New Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary Anurag Jain (IAS:1989:MP), who came from the Centre, seems to have made up his mind to change the bureaucratic system prevailing in the state. He virtually wants to implement the bureaucratic system that characterizes Modi government at the Centre.
Jain first seems to be focusing on those bureaucrats who are Indore-sick – those officers who keep getting posted in Indore due to their fondness for it. There is a big list of such officers who spend most of their time in Indore and prefer to move out of it only occasionally, say for election duties. Their attachment with Indore is so strong that even if they are transferred out, they manage to get posted in the neighbouring districts like Ujjain, Devas, and Dhar and return to Indore wherever they find space, be it Municipal Corporation, state GST or the District Panchayats.
Jain calls such officers as belonging to Indore Civil Service (ICS). The new CS wants to break this tradition. That is why he is said to be preparing a list of such officers who have spent most of their time in Indore and wish to retire from there. Actually, the new CS seeks to provide the opportunity to other officers working in other parts of the state so that there is a change in the style of functioning and better transparency is enforced.
The move acquires significance as this trend is not limited to only State Administrative Service (SAS) officers, IAS officers also exhibit same attachment. Indore is only the most favoured, there are other cities like Bhopal, Gwalior and Jabalpur which attract bureaucrats almost equally.
