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By Imran Ali Teepu.


ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: The government has quietly issued a notification allowing outsiders to be directly inducted into grade-19 of the Office Management Group (OMG) with the approval of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

The three-page notification, said a senior federal government official, allocates quotas for different categories of services: “Ten per cent quota each has been allotted to officers from the armed forces, the provincial services and semi-government and autonomous institutions.”

Positions in grade-19 and above are most sought-after as this more or less guarantees a place in the high-profile `Secretariat Group`. The notification was issued by the CP-II Wing of the Establishment Division that deals mainly with forming new service groups for the civil service and for the induction of the officers into the service.

The officer claimed that the move was aimed at better service delivery, improving the federal governance system and inducting professional officials of the semi-government and autonomous institutions in the federal government.

But the officers waiting in the wings are not going to be happy with this move. There are already nearly 300 officers of the Office Management Group (OMG) who are awaiting promotion to grade-19 and they will directly be affected if these slots get filled up with direct inductions and absorptions from the other services.

A senior bureaucrat of the Establishment Division elaborated that out of 750 officers in the OMG, nearly 600 were in grade-18: “The promotion of almost 300 grade-18 officers to the next grade is due and their services will negatively be affected by this move.”

He added that the move would have no positive impact on governance or running of the federal government. “The government`s claim for direct induction in the secretariat for better service delivery and improved governance is wrong,” he said.

He said that the move was aimed at attracting better qualified people to the service group but he cast doubt at the decision as the people in the armed forces or private sector got better salaries and perks and hence would not opt for the civil service. “Why would anyone with better emoluments in an autonomous institution or semi-government department prefer to be inducted in grade-19 [deputy secretary] given that the benefits for the latter are less?” enquired the officer.

“Take for instance the armed forces personnel. In 2009, their salaries were doubled. Why would an officer receiving routine promotion and better monetary benefits join the civil service and have his salary halved? The case is no different for a manager-level officer of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) or Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL),” he asserted. Therefore, the critics allege that the government is going to use the move to favour certain people.

In fact, insiders claim that the notification was delayed by the bureaucrats for this reason. The summary was proposed by the Establishment Division a few weeks ago. “The summary trundled through the bureaucracy and got stuck at several levels: from a section officer to secretary Establishment Division and even at the level of Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister – everyone was aware that it would affect OMG officers,” remarked an office management group officer, who did not wish to disclose his name.

He adds that the current notification was kept a secret and held back within the confidential file mechanism of the Establishment Division. “This is because the government can be taken to the court over it,” he added.

OMG officers are traditionally inducted via four channels: direct induction through section 10, routine promotion in the federal government, promotional exams, and direct induction through the competitive exams.

Previously there was a bar on hiring OMG officers from 1999 to 2008. “Then president Pervez Musharraf was advised that officers from other departments should work on deputation in grade-17 and grade-18 on rotational bases; he was told that OMG officers would not serve any purpose,” said the senior bureaucrat of the Establishment Division.“But Musharraf`s idea was not effective. Officers were not willing to serve in the civil secretariat,” said the bureaucrat. “A grade-17 customs officer will never opt for one step above deputation in grade-18 for just five years and that too for serving in the civil secretariat.”

The bar was removed once the new government took over in 2008 and grade-17 officers were inducted after almost a decade.
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UNFORTUNATELY all sorts of mismanagement and illogical alterations of rules have turned the civil service into a lapdog. The service is on the verge of institutional and systematic collapse. This time a proposal is to reform the civil service to favour political appointees.

The scheme will allow inductions in senior grades, BPS-19 and BPS-20, from the provinces and other occupational groups, primarily to allow swift promotions to politically-backed officers of other services. The Balochistan chief minister had asserted that officers from Balochistan should be given quota in civil services under the Aghaz-i-Huqooq-i-Balochistan package to minimise the disappointment, sense of marginalisation and frustration among the people of the province.

Using the Balochistan request as a pretext, it has been decided to allow induction into the secretariat group against the posts of deputy secretaries and joint secretaries from all the provinces and other occupational groups as well. But the fact can hardly be exaggerated that there is no mention of induction into the secretariat group alone in the Aghaz-i-Huqooq-i-Balochistan package.

If this free package had been applied to Balochistan only, it would have been appreciated by all but the enhancement of this to other provinces is an objectionable matter which has no rationale and logic. The additional 10 per cent vacancies of deputy secretaries (BS-19) in the SG may be reserved for induction of regular BS-19 civil servants of all the four provincial governments, AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan and persons in BS-19/equivalent in the service of its attached departments, autonomous bodies/semi-autonomous bodies, corporations on the basis of merit, provincial/regional quota.

