90% IAS officers just hold up files: Kejri

New Delhi, October 16

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today alleged that 90 per cent of IAS officers “do not work” and said at times he feels development was “stuck up at the secretariat”.

On the bureaucrats’ alleged “objection” to the regularisation of contractual workers, Kejriwal said if Delhi had full statehood, his government would regularise all contractual employees within 24 hours.

Kejriwal, while speaking at a function organised to felicitate pensioners of the Power Department, alleged the IAS officers “obstructed files” of development works.

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“Ninety per cent of them (IAS officers) do not work and hold up the files,” he said, citing his proposal for the regularisation of contractual employees, as chairman of the New Delhi Municipal Corporation.

“When I proposed regularisation of contractual employees, all officers opposed me. They said if regularised, they won’t work. I said, if this is the logic then all IAS officers should be ad hoc because they do not work,” he said.

Referring to the cashless health service for Power Department pensioners, he said he had learnt that officers were causing obstacles in the implementation of the scheme. “I sometimes feel the development was stuck up at the Secretariat,” he said.

Kejriwal said the Labour Department had been asked to prepare a notification for regularising contractual employees. “I have asked the Labour Department to send the draft notification for LG’s approval. If he obstructs it, they (contractual employees) will give him a befitting reply (Khaat Khadi Kar denge),” Kejriwal said.

Talking about his government’s proposal to regularise guest teachers, passed recently in the Delhi Assembly, he said the matter was now in Lieutenant Governor’s (LG) hands. “We have sent the file to the LG. Now, it is between the LG and the guest teachers and they can settle it out themselves,” he said. Kejriwal said his government was working to implement equal pay for equal work. — PTI