SENIORITY OF PROMOTEES
2.2.1 Where promotions are made on the basis of recommendations of a Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC), either by ‘selection’ or ‘non- s election’ method as per due procedure, the seniority of an officer assessed as ‘fit’, in the promoted grade shall be same as in the feeder grade from which they are promoted. Where, however, a person is considered as unfit for promotion and is superseded by a junior, such persons shall not, if he/she is subsequently found suitable and promoted, take seniority in the higher grade over the junior persons who had superseded him/her. Persons appointed as a result of an earlier selection shall be senior to those appointed as a result of subsequent selection. The relative seniority of promotees which earlier used to be determined according to the date of confirmation in the promotion grade and not the original order of merit, (in case where confirmation was in an order different from the order of merit indicated at the time of their appointment), stands discontinued w.e.f. 4.11.1992.
1. [para 5 (i) of O.M.No.9/11/55-RPS Dated 22.12.1959 and
2. Para 2.2 of O.M. No. 22011/7/86-Estt.(D) Dated 03.07.1986 and
3. para 2, 3 of O.M. No. 20011/5/90-Estt (D) Dated 4.11.1992 and
4. Para 2.2 of O.M. No. 20011/1/2008-Estt. (D) dated 11.11.2010]
