Centre proposes changing ‘clerical designations’ for its staff

Designations like Lower Division Clerk and Upper Division Clerk in central government’s employee hierarchy may soon become passe as the Centre has proposed to change their nomenclature.

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) is considering changing nomenclature of a few posts of Central Secretariat Clerical Service (CSCS) and Central Secretariat Service (CSS), which forms the backbone of administrative work in the central government.

It is proposed to rename the post of Assistant in CSS as Assistant Section Officer, Similarly, the posts of Upper Division Clerk (UDC) and Lower Division Clerk (LDC) under CSCS have been proposed to be rechristened as Senior Secretariat Assistant RPT Assistant and Junior Secretariat Assistant RPT Assistant, respectively, as per the DoPT proposal.

All concerned have been asked to send in their inputs or suggestions on the proposal by September 18, it said.

The total sanctioned strength of CSS and CSCS is 11,467 and 5,933 respectively. Earlier in March, it had decided to replace the ‘class’ categorisation for specifying the seniority of its employees with new alphabetical groupings.