{"id":116954,"date":"2021-07-07T19:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T14:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=116954"},"modified":"2021-07-07T19:53:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T14:23:31","slug":"vacancies-send-a-wrong-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vacancies-send-a-wrong-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacancies send a wrong signal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GP98O8JUV.1&amp;imageview=0\">The Hindu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Civil Services and other important services are backbones of governance in India. Vacancies on the top-level posts will affect the quality of governance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis: <\/strong>Leaving top posts in the government unoccupied, affects governance and is demoralizing for officers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delays in the appointment of personnel to important posts affect governance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The vacancies in the Central government and the States in recent years have had a deleterious effect on governance.<\/li>\n<li>The post of the <strong>Chairman of the<\/strong> <strong>National Human Rights Commission<\/strong> was kept vacant until June this year. Even though the previous Chairman, retired in December 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, the post of the <strong>Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation<\/strong> (CBI) too was kept vacant until the recent appointment of Subodh Kumar Jaiswal. The post had been vacant since February.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>National Council of Educational Research and Training<\/strong>, which is largely responsible for planning the education policy of the country, is headless.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 40 Central universities across the country, nearly half are without regular Vice-Chancellors.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from vacancies, there are many examples of officers holding additional charge. For instance, Rakesh Asthana after his appointment as Director-General (DG) of the Border Security Force in August, continues to hold a charge of the NCB as DG. He assumed additional charge of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) from December 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, Kuldeep Singh, DG of the Central Reserve Police Force, now also heads the National Investigation Agency.<\/li>\n<li>Delays in promotions and appointments not only affect the organisations but also tend to demoralise the officials who await promotions after vacancies arise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Alternative method suggested for the appointment of CEC<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, the Centre appointed Anup Chandra Pandey as the new Election Commissioner in June.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court.<\/li>\n<li>ADR demands the appointment of Election Commissioners by a committee, as is done in the case of appointment of the Director of the CBI, and not by the Centre.<\/li>\n<li>ADR has referred to the <strong>255th Report of Law Commission<\/strong> that had recommended that Election Commissioners be appointed by a high-powered committee.<\/li>\n<li>The high-powered committee headed by the PM has two members, the <strong>Chief Justice of India <\/strong>and <strong>the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>However, the Opposition leader has a little say in the selection process. If the Prime Minister decides on a candidate and the CJI consents, the Opposition leader\u2019s dissenting note carries no weight.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, there is a need, to expand the high-powered committee to include at least two more members of eminence with proven integrity for the selection process.<\/li>\n<li>Preferably a retired police officer and a Chief Minister of a State governed by a party other than that of the party of the Prime Minister.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu Relevance: Civil Services and other important services are backbones of governance in India. Vacancies on the top-level posts will affect the quality of governance. Synopsis: Leaving top posts in the government unoccupied, affects governance and is demoralizing for officers Delays in the appointment of personnel to important posts affect governance The vacancies&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vacancies-send-a-wrong-signal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vacancies send a wrong signal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704944678},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}