GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA
PRADESH
Sub:
Public Services - State and Subordinate Services - Prescription of minimum
service for promotion/ appointment by transfer to next higher class, category,
or Grade - Commencement of probation - Clarification - Regarding.
In G.O.Ms.No.627, General Administration (Ser.A)Dept., dated 21.12.1983 an adhoc rule has been issued reducing the minimum period of five years of service wherever prescribed in the special rules for appointment of a member of a service from the lower category, class or grade, to the next higher category, class or grade to three years, but in no case shall it be less than two years in the category, class or grade from which such promotion or transfer is made.
2. In all the special rules governing the State and subordinate Services, minimum period for promotion/ appointment by transfer to next higher categories has been prescribed.
3. Proposals are being received from various Departments for consideration of promotions to higher categories in relaxation of Special rule relating to minimum service in the lower categories owing to the exigencies of service. Such proposals are being considered only for making adhoc and temporary promotions under rule 10 (a) of the Andhra Pradesh State andSubordinate Service Rules to meet the urgent needs of the Department Concerned without resorting to any relaxation of rules. As per the rule 10 (c) of thesaid rules, a person appointed under sub-rule (a) shall not be regarded as a probationer in such service, class or category or be entitled by reason only of such appointment to any preferential claim to future appointment to such service, Class or category.
4. It is noticed that in certain cases the persons considered for appointment by transfer, involving promotion on temporary basis referred to at para 3 above are being allowed to commence their probation from the date of temporary promotion made under Rule 10 (a).
5. It is clarified that a person appointed or promoted on adhoc or temporary basis without fulfilling the required number of years of service in the feeder category, by invoking rule 10 (a) of the A.P. State andSub-ordinate Service Rules, may be allowed to count his service in higher category or class as the case may be to the extent of the period of duty performed by him in the latter service during which he would have held the post in the former service but for such appointment in the later service and the probation of such individual so promoted or appointed may have to be commenced from the next date of such completion of the required period of service in the former service (in the lower feeder category).
6. All the Heads of Departments / Departments of Secretariat /
District Collectors / District Judges are requested to bring these instructions
to the notice of all the appointing authorities to follow them scrupulously.
