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Proper transfer policy needed

The government jobs and job security go hand in hand in states. Transfer is an administrative arrangement being taken by administrative authority. In government one can transfer on public interest also by competent authority. The Political interference in transfers lead to substantial inefficiency.

 It’s suggested fixed tenure of at least two to three years for all government employees to ensure accountability and maximise their impact on the job. In most of the departments employees are working at same station from many years. It aims to enhance their work experience and preventing them from being corrupted. The transfer and posting of employees therefore requires policy measures to codify what is right about existing informal practices and to avert their negative potential.

Good governance and better administration of development is often offered as a plausible solution to conflict management. The legitimacy of a policy has to be assessed on the touchstone of constitutional parameters, ensuring in the process that constitutional values which underlie Articles 14, 15 and 16 and Article 21 of the Constitution are duly protected.


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Revising Indian history

S Kamat, Alto Santa Cruz
Published Jan 9, 2023, 12:48 AM IST
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There have been calls from Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah that Indian history as we see it in our books and records is distorted and this needs to be corrected. There is no doubt about the first part of this statement since most Indian history is projected prior to our Independence through British and/or foreign eyes. Thus it introduces a slant or bias which is favourable to the colonialists.Therefore this needs to be corrected. But the manner of doing this…

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