Daily wager made it to IAS during SP regime

LUCKNOW: Can anyone imagine that a daily wager could rise to the level of an IAS officer? It happened during the previous regime of Mulayam Singh Yadav when an officer who entered the state services as a daily wager was recommended for promotion to IAS along with 10 others from the non-PCS cadre.
The officer in question is the daughter of a former chief secretary.She was initially appointed on ad hoc basis and thereafter her services were regularised. After putting in less than five years of service, she was found to have been an outstanding officer and recommended for promotion to the IAS cadre.
Along with her, the state government recommended names of 10 other non-PCS officers for promotion to the IAS cadre. The list included Shiv Singh Yadav, a relative of Mulayam. He entered the state service as an assistant and in one year he was given four promotions elevating him to a rank equivalent to that of special secretary. He is currently working in the cooperative department on an important post.
"Had an official from the PCS cadre not moved the court, these officials by now would have been inducted into the IAS," said a senior PCS officer. He said that initially a petition was moved in the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) in which it was prayed by the petitioner that officers not equivalent to deputy collectors were being recommended for promotion to IAS.
"While disposing the petition, directions were issued by the CAT to only consider non-PCS officers who were equivalent to the deputy collector," said the official. To justify the selection of the 11 non-PCS officers, an office order was issued, addressed to none, that all officers of the state who were in the pay-scale of 8000-13,500 will be treated on par with deputy collector, claimed the official.
He alleged that all the 11 officers who were hand-picked by the then chief minister got selected in a departmental promotion committee held in May 2006. The names were not made public as the official who had moved the CAT, moved the high court which directed the state government to keep the DPC recommendation in a sealed envelope. Delegation of PCS association met the appointment secretary and the chief secretary on several occasion but nothing concrete emerged.