ABSTRACT
Public Services - Subordinate Services -
Compassionate Appointment of Son / Daughter / Spouse of the Government
employees who retire on Medical Invalidation - Further Orders - Issued.
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GENERAL
ADMINISTRATION (SER.A) DEPARTMENT
G.O.Ms. No. 214, Dated 09.06.1998
Read the following
1. G.O.Ms.No. 504, G.A. (Ser.A) Dept., Dated 30.7.1980
2. G.O.Ms. No. 309, G.A. (Ser.A) Dept., dated 4.7.1985
3. D.O.Lr.No. 347/Ser.A/96-1, GA (Ser.A) Dept.,dated 31.7. 1996.
4. D.O.Lr.No. 347/Ser.A/96-2, GA (Ser.A) Dept., dated
31.7.1996.
5. Govt. Memo. No. 347/ (Ser.A) 96-9, GA (Ser.A) Dept.,dated 15.3.1997.
6. Govt Memo. No. 44634/Ser.N97- I ,GA (Ser. A) Dept.,dated. 12.6.1997.
7. G.O.Ms. No. 69, Genl. Admn. (Ser.A) Dept., dated28.02.1998.
O R D E R:
In the
G.Os first and second read above, Government issued orders for appointment of a
son / daughter / spouse of the Government Employees who retire from service on
Medical Invalidation under Article 441 of the A.P. Pension Code (Volume.I)
subject to certain conditions specified therein. Including a restriction that
this benefit would be applicable to only those Government Employees who retire
on Medical invalidation 5 (Five) years before the employees attain the age or superannuation.
2. In Government Memo. Fifth read above,
while rescinding the instructions issued in the D.O. Letters third and fourth
read above, Government directed that all the proposals of compassionate
appointments to the dependents of Government employees who retire on Medical
Invalidation that were pending in full shape as on 31.7.1996. and Medical
certificates were already obtained be considered and disposed off by the
concerned appointing authorities themselves strictly as per the orders /
instructions issued on the scheme of compassionate appointments on Medical
invalidation. Further in the Government Memo. sixth read above, it has been
clarified that in addition to the proposals of compassionate appointments to
the dependents of Government employees who retire on Medical Invalidation as on
31.7.1996., the cases of compassionate appointments of the dependents of the
Government employees in which the Medical Invalidation certificates of the
Government Employees have been received on or before 31.7.96. In the respective Departments/ offices may
also be considered and disposed off by the concerned appointing authorities as
per the orders/ instructions issued on the scheme though such Government
Employees were permitted to retire on or after 1.8.1996 due to administrative
reasons. In respect of the cases / proposals for compassionate appointments
under the scheme in question that arose on or after 01.8.1996, it has been
decided that instructions will be issued separately and accordingly the same
had been issued in the Government Memo. fifth & sixth read above.
3. For all other cases of compassionate
appointments on Medical invalidation grounds, that arose on or after 1.8.1996
orders have been issued in the G.O. seventh read above prescribing suitable
safeguards and procedures duly constituting the Medical Teams (Medical Boards);
District Level Committee of officers and State Level committee of officers to
prevent any misuse of the scheme. It has
been ordered therein, among other things, that each case of appointment under
the scheme of compassionate appointment on Medical Invalidation would be on the
basis of recommendation of the District Level Committee of Officers which in
turn will be based on the recommendation of the Medical report of team of
Doctors and the recommendation of the District Level Committee will be examined
by a state Level committee and finally the proposal would be placed before the
council of Ministers for approval and only after obtaining prior approval of
the Government the appointing authorities are permitted to retire the
Government employee on grounds of Medical Invalidation and to issue the
appointment orders to the dependents of the Government employees who retire on
Medical Invalidation.
4. Government have reviewed the orders issued
in the G.O. Seventh read above and decided to restrict the scrutiny of the
proposals of compassionate appointments of Medical Invalidation in respect of
cases pertaining to offices at District Level and below to the District Level Committee
itself without reference to the State Level Committee and the State Level Committee
will be functional in the cases of compassionate appointments on Medical
invalidation only in respect of Heads of Departments and Departments of
Secretariat.
5. Accordingly, in supersession of orders
issued in the G.O seventh read above, and in partial modification of the orders
issued in the G.O first read above on the scheme of compassionate appointments
to dependents of the Government employees who retire on medical invalidation,
the following orders are issued:
(i) At District level, a team of doctors
shall furnish the Medical Report to a District Level Committee of officers.
Accordingly, Government hereby constitutes the medical team (Medical Boards) as
follows:
(a) Where there are teaching hospitals, other than Ranga
Reddy and Hyderabad Urban Districts, the Medical learn (medical Board) shall
consist of the superintendent of the Government General Hospital and two
doctors of the cadre of Civil surgeon nominated by the superintendent of
Government General Hospital. among, them one should be a specialist in the
disease/illness with which the employee is suffering and seeking Medical
Invalidation and in case of a lady employee seeking medical invalidation, of
the two Civil surgeons, one should be a lady civil surgeon.
(b) In the case of Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad Urban
Districts, the medical boards already existing in Osmania General Hospital and Gandhi
General Hospital shall constitute the team of doctors (Medical boards)
respectively.
