In an unprecedented situation, hundreds of Central government officials protested at the North Block office of Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh on Friday. The middle to senior management rank officials in various Union government ministries who comprise the Central Secretariat Service (CSS) have not been promoted in the past six years. On Friday around thousand officials assembled at the Union Minister’s office.
The Hindu had reported on January 26 that the government employees had petitioned the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on several occasions to issue promotion orders even as many official have retired in the intervening six years, losing out on enhanced salary and pension benefits.
According to the CSS Forum, an association of government officers, there are 6,210 officers in the rank of section officer, under secretary, deputy secretary, director and joint secretaries in the Central government offices. Of this total strength, as many as 1,839 positions are vacant.
