'I Didn't Do It For Income'
The advisor on infrastructure in the Planning Commission on accusations of securing a personal copyright on what's described as a government document...
As advisor on infrastructure in the Planning Commission, Gajendra Haldea is one of the most influential bureaucrats in the UPA government. With the Commission, headed by Montek Singh Ahluwalia, pushing key decisions in priority areas like the highways project, Haldea has ruffled many feathers. This has led to several allegations against him. He's been accused of securing a personal copyright on what's described as a government document and that his interventions have delayed projects. In this interview to Smita Gupta, Haldea presents his side of the story:
Is it ethical for a civil servant to take a personal copyright on a government document?
Is this the first such document to have been written by a bureaucrat?
Is the NHAI's claim that it contributed to the document's writing false?
So the motivation is not commercial, possibly lucrative consultancies?
Your fight with the surface transport ministry over the MCA between December '05 and November '06 led to delays in road projects.
Surely, everyone from the minister to the seniormost officials to engineers do not constitute a section?
And the clash on land acquisition?
Can a government servant in his personal capacity file a case against a government entity like Grid Corporation of Orissa (GRIDCO) as you have done?
You accused GRIDCO of making unconscionable profits. But the Commission has been simultaneously promoting a market mechanism even in the energy sector....
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