(c) In all other districts, the district co-ordinator of
the dist. Head Quarters Hospital of Andhra Pradesh Vaidya Vidhana Parishad and
two civil / surgeons nominated by the District Co. Ordinator, of whom one shall
be from the speciality of the disease with which the employee is suffering
from, shall constitute the medical team. In case it is a woman employee seeking
medical invalidation, of the two Civil surgeons, one should be lady Civil
Surgeon. Also where the District Headquarter Hospital of Andhra Pradesh Vaidya Vidhana
Parishad does not have necessary expertise to decide the matter for want of the
concerned specialist doctor, it may refer the case to the nearest teaching
hospital for obtaining their opinion before making their recommendations
(d) As and when a Government employee seeks and applies
for retirement on Medical grounds, the concerned appointing authority shall
refer the case to the team of Doctors (Medical Board) mentioned above.
(ii) The appointing authority, under whom the
employee seeking medical invalidation is working, shall after receipt of the
Medical board's recommendations refer the mailer to a District Level Committee
of Officers for scrutiny and its recommendations. Government, hereby constitute
the District Level Committee of officers with the following:
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1.
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District collector
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Chairman.
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2.
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District Medical & Health Officer
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Member.
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3.
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District Head of the Department in which
the employee is seeking retirement on Medical invalidation
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Member / convener.
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The
District Level Committee shall consider the Medical Invalidation report given
by the Medical Board constituted in para 5(1) above and scrutinise the
proposals for compassionate appointments on Medical Invalidation strictly in
accordance with the guidelines and conditions stipulated in the existing instructions on
the scheme.
(iii) For scrutiny and for making
recommendations in respect of cases of Government Employees of Heads of
Departments / Secretariat Departments, a state Level Committee of officers is
hereby constituted with the following:
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Special Chief Secretary / Principal Secretary
to Government nominated by the Government
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Chairman
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Prl. Secretary/Secretary to Govt., Health
Medical & Family Welfare Dept.
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Member.
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Director of Medical Education
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Member.
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Secretary to Government of the Member Department
in which the employee is seeking retirement on Medical Invalidation
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Member.
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5.
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Dy. Secretary/Joint Secretary / Addi.
secretary to Government HM&FW Department
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Member / convener
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The State
Level Committee shall consider the Medical Invalidation report given by the
Medical Board constituted in para 5(I) above and scrutinise the proposals for
compassionate appointments on Medical Invalidation in accordance with the guidelines
and conditions stipulated in the existing instructions in the scheme.
(iv) The District Collectors who are heading
the District Level Committees shall send the recommendations of the District
Level Committees to the concerned District Head of the Department.
(v) In cases of Government employees of Heads
of Departments, Secretariat Departments the proposals shall be placed before
the State Level Committee directly through Health, Medical & Family welfare
Department in Secretariat based on the recommendations of the Medical Board.
(vi) In respect of employees working in the
Heads of Departments / Secretariat Departments, the Convener of the State Level
Committee of officers shall send the recommendations of the State Level
Committee in each case to the concerned principal secretary/ Secretary to
Government of the Secretariat Department or to the Head of the Department
concerned for issue of appropriate orders.
(vii) only where the state Level committee of
officers makes a clear recommendation for retirement on Medical Invalidation,
the concerned Department of Secretariat/Head of the Department shall issue
necessary orders permitting the Government employees to retire on grounds of
Medical Invalidation and to appoint the dependents of such Government employees
who are permitted to retire on Medical Invalidation as per the other existing
instructions on the scheme. Such compassionate appointments will be confined
only to the department in which retirement of the employee on Medical Invalidation
was ordered. In case of Departments of Secretariat, it is single unit except
law and Finance Department.
(viii) Similarly, only where the District
Level Committee recommends retirement on Medical Invalidation, the respective
District Head of the Department/appointing authority or the Districts shall
issue necessary orders permitting the Government employees to retire on ground
or Medical Invalidation and to appoint the dependents of such Government
employees who are permitted to retire on Medical Invalidation as per the
other existing instructions on the scheme. Such compassionate appointments will
be confined only to the department m which retirement or the employee on
Medical Invalidation was ordered as per the existing instructions on the
scheme.
6. Government also direct that the
cases/proposals of compassionate appointments to the dependents or Government
employees who retired on Medical invalidation that arose between 1.8.96 and to
date, shall also be processed and disposed off as per these orders. The medical
certificates that were already obtained earlier in these cases shall not be
taken as criteria and the procedure laid down in these revised orders
shall be followed even in the cases that arose on or after 1.8.96. Further only
111 the cases of death or such Government employees in whose cases Medical invalidation
Certificates were received on or after 1.8.1996 and orders or retirement on
medical invalidation were 1ssucd, such persons should hold good and the rest of
the procedure as envisaged in para 5(ii) to (viii) in these orders shall he
followed. For cases falling between 1.8.96 and the date or issue or this order,
the District will be taken as a unit instead of the Department for calculating
the Vacancies.
7. All such cases where appointment under
Medical Invalidation grounds were made mus1 be reported in detail by the
District Head of the Department along with copies or the orders justifying the
appointment orders under Medical Invalidation to the concerned administrative
Department in secretariat.
8. All the Departments of Secretariat/all the
Heads or Depts/ all the District collectors and all the appointing authorities
shall follow the above instructions scrupulously without any deviation.
9. Necessary amendments to the Article 442 of
Andhra Pradesh Pension Code shall be issued separately by Finance &
planning (FW) Department.
(BY ORDER AND IN THE
NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH)
N.V.H. SASTRY,
SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.
