Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Dec 11: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said here today that the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) is trying its best to clear the backlog of promotions which had accumulated for several years, even before this Government came in.
He said, while the Modi Government follows a policy of zero tolerance towards corrupt and non-performing officers, at the same time, it is also supportive towards performing officers of integrity.
Dr Jitendra Singh was responding to a delegation of Central Secretariat employees who sought his intervention for timely promotion of lower grade staff members. They also submitted a memorandum on behalf the Central Secretariat MTS Association, wherein it was submitted that many of the lowermost working professionals in the Government of India get deprived of even single promotion during their entire service tenure. This, they said, leaves them quite un-gratified and demotivated.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, in order to bring-in the ease of governance as well as objectivity in empanelments, the Government has, in the last three years, improvised upon the procedures so as to ensure that there are no subjective preferences involved in carrying out the promotions. At the same time, he said, the procedures have been made more hi-tech using sophisticated technology tools to minimize the human interface.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, he himself personally feels disturbed to come across cases where some of the employees working in the lowest rung of administration spend their entire service tenure of 30 to 35 years without securing a single promotion. He said, he has discussed the issue with all the senior officers in the Ministry and several innovative means are being evolved to avoid stagnation at middle and lower rungs of administration.
At the same time, Dr Jitendra Singh also regretted that in a large number of cases, stagnation in promotions was the result of litigation amongst the aspirants themselves and even though the DoPT tries its best to put forward its view in the court of law, the delay becomes inevitable.
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