Retired officials have no right for promotion

Retired officials have no right for promotion

Post Retirement Benefits

Department of Personnel & Training has not made any change in instructions contained in OM No. 22011/4/1998-Estt.(D) dated 12.10.1998 and reiterated vide OM No. 22011/1/2014-Estt.(D) dated 14.11.2014. These instructions provide for consideration of retired employees, who are within the zone of consideration in the relevant year(s) while preparing year-wise panel(s) for promotion. Such retired officials, however, have no right for promotion as they are not available to assume charge of the higher post.

This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Dr. Udit Raj in the Lok Sabha today.

SEE THE DOPT ORDER : DOPT OM No. 22011/1/2014-Estt.(D) dated 14.11.2014

PIB

Most of the Employees of Defence, Finance and IT Ministries are not marked their attendance in BAS

Most of the Employees of Defence, Finance and IT Ministries are not marked their attendance in BAS

The Defence Ministry has topped the list of government organisations whose employees have defaulted in marking their attendance through Aadhaar-enabled biometric system.

Most of the employees of 27 departments and organisations affiliated to the Defence Ministry and nine each from Finance, and Information and Broadcasting Ministries have not been marking their attendance through the electronic system introduced by the NDA government.

In light of this, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has, in an order, asked department heads to direct their employees to mark attendance on biometric systems.

A data on employees of 169 central government offices marking and not-marking their attendances has also been issued with the DoPT order.

The data, which has been prepared by the Department of Information and Technology, showed that none out of the 540 employees of DRDO was marking attendance.

The attendance number is zero for Engineer-in-Chief having 746 employees, Additional Directorate General Personnel Services with 150 strength and History Division with a staff strength of 20. All these departments function under the Ministry of Defence.

Of the total of 736 registered employees in DoPT, only 576 were marking their attendances, it said. A total of 2133, 761, 750 employees of Railways, Department of Revenue and Niti Ayog (though the list mentioned office name as Planning Commission) respectively were marking their attendance electronically.

None out of 419 employees registered with the Office of Registrar General and Census Commissioner under Home Ministry and OS Directorate (Army) with 70 registered personnel had marked their attendance through the system, as per the data.

There are 2830, 1080, and 971 registered employees respectively in these departments.

Also, none of the 195 registered employees of National Investigation Agency (NIA) were filing their attendance through the system, it said.

The Department of Electronics and Information Technology, the official record keeper for attendance of all the central government employees, recorded 78 per cent presence of employees on biometric system with 748 out of 958 using this technology.

Similarly, there were many employees in various departments who were defaulting in marking attendance


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Confirmation of Central Government employees

Confirmation of Central Government employees

The following questions were raised in Rajya Sabha by Shri. Shri Arvind Kumar Singh (QUESTION NO 3145) on Confirmation of Central Government Employees

(a) whether onus of confirmation lies with the Central Government employee or the employer/organisation, the details of conditions/rules of confirmation may be given;

(b) whether the post held could be treated as vacant even if the Central Government employee has rendered more than 25 years of continuous service and got promotions on the ground that he is not confirmed in service;

(c) if not, the options open for the employee to seek redressal for his grievances; and

(d) the minimum/maximum period during which an employee has to be confirmed to a post in Central Government organisation?


The following Answer was given by ‘Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Shri.DR. JITENDRA SINGH to the above questions in Rajya Sbha

(a): The onus of confirmation lies with the Organisation concerned. As per the extant instructions on satisfactory completion of the period of probation or extension thereof, the Government i.e the employer/Organisation may confirm a temporary Government servant from the date of completion of the period of probation or extension thereof.

(b): As per extant instructions, the confirmation of a Government Servant is delinked from the availability of permanent vacancy in the grade. In other words, an officer who has successfully completed the probation, as prescribed under relevant rules, may be considered for confirmation.

(c): Under Rule 23 of Central Civil Services (Classification, Control & Appeal) Rules, 1965, an employee has the right to appeal against any Order which denies or varies to his disadvantage his pay, allowances, pension or other conditions of service as regulated by rules or by the service agreement.

(d): As per extant instructions save for exceptional reasons, probation should not be extended for more than a year and in no circumstance an employee should be kept on probation for more than double the normal period.

