Reaching the top job a tough call for civil servants now

The govt is tapping former bureaucrats for information about civil servants when they are empanelled

The Narendra Modi government is breaking with the past while appointing top bureaucrats at the Centre. Calling it a 360-degree appraisal, the government is tapping former bureaucrats to seek information about civil servants when they are empanelled for the post of secretary, additional secretary and even joint secretary, it is learnt.
 
In the usual process, empanelment committees, select secretaries and additional secretaries based on their confidential performance reports made every year. “While earlier, only internal records — stretching over decades — of an IAS were assessed before appointing him secretary or additional secretary, now there’s a lot more asking