CONDUCT, DISCIPLINE AND APPEAL RULES 2006 - BSNL ...

(B) Major Penalties(f)(g)(h)(i)(j)Save as provided for in clause (e) above, reduction to a lower stage in the time scale ofpay for a specified period, with further directions as to whether or not the employeewill earn increments of pay during the period of such reduction and whether on expiryof such period, the reduction will or will not have the effect of postponing the futureincrements of his pay,Reduction to a lower time scale of pay, grade, post or service which shall ordinarily bea bar to the promotion of the employee to the time scale of pay, grade, post or servicefrom which he was reduced, with or without further directions regarding conditions ofrestoration to the grade or post from which the employee was reduced and hisseniority and pay on such restoration to that grade or post.Compulsory retirement,Removal from service which shall not be a disqualification for future employmentunder Govt./or the Corporation / Company owns or controlled by the Govt.Dismissal from service which shall ordinarily be a disqualification for futureemployment under the Govt. or the Corporation/ Company owned or controlled by theGovernment.Provided that, in every case in which the charge of possession of assets disproportionateto known sources of income or the charge of acceptance from any person of any gratification, otherthan legal remuneration, as a motive or reward for doing or forbearing to do any official act isestablished, the penalty mentioned in clause (i) or clause (j) shall be imposed:Provided further that in any exceptional case and for special reasons recorded in writing,any other penalty may be imposed.Explanations:The following shall not amount to a penalty within the meaning of this rule: -(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(v)(vi)(vii)Withholding of increment of an employee for failure to pass a prescribed test orexamination;Stoppage of an employee at the efficiency bar time scale on the ground of his unfitnessto cross the bar;Non-promotion, whether in an officiating capacity or otherwise, of an employee to ahigher post for which he may be eligible for consideration but for which he is foundunsuitable after consideration of his case;Reversion of an employee officiating in a higher grade or post to a lower grade or poston the ground that he is considered, to be unsuitable for such higher grade or post or onany administrative grounds unconnected with his conduct;Reversion of an employee appointed on probation to another grade or post to hispermanent grade or post during or at the end of the period of probation in accordancewith the terms of his appointment or the rules and orders governing such probation;Compulsory retirement of an employee in accordance with the provision relating to hissuperannuation or retirement;Termination of service-- of an employee appointed on probation during or at the end of the period ofprobation, in accordance with the terms of his appointment;- of an employee appointed in a temporary capacity on the expiry of the period forwhich he was appointed or earlier in accordance with the terms of hisappointment;26BSNL CDA RULES 2006 (Updated upto 24-01-2013)