Port Blair, Sept. 2: The Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association, Andaman and Nicobar Islands express gratitude towards Joint Secretary(UT), Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India and Andaman Nicobar Administration for their timely intervention to grant promotion in DANICS Cadre to three officials from the feeder cadre of A & N Islands issued vide Order No. 14016/13/2023-UTS-II dated 29th August, 2024. It is also heartening that 01 official from the Nicobari Community was also granted promotion to the DANICS cadre in this order. This is a long pending demand by the employees in the feeder cadre as during the last 20 years, no officer from this cadre under A & N Administration has been inducted into DANICS Entry Grade while all the posts of DANICS Entry Grade are filled up by officers from Delhi.

It is pertinent to mention that, the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers Association vide its letter No. NGO/3-3/CC/2023 dated 10.07.2023 addressed to the Joint Secretary(UT), Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India had demanded for bifurcating the 50% promotion quota of DANICS and to allot the rightful percentage for the feeder cadres of Andaman and Nicobar Islands so that the stagnated feeder cadre officials can be promoted to DANICS Entry Grade.

 The Association had also demanded for the upgradation of the pay scales of feeder cadre posts of Andaman and Nicobar Islands at par with DASS Gr I of Delhi government alongwith the pay upgradation of Clerical Cadre staff as has been done in case of DASS Staff in Delhi.