DOPT : Periodical review will be done to make bureaucracy performance-oriented and accountable

With a view to making bureaucracy performance-oriented and accountable, the Government has recently issued instructions to all the Ministries / Departments to carry out periodical review under FR 56(j) and Rule 48 of CCS (Pension Rules, 1972); and under Rule 16(3) of All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958, to weed out the deadwood and inefficient officials in the service. Further, in order to ensure timely disposal of disciplinary cases and to maintain a mechanism for probity among Government servants, the Department of Personnel & Training has recently issued instructions to all the Ministries and Departments vide Office Memorandum No. 29062/6/2015-AIS(I)(Pt.1) dated 30.9.2015, eliciting information pertaining to disciplinary cases in a standardized format for its monitoring.

The Government have recently issued instructions/ guidelines under rule 7(2) of AIS (Leave) Rules 1955 to process deemed resignation for being unauthorisedly absent after expiry of Leave/ Study Leave/ Foreign Assignment etc. The Government also examines cases against officers and imposes penalty of cut in pension wherever necessary, in consultation with the UPSC. During last year and half i.e. from May, 2014, 13 Central Civil Service/ All India Service officers have been dismissed/removed/ compulsory retired from government service and penalty cut have been imposed on 45 Central Service Officers/All India Services Officers.

WHILE THE EFFORTS OF THE GOVERNMENT ARE APPRECIATED, IT IS OUR BITTER EXPERIENCE,PARTICULARLY ON THE ISSUE OF 78.2% IDA MERGER, EVERY DEPARTMENT IS INDULGING IN DELAY TACTICS WITHOUT ANY ACCOUNTABILITY WHATSOEVER.