Rajasthan: Public anger at scrapping of 9 districts by Bhajan Lal authorities

“Thus, the Congress authorities in Rajasthan set an instance earlier than the entire nation, which benefited the general public. The BJP authorities has closed or weakened all of the schemes of the Congress authorities, which is inflicting a powerful response among the many public,” Gehlot had written to PM Modi, asking him to conduct a examine among the many folks of Rajasthan.

Following the choice to scrap 9 districts, seven district collectors and one superintendent of police would require reassignment. The collectors of Kotputli-Behror, Neem Ka Thana, Kekri, Shahpura, Sanchore, Gangapur and Anupgarh must be reassigned. In Jaipur and Jodhpur-Rural and Dudu, new collectors weren’t appointed, which is able to end in a large bureaucratic reshuffle.

The divisional headquarters the place divisional commissioners had been appointed have additionally misplaced their utility. A number of districts had been put underneath one division for higher administration, and the federal government itself pushed this put up to the sidelines, with officers posted as divisional commissioners typically discovering it a ‘punishment’.

District collectors would invariably not hold divisional headquarters posted about developments. Typically, a junior officer was made divisional commissioner, whereas a senior officer could be made a collector pressured to work underneath a junior divisional commissioner. There are quite a few examples of such anomalies which made the divisional commissioner’s put up insignificant.

The Bhajan Lal authorities has appointed a number of promotee IAS officers as divisional commissioners, which suggests they’re junior to the district collectors. The divisional commissioner’s system was abolished in 1962 and revised in 1987. Many states like Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Telangana now not have a divisional commissioner system. There’s a robust bureaucratic foyer which needs this technique abolished.