Shailbala Martin is presently serving because the Extra Secretary in Basic Administration Division.
Bhopal:
Senior IAS officer Shailbala Martin’s social media publish questioning the general public deal with system put in at temples inflicting noise air pollution has sparked an argument in Madhya Pradesh with spiritual teams calling for protests in opposition to the officer.
Final week, a debate over the general public deal with system inflicting noise air pollution started after the demise of a 13-year-old boy throughout the Durga idol emersion in Bhopal. The boy was dancing to a DJ sound and collapsed swiftly and died on Friday.
Following the incident, Madhya Pradesh Police swung into motion and began an investigation into the case whereas the incident additionally began a debate on the difficulty.
A journalist on the social media platform X questioned the disparity in enforcement, specializing in using public deal with methods in mosques and the prevalence of DJs taking part in music outdoors these areas.
Responding to the publish, the IAS officer Shailbala Martin mentioned that noise air pollution brought on by the general public deal with system in temples – questioning why such disturbances, which might be heard a number of streets away and proceed late into the evening – are sometimes missed.
Nonetheless, the officer’s publish wasn’t acquired properly by the rightwing organisation ‘Sanskriti Bachao Manch’ head Chandrashekhar Tiwari, saying that they might stage a protest in opposition to the officer.
In the meantime, Congress Spokesperson Abbas Hafeez mentioned IAS officer Shailbala Martin has raised a real query.
“A senior officer has raised questions on the BJP authorities’s biased motion in opposition to the general public deal with system,” Hafeez mentioned.
The 2009-batch officer, Shailbala Martin, has not questioned the federal government’s actions for the primary time.
Martin is presently serving because the Extra Secretary within the Basic Administration Division (GAD). She started her profession within the State Civil Service (SCS) earlier than being promoted to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) on June 12, 2017.
She has held numerous positions, together with roles within the Well being Division in 2014, Municipal Commissioner of Burhanpur in 2019, and Collector of Niwari district the identical yr.
Since January 25, 2022, she has been serving as Extra Secretary within the Basic Administration Division.
Final yr, the Madhya Pradesh authorities issued pointers to mitigate noise air pollution, which particularly aimed to control the general public deal with system in spiritual venues.
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