The Aam Aadmi Party-dominated (AAP) Delhi Assembly, on Wednesday, broached the creation of an exclusive cadre of officials for Government service even as it passed a resolution against the Centre’s alleged attempts to ‘bind and gag a democratically-elected Government in a tyrannical experiment’.
AAP legislator from Najafgarh, Kailash Gahlot suggested the same as an amendment to the said resolution against two back-to-back notifications issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) one of which limits the jurisdiction of its Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) and the other imposing checks on the Delhi Government’s right to allot the services of its choice to officials employed by it. “The Government of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi has not so far brought any legislation before this House regarding entry 41 of the State List. This House recommends that the Government bring in a legislation for creation of a NCT Public Service,” the amendment stated.
Services, according to the resolution passed by the Assembly, as an entry was with the Central Government but still included ‘only the conditions of service, and with no stretch of argument includes work allotment to the officers and employees of the Government’.
The topic came to the fore even as Chandni Chowk legislator Alka Lamba joined her colleague from the Kasturba Nagar constituency, Madan Lal, in suggesting that the Delhi Government ‘stop paying bureaucrats belonging to the Union Territories (UT) cadre’.
“Let them seek their salaries from the Centre which they are working for and listening to in any case instead of the Delhi Government,” Ms. Lamba said.
The suggestion was, however, struck down almost immediately by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia who said that the Government ‘had no plan to stop paying its employees’ and that ‘they would be protected from any harassment by the Centre as and when it came to notice’.
According to a resolution, services as an entry was with the Central Government but included ‘only the conditions of service, and with no stretch of argument includes work allotment to the officers’
