Take the Bull by the Horn
Members of the BCS (Admn) Cadre Action Committee who saw the Prime Minister on Tuesday have expressed satisfaction over the outcome of their meeting with her. Similarly, an earlier meeting of the coordination council of other BCS cadres, Prokrichi for short, with the prime minister, had ended on a positive note. So, the warring sides should now make peace and put their shoulders to the nearly clogged wheels of the administration - thanks to their struggle for 'superiority' or 'parity' depending on which side of the coin you look at.
What are the net results of the meetings the BCS (Admn) cadre and the Prokrichi have had with the highest political authority in the country? The inter-cadre problems will be for the still amorphous Parliamentary Standing Committee on Establishment Ministry to deal with and recommend solutions to when it comes into existence. The Prime Minister has promised to constitute it during the current session of Jatiya Sangsad. But with the BNP still keeping out of parliament the standing committee cannot be a composite, broad-based body it should be.
That's why we placed emphasis on administrative or executive action in our previous editorial on the subject pending, of course, finalisation of the recommendations of the Public Administration Reform Commission. When the suggestions of PARC or the service reorganisation body are adopted we would need to legislate on them and that is exactly where the select committee and the standing committee of the Jatiya Sangsad will be involved.
We are at a loss to understand why the highly enlightened members of the republic's various cadres are pressing so hard for what are deem to be short-term benefits when their durable gains are all embedded in the service reorganisation exercise which, we assure them, cannot be put off indefinitely. The government, for its part, mustn't be entrapped in another series of adhocism which might complicate matters for administrative reform.
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