Delivery of services matters the most during winter than any other season in Kashmir but the tolerance level against the non performers is rising day after day more in Power Development Department than in any other department in Kashmir valley. May be the increasing tolerance against the performance does not attract the attention of the Lt Governor, his advisors and Chief Secretary because of their preoccupied engagements with more crucial issues but that does not give a license to the heads of departments in Kashmir valley and Jammu division to let the non performers go scot free. It has been experienced in recent months that decisions taken months ago by the heads of the departments are not executed on ground due to lackadaisical approach of the officers controlling the administration in districts, tehsils and blocks but most of the heads of departments’ spare non performing officers in districts, tehsils and blocks only for their own personal considerations. Amid rising intensity of non performance in districts, tehsils and blocks the DDC members and Panchayat representatives instead of seeking actions against the non performers tend to build nexus with them for the purposes of their own conveniences in their concerned constituencies and areas. In this process the delivery of public services is becoming the ultimate casualty and as such unless and until heads of departments don’t focus their attention on the execution of their own orders, the delivery of services during the intensifying cold of winter can’t be improved. Shockingly the execution of the orders of the superior officers of power development department are being thrown to winds even in the chilly season of winter and if junior officers of PDD’s divisions and sub divisions continue their trends and tendencies of flouting the orders of their superiors in coming weeks, the non execution of orders would most likely result in more deterioration in the existing power distribution scenario in Kashmir valley.
It is not just an unfounded allegation against the non performing junior officers of the power development department controlling it’s divisions and sub division in Kashmir but the situation on ground itself speaks volumes about the non execution of the orders of the superior officers on maintenance of the power distribution system by junior officers controlling the department’s divisions and sub divisions in Kashmir. The power distribution scenario by any standards of understandability won’t improve till the power development department starts showing zero tolerance against the non performing officers by taking periodical review meetings on the performance of the officers in coming weeks.
As still three weeks are left for the commencement of the harshest period of the chilly season of winter called “Chilla-i- Kallan”, the action against the non performing heads of PDD’s divisions and sub divisions could set the trend for change in the power distribution scenario in coming weeks. It is not just an unfounded allegation against the non performing junior officers of the power development department controlling it’s divisions and sub division in Kashmir but the situation on ground itself speaks volumes about the non execution of the orders of the superior officers on maintenance of the power distribution system by junior officers controlling the department’s divisions and sub divisions in Kashmir. The power distribution scenario by any standards of understandability won’t improve till the power development department starts showing zero tolerance against the non performing officers by taking periodical review meetings on the performance of the officers in coming weeks.
