Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
11-December, 2017 19:53 IST
DOPT trying best to clear backlog of promotions: Dr Jitendra Singh
The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of
Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public
Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh
said that the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) is trying
its best to clear the backlog of promotions which had accumulated for
several years. He said, while the Government led by the Prime Minister
Shri Narendra Modi follows a policy of zero tolerance towards corrupt
and non-performing officers, at the same time it is also supportive
towards performing officers of integrity.
Dr Jitendra Singh was responding to a delegation of Central Secretariat
employees who called on him here today and sought his intervention for
timely promotion of lower grade staff members. They also submitted a
memorandum on behalf the Central Secretariat MTS Association, wherein it
was submitted that many of the lowermost working professionals in the
Government of India get deprived of even single promotion during their
entire service tenure.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, in order to bring in the ease of governance as
well as objectivity in empanelments, the government has, in the last
three years, improvised upon the procedures so as to ensure that there
are no subjective preferences involved in carrying out the promotions.
The procedures have been made more hi-tech using sophisticated
technology tools to minimize the human interface, he added.
He said that in the past, every government took credit for bringing in a
new legislation or rule while this government has done away with nearly
1500 rules which were either obsolete or had become irrelevant with the
passage of time. All this is meant not only to ensure effective and
timely delivery of outcomes for the public, but also to enable the
employees to perform to the best of their ability, he added.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, 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. He said, he has discussed the issue
with all the senior officers in the Ministry and several innovative
means are being evolved to avoid stagnation at middle and lower rungs of
administration.
Dr Jitendra Singh 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.
Source : PIB
