Disparity upsets govt officers

Complaints are growing that the officers in all but one cadre service were once again discriminated during promotions given on November 27.
Officers in 26 cadres said that 25 per cent promotion quota reserved for them were slashed to 21 per cent while their colleagues were promoted as deputy secretaries.
The quota slashing, flouting a High Court directive, resulted in fewer officers in 26 cadres including taxation, information, economic, audit and cooperatives getting promoted as deputy secretaries, they said. 
But the promotion quota for the administrative quota was enhanced to 79 per cent from 75 per cent resulting in more of their colleagues getting promotions as deputy secretaries.
Aggrieved officers in 26 cadres said inter-cadre disparities widened further after the government gave the latest promotions.
No discriminations were done to any cadre service, immediate past Public Administration Ministry senior secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury told New Age.
Promotion quotas set for the cadre services were largely maintained, said Kamal, who left the PA Ministry on Thursday to join his new assignment as the Prime Minister’s principal secretary. 
He said, replying to a question, only the eligible got their promotions. 
BCS Samannay Committee spokesman SM Golam Kibria said that the quota for the 26 cadres was slashed by almost four per cent during the recent promotions flouting a Supreme Court verdict delivered in 2010 that requires setting aside 25 per cent promotion quota for them for promotion as deputy secretaries.
Kibria said, only 48 out of 220 newly promoted deputy secretaries were from the 26 cadres. 
This, he said, further widened inter-cadre disparities causing frustration among the officers in the discriminated cadres. 
The BCS Samannay Committee represents the 26 cadre service groups. 
The situation in the upper echelons of the bureaucracy is more disappointing, a taxation cadre officer said, adding pointing to the fact that no joint secretary from the 26 cadres belonging to 1986 batch got promotions as additional secretaries though 85 of their colleagues from the same batch did. 
The point is highlighted by the fact that only seven out of 74 officers holding the rank of secretary are from the 26 cadres, he said. 
A senior official who wanted not to be named said the deprived officers, scared of reprisals, would not even complain. ‘They think any complaint or protest may withhold their promotions in future also,’ he said.
On November 27, show PA ministry records, 145 joint secretaries were promoted as additional secretaries, 186 deputy secretaries as joint secretaries and 220 senior assistant secretaries were elevated as deputy secretaries.

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