8,000 government officers belonging to three key secretariat services have been handed over promotion letters by the Personnel Ministry. The three key services that form the backbone of the central secretariat administrative functioning Central Secretariat Service (CSS), Central Secretariat Stenographers’ Service (CSSS) and Central Secretariat Clerical Service (CSCS) witnessed unprecedented mass promotions.
“It was disheartening to see government employee attaining retirement from service without getting his due promotion. Thanks PM @narendramodi ji for the kind decision... #DoPT orders mass promotion of more than 8,000 Central Govt Employees from #CSS, #CSSS & #CSCS cadres," Dr Jitendra Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel tweeted.
The move meets a long-standing demand of the Central Secretariat Service officers’ association, which had been protesting over delay in their promotion, claiming it was causing irreparable financial loss to them. The CSS Forum, an association of CSS officers, has recently written to Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in support of their demand.
Of the total of 8,089 promoted employees, 4734 officers are from Central Secretariat Service, 2966 from Central Secretariat Stenographers’ Service and 389 from Central Secretariat Clerical Service. 934 employees from the SC and ST categories got a promotion, whereas the unreserved category witnessed 5032 promotions and 1734 in reservation posts.
The minister 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.
Singh also recalled that over three years back, the DoPT had carried out mass promotions of nearly 4,000 officials in different departments at different levels, which had been widely hailed.
Many of these promotion orders were also issued, subject to the outcome of pending writ petitions, he recalled.
Singh said that the 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.
The Central Secretariat Service officers' association has also been protesting over delay in their promotion, claiming it was causing irreparable financial loss to them.
The CSS Forum, an association of CSS officers, has recently written to the Secretary, DoPT in support of their demand.
"We are thankful to PM Modi for taking prompt initiative for resolving long-pending regular promotion issue of the officers. We are also thankful to MoS Jitendra Singh and Secretary, DoPT for getting the mass promotion orders issued within the limited time," said Manmohan Verma, General Secretary of the CSS Forum.
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