Debate: Congress — 18 Sep 2017
DEBATE (1) Congress
The arrogance of BJP is favoring the revival of Congress .In BLP it is one man show all others are non entities . Congress will have to speak on the public interest issues and not remain mute spectators.
V K Gupta
DEBATE (2) Congress
Any body except Gandhi Family can revive congress but are congee cadre and leadres are prepared to ignore this family and interested to revive congress.Infact Gandhi Family is only big burden to congress.Congees think that Gandhis can protect them and they can only bring congress once again to power which is only an illusion.If congees give a thought to project new leadership ignoring Gandhis and vold bandicoots and rebuild grom scracth..congee can be revived..
Dhulipala Venkateswara Rao
Perennial corrupt ways
These days social media is abuzz with the role of a legislator as a zealous crusader against the corruption indulged in by the functionaries of various state and central govt departments. The daring but shameless officials appear to be biting the flesh of the poor people. In spite of loud slogans by the governments to eradicate corruption and redressal of peoples' grievances at their door steps,the malady has existed for a very long time.The role of the govt at the top in sustenance of corrupt ways and corruption has been that of a culpable criminal participation.
During a training programme at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration Mussoorie, in which officers from 22 states were participating, a lady IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh told that ministers and senior officers generally ,when they visited the districts or sub-divisions, never spent a penny from their pockets and rather enjoyed the lavish hospitality of the local administration, which is invariably based on the resources collected by the officials by resorting to corrupt ways. All the officers agreed that the same conditions prevailed in other states. The revenue department was considered as the major victim of this greed and plunder of the high-ups of the state. In the Punjab state in the mid 1970s,the forced collection of Red Cross membership fee and the funds for the small savings, by the official machinery from the poor people, who approached any office, particularly Revenue, had attained barbaric and tyrannous proportions. To ice the ugly cake, two functions ;one INC session at Mataurh in 1975-76 near Chandigarh and the other to mark 100% electrification of Punjab at Malerkotla in 1976, universalized the corruption in the state. Even very low ranked officials were made to pool ill-gotten money for the success of these functions. In order to give relief to the people and the govt functionaries, when the new regime took over in 1977 after the Emergency, it was announced that no govt official would spend on the hospitality of the visiting ministers or other dignitaries. The ministers were asked to partake food in gurdwaras or with village community. But this diktat was followed only for two or three months.
Major time of the Naib-Tehsildars, Tehsildars, SDMs and other PCS and new IAS officers is spent on duty with the ministers and other dignitaries and making hospitality arrangements for them. Spending on the hospitality continues to be funded by ill-gotten money. Over the years with the rise in prices, the spending has also steeply ascended. I have had the privilege to train some Tehsildars almost two decades back. Once, I came across my old trainee, who was a Tehsildar in a Doaba Tehsil .He told me that the main political leader of the area of the then ruling regime, who was a defeated candidate in the Legislative Assembly elections, had very arrogantly threatened him. He had said, ''Tehsildar Sahib, the monthly expenditure of my office is one lac twenty five thousands. You will be paying it, if you want to stay here. ''He had not paid that amount. So, he was suspended on a very flimsy ground, just to hang a crow, so that others did not dare to disobey the Nadarshahi unlawful vagaries of participant mercenaries.
Here is a pitiable but humorous anecdote. In a district, the Revenue officers met the deputy commissioner and suggested, ''Sir, the unlawful expenditure has become unbearable, it is a humble request that either the govt should provide the funds or the concerned district level officers may be deputed with the ministers or dignitaries of their departments and bear the expenses of forced and undignified hospitality and if revenue officers make arrangements, the expenses must be reimbursed to them by the concerned deptt. ''The deputy commissioner agreed that the revenue officers being experts should make arrangements and the concerned departments would bear the expenses .He directed his general assistant to co-ordinate with the officers for smooth running of the proposal. The minister for Labour and Employment visited the district. The total amount spent on making all arrangements on the visit at that time was rupees 877.I am exact because i had spent that amount. In spite of repeatedly ringing up district employment officer the money was not being given, though assurances were always given. After about a month, the officer himself came with a big paper bag. He told me that he had brought the money.We got the room bolted to count the money. There were ten, five ,two and one rupee notes and it took considerable time to count. I asked the officer, ''Singh sahib, why such small notes? ''He said in utter sadness, ''The money has been collected from each and every employee of the .department, even class 4.No one has willingly given a single penny. I have felt like a crippled beggar while collecting this amount. I do not know how a dignified man can enjoy such a hospitality, which is imbued in corruption, invectives, hate, abuses and disrespect. The govt should do something in this regard.''
