Govt sources: Even if then West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay could not attend PM’s review meeting in Kalaikunda, what prevented him from deputing a senior officer to attend review meeting on his behalf?
Central Govt functionary: Now consider the reverse – what if central Govt officers in departments like PSUs and NDMA refuse to attend meetings called by chief secretary in whole lot of situations, including calamities. Would that not amount to breakdown of federal structure?
“Further, India now has a three-tier structure -- centre, state and Panchayti Raj. What if a DM or other officers in a district or a block where rival party heads Zila Parishad or Panchayat refuses to coordinate with the Chief Secretary or other designated officers?”
GoI functionary: A chief secretary can’t be working like personal staff of chief minister, no matter howsoever senior. He is chief secretary to the state, not to the chief minister.
“It is precisely for this reason all important correspondence, whether from the centre, or the court, the President House or the Governor House are marked through him, not through the Advisor or Principal Secretary to CM”
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