Role of the Department

The role of the Department of Personnel and Training can be conceptually divided into two parts. In its larger nodal role, it acts as the formulator of policy and the watchdog of the Government ensuring that certain accepted standards and norms, as laid down by it, are followed by all Ministries/Departments in the recruitment, regulation of service conditions and posting transfers and deputation of personnel as well as other related issues. Towards this end, guidelines are issued by it for the benefit of all Ministries/Departments and it monitors the implementation of these guidelines. It also advises all organizations of the Central Government on issues of Personnel Management. At a more immediate level, the Department has the direct responsibility of being the cadre controlling authority for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Central Secretariat Service (CSS). The Department also operates the Central Staffing Scheme under which suitable officers from All India Services and Group `A' Central Services are selected and then placed in posts at the level of Deputy Secretary/Director and Joint Secretary, on the basis of tenure deputation. The Department also deals with cases of appointment to posts of Chairman, Managing Director, full-time functional Director/ Member of the Board of Management of various public sector undertakings/enterprises, corporations, banks and financial institutions. It also deals with the assignment of Indian experts to various developing countries.

List indicating the papers/reports laid on the table of both the Houses during 2000.

Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare
Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances.