39 IAS officers under DoPT scanner for alleged corruption
DoPT starts probe against at least 39 IAS officers for their alleged
involvement in corruption, 29 Central Secretariat Service officers also facing
disciplinary proceedings
New Delhi: As many as 39 IAS officers are under
investigation for their alleged involvement in corruption and other
irregularities.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT),
which acts as a nodal authority for Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
officers, is conducting the proceedings, official sources said on Tuesday.
Besides the 39 IAS officers, 29 from the Central
Secretariat Service are also facing disciplinary proceedings. Enquiries have
started against the 68 officers, some of them working at a senior level, on the
basis of complaints against them and also after reviewing their service
records, the sources claimed.
The central government is conducting a review of
its staff as part of the government’s efforts to further improve the service
delivery and governance system.
According to norms, a government employee’s
performance is reviewed twice during service — 15 years after qualifying for
the service and then after 25 years — to remove deadwood from the system.
In the last one year, the Centre has given
compulsory retirement to 129 non-performing employees, including IAS and IPS
officers. It has also undertaken an exercise to review the service records of
about 67,000 employees to identify non-performers. Nearly 25,000 of these are
from all India and Group A services — including the IAS, Indian Police Service
(IPS) and Indian Revenue Service (IRS).
There are about 48.85 lakh central government
employees, according to latest data.
First Published: Tue, Jun 27 2017. 03
13 PM IST
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