Preparations under way at the Secretariat to host DMK government

Since the break of daybreak on Monday, officers of the Public Works Department are working in the Secretariat to put together the campus for the new government under DMK president M.K. Stalin.

The Chief Minister’s Office has returned all the recordsdata to the departments involved — recordsdata which have been disposed of and those who had been pending.

The Chief Minister’s workplace and close by areas have been white-washed. The identify boards of Ministers had been eliminated in the morning, and the names had been being scraped off.

“Only after the swearing-in, I will be given the names of new Ministers to be painted on the boards. Right now, I am only scraping the old names off the boards,” says artist A.T. Mani, a former TANSI worker. The Public Department’s Official Procedure (OP-II) Section has been partaking him to paint these boards for a number of years now.

A shuffle of IAS officers can also be anticipated quickly after the DMK assumes workplace. As it seems, the change can be effected at all ranges of the bureaucratic construction. Many officers in the Secretariat, who had been Personal Assistants to AIADMK Ministers, have been lobbying for his or her return to their departments, and for protected positions. But there’s additionally a ‘system’ in place even whereas lobbying for posts, some officers say.

The Public Department has began receiving functions from Personal Assistants, Office Assistants and typists expressing their curiosity in working in a particular division, or under a Minister. However, new Ministers may have the ultimate say.

“It happens after every Assembly election. Employees are always divided into those supporting one party, and those supporting the others. Soon after the results come in, they decide among themselves on who will become which Minister’s Personal Assistants and who will wait for their turn,” says an Under-Secretary.

For occasion, there are some departments, that are thought of key, and postings there are thought of high-profile.

Native district, sympathy with a celebration, caste and neighborhood, too, play a job in an individual getting his/her desired put up. “It is just like how IAS officers lobby for key posts… It happens at every level at the Secretariat. Even retired officials who sympathise with a particular party can get lucky and become Personal Assistants of Ministers,” one other official says. A change in government isn’t just a mere change of identify boards however a change in the construction demography of key posts and positions.