Cadre Matters

Dear Friends,

Hey I picked this mail from IAS_2003 Yahoo group .. Mail No: 8355. So The mail after it i.e 8356 also has given an example about how cadre allocation actually hold place.. so refer to it for further clarification.. Once again thanx satish..

You might be remembering that in my previous few mails, I had written about the IPS & then about cadre allocation. Today I am sending last two mails in this series. The Civil Service (Main) examination result is coming soon. Some of you will get through. Therefore, I shall be writing on few topics of National importance, keeping in mind the requirement of interview.

Focus of these topics shall be mainly the security scenario in the country, such as Naxalite Problem, Terrorism in Kashmir, Insurgency in the North East, LTTE, Army & common people, communal riots, disaster management and any topic that will come out of discussion.

Now I shall come to the main topic. First recapitulate what I mailed in past.

Cadre allocation is done as per D. O. no. 13012/5/84- AIS (I) dated 30/31 May 1985 which is available on persmin.nic.in In any cadre sequence of allocation is outsider, outsider, insider, outsider, outsider, insider…… There is reservation for SC/ ST/ OBC/ General categories within this sequence. There are 4 groups of cadres namely.

i. Andhra, Assam+ Meghalaya, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat ii. Haryana, Himachal, J & K, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, MP. iii. Maharashtra, Manipur + Tripura, Nagaland, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim. iv. Tamilnadu, AGMUT, Uttaranchal, UP, West Bengal

Each year allocation begins from next group. For CSE 2002 allocation began from Maharashtra, CSE 2003 began from Tamilnadu. This year it will begin from Andhra Pradesh. That means if the topper does not get his home cadre, he may get AP or Assam – Meghalaya.

The candidates have many a times disputed the allocation of cadre. Some have filed cases in the courts. Mr. Praveen Kumar of 54^th batch (CSE 2000) was allotted the Uttaranchal cadre. He contested that it was he who should have got the UP as insider, and not Mr. Ashutosh. The honourable Supreme Court, in Nov 2004, in “Union of India vs. Praveen Kumar” case has given a verdict in favour of Mr. Praveen Kumar, who is now ASP Allahabad. After this brief recapitulation, let us discuss something more, why cadre matters..

Theoratically speaking all the cadres are important and an All India service officer is liable to serve in anywhere, and he is also called on for the central Govt. Deputation. But factually an AIS officer spends a major part of his career in the cadre allotted to him.

1. The pay scales of the AIS officers are determined by the Centre. But some of the allowances, facilities, depend upon the cadre. 2. All know that the working culture depends upon local socio, economic and political conditions. 3. Some cadres are more deficit than others. It means a There might be more allocation to these cadres. b. Officers may get faster state promotions. For instance in Orissa, 54^th batch Officers (CSE 2000) have become the SPs of the Districts (of course the smaller districts) c. After marriage with another AIS officer the Govt. may allot both a deficit common cadre. (remember one can’t get home cadre even if he/ she marriage an AIS officer, say if wife belongs to Maharashtra cadre and Husband to Nagland cadre, and say the husband belongs to Maharashtra, the wife shall get Nagaland or both may get say Orissa) d. An officer may find difficult to go on Central deputation due to shortage of officers in his/ her cadre.

Some cadres like Nagaland, J & K, Orissa, Kerala are most deficit cadres in IPS. You might be wondering, as to why these are deficit? Reasons might be · Most officers from Northeast, J & K get married with other cadre officers. · Orissa has 32 Police districts; 15 years ago there were only 13 districts. · Orissa and Kerala do not recruit direct Dy. Superintendents of Police.

4. Some cadres have less promotee officers compared to direct recruits; hence there might be situation of lesser competition for posts of greater responsibility. Orissa, Kerala, Uttaranchal, Rajasthan have less promotee officers compared to direct recruit officers.

5. The cadres differ in population composition, and the other geographical factors. In Bihar an IPS officer serves 5,64,615 persons. Bihar is followed by Maharashtra, UP, Rajasthan, Gujarat & AP. On the other hand an IPS officer in Sikkim serves 20,802 persons. Similar is the situation of Nagaland, Manipur – Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, and J & K.

At the end of this mail I am enclosing an excel table, which gives interesting figures about what I said above.

Pl also open the next mail, where I have given a practical example of how allocation is done.

Satish Kumar, IPS