Last week’s Governing Council meeting of the apex cooperative body NCUI deliberated on the issue of having a regular Chief Executive. N Satyanarayan is a CE-In charge as of now but a regular candidate would be needed sooner or later, felt many members.
The Governing Council also ratified Satyananrayan’s appointment as the ad hoc CE till a suitable candidate is appointed. Satyanarayan was not sitting in the regular chamber meant for CE as he waited for the GC to first okay his appointment.
The GC decided to form a search committee to look for a suitable candidate thereby dashing the hopes of many who had thought a proposal for displaying advertisement for appointment of a regular Chief Executive would be passed in the meeting. If sources are to be believed some of the senior officials of NCUI had wanted the passage of a resolution to put up an advertisement.
An insider familiar with the NCUI affairs said the proposal to form a Search Committee means a delay of not less than one and a half years. It takes about six months to first form a search committee which would take not less than another six months to have the advertisement placed in the media. Give another six months or a year for the interview and the final selection of the candidate, he added.
One of the GC members confided to Indian Cooperative that going straight for advertisement would have meant handling a hell of a lot of unwanted candidates. Let the search committee first decide about the essential abilities required of a CE, he said justifying the decision to have a search committee.
Several other members felt that the standard criteria should exclude such candidates who have no experience in cooperative; they waste a year or two learning the ropes thereby hampering the progress of the cooperative movement. Dr Dinesh was a case in point who had come bare of any cooperative experiences.
At least the two Governing Council members were vocal in demanding regularization of the current CE Satyanarayan as a regular one. He has experience of cooperative and has no vigilance charges pending against him; what is the harm in having him as the full-time CE, argued both Kiran Kaketi and R G Mule.
Insiders however felt that the very decision to form a search committee means Satyanarayan is to going to stay. “He would certainly prove his usefulness in the interim before the next GC meeting”, they argued.
