Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Mar 1: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said here today that nearly 5,000 pending promotions of officers working at different levels in the Central Secretariat Service and other Services were cleared within the last two months of 2019. Many of these promotions had been due for the last more than 10 to15 years, he added.
Speaking to a delegation of Central Secretariat Service officers who met him to discuss the pending promotions of some of them, Dr Jitendra Singh said, he is of considered view that no official should be made to wait unduly when he is due for the next promotion. In the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), he said, it had been decided that the backlog of the pending promotions would be cleared by whatever means possible. Many of these promotions, he said, had been stuck up because of litigations, but he took a decision in good faith, to clear all the promotions, subject to the outcome of the respective writ petitions.
It is disheartening to see when an officer, after having put in 30 to 35 years of government service, gets superannuated without even getting even one promotion or having got stuck up for two decades for the next promotion, said Dr Jitendra Singh and added that even the induction of the provincial civil services officers into IAS had been put on fast-track in DoPT, unless the cadre reviews were delayed at the end of certain State Governments.
The members of the delegation comprising mostly Under Secretary level officers in the Central Secretariat, brought to the notice of the Minister that while he had been kind enough to clear the delayed promotions of most of the officers, there were still about 50 officers of the Under Secretary level who are eligible for the post of Director, but have been waiting for promotion. They requested that if the process gets expedited, it will be a huge benefit for some of those who are due to retire from government service within next two or three months.
Dr Jitendra Singh directed the concerned officers in the DoPT to take up the issue on urgent basis and try to make sure that there is no backlog of pending promotions left by the time the government completes its five years in office.
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