Odisha Secratariat Service cadre opposes post-retirement extension

By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR:  Undue favour proven to some retired bureaucrats by re-engaging them as officers on particular responsibility (OSD) in key posts and giving annual extensions by the State authorities has been resented by officers of various departments. While most of them didn’t want to voice their protest as they don’t seem to be affected, officers belonging to Odisha Secretariat Service (OSS) cadres have come out overtly in opposition to post-retirement job extension of an officer of Additional Secretary-rank in Home division when the cadre posts are crammed up.

Members of the OSS have petitioned Chief Secretary SC Mahapatra objecting to additional extension of Sribhusan Shukla, who retired as Additional Secretary in July 2020 and re-engaged as OSD in the identical publish he was working in Home division. “We object to his further extension as it violates the provisions contained in the General Administration (GA) department resolution (No.23750/Gen) of August 27, 2014. There is no need of an additional hand in a senior position when there is no vacancy in the cadre posts of the department,” stated a senior officer of the division.

The decision stated the division authority can rent the job of retired authorities officers when there are vacancies and recruitment or promotion shouldn’t be potential as a consequence of elements past the management of the authority involved. In order to make a good recruitment to the vacant publish, the authorities involved are required to ask purposes from individuals assembly the prescribed standards.

An appropriate individual from among the many candidates needs to be chosen by a committee. Curiously, all of the re-engagement of retired officers is made with out following the provisions laid down within the decision. While the Finance division is giving concurrence, the GA division shouldn’t be elevating any objection to such violation.

In the case of Shukla, the July 8 order of the GA division stated, “In pursuance of the provision contained in the General Administration department Resolution No.23750/Gen dated 27.08.2014, the government has been pleased to extend the re-engagement of Sribhusan Shukla, OAS (SAG) (Retd.) as officer on special duty in the Home department for a period not exceeding one year w.e.f. 08.07.2021.”