Provincial Development Service
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| Prāntīya Vikās Sevā | |
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| Government service agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1952 |
| Superseding Government service agency |
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| Jurisdiction | Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Employees | 559 (2012)[1] |
| Minister responsible | |
| Parent department | Department of Rural Development |
| Parent Government service agency | Government of Uttar Pradesh |
Provincial Development Service (PDS) (IAST: Prāntīya Vikās Sevā) is the Government of Uttar Pradesh civil service responsible for administering rural development programmes of the state and central government.[2]
The recruitment to the service is made on the basis of an annual competitive examination conducted by Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission. Currently fifty percent of PDS quota is filled by promotion from Assistant Development Officers' cadre of rural development department, cooperative department and statistical department. PDS officers, regardless of their mode of entry, are appointed by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.[1]
There are 460 BDO posts vacant in state. Hence senior PDS officers such as DDO and PD DRDA holds additional charge of blocks. Officers from other state civil services too are given charge of BDO but only for one block according to the new order released by Principal Secretary of the department.
Officer promotion controversy
The union for PDS officers demanded that IAS and PCS officers not be promoted to the rank of CDO, claiming that they have less expertise in rural development than PDS officers. They also claim that it takes much longer for PDS officers to be promoted than PCS or IAS officers, and that PDS officers get paid less than PCS officers. Due to the complaints, the Uttar Pradesh state government reserved twenty-eight districts of Uttar Pradesh for PDS officers. The PDS union opposed this, claiming that the districts that had been reserved for PDS officers were backward ones.
See also
- Provincial Civil Service (Uttar Pradesh)
- Provincial Forest Service (Uttar Pradesh)
- Provincial Police Service (Uttar Pradesh)
- Provincial Finance and Accounts Service (Uttar Pradesh)
- Provincial Secretariat Service (Uttar Pradesh)
- Provincial Transport Service (Uttar Pradesh)
References
- ^ a b "2015 Total Cadre strength of PRDS as in June 2012" (PDF). Department of Rural Development, Government of Uttar Pradesh. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
- ^ "Service Rules" (PDF). Government of Uttar Pradesh Department of Rural Development. Retrieved December 20, 2018.