The issue of secret GOs has become a major controversy thanks to TDP actions. The TDP leaders met Governor Biswabhushan Harichandan and lodged a complaint claiming that the Jagan government was uploading blank GOs on its website. The GO number and the date of issuance were uploaded, but the contents are not kept in the public domain, it said. They said that the Jagan government was ignoring the very idea of transparency in administration.
Interestingly, secret GOs were normal during the erstwhile regimes. There were secret GOs during Chandrababu Naidu government. Ditto with YSRCP, Rosaiah and Kira Kumar Reddy governments. In fact, transparency was introduced by YSR after he had won a second time. It was only after 2009 that every GO was uploaded. Keeping some GOs confidential too is not uncommon. This was done in the interest of administrative convenience.
But, TDP, which wanted to derive political mileage and score a brownie point, made this into an unseemly controversy. Reacting to the hullabaloo created by the TDP, the YSRCP has now decided not to place any GO in the public domain. The latest circular issued by Jagan government directed the officials not to upload any GO. The YSRCP government is also worried about leakage of information from within. Now, even normal GOs pertaining to transfers of officials would not be available in the public domain. An unnecessary controversy raked up by the TDP has now led to the complete gag on the uploading of GOs.
Interestingly, secret GOs were normal during the erstwhile regimes. There were secret GOs during Chandrababu Naidu government. Ditto with YSRCP, Rosaiah and Kira Kumar Reddy governments. In fact, transparency was introduced by YSR after he had won a second time. It was only after 2009 that every GO was uploaded. Keeping some GOs confidential too is not uncommon. This was done in the interest of administrative convenience.
But, TDP, which wanted to derive political mileage and score a brownie point, made this into an unseemly controversy. Reacting to the hullabaloo created by the TDP, the YSRCP has now decided not to place any GO in the public domain. The latest circular issued by Jagan government directed the officials not to upload any GO. The YSRCP government is also worried about leakage of information from within. Now, even normal GOs pertaining to transfers of officials would not be available in the public domain. An unnecessary controversy raked up by the TDP has now led to the complete gag on the uploading of GOs.