Chief Minister Raman Singh has expressed his consent to the suggestion for a month-long time-bound campaign to fill up vacant gazetted posts through promotion in all the departments of the State Government, said in an official statement issued here on Tuesday.
He said that it was definitely a very good suggestion and in the interest of the Government employees. It was the intention of the State Government that no officer or employee having eligibility for promotion should be deprived of their rights. All such pending promotion cases would be solved in a time-bound manner, Raman added.
While discussing with a joint delegation of State Employees Union and State Autonomous bodies Employees Union, CM said that instructions would soon be issued to all the Government departments to run a month-long special campaign for departmental promotions.
He said that the suggestion to keep such gazetted posts out of the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission and to fill them at the level of the department concerned through departmental promotion committee would be get examined seriously.The delegation led by State president Mahendra Jain and State general secretary Veerendra Namdeo of Madhya Pradesh State Employees Union submitted separate memoranda listing various issues related to employees’ interest to the chief minister and urged him immediate action on the issues.
In another memorandum, the delegation urged the chief minister to release orders, as per the decision taken at the meeting of the cabinet held on February 14 last, to remove the 10 per cent compulsion on the compassionate appointment in class III posts. The Chief Minister said that instructions would be issued to the general administration department in this regard soon. The delegation also invited the CM to grace the State convention of the Chhattisgarh State Employees Union to be held on June 23 as the chief guest.