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For the appointment of private secretaries and officers on special duty (OSD), the General Administration Department released guidelines on Monday.
As per the guidelines, the ministers shall have the discretion in selecting serving officers for appointment as private secretaries/officers on special duty (OSD) in their office. But, for this, certain eligibility criteria have been laid out.
Eligibility Criteria
Officers in the rank of additional secretary or joint secretary can be appointed to the post of private secretary to ministers.
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Similarly, appointments to the post of officer on special duty (O.S.D.) in the office of the ministers shall be made from among the officers in the rank of joint secretary or deputy secretary, provided, the OSD must be at least one rank junior to the private secretary of the concerned minister.
An officer, who has held the post of private secretary / OSDO in the five years, immediately preceding the current appointment, will not be eligible. It must be ensured that there is a minimum gap of five years between the previous service as private secretary/OSD and the present appointment.
As per the memorandum issued by the General Administration department, while processing appointments of officials as private secretaries/OSD, it must be kept in mind that no disciplinary proceeding either u/r1 5 or u/r 16 of the OCS (CC&A) Rules, 1962 is pending against him/her or no vigilance / criminal proceeding has been registered and pending against him/her.
“No adverse remarks must have been recorded against him/her in his/her CCR/PAR. He/she must have been rated "Very Good" or "Outstanding" for at least 36 months in the preceding 60 months of CCR/PAR,” read the memorandum.
“However, any ratings recorded as "NRC", within the past sixty-month assessment period, shall be excluded from consideration. For periods where an NRC rating has been recorded, the individual's performance evaluations from the immediately preceding period (prior to the sixty-month window) shall be considered for assessment purposes,” it added.