The additional 10 per cent vacancies of DS (BS-19) and JS (BPS-20) in the secretariat group may also be reserved for induction of BS-19 regular officers of all the federal occupational groups/cadres and the persons in BS-19/equivalent in the service of federal autonomous, semi-autonomous bodies, etc.

Now the civil service, which is already losing its credibility, is targeted. Officers of the OMG/SG feel threatened to know the fact that people from other groups are going to be there. Already there are appointments by transfer and quota for inductions from other groups in OMG/ SG.

When in a state of such utter confusion and uncertainty, how can efficiency be expected from officers? When the basic working unit of a division/ministry will not deliver, how can the system be deliverable and responsive? These officers should be given their full right to life, i.e., promotional right and in their group this should be specifically for them, like the other groups. The government should immediately revisit and take back its decision to avoid further collision of groups and services for ensuring bureaucratic service delivery in an efficient way. Or these reforms should be in all other occupational groups and services as a standard rule of equality.

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“GRANDFATHERS have ways of coming up with statements that seem less and less logical as you grow up. Questions like ‘where do babies come from?’ would get strange answers that proved really low on facts as time passed.

“Now that he is no more in this world I often find myself wishing for some conversation with him so that I can tell him ‘Look grandpa, you need to update your knowledge’.

Another statement by my late grandfather was ‘there are no shortcuts to success.’ Apparently there are, and many of them.”

This is what an angry young man, who happens to be an engineer in a government department, had to say to me the other day. Just to cool him down, I came up with a lot of ‘grandfatherly’ advice for him on the lines that success is not what meets the eye, that it entails much more, that getting to a certain position fast is not success and that true success really has no short cuts.

The young man was not in the mood to accept what I had to say, and retorted: “Let me tell you, sir, that when somebody is doing a laborious job in BPS 17 and getting peanuts and hopes to be promoted and then has to have a boss who has been directly appointed and who has not taken any exam, then these grandfatherly ideas of success are hard to digest.”

That was the end of the argument and it was game, set and match for the angry young man.

The young man’s somewhat heated argument did not irk me as I was privy to the development that caused the outburst — an official notification according to which all contract employees, including officers and daily wagers, who joined the National Highway Authority (NHA) before June 2011 were regularised without having to undergo any tests or interviews. A fly on the wall says that a conscientious, non-political figure in the loop, who was signing the notification, commented that “I am signing the death warrants of the NHA”. Given the political pressures as they exist, he could do little more than to make the comment.

I am not against giving people job security but merit is something that makes or breaks an organisation. If you want those people to benefit who have been serving in an organisation for years and have done well then a criterion for their recruitment can be fixed. They can be given an extra mark in their final recruitment score for each year they have served in the organisation, but just having them on-board without any competitive test or interview and without advertising the position they are meant to occupy is a bit too much.

Even this extra credit is unjustified because most of these employees get appointed in the first place due to some political link or relative associated with the bureaucracy.

Somebody who, sadly, is a common man should not suffer for his lack of connections or poor family background. But that is the way it is in Pakistan — the sudden rise of the prime minister’s daughter as the saviour of women in Pakistan is one example of how bizarre we can get.

Our ruling political parties have a way of maintaining their vote bank at the expense of merit. Many inductions were made in the Intelligence Bureau, PIA, the Sui Southern Gas Company and the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines in yesteryear without following any proper procedure of recruitment and a little later these appointments were regularised at the cost of those who took the long route to success.

Most of the political appointees never take any tests of an academic nature when they are recruited; however, they must have passed with flying colours the comprehensive tests to appease the political linchpins they used to get unlawful appointments.

It does not end here; our parties make sure that a wrong cannot be undone. A mild reminder of this fact is the sacked employees’ reinstatement law, approved by the president last year. It is rather generous in that it orders the reinstatement of thousands of employees (appointed during the PPP dispensation that governed from 1993 to 1996 and sacked by the next PML dispensation) of government and semi-government organisations who were laid off due to political influence in their appointments and perhaps to accommodate others of the new set-up’s choice. Dues running into billions of rupees had also to be paid, putting a financial burden on the organisations.

When KESC tries to lay off thousands of ghost workers who have been appointed for their political affiliations, to keep a vote bank intact every Tom, Dick and Harry (read:
leading political figures) jump in to earn some brownie points, disregarding the possible repercussions of their decisions on future foreign investments.

