The Civil Services Board (CSB) ordered to be set up by the Supreme Court on Thursday, will now replace ministers’ power to manage bureaucrats via transfers, postings, inquiries, promotions, reward, punishment and disciplinary matters, reported The Hindu.

The SC also suggested a fixed tenure for civil servants and said they should not act on the verbal orders of politicians.

A bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and Pinaki Chandra Ghose gave the directions while disposing of a petition filed by former Union Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramanian; former chief election commissioners TS Krishnamurthy and N Gopalaswami; former Indian Ambassador to the US Abid Hussain; former CBI Director Joginder Singh; former Manipur Governor Ved Prakash Marwah and 77 others.