Modi govt. steps up crackdown on ‘indisciplined’ and ‘corrupt’ bureaucrats as three IPS officers get pressured retirement

Continuing its clean-up drive towards corrupt and indisciplined bureaucrats, the Modi authorities has pressured three IPS officers to retire as they have been discovered “unsuitable for the job”. Amitabh Thakur (1993 batch Inspector General), Rajesh Krishna (2002 batch DIG) and Rakesh Shankar (2005 batch SP) have been eliminated by the Ministry of Home Affairs on the request of the Uttar Pradesh authorities.“On the basis of the MHA’s order, the state government issued letters to Amitabh Thakur, Rajesh Krishna and Rakesh Shankar informing them about their premature retirement,” stated Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi.Of the three, Thakur is an IPS officer whereas Krishna and Shankar have been promoted to the rank from the Provincial Police Service. The three have been eliminated most likely as a result of completely different causes. While Thakur is understood for not following the federal government orders and had many complaints towards him through the earlier governments too, Krishna and Shakar had corruption fees towards them.Krishna got here into the limelight when huge police recruitment passed off throughout his stint as Additional Superintendent of Police in Azamgarh in 2006, whereas Shanker’s was in information for having a task within the Deoria shelter residence intercourse scandal in 2018.Following the footsteps of the Modi authorities, the Yogi authorities has proven the exit door to deprave and non-performing officers at common intervals. Previously, whereas reviewing the work performed by the Secretariat Administration Department, he acknowledged that there was no place for corrupt practices in his authorities. “There is no place for corrupt officials and staff in the government… Action must be taken against such officials by forcing them to take voluntary retirement.”Moreover, many IRS officers, IPS officers and the individuals within the secretariat division have been warned that they are going to be proven exit door if their efficiency is lower than the usual and any fees of corruption or complacency discovered to be true.Read More: ‘You are not taking courageous decisions,’ PM Modi offers a bit of his thoughts to IAS officersUP Chief Minister additionally enquired in regards to the standing of implementation of e-office and requested the officers to hurry up the method. E-Office is a ‘product suit’ developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) that helps in sooner clearance of information and envisions a paperless workplace. Successful implementation of e-office will additional assist the anti-corruption agenda of the Yogi Adityanath authorities, because it addresses the standard slippages in authorities places of work which have plagued the Indian govt for an extended. Such slippages result in corrupt and underperforming IPS and IRS officers.E-office additionally pushes to make the federal government ‘paperless’ by selling the execution of administrative duties over Information know-how infrastructure. Yogi Adityanath additionally pushed for the ‘e-office’ to be taken on the district ranges and use to protect necessary paperwork of the secretariat.We can definitely see a paradigm shift within the bureaucratic system within the Narendra Modi authorities. The latest phrases and actions of PM Modi converse loads. “Babuon ke haath mein desh de karke hum kya karne wale hai? (What are we going to achieve by handing the grip of the nation to the bureaucrats?),” have been the precise phrases of PM Modi on the flooring to Lok Sabha, making a way of transformation within the governance seen. And, the state authorities and the union authorities are on the identical web page on this.