1. Applicability: -
These guidelines shall be applicable to the following:
-
i. Group ‘C’ officials
ii. Group ‘B’ (non-gazetted) officials
iii. Assistant Superintendent of Posts (Group ‘B’
Gazetted)
2. Operation of Rule 37 of Postal Manual Volume IV: -
Not withstanding anything contained in these
guidelines an official is liable to be transferred to
any part of India unless it is expressly ordered
otherwise for any particular class or classes of officials.
Provided that Postmen, Village Postman and MTS should
not, except for very special reasons to
be recorded in writing, be transferred from one
district to another.
3. Transfer at one’s own request under Rule 38 of
Postal Manual Volume IV: -
A. General Conditions: -
(i) As a general rule, an official shall not be
transferred from one unit to another, either within the
same Circle, or to another Circle unless he has
completed probation period satisfactorily.
(ii) Transfer of an official when requested for own
convenience, shall not be discouraged if they can
be made without injury to the rights of others.
(iii) As it is not possible to accommodate an official
borne on one gradation list into another
gradation list without injury to the other members in
that gradation list, such transfers shall not
ordinarily be allowed except by way of mutual
exchange. Transfers by way of mutual exchange,
if in themselves inherently unobjectionable, shall be
allowed. But in order to safeguard the
rights of employees borne in the gradation lists of
both the offices, the official brought in shall
take the place, in the new gradation list; that would
have been assigned to him had he been
originally recruited in that unit or the place vacated
by the official with whom he exchanges
appointment, whichever is the lower.
(iv) When an official is transferred at his own
request but without arranging for mutual exchange, he
shall rank junior in the gradation list of the new
unit to all officials of that unit on the date on
which the transfer order is issued, including also all
persons who have been approved for
appointment to that grades as on that date.
(v) If the old and the new unit form parts of a wider
unit for the purpose of promotion to a higher
cadre, the transferee (whether by mutual exchange or
otherwise) will retain his original seniority
in the gradation list of the wider unit.
(vi) An
official transferred from one unit to another will be allowed to seek
re-transfer to his/her old
unit. However, such cases shall be considered as a
fresh transfer case under Rule 38 subject to
all other provisions of these guidelines.
(vii) To remove any doubt it is hereby clarified an
official on transfer to an unit from where he/she
was transferred earlier shall not claim the seniority
in the old unit before such initial transfer.
Any special privilege to which an official would have
been entitled by virtue of his position in
the gradation list of the unit from which he is
transferred will be forfeited on his transfer to a
new gradation list.
(viii) Transfer under Rule 38 shall be permitted only
against similar type/categories vacancy i.e.
Direct Recruit shall be transferred against Direct
Recruitment vacancy and promote against a
promotion vacancy. Further OC candidate shall be
transferred against OC vacancy, SC
candidate against SC vacancy and ST candidate against
ST vacancy.
(ix) Under Rule 38, inter-Circle and intra-Circle
transfer from one distinct cadre to another viz. Post
Offices to Circle Office, Regional Office, SBCO,
Postal Assistant to Sorting Assistant etc. or
vice versa shall not be allowed.
(x) Only such official who has completed probation or
put in minimum service of 2 years in the
grade where there is no probation period shall be
eligible for transfer under Rule 38:
Provided that the condition of 2 years or probation
period shall not be applicable for Persons
with Disabilities (PwD):
Provided further that the condition of 2 years or
probation period shall not be applicable if
employee/his or her spouse/fully dependent children
are suffering from Terminal illness.
Transfer case of such officials shall be referred to
Directorate with due recommendation of
CPMsG concerned supported by relevant documents. It
shall be open to the Directorate to seek
second medical opinion of the appropriate authority.
(xi) Under Rule 38, an official will be eligible for
two Inter-Circle transfer and two Intra-Circle (i.e.
Inter-region/Intra region) transfer during entire
service.
(xii) One additional chance for transfer in both the
categories, viz. Inter-Circle and Intra-Circle, will
be allowed to Persons with Disabilities (PwD).
Employee with disability who has been
appointed without availing relaxed standard of merit
for PH candidates or an employee who
suffered disability after initial employment, shall be
allowed transfer as of a PwD candidate,
subject to submission of appropriate certificate as
per Government of India’s instructions in
support of claim of being disabled.
