New Delhi, Aug 18: Clerks in Government offices who are considered
as the backbone of the lower bureaucracy will soon become passe.
According to new proposal by the Government, the post will be renamed as
secretariat assistant.
The proposal has been given by the department of personnel and training
(DoPT), suggesting this new nomenclature for the clerks.
If proposal will be accepted by all the departments then lower
division clerk will be called as 'junior secretariat assistant' and
upper division clerk as 'senior secretariat assistant' respectively.
DoPT circulated a note on Monday, asking all department to give their
inputs and suggestions in this regard by September 18.
The total sanctioned strength of Central Secretariat Clerical
Service (CSCS) and Central Secretariat Service (CSS) is 11,467 and 5,933
respectively.
Earlier in March, it had decided to replace the 'class' categorisation
for specifying the seniority of its employees with new alphabetical
groupings.
The posts under the central government will be denoted as groups A, B, C
and D instead of classes I, II, III and IV in the service rules, it had
said.
The Class-I classification is for gazetted officers while Class-II
refers to mainly the non-gazetted officers, though there are some
gazetted officers in this category too.
Class-III comprises clerical staff and Class-IV (which is now subsumed
in Class III or Group C) includes peons and helps or multi-tasking staff
in the government hierarchy.
The Class-III (Group C) employees have often expressed concern that they
are taunted as 'third-class' employees due to the categorisation.
It is being believed that renaming is being done as people working on
the post don't get due respect. At times people have this notion that
clerks will not do their work till they oil their palm.
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