Non-GAS, class-1 officers eligible for IAS appointment: Gujarat cabinet decision(Video)

Gandhinagar, 18 December 2013

Gujarat State Cabinet with Chief Minister Narendra Modi in chair today decided to introduce a special test with objective-type questions for Class-1 government officers with eight years experience for promotion to the Indian Administrative According to state government spokespersons, Finance Minister Nitin Patel and Energy Minister Saurabh Patel, the incentive is the first-of-its-kind in the country, to allow promotion of younger and able officers through transparent method.

The process is to let Class-1 officers, other than Gujarat Administrative Service (GAS), apply to General Administrative Department (GAD) for appointment through Selection Quota against posts falling vacant for promotion to IAS.

Earlier, the Class-1 officers of a very few departments like Secretariat, Finance and Panchayat only were eligible for promotion to IAS. With the implementation of new system, the eligibility is being extended to Classi1 officers of Roads & Building, Education, Water Supply and Kalpsar, Labour & Employment, Narmada, Water Resources, Agriculture and Co-operation, Information & Broadcasting and other Departments also.

The selection will be made as per vacancies decided by GAD in a particular year with a cutoff date, on the basis of 50 per cent marks for service evaluation and 50 per cent marks for evaluation of respective officer in History, Cultural Heritage, Constitution of India and In the year 2004, three posts of are likely to be vacant for selection as IAS for Class-! government officers other than GAD.