Kashmir News Bureau
In a negative development for administration the reliable sources have revealed that government of Jammu and Kashmir is contemplating on bringing about the amendment to Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service Rules.
The report in this regard has been prepared by the committee under the chairmanship of Principal Secretary Home department and placed before the Establishment Cum Selection committee scheduled to be held on 27th Feb 2018.
Pertinently, The committee has reportedly proposed to delink the Promotee Quota of Secretariat-I service from KAS cadre and proposed a fixed number of posts to be reserved for them at the levels of Deputy Secretary, Additional Secretary and above. The posts of Deputy Secretary and above are meant for the officers of KAS cadre after formal induction and thus all Direct Recruits, departmental feeding services and those entering the service through technical quota have a set procedure to man those posts. Creating a separate vertical for a single cadre, thereby ignoring the other stakeholders goes against the basic principles of natural Justice. The government in the garb of enhancing the promotion prospects of Non Gazetted cadre of Secretariat service is deliberately trying to denigrate the State Civil Services cadre and murdering the merit. Any such move would be demoralizing for the officers entering the elite services through a tough 3 Tier examination. At the time when state is synchronizing the state services with that of the trends at UPSC, there is a possibility that the Secretariat Non gazetted service could be synchronized with that of IAS thereby murdering the interlinking KAS cadre.
Experts state by this logic, an employee entering the secretariat Services at Junior assistant level is bound to rise to the level of Special Secretary. One of the members of the KAS while talking to the correspondent was of the opinion that a person would prefer to enter the secretariat at junior assistant level rather than a post as high as Special Secretary .
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