Promotion of staff in limbo as HC hearing deferred without new date
On July 7, the high court restrained the govt from implementing the newly framed law, the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Promotion Rules, till further orders.
The promotion of the govt staff has remained halted since 2016, due to a case in the Supreme Court against the now-scrapped promotion norms.
SAPAKS, an umbrella organisation of general category, OBC and minority govt employees that went to the court against the new promotion rules, doubted the govt's intention on the issue.
Its president KS Tomar said: "When the issue was pending in the apex court, why did the govt made new promotion rules in haste, and tried to restart the promotion process, sidelining the interests of general category employees. Our timely intervention by approaching the court stalled the govt's ill motives."
Uma Shankar Tiwari, state secretary of Tritya Varg Karamchari Sangh, also questioned the govt's motive.
"The govt would have first withdrawn its petition from the apex court, and then started the process if it really wanted to restart promotion of govt employees that had been stalled for the past nine years," he said.
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Top bureaucrats, part of the govt process to draft the new promotion rules, said they had the same view that govt should first withdraw its case from the apex court. They, however, said legal opinions suggested that the govt could make new rules despite the matter being in the Supreme Court, due to which the govt decided to go ahead on the issue.
On April 8, CM Mohan Yadav announced that the process for promotion of nearly 4 lakh employees will be carried out soon.
On June 17, the state cabinet approved the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Promotion Rules, 2025, ensuring the representation and protection of interests of the reserved categories.
Provisions in the new promotion rules include 20% reservation for Scheduled Tribes (ST) and 16% for Scheduled Castes (SC). SC and ST public servants will also have the opportunity for promotion based on merit as per new rule.
Hearing separate petitions challenging the legality of the newly farmed rules, the high court on July 7 issued notices, and deferred the hearing of the case to July 15.
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