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Letter
‘Official
Apathy’
Dear
Editor, I
desire to make it clear that the root cause of most of our misfortunes, which if
not corrected, forebodes serious disorders in the future, is the growth of an
unsympathetic and illiberal spirit in the bureaucracy towards the age old
downcast people. The bureaucracy with its vested interests, its dominating
habits, its old traditions of absolute and unquestionable authority and averse
to innovation like very close corporation, cut off from the people by its racial
exclusiveness is antagonistic to the age old persons. The present bureaucracy as
a body has never been in sympathy with the aspirations of Kashmiri Hindu age old
migrants. The
main aim of bureaucracy is the preservation of the class privileges and the
vested interests of pampered groups. The
classical example of such bureaucracy is that more than 10 months passed that
under his letter no: Admn 1/Audit/155(48) 2002-2003/694 dated 27/6/2002, the
Accountant General (Audit), Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar, forwarded my case to
the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, New Delhi for seeking his advice
and approval as to how my pension could be regulated on 1/4/1986 (i.e. the date
when my pension was fixed and authorised in the pre-1986 pay scale), when my
personal pension also stands stopped; but till date the Comptroller and Auditor
General of India, New Delhi did not take any action in the matter, though 17
reminders were issued to him from A.G. J&K, Srinagar, Bank of India, Satara
and myself. This
is the height of bureaucracy. May God save us from such bureaucracy! --Man
Mohan Nath Ambardar 'Rachana', Sadar Bazar, Satara
415 001
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