DoP&T clears CBEC promotion file for Chief Commissioners - Board should be ready to issue orders
THE DPC for promotion to the cadre of Chief Commissioners in CBEC was held in mid May and some 42 names were cleared and by this time the new Chief Commissioners should have been in office, but things ran into bad weather with one of the Commissioners who apparently did not make it to the list getting a stay from the CAT. The Board moved fast and succeeded in getting the stay vacated but it seems the DOPT had some objections. Now the DOPT has also cleared it and the file is sent to the Cabinet Secretariat. The final clearance should come in a couple of weeks, but before that Board should get ready to issue the orders immediately after the clearance by ACC, so that much of political pressure can be avoided at the time of posting orders (not that it cannot be done now).
While there are about 40 anxious Commissioners waiting for that elusive promotion, there are at least a hundred Superintendents stagnating in that cadre for nearly twenty years and who can be promoted if only the Board can hold a DPC – there are more than a hundred vacancies and what stands between these officers and a promotion is a simple DPC. Many of these Superintendents are retiring this year or next and may have to go without that promotion for which they have been dreaming for so many years. It is really a mystery why the Board is not filling up these posts – maybe they are waiting for that distant cadre review which seems to be a little away from the expanding horizon.