(xiii) Married employee whose spouse is working in
Central Government/State Government/PSUs of
Central & State Government seeking transfer to the
place of posting of the spouse or to the
hometown of the spouse shall be transferred on a
priority basis preferably within six months of
receipt of such requests. Shortage of staff shall not
be the sole criteria for rejecting such transfer
request. All such requests for transfer not agreed to
by the competent authority shall be referred
to the Directorate with proper justification. Priority
accorded to married employee under this
provision shall be available only once in whole career
of the employee. However, in case of
female employee, such priority shall be available for
each legal marriage.
(xiv) Widow women seeking transfer under rule 38 shall
be transferred on a priority basis preferably
within six months of receipt of such request. Such a
request shall be considered within the
number of chances available for rule 38. However, if
the maximum available chance for rule 38
have been availed by the official, then, one
additional chance shall be allowed for considering
such request. The provision contained herein shall be
equally applicable for legally divorced
women employee.
(xv) An Assistant Superintendent of Posts shall not be
transferred under rule 38 to a Circle where all
his seniors in the grade of Inspector Posts are not
promoted to Assistant Superintendent of
Posts, excluding those who have not been promoted due
to disciplinary action or who have
denied promotion.
B. Authority competent to approve transfer under Rule
38: -
(I) Cases where all conditions are met:-
(i) Inter-Circle – CPMG of both Circles.
(ii) Intra-Circle (where change of Region is involved) – CPMG
(iii) Intra-Region – PMG
(II) Cases where any of the conditions of these guidelines
are not met – Directorate
C. Maintenance of request register & Schedule for
transfer under Rule 38: -
(i) An application for transfer shall be addressed to
the competent authority as mentioned in Para B
above. In case of Inter-Circle transfer/Inter-region
transfer application shall only be made to the
Competent Authority of Circle/region where the
official is working. Advance copy of
application should not be sent to the authority where
transfer is sought.
(ii) As and when an application for transfer is
received, it shall be recorded in inward or outward
transfer request register, as the case may be, in
order from date of receipt of such application by
the competent authority i.e. CPMG/PMG. Authority
competent to allow transfer under Rule 38
shall strictly adhere to the order of requests
received.
(iii) On receipt of a transfer request, the office of
the competent authority, viz. CPMG/PMG, shall
seek views of the controlling officer of the official,
who shall send his views within 15 days,
failing which it shall be presumed that the
controlling officer has no objection to the transfer
request. After considering the report of the
controlling officer, the Competent Authority shall
seek consent of CPMG of other Circle in case of
Inter-Circle transfer/PMG in case of Intra-
Circle transfer/Divisional Head in case of
Intra-region transfer. Such authority shall furnish
their consent within 30 days, failing which, it shall
be presumed that the authority has agreed to
allow inward transfer of the official.
(iv) Where a request for transfer is not agreed to,
the reasons thereof, shall be communicated to the
official immediately.
(v) All Circles/Regions shall initially upload Inward
and Outward transfer register on India Post
website within 60 days of issuing of these guidelines
and shall update it on quaterly basis.
(vi) Before announcing vacancies for a particular
recruitment year whether under Direct
Recruitment, Departmental examination or promotion,
request received under Rule 38 shall be
considered in first instance. Only after considering
all such requests, vacancies shall be
announced.
(vii) Transfer under Rule 38 shall be considered twice
a year as under:
a) Transfer case shall be considered only in the month
of December and June.
b) For transfer cases considered and approved in the
month of December, orders shall be issued
by 31st December by the competent authority,
transferring the official w.e.f. 1st April of the
following year. Thus, allowing the
administration/official to plan in the intervening period. In
such a case, controlling officer shall issue relieving
order of the official latest by 31st March,
failing which, official will be deemed relieved on 01st April.
c) For transfer cases considered and approved in the
month of June, orders shall be issued by 30th
June by the competent authority, transferring the
official w.e.f. 1st October of the same year.
Thus, allowing the administration/official to plan in
the intervening period. In such a case,
controlling officer shall issue relieving order of the
official latest by 30th September, failing
which, official will be deemed relieved on 01st October.
