Transcript Promotion from Group ‘B’ to Group ‘A’ on Indian Railways

DPC Procedure for promotion from Gr ‘B’ to
‘A’ Railway officers
Complied
By
Er. Mahesh C.Yadav
Dy Director/Signal /RB
& General Secretary
Railway Board Promotee Officers Association
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Steps of DPC
• Allotment of posts to various Rlys
• Finalization of Zone of consideration
• Collection of 5 years ACRs of candidates under zone of
consideration , Seniority lists & Integrity certificate (
DAR & Vig clearance)
• Submission of proposal to UPSC up complete
documents
• Verification of documents in UPSC
• Nomination of Member UPSC by Chairman/UPSC
• Meeting of DPC {1UPSC+3 Departmental
members(1sc/sc)}
• Approval of DPC recommendation by UPSC Chairman
• DAR & Vig clearance again
• Approval of panel by MR (on behalf of President)
• Notification of panel
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Appointments to Group ‘A’ on
Indian Railways
• 8 organized Group ‘A’ services
• IRSE, IRSEE, IRSME, IRSSE, IRSS
IRTS, IRAS and IRPS
• Appointment through direct recruitment
and promotion
• appointment to the lowest rung of the
cadre, viz Junior Scale (Rs 8000 - 13500).
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Appointments to Group ‘A’ on
Indian Railways
• Miscellaneous Group ‘A’ cadres
• Law, Hindi, Public Relations, Printing &
Stationary, CMT, Cash & Pay, EDP etc.
• Appointment made through DR/promotion
/deputation as per percentages specified in
RRs
• Appointment made directly to Senior Scale
(Rs 10000 - 15200).
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Cadre strength of Junior Scale of
Organized Services
• The strength Junior Scale cadre of all 8
services put together : 1647 posts.
• Previous Rectt Rules ---- 50% vacancies
through DR and 50% vacancies through
promotion
• Revised Rectt Rules --- percentage of
posts for the two modes
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Cadre strength of Junior Scale of
Organized Services
• DR quota : promotion quota -- ratio
of 3:1 ( WHY ? )
• Promotees get 5 years weightage in
seniority in Group ‘A’
• Service required for promotion from Jr
scale to Sr scale 4 years
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Cadre strength of Junior Scale of
Organized Services
• DRs work for 2 ½ years in Jr scale
working posts whereas promotees
vacate Jr scale posts immediately
• Posts occupied by 3 batches of DRs
and 1 batch of promotees due to
immediate vacation of posts by
promotees
• Promotion quota consists of 411 posts
• DR quota consists of 1236 posts
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Cadre strength of Junior Scale of
Organized Services
• Promotion to Group ‘A’ is made every
year to the full extent of 411 posts due
to full vacation of the promotion quota
junior scale posts
• Direct recruitment is also to be made
every year roughly to the same extent
viz 411 posts
• Ratio of intake to Group “A” by the 2
modes remains same
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Service wise Distribution of
Promotion Quota posts
Year
2002-2003 to
2004-2005
Year
2005-2006 &
2006-2007
Year 2007-2008
onwards
No. of Post
180
318
411
IRAS
IRSE
IRSEE
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43
25
28
76
44
29
74
55
IRSME
IRPS
IRSS
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13
48
20
23
84
28
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IRSSE
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35
48
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Promotion to Group ‘A’ / Junior
Scale of Organized Services
• Recruitment Rules notified for each of the
organized services containing provisions
on eligibility conditions etc
• promotion to Group 'A‘ / Jr. Scale through
selection by a DPC (Departmental
Promotion Committee)
• DPC held by UPSC
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Promotion to Group ‘A’ / Junior
Scale of Organized Services
• Group 'B' officers of the respective
departments with 3 years regular service
in the grade as on 1st January of the year
are eligible
• Group ‘B’ seniority is maintained Railwaywise
• seniority list of Group 'B' officers as on 1st
January of every year is obtained from
each Zonal Railway / PU for each
department
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Distribution of vacancies among
zonal Railways
• Group ‘A’ panels are also made Railwaywise
• The promotion quota vacancies in Jr.
Scale of each service are distributed
among the different Railways / PUs
• Till the year 2004-05, vacancies were
distributed only among the 9 parent
Railway and officers absorbed in new
zones were also considered in their
respective parent zones. From the year
2005-06
onwards
vacancies
are
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Distribution of vacancies among
zonal Railways
• Seniority of Group ‘B’ officers of Prod.
Units integrated with adjacent Rly e.g ICF
with SRly.
• But for IRSME and IRSEE, Prod units are
treated as independent units and
vacancies allotted to the PUs separately.
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Distribution of vacancies among
zonal Railways
• Till the year 2004-05 the norms adopted
for distribution of vacancies was as
follows.
– 50% of the vacancies --- on the
basis of Group 'A' cadre strength
of the service on each railway.
– 50% of the vacancies --- on the
basis of length of service of the
officers in Group ‘B’.
