The Centre has given compulsory retirement to 129 non- performing employees, IAS and IPS officers
Civil servants are also supposed to give details of their assets and liabilities to govt
A 23% gap between the authorised strength of IAS officials and their actual number raises questions
Norms allow a maximum of seven-year
As many as 22 new Joint Secretaries have been appointed in different central government departments
Minister of state for personnel said 13 IAS officers of Gujarat cadre in the rank of joint secretary and above were working on central deputation
The shortage of officers at the centre has become so visible that the DoPT in a candid acknowledgment of the shrinking pool asked the states to 'share the shortage'
Nearly 342 complaints were received against IAS officers and 132 against IPS officers during 2015-16
Four years ago, the government began an exercise to weed out 'deadwood' among senior bureaucrats