New Delhi, June 27: Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), Ministry of Personnel has approved the mass promotion of 1,592 officials working in the capacity of Assistant Section Officers (ASOs) to the post of Section Officers on adhoc basis with immediate effect. The regularisation of these adhoc promotions will also take place soon in due course.
Announcing this here on Tuesday, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Dr Jitendra Singh said that the promotion orders will be issued soon by the respective Cadre Controlling authorities.
The promotions had been expedited at the directions of the Minister Incharge DoPT, Dr Jitendra Singh who personally reviewed the entire process. “The government has been granting mass promotions to employees in order to motivate them and overcome the problem of long stagnation. Another 2,000 promotions in ASO and other Grades are in process and hopefully, they will get promoted by this year’s end,” the minister said.
Dr Singh said that in the last nine years, under the guidance 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 also, about 9,000 mass promotions were made and prior to that the DoPT granted 4,000 promotions in the preceding three years,” the union minister said, adding that 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.
Dr Jitendra said he has discussed the issue with all the senior officers in the ministry and several innovative means have been evolved to avoid stagnation at the middle and lower rungs of the administration. He also regretted that in a large number of cases, stagnation in promotions was the result of litigation amongst the employees themselves and even though the DoPT tries its best to put forward its view in the court of law, the delay becomes inevitable.
“PM Modi has made efforts to ensure that government jobs are available to the maximum extent possible. It is extremely painful and disheartening to see employees sometimes superannuating in the same grade as promotions remained stuck,” he said.
