The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has directed the Andhra Pradesh government to consider representations given by IAS officers with regard to their grievances about promotions to state civil services (SCS) officers. The AP Cadre IAS officers approached CAT expressing reservations over the process adopted by the state to recruit SCS cadre officers into IAS cadre. As many as 20 IAS officers of 2013 and 2014 batches filed petitions before CAT, as their representations to the state were kept in pending. After hearing two such petitions, the CAT has directed the state government to look into the grievances raised by the officers and take necessary action.
This issue was brewing since long as the direct recruit IAS officers contended that the level of seniority being given to SCS officers surpassed the allotment year in many cases, because of which their career prospects are getting affected compared to the SCS Officers.
While the law stipulates minimum eight years of service for conferment of IAS to a SCS officer, many SCS officers have got allotments after six or seven years of continuous service. However, some SCS officers who were selected in 2016 were given their year of allotment as 2013, which is prior to bifurcation.
