Even before he could settle down in his new job, NCUI Chief Executive Mr N Satyanarayan is up against a challenge. A rumor doing the rounds in the NCUI corridors is the DPC’s proceedings shelved at the last moment owing to a host of factors are being revived.
Indian Cooperative has received phone calls saying top officials are at work getting the DPC recommendations backdated. The callers said with a view to favoring his own men the new Chief Executive is trying to convince the two external experts on the Committee to ratify the proceedings of the DPC.
“You can talk to them- Mr Puniya and Mr B K Mishra from NBCFDC and Fishcopfed respectively to know the truth yourself”, they insisted.
“Did anybody tell you that either I or any of the designated officials called up any of the external experts to ratify the proceedings in back date?” shot back Satyanarayan to this correspondent. The President is coming today (Tuesday) and I will consult him before taking any official position on the matter, he added.
One of the experts, on condition of anonymity did admit that he received phone calls asking him to put signature in back date. But it was not from the CE or any of the designated officials. The phone call was made by one of the candidates whose promotion is due, he added.
“The said candidate was insistent that if I could not come to the NCUI headquarters he would send the files to my office for ratification” said the expert without naming the candidate.
A challenge is indeed facing the DPC after the GC resolution allowing in-house candidates to be considered for promotion from the Direct Recruitment quota if they are found fit for the job.
Finding if somebody is fit for the job introduces an element of subjectivity. A source confided to Indian Cooperative saying a drama was witnessed on the day of the DPC meeting as the employees’ union got active protesting against favoritism.
The new CE Mr N Satyanarayan needs to be extra-careful as there are moves afoot for maligning him, say sources familiar with the NCUI affairs.