KARACHI: PCS officers complain of anomalies in promotion
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Aug 6: Ex-PCS officers have complained of irregularities in their promotion quota and claimed the last provincial selection board-11 deprived them of promotion from BS-17 to BS-18 by allocating 26 field posts to the secretariat officers.
In an appeal to the competent authority to review the decisions of the board, they claimed the ratio adopted by the selection board on Sept 19, 2002, was discriminatory because the posts against which promotions had been made belonged to the ex-PCS officers and as such the secretariat officers could not be promoted against these vacancies.
About 163 PCS officials have been affected by the devolution plan due to elimination of the posts of sub-divisional magistrate and deputy commissioner. On the recommendation of the National Bureau of Reconstruction, 14 field posts were created for the ex-PCS officials for promotion to grade 18 but only one was promoted, while 13 posts were filled by secretariat officers.
Besides, they pointed out, while the devolution plan had effected drastic changes in the district administration, it did not negate the service structure, promotion rules or posting of the administrative officers in the field belonging to the DMG/ex-PCS cadre.
“The sharing formula for the vacant seats in BS-18, on the basis of which promotions have been made by the board was clearly in violation of the rules and contrary to the spirit of the previous sharing formula applied by the board in its April 2001 meeting for promotions,” they said.
According to the sharing formula adopted in 2001, out of 71 secretariat posts in BS-18, 40 per cent share (28 seats) went to DMG, 45 per cent of remaining 60 per cent, (19 seats) went to ex-PCS and 55 per cent of the remaining six per cent (24 seats) went to PSS, while out of 53 field posts, 40 per cent share (21 seats) went to DMG, while 60 per cent share (32 seats) went to ex-PCS.
However, the board-II, which met on Sept 12, 2002, to review promotion quota of district officers, adopted a 50-50 formula.
After the devolution plan, the seats for the ex-PCS cadre had been increased. But the formula adopted by the board has decreased the number of seats for the ex-PCS cadre.
They said before the devolution plan, out of 75 seats the PCS share was 51, while 24 seats were reserved the PSS. But after the devolution plan, out of 89 seats, PCS share was 52.41 while PSS share was 36.39 which showed that only one seat had increase for ex-PCS and 12 seats for the PSS.
Pointing out that only a few of the PSS officers in BS-18/19, who had been appointed on the posts of District Officer Finance, Planning or CDD (Community Development Department), were posted in the interior of Sindh which indicated their unwillingness to join the field posts.
They said the post of TMO is purely a field post. But a share of 50 per cent was allowed to the PSS officers which is contrary to all norms. A total of three posts have been allocated to PSS officers.
Out of the 18 posts of TMOs created for Karachi, 10 were reserved for ex-PCS/DMG and eight for Sindh Council Unified Grade (SCUG) officers, while there was none for the PSS but it has been learnt that the PSS officers were promoted unlawfully against three posts of the TMOs which were actually reserved for field officers (PCS officers).
This promotion was objectionable as since the inception of the present local body system only the officers of DMG/PCS/SCUG were being posted as TMOs, they claimed.
