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TENURE POSTING OF OFFICIALS IN SINGLE HANDED & DOUBLE HANDED POST OFFICES - PREVENTIVE VIGILANCE MEASURE - NO. 8-4/2005-INV DATED 05.12.2012 : CLICK HERE TO VIEW ORDER 

 

Subject;: Tenure posting of officials in single handed & double handed post offices preventive Vigilance measure.

Instructions were issued vice this office letter dated 22-09-2005 to the effect that officials who had been posted as SPM/PA in a single handed or double handed post office irrespective of period of posting/completion of tenure should not be posted back to the same office after a break. It was suggested that officials in single handed or double handed post offices can have only one posting in the same single/double handed PO during their service period. However, only in respect of double handed post offices the CPMG/PMG were given the discretion to personally relax this provision in specific casesn if warranted by exceptional administrative exigencies. This was done as a preventive vigilance measure and to have better administrative management and control of single/double handed offices.

2.         Subsequently, power to relax the aforesaid stipulations vested with the Chief PMG/Regional PMG in respect of double handed SOs, was extended in respect of single handed post offices also vide Directorate letter of even no. dated 12-01-2012.

3.         It has now been decided that the aforesaid powers vested with the Chief PMG/Regional PMG in respect of single handed and double handed post offices to consider an official, who had earlier served in the single/double handed office in the Division, will henceforth be exercised by the Divisional Heads subject to the following conditions:

(i)         The Divisional head will satisfy himself/herself about the antecedents and character of the officials for whom the proviso are being relaxed: and a  note to this effect will be given in the file.

(ii)        No official will be posted back to the same single handed / double handed post offices on transfer / deputation or otherwise before a break of full tenure period.

(iii)       Information about cases of relaxation so exercised by the Divisional Head will be communicated in the Regional  PMG/ Chief PMG as the case may be, in a half yearly statement.

4.         This issues with the approval of Secretary (Posts).

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(Som Nath Chuchra)