Bizarre behaviour by a director level officer in Bihar
I am about to complete two years in Bihar with SWASTH project and had more than hundreds of meetings and discussions at all levels from CS, DC , PS , DMs, Engineers, mukhiyas and community. But today's meeting with one of the Director of social welfare department will be in memory for very long time. The Director has come to Bihar last year on deputation from central service . I am a big supporter of this move by state govermnent to bring central officers on deputation to Bihar . These officers basically from Bihar would like to contribute to growing Bihar.
What I saw today was a behaviour not heard of from these officers who choosen to come to Bihar to serve in a professional manner . Their attitude, way of talking all was evident in front of state officials from three department and the external agency from Gujarat. What impression they will take and how the work will move in Bihar.
First of all we were informed through a signed letter from the Director that he will meet at 4 pm anyway after several reminders he agreed to meet at 5.15pm. The Bihar standard time. No issues on this. But what was most shocking that he started questioning his own signed letter and saying that it is not written in his diary or his PA diary.Whose fault was this ? He has not allowed agency to even speak forget about the presentation that they develped with so much of hard work. Apart from that there was issues to seek wider convergence with other concerned department and BTAST facilitated this but in place of appreciating he was doing something else. The question was then why he called the meeting ? why he signed the letter ?secondly accepting or not accepting the plan is his decision but to behave differently to a group of ten persons is not his prerogative. He should be mindful of it.
I was very much disappointed and thought that let us forget this and move on. I will move on but this time decided to put in writing that people should know about it and may reach to his superiors . And also government to know what is happening to " Government to your door step". They can not even behave sensibly to a group who is working for them alas what they will do for the community at large.
This will give a serious jolt to our efforts to bring line departments together to discuss things which need joint efforts. I am afraid in future officers from other line department will not be interested to come and discuss issues with the directorate.
What I saw today was a behaviour not heard of from these officers who choosen to come to Bihar to serve in a professional manner . Their attitude, way of talking all was evident in front of state officials from three department and the external agency from Gujarat. What impression they will take and how the work will move in Bihar.
First of all we were informed through a signed letter from the Director that he will meet at 4 pm anyway after several reminders he agreed to meet at 5.15pm. The Bihar standard time. No issues on this. But what was most shocking that he started questioning his own signed letter and saying that it is not written in his diary or his PA diary.Whose fault was this ? He has not allowed agency to even speak forget about the presentation that they develped with so much of hard work. Apart from that there was issues to seek wider convergence with other concerned department and BTAST facilitated this but in place of appreciating he was doing something else. The question was then why he called the meeting ? why he signed the letter ?secondly accepting or not accepting the plan is his decision but to behave differently to a group of ten persons is not his prerogative. He should be mindful of it.
I was very much disappointed and thought that let us forget this and move on. I will move on but this time decided to put in writing that people should know about it and may reach to his superiors . And also government to know what is happening to " Government to your door step". They can not even behave sensibly to a group who is working for them alas what they will do for the community at large.
This will give a serious jolt to our efforts to bring line departments together to discuss things which need joint efforts. I am afraid in future officers from other line department will not be interested to come and discuss issues with the directorate.
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