Centre Sets Aside Decision On Ias Officers Promotion

The Centre has set aside the Orissa governments decision to promote an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of 1965 batch in the grade of Rs 8,000 superseding four others.

The department of personnel and training in the Union government, in an order communicated to state chief secretary R K Bhujabal, said that it had found the action of the state government in appointing S B Mishra to a post in the state cadre carrying a pay of Rs 8,000 per month without any sanction, both substantive and procedural, under the rules.

Setting aside the decision of the state government and allowing a set of appeals by the four superseded officers - P Mukhopadhyay, P Sarkar, S Ghosh and B C Patnaik, - all of them of 1964 batch, the order said it had been found that it would not be proper to relax the relevant rule and allow the Orissa government to create the additional ex-cadre post in the grade of Rs 8,000 for Mishra, who is currently holding the post of additional chief secretary.

 

The supersession of the four officers in November last had sparked a near revolt among IAS officers with the Orissa IAS Officers Association stating that the decision struck at the very roots of the structure of the Indian Administrative Service.