ISLAMABAD - The promotion cases of nearly two-dozen top bureaucrats from Secretariat and District Management Group (DMG) could not be finalised due to delay in the meeting of Central Selection Board (CSB), which is causing fear of discrimination among babus regarding allocation of secretariat group’s vacancies.
The CSB meeting was to be convened by the mid of January in order to finalise the promotion of over 20 seats of grade-21 officials, whereas even the Annual Confidential Report (ACR) of most of these officials is not yet finalised, sources in Cabinet Division told TheNation.
It would not be out of place to mention here that it was decided in the last meeting (September 2011) that the next meeting to finalise the promotions would be carried out by the mid of January 2011. Around 30 top officers would be interviewed for final selection of over 20 seats, which are currently lying vacant. The evaluation report of 20 officers from grade-20 is including 10 from Secretariat group, five from DMG group and others.
It was learnt that the Establishment Division a couple of weeks before had written a letter to the secretaries of different ministries, demanding the report of officers being considered for promotion from BS-20 to BS-21. This letter was written in continuation of its previous letter for this purpose by the end of 2011.
The sources said that around 30 potential officers of different groups, who are likely to be interviewed, are Abid Bashir (Joint Secretary, Textile Industry Division), Inam-ur-Rahman (Director General, Staff Welfare Organization), Abdul Raziq Khan (Member Finance Heavy Industrial Board), Iftikhar Hussain Shirazi (Director General Wafaqi Mohtasib), Zumarrrad Hussain, JS Finance Division, Arshad Mahmood Joint Secretary, Cabinet Division, Riaz Ul Ilsam, Joint Secretary, Khurshid Ahmed, Joint Secretary Finance Division, Muhammad Ikram, Joint Secretary, Kashmir Affairs, Sarwar Khan, Joint Secretary Interior Division, Muhammad Hafez, DG Wafaqi Mohtasib, Aamir Hasan, Chief Instructor, Nadeem Shafiq Malik, Joint Secretary Finance Division, Arif Ibrahim, Executive Director (HR/Admin), Mukhtar Ahmed, DG (Operations) BISP, Arshad Ahmad, Joint Secretary, Finance Division, Omar Hamid Khan, JS PM Secretariat, Abdul Akbar Sharifzada JS Finance Division and others would be interviewed for the promotion to grade-21 and around half of them would be promoted. It may be mentioned here that the Establishment Division in this regard had written to the secretaries of different ministries a couple of days back in which the evaluation reports of the grade-20 officers.
The sources said it was decided in 2005 that 70 per cent of vacancies of Senior Joint Secretary would be allocated to a major group of federal services that is the Secretariat Group while 30 per cent of the vacancies would be allocated to all groups.  While in the last year, the Establishment Division had allocated 22 vacancies in BS-21 to DMG and only nine vacancies of BS-21 to Secretariat Group and five vacancies to other groups.
The total number of vacancies counted was 36, which indicates that major share of 61 per cent of BS-21 vacancies to DMG and only 25 per cent to Secretariat Group and 13 per cent to other groups.
This scribe made repeated attempts to seek comments of Secretary Cabinet Division Nargis Sethi but her number did not respond.