It may be a government of any type – democracy, monarchy, autocracy, dictatorship or something else, the orders are implemented by the bureaucracy. This important administrative machinery has direct interaction with the rulers on one hand and the people on the other. Whenever a government encourages its bureaucrats to work for the welfare of the subject, it becomes popular and enjoys a long tenure. Contrarily, if the government encourages them to be outrageous, people turn hostile and topple its apple-cart. In the present context, when in a democratic country like India, people who have tasted freedom, will not tolerate any high-handedness of the rulers. Despite that, different state satraps have come to notice for forcing the administration to be its tamed ‘parrot in cage’. Such an example is just available in UP.
Durga Shakti Nagpal, born on June 25, 1985, is an IAS officer of 2010 batch. In the national list of successful aspirants, she occupied 20th position. With this brilliance and a dream in the eyes, she joined the service with dedication and honesty. With this academic background, she was allotted UP cadre. Only in the fourth year of her service, she was posted in district Gautam Buddha Nagar as the SDM. She was already aware that the district was defamed for rampant crime including sand mafia and violent ragging in educational institutions. With her strict and imaginative measures, ragging was completely controlled. Then she turned her attention towards the notorious sand mafia, protected by some powerful local leaders of the ruling party. Very soon, she arrested several such illegal operatives, seized trucks and dumpers engaged in the job and got filed several FIRs against the involved criminals. It appeared that illegal mining would very soon be a thing of past which badly disturbed the beneficiary politicians. They were on the look out for some excuse to defame Durga Shakti and get her removed from the scene.
The incident of Kadalpur village came handy to them. The Muslims of the village had constructed illegally a mosque wall on the government land. On July 27,2013 Durga visited the village and told the Muslims about a Supreme Court decision, disallowing such constructions. They were convinced and willingly themselves razed the wall. There is a SP leader named Narinder Singh Bhati, who enjoys minister’s status and patronises sand mafia. He used his affinity to power and convinced the CM that due to the activities of the IAS officer, communal tension had developed in the village. Unbelievably, the Chief Minister immediately ordered her to be suspended and the letter was delivered to Durga the same midnight while she was fast asleep. The DM conducted an on the spot enquiry and gave a clean chit to Durga. Still the CM told the media that her suspension was correct. On the otherhand, Bhati, in a public meeting claimed that he talked to Mulayam and Akhilesh and got Durga suspended in 41 minutes.
Since then all newspapers and news channels have been holding political debates on this issue in which the SP representatives were flayed at. Almost all political parties demanded withdrawal of the suspension order but of no avail. The IAS and IPS officers are under central Government but in order to ensure SP support in the Parliament, sitting from Aug 5, it feels hamstrung. When Mrs Sonia Gandhi urged upon the PM to intervene, the SP posed why Khemka, an IAS officer of Haryana cadre, who was looking into illegal land purchase of her son-in-law, Robert Badra was transferred. Govts come and go and the bureaucracy stays as a result of which the administration enjoys continuity. If the same machinery is so badly humiliated, then it does not augur well for India.
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