It has become the habit of certain top government officers not to important decisions at the right time and interfere in unnecessary things to bring ill repute to the government.
A chain of actions by an official recently, keeping ministers as scarecrows, demonstrate the above fact.
The latest in the series of such action is the decision of certain secretaries in a meeting under chief secretary to dismantle the housing board and house construction department in the Secretariat. This resulted in Revenue minister E Chandrasekharan seeing red and quickly interfering to revoke the decision.
The losses inflicted on State due to the flaws committed by top officers are many and this has been happening consistently in the case of many government projects.
There are many Central projects that were lost by Kerala owing to failure of the officials to submit timely reports. The crisis in the case of moratorium for agricultural loans was caused due to such a dereliction of duty is still continuing. In this case also flaw happened from the part of the chief secretary. The decision on the housing boards was also taken by him.
The officers who show such unwarranted interests remains mute when it comes to helping or serving people.

Pointing out official formalities, they show no qualms in delaying people’s application to any extent. These day they deny government services to people in the name of election.

In the case of Kochi Metro construction, the betrayal committed by certain officers still lingers in the mind of people. However, their foul play didn’t affect the smooth progress of Kochi Metro. But, in the case of Light Metro in Thiruvananthapuram everything happened according to their wishes.

Nowadays, nothing is heard about Light Metro. How many officials are there who can be proudly presented as force behind the project? One of the reasons for the backward state of Kerala is a bunch of officials who are reluctant to take up challenges.