THE FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF THE TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT

Selection Grade Steno-Typist, grade III shall be merged with basic pay of the post of Selection GradeSteno-Typist, grade III and pay fixed in the post of Assistant on the 1st August 1992 underFundamental Rule 22(1) (b) (ii), namely, at the appropriate stage in the scale of pay of Assistant equalto the pay drawn in the post of Selection Grade Steno-Typist, Grade III.If there is no appropriate stage in the scale of pay of Assistant, pay shall be fixed at the stage nextbelow and the difference treated as “personal pay” to be absorbed in future increments.(b) The pay of Selection Grade Steno-Typist, Grade III, whose name has already been includedin the panel for promotion as Assistant prior to the 1st August 1992 and promoted as Assistant on orafter the Ist August 1992 shall be fixed in the manner specified in Fundamental Rule 22 (1) (b) (ii).[G.O. Ms. No. 59, P&AR (FR-IV) Department, Dated 5-4-99.]28. The authority which orders the transfer of a Government servant as a penalty from ahigher to a lower grade or post may allow him to draw any pay, not exceeding the maximum ofthe lower grade or post, which it may think proper;Provided that the pay allowed to be drawn by a Government servant under this rule shallnot exceed the pay which he would have drawn by the operation of Rule 22 read with clause(b) or clause (c), as the case may be, of Rule 26.29. If a Government servant is reduced as a measure of penalty to a lower service, grade orpost or to a lower stage in his time-scale, the authority ordering such reduction shall state theperiod for which it shall be effective and whether on restoration, the period of reduction shalloperate to postpone future increments and if so, to what extent.INSTRUCTION UNDER RULE 29.An authority ordering the reduction of an officer should expressly state in the order that the periodfor which the reduction has been ordered will be exclusive of any interval spent on leave before thatperiod is completed.[G.O. Ms. No. 492, Personnel and Administrative Reforms (F.R.III) Department, dated 25th May1982.](With effect from 19th May 1979.)RULINGS.(1) (a) Every order passed by a competent authority imposing on a Government servant thepenalty of reduction to a lower stage in a time scale should indicate—(i) the date from which it will take effect and the period (in terms of years and months) for whichthe penalty shall be operative;(ii) the stage in the time-scale (in terms of rupees) to which the Government servant is reduced;and(iii) the extent (in terms of years and months), if any, to which the period referred to at (i) aboveshould operate to postpone future increments.The reduction to a lower stage in a time-scale is not permissible under the rules either for anunspecified period or as a permanent measure. Also, when a Government servant is reduced to aparticular stage, his pay will remain constant at that stage for the entire period of reduction. Theperiod to be specified under (iii) should in no case exceed the period specified under (i).(b) The question as to what should be the pay of a Government servant on the expiry of theperiod of reduction should be decided as follows:—(i) If the order of reduction lays down that the period of reduction shall not operate topostpone future increments, the Government servant should be allowed the pay which he would havedrawn in the normal course but for the reduction. If, however, the pay drawn by him immediatelybefore reduction was below the efficiency bar, he should not be allowed to cross the bar except inaccordance with the provisions of Fundamental Rule 25.(ii) If the order specifies that the period of reduction was to operate to postpone futureincrement for any specified period, the pay of the Government servant shall be fixed in accordancewith (i) above but for treating the period for which the increments were to be postponed as notcounting for increment.[Finance Memorandum No. 105637/F.R./59-2, dated 1st December 1959 and Memo No.63835/(F.R.)/60-2, dated 15th July 1960.]61