Ministries asked to collect information about appointments made on the basis of fake caste certificates

THE department of personnel and training (DoPT) has instructed various ministries and departments of the government of India to collect information about appointments made on the basis of fake or false caste certificates and follow up actions taken thereon. It has given a deadline of July 15, 2017 to all the ministries and departments. The new action has been initiated in the backdrop of regular…

No Idea! Govt has no record on OBC officers as JS, Additional Secretaries or Secretaries

THE government has said that it has no record to find out how many OBC officers are currently occupying the positions of secretaries, additional secretaries and joint secretaries.

In a reply in Lok Sabha, minister of state in the ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions V Narayanasamy also reiterated that there is no provision for reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in those posts as officers occupy those on a deputation basis. According to available data, there are currently four ST secretaries and no SC secretary in Central government departments out of a total of 149 secretary level officers.

Among 108 additional secretaries, there are only two officers each from ST and SC community whereas there are 31 SC and 15 ST joint secretaries among 477 JS level officers. “As officers on the above posts (JS, additional secretaries and secretaries) are appointed on deputation basis from various cadres, the percentage of SC/ST officers on these posts need not be same as in their respective cadres,” Narayanasamy informed Lok Sabha in a written reply.

Action and Appointments

a) The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has cancelled of orders of appointment of 1978 batch Rajasthan cadre IAS Ram Lubhaya as secretary in National Commission for Scheduled Castes in the rank and pay of additional secretary. Instead, Ashok Thakur, a 1977 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre, presently special secretary, department of higher education has been appointed as secretary of National Commission for Scheduled Castes in the rank and pay of secretary.

b) KS Mehra, a 1978 batch UT cadre IAS, presently in the cadre, has been appointed as Member Secretary in NCR Planning Board, in the rank and pay of additional secretary in place of Noor Mohammed, a 1977 batch UP cadre IAS.

c) VP Baligar, a 1980 batch Karnataka cadre IAS, presently in the cadre, has been appointed as CMD, HUDCO, on deputation basis, for a period of 3 years.

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A statue to honour an IAS

IN an unprecedented move, Andhra Pradesh government has decided to honour an IAS officer SR Sankaran by installing his statue. The government approved a proposal to install the statue of Sankaran, who passed away last October. The statue will be installed on April 14, 2011, according to media reports. The government order issued on March 16 mentioned about his contribution to the society, and how he did not acquire any property except a single-room apartment for himself. 

After wooing women, Centre tries to attract minorities by offering government jobs

A DAY after announcing that the government would monitor recruitment of women in various ministries and departments, the Centre on Thursday reiterated its commitment of giving special consideration to minorities in recruitment in some select government departments. The Prime Minister’s New 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities provides for giving special consideration to minorities in recruitment of police personnel, Central police forces, railways, nationalized banks and public sector enterprises, for which the composition of selection committees needs to be representative. The new initiative is based on an office memorandum issued on January, 2007, by the Department of Personnel & Training (DOPT) which said that it should be mandatory to have one member belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe and one member belonging to minority community in selection boards or committees for making recruitment to 10 or more vacancies. It also called for wide publicity for all appointments in government, public sector enterprises and public sector banks and financial institutions. And, where there is concentration of minority community population in local areas, the vacancy circular in local language may be distributed in those areas by suitable arrangements. The guidelines issued by DoPT also include instructions for monitoring the progress in recruitment of minorities in all ministries or departments, public sector enterprises, public sector banks and financial institutions, a government release said. The number of persons belonging to the minority communities (for the five minority communities as a whole) recruited during the last three years in the various ministries/departments and their organisations are given below: 2006-07: 12,182 (70 Ministries/Departments/ organizations) 2007-08: 12,195 (61 Ministries/Departments/ organizations) 2008-09: 4,479 (32 Ministries/ Departments/ organizations)

Special recruitment drive for ST, SC, OBC A special recruitment drive has been launched in November, 2008 to fill up backlog vacancies of Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and other Backward Classes (OBC). According to government data based on information received up to July 3, 2009 from 11 ministries or departments, there were 207 backlog vacancies of SCs, 177 for STs, and 397 for OBC as on November 1, 2008. Action & Appointments Justice Rakesh Chandra Mishra, additional Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has been appointed as Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office.