Parliamentary panel to examine issue of lateral entry

In August this year, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) had advertised 45 posts — 10 of associated secretaries and 35 of directors and lawman secretaries — to beryllium filled done the lateral introduction mode connected declaration basis.

The advertisement triggered protests from the Opposition arsenic good arsenic NDA allies similar the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and Janata Dal (United).

Many leaders, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Bahujan Samaj Party main Mayawati, and Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav slammed the government’s argumentation for not having reservations for Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) candidates.

The authorities past asked the UPSC to cancel its advertisement.

Bureaucrats are usually recruited done the civilian services exam process but lateral entrants, typically experts successful a peculiar field, are inducted straight for a constricted term. No quota is presently applicable to these appointments. So far, 63 appointments person been made done lateral introduction retired of which 35 appointments were from the backstage sector. At present, 57 officers are successful positions successful ministries/departments, according to the latest data.

The lateral recruitment successful the cardinal government, has been undertaken since 2018 to name persons for circumstantial assignments, keeping successful presumption their specialised cognition and expertise successful the domain area.