The proposed DPC at NCUI could not finish its job last week as NCUI headquarters witnessed hectic activities in the wake of the departure of Chief Executive Dr Dinesh. Also a NCDC member of DPC could not make it to the office on time. Ved Prakash Setia and Savitri Singh were among the candidates whose fate was to be decided.
A five-member body DPC had CE, ED-one and three external experts forming its committee. Officials of NCDC, NBCFDC and Fishcopfed were on the committee as external experts while Dinesh and Satyanaarayan were there as in-house members.
A tough challenge has emerged before 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.
“But how can you know that some body is fit for the job. Does it not introduces an element of subjectivity”, said one of the DPC members to Indian Cooperative on condition of anonymity.
Another DPC member said “It is complicated and cannot be decided in haste”.
A source confided to Indian Cooperative that intense dramas were witnessed on the day of DPC as employees’ union got active and protested against selective promotion of just a few people. Satyanarayan who is also the president of officers union was in a fix on the issue.
Ved Prakash Setia whom any visitor to NCUI cannot miss meeting on account of his office being right at the entrance gate was almost set to get promoted to the post of Director, adds source.
Being a Deputy Director Setia is also the private Secretary of NCUI President Chandra Pal Singh Yadav. He is said to carry lots of clouts in NCUI’s corridors of power.
“I joined as Assistant Director 15 years ago and was promoted as Deputy Director in 2005. I have got no promotion after that”, Setia said justifying his promotion as a demand of natural justice.