K Chandrasekhar Rao and Chandrababu Naidu are strong personalities and they love to do things their own way. Both have set new trends in the functioning of their Chief Minister's Office (CMO), much to the chagrin of senior civil servants.
For instance, putting CMO secretaries in charge of some departments had never happened before. But this is what they have done. At the Chief Minister's departmental review meetings, the CMO secretaries occupy the front row and department secretaries are pushed to the back benches.
Some CMO secretaries also hold meetings with departments, unheard of in the past. The Chief Minister generally appoints five to six secretaries on various subjects to assist him.
Each secretary is allotted some departments to be looked after. The departments would send proposals and files to the Chief Minister through the secretary concerned who would study the matter and brief him.
CMO officials were entrusted with assisting the CM. But both the state's convention had undergone a change. Some secretaries have been put in charge of a few departments. In TS, additional secretary to the CM in CMO Smitha Sabarwal is given the additional charge of Panchayat Raj and rural development and CMO principal secretary A. Shanti Kumari is given the additional charge of medical and health.
In AP, secretary to the CM in CMO Sai Prasad was given IT department earlier. A senior IAS officer said in his 30-year tenure, never had there been such a style of functioning. CMO secretaries are meant to assist the CM in the departments distributed to them. In the past, CMO officials used to sit in back rows during the CM's review meetings though they had now come to occupy the front row.
Another official said that departmental review meetings with the CM are becoming those with CMO officials. A senior most IAS officer, who worked in combined AP state and presently is with TS, said, "According to me, retired chief secretary S.V. Prasad has the longest stint of about nine-and-a-half-years in CMOs of several Chief Ministers. During that period, I attended a number of review meetings where Prasad never opened his mouth. But now CMO officials are speaking more than the department secretaries. Some secretaries of CMO are holding review meetings also and senior IAS officers are facing problems at the meetings."
Rao and Naidu's work style disappoints IAS officers
By IndianMandarins - 2018-02-16 06:25:42
K Chandrasekhar Rao and Chandrababu Naidu are strong personalities and they love to do things their own way. Both have set new trends in the functioning of their Chief Minister's Office (CMO), much to the chagrin of senior civil servants.
For instance, putting CMO secretaries in charge of some departments had never happened before. But this is what they have done. At the Chief Minister's departmental review meetings, the CMO secretaries occupy the front row and department secretaries are pushed to the back benches.
Some CMO secretaries also hold meetings with departments, unheard of in the past. The Chief Minister generally appoints five to six secretaries on various subjects to assist him.
Each secretary is allotted some departments to be looked after. The departments would send proposals and files to the Chief Minister through the secretary concerned who would study the matter and brief him.
CMO officials were entrusted with assisting the CM. But both the state's convention had undergone a change. Some secretaries have been put in charge of a few departments. In TS, additional secretary to the CM in CMO Smitha Sabarwal is given the additional charge of Panchayat Raj and rural development and CMO principal secretary A. Shanti Kumari is given the additional charge of medical and health.
In AP, secretary to the CM in CMO Sai Prasad was given IT department earlier. A senior IAS officer said in his 30-year tenure, never had there been such a style of functioning. CMO secretaries are meant to assist the CM in the departments distributed to them. In the past, CMO officials used to sit in back rows during the CM's review meetings though they had now come to occupy the front row.
Another official said that departmental review meetings with the CM are becoming those with CMO officials. A senior most IAS officer, who worked in combined AP state and presently is with TS, said, "According to me, retired chief secretary S.V. Prasad has the longest stint of about nine-and-a-half-years in CMOs of several Chief Ministers. During that period, I attended a number of review meetings where Prasad never opened his mouth. But now CMO officials are speaking more than the department secretaries. Some secretaries of CMO are holding review meetings also and senior IAS officers are facing problems at the meetings."
