GOVERNMENT
OFANDHRA PRADESH
ABSTRACT
Public Services -
Personal Files - Annual Confidential Reports - Amendment to consolidated
instructions on maintenance and scrutiny of Personal Files - Orders - Issued.
GENERAL
ADMINISTRATION (SER. C) DEPARTMENT
G.O.Ms.No.354 DATED:
02-08-1999.
Read the following:
1. G.O. Ms. No. 1385, G.A (Ser. 0).,
Dept. dt. 31-10-1961.
2. G.O. Ms. No. 230, G.A., (Ser. 0)
Dept. dt. 22-05-1999.
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ORDER:
In the
G.O. second read above, orders have been issued in regard to Appointing Authorities
for the first level and second level posts in the State Services. According to
the said orders, the Appointing Authority for all the first level posts in the
State Service shall be Regional Authority where Regional Office exist, and the
Head of the Department shall be the appointing authority for all the second
level posts in State Service. Where no Regional Offices exists, the Head of the
Department shall be the Appointing Authority for both the first level posts and
second level posts in the State Service, Consequent to these orders, it is
proposed to modify the custodian of the Annual Confidential Reports.
2. Consequently, instruction 8 (ii) of
the consolidated instructions on maintenance and scrutiny of personal files
issued in G.O.Ms.No.1385, GA (Ser. C)., Dept. dt. 31-10-1961 requires
amendment. Accordingly, the Government hereby make the following amendment to
the G.O. Ms. No. 1385, General Administration (Services. C). Dept. dt. 31st
October 1961 as amended subsequently.
AMENDMENT
In the said order, for
instruction 8(ii), the following shall be substituted namely:
ii(a) "The custodian of the Annual
Confidential Reports in respect of up to and including initial category of
posts in State Service should be the Regional Officers where Regional Offices
exist and such Regional Authority should communicate the adverse remarks, if
any, to the Officer against whom adverse remarks are recorded in the Annual
Confidential Report. Any representation against the adverse remarks should be
made to the Head of the Department.
(b) In respect of the second level and
above category of posts in the State Service but below the rank of Heads of
Departments (non-cadre,) the Annual Confidential Reports should be maintained
by the Head of the Department and such Head of the Department shall be the
authority to communicate the adverse remarks to the Officer against whom adverse
remarks recorded in the Annual Confidential Reports. Any representation against
the adverse remarks should be made to the Government.
(c) Where no Regional Offices exist,
the Head of the Department or Cadre Controlling Authority should be custodian
for all the categories of posts in the State Service below the rank of Head of
the Department or Cadre Controlling Authority. Any representation against
adverse remarks should be made to the Government.
(By order
and in the name of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh)
N.V.H.
SASTRY
Secretary
to Government
