March 26, 2014
West Bengal Government forming an online database of employees to bring in transparency
In an attempt to bring in transparency in transfer and posting of Secretariat employees, the State Government is all set to come up with an online database of the employees in a batch-wise manner.
The database will particularly indicate their dates of joining and it will be referred before transfer and posting of employees.
The State Government, which already has the batch-wise list of IAS officers, is uploading the data. The work for preparing the batch-wise list of WBCS officers and the common cadre wing are underway. A meeting will be held on 31 March to assess the status of the database.
While preparing the transfer list of employees, the seniority of an employee is taken into consideration among many other factors but since the batch numbers of the employees are not kept handy, the task becomes cumbersome.
Earlier, various Unions had complete control over the posting and transfer. Quite often, the State Personnel and Administrative Reforms department has to rectify after issuing a transfer list following such errors.
The database will solve the problem. The names of employees and their batch numbers will be available at the click of a mouse.
After coming to power the new government has introduced a transfer policy to weed out nepotism. Employees are transferred after completing a certain number of years in a particular department.
The databases of employees, now, will be assessed during transfer and posting.
