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Civil Service of Pakistan (Composition and Cadre) Rules 2014
The Civil Service of Pakistan (Composition and Cadre) Rules 2014 is a landmark SRO in the sense that it carries something for everyone. The very first and most important aspect is the formalization of the change of nomenclature of the group from “DMG” to “PAS”. Another wonderful aspect of the new Rules is that the President has been bound to act on the advice of FPSC. It mandatory on the President of Pakistan to make appointments only (and only) on the recommendations of FPSC. Earlier on the President was empowered to make appointments otherwise as well.
There has been much talk about the issue of endarement of posts. It is important to fully comprehend the concept of encadrement before formulating opinions. All the posts in the federal secretariat have been allotted to various groups (like PAS, SG and others). The allocation for PAS is: DS (25%), JS (35%), AS (65%) and Federal Secretary (65%).
The remaining posts have been allocated to SG and others on the basis of 33%-66% distribution. For instance, of all the posts of DS 25% would go to PAS. Out of the remaining 75% posts ? would go to SG (i.e. 25%) and the remaining ? would be distributed to other groups (i.e. 50%).
The above arrangement has 2 distinct advantages; firstly it is the pathway to speedy promotion for all groups because their vacancy position would now be determined by including vacancies of the federal secretariat in addition to their departmental positions.
Secondly, the defacto situation of posting of other groups against secretariat vacancies would now have legal backing of these Rules. This arrangement would also address all legal questions and anomalies raised before SC on the appoint of officers in the Federal Secretariat.
As for promotion to BS-20 and BS-21, it is pertinent to add here that 65% of the vacancies of JS have been reserved for SG/others and 100% of vacancies of Sr JS have been reserved for SG/others on the same 33%-66% basis as explained above.
Another important and glaring aspect of these Rules is the induction of PCS officers into PAS. As the reader might already know about the long standing litigation going on in the SC between PCS and PAS about the distribution of vacancies, the present SRO is likely to put to rest all such litigation.
The PCS lobby had asked for revival of induction of PCS officer as per the original 1954 Cadre Rules. In its original version the Cadre Rules 1954 only provided for induction against 20% vacancies. The present SRO is however a step further to that in the sense that it provides for 30% induction for PCS officers in BS-19 and that too through an open competitive process under FPSC.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk