Don’t go ahead with amendment to IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954: Mamata again urges PM Modi

[bhaigan]

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi again on the proposed amendment to the IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954, insisting that it would create a “fear psychosis” among officers and impact their performance.

In a letter to Modi on the issue for the second time in eight days, Banerjee said the amendment will “destroy” the federal fabric and basic structure of the Constitution. The Union government has proposed an amendment to the rules, which would enable it to post IAS officers on central deputation, bypassing reservations of state governments. Banerjee had written to Modi on January 13, urging him not to go ahead with the proposal.

On Thursday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sent a second letter in eight days to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue, describing the move as one that goes “against the... basic structure of India's Constitutional scheme”.

Resistance is mounting from more states to the Centre’s proposed changes in rules that give it overarching powers to decide on the posting of IAS officers even as the Government has tightened the norms further in a revised draft.

On Thursday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sent a second letter in eight days to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue, describing the move as one that goes “against the… basic structure of India’s Constitutional scheme”. The Maharashtra government, meanwhile, decided in a Cabinet meeting to “strongly oppose” the changes.

Sources said at least five states have sent letters to the Centre opposing the proposed changes. Apart from West Bengal and Odisha, they include BJP and NDA-ruled Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Meghalaya. “The present system is good,” Bihar Chief Secretary Amir Subhani 

Other states are yet to respond although sources in the Maharashtra government said it will send a letter to the Centre opposing the move. The deadline for states to respond was extended from January 5 to January 25.

In her latest letter to Modi, Mamata Banerjee wrote: “The moot point of the further revised draft amendment proposal is that an officer, whom the Central Government may choose to take out of a State to any part of the country without taking his/ her consent and without the agreement of the State Government under whom he/ she is serving, may now stand released from his/ her current assignment forthwith.”

Accusing the Centre of “taking the matter to further non-federal extremes”, she wrote: “I find the revised amendment proposal more draconian than the former, and indeed its very grain is against the foundations of our great federal polity and the basic structure of India’s Constitutional scheme.”

[paaparao]

ee amendment valla BJP ki emi laabham?? TRS ki emi loss?

[Raven_Rayes]

Just now, paaparao said:

ee amendment valla BJP ki emi laabham?? TRS ki emi loss?

more centralization of the administration.

[bhaigan]

10 hours ago, Raven_Rayes said:

more centralization of the administration.