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NEW DELHI: A tug-of-war has started in the Delhi Development Authority here with the cadre officials rooting for any of the eight Chief Engineers to be given the job of Member (Engineering) once the present incumbent, Prabhash Singh, demits office in September this year and the Search Committee of the Union Ministry of Urban Development calling upon the Central Public Works Department and the public sector undertakings to send a list of their engineers for the post. The DDA cadre officials are aghast at the move of the Search Committee and feel that they are deliberately being ignored for the top engineering post. "Do you consider DDA staff for the top jobs in CPWD or are you prepared to offer them jobs in the PSUs? If not, then why should people from outside be brought into DDA for the job when its own Chief Engineers are capable enough of delivering the goods?'' asks a senior official. The post used to be occupied by CPWD or officials from other cadres till about a decade ago as DDA did not have the experts till then to do it justice. But then with the appointment of H.D. Sharma for the post, the situation changed and his three successors, R.L. Hans, R.K. Bhandari and Chandok Banerjee were all from the DDA cadre. Last year however, Mr Banerjee was unceremoniously removed from the post and Mr Prabhash Singh replaced him. However, now that he is due to retire, the field has been thrown wide open by the Search Committee which will be picking up the "best person'' for the job from among the departments and undertakings which have been approached. But DDA officials want the job to come to them. "If these Chief Engineers are not the best, then why have they been kept in such important posts for between two to eight years,'' asked a senior engineer, stating that the higher-ups basically want their own yes-man for the job so that they are able to get things done in the Authority their own way.
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