Impressive Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs) of the State Civil/Police Service officers will no
longer be enough to get them inducted into IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service
(IFS) through promotion. Now, they will have to appear in a competitive
examination, which is to be conducted annually by the UPSC.
At present, induction of state service officers into elite All India Services is made on the basis of review of their ACRs by a departmental promotion panel where officers upto 54 years are eligible for promotion.
Usually, one-third of senior duty posts are reserved for promotion under the current method of induction. This practice will change under a new scheme of the selection process for appointment by promotion or selection to the various cadres of All India Service.
"Government may in future also opt for the same method of promotions for officers within the central civil services," said an official.
After fine-tuning the proposed change in the scheme, the Centre on Tuesday wrote to all the states asking them to give their "considered opinion" on the decision by May 31.
Though the Centre had sent a similar letter to the states earlier as well, it did not set any deadline. The ministry of personnel - which wrote to chief secretaries of all states on Tuesday — this time appears determined to allow the UPSC to conduct the competition examination for this purpose from this year. The note says that if any state fails to give its comments, "it will be presumed that the state government does not have any comment to offer in this regard and further necessary action will be taken accordingly".
Under the new scheme, the selection will now be made through a comprehensive three-stage process - written examination, interview and service records — carrying a maximum of 1,000 marks. The maximum 550 marks (55%) will be allocated for written examination, whereas 250 marks (25%) will be set aside for service records of aspiring officers. The remaining 200 marks (20%) will be kept for interview.
The competitive examination will be open only for those State Civil/Police Service officers who complete minimum eight years.
The examination will test the aptitude, general awareness and state and service specific knowledge of officers before preparing a merit list for their promotion and induction into elite central services. Service specific knowledge and aptitude test will carry maximum weight in the written component of the examination.
Under the scheme, the number of officers of state civil services who will be called for the written examination will be five times the substantive vacancies in the order of seniority in that service. Assessment of service records will also be made objectively under the new system.
At present, induction of state service officers into elite All India Services is made on the basis of review of their ACRs by a departmental promotion panel where officers upto 54 years are eligible for promotion.
Usually, one-third of senior duty posts are reserved for promotion under the current method of induction. This practice will change under a new scheme of the selection process for appointment by promotion or selection to the various cadres of All India Service.
"Government may in future also opt for the same method of promotions for officers within the central civil services," said an official.
After fine-tuning the proposed change in the scheme, the Centre on Tuesday wrote to all the states asking them to give their "considered opinion" on the decision by May 31.
Though the Centre had sent a similar letter to the states earlier as well, it did not set any deadline. The ministry of personnel - which wrote to chief secretaries of all states on Tuesday — this time appears determined to allow the UPSC to conduct the competition examination for this purpose from this year. The note says that if any state fails to give its comments, "it will be presumed that the state government does not have any comment to offer in this regard and further necessary action will be taken accordingly".
Under the new scheme, the selection will now be made through a comprehensive three-stage process - written examination, interview and service records — carrying a maximum of 1,000 marks. The maximum 550 marks (55%) will be allocated for written examination, whereas 250 marks (25%) will be set aside for service records of aspiring officers. The remaining 200 marks (20%) will be kept for interview.
The competitive examination will be open only for those State Civil/Police Service officers who complete minimum eight years.
The examination will test the aptitude, general awareness and state and service specific knowledge of officers before preparing a merit list for their promotion and induction into elite central services. Service specific knowledge and aptitude test will carry maximum weight in the written component of the examination.
Under the scheme, the number of officers of state civil services who will be called for the written examination will be five times the substantive vacancies in the order of seniority in that service. Assessment of service records will also be made objectively under the new system.
(
Times of India )
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