The Hindu : `Decision on cadres a retrograde step'

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Wednesday, Oct 01, 2003

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`Decision on cadres a retrograde step'

By Our Staff Correspondent

SHIMLA SEPT. 30 . The former Health Minister and senior BJP leader, Mr. JP Nadda, has condemned the recent Cabinet decision to shift certain categories in the health sector from district cadres to State cadres. Calling it a retrograde step, he said the Chief Minister was only interested in perpetuating the transfer industry in the State.

In a statement issued today from his hometown Bilaspur, he said, the present Government was reversing all the decisions of the previous Government without applying its mind or going into the merits. The decision to create district cadres was taken under a commitment to decentralise the powers and for developing an effective system of man- management.

He claimed that the earlier Government wanted to provide better services to the people living in remote and far-flung areas and to ensure the presence of staff in all hard areas. The posts in these areas were lying vacant from long times, he said. The district officers were given powers to manage the cadres with in the respective districts and not like earlier when the entire administration was managed form the directorate.

He said the previous Government was trying to give these powers slowly to the PRIs and their management at the grass root level. The present Congress Government pays had no commitment to the masses, he alleged.

Challenging the Chief Minister to come out with the reasons for the reversals, Mr. Nadda said that the Chief Minister was only interested in taking powers in his own hand.

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