Irregularities affecting different cadre services
AHM Mahmodul Hoque | Wednesday, 9 July 2008
A storm has been raised in the tea cup about the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and its policy. The authorities are indifferent to discriminatory treatment between the BCS cadre groups.
Cadre corruption and inter-cadre irregularities have been increasing unchecked.
Even the Pay Commission has been discriminating between the officers of different cadre services. A comparison between the salaries of a health cadre doctor and those of a administrative cadre official would make it clear to all.
Early and quick promotions in BCS administration cadre and late establishment of other cadres make the difference; no matter, the beginning of jobs shows a similar session schedule.
The imbalance in the administration is created with nearly 80 per cent posts of deputy secretaries, filled with people chosen from a single cadre, that is BCS (administration) and the remaining 20 per cent from the other cadres.
Certainly, it is an extreme discrimination. The posts of deputy secretaries should be filled through a common examination, which should be open to the personnel of all the cadre services. All the cadres should be entitled to equal opportunities for promotion and to serve the Republic.
Fairness demands that the reservation of 80 per cent quota for the administrative service personnel for promotions should be done away with. The concern for reforming the administration committee was voiced recently with the suggestion that officials belonging to all the cadres should be given the scope to face a common examination for promotions. And it would be the best way for giving promotions.
The reservation of 80 per cent quota for the BCS administration cadre personnel for promotion makes it can incomplete system leading to weakness of the service. Just imagine when an MBBS health cadre official has to take part in PSC examination four times, a BCS administration cadre functionary does it only once. How it can be fair?
To ensure fairplay, the personnel belonging to all the cadres, including the BCS health should be brought under a common promotion process for the services to work more effectively, said a teacher.
The departmental promotion committees have to be monitoring bodies to find out efficient cadre officers, who, if selected, would provide better service. Needless to say, now a senior administration cadre officer selects a junior administration cadre official without proper assessment of abilities of an officer.
The existing system, based on subjective judgement, is responsible for discriminations and irregularities. Promotion in the administrative group is free from competition. In it, officials from the post of a deputy secretary to that of a additional secretary (AS) all are promoted by the fellow administration cadre officers. This opportunity is denied to other BCS cadre officers. At one stage a health cadre officer would get nearly Taka four to five thousand less than an officer of administration cadre with the same length of service. No wonder the officers in other cadres are dissatisfied.
Officers in other cadres do not get promotions even after serving for 20 to 22 years in many cases, though they are serving important departments.
Those in the BCS health cadre suffer the most. Both post-graduate and graduate personnel are made to work in the same position in the BCS health cadre. It will never happen to the BCS administration cadre officers.
The deprived health cadre people are blamed for not staying in any village.
An MBBS health cadre doctor does not even get half the opportunities a UNO enjoys. In many cases, the UNOs disobey their seniors in the health or other cadres and they do not give the due respect to them.
While many BCS cadre personnel get risk allowance, night allowance, dress allowance, those belonging to the BCS health cadre get none of it though, at least they must wear aprons.
Cadre corruption and inter-cadre irregularities have been increasing unchecked.
Even the Pay Commission has been discriminating between the officers of different cadre services. A comparison between the salaries of a health cadre doctor and those of a administrative cadre official would make it clear to all.
Early and quick promotions in BCS administration cadre and late establishment of other cadres make the difference; no matter, the beginning of jobs shows a similar session schedule.
The imbalance in the administration is created with nearly 80 per cent posts of deputy secretaries, filled with people chosen from a single cadre, that is BCS (administration) and the remaining 20 per cent from the other cadres.
Certainly, it is an extreme discrimination. The posts of deputy secretaries should be filled through a common examination, which should be open to the personnel of all the cadre services. All the cadres should be entitled to equal opportunities for promotion and to serve the Republic.
Fairness demands that the reservation of 80 per cent quota for the administrative service personnel for promotions should be done away with. The concern for reforming the administration committee was voiced recently with the suggestion that officials belonging to all the cadres should be given the scope to face a common examination for promotions. And it would be the best way for giving promotions.
The reservation of 80 per cent quota for the BCS administration cadre personnel for promotion makes it can incomplete system leading to weakness of the service. Just imagine when an MBBS health cadre official has to take part in PSC examination four times, a BCS administration cadre functionary does it only once. How it can be fair?
To ensure fairplay, the personnel belonging to all the cadres, including the BCS health should be brought under a common promotion process for the services to work more effectively, said a teacher.
The departmental promotion committees have to be monitoring bodies to find out efficient cadre officers, who, if selected, would provide better service. Needless to say, now a senior administration cadre officer selects a junior administration cadre official without proper assessment of abilities of an officer.
The existing system, based on subjective judgement, is responsible for discriminations and irregularities. Promotion in the administrative group is free from competition. In it, officials from the post of a deputy secretary to that of a additional secretary (AS) all are promoted by the fellow administration cadre officers. This opportunity is denied to other BCS cadre officers. At one stage a health cadre officer would get nearly Taka four to five thousand less than an officer of administration cadre with the same length of service. No wonder the officers in other cadres are dissatisfied.
Officers in other cadres do not get promotions even after serving for 20 to 22 years in many cases, though they are serving important departments.
Those in the BCS health cadre suffer the most. Both post-graduate and graduate personnel are made to work in the same position in the BCS health cadre. It will never happen to the BCS administration cadre officers.
The deprived health cadre people are blamed for not staying in any village.
An MBBS health cadre doctor does not even get half the opportunities a UNO enjoys. In many cases, the UNOs disobey their seniors in the health or other cadres and they do not give the due respect to them.
While many BCS cadre personnel get risk allowance, night allowance, dress allowance, those belonging to the BCS health cadre get none of it though, at least they must wear aprons.