Minimum Service for Promotion is Three years

PUBLIC SERVICES – State and Subordinate Services – Prescription of minimum service for promotion/appointment by recruitment by transfer to next higher class, category or grade – Ad-hoc Rule annulled and re-issued.

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GENERAL ADMINISTRATION (SERVICES-A) DEPARTMENT
G.O.Ms.No.230 Dated:31-05-2014.
Read the following:-
1) G.O.Ms.No.627 G.A.(Ser.A)Department, dated:21.12.1983.
2) From the Secretary, APPSC Lr.No.683/RR/2014 date:29.05.2014.
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ORDER:-

According to the policy enunciated in the G.O. cited, in certain special/adhoc rules relating to various State and Subordinate Services, a provision was made to the effect that the minimum period of service was reduced from ‘five years’ to ‘three years’ but in no case shall it be less than two years in the category, class or grade from which promotion or appointment by transfer is proposed to the next higher category, class or grade. The above rule position created certain confusion. Hence, to keep the matter beyond doubt without giving scope for any other interpretation, it has become necessary to make the following ad-hoc rule.

2. Accordingly, the following notification is published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette:-
                                        NOTIFICATION
In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 of the
Constitution of India and of all other powers hereunto enabling and in supersession (annulling) of the ad-hoc rule issued in G.O.Ms.No.627 G.A.(Ser.A)Department, dated:21.12.1983, and subsequent amendments issued there on if any, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh hereby makes the following ad-hoc rule:-

3. The ad-hoc rule hereby made shall be come into force with immediate effect. All the Departments who are following the ad-hoc rules framed in G.O.Ms.No.627 G.A.(Ser.A) Department, dated:21.12.1983, shall issue separate rules prescribing minimum service in the feeder cadre/category as 3 years.

                               AD-HOC RULE
“Notwithstanding anything contained in the relevant Special Rules or the Adhoc rules for the State and Subordinate Services, the minimum period of service wherever prescribed in the said rules for a member of a service from the lower category, class or grade, to the next higher category, class or grade, whether such appointment is made either by promotion in the regular line or by recruitment by transfer from any other service, that period shall be three years in the category, class or grade from which such promotion or transfer is made”.

[BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH]
S.K.SINHA
SPL. Chief Secretary to Government(Ser & HRM)[FAC]