No Deputation for IRS officers?

By Vijay Kumar

IRS officers are worried about a recent direction of the Ministry that they will not be allowed to go to other departments on deputation. They see it as an attempt by the IAS lobby to restrict their chance to go on deputation to other departments. But why should a well trained and experienced revenue officer go to another department? For far too many reasons than you can think of. Though the other service officers do not like the IAS, the fact remains that the IAS is more powerful than all of them put together. Recently a Police Commissioner broke protocol and stood ahead of an IAS officer while receiving the Prime Minister. The Commissioner believed he had done nothing wrong as the IAS officer was junior to him. But the IAS was not impressed. You know what happened? The Police Commissioner got transferred.