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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt not too happy with Ashok Khemka going to the media -Vishwa Mohan

Govt not too happy with Ashok Khemka going to the media -Vishwa Mohan

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published Published on Oct 18, 2012   modified Modified on Oct 18, 2012
-The Times of India
Land deal
IAS officer Ashok Khemka's decision to take his grievances to the media does not seem to have gone down well with the government.

Though neither Khemka, who has been transferred 43 times in 19 years, nor the state government has approached the ministry of personnel, officials here appeared to be critical of his going to the media with his complaint of abrupt transfer. The ministry of personnel looks after the affairs of the elite service.

Citing the All India Services (Conduct) Rules 1968, an official said, "The IAS officer has violated the rule by approaching media. The Haryana government is, therefore, well within its right to initiate disciplinary proceedings against him."

Rule 7 prohibits any IAS officer from approaching the media in any way "which has the effect of an adverse criticism of any current or recent policy or action of the central government or a state government".

No official in the ministry, however, came on 'record' while explaining the service rules, considering the popular mood against the transfer of an upright officer who dared to speak against his political masters.

Khemka was transferred from the post of director general (consolidation of holdings and land records) last week after he ordered scrutiny of files relating to land records of Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

Although the state government claimed to have effected the transfer for "administrative reasons", Khemka questioned the move, saying it was in violation of the statutory IAS (Fixation of Cadre Strength) Regulations, 2010 that guarantees a minimum tenure of two years.

He also claimed that the state government had "abruptly" transferred him as a "punishment" for acting as a whistle-blower in several dubious land transactions.

Government record shows that most of his postings lasted for merely months. During the past 19 years, he held eight posts in various departments for a month or less.

Besides the 2010 regulations on fixation of cadre strength, the second Administrative Reforms Commission had strongly pitched for giving fixed 'tenure' to both civil and police officials and urged the Centre to take up the matter with states on priority basis. Various government panels, too, have been critical of the manner in which IAS/IPS officers are transferred due to political interference.

The Times of India, 18 October, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-not-too-happy-with-Ashok-Khemka-going-to-the-media/articleshow/16857542.cms


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