Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Top officials enjoying adorning pvt functions

MANGALORE : Of late, it has been noticed that there has been a growing tendency among the senior government officials of the district to participate in private functions, thus delivering a wrong message to the public.
It is common to see the DC, IGP, SP, AC and other senior officials attending one or the other private functions, sometimes even less important functions, these days. The government servants who are meant to serve the public are just wiling away time in private unimportant functions like inaugural of some departmental stores, textile shop, jewellery shop and so on with each of these functions taking at least two hours. This only means that these officials are spending their duty hours outside their offices by taking part in private functions, thus neglecting their official duties which should be their top most priority.
Moroever, what is most alarming is that there are some vested interests which invite these top officials to their functions, just to have their way and to avoid the noose of law by rubbing shoulders with senior officials. The general feeling among the masses is that the government should issue stern instructions to its officials against taking part in private functions which are of virtually no use.

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