Probation in various Central Civil Services.

 

No.18011/1/2010-Estt. (C)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
(Department of Personnel & Training)

New Delhi 110001
Dated September 8, 2011

The undersigned in directed to say that the period of probation to be prescribed for different posts/services in Central Government have been laid down in this Department’s 0M. No. F 44/1/59-Ests(A) dated 15.4 1959 as amended from time to time. With a view to prevent Government servants from becoming possible victims of arbitrary actions or inordinate delay in considering completion of probation/confirmation, the existing instructions on provisions regarding probation in the service recruitment rules relating to Central Civil Services and Posts have been reviewed. It is proposed that in the service / recruitment rules for all Central Civil Services and Posts, in addition to the period of probation, wherever prescribed, corresponding provisions as envisaged in the draft guidelines enclosed herewith, may be incorporated in consultation with this Department.

2.  Before the guidelines in the draft O.M. is finalized, all Cadre Controlling Authorities are requested to offer their comments/views in this regard, if any. by 8.10.2011 to the undersigned or by e-mail at dse@nic.in

(P.Prabhakaran)
Director

No.18011/1/2010-Estt.(C)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
(Department of Personnel & Training)
 

New Delhi 110001
Dated: September 2011
 

OFFICE MEMORANDUM
 

SUBJECT: Probation in various Central Civil Services.
 

The undersigned in directed to say that the period of probation to be prescribed for different posts/services in Central Government have been laid down in this Department’s O M No.F 44/1/59-Ests(A) dated 15.4 1959 as amended from time to time. Although instructions exist to the effect that save for exceptional reasons probation should not be extended for more than a year and no employee should be kept on probation for more than double the normal period apart from instructions for timely action on completion of probation/confirmation, these are not invariably followed.
 

2. With a view to prevent Government servants from becoming possible victims of arbitrary actions or inordinate delay in considering completion of probation/confirmation, the existing instructions on provisions regarding probation in the service/recruitment rules relating to Central Civil Services and Posts have been reviewed, it has now been decided that:
 

(i) 1f during the period of probation, a probationer has not undergone the requisite training course or passed the requisite departmental examinations. if any prescribed, or has not been on duty/training for at least 75% of the probation period the period of probation may be extended by such period or periods as may be necessary subject to the condition that the total period of probation does not exceed double the prescribed period of probation except in the cases mentioned in (ii) below:
 

(ii) the period of probation may be extended for such period as the Central Government may think fit in the circumstances of the case in respect of a probationer who is:
(a) under suspension
(b) against whom disciplinary proceedings are pending: or
(c) against whom prosecution for criminal charge is pending
 

(iii) Where a probationer who has completed the period of probation to the satisfaction of the Central Government is required to be confirmed, he shall be confirmed in the Services/Post at the end of his period of probation, having been completed satisfactorily. In such cases, where no order extending the probation period has been issued and no order of confirmation is issued within one year of completion of the prescribed period of probation, the probationer would be deemed to be confirmed in the service/ post.
 

3. In the Service/Recruitment Rules for all Central Civil Services and Posts, in addition to the period of probation. wherever prescribed, corresponding provisions, as in para 2 above, may be incorporated in consultation with this Department in the light of the above instructions.
 

The Hindi Version of this O.M. will follow
 

(P. Prabhakaran)
Director

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Providing Air Travel Facilities to Personnel of Armed Forces

Providing Air Travel Facilities to Personnel of Armed Forces

In consideration of various proposals from Army Headquarters, sanction has been accorded for hiring of 648 charter flights per year to extend Air Travel facility to personnel in Armed Forces to the following destinations:-

S. No.	Route	Total flights per year
1.	Delhi-Leh-Delhi	260
2.	Delhi-Srinagar-Delhi	•208
3.	Delhi-Thoise-Delhi	104
4.	Kolkata-Imphal-Kolkata	52
5.	Chennai-Kolkata-Port Blair and Back	24
	TOTAL:	648

These flights are expected to reduce travel time and reduce stress of the troops.

This information was given by Defence Minister Shri AK Antony in a writtenreply  to Shri Motilal Vora and Shri Satyavrat Chaturvedi in Rajya Sabha today

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Grant of family pension to dependent parents of a deceased Government employee

No. 1/2/07-P&PW(E)
Govt. Of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare

Lok Nayak Bhawan,
Khan Market, New Delhi,
2^nd September, 2011

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Grant of family pension to dependent parents of a deceased Government employee.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s O.M,No. 45 /86/97-P&PW(A)-Part I, dated 27.10.1997, whereby the definition of family for the purpose of grant of family pension was extended to include, inter alia, “parents who were wholly dependent on the Government servant when he/ she was alive provided the deceased employee had left behind neither a widow nor a child”.

2. It has been observed that Ministries/ Departments have been interpreting this to mean that parents are eligible for family pension when the deceased employee is survived by them only. In case the deceased employee is survived by a widow and/ or one or more children, the parents are not considered eligible to receive family pension subsequent to such widow and/or children becoming ineligible to receive family pension or ceasing to survive.

3. It is hereby clarified that in case the deceased government servant is not survived by a widow/widower or a child, the dependent parents become directly eligible to receive family pension. In cases where a deceased Government servant is survived by a widow/widower or a child, and the position changes subsequently because of death or re-marriage of the spouse and/or death or ineligibility of child/children, including a disabled child, the dependent parents become eligible for family pension However.in terms of this Department’s OM. No. 38/37/08-P&PW(A) dated 02.09.08, a childless widow, subject to dependency criteria, is entitled to the family pension even after her re-marriage. In such an event, the parents of the deceased employee become entitled to the family pension only after the childless widow dies or when her independent income from all other sources becomes equal to or higher than that prescribed for dependency criterion under the Rules.

4. This issues with the concurrence of Ministry of Finance,Department of Expenditure vide. U.O. No.248/EV/2011, dated 2nd September, 2009.

K.K.Mittal
Director

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