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Distribution of vacancies among
zonal Railways
• From the year 2005-06 onwards, all the
vacancies are allotted only with reference to
length of service in group ‘B’, in order to reduce
levels of stagnation in Group ‘B’ uniformly on all
Railways
• Reservation of vacancies for SC and ST is made
in accordance with post based roster prescribed
by DOP&T under their O.M. dated 2.7.1997.
SC/ST vacancies are allotted to Railways with
reference to the length of service in Group ‘B’ of
SC/ST Officers.
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Departmental Promotion
Committee(DPC)
• Departmental
Promotion
Committee
(DPC) for this purpose are convened by
UPSC.
• Chairman or a Member of UPSC presides
over the DPC meeting and 3 other
departmental members from Railway
Board (One ED from concerned dept, one
ED/Dir. Estt., including an SC / ST officer)
are nominated from the Ministry of
Railways as members of the DPC
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DPC proposal to UPSC (zone of
consideration)
• Formation of zone of consideration for each railway w.r.t
vacancies
No. of vacancies
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3 to 10
10 & above
No. of officers to be considered
5
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1.5
2x + 4
times rounded off to
next higher integer+ 3
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minimum 24)
• For SC/ST officers, the zone can extend up to 5 times
the number of vacancies if adequate candidates are not
available
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Finalization Vacancy allotment(55
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DPC proposal to UPSC( ACRs)
• ACRs of all officers in the Zone and the
DAR /Vigilance position in respect of
these officers are collected from the
Zonal Railways.
• ACRs
for
5
preceding
years
considered. To illustrate, for vacancy
year 2008-09, for which the cut-off-date
for eligibility is 1.1.2008, the relevant
ACRs are for the years 2002-03, 03-04,
04-05, 05-06 & 06-07. If one or more
ACRs are not available, the DPC
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DPC proposal to UPSC
• A detailed DPC proposal is thereafter sent
to the UPSC in the prescribed format
along with all necessary documents
• Self contained note with vacancy position,
seniority lists, variations from previous list,
zones of consideration for each Rly,
integrity certificates and list of penalties for
each officer, ACRs of all officers etc
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Selection procedure
• The DPC makes an independent
assessment on the basis of entries in CR
and is not guided merely by the final
grading recorded therein.
• Penalties during the assessed years are
taken into consideration by DPC while
giving grades
• For promotion to Group 'A' posts from
lower grades, the bench-mark is 'Good'. At
least 4 grades of “good” are required for
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Selection procedure
• Officers who are graded as 'FIT', to the extent of
number of vacancies are included in the
Railway-wise panel in the order of their seniority.
• Assessment is not made in respect of the
remaining officers.
• An extended panel is also given by the DPC in
lieu of empanelled officers who retire during the
vacancy year.
• No extended panel is given if the date of
retirement of the empanelled officer falls outside
the vacancy year.
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Selection procedure (sealed
cover)
• For officers against whom Disciplinary /
Criminal proceedings are pending or those
who
are
under
suspension,
the
recommendations of the DPC are kept in a
Sealed Cover.
• Action on sealed cover as per Board‘s letter
No. E(D&A)
93/RG6/149
(A)
dated
21.1.1993,
after
finalization
of
the
proceedings.
• The sealed cover is opened and acted upon
only in cases of exoneration.
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Action on DPC
recommendations
• The recommendations of the DPC, with
Railway-wise panels, duly approved by
Chairman/UPSC, are sent to Ministry of
Railways.
• Minutes submitted for approval of the
President (Minister for Railways)
• DAR/Vigilance clearance is again taken
from Board Vigilance and Zonal
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Action on DPC
recommendations
• Notifications (promotion orders) are
issued by the Ministry of Railways.
• Date of effect of promotion is the
date of UPSC's letter communicating
the approval of the Commission to
the recommendations of the DPC.
• No promotion orders are issued in
respect of officers who cease to be in
service before the date of effect of
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Action on DPC recommendations
• If the recommended officer is undergoing
a penalty of withholding of increment or
reduction of pay, promotion orders are
issued only after the expiry of the penalty.
• While pro-forma promotion is given in such
cases from the date of effect of the panel,
monetary benefits accrue only from the
date of actual promotion.
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Promotion to Group ‘A’ / Senior
Scale in Misc. Cadres & RDSO (Till
now)
• Promotion to Senior scale of Group ‘A’
• The number of posts in the promotion quota for
each cadre is determined with reference to the
total number of posts in Senior Scale in the
cadre and the provisions in the Recruitment
Rules regarding percentage of posts to be
filled through promotion.
• Promotion is made through selection from
amongst Group 'B' officers of the respective
departments with 8 years regular service in the
grade.
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Promotion to Group ‘A’ / Senior
Scale in Misc. Cadres
• DPCs are held for vacancies that physically
arise in the promotion quota posts.
• A single panel is formed for all Railways / PUs
put together on the basis of integrated seniority
of eligible Group 'B' officers.
• The
DPC procedure
and action on
recommendations of DPC is the same as for
Organized services.
• Only 5 ACRs are assessed even though
eligibility is 8 years
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JAI HIND
For any query /clarification/details/circulars you are most welcome.
Er.M.C.Ydav
[email protected]
O9958293650 CUG30