Times of India: Chandigarh: Wednesday,
May 11, 2016.
If one judges
competence of an officer with the number of his public appearances, interactions
with subordinates and inauguration of new projects, former UT adviser Vijay Dev
has then scored better than his predecessor K K Sharma in his short stint of
about 14 months in Chandigarh.
Information
procured through Right to Information (RTI) Act says about 46 programmes,
including inaugurations, meetings and review meetings were chaired by Sharma
during his three-year-old tenure. On the other hand, 38 functions related to
more than a dozen departments of administration were chaired by Dev during his
tenure.
The RTI query
was filed with the administration, which instructed about two dozen departments
to respond. More than 80 positive replies related to functions attended by both
the former advisers were received from the department of forest and wildlife,
Zila Sainik Parishad, Chandigarh State Consumer Forum, Institute of Hotel
Management, information and technology department, different wings of
Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, and Chandigarh Transport
Undertaking (CTU).
The replies
show that maximum functions, which were attended by both the advisers, related
to forest and wildlife, science and technology departments. Sharma had attended
27 functions and six review meetings of the two particular departments and Dev
about 15 functions and four review meeting of the same departments. About seven
inaugurations of e-sampark centres related to department of information
technology (IT) were made by Dev during his tenure and Sharma inaugurated three
centres.
Sharma, a
1983 batch AGMUT cadre IAS officer, had been adviser from 2011 to 2014. Dev, a
1987 cadre IAS officer, had spent 14 months in Chandigarh. Dev attended three
functions of Chandigarh Institute of Hotel Management during his tenure and not
a single interaction and function related to the same department was held by
Sharma.
In its reply,
the CTU stated that Dev had flagged off about 11 newly-purchased buses and no
function, meeting and interaction of the department was held by Sharma.
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