ramana wrote:Ekalavya please post the full article as it deserves review.
from eklavya ji's post
But the government should have spared some thought to the huge paper work that would burden the CDS. Many subjects which are best handled by the civilian side could have been separated and retained with the defence secretary who currently has much less work . One such example is statutory matters relating to appeals , representations, which are at best handled by the civil service with more detachment.
The CDS could be left with all the relevant subjects which have a bearing on restructuring and operations. There is need for more delegation of powers with most of the drab paper work being left to a special secretary reporting to the CDS. Similarly an autonomous defence procurement agency reporting to the Defence Acquisition Council could handle all the capital and revenue procurements. The government has to be open- minded on this.
The max damage was caused by the babooze who maliciously and repeatedly appealed HC/SC judgments, even in settled cases, intentionally and purposely causing disaffection and angst in the ranks of the services, both serving and retired.
That was how morale was purposely damaged and they did their best to keep the morale low. The babooze reduced hard won perks and a few little privileges that these snakes ensured were tied up in complicated legal knots for decades.
Their fellow "sympathizers", the defence accounts dept babooze were no less driven in their fervent desire to putrefy the system from within.
the babooze want to dominate all the capital and revenue procurements for very obvious reasons and any scandal and blowback will be solely to the account of the uniformed services.
the deep state congi mafia dominated BIF termite cabal is looking for any opportunities to tunnel their way back into a system that is slowly being fumigated and set right.
They got rid of Gen VK Singh, using the combined might of three pillars of democracy, many serving jernails with vested interests and a sly sardar puppet mastered by the mafia + BIF and unkind fate removed CDS Gen Rawat.
so, suddenly the mafia + BIF babooze think that they are back in the game.
it also looks like the babooze and their BIF + mafia masters are pushing for "deep selection of the next CDS" which actually means that a specific personality, far down the in the ranks of the eligibles meets their criteria and is being silently pushed to replace Gen Rawat and that will not be so good for India.
some of this "former defence secretary" guy's pronouncements as ludicrous as they are are laughable.
"a rewarding exercise", he says.
one wonders who is going to be rewarded onlee
The government is of course not new to by-passing seniority in the armed forces as it happened when Gen Rawat was appointed Army chief. It will be a rewarding exercise if a deep selection process is adopted to widen the choice including the re-employment of a retired person with the requisite tri-service experience. The CDS is essentially a planner and this calls for the right intellectual aptitude.
let's wait some few days and see what our naseeb holds for us