Legal challenge to 360-degree appraisal of IAS officers fizzles out

Officer who challenged it in court again found unfit to serve at Centre, but made Himachal Pradesh chief secretary

The first and only legal challenge so far, to the 360-degree review process that the Prime Minister instituted to appraise IAS officers for top positions at the Centre, has fizzled out. 

In response to an order of Central Administrative Tribunal’s orders to review its decision, the Union government has stuck to its review process, show documents. Using it, the union government has yet again found the senior IAS officer who challenged his negative appraisal, Vineet Chawdhry, unfit to serve as a secretary at the Centre. 

Chawdhry, who the Union government repeatedly found unfit for the top position at the Centre,