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| editorial. | 07/10/02 |
Breaking it off in chunks
Government departments that are in need of bifurcation, such as the education department and the health department have been divided into two or more sections, making the departments more effective and creating posts for promotions that would otherwise have been unavailable for some of the staff.
One of the first department to be bifurcated since Union Territory was the Agriculture department. The Soil and Water Conservation was the first to be separated from the parent department of Agriculture. Then a further division took place when the Horticulture department separated from the Agriculture department. With the latest bifurcation, it will be the third time that the Agriculture department have been bifurcated.
In cases of bifurcation of departments in the past, the need to bifurcate them arose from the fact that because of the massive size of the department, the work had become sluggish and that the department was virtually at a standstill. However, the bifurcation of the Agriculture department is the second case during the MNF ministry in which a department had been divided to accomodate favoured officers in plum posts and not because of a genuine need for a bifurcation.
As the Congress is wont to say, the MNF ministry seems to doing what it promised not to do and not doing what it had promised to do. When it came to power, chief minister Zoramthanga said his ministry would not be like the Congress and exact revenge on government employees by posting them out to other places as punishment. However, one of its very first act after assuming power was to post the current director of agriculture at that time to a post that was created solely for the posting.
With cases such as this, what is the MNF ministry going to say at the time of electioning campaigning when it is asked about its promises? One would have thought the chief minister would have more sense than to aim for a solitary term, seeing its predecessor, the Congress, had managed to keep them at bay for more than ten years. However, the actions of the MNF ministry do not seem as if it is aiming for a second term in office.
Its latest action, which is transparently clear that it was an action to accomodate a favoured officer and at the same time comply with a High Court missive, is not going to go down well with the electorate not because of sympathy for an individual, but because of the unfairness of the government as perceived by the people.
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