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New Delhi:The Uttarakhand High Court, in a move that could put the Modi government in a spot, has directed the latter to provide all records related to the empanelment of one of its officers who had claimed that despite having the requisite qualifications, he was denied promotion to the post of joint secretary, after failing the contentious 360-degree appraisal process...
This was a complete U-turn on the informal 360-degree evaluation process that the Centre started in 2016 for appraisal of officers from the All India Services and other central government Group A services for empanelling them to the post of joint secretary and above..
It is in the backdrop of the Centres flip-flop on the appraisal process that the HC order, directing the Centre to provide all records relating to the process and decision-making of the empanelment of Uttarakhand cadre Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Sanjeev Chaturvedi, assumes significance...
But despite the DoPTs affidavit denying the existence of the informal 360-degree evaluation process, on 6 February 2020, Dr Jitendra Singh, minister of state for PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha informed the House about the evaluation system.. system of 360-degree appraisal involving a multi-source feedback from various stakeholders including from seniors, peers and juniors, etc..
Three years before that, in August 2017, in a report titled Appraisal and Empanelment of Civil Servants under the central government, the DoPT had in a written submission informed a parliamentary panel about what necessitated a 360-degree review of the officers for empanelment purposes...
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