NEW DELHI: The humble clerk, who constitutes the backbone of lower bureaucracy, is set be redesignated as secretariat assistant, if a proposal of the department of personnel and training (DoPT) goes through.
As per the new nomenclature proposed by DoPT for central secretariat clerical service (CSCS) and central secretariat service (CSS), the posts of lower division clerk and upper division clerk in the central government's employee hierarchy may soon be renamed as 'junior secretariat assistant' and 'senior secretariat assistant' respectively.
It is further proposed to rename the post of Assistant in CSS as assistant section officer.
All concerned have been asked to send in their inputs or suggestions on the DoPT proposal by September 18, as per the DoPT note circulated on Monday.
The total sanctioned strength of CSS and CSCS is 11,467 and 5,933 respectively.
Earlier in March, the DoPT had decided to replace the 'class' categorisation for specifying the seniority of its employees with new alphabetical groupings.
The posts under the central government will be denoted as groups A, B, C and D instead of classes I, II, III and IV in the service rules, it had said.
The Class-I classification is for gazetted officers while Class-II refers to mainly the non-gazetted officers. Class-III comprises clerical staff and Class-IV (which is now subsumed in Class III or Group C) includes peons and helps or multi-tasking staff in the government hierarchy.
The Class-III (Group C) employees have often complained that they are referred to as 'third-class' employees due to the categorisation.
As per the new nomenclature proposed by DoPT for central secretariat clerical service (CSCS) and central secretariat service (CSS), the posts of lower division clerk and upper division clerk in the central government's employee hierarchy may soon be renamed as 'junior secretariat assistant' and 'senior secretariat assistant' respectively.
It is further proposed to rename the post of Assistant in CSS as assistant section officer.
All concerned have been asked to send in their inputs or suggestions on the DoPT proposal by September 18, as per the DoPT note circulated on Monday.
The total sanctioned strength of CSS and CSCS is 11,467 and 5,933 respectively.
Earlier in March, the DoPT had decided to replace the 'class' categorisation for specifying the seniority of its employees with new alphabetical groupings.
The posts under the central government will be denoted as groups A, B, C and D instead of classes I, II, III and IV in the service rules, it had said.
The Class-I classification is for gazetted officers while Class-II refers to mainly the non-gazetted officers. Class-III comprises clerical staff and Class-IV (which is now subsumed in Class III or Group C) includes peons and helps or multi-tasking staff in the government hierarchy.
The Class-III (Group C) employees have often complained that they are referred to as 'third-class' employees due to the categorisation.
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