Today's Witness Friday, 29 March 2024, 05:30 PM, ( Updated at 11:30 AM Daily)
BUREAURCRACY
Wednesday, 03 August, 2022 01:10:PM
This is for the second time that the government has overlooked AGMUT IPS officers for the post of Delhi Police Commissioner. It is ironic that being a cadre post the cadre officers are not able to make it to the top and the government is bringing officers from outside by deliberately sidelining senior AGMUT cadre IPS officers. Top sources in the power corridors have said that the debacle could be attributed to a reason that is discussed below:
Government's Push For Transforming Delhi Police And Image of AGMUT cadre officers
The government has started to change its outlook on the Delhi Police force and wants it to be more modern and tough to face upcoming challenges. The endeavor of the same was kickstarted by the government by choosing Rakesh Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner. There can be no denying that during Asthana's tenure Delhi Police witnessed a series of reforms that have matched and fulfilled the Government's aspiration for the Delhi Police to some extent. However, the question arises here why not IPS officers from Delhi Police considered? This time Government had an open choice of bringing Balaji Srivastava who is presently serving as DG BPR&D. Moreover Srivastava as CP would have made more sense and would have aligned with the Government's aspirations because Balaji has rich experience in intelligence, terror operations, and modernization(adding the experience of BPR&D) then what made government clean sweep a deserving contender for Delhi Police? According to sources, the image of AGMUT cadre officers may become a problem or responsible for Government's ignorance. Sources add that tenure of former Police Commissioner and maybe the last Delhi Police Commissioner of UT- S.N Srivastava. Sachidanand Srivastava's majority of his tenure was at the adhoc capacity and the environment of Delhi Police during his tenure was not at all conducive and mired by corruption and failure in law and order. Some top sources say that MHA silently observed everything and the building of an adverse environment among AGMUT cadre officers back then. Therefore, It can be said that a sudden drift in perception may be originated from the observations made during Sachidanand's tenure and subsequently followed up. Some say that the experiment of perception drift and bringing outsiders delivered some desirable results to the Government initially during Asthana's tenure. Therefore considering the perception of the government towards AGMUT cadre IPS officers and the good results of the experiment with outsiders at an initial stage forced the government to make some hard calls and completely ignore and change the present tradition of bringing CP of AGMUT cadre.