The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has asked all departments of central government to collect the data on inadequacy of representation of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes before implementing the policy of reservation in promotion in government offices.
The move is likely to benefit Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officials who have not been promoted for the past six years. The CSS comprises middle to senior management rank officials in various Union government ministries, and in an unprecedented turn of events in February, around 1,500 officials had assembled at Personnel Minister Jitendra Singh’s office to mark their protest.
On April 12, DoPT sent a memorandum to all Union government offices where it laid down the procedure to be followed prior to effecting reservations in the matter of promotions.
