GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
ABSTRACT
Public Services - Subordinate Services - Scheme of Compassionate Appointments to the dependents of the deceased Government Employees – Compassionate Appointments to the dependents of Government Employees who have disappeared and whose whereabouts are not known for more than seven years - Orders - Issued.
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GENERAL ADMINISTRATION (SER.A) DEPT.
G.O.Ms.No.
378, Dated: 24-08-1999
Read the following:
In the G.O. read above, orders have been
issued for providing relief to the dependents of the deceased Government
servants who die in harness while in service by providing compassionate
appointment to the spouse or the dependent children of the deceased Government
servant to the posts the pay of which is equal to or less than that of Lower
Division Clerk (Junior Assistant) without the media of Employment Exchange and
Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission, subject to certain conditions
specified therein as also in various orders issued from time to time, on the
scheme, as a social security measure.
2.
Instances of Government employees who have disappeared and whose whereabouts
are not known for 7 (Seven) years or more and found missing have come to the
notice of the Government, where in the dependents of such missing Government
employees are seeking compassionate appointments. Proposals are being received
from subordinate Offices to the Head of Departments in such cases and in turn,
the Heads of Departments/ District Collectors are seeking clarification of Government
in individual cases, as to whether compassionate appointments can be provided
to the dependents of Government employees who have disappeared and whose
whereabouts are not known for more than 7 (Seven) years.
3.
Government after careful examination of the matter, hereby direct that compassionate
appointments be provided to the dependents of the Government employees, who
have disappeared and whose whereabouts are not known for more than 7 (Seven)
years in accordance with the existing instructions on the scheme of compassionate
appointments to the dependents of deceased Government employees who die in
harness, subject to the following conditions:
(a)
A request for grant of the benefit of compassionate appointment can be considered
only after a lapse of 7 (Seven) years from the date from which the Government
servant has been missing, provided that:
(i) An FIR (First Information Report) to this
effect has been lodged with police;
(ii)
the police report shall certify that the missing Government employee is not
traceable; and
(iii) the competent
authority feels that the case is genuine.
(b)
This benefit shall not be applicable to the case of a Government servant:
(i)
Who had less than 7 (Seven) years to retire on the date from which the FIR is
filed; and / or
(ii) Who is suspected to have committed fraud or suspected to have joined any terrorist/extremist organisation or suspected to have gone abroad.
(c)
While considering the request for compassionate appointment the result of the
police investigation shall also be taken into account;
(d)
Applications for compassionate appointment from the dependents of such missing
Government employees shall be entertained within a period of one year from the
date of completion of 7 (Seven) years from the date of filing FIR with police.
(e)
A decision on any such request for compassionate appointment shall be taken
only at the level of the Secretary to Government of the respective
administrative Department concerned and only after receipt of the approval from
the concerned Secretary to Government, the respective appointing authorities
shall issue necessary orders to appoint the eligible dependent of such missing
Government employee as per the existing instructions on the scheme of
compassionate appointments to the dependents of deceased Government employees,
in addition to the above conditions, if there is a vacancy readily available in
the department. In case when there are
no vacancies available in the Department to appoint such eligible dependent of the
missing Government employee such cases have to be referred to nodal authorities
for allotting such dependents to any other department in the District as
ordered in G.O.Ms.No.427, Genl. Admn. (Ser.A) Dept., dated the 1st July,
1991 read with G.O.Ms.No.533, Genl. Admn. (Ser.A) Dept., dated the 5th
September, 1991 and G.O.Ms.No.215, Genl. Admn. (Ser.A) Dept., dated 8th April, 1993.
(f) A bond shall be obtained from the
dependent of such missing Government employee, whose whereabouts are not known for
more than 7 (Seven) years that in the event of appearance of such missing
Government employee at a later date or proved that such missing Government
employee is alive anywhere, the services of the person so appointed are liable
for termination.
(By Order and in the
name of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh)
V. ANANDARAU
Chief Secretary to Government
