DNA:
New Delhi: Thursday, 23 April 2015.
The Delhi
High Court on Wednesday sought response from the Centre and Rajya Sabha
secretariat after taking note of advocate Prashant Bhushan's PIL which highlighted
irregularities in the appointment of senior officers like Joint Secretary and
above in the secretariat, including the officer on special duty to
vice-president Hamid Ansari and RSTV CEO Gurdeep Singh Sappal and the present
Sesecretary General.
In the PIL
through the ANGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation, Bhushan challenged the
validity of clause 6 (A) of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat (Methods of Recruitment
and Qualifications for Appointment) Order, 2009 and sought an order directing
an independent inquiry into all the appointments made in the Rajya Sabha
Secretariat since 2008. He also sought inquiry into appointment of the CEO of
RS TV channel.
"An
inquiry to be conducted into all the discretionary appointments made through
deputation in violation of the RS Secretariat (Methods of Recruitment and
Qualifications for appointments) order 2009 in the RS Secretariat in past few
years and also the appointment of the CEO of RSTV," the plea said.
RTI
reveals
dna, which has access to some official
documents, has reported on April 6 that RSTV CEO Gurdeep Sappal is the first
ever non-bureaucrat CEO of government-run TV. According to RTI information, job
of RSTV CEO was never advertised. Unlike (Lok Sabha) LSTV CEO, whose job was
prominently advertised, Sappal was handpicked for the job without any
competition.
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