B D Mishra

Arbitrary promotion and whimsical transfer is the root cause of rampant corruption and culture of flattery to superiors. Culture of flattery to bosses and tendency to become Yesman of Ministers, MPs and MLAs is the root cause of all maladies prevailing in the society. Every employee in our country knows the bitter truth that only those who are yesmen of bosses can get elevation in their career or get cream and comfortable posting.

Most of MLS, MP and Ministers have accumulated properties worth many crores of rupees. Department of vigilance or CBI or Anti corruption cell or Economic offenders cell are silent spectators.

So many IAS and IPS officers have been found indulged in corrupt practices only because they have got the blessings of their mentor Ministers.

So many bank officers and executives have properties worth crores of rupees, which is far more than their total earning in their entire tenure. It is possible only because there is practically none to look into corrupt practices prevailing in the bank at higher level.

When Head of any department or office is corrupt, or when any minister in the government is corrupt it will be foolish to imagine of healthy culture down the line.
It is very difficult to survive with dignity when the boss is corrupt and when boss likes flattery.
Only when boss loves real performance, employees feel delighted in working sincerely.

When real performers are awarded, there will be positive motivation. On the contrary if corrupt is promoted and given good posting, it is but natural that people will be tempted to toe the line of boss even if it is wrong and unethical and against the interest of the organization

As long as we are unable to provide a reasoning based transfer and merit based promotion and as long as the wrong doers are not punished by either head of the department or by the courts we cannot imagine of stopping corrupt practices prevailing in the system and spreading like cancer in the society.

Old proverb survival for the fittest no more holds good. Now a days survival is possible only for the person who is well versed in flattery to bosses, who can earn money through ill methods and share the same with his bosses.

The bitter truth is that there is no foolproof method of providing perfectly merit-based promotion or seniority based promotion in any office. None of the promotion processes can ensure justice to all, justice to the organization and discomfort to none as long as the person responsible for carrying out the promotion process is dishonest and corrupt. When protectors become destructors, damage to society cannot be stopped,

One easy way to stop whimsical transfer and arbitrary promotion is to maintain transparency and abolish the requirement of passing through Interview for existing employees for getting promotion. Interview is such a test where Interviewers can easily spoil the candidates career.

During interview, key role is played by elements like bribe, gift, sources, godfathers, and flattery possessed by employee whose performance is assessed during interview. When Interviewer desires to promote an employee he raises easy questions or do not raise any question and give higher marks and on the contrary he may raises toughest and irrelevant questions before the candidate to reject him in the promotion process.

The interviewer as per his whims and fancies gives marks for interview and unfortunately there is no method to penalize such malicious interviewers or the interview team made of birds of the same feather. There is hardly any place for merit in the mind of Interview panel and this why whimsical promotions take place and a reign of injustice and that of corruption spreads like epidemic and is followed by inefficiency, frustration, depression and what not.

Last but not the least; our courts cannot deliver justice in decades. This eliminates the fear from the minds of interviewer and the aggrieved employee is constrained to bear with the rejection in promotion process. Justice delayed is justice denied. And when there is no hope of justice even from court, aggrieved person in promotion process is left with no alternative other than digesting the poison of injustice.

It is an open secret in our society that victim is afraid of lodging complain in police department against any type of criminal. Not to speak of promotions, management can torture an employee by using his power of transfer and posting an employee in the name of exigencies as per his sweet will.

I therefore request you to take immediate steps to ensure merit based transparent promotion and reasoning based transfers and posting in all offices. Only one remedy to cure disease of corruption is to award honest performers and sideline corrupt performers. Only the bearer knows where the shoe pinches is a right proverb in this regard.

IN BANKING INDUSTRY THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF OFFICERS WHO ARE FACING TRANSFER EVEN TWICE OR THRICE A YEAR WHEREAS OFFICERS SITTING IN METROS ARE SITTING IN ONE TOWN SINCE JOINING SAY FOR TWO OR THREE DECADES.
EVEN POLICY OF RURAL POSTING IS MISUSED BY THE MANAGEMENT TO ISOLATE NON FLATTERERS .
EVEN POLICY OF POSTING OUTSIDE STATE AFTER PROMOTION IS MISUSED TO FAVOUR THE PEOPLE OF WEST BENGAL OR THAT OF MAHARASHTRA.
POLICY OF NORTH EAST POSTING IS USED TO ISOLATE NON FLATTERERS. POLICY OF TRANSFER FOR NON PERFORMERS IS ALSO USED BY THE EXECUTIVE TO KEEP NON FLATTERES AWAY.
NOWHERE AND NONE OF POLICIES ARE USED TO PROMOTE THE CULTURE OF PERFORMANCE.
AS SUCH IT IS COMPARATIVELY BENEFICIAL TO ELIMINATE THE ELEMENTS OF DISCRETION OR DISCRIMINATION IN THE INTERNAL PROMOTION PROCESS AND TRANSFER POLICY.THE MORE TRANSPARENT WILL BE THE POLICIES , THE LESS WILL BE QUANTUM OF FLATTERY IN THE MIND OF WORKING OFFICERS.
EXECUTIVES WHO ARE INDULGED IN CORRUPT PRACTICES WHILE RELEASING ORDER OF TRANSFER OF PUTTING THEIR SIGNATURE ON PROMOTION ORDERS MUST BE SUITABLY PUNISHED SO THAT RECURRENCE OF SUCH MALPRACTICE DO NOT TAKE PLACE.
JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED. YOU CANNOT IGNORE THE RESENTMENT, FRUSTRATION AND DEPRESSION PREVAILING IN THE FIELD LEVEL FOR LONG WITHOUT INVITING STRIKE AND LARGE SCALE REVOLT AND RAMPAGE

Danendra Jain
Agartala

Why are Union Leaders in Banks silent spectator

• Why officers and employees are not transferred out from the Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai etc. and on the contrary employees of states like Orrisa, Bihar, and Jharkhand are frequently transferred out of their states even violating transfer policies?

