The Civil Service of Pakistan (Composition and Cadre) Rules 2014 is a landmark SRO in the sense that it carries something for everyone. The very first and most important aspect is the formalisation of the change of nomenclature of the group from “DMG” to “PAS”. Another wonderful aspect of the new rules is that the president has been bound to act on the advice of FPSC. It will be mandatory on the president of Pakistan to make appointments only on the recommendations of FPSC. There has been much talk about the issue of encadrement of posts. It is important to fully comprehend the concept of encadrement before formulating opinions. All the posts in the federal secretariat have been allotted to various groups (like PAS, SG, and others). The allocation for PAS is: DS (25 per cent), JS (35 per cent), AS (65 per cent) and Federal Secretary (65 per cent).
As for promotion to BS-20 and BS-21, it is pertinent to add here that 65 per cent of the vacancies of JS have been reserved for SG/others and 100 per cent of vacancies of Sr JS have been reserved for SG/others on the same 33 per cent-66 per cent basis as explained above.
Another important aspect of these rules is the induction of PCS officers into PAS. As the reader might already know about the long standing litigation going on in the SC between PCS and PAS about the distribution of vacancies, the present SRO is likely to put to rest all such litigation. The PCS lobby had asked for revival of induction of PCS officer as per the original 1954 Cadre Rules. In its original version the Cadre Rules 1954 only provided for induction against 20 per cent vacancies. The present SRO is however a step further to that in the sense that it provides for 30 per cent induction for PCS officers in BS-19 and that too through an open competitive process under FPSC.
–Ed Note
