Around 90% of IAS officers do not work, hold up files: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi | Monday | 16th October, 2017

Summary:

Kejriwal, while speaking at a function organised to felicitate pensioners of the Power department, alleged that the IAS officers “obstructed files” of development works. I said, if this is the logic then all the IAS officers should be ad-hoc because they do not work,” he said. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday alleged that ninety per cent of the IAS officers “do not work” and said at times he feels development was “stuck up at the secretariat”. “Ninty per cent of them (IAS officers) do not work and hold up the files,” he said, citing his proposal for the regularisation of contractual employees, as chairman of the New Delhi Municipal Corporation. Referring to the cashless health service for the Power department pensioners, the chief minister said that he has learnt that officers were causing obstacles for the scheme..