Organization : Railway Employees Information System
Scheme Name : Central Staffing Scheme

Home Page : http://www.reis.railnet.gov.in/default.asp
Terms & Conditions : http://www.indianjobtalks.com/uploads/76338-CSS.pdf
Register Here : https://supremo.nic.in/Registration.aspx

Central Staffing Scheme :
The Central Staffing Scheme has been in operation now for over 30 years. It provides a systematic arrangement for the selection and appointment of officers to senior administrative posts at Centre, excluding posts which are specifically encadred within the organised Group 'A' services or filled by recruitment through the Union Public Service Commission.

Some posts of Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary under the Central Government are shown as numbers, without specifying individual posts, in the cadre strength of the Central Secretariat Service.

These posts are filled in accordance with the rules of the CSS, and when so filled, stand outside the Central Staffing Scheme. Appointments to all other posts of the rank of Under Secretary and above in the Government of India are filled under the Central Staffing Scheme, by borrowing officer from the All India Services and participating Group 'A' services;

The cardinal principle being that all officers who are so borrowed will serve the Government of India for a stipulated tenure on deputation and, thereafter, return to their parent cadre. Their growth, development and career prospects will be mainly in their own Service.

The raison d'etre of such a scheme is the Centre's need for fresh inputs at senior levels in policy planning, formulation of policy and implementation of programmes from diverse sources, viz., the All-India Services and the participating organised Group 'A' Services.

The services of scientific and technical personnel and professionals in the fields of economics, statistics, law and medicine are, similarly, obtained from officers serving for specified periods on deputation and who return to their respective cadres at the end of tenure. This two-way movement is of mutual benefit to the service cadres and the Government of India.

Objective & Scope :
(i) All posts of the rank of Under Secretary and above in the Government of India may be filled on tenure deputation from the all-India Services and the participating Group 'A' Services of the Central Government, excluding such posts of Under Secretary and Deputy Secretary as are filled by CSS officers.

(ii) In so far as the officers from the Central Secretariat Services (CSS) are concerned, a specified number of posts at the levels of Under Secretary and Deputy Secretary will be treated as part of their Cadre and posts over and above these will be filled under the Central Staffing Scheme.

(iii) In terms of the provisions of article 312 of the Constitution, the Indian Administrative Service, the Indian Police Service and the Indian Forest Service are all-India Services common to the Union and the States.

Every State cadre of each of these Services provides for a central deputation quota which in turn requires additional recruitment to be made to these Services to provide for trained and experienced members of these services to serve on posts in the Central Government.

Accordingly, utilization of the central deputation quota of different State Cadres is an important factor governing the scale at which officers are borrowed from the various State cadres of these all-India Services.

However, no post so filled by a member of any all-India Service on tenure deputation can be deemed to be a cadre post of that Service. Similarly, no individual member of an all-India Service can claim any right to a post or appointment under the Government of India on this ground.