lucknow an ambitious belttightening move by the state government that could save a precious rs 90odd lakh for state coffers every month has run into a roadblock the decision pertains to withdrawal of official cars from more than 1500 bureaucrats and other officials working in state secretariat and instead make them pay up by providing for personal car loans reason officials arent comfortable with the idea government does not want to press the issue as it cant rub the bureaucracy the wrong way on poll eve and the burra sahebs finally put down their foot on tuesday at a high level meeting chaired by the chief secretary ap varma the meeting attended by senior officials from finance department including the principal secretary vk mittal secretary banking lalit verma and senior officials from the sad sachivalaya administration failed to evolve a consensus on how to go about the proposal owing to a virtual inhouse revolt over the issue sources said talking to times news network on thursday a senior official said that they indeed had hit a roadblock as they found the move irrational and a proreformist gimmick an eyewash both in financial and practical terms the government was to withdraw the cars at the disposal of ias and other officials working in the annexe and instead stand guarantor to personal car loans the instalments of which were to be deducted at source from the salaries of these officials fuel is released to these officials in two slabs of 300 and 100 litres per month as per their ranks in the draft proposal the loan sum has not been quantified neither the models of cars that the officials can avail has been specified the ias lobby has stonewalled the proposal since they feel that deployment at the annexe is punishment enough the proposal if carried through would only end up making postings in the state secretariat more unattractive an angry official told this newspaper the chief secretary has now directed the finance department to work out the modalities of the packagethis sources say has been done to either buy time or shelve the proposal since the cm is being advised that the move could end up upsetting the bureaucracy why make us the sacrificial lambs on the altar of reforms what about the expenses incurred by the ministers who are entitled to unlimited fuel quota every month wondered aloud a senior official who felt that such a move could upset the delicate balance in service norms and add to the already rock bottom morale of bureaucracy