New Delhi, June 27 (PTI): Around 39 IAS officers are alleged to be involved in corruption and irregularities. The matter is being looked in by the Department of Personnel and Training (DOPT), reported PTI. The DOPT acts as a watchdog of the government and is a nodal authority for Indian Administrative Service officers. Apart from this, 29 other officers from the Central Secretariat Service will also be scrutinised. Enquiry against these 68 officers has begun on the complaint received against them. Some among the 68 are cemented at a senior level. Reports suggest that the Narendra Modi-led government is conducting a review of its staff. This is being done by the Centre to improve the service delivery and governance system. As per the rules, the performance of government employees is reviewed twice during service. One is fifteen years after qualifying for the service and then after a period of 25 years. The central government, in the last one year, has asked 129 government employees to take retirement due to their poor performance. The 129 employees also include IAS and IPS officers. It has also undertaken an exercise to review the service records of about 67,000 employees to identify non-performers. Nearly 25,000 of these are from all India and Group A services — including the IAS, Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Revenue Service (IRS). There are about 48.85 lakh central government employees, according to latest data.
