Working silently : By scrapping some of the provisions in the Lokpal selection rules framed by the UPA, the NDA government has restored credibility of the search process. The new rules framed by the NDA government for the Lokpal “search committee” represent a marked improvement from the ones notified by the previous government in its tearing hurry to constitute the Lokpal before its term ended. The Centre has omitted a dubious provision in the earlier rules that constrained the search committee to shortlist names from among a list of candidates provided to it by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). The tight 30-day deadline for the search committee to recommend names to the actual “selection committee” when vacancies arise has been scrapped. Another provision that mandated the search committee to propose three times the number of candidates, as vacancies, has been diluted and made only desirable. The UPA government’s haste backfired after search committee members, retired Justice KT Thomas and jurist Fali S Nariman, withdrew. They pointed fingers at the restrictive rules, that in Thomas’ words precluded the possibility of selecting the “most competent, the most independent and the most courageous” candidates for the nine-member Lokpal. Read More bit.ly/1oLmjDm
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:56:47 +0000
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