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GOVERNMENT
OF ANDHRA PRADESH
ABSTRACT
Public
Services - Human Resources – Transfers and Postings of Employees – Guidelines /
Instructions – Orders –Issued.
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FINANCE
(HR.I.PLG. & POLICY) DEPARTMENT
G.O.Ms.No. 64 Dated: 21.04.2017
Read the following:-
1. G.O.Ms, No. 98 Finance (HR I)
Department, dated 04.08.2015.
2. G.O. Ms. No. 140 Finance (HR I)
Department, dated 16.11.2015.
3. G.O. Ms. No. 102 Finance (HR I.Plg.&Policy)
Department, dt.10.06.2016.
4. G.O. Ms. No. 123 Finance (HR I.Plg.&Policy)
Department, dt.28.06.2016.
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ORDERS
1.
The
Government is committed to the welfare of its employees and seeks to promote
work-life balance to enable the employees and their families lead happy and
contented lives. In this direction, the Government’s policy is to ensure every
employee is posted at a work place where she/he is most productive and
contributes his / her best for improved governance and efficient public
services. Overall, the Government is committed to right placement of the staff
to improve efficiency and accountability in administration.
2. Accordingly, the existing ban on transfer
of employees imposed vide reference third cited and reiterated vide fourth
cited may be relaxed for the period from 25th April, 2017 to 24th
May, 2017 to ensure right placement of employees to secure optimum productivity
and commitment to furtherance of Government’s development objectives. The
following proposals have been discussed with employee associations informally
and their suggestions have been incorporated.
Principles
for Transfers and Postings
3. The following principles may be adopted
while effecting transfer of employees:
i. No employee shall be transferred before
completion of three years of service in a particular duty station as on 1st
April, 2017 and no person be retained beyond five years of service in a
particular station. In case of ITDA areas the minimum mandatory service is
two years.
ii. All employees
working in the ITDA areas - with the exception of local cadre employees
belonging to Scheduled Tribe community - in any duty station for more than two
years shall be transferred to non-ITDA areas.
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iii.
Service in all cadres at a station shall be counted while calculating the
period of stay. Station means place (City, Town, Village) of actual working for
the purpose of transfers and not office or institution. However, for State
Audit department, Station means Office within the Zone as all their offices are
situated in the District Headquarters only.
iv. Request
transfers may be considered in respect of employees who have completed three
years of service but less than five years at a station. However, such request
transfers shall be limited, based on exception and not a rule, and shall not
constitute more than 5 per cent of the employees in any working cadre and
subject to fulfilment of one or more of the conditions mentioned below:
a. Employees with
disabilities of 40% or more as certified by a competent authority as per
“persons with disabilities”.
b. Husband and Wife cases (only one of the
spouses shall be shifted following the prescribed procedure). Once the facility is utilized, the next request
can be made only after eight years.
c. Employees having mentally challenged children
to a place where medical facilities are available.
d. Widow employee appointed on
Compassionate appointments.
e. Medical grounds
for the diseases (either self or spouse or dependent children and dependent
parents) of Cancer, Open Heart Operations, Neuro Surgery, Kidney
Transplantation to places where such facilities available.
v. While
considering the request transfers based on above conditions, preference shall
be given to the employee with the longest tenure at a particular duty station,
seniority in the cadre and an outstanding performance record.
vi. All transfers
effected by following the procedure where employees indicated preference for
stations shall be treated as request transfers for the purpose of sanction of
TTA and other transfer benefits.
vii. Employees
shall invariably be transferred from their existing location on promotion
unless no such posts exist at a different location.
viii. All vacancies
in Notified Agency areas shall be filled first before filling posts in the non
- ITDA areas.
ix. The employees
(Local Cadres, Zonal Cadres) working in ITDA areas on completion of two years
of service shall be transferred to the place of their choice subject to
fulfilment of conditions stipulated in this GO, with due preference to the
inter-se seniority among the employees working in these areas. In exceptional
cases employees who are willing to continue in the ITDA areas for more than 2
years may be allowed to do so on merits.
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x. For the purpose
of posting in ITDA Areas the following shall be the criteria:
1 The employees below 50 years of age.
2. The employees who have not worked earlier in
the ITDA areas so far based on the length of service in plain area downwards.
xi. Besides ITDA
areas, areas which are interior and backward with large number of vacancies
shall be given preference while filling up of vacancies on transfers. HoDs and
District Collectors shall ensure the same.
xii. The
department(s) may frame additional guidelines to suit their requirements,
however such additional guidelines should not be contrary to the above
guidelines.
