The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Vijayawada News : Promoting what?

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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

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Andhra Pradesh - Vijayawada

Promoting what?

TWO SENIOR IAS officers holding key posts in the school education department must have been more than happy to see the programme sheet of Vidya Vedika, a meeting of teachers and educationists from six districts, held here last week.

The organisers have accorded "promotions" to the education secretary, P.Krishnaiah, and the director of school education, K.Ramakrishna Rao, to the posts that are higher than what they are currently holding.

Mr. Krishnaiah, who belongs to the 1984 batch of IAS, was designated as the principal secretary and Mr. Ramakrishna Rao of the 1991 batch was designated as the commissioner and director in the programme sheet. These two IAS officers would, however, have to wait at least a few more years to be promoted to these posts.

A SIMPLE mathematical addition, which would otherwise form homework for a school kid, attracted the attention of students and parents at the ongoing counselling for admission to PG medical courses. The simple mathematical workout is 44 + 123 = 167. Do these numbers sound familiar? Yes, they are.

The medical students, who were unhappy over conducting counselling for three times, would elaborate on it. They would say 44 would stand for GO No 44, based on which the first counselling was conducted on March 14.

The number 123 would stand for GO No 123 issued for cancelling first-round counselling and paving the way for second round on April 25. If you add GO No 44 to GO No 123, you get Go No 167. Whether the government, which was accused of being responsible for all this mess would ultimately prove to be right or wrong, the talent of the officials concerned in basic mathematics was being lauded.

THE HUMAN rights groups, who are always critical of the police action against the naxalites in the State (either on alleged fake encounters or illegal detention of people), on majority of occasions maintain silence over the naxalite violence, though they claim to be championing the cause of downtrodden and the socially weak.

In a deviation from their usual public posture, the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee in Guntur for the first time gave a significant statement against the mindless killing of a police constable at Kocherla in Ipuru mandal while on a bandobust duty. The naxalites had shown supply of arms to Nepal by Indian Government as reason for killing the police constable in retaliation.

This probably increases responsibility on the police to ensure that no fake encounters take place and also gives them moral strength of support from Rights organisations to counter mindless killing of civilians by naxals.

G. Ravikiran

in Vijayawada

and

Ramesh Susarla

in Guntur.

G.V.Ramana Rao and G. Ravikiran in Vijayawada and Ramesh Susarla in Guntur.

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