ANNUAL REPORT - Department of Biotechnology

from Scientist 'C' to Scientist 'D'. Three officials from
Group 'B' and Group 'C' have been granted
financial upgradation under ACP Scheme. The
process of recruitment of the post of Scientist
'H', Scientist 'B', Junior Accounts Officer and
Data Entry Operator Gr. 'B' has also been
initiated.
4. Training being a critical element of any
personnel strategy, the employees were sent for
various trainings to update their skills. The
Section continued to process promptly claims
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like medical, LTC and grant of GPF advances and
withdrawals etc.
5. To automate file tracking and dispense with
manual registers, Establishment Section had
implemented the File Tracking System within
the Department. It has been successfully
running and is facilitating in finding status of
receipts/files and monitoring their movement.
6. The Category-wise position of posts sanctioned
and filled as on 31.12.2006 is as under :-
Category
Sanctioned
Posts
of posts
Posts
filled
Group ‘A’ 48 42
Group ‘B’ 67 51
Group ‘C’ 67 49
Group ‘D’ 41 40
Total 223 182
7. Representation of SC/ST/OBC/PH : The number of SC/ST/OBC/PH employees in Gr. 'A', 'B', 'C'
and 'D' categories as on 31.12.2006 is as under:-
Category of Employees Gr. ‘A’ Gr. ‘B’ Gr. ‘C’ Gr. ‘D’ Total
Total Employees 42 51 49 40 182
Scheduled Castes 3 7 6 19 35
Scheduled Tribes 2 3 6 3 14
OBC -- 1 6 -- 7
Physically Handicapped 1 1 3 -- 5
Progressive use of Hindi in the Department
1. Hindi Section ensures the progressive use of
Hindi in the Department and the
implementation of government policy on official
language. An Official Language Implementation
Committee, constituted under the chairmanship
of the Joint Secretary (Admn.), reviews the
progressive use of Hindi in the Department
every quarter and corrective measures are
suggested. Under section 3(3) of OL Act, 1963,
all the documents are issued in bilingual form.
Letters received in Hindi are replied to in Hindi.
Hindi fortnight was organized in the Department from
01 to 15 September, 2006 during which 6
different competitive events were held and 7
officers and 22 employees were awarded with
cash prizes and certificates. In addition to
Establishment and Administration Sections,
which were already specified under section 8(4)
of OL Act, 1976 for doing 100% work in Hindi,
PPVC and Cash Sections and Library have also
been specified to do the same. All the computers
in the Department have been loaded with Hindi
software “ Akshara '', thereby enabling every
Division to work in Hindi.