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Haryana Government Gazette

Published by Authority

No. 3–2022] 

CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022 (PAUSA 28, 1943 SAKA)

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PART – I

Notifications, Orders and Declarations by Haryana Government

HARYANA GOVERNMENT

PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Notification

The 10th January, 2022

No. 1/29/2018-2PH.— The online policy to regulate the transfer of Junior Engineer (Mechanical) in Public

Health Engineering Department, Haryana is notified herewith which shall come into force with immediate effect.

Vision: To ensure equitable, demand based distribution / posting of Junior Engineers to protect public

interest and effect transparency.

Definitions: In this policy, unless the context requires otherwise:

(i)

―Service‖ means a service in which a Junior Engineer (Mechanical)/ Additional Sub Divisional

Engineer (Mechanical) is working on regular basis, on promotion from field staff whether on

regular basis or Current duty Charge/Look After Charge or after reversion from Sub Divisional

Engineer (Current Duty Charge/Look After Charge) or return from deputation.

(ii)

Reference to ―he‖ includes ―she‖ too.

(iii)

Department means ―Public Health Engineering Department, Haryana.‖

(iv)

Junior Engineer means ―a member of the service as defined at (i) above and includes Junior

Engineer (Mechanical) & Additional Sub Divisional Engineer (Mechanical).

(v)

Sub Division means Public Health Engineering Sub Division (Mech.) under administrative

control of Public Health Engineering Department, Haryana.

(vi)

Division means Public Health Engineering Division (Mech.) under administrative control of

Public Health Engineering Department, Haryana.

(vii)

Circle means Public Health Engineering Circle (Mech) under administrative control of Public

Health Engineering Department, Haryana.

Main features:

(i)

Junior Engineers who are members of State Cadre are liable to be transferred anywhere in the

State, at any point of time as per provisions of this policy.

(ii)

This transfer Policy shall be applicable from the date of its publication.

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Basic Principles:

(i)

The option once availed and confirmed shall be final and can be changed only under the

provisions of this policy. Unless protected under a provision of this policy, every Junior Engineer

completing maximum 5 years of stay in a Sub Division subject to maximum 10 years of stay in

Division has to be compulsorily shifted to another Sub Division or Division respectively.

(ii)

In case, any Junior Engineer having completed 5 years of stay in a particular Sub Division

or 10 years in a Division does not submit his preference to another Sub Division or Division as

describe at Sr. No.5 of this policy then he is liable to be posted anywhere as per the vacancy.

Once posted at one station, he will not be allowed to submit his option for 3 years and will

be transferred as per provisions of policy thereafter.

In case of those Junior Engineers (Mechanical) who have exhausted their preferred choices,

before posting them ‗Anywhere in the State‘, the department shall again seek their options against

the remaining available posts at that point of time.

(iii)

Any Junior Engineer who has completed 5 years of stay in a particular Sub Division or 10 years in

a Division cannot opt for his transfer within the same Sub Division or Division. This option will

not be available for him.

(iv)

The posting of the Junior Engineer, in a particular Sub Division or Division on his transfer, will be

effected on the basis of the number of vacancies in a particular Sub Division or Division.

(v)

The vacancies in a Division/Sub Division will be filled up on the basis of number of vacancies.

(vi)

The Junior Engineers having 12 months or less in retirement shall not be transferred, if they are

not willing to participate in transfer drive.

(vii)

Minimum stay for seeking transfer shall be three years after which he can participate in transfer

drive but option for transfer within the same zone will not be available for him.

(viii) Junior Engineers declared surplus from a Division/Sub Division as part of the rationalization of

posts shall compulsorily participate in the transfer drive. In case of their non–participation in

transfer drive from any reason their salary from such posts shall be stopped and the department

shall be at liberty to post them at any station across the state in the Division/Sub Division having

high deficiency of Junior Engineers.

(ix)

The transfer exercise shall be carried out only through approved web based application.

(x)

The Junior Engineers transferred on administrative grounds of misconduct will not be transferred

back to the same Sub Division from where they were transferred on such grounds.

(xi)

The Junior Engineers aggrieved with the transfer process can represent to the department after

joining at new place of posting within 15 days of issuance of orders. Their representation shall be

considered in accordance with the policy and appropriate decision shall be conveyed to him as

deemed fit.

(xii)

In the event of tie among the same category of employees, preference will be given to a female

Junior Engineer over male Junior Engineer.

