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Originally Posted by blackwasp any person working even in a slightly higher level at any govt. office has practically very less free time... My opinion might be biased because of seeing people I know in the Police dept, IAS level officers and senior Central govt. administrative employees. |
Police and emergency services are of course different and it would be wrong to group them in the same bracket as
other government servants. But as far as the rest are concerned - the steel frame included - lack of free time or leaves is:
1. Just an excuse for lethargy and improper planning.
2. Born out of fear of losing the post to others waiting in the wings.
I have had an opportunity to work at the highest levels of the Government and have seen how inefficiently the system runs. Although it wouldn't be prudent to reveal the exact nature of work, suffice it to say that I could complete my entire quota of a day's files in just two hours. My colleague's table would however be doubly bent with the weight of the pending files, some of which were months old. Lest it be misconstrued as an attempt at blowing my own trumpet, let me clarify that there were scores of other copies both of me and my aforementioned colleague in the same building.
Regarding point #2, I was at first baffled by senior officers' reluctance to go on leave even when they were unwell. Gradually, it dawned on me that a leave of absence, however short or important, would just be an invitation to their peers to usurp the throne! They had clearly got their history lessons right.
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According to most of them, there is just too much work to be done. Most are frequently found in office after official work hours, on official holidays or had to cut short their leave for some unexpected work coming
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Again, I concur on the
unexpected work coming part. But as for habitating the office space even after 6PM, the reasons are manifold and multifaceted, but as you said:
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BSNL chaps, local Municipal bodies, electric board etc.... should not be considered government
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A point I will have to disagree with.
For a common man,
Government is the corporation office at the end of a busy street in his locality and not necessarily the
Mantralaya. The mandal panchayat, the taluk office, the ration shop, the PHC, the sub registrar's chamber, the RTO are some places that represent the Government to the common man. If in their infinite wisdom, the babus decide to down the shutters at the drop of a hat, where shall the average Joe go to, to meet his needs?
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But most of these holidays are declared as a precautionary measure to avoid law and order situations
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My experience tells me otherwise. These holidays are intended less as precautionary measures and more as tools of appeasement.
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Less people on the roads = less crowds
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Doesn't it make sense to keep the people tied up to their work rather than allowing them the freedom to converge on the streets and possibly create mayhem?
Before I go further off tangent, let me clarify that though the immediate trigger for this thread was today's holiday declaration, I genuinely feel that the list of potential working days printed in red on a calendar are far too many. I have been serving the Government in various capacities for nearly a decade and a half, and in all these years, I have always felt that I have received at least a month's salary/year extra - because of irrelevant and often useless off days.