THE 1977 batch IAS officers have a reason to rejoice. Finally, Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has approved the elevation of 1977 batch officers to the rank of secretary or special secretary with effect from February 1, 2011 .
The ACC has also directed the Organising Committee of Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 to grant 1977 batch UP cadre IAS GC Chaturvedi, presently Special Director General (Finance and Accounts) in the Organising Committee, an appropriate rank and pay equivalent to the secretary to the government of India 1st February, 2011 . An MSc in physics, Chaturvedi had earlier served as joint secretary in department of economic affairs and additional secretary in the banking division of finance ministry.
The ACC has also approved the following appointments on in-situ elevation basis, with effect from February 01, 2011 , by temporarily upgrading the posts held by the officers:
a) Shekhar Agarwal, a 1977 batch UP cadre IAS as special secretary in department of ex-servicemen welfare under ministry of defence, in the rank and pay of secretary.
b) Alok Rawat, a 1977 batch Sikkim
c) Naved Masood, a 1977 batch Manipur-Tripura cadre as special secretary and financial adviser in the department of health and family welfare in the rank and pay of secretary.
d) K Jose Cyriac, a 1977 batch Kerala cadre IAS as special secretary in department of revenue in the rank and pay of secretary.
e) Mohammad Haleem Khan, a 1977 batch UP cadre IAS as director general, CAPART, department of rural development in the rank and pay of secretary.
f) Sudhir Krishna, a 1977 batch Karnataka cadre IAS as special secretary in the ministry of Panchayati Raj in the rank and pay of secretary.
g) Rakesh Kacker, a 1977 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS as special secretary in the department of consumer affairs in the rank and pay of secretary.
h) Alok Perti, a 1977 batch Assam
i) Mrutyunjay Sarangi, a 1977 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS as special secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, in the rank and pay of secretary.
j) Pradeep Kumar Chaudhary, a 1977 batch Haryana cadre IAS as special secretary, department of commerce in the rank and pay of secretary.
k) Ms Vilasini Ramachandran, a 1977 batch Gujarat cadre IAS as special secretary, department of expenditure in the rank and pay of secretary.
l) Arun Kumar Mathur, a 1977 batch UT cadre IAS, as Director (Enforcement), Department of Revenue, ministry of finance in the rank and pay of secretary.
m) Radha Krishna Mathur, a 1977 batch Manipur-Tripura cadre IAS as special secretary, department of defence in the rank and pay of secretary.
n) Gireesh B Pradhan, a 1977 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS as special secretary in the ministry of power in the rank and pay of secretary.
o) Shumsher K Sheriff, a 1977 batch UT cadre IAS, as secretary, to the Vice President of India, in the rank and pay of secretary.
p) Ajay Bhattacharya, a 1977 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS, as Administrator, Universal Services Obligatioin Fund, department of telecommunications in the rank and pay of secretary.
q) Ms Loretta Mary Vas, a 1977 batch UP cadre IAS, as special secretary, department of economic affairs in the rank and pay of secretary.
r) Vishwapati Trivedi, a 1977 batch MP cadre IAS as special secretary and financial adviser in ministry of home affairs in the rank and pay of secretary.
s) Pradeep Kumar Sinha, a 1977 batch UP cadre IAS as special secretary and financial adviser in the ministry of petroleum and natural gas in the rank and pay of secretary.
t) Dileep Raj S Chaudhary, a 1977 batch MP cadre IAS as special secretary, ministry of home affairs in the rank and pay of secretary.
u) Sharad Gupta, a 1977 batch Assam
v) Prasanna Kumar Pradhan, a 1977 batch West Bengal cadre IAS as special secretary, department of health and family welfare in the rank and pay of secretary.
w) Amarjit Singh Lamba, a 1977 batch West Bengal cadre IAS, as special secretary and financial adviser, department of agriculture and cooperation in the rank and pay of secretary.
x) Ms Sangita Gairola, a 1977 batch Rajasthan cadre IAS, as special secretary in ministry of social justice and empowerment in the rank and pay of secretary.
y) NC Vasudevan, a 1977 batch Orissa cadre IAS as Director General, National Productivity Council, DIPP, in the rank and pay of secretary.
z) Ashok Thakur, a 1977 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS as special secretary, department of higher education in the rank and pay of secretary.
z1) Jayant M Mauskar, a 1977 batch Assam
z2) Chinmay Basu, a 1977 batch Orissa cadre IAS as special secretary in the department of land resources in the pay of secretary.
z3) Sundaram Krishna , a 1977 batch Punjab cadre IAS, as special secretary in the department of defence in the pay of secretary.
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An Assistant will not get his promotion as Section Officer if there is no sanctioned post of Section Officer. But IAS officers do not need sanctioned post for their promotion. Can anyone tell, who has created and sanctioned the post of Special Secretary and what is the justification for this post. The only justification is that IAS need promotion.Will the Government apply these criteria for other services and posts.
ReplyDeleteyou must be a css officer
ReplyDeleteAlso css guys get promoted insitu from so to deputy secretary..
ReplyDeleteSo the CSS enjoys the same special privelege as the IAS! Hurray! But what abiut the lesser mortals from other organized cadres?
ReplyDeleteSeen an IAS officer who changed the world of bureaucracy, such an honest, brilliant, courageous and proactive officer like Mr. P.H.Kurian comes once in a decade, we are proud to have him as the Controller General of Patents,Designs, Trade Marks and Geographical Indication
ReplyDeleteSharad Gupta is working as DG BIS, a post of Addl Secretary rank. If he has been promoted as Secretary then he should be shifted out of BIS.
ReplyDeleteI agree with first comment but do not agree with fourth comment above. CSS Officers are no way comparable to IAS in the matter of promotion and privileges. In CSS there are only 40 posts of insitu JS. Those CSS Officers who are empanneled for JS are first given in-situ promotion against those forty posts. In situ promotion was made twice in 1997 and 1999 and SOs were made US situ because these Section Officers were stagnating as SO for nearly 18-20 years.There are still some USs who have put in 13-14 years as Under Secretary and they have to wait for another 2-3 years to become a Deputy Secretary. Minister of State for Personnel on 22.7.2012 had ordered Secretary(Personnel) for taking measures to ward off acute stagnation in CSS and arriving at a mechanism to promote officers in time bound manner but when the file was sent to Secretary for in-situ promotion it was rejected.The duties and responsibilities of DS and Director are same but DSs who are mostly CSS officers are in PB:3 and Directors are in PB:4. Everyone knows that there is a gap of Rs.22,000 in PB3 and PB:4.No doubt some IAS Officers are briliant but they cook every thing for themselves and other Group A Service and not for CSS or anyother service.
ReplyDeleteIAS is the king. He can do whatever he wishes.
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