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