Chennai: Seventy two members of Constitutional Conduct Group, a collective of former civil servants belonging to the All-India Services and the Central Services from all over India, have urged Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay to restore the remit of the High-Level Committee (HLC) on Union-State Relations to complete its task of bringing out Part II of the report.
In a letter to Vijay on Saturday, the group said that as former civil servants, who had worked closely with the political executive throughout their years of public service, they found it difficult to discern any compelling justification for the government’s decision to discontinue the HLC chaired by a former Supreme Court judge, Kurian Joseph.
The dissolution of the committee suggested that the TVK government did fully subscribe to the ideal of a genuinely federal democracy, in which power was decentralised to the lowest levels of governance – Gram Panchayats and Municipalities, the letter said.
Secondly it suggested
that the government was reluctant to displease the Union government and the
ruling party at the Centre, which was obsessed with the ideology of an
overarching centralisation of Constitutional functions, the letter said.
The retired civil servants urged the Chief Minister to affirm his government’ commitment to a strong federal democracy with devolution of powers to local government institutions
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