Handbook for Personnel Officers 2013
DOPT has brought out a wonderful guide - Handbook for Personnel Officers 2013 – which would be of immense use to administrators and employees of the Central Government. Every aspect of an employee's career with the relevant rules and instructions are chronicled in an easy and simple manner.
This is a must book for all Government employees.
Some samples from the book:
5.11.9 Claims through Marriage: No person who was not a member of Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Class by birth will be deemed to be a member of Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Class merely because he or she had married a person belonging to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Class. On the other hand a person who is a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or an OBC would continue to be a member of that Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe or OBC, as the case may be, even after his or her marriage with a person who does not belong to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or an Other Backward Class.
5.11.10 Cases of Conversion and Reconversion: Scheduled Caste person getting converted to a religion other than Hinduism, Sikhism or Buddhism would cease to be a member of Scheduled Caste. However, if he reconverts himself to his original religion he will be deemed to have reverted to original caste if accepted by the members of that particular caste as one of them.
31.1.3 Posting of Husband and Wife at the same Station: When both spouses are in same Central Service or working in same Department and if posts are available, they may mandatorily be posted at the same Station.
30.4. Joining Time : One day joining time is admissible to join a new post within the same station or which does not involve a change of residence.
51.1.2 prior sanction of central government necessary for accepting commercial employment : A pensioner, who immediately before his retirement was a member of Central Service Group ‘A' is required to obtain previous sanction of the Central Government for accepting commercial employment before the expiry of one year from the date of his retirement from service.
51.3 consequences of not obtaining prior sanction : If a pensioner takes up commercial employment without the prior permission of the Central Government or commits a breach of any conditions subject to which permission has been granted to him to take up the employment, the Central Government is competent to withhold or withdraw pension whether partly or in full for such period as may be specified in the order.