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600 Orders in 12 Hours
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Over 200 More Orders to Be Issued Today
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Never Before in the History of Madhya Pradesh Has Something Like This Happened
Bhopal. You must remember the Anil Kapoor-starrer movie Nayak. How, upon becoming Chief Minister, he clears years of pending files in a single stroke and gives sleepless nights to negligent officials? A strikingly similar scene unfolded in Madhya Pradesh’s School Education Department, bringing cinematic speed into real-world administration.
In reality, over 1,100 compassionate appointment cases had been gathering dust in the MP School Education Department for about 10 years. Files bounced from one table to another, officials kept giving dates, and grieving families were forced to run from pillar to post. Seeing this red tape and bureaucratic lethargy, it felt like these cases would never be resolved. However, a strong will and the right intent changed everything overnight. Abhishek Singh, a 2009-batch young IAS officer and Commissioner of the Directorate of Public Instruction (DPI), took a firm decision to break this systemic inertia. On Monday, a sudden order was issued—all Divisional Joint Directors across the state must reach Bhopal overnight. Without offering any excuses, the officials arrived in the capital by night.
Following this, Commissioner Abhishek Singh himself remained engaged in a continuous round-table discussion with the Joint Directors throughout Tuesday. Most notably, not just the officials, but their technical team—data entry and computer operators—were also brought in with their complete records, seniority lists, and category-wise vacancy details. This ensured no official could claim that files were incomplete or that there were technical glitches, completely shutting down any room for passing the buck. As a result, nearly 600 appointment orders were issued within just 12 hours. With over 200 more orders issued the very next day, around 800 pending cases were resolved permanently within two days. This is the first time in Madhya Pradesh’s administrative history that paths to such a massive number of compassionate appointments have opened up simultaneously in such a short span.
Let it be known that approximately 23,000 compassionate appointment cases are currently pending across various departments due to official negligence and administrative inertia.
In many cases, even after A-plus and A note sheets were processed by the Chief Minister’s Office, officials showed no interest. It is noteworthy that while a promotion process is currently underway in the state, leading to several changes, most officials still display administrative lethargy and fail to make timely decisions. Meanwhile, the swift resolution achieved by the Education Department has reached the Chief Minister’s Office and is now being presented as an example to other departments.