{"id":243953,"date":"2023-05-24T19:54:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=243953"},"modified":"2023-05-24T19:54:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:24:53","slug":"disregarding-constitution-court-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/disregarding-constitution-court-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Disregarding Constitution, court, citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cDisregarding Constitution, court, citizens\u201d <\/strong>published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d <\/strong>on 24th May 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Issues and Challenges Pertaining to the Federal Structure<\/p>\n

Relevance- <\/strong>Constitutional issues related to NCT of Delhi<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– Recently, a Constitution Bench headed by the Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud held that the Delhi government can make laws and administer civil services in the national capital.<\/p>\n

In response, The President promulgated the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Ordinance, 2023 to make a fresh claim of power over the services in the capital.<\/p>\n

How the control over services by LG has impacted the administration in Delhi?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 2015, when the Union Ministry of Home Affairs took away the Delhi government\u2019s control over services <\/strong>and gave it to the Lieutenant Governor.<\/p>\n

It impeded the Delhi government\u2019s work. There were day-to-day problems in the functioning of important department<\/strong>s as secretaries were changed frequently. Frequent transfers<\/strong> of officials impacted the consistency and efficiency in governance. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Over two years, the Centre changed Delhi\u2019s Health Secretary eight times and derailed the Delhi government\u2019s relief efforts.<\/p>\n

As the government had no functional control <\/strong>over services, it could not punish errant officers. Delhi witnessed the highest number of vacancies<\/strong> of teachers, doctors, engineers, clerks and other staff because of personnel mismanagement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several honest and efficient officials were often penalised for their merits and subjected to punishment postings.<\/strong> They had no clarity on whose directions they were to follow.<\/p>\n

The Services Department even refused to answer questions raised by MLAs in the Vidhan Sabha. Some senior officials even started skipping meetings called by Ministers. They evaded answerability<\/strong> for delayed, inefficient and inadequate action. <\/strong><\/p>\n

How did the ordinance passed by the centre disregard the spirit of the constitution?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The ordinance has disregarded the elected government in the matter of services. So, it reduces the value of the citizen\u2019s vote and of cooperative federalism. <\/strong><\/p>\n

It is an institutionalisation of the Centre\u2019s tendency<\/strong> to use the apparatus of Governor\/LG to undermine democratically elected governments in States\/NCT.<\/p>\n

The Ordinance is an attempt to disempower<\/strong> opposition-run governments and disenfranchise <\/strong>the people.<\/p>\n

For more reading – <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tussle over services in Delhi<\/a><\/p>\n

Supreme Court empowered Delhi government<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cDisregarding Constitution, court, citizens\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 24th May 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Issues and Challenges Pertaining to the Federal Structure Relevance- Constitutional issues related to NCT of Delhi News– Recently, a Constitution Bench headed by the Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud held that the… Continue reading Disregarding Constitution, court, citizens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-243953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701162473},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}