As such, the dislodging of the dean smacks of nothing, but high-handedness, symptomatic of dictatorship, now come in guise of democracy, which, even worse, suffers from so many other maladies which affect adversely the life of the common man in our State.
The shifting of the Dean suggests something ulterior to what is brought out for public consumption by the administration. This instance bears distinct colour of the adage “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
The dean’s displacement is a dampener to the morale of the public servants in general, let alone the affected incumbent, in discharging duties dedicatedly and zealously. Never was it known, as practice of good staff management, that a senior employee at the helm was removable at short notice, unless inefficient or guilty of malpractice, for unheard-of rotational posting to accommodate a junior employee. Where, then, is the time-tested rule of seniority here? The action of the present administration towards the dean under so-called rotation is outright humiliating and disrespectful and an example of undeniable encouragement to treat an august office with ridiculing casualness and so, in very bad taste.
Beware government employees of what awaits your careers this strange way or the other at the hands of democratic dictators!
Jose D’Sa, Mapusa
