Letter to BS: India needs strong and honest FM or PM to clean the system

Manmohan Singh cleaned up the department of corrupt officers at a very high level in one big sweep.

This refers to A K Bhattacharya’s column on "Separation of responsibilities" (September 30). I submit that the factual position as well as his conclusions need to be reset. He says that compulsory retirement has been used “quite frequently only now”. That is not quite correct. It has been done in NDA-I period also for both direct and indirect tax officers when Arun Jaitley was the finance minister (FM). It was done during VP Singh’s time when he was the FM. Singh cleaned up the department of corrupt officers at a very high level, such as the collectors, commissioners and members