IAS officers, upset at not being posted as collectors, meet chief secretary
Komal.Gautham@timesgroup.com
Chennai: 09.08.2018
Discontentment is growing among recruited IAS officers of the 2009-2011 batch who say they have been denied the post of collector. Some 20 officers have met chief secretary Girija Vaidhyanathan and represented this to her.
In Tamil Nadu, out of the 32 districts, only seven collectors posted are direct recruits. The remaining are promoted officials. Since 2009 up to 2011, 21 regular recruits have come to TN. Of them only three have been posted as collectors. In the same period, 21Group 1officers have been promoted as IAS officers with the biggest batch in 2009 where 13 officers were promoted.
“We do not have any problem with the promotees being posted as collectors. But we are not given that posting. Bypassing us, the government is posting these officers. Most of us are being posted as joint commissioners and additional directors. Collectorship is the only post where an IAS officer gets field experience and learns about government policy,” said an IAS officer.
Stating examples of T N Hariharan, the collector of Coimbatore who has served as collector in various districts for the past 11 years, and also that of K S Palanisamy in Tirupur, officials requested the government to consider them as well.
“Generally, the ratio of regular recruits and promotees should be 2:1. But this number is getting skewed because the state prefers them to regular recruits,” said an officer. He added that since the promoted officers often toe the line of the government, they are being preferred.
But M G Devasahayam, a retired IAS officer, said the difference between a promoted officer and a regular recruit doesn’t exist anymore. “Several young IAS officers are not questioning the government and are blindly following orders. Politicians penetrate and dominate the scene and the collectors do not resist wrong political decisions,” he said. He added that the post of a collector is very critical in the life of an IAS officer as that is the only place apart from being a subcollector where they get field experience.
Officials alleged that batches are being bypassed and queues are jumped in the postings of IAS officials as collectors. “In the general life cycle of an IAS officer, the first two years are spent in training. Within the next3to10 years,the officer serves as sub-collector, additional collector, commissioner and then collector. Later, from 11to15 years,they are posted as head of departments and after 15 years experience, they are posted as secretaries. And then principal secretary and chief secretary. “This cycle is being broken,” said an officer.
The senior officials in the government did not respond to these allegations when TOI contacted them.
Komal.Gautham@timesgroup.com
Chennai: 09.08.2018
Discontentment is growing among recruited IAS officers of the 2009-2011 batch who say they have been denied the post of collector. Some 20 officers have met chief secretary Girija Vaidhyanathan and represented this to her.
In Tamil Nadu, out of the 32 districts, only seven collectors posted are direct recruits. The remaining are promoted officials. Since 2009 up to 2011, 21 regular recruits have come to TN. Of them only three have been posted as collectors. In the same period, 21Group 1officers have been promoted as IAS officers with the biggest batch in 2009 where 13 officers were promoted.
“We do not have any problem with the promotees being posted as collectors. But we are not given that posting. Bypassing us, the government is posting these officers. Most of us are being posted as joint commissioners and additional directors. Collectorship is the only post where an IAS officer gets field experience and learns about government policy,” said an IAS officer.
Stating examples of T N Hariharan, the collector of Coimbatore who has served as collector in various districts for the past 11 years, and also that of K S Palanisamy in Tirupur, officials requested the government to consider them as well.
“Generally, the ratio of regular recruits and promotees should be 2:1. But this number is getting skewed because the state prefers them to regular recruits,” said an officer. He added that since the promoted officers often toe the line of the government, they are being preferred.
But M G Devasahayam, a retired IAS officer, said the difference between a promoted officer and a regular recruit doesn’t exist anymore. “Several young IAS officers are not questioning the government and are blindly following orders. Politicians penetrate and dominate the scene and the collectors do not resist wrong political decisions,” he said. He added that the post of a collector is very critical in the life of an IAS officer as that is the only place apart from being a subcollector where they get field experience.
Officials alleged that batches are being bypassed and queues are jumped in the postings of IAS officials as collectors. “In the general life cycle of an IAS officer, the first two years are spent in training. Within the next3to10 years,the officer serves as sub-collector, additional collector, commissioner and then collector. Later, from 11to15 years,they are posted as head of departments and after 15 years experience, they are posted as secretaries. And then principal secretary and chief secretary. “This cycle is being broken,” said an officer.
The senior officials in the government did not respond to these allegations when TOI contacted them.
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