sirji,ramana wrote:Chetak About your feedback.
CDS Rawat might have the same four-star ranking but he is senior in service.
Seniority matters only in the services. Four star is exactly what the babooze wanted for the CDS and they managed to get it
on civvy street govt services, it is the pay scale that determines the pecking order
after the revision of payscales and the NFU upgrades, many MES civilian officers refused to attend meetings convened by uniformed authorities because they had been placed on a higher basic pay scale and hence considered themselves senior to their own bosses
previous to this, the same MES civilian guys attended all meetings convened by the same uniformed authorities without any question
this is just one example
In the ministry, it is the babooze who manipulated things in such a way that the pay scales of civilian counterparts remained higher.
for civilians, the pecking order, perks, and privileges are pay scale dependant.
It is a gift of the paranoid neverwho. he never trusted the armed forces because he was sure that just like the paki army took over, the Indian army would depose him and take over the govt.
and that's how the babooze squeezed through the gap and have been lording it over every other service ever since. They gained the trust of neverwho and impressed on him that they needed the supremacy over the generals and would keep a close watch on the Armed forces and help the politicos to keep them in check and that dumb dope fell for it. He saw the IAS babooze as the direct descendants of the colonial ICS.
Every politico since has also left the nuts and bolts management of the MoD to the babooze and their kingdom has thus grown in strength, file noting by file noting.
To counter the firearms of the Armed forces, they created a preponderance of civilian "armed" police forces all reporting to the home ministry so that they would oppose the Armed Forces with firearms, were they to stage a coup. This ploy these idiotic babooze thought would keep the Armed forces in check because they would have to tackle other "civilian" forces who were as well armed as the Forces themselves thus negating the chances of a coup.
and all these central "armed" police forces are headed by clueless IPS who have no knowledge of leadership and motivation of men when in actual battle conditions. Naxal operations are battle conditions and the leadership of such central "armed" police forces would be immeasurably better served by combat hardened army officers used to leading from the front. But the same age old "coup" fears ensure that only the IPS gets to "lead" these men.
Military ops and policing action are fundamentally very different, both in philosophy and in practice.
Just recollect what happened during VK Singh's time when a panic stricken govt actually thought that a coup was in progress. And the "defence secy" was urgently summoned from bankok or some such fleshpot where he was "officially" visiting because they thought that the "defence secy" would "protect" them from the coup by personally "taking charge" of the Army.
The humiliations by the babooze are particularly reserved for the Armed Forces only. Things have changed marginally after Modi's arrival and now the CDS has almost completely cut their patta.
NFU was wilfully denied to the Forces because the babooze wanted to maintain the gap in pay structure. These days, even the cops have taken to disrespecting senior Armed forces officers.
and one exam wonders they will always remain.
BTW, you need to appreciate the role of the long term instigators and these systemic stake holders with unfettered access to the nuts and bolts of every trial and arms deal details, who have long opposed the very concept of CDS because they would be sidelined.
many a fortune has been made by "bystanders" peddling commercially sensitive bid details.
this dirty nallah runs deep and flows long distance.