• Why some officers are always given rural posting whereas some other officers are even promoted without rural posting violating government guidelines in this regard?

• Why some officers are allowed to work in their Metro towns for decades whereas officers of other small towns and villages are to change their place of working every year or alternate year without any incentive or compensation?

• Is there no punishment for those executives who indulge in corrupt practices and resort to whimsical transfers to keep away all employees who may prove hurdle in their money making process?

• Why RBI remains silent spectator of ill-motivated CEOs of banks and allows the malady in banks to accumulate?

• It is worthwhile to mention here that unhappy lot of employees cannot think for and make efforts to keep bank healthy?

• Is human resource not capital in real sense in Banking Industry and for some VIP CEOs of Bank?

Danendra Jain

Injustice to Sanjay Dut

Court yesterday announced punishment for Mr. Sanjay Dutt and he has been sent to jail for six years on the charges of keeping arms in his home in violation of arms act.Blast occurred in 1993 and more than 15 years have passed. Now after prolonged hearing and evidences it has been concluded that he is guilt. This long period of 15 years is far more torturous than even jail for six years. It is not therefore justice delivered by the respected court but I will say it is injustice delivered.Firstly if criminal is allowed to move freely for 15 years he can damage the evidences, witnesses and can even cause much bigger damages if he so likes in revenge of likely punishment. On the contrary if the accused person proved to be innocent and it is found that for last 15 years he has been unnecessarily facing mental agony and physical difficulties in attending courts and bearing with loss of dignity in the society, the repercussions are more harmful for civilized society. As a matter of fact it is never criminals who are unhappy with delay in court proceedings and pronouncement of judgment but only gentleman, innocent and simple persons who are unhappy and who have to suffer a lot due to such inordinate delay.Actual Criminals and his henchmen manage the delay by dint of his money and muscle power as also high profile pressure and lead a peaceful life. He is not at all afraid of any punishment. Had he been afraid of punishment he could not have opted for wrong path of crime. It is therefore always the innocent person wrongfully or intentionally implicated in the civil or criminal cases gets punished and it is his image which is tarnished without any valid reason due to abnormal delay in court process of delivery of judgment. Courts are meant for providing security and mental peace to common man and punish those who disturb the social peace. But unfortunately what is happening is fully opposite to what is expected from the courts.In case of Mr. Sanjay Dutt I can say very correctly that he has already been punished of mental torture for last 15 years and now sending him jail for further 6 years is fully unjustified. People are praying for mercy for Mr. Sanjay Dutt and acquittal of charges framed against him .More than 80 percent of population who know his case will vote for his acquittal .I would like rather suggest that court should not only pardon him but should compensate him for such abnormally huge delay .Mr. Sanjay Dutta reportedly kept arms in violation of rules. It is true but such a severe punishment for the same and for such a small act is not at all desirable particularly when he is repeatedly praying for excuse. His intention was not at all bad. He belongs to a reputed family and his father remained MP in Parliament for considerably long period. He has changed himself, kept himself aloof from unknown person, and his work has been appreciated by many persons including our beloved Prime Minister Mr. Man Mohan Singh for his role in films and for Gandhigiri his film generated for general mass. His social image is good and he is highly reputed. There is no criminal record in his past life. Actual transformation in life and purification of heart which courts are supposed to aim for a criminal has already taken place in his life.On the contrary there are many hard core criminals with hundreds of criminal cases against them are sitting in the Parliament and State Assemblies. Criminals are occupying the top post in many departments or I can say that many top officers are indulged in more heinous and condemnable corrupt practices. Who is bothered of punishing them?Mr. Sanjay Dutt is absolutely a good person and he has got sympathy from majority of Indian population and people living abroad. Common perception about Mr. Sanjay Dutt is very good and gives no scope of any doubt on his integrity. For God sake he must be released from jail and acquitted of charges. Mr. Narsimha Rao, the Ex-prime Minister of the country when punished by learned court, was not sent to common jail but provided a special guest house for the same. Mr. Sanjay Dutt also deserves the same.Last but not the least that our central Government in Delhi has not yet decided on the mercy petition of Mr. Afzal Guru who has been sentenced to death by learned Supreme Court. Why is there delay in hanging of such hard core criminal?Whose master mind is behind delay in hanging of Mr. Afzal Guru?Whether such abnormal delay is justified?Why the opinion of our Home Ministry was not conveyed to President of India in time?Is Afzal Guru considered better than Sanjay Dutta.Danendra JainRanchi- 8340011st August 2007 e-shares.info