NEW DELHI: 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. (Click anywhere to read Indian Administrative Service (Appointment by Induction)Regulation 2013
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.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Now-ACRs-wont-hold-good-for-promotion-for-state-civil-police-service-officers/articleshow/19955741.cms-
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