The Centre will promote over 8,000 personnel within the three Central Secretariat cadres in a single go in one of many largest mass promotions orders in historical past.
The authorities has already handed an order to this impact and Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh will formally announce the transfer on Friday, an official instructed The Indian Express on Thursday.
Of the entire promotions, 327 are within the put up of administrators, 1,097 deputy secretaries, and 1,472 part officers, all belonging to the Central Secretariat Service. The variety of officers getting promoted within the Central Secretariat Service is 4,734.
Stenographers, principal workers officers, clerks, and others within the Central Secretariat Stenographers’ Service and the Central Secretariat Clerical Service are additionally included within the mass promotions.
The promotions additionally embody 157 principal workers officers and 153 senior principal personal secretaries, 1,208 principal personal secretaries within the Central Secretariat Stenographers’ Service. The whole variety of officers promoted within the service is 2,966.
In all, 8,089 posts are up for promotion, of which 727 are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 207 for Scheduled Tribes. As many as 5,032 promotions are for unreserved posts.
The Central Secretariat Service is an administrative civil service, consisting of Group A and Group B posts, and varieties the spine of administrative work in central authorities ministries. They are chosen by the Union Public Service Commission by way of aggressive examinations.
The final time such large-scale promotions have been introduced was in 2019 when 4,000 officers have been promoted in these three companies.
In February, over a thousand Central Secretariat Service workers members protested at North Block over the delay in promotions for over six years. The protesters insisted on assembly Singh. The Indian Express reported on the time that common promotions had been withheld for six years due pending litigations within the Supreme Court.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”