Odisha Lauds New AIS Rules Bhubaneswar : 31/ January/2014 Chief Secretary J K Mohapatra said that once the amended Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Inidan Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS) (Cadre) Rules, 1954, comes into force, Odisha Government will form the Civil Service Board. Reacting to the latest changes in AIS Rules, Mr.Mohapatra said the State Government will implement the amended AIS Rules as soon as notified in the Gazette. IAS Association of Odisha Secretary Madhu Sudan Padhi has appreciated the new amended rules saying this will help the system to an great extent. Sanjeev Chadha, Secretary of IFS Association of Odisha has also welcomed the amended rules made by Union Government in Department of Personnel & Training. According to the amended rules, an IAS officer can be transferred before the minimum specified period only on the recommendation of the Civil Service Board comprising senior bureaucrats like Chief Secretary as its Chairman, and the senior most Additional Chief Secretary or Member of Board of Revenue.The Special Secretary in the Department of General Administration (DoGA) will be its Member Secretary for the CSB. For the IPS officers CSB will be headed by Chief Secretary, DGP, Member Board of Revenue, Special Secretary DoGA and Principal Secretary Home. Similarly for IFS Officers CSB will be formed with Chief Secretary as Chairman, and ACS, Special Secretary DoGA, PCCF, Principal Secretary Forest & Environment as Members. These changes in IAS, IPS and IFS Rules, this will make premature transfer of bureaucrats and top cops a highly difficult proposition. This will be giving little choice for the Political Bosses to indiscriminately use transfer as a political tool against the officers. These amended rules notified on 28 January, made it clear that an officer in a cadre post would hold the office for at least two years unless in the meantime he or she has been promoted, retired or sent on deputation outside the state or training exceeding two months. And all the State Governments have to constitute this Board, according to amended rules. That means, political leadership of a state will find it extremely difficult to resort to random transfers of bureaucrats unless it convinces the civil services board itself. And if the CSB recommends to the Competent Authority the names of officers to be transferred before the completion of minimum tenure, it has to record reasons in writing. In other words, the CSB is held accountable if it resorts to malpractices in premature transfer of officers. That’s not all. The CSB under the new rules, will have to submit a quarterly report to the Central government “clearly stating the details of officers recommended to be transferred before the minimum specified tenure”.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:10:08 +0000
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