Raipur: Chhattisgarh government formulating a transfer policy has sparked a political debate with the opposition terming it formation of "transfer industry to mint money”. Chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, countering the allegations, said that transfers of officers and employees is an administrative requirement to streamline the functioning.
“The state policy for transfers of its employees will be finally approved by chief minister Bhupesh Baghel once the draft is submitted to him,” additional chief secretary Subrat Sahoo told TOI.
He said that the ministerial sub-committee has held its last meeting recently and the process of drafting the final policy is underway. Once completed, it will be submitted to the CM for his approval, Sahoo said.
Main opposition BJP, as well as Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), have been alleging that the move for ‘mass transfers’ is a tool for corruption and to mint money through transfers of officials and employees in the state. Opposition leaders claimed that it is no secret how transfers and postings are carried out.
State BJP president Vishnu Deo Sai said the Congress government has converted transfers as an industry and the opposition parties have been raising it from time to time. “Middlemen charge a heavy amount for transfers from officers and everyone knows this has been going on,” he added.
CM Baghel, however, trained the guns on the BJP instead saying that its leaders are actually narrating what they had done during their 15-year-long rule in the state. “BJP sees money in their dreams also,” he said, adding that “instead of politicising such matters, it would be appreciated if the union ministers, who visit Chhattisgarh, contributed to the state's development and progress. They come here and trigger the same issue of transfer and leave,” the CM added.
“Transfer was rather used like an industry during the BJP regime and Congress government is making efforts to make transfers easy, smooth, judicious as per administrative requirement,” Congress spokesperson Sushil Anand Shukla said. The transfer policy will bring hope to government employees stuck in insurgency-hit areas.
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