New Delhi: Punjab Civil Service (PCS) officer Madhvi Kataria will be promoted to that of an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. The decision came after a meeting was held at Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in Delhi a couple of days back, that is, on May 25. Kataria will find a place in the 2015’s select list of IAS with this promotion.
However, Kataria will only be promoted after the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) of the Chandigarh bench clears her pending petition in which she sought directions from the UPSC to convene the review selection committee meeting regarding her impending promotion which was due last year itself.
UPSC had turned down Kataria’s promotion to the IAS cadre in July last year. This was so because the PCS Officer’s annual confidential reports (ACRs) had been downgraded at the senior level for the years 2012-2015. Kataria came to know about this after she filed an RTI Act. On December last year, the Punjab government cleared Kataria’s case and forwarded it to UPSC for reviewing but UPSC said it could not do so as rules did not permit it to so. The PCS officer then moved to the CAT in January this year seeking directions to the UPSC to convene the review selection committee meeting again.
Thereafter, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on May 25, cleared Kataria’s name, whose a 1995-batch Punjab Civil Service (PCS) officer. Kataria is currently posted as the special secretary in the public works department (buildings and roads). Daughter of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) former president Virendra Kataria, Madhvi Kataria will be promoted in September 2021, if all goes well.
Punjab IAS officer Sarvesh Kaushal, chief secretary Karan Avtar Singh and secretary personnel department A S Miglani had also attended the UPSC meeting.
[“Source-india”]
