GAD and Cabinet Department.: Experience in Emergency Administration
Sanjay Gandhi ,PM Indira Gandhi's younger son and prime mover of Emergency measures was to visit Rajasthan specially Bikaner.DG Police Ganesh Singh sent a day before , request to GAD to treat him as VVIP at par with the PM so as to allot two State escort Cars for his security purposes also enclosing a newspaper cutting showing two Haryana State escort cars for this purpose. Besides , a temporary State telephone was to be provided below the rostrum of Public meeting. As GAD rules did not provide for such s contingency I wanted to seek guidance of CS and sought appointment with CS's office which informed me to come at 6PM same day.CS saw the DG's request note and solved my problem in seconds by asking me to allot two cars to Police Department for its duties without specifying the special task.Similarly,a temporary telephone was to be sanctioned to be paid for by Police Department .I happily returned to my Chamber and issued order...