STATE TIMES NEWS
NEW DELHI: A delegation of Central Govt Secretariat employees, including Central Secretariat Service (CSS) Forum and Direct Recruits of Limited Departmental Competitive Examination (LDCE), called on Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh here on Monday and profusely thanked him for ordering and taking personal interest to carry out mass promotion in thousands at different levels, most notably from Assistant Section Officers (ASOs) to Section Officers (SOs).
Dr Jitendra said, it is painful to see certain officials attaining superannuation after spending several decades on the same post without a single promotion. We need to change this trend, he said.
The Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) had, on the instructions of Minister Incharge DoPT Dr Jitendra Singh, recently approved mass promotion of 1,592 officials working in the capacity of ASOs to the post of SOs on adhoc basis with immediate effect. The Minister had last year ordered about 9,000 mass promotions and prior to that the DoPT granted 4,000 promotions in the preceding three years. Another 2,000 promotions in ASO and other Grades are in process and hopefully they will get promoted by this year end,” said Dr Jitendra Singh. The Minister said, last year alone about 9,000 mass promotions were made and prior to that the DoPT granted 4,000 promotions in the preceding three years.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, the Government is concerned about long stagnation in certain cadres and at certain levels where some of the employees working in the lowest rung of administration spend their entire service tenure of 30 to 35 years without getting a single promotion. Accusing the earlier UPA government, Dr Jitendra Singh regretted that in a large number of cases, stagnation in promotions was the result of litigations prompted by inappropriate decisions taken or rules twisted to give out of turn promotions to the favoured ones by the then government. In a few of the 4,000 promotions cleared in recent years, the Government granted promotions despite the cases being sub-judice, by consulting legal experts and making valid provisions for judicial scrutiny, said the Minister.
