Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The list of transfers of IAS officers is caught between Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s choice and Chief Secretary Anurag Jain’s 360-degree formula.
The officers whom Yadav wants to transfer to the important departments and to the fields do not fit into the formula of Jain. After taking over as Chief Secretary, Jain has come up with the 360-degree feedback formula.
According to the formula, before posting of an officer to an important department, the feedback on him is taken from his counterparts with whom he has worked.
The officials from whom the feedback is collected may be senior or junior to the officer about whom the info is taken.
Besides the officials, feedback is taken from other people. On the basis of the information, the name of an officer is recommended to the CS and the CM for posting to an important department.
On the other hand, the CM wants to post such officers as can give results. The state government has completed one and a half years. Now, the departments have to give the outcome of the projects that they started.
Yadav wants to bring those officers who can work fast in the departments that deal directly with the public welfare.
Both of them have agreed to shift a few officers from some departments. But the government is mulling over about who should be posted in places of those officers.
There are talks about changing the departments of some Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary-level officers, but the list of transfers is yet to be declared.
Similar problems are coming up in posting the officers as district collectors. Many names are being discussed. But the government is yet to take a decision over who will be posted in the districts.
