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IMPORTANT INITIATIVES / DECISIONS
IMPORTANT INITIATIVES / DECISIONS
THE ALL INDIA SERVICES (PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL) RULES, 2007
1. With a view to improving the performance evaluation and appraisal of all senior
civil servants for better human resource management, for the first time, the Annual
Confidential Roll (ACR) Rules were replaced by the All India Services (Performance
Appraisal) Rules, 2007. Based on the recommendations of the Surendranath
Committee, the new format of performance appraisal for the All India Service Officers
has been evolved. This brings a great degree of transparency and objectivity. The
new format prescribes an interactive method of evaluation in which both officers
being appraised and the Officer appraising, are involved. The broad contours of
the system include use of the performance appraisal for career planning and training,
preparation of a work plan, health check up, numerical grading, disclosure of the
report, etc. This new performance appraisal procedure brings the best global practice
in this area for the first time in evaluating the performance of All India Service
Officers.
ANNUAL HEALTH CHECK-UP FOR ALL INDIA SERVICE OFFICERS
2. With a view to bringing greater health consciousness among the officers, which
would be conducive to greater efficiency and also reduce the costs of illness to the
Government, a comprehensive annual health check-up has been made mandatory
for all the AIS officers. The Central Government has, for the first time, authorised
private hospitals apart from government hospitals for conducting medical check-up
of All India Service officers in order to bring in private participation for such check
up.
INTER CADRE DEPUTATIONS/TRANSFER
3. The following decisions have been taken in respect of inter cadre deputations/
transfers:-
(i)
The special dispensation for deficit cadres is for allowing officers to proceed
on deputation irrespective of whether they have put in 9 years in the cadre or
whether they are in the supertime scale. It is relevant only to the starting
point of deputation. Once this is relaxed, the officer is logically entitled to the
maximum period of deputation, i.e. five years.
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