Concerned Commissioner or Commissioner concerned?
But who is a concerned commissioner? A worried Commissioner, an alarmed Commissioner or a troubled Commissioner? What the Board means of course is the Commissioner concerned. But such niceties of language are not the acknowledged traits of the officers in the Revenue Board! Recently Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Iyer was furious with the Finance Ministry. His proposals on oil prices were not being answered properly by Revenue Ministry. He was told that the concerned officers were examining his proposals. Iyer was furious not because they did not consider his proposals but because they did not know proper English. He knew that none of the Revenue officers were ‘concerned’ with the high oil prices, but he would have been happy if he had been told that the ‘officers concerned’ were sleeping over his files instead of being told that the ‘concerned officers’ were doing so. But Revenue officers did not go to Cambridge as Iyer did. No cause for concern indeed.