NOT JUST A CIVIL SERVANT by ANIL SWARUP

Author:ANIL SWARUP [SWARUP, ANIL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNICORN BOOKS
Published: 2019-02-17T18:30:00+00:00

‘Home’ was calling: I preferred to stay in ‘Labour’

‘Are you aware that you have been posted as Additional Secretary, Home?’, one of my batchmates telephoned and asked me late in the evening. It took me some time to absorb the question. I could not believe it. I had just turned down a lucrative World Bank offer for an assignment to continue with the RSBY journey. Ironically, the government was being criticised on many fronts and the RSBY was one of the very few reasons for it to hold its head high. Given this backdrop, I was shocked. I, at once spoke to the Minister and the Labour Secretary (both of them had become fond of the RSBY by now and recognised the contribution that I was making towards it). A flurry of letters and discussions at various levels followed this conversation. There was some initial reluctance at the bureaucratic level, but both the Secretary and the Minister refused to relieve me despite the pressure from ‘Home’. Finally, the order was rescinded but not before a loss of three weeks. I had never attempted to get my transfer order changed in my entire career in the past other than this. It was done in the interest of the RSBY as I preferred to stay ‘in labour’ and not to go ‘home’!

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