OSE Rules 16

Section 16 · [ Criteria for promotion. [Substituted vide Orissa Gazette Extraordinary No. 443/17.3.1989-SRO No. 226/89/8.3.1989.]

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(a)

The Engineer-in-Chief or Chief Engineer of the concerned Department, as the case may be, shall recommend officers from the cadre of Junior Engineers for appointment to the service in the vacancies to be filled up by promotion in the particular year.
The basis of recommendation by the Engineer-in-Chief or Chief Engineer, as the case may be, shall be merit-cum-suitability of the officer with due regard to seniority :Provided that Junior Engineers who are not diploma-holders in Engineering or Junior Engineers who are diploma holders in Engineering but have not completed at least 10 years of service of the first day of August of the year during which the vacancy arises shall not be considered for promotion :Provided further that no person who has not passed the Departmental Examination as may be prescribed by Government from time to time shall be considered for promotion.

(b)

The Engineer-in Chief or the concerned Chief Engineer shall send the list of officers recommended by him for promotion to Government together with all relevant papers relating to officers, if any, whom it is proposed to supersede, before the 31st July in each year and the Government shall send the same to the Commission preferably before the 31st August of each year.

(c)

the Departmental Promotion Committee constituted in the concerned Department of Government to examine the cases of candidates for promotion shall scrutinise the cases of all the officers recommended by the Engineer-in-Chief or the Chief Engineer, as the case may be, for promotion and those proposed to be superseded after going through the relevant records and. interviewing the officers, if necessary, and shall prepare a list of Junior Engineers considered suitable by the Committee for promotion during the year.

(d)

The names of officers included in the list shall be arranged in order of seniority as maintained by the cadre of Junior Engineers :
Provided that any Junior Officer, who in the opinion of the Departmental Promotion Committee, is of exceptional merit and suitability may be assigned a place in the list higher than the officer senior to him.

(e)

The recommendation of the Departmental Promotion Committee shall be submitted to the Commission along with complete and up-to-date Confidential Character Rolls and other relevant documents and information which may be required by them. The Commission after considering the same, shall formulate their views on the recommendation to the Departmental Promotion Committee and submit its final recommendation to Government.
Note - This amendment shall not affect any action taken by the Selection Board or Departmental Promotion Committee constituted as per erstwhile defunct Political and Services Department Memorandum No. 14020, dated 23rd May, 1979, till 25th June, 1983, the date modifying constitution thereof.]

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