PCS officers declare promotions ‘eyewash’
By Our Staff Reporter
Wed 14, July, 2009
LAHORE, July 14: A number of PCS officers on Tuesday took exception to the method of considering their promotion cases by the provincial selection board which met on Monday, declaring the exercise merely an ‘eye wash’.
Talking to Dawn, they alleged that the board meeting was held merely to show that the PCS officers were not being declined promotions. But, in fact, this was done by declining promotions to PCS officers against 48 available posts.
They claimed that the board did not recommend promotions against 20 seats in BS-19, 24 in BS-20 and four in BS-21. The top bosses had themselves pointed out the vacancies, but they did not recommend promotions of PCS officers against them citing lack of mandatory training and minimum service experience in the existing grade as reason, they said.
They said the DMG officers had been denying them promotions in the name of various seat-sharing formulas. They finally got approved a formula in 1993 from the Moeen Qureshi interim government which they did not implement. “We reject this formula, but its authors too are not ready to implement it,” they alleged.
They said many PCS officers had been denied promotions for not having under gone the training made man datory in the 2004 PMS Rules. The training was mandatory but the government never arranged for it despite repeated requests by the PCS officers, they added.
As to how the PCS officers could be punished for a ‘crime’ (lack of training) which was committed by the government itself, they asked.
They said the few lucky officers who were sent for the training found it absurd because there was hardly any training session, and the instructions they received were merely related to sending emails and writing letters.
There was also no element of educating officials on how to handle work in the next higher grade, they claimed.
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