No 04-441201Z-SPB.ll
Government of lndia
Ministry of
Communigations and lT
Department of Posts
Dak Bhawan, Sansad
Marg,
New Delhi-1 1001 ,
Dated 18th April, 2014.
To
All Chief Postmasters General/ postmasters General.
Subject:- Filling up
the vacancies in Higher Selection Grade-t (HSG.I) in post
Offices (POs) and
Raitway Mail Service (RMS) Offices_Reg.
Sir/Madam,
I am directed to say that the existing Recruitment Rules in
brief provide to fill up
the posts of Higher Selection Grade-l (HSG.l) in Post
Offices (POs) and Railway Mail
Service (RMS) Offices in postal Circles as under:-
i. HSG.I in POs: (i) The existing Recruitment Rules, 1976 of
HSG.I in POs and amended
vide Recruitment (Amendment) Rules, 1980 provide for filling
up
(a) promotion from HSG.ll General line officials with three
years regular
service and
(b) promotion from Assistant Superintendent of Post Offices
with two
years regular service,
in the ratio of 50.50 - odd post exsting on the date
preceding the Recruitment
(Amendment) Rules, 1980 going to general line,
(ii) All posts created after commencement of Recruitment
(Amendment)
Rules, 1980 are to be filled up f promotion of HSG.ll
official with three
years regular service In the grade.
ll. HSG I in RMS offices:
The Recruitment Rules, 1976 initially provided for filling
up the posts
of HSG.I in RMS offices by promotion of HSG.ll officials in
RMS offices
with 3 years regular service in the grade, which were
further amended in
the
year 1993 as per which 43 out of 111 sanctioned posts are
earmarked
for being filled up by promotion of Asstt. Supdt. of Railway
Mail Service
(ASRM) with 3 years regular service,
2. Earlier DOP&T had not allowed to fill up the. posts
in HSG.I by promotion on
regular basis as they observed that (i) the posts of HSG-I
and ASPO carried same pay
scale therefore, the promotion of ASPO to HSG-I was not in
order particularly, when
they noted that the ASPOs, after their promotion were
permitted to go back to their
parent cadre and (ii) the RRs had become obsolete.
Therefore, the Circles were
advised not to fill up the posts in HSG-I in Post Offices
(POs) and Railway Mail
Services Offices (RMS Offices) by regular promotion pending
amendment of the
Recruitment Rules (RRs) but subsequently allowed on more
than one occasion to fill
up the posts in H$G-l in POs & RMS offices by promotion
of HSG.ll officials on adhoc basis.
3. The Directorate initiated the process of amendment of the
Recruitment Rules of
HSG-I in consultation with Department of ,Personnel &
Training (DOP&T) and Union
Public Service Commission (UPSC), In the meantime,
references had been received
from variotts Circles explaining difficulties being faced by
them in the absence of fitling
up of the posts in HSG-I or regular basis and continuation
of ad-hoc arrangernent for
past many years.
4. The matter was taken up with DOP&T, bringing to their
knowledge the
difficulties being faced by the Circles in the absence of
regular incumbents and also
the concern of such officials who could not be promoted on
regular basis. Thus,
DOP&T was requested to allow this Department to fill up
the posts of HSG-I on
regular basis. DOP&T have now opined that the promotions
may be made on the
basis of the existing RRs. However, the DOP&T has not
clarified as to whether the
ASPOs could be 'promoted' to HSG-I, for which a separate
reference is being made to
DOP&T. Pending the same, the Circles ale advised tg
proceed further in
holding the DPC for promotion of HSG-ll Officials in Post
Offices and RMS
Offices only to FISG-I on regular basis as per the
provisions of the RRs.
5. The Circles are advised to convene the DPCs for promotion
to HSG-I on
regular basis latest by 30.04.2013 and issue the promotion
orders by 06.05.2013.
Thereafter, a report may be furnished to the Directorate by
Fax to Shri Raj Kumar,
Director (Staffl (Fax No 23096103) by 10.05.2013 intimating
the completion of the
said exercise and number of officials thus promoted to HSG-I
and the number of posts
remained vacant if any, for want of eligible officials,
Yours faithfully,
t
,:ALL- . nt ll
(Alka Tewari)
Assistant Director
General (SPN)