New Delhi: To tone up the bureaucratic apparatus and weed out
officials of doubtful integrity and efficiency, the government has asked all
its departments to identify such central government employees and move
proposals for their premature retirement.
The move by the Department of
Personnel and Training follows a meeting chaired by Cabinet Secretary Pradeep
Kumar Sinha recently on mechanisms to be adopted to ensure probity among
government servants.
The
departments have been asked to invoke provisions of Fundamental Rule 56(J) to
compulsorily retire such officials.
Under FR
56(J), the government has the “absolute right” to retire, if necessary in
public interest, any Group A and B employee, who has joined service before the
age of 35 and has crossed the age of 50.
Under the
rules, a C Group government servant, who has crossed the age of 55 can be
retired prematurely but action can be taken only if the official is suspected
to be corrupt or ineffective.
Group A
comprise officers of All India Services like IAS, IPS, Indian Forest Service,
IRS, while Group B consists of gazetted & non-gazetted officers and Group C
clerical and ministerial staff.
However,
action can be taken only against such officers whose annual increment have
stood frozen for a few years and have not got promotion in preceding five
years.
The
meeting emphasised rotation of officers on sensitive and non-sensitive posts
and their review and screening under FR 56(J).
The DoPT
has been asked to monitor implementation and obtain compliance from all
ministries in this regard.
“As this
activity is to be completed in a time bound manner, it is requested that
priority attention may be paid to it and inputs sent to the internal vigilance
section at the very earliest,” the notice, sent to all ministries, said.
The
Cabinet Secretariat has been issuing such orders from time to time. In February
2012, the UPA government notified a rule making it compulsory for IAS, IPS and
officers from other all-India services to retire in “public interest” if they
fail to clear a review after 15 years of service.
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