The Centre is in favour of timely promotions in services and it is constantly working to overcome delay in providing various benefits to employees, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said here today.
During a meeting with a delegation of Central Secretariat Stenographers' Service (CSSS) Association of Private Secretaries, he said the Modi government is committed to provide maximum governance with minimum government and has adopted several radical measures to simplify governance and provide a comfortable as well as work-friendly environment for officials.
"Government is in favour of timely promotions in services and the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) is constantly working on ways and means to overcome delay in providing various benefits to employees," said Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
It is in the same spirit that officials of different services are also intended to be made comfortable and ensured a sense of esteem through timely promotions and befitting status in their service career, he said.
The delegation, led by Sushil Sachdeva, handed over a memorandum to the Minister and said that after having put in as many as 20 to 30 years of service, the only expectation is that they would get some reward by way of timely elevation, but when this is denied, they lose the initiative to work and feel demoralised.
They also complained that their agony becomes more acute when they see that their counterparts in parallel services get promoted faster and some of them become senior to them. This also affects pensionary benefits that they are entitled to receive at the time of superannuation, a press release issued by the Personnel Ministry said.
The Minister gave them a patient hearing and said that various demands and grievances put up by the association will be placed for consideration at appropriate level.
