Haryana move to merge office of Financial Commissioner

The proposal to merge the Financial Commissioner’s office with the Haryana Civil Secretariat (first mooted 20 years ago) was resurrected this year and a Cabinet sub-committee under the chairmanship of state Home MinisterMani Ram Godara, was constituted to discuss the modalities. Secretariat staff association representatives failed to elicit any reasons for the merger from the sub-committee called them for discussions on September 7.

When employees’ representatives concluded that calling the associations for discussions was “an eyewash” and, in fact, the matter had already been decided, they left the meeting in protest and conveyed their “anguish and resentment” toward the impending merger.

Contrasting the “totally peaceful” working of the Haryana Civil Secretariat employees with the labour disturbances in state boards, corporations and other departments, the confederation regretted that it too was being forced “to adopt an agitational approach”.