Procedure
for Transfers
a) The relaxation on transfers shall be effective
from 25th April, 2017 to 24th May, 2017.
b) All the transfers shall be effected by the
competent authorities as per the existing orders of delegation subject to the
existing Government Orders and conditions prescribed.
c) All transfers shall be done on the basis of
performance based counselling in a transparent manner. Performance Criteria for
various categories of employees shall be evolved by the competent authorities.
Wherever required, self-appraisal may be obtained quickly from the employees.
d) The following
procedure may be prescribed while undertaking this exercise:
i. The department must undertake the transfer
process in a transparent process using IT application.
ii. The department will prepare a list of all
employees who have completed five years at a duty station – and two years in
ITDA areas – and publish the same on the department’s portal and on its notice
board by 2nd May, 2017.
iii. All employees who have completed three years
of service at a duty station and satisfy the conditions enumerated at item (iv)
of para 3 above, are required to submit applications along with self-appraisal
indicating three preferences/options by 2nd May, 2017.
iv. The authority
effecting transfers will notify the existing and potential vacancies category-wise
by 5th May, 2017.
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v. The employees who are covered in (ii) and
(iii) above may submit options from 5th May, 2017 to 10th May, 2017.
vi. The competent
authority effecting transfers will draw up and publish detailed schedule for counselling
for each category indicating the date and time by 11th May, 2017. The slots and the venue for counselling shall
be publicised in such a manner that all employees know the slot and venue well
in advance enabling them to attend the counselling.
vii. The process of
counselling shall start on 15th May, 2017 and be completed in its
entirety by 20th May, 2017.
viii. The vacancies
and the preferences / options of employees need to be exhibited at a prominent
place in the premises of the office as well as in Departmental web site.
ix. The result of counselling viz., the new
postings shall be notified on the day following the day of counselling and be
displayed on the web portal and / or at a place accessible to every employee.
x. All transfer orders will be issued by the
competent authority on or before 24th May, 2017. The entire transfer process will cease at 12 A.M. on 25th
May, 2017.
e) The Head of the Department
concerned is responsible for the implementation of the transfer orders in the
most transparent manner possible without giving any scope for complaints /
allegations. Any violation of these guidelines will be viewed seriously by the
Government.
Exceptions
4. The following departments, which have
unique operational systems are exempted from the above guidelines. These
departments will be advised to come up with a set of guidelines customized for
the unique context of the department. They include the revenue earning
departments viz. i) Commercial Taxes; ii) Prohibition & Excise; iii) Stamps
& Registration; iv) Transport; and Service Departments viz. Education
(School Education and Higher Education), Health, Medical and Family Welfare and
Agriculture Departments. In case of revenue earning departments, the minimum
period of eligibility for transfer is 2 years. The criteria for these
departments is performance only. In case of service departments viz.,
Education, Medical Health and Agriculture Departments, the criteria shall be
performance based counselling as in case of other departments. These
departments may finalise their guidelines in consonance with the general
transfer guidelines issued by the Finance Department. They shall also complete
the process by 24th May, 2017. However, Agriculture Department may
carry out the exercise at its convenience.
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5. The employees who are retiring on or
before 31st March, 2018 shall not be transferred except in public interest. The
standing instructions on the transfers of office bearers of recognized
Employees Associations as issued in Circular Memo. No.245/SW/A1/2014-1, G.A.
(SW) Dept., dated 16.09.2014 and also Cir. Memo. No.17225/SW/A1/2014-1 of G.A.
(SW) Dept., dated 27.09.2014 will apply.
6. The visually challenged employees are
exempted from transfers except when they make a specific request for transfer.
As far as possible, these categories of employees may be posted at a place of
their choice subject to availability of a clear vacancy.
7. The requests of the employees having any
charges /ACB/Vigilance cases pending against him / her shall not be considered
for transfer. The Authority shall indicate that fact clearly against the name
of that employee if there is any request for transfer.
8. The ban on transfers shall come into force
with effect from 25th May, 2017.
(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF
ANDHRA PRADESH)
MUDDADA RAVI CHANDRA
SPECIAL CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT (FAC)
To
All
Departments of Secretariat.
All
Heads of Departments.
All
District Collectors.
The
Secretary, A.P.P.S.C., Hyderabad.
The Prl. A.G.
(A&E)/Prl.A.G. (G&SSA)/A.G.(E&RSA), A.P. & Telangana, Hyd.
The
Director of Treasuries and Accounts, A.P., Ibrahimpatnam, Vijayawada.
The
Pay and Accounts Officer, Ibrahimpatnam, Vijayawada.
All
District Treasury Officers.
All
Officers/Sections in Finance Department.
SF/SCs.
// FORWARDED :: BY ORDER //
SECTION OFFICER
