PANAJI: Goa Public Service Commission chairman Jose Manuel Noronha has said that the body’s intervention has almost put an end to ad-hoc promotions in government service.
The commission, after holding several meetings with various departments and requesting them to refer proposals for regular promotions to the commission for processing, has seen that almost 90 officers received regular promotions during the past financial year.
In cases where it wasn’t possible to fill up posts on a regular basis, the commission informed the personnel department to direct departments to take steps to revert officers on ad-hoc promotions to their substantive posts.
When an official retired, departments would often resort to ad-hoc promotions instead of immediately sending a proposal to the government. “This move is in the interest of employees,” said Noronha. “With ad-hoc promotions, employees’ regular promotions would be delayed. What began with departments promoting employees on ad-hoc basis to fill in for an interim period not more than one year, turned into a routine. We found that officials were kept on ad-hoc basis for ten years. We have now done away with this ad-hoc era. Over the past three years, 1,500 employees who were on ad-hoc basis were regularised.”
Ad-hoc promotions were common in the PWD, WRD and electricity departments.
The personnel department had requested GPSC to permit ad-hoc promotions up to June 2018, stating that though there were clear vacancies, these could not be filled due to the lack of eligible officers with qualifying service or on account of non-availability of candidates belonging to reserved category, as well as because the department had already promoted officials on ad-hoc basis prior to the issuance of guidelines banning ad-hoc promotions.
But GPSC stated that a department-wise case be prepared for extension of ad-hoc promotions with a clearcut and defined timeframe for submissions of proposals for regular promotions. GPSC set the cut-off date at September 30, 2017, beyond which no more cases for ad-hoc extension would be considered.
The commission, after holding several meetings with various departments and requesting them to refer proposals for regular promotions to the commission for processing, has seen that almost 90 officers received regular promotions during the past financial year.
In cases where it wasn’t possible to fill up posts on a regular basis, the commission informed the personnel department to direct departments to take steps to revert officers on ad-hoc promotions to their substantive posts.
When an official retired, departments would often resort to ad-hoc promotions instead of immediately sending a proposal to the government. “This move is in the interest of employees,” said Noronha. “With ad-hoc promotions, employees’ regular promotions would be delayed. What began with departments promoting employees on ad-hoc basis to fill in for an interim period not more than one year, turned into a routine. We found that officials were kept on ad-hoc basis for ten years. We have now done away with this ad-hoc era. Over the past three years, 1,500 employees who were on ad-hoc basis were regularised.”
Ad-hoc promotions were common in the PWD, WRD and electricity departments.
The personnel department had requested GPSC to permit ad-hoc promotions up to June 2018, stating that though there were clear vacancies, these could not be filled due to the lack of eligible officers with qualifying service or on account of non-availability of candidates belonging to reserved category, as well as because the department had already promoted officials on ad-hoc basis prior to the issuance of guidelines banning ad-hoc promotions.
But GPSC stated that a department-wise case be prepared for extension of ad-hoc promotions with a clearcut and defined timeframe for submissions of proposals for regular promotions. GPSC set the cut-off date at September 30, 2017, beyond which no more cases for ad-hoc extension would be considered.
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