Legal challenge to 360-degree appraisal of IAS officers fizzles out
The first and only legal challenge so far, to the 360-degree review process that the Prime Minister instituted to appraise IAS officers for top positions at the Centre, has fizzled out.
In response to an order of Central Administrative Tribunal’s orders to review its decision, the Union government has stuck to its review process, show documents. Using it, the union government has yet again found the senior IAS officer who challenged his negative appraisal, Vineet Chawdhry, unfit to serve as a secretary at the Centre.
Chawdhry, who the Union government repeatedly found unfit for the top position at the Centre, has instead been appointed to the top position by the BJP-ruled government in Himachal Pradesh as the state’s chief secretary. His case against the Union government has fallen, show records of the tribunal.