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Say No To Private Awards DA Merged With Basic Pay: Welcome To The Cadre
Say No To Private Awards DA Merged With Basic Pay: Welcome To The Cadre
Say No To Private Awards DA Merged With Basic Pay: Welcome To The Cadre
Say No to Private Awards Welcome to the Cadre DA merged with Basic Pay
Who doesn’t feel good about an award or We welcome the following officers of the Thanks to the relentless struggle by the
recognition for the toil he or she has 2003 batch of the IAS and wish them a Association to fulfill the long-pending
gone through to achieve success? In fact: happy and rewarding stay in the districts demand, the 50 per cent of the dearness
Breathes there an officer, with soul so dead, as Supernumerary Assistant Collectors: allowance, which has already reached
Who never to himself hath said, ■ Muthukrishnan Sankaranarayanan, 61 per cent level, has now been merged
“Where is my own, my dear award?” Maharashtra, BTech (Mech Engg): with the basic pay. ■
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, Sangli. ■ Saurabh Rao, UP, MA (Pol
As home his footsteps he had turn’d
From wondering on a Babu-land.
Sc): Wardha. ■ Sanjeev Kumar (II), J&K,
Mopalwar to Denver
So, will it be proper for a member of (MBBS): Aurangabad. ■ Shaila Beevi A., Director, Groundwater Survey &
the All India Services to accept an award Kerala,JRF (Eco): Ratnagiri.■ Development Agency (Pune) RL
from a private body? The Department of Who’s gone where? Mopalwar (1995) will be on short term
Personnel & Training has affirmed that, ■ Sandeep Bagchee (1973): Principal training to be held at Western
barring circumstances like rewarding, Secretary & Special Enquiries Officer-II. Management Development Centre,
which does not involve any monetary Denver, USA, during 17-28 May 2004. ■
benefit, the merit of an officer for work
done outside the purview of his functions
in government or where Government Insurance for spouses
thinks that an individual deserves a The Association has taken up the issue
particular award, it will not be about inclusion of the surviving spouses
appropriate for such officer to accept a of IAS officers dying in harness in the
complimentary or valedictory address or insurance scheme specially formulated
testimonial or to attend a meeting or by the National Insurance Company
entertainment held in his honour from a Limited. The NICL’s Manager at the
private organization. Mumbai Regional Office, Mr KS Sankar,
The verdict is unassailable. For, the has informed that the issue is engaging
activities of the Government extend over their active attention “in terms of putting
wide ranging fields, some of which are in place the necessary internal
well publicized and some are not. So, approvals”. ■
accepting such award could mean an
unintended but undesirable preference in By VS GOPALAKRISHNAN Transit quarters soon
recognition for persons engaged in the Thanks largely to the prompt action
“Another decision taken to protect
former category. Secondly, some of the taken by Additional Chief Secretary
greenery in Mumbai is to have all the
bodies which institute awards may also (Planning) Nand Lal, the construction
buildings painted green!”■
be involved in activities which may work for the transit accommodation for
prove embarrassing to the Government. service officers will start soon on a plot
[Our inimitable cartoonist VS Gopalakrishnan
Thirdly, the Government certainly has (1962), Director General World Trade Centre, behind the Yashodhan building on D.V.
various methods to recognize its Mumbai, can be contacted on: 022-22182879; Road, Churchgate, Mumbai. We are
employee’s outstanding work, merit and 24936429; vsgopal2000@yahoo.com]. ■ thankful to Mr Nand Lal for sanctioning
service. Fourthly, a civil servant is not to Rs 50 lakh for the project. ■
seek publicity or public recognition; his Biswas, LV Deshmukh
job is to act in a fair manner within the
framework of the policy laid down by selected to do PG Course Nominations streamlined
the political executive, and hence Director of Census for Maharashtra Samir State Governments may now submit
seeking private awards can affect such Kumar Biswas (1990) and Municipal their nominations, duly approved, along
functioning. Lastly but most importantly, Commissioner of Akola Municipal with vigilance clearance, directly to the
the achievement which may merit an Corporation Laxmikant Vasant Deshmukh Department of Economic Affairs,
award is invariably a result of co- (1995) have been selected for the 3rd Ministry of Finance, Government of
ordinated efforts of a team and not Two-Year Post Graduate Programme in India. But they will be responsible for
because of one person alone. But then, Public Policy & Management to be ensuring all necessary clearances after
shouldn’t the competent authority have conducted at the Centre for Public Policy, the candidate is finally selected for the
simply said: Work is its own reward? ■ IIM Bangalore commencing on 1 June course but before he/she proceeds on
Rameshchandra Kanade 2004. Congrats, Samir and LV! ■ foreign training. ■
A Monthly Newsletter of the IAS Officers’ Association, Maharashtra Branch For private circulation only
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Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and may even become shackles. ... Mahatma Gandhi
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4 IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD HARMONY, MAY 2004