babus being shunted around routinely or their transfers being cancelled.
Babus are worried not just at the scale of the administrative changes wrought by Mr Akhilesh Yadav (higher than any previous regime) but also that these transfers have begun to affect the smooth functioning of the government. The example of senior IAS officer Sanjay Aggarwal is being cited to illustrate the problem. Apparently, Mr Aggarwal was informed of his appointment as principal secretary to the chief minister only to find it cancelled in less than a day! Similarly, IPS officer Javed Akhtar got three different appointments within a week. He was named IG of the state Provincial Armed Constabulary, then IG Gorakhpur and eventually IG for Agra.
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Just routine stuff
The last time the home ministry effected transfers of Delhi babus, it met with much resistance from Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit. A few months down the line, however, there has been no protest even though at least 39 IAS officers and Union Territory cadre babus have been transferred out of the national capital.
Sources say the churning has focused on the revenue department where seven out of nine deputy commissioners have been posted out, including R.K. Mishra, G.S. Meena, D.P. Dwivedi, Akash Mahapatra. Power secretary Parimal Rai and health secretary Jaidev Sarangi have been transferred to Goa while some others have been sent to Arunachal Pradesh.
While some consider this rather large-scale reshuffle as a routine thing, babu-watchers, however, expect to take keener notice of babu movements when the 2013 Assembly elections draw near.
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