4. Requested for temporary inter-Circle transfer.
Request for temporary inter-Circle transfer shall not
be entertained except only in deserving cases
for reasons to be recorded in writing. The guidelines
in this regard are as under:
(i) Temporary inter-circle transfer shall be approved
only by the Directorate on the
recommendation of both CPMG.
(ii) The Circles shall not entertain requests for
inter-Circle transfer on temporary basis in a
routine manner. Such requests shall be considered by
the Circles in the first instance under
Rule 38 of Postal Manual Volume IV and instructions
issued by the Directorate from time
to time, if they are otherwise eligible. If the case
is not considered under Rule 38, the
reasons therefore may be recorded.
(iii) Such inter-Circle transfer cases of officials on
temporary basis, referred to Directorate,
will be considered only when both the CPMsG of the
Circles have agreed to in deserving
cases after the genuineness of ground for such
transfer stated by the official is established.
(iv) Inter-Circle transfer on temporary basis shall be
available to only those officials, who have
completed probation period, wherever applicable, and
in other cases on completion of two
years of service in the grade.
(v) Grant of temporary transfer from one Circle to
another will be considered initially for a
period of one year only. Further extension of one year
shall be considered by the
Directorate on recommendations of the CPMsG concerned.
(vi) In no case, temporary transfer shall be allowed
to an official beyond two years in one spell
and four years in two spells in entire service career.
There shall be a minimum gap of 3
years between two spell of temporary transfer.
(vii) Requests of the officials for extension of
temporary transfer should be forwarded by the
Circle with due recommendation of both the Circles at
least two months in advance before
expiry of period of temporary transfer already granted
by the Directorate.
(viii) Inter-Circle transfer on temporary basis from
one cadre to another cadre, e.g. Postal
Assistant to Sorting Assistant etc. shall not be
permissible. Circles should not forward
such request to the Directorate.
(ix) If the official is promoted during the period of
temporary transfer, such official should join
in the promoted post within a month, failing which,
he/she shall be debarred for promotion
for one year.
(x) Requests of temporary transfers and extension
thereon already granted to the officials by
the Directorate before issue of this letter will be
regulated as per these new temporary
transfer guidelines.
5. Rotational Transfers
Rotational transfer of employees shall be regulated as
under: -
I. Post tenure of an employee shall be 3 years and
station tenure shall be 6 years. Provided
that an employee may be transferred before completion
of post/station tenure on
administrative grounds to be recorded in writing by an
authority who is superior to the
authority competent to order such transfer.
II. Matching of human resource with requirements of
posts and placing officials in the choice
stations may be considered in the overall context of
administrative requirement and
austerity measures.
III. Inter-station transfers should be restricted to
minimum in view of the austerity measures.
IV. All such officials who are due for rotational
transfer on completion of post tenure/station
tenure shall be asked to give at least three options
of the place of posting/station with
reasons to enable the authorities to consider the same
while effecting transfer. However,
such request shall be considered subject to
administrative convenience and availability of
post.
V. On completion of post-tenure of three years, to the
extent possible, all officials will be
posted in same station. Where it is not possible to do
so without shifting some of them
outside their present stations, they may be posted
outside their present stations to the
extent administratively feasible.
VI. In respect of cities where the whole city forms a
Postal Region, on completion of station
tenure of six year, a Circle cadre official shall be
transferred out of the Division where he
is working. In other words, a division within such
Postal Region shall compute as a station
tenure for Circle cadre officials.
VII. If officials belonging to various cadres are
waiting since long for their posting to
particular stations and it has not been found possible
to accede to their request for one
reason or other, such pending requests for transfer
may be acceded to in really deserving
cases by transferring out officials having longest
stay in such stations in the public
interest.
VIII. An official may be posted back to any sensitive
post that he/she had held earlier;
subject to the condition that such transfer may only
be considered after a break of full post
tenure. However, the competent authority while
considering such requests shall strictly
adhere to the instructions issued by Investigation
Division time to time under preventive
vigilance.
