Editorial
PM’s important directives to DCs
The party leadership has to share her sense of urgency and values
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued a set of directives to the deputy commissioners with a view to streamlining the administration at the district level. For obvious reasons, she laid much emphasis on the DCs' role in countering militancy and monitoring prices of essentials.
The prime minister's directives have great significance as the DCs are holding a key position in the district administration. Their performance is crucially important for development of the districts and also for neutralising disruptive forces. However, the values and spirit that the prime minister expects the DCs to work with must be inculcated in the broader political leadership also, if the DCs are to deliver what is expected of them. It is the duty of political leadership to motivate the government functionaries through leading from the front. The prime minister has advised the DCs to work in coordination with the public representatives. Nothing can be more effective than such coordination in making the administration dynamic and service-oriented. But the coordination can be achieved only when the ministers and MPs help the administration, instead of trying to influence it for attaining their own goals.
The DCs have really been asked to perform jobs that they cannot deliver all by themselves. The police and all other concerned will have to support the DCs when they undertake the rather daunting task of dealing with militancy or extremism of any kind. It is a sad truth that some DCs themselves have complained that police are involved in crimes like drug peddling. The DCs put forward some suggestions to counter militancy, tender manipulation, price hike which need to be heeded. The local people's representatives have to make sure that the criminals engaged in such activities do not get any political patronage. This alone will help the administration function with a much greater degree of efficiency and transparency. The DCs and local political leaders have to work together and the agenda set for them by the PM will have to be internalised by them.
It is no secret that river encroachers have both financial and political clout which they use to thwart any move at dislodging them. Again, political will at the top is imperative to push the campaign against encroachers to its logical conclusion.
The prime minister has rightly impressed upon the DCs as to what they should do to raise the level of efficiency in certain specified areas. Now, the party leaders, ministers and MPs need to share the same values and sense of commitment for enhancing overall administrative efficiency duly imbued with the highest spirit of public service.
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