Taking strong notice of stagnation in promotion process of staff, Punjab Government on Wednesday ordered to speed up sending of promotion cases in the department of Rural Development and Panchayats.
The decision came after it was noticed that there was stagnation in promotion process of staff and delay on the party of administration to hold regular meetings of Departmental Promotion Committees to provide to provide timely promotions to eligible employees.The Minister in-charge Sikander Singh Maluka issued directions to the Financial Commissioner (Rural Development and Panchayats) to ensure that all cases regarding DPC are timely put up to the competent authority.
Maluka also took strong notice of the matter of the record of regional officers or officials not being put up in time for the promotion purposes. “Due to this, the affected officers approach the courts which results in unnecessary litigation,” he said.The Minister said that he has issued instructions regarding the compliance of certain points in order to ensure the sending of the record of eligible officers for promotion.
He said that a complete roster register should be prepared about the promotional cases of officers or officials serving in the department and these registers should be checked by the welfare department after their completion.Maluka also informed that seniority list of department’s officers should be prepared without any delay and the record of the officials asked for by the head office should be immediately sent.
The Minister said that the attested copy of appointment letters of those officials should also be sent, whose record has been sent for consideration of promotion and attested copies of the orders of promotion of the employees should also be sent if the employee has been given a promotion earlier.He also said that these instructions should be strictly complied with.