The YCP government’s GO of transforming village secretaries into women police has turned into yet another huge legal wrangle with the decision being contested in the judiciary.
Ever since it came to power, many of the government’s decisions have been contested and admitted by the judiciary. This is repeatedly becoming an embarrassment to the government.
The problem with the YCP is that its intentions might be good but the decisions are not being thought out thoroughly from a legal perspective. Do the Chief Minister’s advisors not contemplate whether the GO will stand up to legal scrutiny and try and frame it in such a way as to avoid any tussle?
For example, let us take the recent GO merging the Brahmin Corporation with the BC Welfare Corporation. The logic was that it would be easier to allot funds to the Brahmins for development under the ambit of the BC Welfare Corporation than otherwise. But the result was entirely counter-productive. The Brahmin community was understandably infuriated at being termed a backward caste, this way.
The Opposition was quick to seize on the issue and said the GO was a deliberate attempt to malign the Brahmins by a Christian CM.
“How would the CM like it if economically weak Reddys were brought within the BC Welfare Corporation,” questioned some Brahmin outfits.
Thus, a genuine attempt to provide funds for the Brahmin community for their well-being actually boomeranged on the government. There are instances galore till date and clearly, the advisors are to be blamed for not having a 360 degree view of the decisions they take.
After the doubts surrounding liquor policy and sand policy, the fresh one is about the order pertaining to the merger of aided schools in the government sector. There is no clarity in the idea and the parents of students are going berserk against the government. The media is also not clearly getting what is happening. Someone from the government should clearly explain the idea of the government and how the issues can be addressed.
The bottomline in the aided schools issue is that there is nothing wrong in the government's idea. But the majority of teachers in aided schools are getting tempted to merge into the government sector considering this as a golden opportunity. There will be no problem if the aided schools they are working in have no student strength. The problem is with the schools in which hundreds of students are studying. What will they do if the teachers disappear all of a sudden getting transferred to some government schools across the state? That's the reason the parents are agitating. the officers might have foreseen this peril.
This offer or order should be limited only to the aided schools that record no or low strength of students. IAS officers should draft something in order with clarity for the sake of the public and media to understand.
It’s about time that YS Jagan appoints a solid, experienced team to prevent any more mishaps or else the social cost of these decisions will affect his image badly in the days to come.