Conduct review DPC meeting in case of PCS officer seeking promotion, UPSC told
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 2
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Chandigarh Bench, On Monday directed the UPSC to conduct a review departmental promotion committee (DPC) meeting to reconsider an order of the Punjab Government in the case of a Punjab Civil Service (PCS) officer.
The matter will now come up for hearing on April 20. The result of the DPC is subject to the final outcome of the application moved before the tribunal, stated the order.
Also, after the request for adjournment was made in this matter on Monday, the tribunal directed two respondents who failed to file their reply to pay Rs 5,000 to the CAT Bar Association, Chandigarh.
A Punjab Civil Services (PCS) officer, Madhvi Kataria, had moved CAT in January, demanding promotion to the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) cadre. The applicant is working as a special secretary with PWD (B and R), Punjab Secretariat, Chandigarh. CAT has also directed two of the respondents, including Devinder Singh, ADC, Nawanshahr, and Amrit Kaur Gill, Additional Principal Secretary to the Punjab Chief Minister, to file their replies to the original application.
Kataria had earlier filed for a direction to convene a review selection committee meeting in view of the upgrade of her ACRs pertaining to the years 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 from ‘good’ to ‘very good’ and from ‘very good’ to ‘outstanding’. The same is considered by the UPSC for promotion to the IAS for 2015 and 2016, having direct impact on her claim and to grant her promotion in the IAS cadre. Her juniors have also been considered and promoted with “consequential benefits”, the application claimed.
It added that once the state government had forwarded her case for convening of the review SMC as per a letter on December 6, 2017, along with a detailed order being passed in this regard on December 14, the UPSC was duty-bound to consider her promotion.
