C Shivakumar
Chennai:
The judiciary in Tamil Nadu is helpless as its diktat fails to run in the state with 20,000 Contempt of Court cases pending in Madras High Court as well as the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court. The tussle between judiciary and executive is such that top bureaucrats have been summoned regularly to the court affecting the busy schedule of officials and the government.
In a bid to sort out the issue, the state government is developing a Court Case Monitoring System (CCMS), an IT application platform which will monitor cases pending against the concerned department or officials.
Interestingly, the culprits have been legal officers of the department who take money from the affected parties and shield the orders of the court. The worst department to be affected is the Housing department and most specifically Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority. CMDA has been an agency to monitor the planning issues. But rather than a regulatory auhority, it is being made an authority to mint money. Every government uses it to milk the realtors, relax the planning norms, tamper the land use plans and master plans as well as service rules. Promotions are denied. People without qualifications are appointed as planners resulting in disgruntlement among the officials. The worst is that there is numerous vigilance cases against most of its employees but then it is buried under the carpet.
While former judicial officers are positive about the CCMS, the success will depend on how fast the pending cases are resolved.
Initially, such a system is being planned at secretariat level and it is nearly completed. It is currently being tested out in the Personnel and Administrative department and soon it will be extended to secretariat level, sources told Express.
It is also learnt that efforts are being taken to extend the Court Case Monitoring System to the head of the departments level and the districts.
Already letters are being sent to secretaries seeking requirements on what all contents such IT application will need to have.
Sources reveal that P Madhusudhan Reddy, joint commissioner of land administration has been nominated as coordinator to assist national informatics commission in the completion of IT application.
According to information under RTI Act which was provided by deputy registrar (administration) of Madras High Court, Madras High Court has 12,527 petitions of contempt of court pending against government officials while the Madurai Bench has a total of 8,475 Contempt of court cases pending against the officials between the year 2010 to February 16, 2014.
Interestingly, housing department has huge number of court cases pending as it pertains to land acquisition, allotments, slums etc. It is learnt the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority alone has 2,074 pending cases till 2012 as per the audit report. However, recently, the CMDA legal officers as well as administative officer tried to hush up the cases by showing a lesser number of pending cases. Will the housing secretary look into the issue. The other major issue is the appointment of the financial officer which is done while circumventing the rules by favouring person belonging to a particular community. Will someone raise this issue
Chennai:
The judiciary in Tamil Nadu is helpless as its diktat fails to run in the state with 20,000 Contempt of Court cases pending in Madras High Court as well as the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court. The tussle between judiciary and executive is such that top bureaucrats have been summoned regularly to the court affecting the busy schedule of officials and the government.
In a bid to sort out the issue, the state government is developing a Court Case Monitoring System (CCMS), an IT application platform which will monitor cases pending against the concerned department or officials.
Interestingly, the culprits have been legal officers of the department who take money from the affected parties and shield the orders of the court. The worst department to be affected is the Housing department and most specifically Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority. CMDA has been an agency to monitor the planning issues. But rather than a regulatory auhority, it is being made an authority to mint money. Every government uses it to milk the realtors, relax the planning norms, tamper the land use plans and master plans as well as service rules. Promotions are denied. People without qualifications are appointed as planners resulting in disgruntlement among the officials. The worst is that there is numerous vigilance cases against most of its employees but then it is buried under the carpet.
While former judicial officers are positive about the CCMS, the success will depend on how fast the pending cases are resolved.
Initially, such a system is being planned at secretariat level and it is nearly completed. It is currently being tested out in the Personnel and Administrative department and soon it will be extended to secretariat level, sources told Express.
It is also learnt that efforts are being taken to extend the Court Case Monitoring System to the head of the departments level and the districts.
Already letters are being sent to secretaries seeking requirements on what all contents such IT application will need to have.
Sources reveal that P Madhusudhan Reddy, joint commissioner of land administration has been nominated as coordinator to assist national informatics commission in the completion of IT application.
According to information under RTI Act which was provided by deputy registrar (administration) of Madras High Court, Madras High Court has 12,527 petitions of contempt of court pending against government officials while the Madurai Bench has a total of 8,475 Contempt of court cases pending against the officials between the year 2010 to February 16, 2014.
Interestingly, housing department has huge number of court cases pending as it pertains to land acquisition, allotments, slums etc. It is learnt the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority alone has 2,074 pending cases till 2012 as per the audit report. However, recently, the CMDA legal officers as well as administative officer tried to hush up the cases by showing a lesser number of pending cases. Will the housing secretary look into the issue. The other major issue is the appointment of the financial officer which is done while circumventing the rules by favouring person belonging to a particular community. Will someone raise this issue
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