Some habits are a matter of concern. I mean habits of some subs. Maybe, many subs. It's about usage of concerned.
Concern as a noun is primarily a feeling of worry about/for/over somebody/something. Concern as a verb would mean to involve or affect somebody. Primarily speaking, of course. Concerned as an adjective is concerned with the former. So when you use concerned before a noun, it would mean that the person (yeah, yeah, the noun I am talking about) is quite worried about something. It does not mean that the person is involved with someone or something. If you mean the latter, it is a better idea to use it after the noun.
This example from the Indian Express/Lucknow Newsline (Police pull out gunners of 5 MLAs; March 24, 2007) would suggest that the committees were extremely worried:
Earlier, a division bench of the Allahabad High Court comprising Justices Murtaza and Amar Saran had asked the government in its December verdict to withdraw private gunners from student leaders, contractors and political workers whose gunners were not approved by concerned district-level committees.
In fact, they were not. They were involved.
The Times of India (Some good things happened in the Windies; March 24, 2007) uses the word correctly:
Though the cause of Bob Woolmer's death is not known, the first instinct of all parties concerned is that it had something to with the betting industry. The sensational murder has reminded the ICC with far greater gravity than anything before that drastic measures are needed to save cricket from the shadowy world of subcontinental mafias.
The same day's edition, however, has a mistake in a different story (SC wants bail verdicts brief, fears may impact trial; March 24, 2007):
Hearing a case between Imran Ali and Habibullah, the Bench found that the concerned HC had given such an elaborate judgment while granting bail to the accused that it virtually held that the prosecution had no case at all.
The sentence gives the impression that the particular High Court was extremely worried about the issue at hand. It may or may have been; but the copy insists otherwise.
Look at this example from the Business Standard (Advisors must keep check on expenses: FinMin; March 25, 2007):
The financial advisor has to formulate the budget of the concerned ministry and control expenditure; introduce an efficient system of management best suited to the ministry and carry out internal audit of payments and accounts of the ministry.
It should have been the ministry concerned; concerned ministry would have ment that the ministry was worried sick over the state of affairs. You and I know better.
