Category: Kashmir Government
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Right people for right job
This rampant adhocracy does not augur well for us. This write-up should not be interpreted as special liking for any particular section of administration or discriminatory attitude towards others. An efficient system of governance always runs in line with time tested traditions, set rules, procedures and a job chart prescribed for every designated entity within…
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Footpath mafia!
We need a strong administration to address the issue. Few days back a walk through the city center Lal Chowk and adjoining areas was not only soothing but interesting as well. Overnight, almost all roadside vendors have vanished from this historic place and most of its adjoining areas. Clear roads, cleaner streets and enough space…
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Deliver or Perish
The message holds good for this government and for all governments to come! With his three months of perfect rule, Narinder Nath Vohra has created new benchmarks in governance. This brief period of all development and less mess-up can be treated as a case study for good governance. No one can deny this three months…
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An open letter to Mehbooba Mufti
Now that you are about to take charge, you have some grave issue to address! After more than two months of being in denial mode you are about to take charge of state government as its first woman Chief Minister. We all know you are under tremendous pressure both at your own party and coalition…
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March, the month of pointless expenditures!
One wonders why do we compulsively spend our precious capital just to complete the financial year. During my more than three decades of service with the state government I had great experience of duty, subordination, rights and working of our administration. Inheriting and carrying the British legacy of administrative structure which was more a system…
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Governance with a difference!
All it takes is honesty, impartiality and sincerity. I believe in and practise democracy by conviction. So, in any case these lines should not be interpreted as a campaign to denigrate political governance and people’s participation in governance—democracy in political parlance. For the last several weeks our state is under governor’s rule, certainly a provision…
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Bleak Srinagar Landscape!
Materialism has done the damage. On universal garden and landscape scenario only two forms of gardens are documented as formal and informal. Almost all Mughal gardens are formal and the rest all landscape is categorized as informal. So, most of our landscape in Srinagar is formal. Formal pattern of landscaping suit well to topography of Kashmir…
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The virus of corruption
…….and departmental vigilance officers. In 1994 to strengthen the anti-corruption mechanism, our state government tried to create an antidote for corruption within the system itself by designating Departmental vigilance officers (DVOs) and issued a circular No. 12 of 1994 dated 22.2.1994 through GAD (General administrative department). The idea of DVOs was to nip the evil…
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Shun your Egos!
Leaders can be bad but not trade unions. I write here neither to support any slanderous language nor to appease someone who has not been magnanimous enough to have patience with a large number of over- exploited class of employees. Last week’s face- off between Director School Education, Kashmir (DSEK) a brilliant, energetic and an…
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Bargaining power
Mehbooba Mufti will have to learn to deal with her allies! Untimely demise of Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad Syed has created a vacuum in Jammu and Kashmir politics. An able administrator and a humble soul, Mufti Mohammad Syed throughout his five decade political career pursued a political belief that strengthened bond of…