Surinderjit singh sandhu, Amritsar
The arrogance of BJP is favoring the revival of Congress .In BLP it is one man show all others are non entities . Congress will have to speak on the public interest issues and not remain mute spectators.
V K Gupta
DEBATE (2) Congress
Any body except Gandhi Family can revive congress but are congee cadre and leadres are prepared to ignore this family and interested to revive congress.Infact Gandhi Family is only big burden to congress.Congees think that Gandhis can protect them and they can only bring congress once again to power which is only an illusion.If congees give a thought to project new leadership ignoring Gandhis and vold bandicoots and rebuild grom scracth..congee can be revived..
Dhulipala Venkateswara Rao
Perennial corrupt ways
These days social media is abuzz with the role of a legislator as a zealous crusader against the corruption indulged in by the functionaries of various state and central govt departments. The daring but shameless officials appear to be biting the flesh of the poor people. In spite of loud slogans by the governments to eradicate corruption and redressal of peoples' grievances at their door steps,the malady has existed for a very long time.The role of the govt at the top in sustenance of corrupt ways and corruption has been that of a culpable criminal participation.
During a training programme at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration Mussoorie, in which officers from 22 states were participating, a lady IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh told that ministers and senior officers generally ,when they visited the districts or sub-divisions, never spent a penny from their pockets and rather enjoyed the lavish hospitality of the local administration, which is invariably based on the resources collected by the officials by resorting to corrupt ways. All the officers agreed that the same conditions prevailed in other states. The revenue department was considered as the major victim of this greed and plunder of the high-ups of the state. In the Punjab state in the mid 1970s,the forced collection of Red Cross membership fee and the funds for the small savings, by the official machinery from the poor people, who approached any office, particularly Revenue, had attained barbaric and tyrannous proportions. To ice the ugly cake, two functions ;one INC session at Mataurh in 1975-76 near Chandigarh and the other to mark 100% electrification of Punjab at Malerkotla in 1976, universalized the corruption in the state. Even very low ranked officials were made to pool ill-gotten money for the success of these functions. In order to give relief to the people and the govt functionaries, when the new regime took over in 1977 after the Emergency, it was announced that no govt official would spend on the hospitality of the visiting ministers or other dignitaries. The ministers were asked to partake food in gurdwaras or with village community. But this diktat was followed only for two or three months.
Major time of the Naib-Tehsildars, Tehsildars, SDMs and other PCS and new IAS officers is spent on duty with the ministers and other dignitaries and making hospitality arrangements for them. Spending on the hospitality continues to be funded by ill-gotten money. Over the years with the rise in prices, the spending has also steeply ascended. I have had the privilege to train some Tehsildars almost two decades back. Once, I came across my old trainee, who was a Tehsildar in a Doaba Tehsil .He told me that the main political leader of the area of the then ruling regime, who was a defeated candidate in the Legislative Assembly elections, had very arrogantly threatened him. He had said, ''Tehsildar Sahib, the monthly expenditure of my office is one lac twenty five thousands. You will be paying it, if you want to stay here. ''He had not paid that amount. So, he was suspended on a very flimsy ground, just to hang a crow, so that others did not dare to disobey the Nadarshahi unlawful vagaries of participant mercenaries.
Here is a pitiable but humorous anecdote. In a district, the Revenue officers met the deputy commissioner and suggested, ''Sir, the unlawful expenditure has become unbearable, it is a humble request that either the govt should provide the funds or the concerned district level officers may be deputed with the ministers or dignitaries of their departments and bear the expenses of forced and undignified hospitality and if revenue officers make arrangements, the expenses must be reimbursed to them by the concerned deptt. ''The deputy commissioner agreed that the revenue officers being experts should make arrangements and the concerned departments would bear the expenses .He directed his general assistant to co-ordinate with the officers for smooth running of the proposal. The minister for Labour and Employment visited the district. The total amount spent on making all arrangements on the visit at that time was rupees 877.I am exact because i had spent that amount. In spite of repeatedly ringing up district employment officer the money was not being given, though assurances were always given. After about a month, the officer himself came with a big paper bag. He told me that he had brought the money.We got the room bolted to count the money. There were ten, five ,two and one rupee notes and it took considerable time to count. I asked the officer, ''Singh sahib, why such small notes? ''He said in utter sadness, ''The money has been collected from each and every employee of the .department, even class 4.No one has willingly given a single penny. I have felt like a crippled beggar while collecting this amount. I do not know how a dignified man can enjoy such a hospitality, which is imbued in corruption, invectives, hate, abuses and disrespect. The govt should do something in this regard.''
Surinderjit singh sandhu, Amritsar
