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CSB takes up mandarins’ promotion case on Jan 9

By Mehtab Haider
December 28, 2017

ISLAMABAD: More than 250 officers of cadre and non-cadre groups will be excluded for promotion into next grades because the Central Selection Board (CSB) is scheduled to meet ahead of completing their ongoing courses at different institutions.

The CSB is scheduled to meet from January 9 to 12, 2018, for taking up promotion cases of bureaucrats belonging to both cadre and non-cadre groups from BS-19 to BS-20 and from BS-20 to BS-21.

The National School of Public Policy (NSPP) and other institutions were departing training courses to the officers.

“Around 250 officers have been currently participating into courses at National Management Course (NMC), Senior Management Course (SMC) and National Defence University (NDU) and all these courses will be accomplished on January 12, 2018. It simply means that these 250 officers belonging to DMG, Customs, IRS, Information and others as well as non-cadre officers hailing from Election Commission of Pakistan and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will not remain eligible for consideration of promotion into next grades,” top official sources confirmed to The News here on Wednesday.

The sources said that 70 officers were currently participating in NMC course and around 40 to 50 officers were getting trainings at Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar at SMCs and 33 officers were attending course at NDU.

According to eligibility criteria, the officers ACRs, reports of NMC, SMC and NDU as well as career records are required for consideration of promotion cases. Those officers who are attending course will not be able to get reports from their respective NMC, SMC and NDU as it will usually take one month period so all these officers will be excluded from the promotion till the next CSB meeting.

“On average, the government spent Rs860,000 from the national exchequer to depart training course to each officer,” said the official.

Officials at the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) said that it was long overdue a CSB meeting which was now convened by the Establishment Division.