(xiii) In the event of tie among the Junior Engineers when both are male or female, the preference will

be given to the employee with disability or couple case.

(xiv) No request for mutual transfer will be considered.

Zoning of Department: The field offices of Haryana Public Health Engineering Department have been

broadly classified into Sub Division or Division or Circle for the purpose of transfer of JEs. The

administrative control of Sub Division or Division or Circle offices is attached at Annexure-A.

Procedures:- It will involve following procedures:

(i)

Preparation of provisional actual vacancy list and deemed vacancy list.

(ii)

Rationalization of posts.

(iii)

Notification of list of vacancies to be filled/blocked.

(iv)

Seeking preferences for choice of zones.

(v)

Processing the list as per choice of zones.

(vi)

Generation of transfer orders.

Notification of dates for each process will be made by the competent authority.

HARYANA GOVT. GAZ., JAN. 18, 2022 (PAUS. 28, 1943 SAKA)

[PART–I

Time Schedule:

(i)

Periodicity of the transfers: General Transfers will be made only once in a year, or as

specifically notified by the Government for a given year. However, transfer/posting necessitated

by promotions/ directs recruitments, posts needed to be filled up in public interest, can be made

anytime. Further, the transfer of Junior Engineer spouses of employees of Departments/

Organizations of Government of Haryana or Central Government can also be made on requests

at any time.

(ii)

The following time schedule shall be followed, so far as feasible, for various activities every

year:

(a)

Opening/ shifting of new Public Health Engineering Department Sub Division/Division

shall take effect generally in April of succeeding year or as per requirement. But the posts

in respect of such new/shifted Haryana Public Health Engineering Department Division

offices shall be accounted for during opening / shifting.

(b)

Transfer orders will be issued in the months of April every year.

(c)

Qualifying date for actual vacancies, deemed vacancies, weightage/merit points calculation,

court of stay shall be 31st March of the year under consideration.

(d)

The transfer process will start in the month of December and will be completed by end of

March of each year as per the following scheduled:-

(i)

Decision about opening of new subordinate offices, rationalization of staff shall be

done from 1st January to 31st January every year.

(ii)

The actual vacancies and deemed vacancies will be notified from 1st February to

28th February.

(iii)

The eligible employees will submit their choice of station online from 1st March

to 15th March.

(iv)

Transfer orders will be generated and issued from 1st April to 15th April.

(v)

The orders will be effective from 1st May.

The above schedule may be separately notified by the Govt. at the start of the policy or during

any year as per the requirement, otherwise the schedule given above will be followed.

Merit criteria for allotment of posts in a Zone:

(i)

Decision of allotment to a vacancy shall be based on the total composite score of points earned

by a Junior Engineer, out of points earned against a) age, b) Second set of merits point, c) other

points as described below. The Junior Engineer earning highest points shall be entitled to be

transferred against a particular vacancy in the zone as per his option.

(ii)

Age shall be the prime factor for deciding the claim of the Junior Engineers against a vacancy

since it shall have weightage of 60 points.

(iii)

However, to take care of categories like women, women headed households, widows, widowers,

differently abled persons and serious ailment, a privilege of maximum 20 points can be availed

by the Junior Engineers of these categories (hereinafter to be referred as atb) The second set of

merit points).

The division of points shall be as given in para 8 a), 8 b) and 8 c) below:-

(a)

Age:–

Sr.

No.

Major Factor

Sub-Factor

Max.

Points

Criteria for Calculation

Age (Present date

minus Date of birth)

Eldest person shall get

maximum points

Age in number of days/365

(maximum four decimal

points only)

(b)

The Second Set of merit points will come from the special factors enumerated hereinafter with a cap of

maximum 20 marks irrespective of the merit point earned:

Sr.

No.

Major Factor

Sub-Factor

Max.

Points

Explanation

Gender

Female

05 points shall be given to all

female Junior Engineers

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HARYANA GOVT. GAZ., JAN. 18, 2022 (PAUS. 28, 1943 SAKA)

Sr.

No.

Major Factor

Sub-Factor

Max.

Points

Explanation

Special Category

female Junior

Engineers

Widows/divorced/legally

separated/unmarried

female employees/Junior

Engineer more than

40 years of age/ wife of

serving Military personal/

Paramilitary personal

working outside the State

All females of this category

shall be given 5 marks only.

