New Delhi (28.07.2022): The government employees will soon have some more reason to rejoice as after granting mass promotions to over 8,000 government employees on July 1, 2022, the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) is now ready with the next lot of officers who will get promotions in the next two to three weeks.
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, who is also the Minister of State for Personnel, informed this to a delegation of the Central Secretariat Official Language Service Group-A officers who had called on him on Wednesday to apprise him of their pending promotions.
Dr Singh assured the delegation to look into their demands sympathetically and added that hurdles if any for granting promotions will be resolved.
The Minister said that their promotion cases will also be expedited as per rule, as there is a mandatory provision of training of officers ranging from one year to 18 months before the promotions.
Terming it as disheartening to see government employees attaining retirement from service without getting one’s due promotion Dr Singh thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking a personal interest in the entire matter.
With this emphatic move by the PM, all future promotions will get streamlined as all legal hurdles were sorted out in granting promotions to 8,089 employees, said Dr Singh.
It may be recalled that the DoPT had granted mass promotion, to government employees belonging to three key secretariat services in one go.
Out of the 8,089 employees who got promotions on July 1, 4,734 are from Central Secretariat Service (CSS), 2,966 from Central Secretariat Stenographers’ Service (CSSS) and 389 from Central Secretariat Clerical Service (CSCS). 934 employees from the SC and ST categories got a promotion, whereas the unreserved category witnessed 5032 promotions and 1734 in reservation posts.
These mass promotion orders were issued after several rounds of high-level meetings in DoPT chaired by Dr Jitendra Singh in the last two months.
Even legal experts were consulted widely as some of the orders were subject to the outcome of pending writ petitions.
Dr Jitendra Singh also met delegations of Central Secretariat officials on several occasions to thrash out the issue, as he considered that these three services – CSS, CSSS and CSCS form the backbone of the central secretariat administrative functioning.
The Central Secretariat Service officers' association has also been protesting over the delay in their promotion, claiming it was causing irreparable financial loss to them.
The minister also added that Secretariat Services are an essential tool of governance since the notes and drafts prepared by them form the bedrock of Government policies as the proposals pass through various stages in the government hierarchy.
It is worth mentioning here that about three years ago, the DoPT carried out mass promotions of nearly 4,000 officials in different departments at different levels, which was widely appreciated.
