Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when he took the oath of office in 2019 after winning the Lok Sabha elections, had said that the bureaucracy had created a lot of hindrance for him and he will not let them get away in his second term.

Living up to this promise, the Modi government has shown the door to as many as 340 officers between July 2014 and December 2020 for non-performance or being ‘deadwood’ under Fundamental Rule 56(J) and other similar provisions, reports Times of India.

The Fundamental Rule 56(J) allows the government to send employees on compulsory retirement.

Between 2014 and 2020, under the said rule, the government made 171 Group-A central government officers to retire, which include All India Services (AIS) officers.

Other than these, the rule’s provisions have also been invoked against 169 Group-B officers employed under different ministries and departments, as per details shared by Minister of Personnel Jitendra Singh in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

The government also made it very clear that all vacancies in respective ministries and departments and their attached or subordinate offices must be fulfilled in a timebound manner.

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