Lastly, I am contemplating applying for Australian immigration. Because I know, once I am a grandfather, I, too, would have to come up with stories like ‘there are no shortcuts to success’. If I stay here I am pretty sure I would be confronted by my grandson or granddaughter; so better pack my bags and leave. The only thing that keeps me from going ahead with the plan is how I would hate the writer’s description at the end of my article to read ‘The writer is a former Pakistani’.

The writer is a civil servant
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THIS refers to the letter `CSS reforms or a recipe for disaster` (Oct 30) by Summer Noor. OMG/Secretariat Group is an occupational group of the CSS, and an officer starts his/her career as a section officerin the federal secretariat, Islamabad.

A section officer is the backbone of policymaking as he initiates each policy through his first note. Sensitivity of this post demands that these people should be highly competent to steer the policy-making process at the national level.

But, unfortunately, induction into this group was stopped twice since its inception: first, from 8th to 16th commons and, then, from 28th to 36th commons. It is noteworthy that during that tenure these posts werecontinuously filled through lateral entry or through deputation or through section 10.

All the favourites were later inducted into the OMG and now enjoy seniority in our batch 37th CTP OMG, which is selected through CSS after 10 years.

Owing to this mala fide induction secretariat functioning is at the lowest ebb as far as quality is concerned. The prime minister has signed notification after notification to induct favourites from various regions and accommodate them permanently in the OMG.

On the one hand, they have to face discrimination from the DMG which has threat of competition from this group in grade 20 and, on the other hand, they have to suffer from theselateralentrants in clear violation of merit and rules.

OMG induction through CSS was banned by the all-powerful DMG as they hold post of secretary, establishment, and such other posts responsible for promotion and induction of civil servants.

Now these officers are suffering and feeling bad as they have come through a rigorous process of selection and training. But the people from the other side do not have such examinations or training.

Induction into 17 and 18 grades and now into 19 and 20 grades without the CSS will destroy the service structure of the OMG/Secretariat Group badly.

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THIS is apropos of the letters by Summer Noor and Raja Kashif on the topic of CSS structure which, according to them, is under threat. It shows that all is not well in the federal secretariat.

On the one hand, CSS officers of the OMG are threatened by induction of political favourites and, on the other hand, by the DMG.

There is no denying the fact that CSS examinations have been one of the fairest processes that still exist in our country but the alarming thing is that the government is trying to induct its favourites into the CSS occupational group in the name of public
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My question to the government is whether the public interest lies in inducting people on merit or inducting them on the basis of favouritism. My answer is that people selected on the basis of merit can ensure good governance and serve public interest in a better way.

Similarly, why is the DMG bent upon destroying the service structure of its counterpart group OMG/Secretariat Group, after having wreaked havoc on the provincial services? Is the interest of an elitist group of bureaucracy more important than good governance?

It is necessary for the federal government to mitigate frustration among young officers of OMG/Secretariat Group, who were selected through CSS examinations. Once these officers are satisfied, policymaking and governance will start improving with the influx of modern ideas from these young minds.

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THIS is in response to the news item (Nov 19) about the appointment of outsiders on deputation on lucrative posts. It is an example of misuse of deputation for personal gains and minting money. The Sindh High Court in its verdict in Lal Khan verus EOBI case had ordered the repatriation of deputationists to their parent departments.

This decision was later affirmed by the Supreme Court. But the truth is that deputationists are working in federal secretariat on key posts, starting from section officers to additional secretaries. The same is true for other departments, be it passport office, associated departments and autonomous bodies. The Federal Secretariat has become a grazing ground for influential deputationists from provinces and attached departments. This has led to blockade of promotion of regular secretariat officers, as well as to corruption.

The case of rental power plants and Haj corruption case manifest it clearly, where officers on deputation, in order to please their bosses, issued orders which were in clear violation of rules and resulted in these big scams.

The term deputation, which was introduced for having the services of competent officers, has degenerated into a menace. It is alarming that the large part of bureaucracy in federal secretariat is on deputation, a clear example of ad hocism. The government should avoid further deterioration of bureaucracy which is called the steel frame of a state.

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APPEARING in CSS examinations is all about a game of nerves. But it is quite injustice to prepare a schedule for conducting CSS examinations where the game of nerves criteria is only applied to candidates who have opted for subjects like political science, history, sociology and journalism.

They have to appear consecutively in these papers right from compulsory subjects to their optional ones by concluding their examinations just in a week.

I appeal to the authorities concerned to apply the same criterion/rule to the other optional subjects like regional languages, psychology, philosophy, geography and natural science subjects because the CSS is also a game of points whereby one can be allocated a better group by just a difference of one or two points.

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