After the 7th Central Pay Commission failed to
address the grievances of non-IAS officers, the Confederation of Civil Services
Association (CoCSA) representing 20 services, including IPS, IFoS, IRS, IIS,
and IRAS, has demanded total civil services reforms in an “unbiased manner”.
Representatives of the association met Minister of State in the PMO and
Personnel Jitendra Singh and discussed that reform initiatives could not be
decided by those who are beneficiaries of the status quo. They further argued
that reforms called for a deviation from the status quo, but there is
tremendous resistance against change from a “particular” civil service. The
delegation which met the minister included the convener of CoCSA Jayant Misra,
IRS-IT, PV Rama Sastry, IPS, Dr Anup K Srivastava, IRS (Customs and Central
Excise), Alok Kumar, IRSE, Namita Mehrotra, Indian Railway Accounts Service,
Jaykant Singh, Indian Trade Service, BP Yadav, Indian Audit and Accounts
Service, Shailendra Singh, Indian Forest Service, Anindya Sen Gupta, Indian
Information Service, Ajay Shankar Singh, Indian Civil Accounts Service, Kashi
Nath Jha, Indian Post and Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service and
Sandeep Shankar, Indian Defence Accounts Service. The CoCSA wanted Narendra
Modi’s intervention, pointing out that the procedure followed so far has helped
only a particular service and discriminated against all others, thereby
resulting in monopolising of posts at higher level by IAS officers. The
delegation demanded a “disruptive change” of the procedure adopted so far and a
new system where competent and suitable persons, irrespective of the service
they belonged, are selected for appropriate posts.
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