Regularisation for promotions in CBEC - Utter Confusion - ACRs Missing
FOR the last few decades, the CBEC has been promoting officers from AC to CC on ad hoc basis. It seems the UPSC wants this ad hocism to end. And the Board has launched a massive movement.
They find that for regularisation of DC to JC for Batch 1988 -1996, they do not have the confidential reports for 83 officers - unless these are traced, their promotions cannot be regularised. Now most of them are Commissioners. For promotion from JC to ADC in the year 2015, they find that 77 officers do not have the Confidential Reports. There are 120 Commissioners whose regularisation cannot be done because of missing ACRs. Even 14 Chief Commissioners find their names in the lists.
Now, the DGHRD wants the officers to pursue their own cases and get the ACRs traced/created/written/re-written or get a certificate that all hopes are lost. Officers are frantically making calls across the country to find out where the missing ACRs are and who their bosses were.
Locating the missing ACR is not the full story. Once it is located, if the officer finds that he is BBM - Below Bench Mark, he has to make a representation to get himself upgraded. All the officers in the Department are going to be terribly busy in the next few weeks to get their reports updated and to be above the Bench Mark so that they are ready when the next promotion comes.
The CBEC Chairman has written a letter to all the Chief Commissioners to actively help in this massive operation.