MINISTER OF STATE OF DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND TRAINING AND
DEPARTMENT OF PENSION AND PENSIONERS` WELFARE IN THE MINISTRY OF
PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS (SMT. VASUNDHARA RAJE)
(a): Some of the CSS officers presently working as Deputy
Secretaries on personal upgradation basis have been in the same
Ministries/Departments for about 15 years. Information on the
assignment of work to these officers in the Ministries/
Departments in which they have been working, is not centrally
maintained in the Department of Personnel & Training.
(b) & (c): The Government has evolved a transfer policy for CSS
officers and the tenure prescribed in that policy at different
levels is as below:
Under Secretary : 7 years Deputy Secretary : 7 years Director : 5 years Joint Secretary : 5 years
(d): As per the policy, the transfer of officers becoming due in
terms of the policy, was to be made in a phased manner at the
commencement of the policy, to avoid administrative inconvenience
in different Ministries/Departments. Accordingly, the lists of
officers due for transfer at various levels, have been prepared,
and the recommendations of the Civil Services Board on the
transfer of officers at the level of Joint Secretary and Director
have since been taken.
(e), (f) & (g): There is no precise and adopted definition for
distinguishing the economic and non-economic Ministries.
However, information based on the common perception of the
regulatory nature of work and the economic/developmental nature
of work performed in the various Ministries/Departments has been
kept in view by the Civil Services Board, to the extent possible,
while recommending transfers.
