UPSC, JK senior officers meet for two days in Delhi to clear JKAS officers’ induction into IAS
Proposal almost through, minutes to be out by Monday
*All queries replied in extended meeting by UT Admn
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Apr 24: The Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) and top officers of Jammu and Kashmir administration met for two consecutive days in New Delhi to clear induction of Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Services (JKAS) officers into IAS, an issue which was pending for past quite some time and had resulted into stagnation among the JKAS officers.
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Official sources told the Excelsior that the meeting chaired by the UPSC Member designated for Jammu and Kashmir and attended among others by Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo and Administration Secretary General Administration Department (GAD) M Raju was initially held yesterday for about two hours in the Union capital and names of all 23 JKAS officers proposed for induction into IAS were discussed one-by-one.
"The UPSC Member raised certain queries during yesterday's meeting. However, instead of deferring the meeting for another date, the Jammu and Kashmir administration proposed that they will reply to the queries by this morning and that the meeting should be extended by a day for today as already issue of the inductions has been delayed for a long time," official sources told the Excelsior.
The UPSC Member agreed to the proposal and the meeting was again held this morning in which induction of JKAS officers into IAS was discussed again, the sources said, adding that minutes of the meeting are being finalized and will be issued by Monday.
"Apparently, the proposal for induction of JKAS officers into IAS has been cleared," the sources said, adding that all of them belonged to 1999 batch. The UT administration had clearly identified 23 vacancies for induction of JKAS officers into IAS for the years 2019 and 2020.
However, the sources said, the things will be clear only when the UPSC issues final notification for induction of JKAS officers into IAS and minutes of the meetings, expected to be released on Monday.
All the JKAS officers inducted into IAS will get AGMUT cadre.
This is after nearly four years that the JKAS officers are being inducted into IAS as the last induction took place on August 4, 2022 when 16 JKAS officers made it to the IAS. Since then, the inductions didn't take place despite identification of vacancies because of legal wrangles.
"As certain legal issues were still persisting, the UPSC was concerned about them and was briefed by the UT administration about their status etc," the sources said.
On August 4, 2022, 16 JKAS officers were inducted into IAS. A total of 28 JKAS officers were cleared for induction on July 8, 2022 but 11 of them were later dropped as eight had retired from the services, two refused induction and one had died while fate of another was kept in sealed cover.
Induction of JKAS officers into IAS was not carried out for nearly 12 years because of seniority disputes, legal hurdles etc from 2010 to 2022.
The 1999 JKAS batch of officers had to wait for 23 long years for their induction into the IAS.
The Government now proposed to make it a regular feature every year so that the JKAS officers are timely inducted into the IAS like other States and Union Territories and not after 12 years or 4 years as was the case.
With Jammu and Kashmir now part of AGMUT cadre, the officers of All India Services are posted in the States/UTs which are part of the cadre including Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Andaman & Nicobar, Chandigarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli/Daman & Diu, and Lakshadweep.
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