No major progress on updation of Recruitment Rules
Slackness becomes impediment in human resource mgmt
Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, May 10: Several Government departments have failed to meet the deadline fixed by none else than the Chief Secretary for conduct of all pending Departmental Promotion Committee meetings and completion of pending Regular Departmental Actions/Inquiries. Moreover, there is no major progress on updation of Recruitment Rules, which otherwise is an imperative exercise to meet the existing functional requirement of each department.
Official sources told EXCELSIOR that ever since BVR Subrahmanyam took over as Chief Secretary of the State human resource management and development remained his priority and in numerous meetings of the Committee of Secretaries he called for comprehensive measures to bring up a highly motivated workforce in the State Government departments to attain the desired level of service delivery.
In such meetings, the Chief Secretary, a number of times, made it clear that Government’s strategy on human resource development involves career progression, capacity building and promoting professionalism which in turn would ensure better results from the employees to ensure speedy movement forward on the Governor Administration’s Delivering Good Governance mission, sources further said, adding he even identified holding of Departmental Promotion Committee meetings, updation of Recruitment Rules and completion of Regular Departmental Actions for immediate attention in all the Government departments.
In order to translate his vision about human resource management into reality, the Chief Secretary even established a cell in the General Administration Department and got detailed department-wise exercise conducted by deputing Additional Secretary rank officer. Accordingly, all the departments were given action points on almost all the vital aspects to move towards achieving the goal of better human resource management, sources informed.
On April 2, 2019, the Monitoring and Personnel Management Wing of the General Administration Department dashed a communication to all the departments conveying that Chief Secretary has desired all the Administrative Secretaries to conduct all pending Departmental Promotion Committee meetings and complete all pending Regular Departmental Actions/ Inquiries by April 30, 2019.
Even reference was also made to the directions passed by the Chief Secretary during the course of Committee of Secretaries meeting held on April 1, 2019. “Action taken report in this regard may be shared for the perusal of the Chief Secretary”, Additional Secretary in the General Administration Department had mentioned in the communication of April 2, 2019.
“However, several departments have failed to meet this deadline and only few have made noticeable progress on the directions of the Chief Secretary”, sources said, adding “while there is some progress on holding of Departmental Promotion Committee meetings albeit not up to the satisfaction, there is absolutely no noteworthy development as far as completion of pending Regular Departmental Actions/ Inquiries is concerned”.
While refusing to divulge the names of the departments which have failed to act on the directions of the Chief Secretary, sources said, “the non-performing departments have attributed inaction to litigations, which otherwise is not plausible ground as it is purely their responsibility to effectively fight cases in the court of law”.
It is pertinent to mention here that large number of Regular Departmental Actions and Inquiries are pending for disposal even after the intervention from the High Court, which while dealing with a Public Interest Litigation, had passed numerous directions from time to time asking the Government to ensure monitoring of disposal at the highest level to achieve the desirable results.
“Moreover, there is no major progress on updation of Recruitment Rules, which otherwise is an imperative exercise to meet the present day requirement of the departments”, sources further said, adding “there are still many departments which don’t have Recruitment Rules while as Recruitment Rules of other departments have outlived their utility for being framed several decades back”.
“There was no room for slackness especially when necessary cooperation and support was being extended by the Human Resource Management cell of the General Administration Department”, sources said, adding “by adopting non-serious approach the departments are creating obstacles in making substantial progress on the Chief Secretary’s vision”.
“There is also pressing need for restructuring and reorganization of some departments and doing away with such posts in the departments which have become redundant over a period of time and have outlived their utility”, sources said, adding “all this is possible only when departments start acting seriously on the directives of the Chief Secretary”.
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