Annual Confidential Report – a farce?
Our COBWEB story on Annual Confidential reports has evoked quite a response apparently from Revenue Officers.
A Former Member of the Board wrote in,
The SC decision to make it mandatory to convey any entry in CCR-whether Good or Bad is indeed a land mark decision. The DOPT is the most rotten organization in GOI. It protects the turf for the IAS .That is all. So long as they are in control of the central cadres, they would only protect the interests of IAS members. It is high time that an independent Tribunal is created to administer All India Services and Central services. Only such a professional body can reform our bureaucracy and bring about the required degree of transparency and fairness in our administration.
A Netizen wrote in to say that a Superintendent could not get a promotion because his ACR could not be written because both his Assistant Commissioner and Additional Commissioner, who should have written his annual Confidential Report and reviewed it, were in jail. These two worthies whom the Government found fit to be in jail could have spoiled the ACR of the Superintendent.
It seems a Commissioner wrote in the ACR of his JC, “There is scope for improvement”. The JC came to know about this and confronted the Commissioner and pleaded that it was unfair. The obliging Commissioner changed the remarks to, “there is no scope for improvement”.
A Superintendent whose command over English was exemplary had two inspectors – one was a very hard working guy and the other was never attending office and was always outside the office. In the ACR, for the first officer, he wrote, “He hardly works” and for the second, he wrote, “He is always outstanding”