GO.Ms.No:342, Dt:04-08-1997 | Minor Penalties - Effect

GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

ABSTRACT

Public Services - Andhra Pradesh Civil Services (Classification, Control & Appeal) Rules, 1991 - Minor Penalties - Effect of Penalty - Orders - Issued.
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION (SER.C) DEPARTMENT

G.O.Ms.No.342                                                                                                                        Dated: 04-08-1997

 Read the following :-

1.G.O.Ms.No. 187,Genl. Admn. (Scr.B) Dept., dated 25-4-1985.

2.G.O.Ms.No.53,Genl. Admn. (Ser.C) Dept., dated 4-2-1997.

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ORDER
 
 

(i)              Censure

(ii)            Withholding of Promotion

(iii)          Recovery from pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused by him to the State Government or the Central Government or to a Local Authority or to a Corporation owned or controlled by the State or the Central Government by negligence or breach of orders, while working in any department of the State or the Central Government, local authority or Corporation concerned.

(iv)          Withholding of increments of pay.

(v)     Suspension, where a person has already been suspended under rule 8 to the extent considered necessary.

 

2. As per para 11 of G.O.Ms.No.187, GeneralAdministration (Services.B) Department, dated 25-04-1985 the individual who is undergoing punishment, should not be recommended for promotion. In case, where the period of punishment imposed is already over, each case has to be evaluated by Departmental Promotion Committee on merits.
 
3. The need for issue of comprehensive instructions on the currency and effect of minor penalties on Government employees who were involved in disciplinary cases and who come up for consideration for promotion to higher categories has been examined and further instructions are issued as follows:-

PENALTY

EFFECT

(i)        Censure

In terms of orders issued in G.O.Ms.No.53, Genl. Admn. (Ser.C) Dept., dt. 04-02-1997 "Every Censure awarded shall debar a Government employee for promotion / appointment by transfer for one year to both selection and non-selection posts."

(ii)     Withholding of Promotion

This penalty awarded to Government employee shall debar the individual for promotion / appointment by transfer to a higher post during the period of subsistence of penalty which shall be indicated in the order imposing the penalty subject to a minimum period of one year. both for selection and non-selection posts.

(iii)   Recovery from pay of the whole of part of any pecuniary loss caused by him to the State Government or the Central Government or to a Local authority or to a Corporation owned or controlled by the State or Central Government by negligence or breach of orders, while working in any department of the State or the Central Government Local authority or Corporation concerned.

 

Whenever a Government employee is awarded the penalty of recovery from pay, it shall debar the individual for promotion / appointment by transfer to a higher post during tile period of penalty which shall be indicated in the order imposing the penalty subject to a minimum period of one year both for selection and non-selection posts. Even if an employee remits the amount in one lumpsum, he / she shall not be considered for promotion / appointment by transfer for a minimum period of one year.

(iv)   Withholding of increments of pay :

 

 

(a)      With Cumulative effect

(i)  in G.O.Ms.No.335 Genl. Admn. (Ser.C) Dept., dt. 14-6-93 orders were issued to the effect that the penalty of stoppage of increments with cumulative effect amounts to a major penalty under the Andhra Pradesh Civil Services (CCA) Rules, 1991 and the elaborate procedure prescribed under rule 20 of the said rules is to be followed.

(ii)    In terms of G.O.Ms.No.968 Genl. Admn. (Ser.C) Dept., dated 26-10-95, whenever any Government. employee is awarded the penalty of stoppage of increment with cumulative effect, the cases of such employees shall not be considered for promotion / appointment by transfer for twice the period for which the increment(s) is / are stopped with cumulative effect, both for selection and non-selection posts.

 

(iii)  Whenever any Government employee is awarded the penalty of stoppage of increment with cumulative effect, the individual shall not be considered for promotion / appointment by transfer for twice the period with a minimum of one year both for selection and non-selection posts.


(b)     Without Cumulative effect:

This penalty awarded to Government employee shall debar him / her for promotion / appointment by transfer to a higher post during the period of subsistence of penalty which shall be indicated in the order subject to a minimum period of one year, both for selection and non-selection posts.

 

(v) Suspension Where a person has already been suspended under rule 8 to the extent considered necessary.

Where suspension is revoked exonerating a person fully his / her case may be considered for promotion with retrospective effect where the disciplinary proceedings finally resulted in a penalty, he / she will be debarred during the period of penalty and subject to minimum period of one year from the date of reinstatement. In case the suspension period itself is treated as substantive penalty, he / she shall be debarred for promotion / appointment by transfer for a period or minimum one year both for selection / non-selection Posts.


 4.         All departments of Secretariat / Heads of Departments / All District Collectors shall follow the above orders scrupulously and bring it to the notice of all concerned.
 
(By Order and in the name of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh)
 
N.V.H. SASTRY
Secretary to Government

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