It is paramount for any Government worth the name, to give due impetus to the system of evaluating, appraising and reviewing the performance of IAS officers having completed 25 years in active service or having attained the age of 50 years. Since usually such officers have to take decisions, critical ones, risk oriented, sensitive and important by nature, to run the administration, it is imperative that this exercise was undertaken as a standing and non -negotiable principle of Human Resources Development to weed out the ‘Dead Wood’. In fact, this system is in vogue in most of the Public Sector Undertakings and even those in Private Sector where personnel of different ranks in officers cadre are working and where performance was the criteria supported by probity and integrity.
Having said so, it looks completely beyond comprehension as to why the State Government, especially the present one under the Governor’s rule, should appear to be indifferent to such a vital issue and that too after series of reminders from the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the latest one being that of April 18. Five reminders during the last 16 months, one after the other, from the DoPT having evoked no response give room for various speculations and motives behind the issue which need to be allayed at least by the Governor’s administration about which we generally hold the view that comparatively things ‘move’ but in the instant case, we would like to know why there is no response. Let the system of reviewing the performance as per set rules be strengthened rather smothered and throttled so that we come to know about the brilliant ones and more importantly, about the Dead Wood.
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