Mukhopadhyay, Ashok
Stability of tenure and a scheme for civil service board - 1997 - p.11-18 - Oct-Dec
In recent times the issue of transfer and posting of civil servants has assumed a serious dimension as a problem in India's public administration. The experience of public officials, including senior officers of public corporations and autonomous enterprises, at the Central and State government levels is more or less similar. The cases of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar pose special problems, although in many other States as well as the Central Government the same kind of experience has been noted. With every change of guard at the political level, hundreds of officials, from departmental secretaries and director-general/inspector-generals of police to district magistrates, superintendents of police and block development officers are transferred on party political considerations and personal reasons of politicians. The whole process looks like `the spoils system' which the United States had abandoned as far back as 1881. In the wake of India adopting a programme of modernisation and economic liberalisation, it has become absolutely necessary to gear up the government machinery in order to provide a clean, responsive and transparent administration to the people. Assuring stability of tenure to all varieties of public officials is a part of this programme of modernising a social welfare democratic state in India. `Transfer' from one job to another in course of the service career is a normal experience for a civil servant. `Transfer' may be defined as a change of assignment from one employing agency within a given governmental jurisdiction to another in the same jurisdiction, not necessarily involving any change of pay, duties or responsibilities. - Reproduced
Civil service
Stability of tenure and a scheme for civil service board - 1997 - p.11-18 - Oct-Dec
In recent times the issue of transfer and posting of civil servants has assumed a serious dimension as a problem in India's public administration. The experience of public officials, including senior officers of public corporations and autonomous enterprises, at the Central and State government levels is more or less similar. The cases of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar pose special problems, although in many other States as well as the Central Government the same kind of experience has been noted. With every change of guard at the political level, hundreds of officials, from departmental secretaries and director-general/inspector-generals of police to district magistrates, superintendents of police and block development officers are transferred on party political considerations and personal reasons of politicians. The whole process looks like `the spoils system' which the United States had abandoned as far back as 1881. In the wake of India adopting a programme of modernisation and economic liberalisation, it has become absolutely necessary to gear up the government machinery in order to provide a clean, responsive and transparent administration to the people. Assuring stability of tenure to all varieties of public officials is a part of this programme of modernising a social welfare democratic state in India. `Transfer' from one job to another in course of the service career is a normal experience for a civil servant. `Transfer' may be defined as a change of assignment from one employing agency within a given governmental jurisdiction to another in the same jurisdiction, not necessarily involving any change of pay, duties or responsibilities. - Reproduced
Civil service