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Recommendation of Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Compassionate Appointment

Recommendation of Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Compassionate Appointment

Parliament Committee Matter
IMMEDIATE

No.4 1013/ 1/2013-lstt(D)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
(Department of Personnel and Training)

New Delhi-110001
Dated 8th July, 2014

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Recommendation of Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Compassionate Appointment – Regarding

The undersigned is directed to invite reference to this Department’s Office Memorandum of even number dated 25.3.20 13 and subsequent reminder dated 26.5.2014 on the above mentioned subject wherein all the Ministries/Departments were requested to furnish an annual report in the enclosed proforma latest by 30th April of every year, indicating the status of implementation of Government instructions on compassionate appointment as on 31st March of that year.

2. it is observed that the Ministries/Departments of Government of India and their subordinate/attached offices are furnishing the requisite information in a piecemeal and haphazard manner, compilation of which is a time consuming and difficult exercise for this Department.

3. In view of the above, the Ministries/Departments are requested to furnish the requisite information in a consolidated manner, including the information in respect of their subordinate/attached offices.

(Mukta Goel)
Director(E- I)

Download: Recommendation of Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Compassionate Appointment

Guidelines for providing certain facilities in respect of persons with disabilities for efficient performance of their duties

Guidelines for providing certain facilities in respect of persons with disabilities for efficient performance of their duties

No.36035/3/2013-Estt(Res)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training

Dated the 14th February, 2014.
North Block, New Delhi.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Guidelines for providing certain facilities in respect of persons with disabilities who are already employed in  Government for efficient performance of their duties.

The undersigned is directed to enclose a copy of draft guidelines for providing certain facilities in respect of persons with disabilities who are already employed in Government for efficient performance of their duties. It is requested that the draft guidelines may be examined and suggestions, if any, may be sent to this Department before 21 st February, 2014 as the guidelines will be issued very
shortly.

Enclo.: As above.

(G. Srinivasan)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India

source : DOPT
[http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02est/18016_3_2011_Estt_L.pdf]

Central Government Employees Resident welfare Associations Functioning in Government Colonies / Private Colonies in Delhi/Outside Delhi and monitoring of elections for block year 2013-15

Updating data on Central Government Employees Resident welfare Associations Functioning in Government Colonies / Private Colonies in Delhi/Outside Delhi and monitoring of elections for block year 2013-15

Government of India
Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
Office of Director (Canteens)
(3rd Floor) Lok Nayak Bhavan.

Khan Market. New Delhi-I 10003
Dated 04th June. 2013

Office Memorandum

Subject:— Updating data on Central Government Employees Resident welfare Associations Functioning in Government Colonies / Private Colonies in Delhi/Outside Delhi and monitoring of elections for block year 2013-15.

A need has been felt to update the data on RWAs functioning in government Colonies in Delhi, Outside Delhi. In order to enable DOPT to update the data following information may please be made available.

I. Name of the RWA

(a) Recognized by DOPT.
(h) Not recognized by DOPT
(c) Other [apart from (a) & (b) above]

2. Copy of Registration Certificate of having registered under Societies Registration Act. 1860.

3. Jurisdiction of Association i.e. area/block/types of Quarters etc. covered under specific RWA.

4. Copy of Memorandum of Associations.

5. Details of existing management committee.

6 Whether grants—in-aid received from DOPT.

(a) During 2011-2012
(h) During 2012-2013.
6. Status of membership:
(a) Number of allottees.
(h) Number of members of RWA.
(c) Any difficulty faced in seeking membership.
(d) Difficulty in enrolling membership.

7. Election status for the block year 2013-15.

(a) Election held/not held
(h) Result declared.
(c) DOPTs acceptance on election result received/not received.
(e) Reason for not holding election.

8.Details of court case if any filed in respect of RWAs.

9. Suggestions.

(a) Suggestions for improving functioning of RWAs.
(h) Suggestions for making election fair/transparent.
(c) Suggestions for modifying provisions of existing Model Constitution for RWAs so as to avoid bottlenecks in smooth functioning of RWAs and to enhance welfare activities by RWA.

10. Remark if any.

2. A copy of OM No.5/1/201 1-Welfare dated 17.1.11, Which brings out that RWAs in Government (Colonies should necessarily fall under ambit of supervision of DOPT is also enclosed for information.

3. The requisite information may please be furnished as early as possible positively by 20th June 2013.

(Pratima Tiyagi)
Director (Canteens)

Source : DOPT