IX. Rotational Transfer of officials working in Saving
Bank Control Organization shall be
made within the cluster of Divisions. However, in
exceptional circumstances, DPS (Hqs.)
in consultation with Accounts Officer ICO (SB) may
consider movement of SBCO
officials outside the cluster.
X. Officials, other than all Sub Postmaster/Postal
Assistants in a single handed or double
handed Post Offices, who are due for retirement within
one year shall not be transferred,
unless otherwise specially specified or there are very
special reasons to be recorded in
writing by the Head of the Circle. Further, official
due for retirement within four years
shall not be posted as Sub Postmaster/Postal
Assistants in a single handed or double
handed Post Offices
XI. Extension of post tenure in respect of all Group
‘C’ staff, other than Sub Postmaster/Postal
Assistant in a single handed or double handed Post
Offices, may be allowed in deserving
cases for a period of one year by the Regional
Postmasters General/ Chief PMG after
recording full justification on file. Such extensions
to Group ‘B’ officials shall be granted
by the Head of the Circles after due consideration. In
no case, post tenure of an official
shall be extended beyond one year.
XII. An Official on his transfer, after joining the
station assigned to him, shall not be
considered for retransfer for a period of two years to
the station from which he was
transferred. Two year break is; however, only a
minimum condition and it will not entitle
an officer/official to claim retransfer to the old
station in preference to others who have
spent longer period out-side. Retransfer before
completion of two years may be considered
only in extreme public interest or on extreme
compassionate grounds in exceptional cases
with the approval of the Heads of the Circle.
XIII. The transfer/posting/retransfer of officials as
Sub Postmaster/Postal Assistant in a
single handed or double handed Post Offices shall be
regulated as per the instructions
issued by Investigation Division of the Directorate,
in this regard.
XIV. Postman, Mail Guard, Driver (MMS & Staff Car
Driver) and Multi-Tasking Staff
are exempted from rotational transfer except on
administrative grounds.
XV. Where spouse of an employee is working, guidelines
issued by Department of
Personnel & Training regarding posting of husband
and wife at same station shall be taken
into account while implementing rotational transfer
guidelines.
XVI. For employees having differently abled
dependents, guidelines issued by
Department of Personnel & Training regarding
posting of Government employees who
have differently abled dependents shall be taken into
account while implementing transfer
guidelines.
XVII. Each Circle shall notify in advance the schedule
of Rotational Transfer taking into
consideration the academic session of the State/UT
served by the Circle. Schedule, thus
notified, shall specify cut-off date, last date for
issue of transfer order & date by which
transfer shall be implemented.
XVIII. Rotational Transfer ordered shall be
implemented within 45 days of its issue. In
case transfers are not implemented within 45 days,
Circle shall report such instances to the
Directorate with reasons and officer/official
responsible for non- implementation of the
transfer within stipulated time.
XIX. New products/services and modern technology are
being introduced in the
Department of Posts in a big way. Heads of
Circles/Regional Heads/Divisional
Heads/Unit Heads therefore, should build up a pool of
trained officials to handle these
new products and technology related jobs so that
manpower is readily available to replace
the officials presently working on completion of
tenure and to ensure achievement of
desired objectives. Proper succession planning will
have to be made by the
HOCs/Regional/Divisional/Unit Heads well in time. The
Department has already taken
necessary steps to train its manpower for successful
implementation of IT Project. It
should not be difficult to replace such officials on
completion of tenure. As such, the
competent authority should ensure transfer of such
staff on completion of post
tenure/station tenure.
XX. It may be ensured that women employees are
posted/transferred to an office only
after ensuring that basic and essential amenities for
women as required are available there.
6. Provisions of these guidelines are in addition to
the provision of Postal Manual Volume IV
and therefore provisions of Postal Manual Volume IV
which are not incorporated here shall continue
to prevail. In case of conflict between any provision
of the Postal Manual Volume IV and these
guidelines, relevant provision of these guidelines
shall prevail and the provision of the Postal Manual
shall be deemed to be modified.
7. Bringing of direct or indirect political or other
outside influence regarding posting/transfer
would attract the provisions of Rule 20 of CCS
(Conduct) Rules, 1964, as per which an appropriate
disciplinary
action may be initiated against the official/officer.
No comments:
Post a Comment