Recommendations for Padma awards not being done in fair manner
An RTI response reveals that the selection of awardees for Padma awards is not done in fair manner by the government and people with connections and influence manage to pip those, who really deserve these awards.
RECENT RTI response on Padma Awards 2011 reveals that even this year, 21 out of 128 awardees were those whose names were recommended after last date of recommendations (20th November 2010) by Awards Committee itself during its meetings to select awardees. Even it is an impropriety where four out of nine members of Awards Committee are government-officials, and such a power to Awards Committee is not incorporated in guidelines of KR Narainan Committee set up on directions of Supreme Court to suggest reforms in Padma Awards. It is not clear why meeting on 10th and 21st January 2011 were called when none of the initially selected names on 10th and 11th December 2010 were rejected by tax or intelligence authorities. Usually follow-up meetings in January are held to substitute new names in place of names subsequently rejected by tax or intelligence authorities. RTI response fails to provide government’s reaction to objections on selecting cigarette-king Yogesh Chander Deveshwar for Padma Bhushan. A consolidation of various RTI responses reveals that selection of Padma Awardees needs much more fairness and transparency. The selection-process should be put on website after announcement of awards. Moreover, union Home Ministry did not provide names of recommending persons for 1303 recommended ones this year even though names of recommending persons were also made public through RTI response in earlier years.
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