‘Delhi has more senior officers than sanctioned’
The Union home ministry has refuted the Delhi government’s claims that Centre has not provided it adequate officers, saying 86 officers have been deputed to the city administration against the sanctio
The Union home ministry has refuted the Delhi government’s claims that Centre has not provided it adequate officers, saying 86 officers have been deputed to the city administration against the sanctioned strength of 83.
Out of the 309 sanctioned strength of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Service (Danics) officers for the Delhi government, 83 are in senior level and 226 are in junior level. Against the sanctioned strength of 83 Danics officers in senior level, the Delhi government has been given 86 officers while out of 226 junior level posts of Danics officers in Delhi, currently 82 officers are serving, resulting in 144 vacancies.
Ministry official said these vacancies are due to non-recruitment of sufficient number of officers through civil services examination between 2001-2010 and non-induction of officers from feeder cadre to Danics. At present, 44 officers recruited through UPSC are undergoing training and they will be available for posting after completing training.
“We are forced to issue the clarification as there has been a campaign, which is completely incorrect, against the Home Ministry,” the official added. The home ministry is the cadre controlling authority of Danics, DANIPS, IAS and IPS officers belonging to AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories) cadre.
Meanwhile, the home ministry has also asked the Delhi government to withdraw its order suspending Rajender Kumar, principal secretary to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying it has no power to do it. The Ministry, however, made it clear that its own order suspending the 1989 batch IAS officer will continue.
Rajender Kumar was arrested by the CBI on July 4 in an alleged corruption case and subsequently the Home Ministry has issued a deemed suspension order as he was in police custody for more than 48 hours.
Ministry officials said there is no enabling provision under the Service Law Jurisprudence for existence of two suspension orders for one and the same cause of action.