ISLAMABAD, July 24: The Central Selection Board (CSB) meeting for recommending promotions of officers to BPS 20 has been postponed and the board would now meet on August 8-9, Establishment Division sources said on Saturday.

The high-powered CSB was earlier scheduled to meet on July 25-26. Chairman Federal Public Service Commission chairs the meetings of the board.

Though no reason has so far been given for the postponement of the board meeting, sources say the homework of the division concerned for the meeting was not complete as yet in terms of individual career planning (ICP) charts, proper quantification and history cards of the officers to be considered for promotion.

The board would be considering cases of some 160 officers of BPS-19, belonging to different occupational groups, for promotions during its forthcoming meeting. The number of officers to be promoted to the next grade would depend on the available positions in BPS-20.

Besides, the regular agenda of recommending officers for promotion, the board would this time be having the special item of considering supersession and deferment policy in view of certain cases of superseded officers.

These officers are contending that they should be taken as deferred cases and not as superseded and that their seniority should be restored to them.

Some of the affected officers have claimed that they were not considered for promotion because of missing ACRs, which constituted deferment and not supersession.

Certain cases in this regard were challenged in the courts. It was primarily because of this litigation that the Establishment Division is yet to notify the batch of officers recommended for promotion during the last board meeting for promotions to BPS-20.

There is a general thinking among the government officers that the Establishment Division should take bold and imaginative decisions and rectify the wrongs of the past.