Relative grading of officer's annual confidential reports during promotion held

[bpagrawal]

Relative grading of officer's annual confidential reports during promotion held not to be personal information

The CIC has consistently held that the ACRs of an officer is in the nature of  personal   information   and   can   be   disclosed   only   to   him   and   to   none   else.  However, in the present case, the Appellant has not sought the copies of the  ACRs. She has only wanted to know the manner in which the DPC evaluated  and assessed the individual ACRs of the officers and arrived at the grading in  each case. The disclosure of the final relative grading will not help; without the  entire chart showing the complete assessment of every officer, it will not be  clear how the officers have been assessed in a related matrix. It is without  doubt that the relative grading of the ACRs is an important input in the final 
decision of the DPC in recommending some officers and not recommending  some   others.   As   held   by   us   in   several   similar   cases   in   the   past,   in   any  examination   or   evaluation   process,   certain   details   about   the   successful   or  recommended candidates must be disclosed in order to ensure transparency in  the selection process.
//http://www.lawweb.in/2012/12/relative-grading-of-officers-annual.html