The Centre has asked all departments to compulsorily feed all data in an electronic system for processing appointments done by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC).
The ACC Vacancy Monitoring System (AVMS) is designed to facilitate monitoring of all appointments in Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs), autonomous organisations, statutory and regulatory bodies as well as to various posts in the Ministries and departments.The AVMS can provide complete detail of all posts in a ministry which require ACC’s approval for appointment, the incumbency and the vacant position of such posts and status regarding filling up of these vacancies.
“Proper implementation of AVMS, however, makes it incumbent on the part of the Ministries or departments to fill the necessary data-fields in the system on a real-time basis. It is noticed that in spite of the follow-up by the Establishment Officers’ Division, the requisite data is not being updated or uploaded on regular basis by the user Ministries or departments,” said an office memorandum issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
“All the Ministries or departments may, therefore, ensure that uploading of the requisite data in the AVMS is completed. A compliance report, certified by an officer not below the level of a Joint Secretary, be submitted to this office within the next 15 days,” said the order issued to all secretaries in central government departments on Friday.
The ACC is headed by the Prime Minister and has the Home Minister as its member. The DoPT has already written to all Central Government departments that no proposal will be considered by ACC unless it is routed through the AVMS. AVMS was implemented in June 2012 as part of the ACC Proposal Monitoring System (APMS) to ensure proper monitoring and updating of information regarding Government vacancies.