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Bihar ministers complain of unheeding babus

The latest to complain against the officials is state environment minister Ramchandra Sahni, who says CM Nitish Kumar has given a free hand to them.

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PATNA: Guess who is complaining about the highhandedness of Bihar bureaucrats? Not the common man, but the ministers and legislators.

The latest to complain against the officials is state environment and forests minister Ramchandra Sahni, who says Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has given a free hand to them. So much so that Sahni expressed helplessness in running his ministry as officials were ignoring his orders.

“I have issued several directives to my officers asking them to check pollution at the Burhi Gandak river caused by effluents routinely discharged by sugar mills and distilleries of the area. Unfortunately, my officers have done nothing about it so far. As a result, aquatic life in the river is under serious threat there,” Sahni said at a function to release the State of the Environment Report of Bihar.

Early this month, Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ramashray Prasad Singh, known as the grand old man of the Nitish Kumar Government, had lodged a protest against departmental secretaries for not following his orders. Singh had reportedly told Nitish Kumar to take note of the style of functioning of the  bureaucrats.

Before that, Registration and Excise Minister Sudha Srivastava had lodged a protest in this connection with the chief minister.

In the 17 months that the Nitish Kumar government has been in power, several ruling Janata Dal-United and Bharatiya Janata Party legislators have openly raised the issue of bureaucratic highhandedness.  Following directives from Nitish Kumar, the state chief secretary had issued a circular to officials to respect and behave properly with legislators, MPs and other people’s representatives.

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