New Delhi, July 31: A delegation of Central government secretariat employees, including Central Secretariat Service (CSS) Forum and Direct Recruits of Limited Departmental Competitive Examination (LDCE), called on Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh here on Monday and thanked him for ordering and taking a personal interest in carrying out mass promotion in thousands at different levels, most notably from Assistant Section Officers (ASOs) to Section Officers (SOs).
Dr Jitendra Singh said it is painful to see certain officials attaining superannuation after spending several decades in 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 the mass promotion of 1,592 officials working in the capacity of ASOs to the post of SOs on an 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’s end,” Dr Singh said.
Dr Jitendra said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keen that hardworking and performing officials should be provided with a work-friendly environment so that they may give in their best for nation-building.
He said that in the last nine years, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government has periodically reviewed the longstanding stagnation issues in the various Central ministries that are a legacy of the past due to pending court cases, lack of vacancies in higher grades and other personnel issues.
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, he said.
Accusing the earlier UPA government, Dr 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.
The orders for mass promotion of these employees belonging to the CSS cadre were issued after several rounds of high-level meetings in DoPT chaired by Dr Jitendra Singh in the preceding months.
