We know that more than 500 Additional Secretaries are working against 100 positions, the permanent posts for Joint Secretary are 450 and Deputy Secretary 850 but over 613 Joint Secretaries and 1479 Deputy Secretaries are overcrowding their jobs without fresh posting. Question arises when the administrative machinery does not provide enough posts, why on earth it is so necessary to give the mass promotion in the first place. This is however not certainly the first time such ad-hoc promotions have taken place in the bureaucracy. The latest round of promotion came in last May when around 200 civil servants were elevated and most of them still staying in their old places.
Many believe that by providing quick promotions and service benefits, the government has already turned the administration into a civil bureaucracy subservient largely to its wishes rather than serving the people. They are government loyalist first and there is rather a competition among civil servants how to prove their loyalty to the government. But politicization of the administration is causing stiff degradation in the quality of service of the bureaucracy as poor governance is steadily growing at all levels in absence of accountability of bureaucrats. Corruption and misuse of power are now rampant in Civil Administration where most public servants have close links with political leaders sharing the government’s political agenda of action. Promotions are now mostly treated as incentive for helping the government. But it is undermining merits and competence.
The salary structure of public servants has increased manifolds recently and it is no secret that the bigger part of the revenue budget now goes to paying salary and allowances to government servants. It is known that public servants are not rewarded for honest service to the people. The whole government system is becoming corrupt and public servants behave more as government servants.
