Government's Policy of Appointment on Compassionate Grounds – Separate Cells to be Constituted - DOPT Instruction
Departmental Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, Rajya Sabha in Paragraph 9.4 of the 23rd Report on Government Policy of Appointment on Compassionate Grounds envisaged that if the Government's effort is to help the family of the deceased employee then there must be a separate Cell in each of the Ministries or Departments which will cater to only compassionate appointment cases.
The cell should send periodical information on number of vacancies, number of applications received, time taken to dispose of the cases, reasons for not disposing favourably etc. to the head of the Department. The committee has, therefore, recommended that the Government should come forward with certain new guidelines for the benefit of the employees like creation of a separate Cell, etc.
The matter has been considered by DOPT. It is not felt desirable for the small Departments to have a separate cell. It is, however, advised that bigger organizations should create a separate cell for handling large number of cases for compassionate appointments in order to ensure timely and meticulous processing of applications. The cell should be entrusted, inter-alia, with the responsibilities as envisaged in the Report of the Committee.