Remember the recently concluded Bigg Boss programme on Star Maa television network?
The much-publicised reality show was known for installation of over 60 camera in every vantage point of the house to enable the anchor and also viewers to keep track of every movement of the participants who cannot escape from the eye of the camera.
That was all for fun and game. But, the Bigg Boss of Andhra Pradesh government chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu seems to be considering his administration as a reality show.
He has converted the entire Secretariat complex like the Bigg Boss house by installing cameras at every nook and corner, as to keep a watch on the movements and conversations of the Secretariat employees from top to bottom.
According to sources in the secretariat, as many as 240 closed circuit cameras have been installed at all key points – employees’ cabins, canteens, corridors, entrance gates and even computer corners, except of course in toilets and bathrooms.
“Obviously, this is meant to have surveillance over the movements of the employees, as if they are thieves.
There is nothing wrong in having CC cameras at some crucial points to watch the movements of visitors, but it is nothing but insulting the employees to install cameras at every place.
Even in computers, the authorities installed micro cameras and it is embarrassing to talk to even our colleagues working before computers,” an employee lamented.
He wondered how employees could work in a tension free environment under the hawk eye of the cameras.
“Before 2014 elections, Naidu used to say that he had turned employee-friendly. But now, he seems to back to his old game of harassing employees,” he observed.