Special Category

male Junior

Engineers

Widower who has not

re-married and has one or

more minor children and /

or unmarried daughter(s)

Eligible widowers shall be

given 5 points only. In case

of re-marriage of self or

children becoming major or

daughter getting married, the

employee will have to update

his profile on the portal and

will not be eligible for this

advantage any more.

Differently abled

persons

Locomotors/Ortho

40% to 60% disability= 10

Marks.

Deaf & Dumb

Above 60% to 80%=15

Marks

Vision

Above 80%=20 Marks

Diseases of

―Debilitating

Disorders‖

Self, Spouse or unmarried

children

Valid certificate issued

during last one year by

AIIMS (Including its

branches in Haryana), PGI

Rohtak, PGI Khanpur Kalan,

Kalpana Chawla Medical

College Karnal, PGI

Chandigarh or Duly

Constituted Medical Board

only or any other institute

authorized by the Govt. from

time to time.

Specially abled or

mentally challenged

children

Men/Women having

mentally challenged or

100% differently abled

child

Men/Women Junior

Engineers having mentally

challenged or 100%

differently abled children

shall be provided maximum

10 points.

(c)

Other Points

Couple case

Male/Female spouse

Employees‘ spouses working

in state Govt., center Govt.,

PSUs created under acts or

rules.

Earning

performance

An employee earning good

performance through ACR

of last one year. Any ACR

during the last 3 years, if

last ACR not available.

Grading of ACR

Outstanding = 5

Very good = 3

Good = 2

Others =0

HARYANA GOVT. GAZ., JAN. 18, 2022 (PAUS. 28, 1943 SAKA)

[PART–I

Negative

performance

An employee awarded

with punishment during

the period under :

(i)

rule-4(b)

(ii)

rule-4(a)

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(–) 3.5

Deduction of points:

Under Rule

Punishment

awarded

4(b)

4(a)

1 case

0.5

2 cases

3 cases

4 cases

2.5

5 & above

cases.

3.5

Both reductions to be made

if punished under both.

Note:–

(i)

Only notified diseases shall be considered for merit points under the category of ―Diseases of

Debilitating Disorders‖ by the competent authority or Health Department, Haryana.

(ii)

Junior Engineers suffering from:-

(a)

100% locomotor (Ortho) disability for any reason; or

(b)

currently suffering from cancer; or

(c)

having undergone bye-pass heart surgery; or

(d)

kidney transplant; or

(e)

currently undergoing dialysis;

shall be assigned 80 points (60 for age factor and 20 for special points factor) if they are

willing to participate in a transfer drive. Otherwise, they shall not be transferred, if they are not

willing to participate in a transfer drive. However, the certificate of cancer should not be more

than six months old. Further, there will not be any bar to opt any Zone/ Divisions/Sub Divisions

for these categories of Junior Engineers.

(iii)

After the transfer drive, the ‗newly married‘ or ‗recently divorced‘ female employees shall be

given preferred place of posting against vacancy upon request. However, they shall have to

participate in the next transfer drive being married or widowed and at that time they shall be

adjusted at any of their top three choices against available vacant posts.

(iv)

There shall be separate zone of choice known as ―Anywhere in the State‖. The Junior Engineers

opting for this special optional zone shall not be eligible to give preferences of zone. The Junior

Engineers of this category shall be utilized by the department in the Divisions / zones having

high deficiency of Junior Engineers in any Zone/Division.

Definition of vacant posts:

(i)

There shall be two types of vacancies as under:

(A)

Actual Vacancy: A post not occupied by any Junior Engineer whether serving in regular

capacity or by a temporarily employed.

(B)

Deemed Vacancy:

(a)

Involuntary deemed vacancy: A post held by a Junior Engineer(Mech) in a

particular Sub division in department in any capacity for a continuous period of

five years or more or 10 years in any particular Division on the qualifying date .

A post occupied by a Junior Engineer given temporary manual posting due

to non-availability of online transfer drive or technical problems or compulsions

of administrative or litigational nature. However, it will not include the posts

occupied by Junior Engineers who become duly posted as an outcome of the

grievance redressal mechanism of a general transfer drives.

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(b)

Voluntary deemed vacancy: A post occupied by such Junior Engineer who has

been adjudged eligible and allowed to participate in general transfer drive, even if,

he is not eligible otherwise on the minimum tenure criteria.

(ii)

Some vacancies of Junior Engineers may remain unfilled at any given point of time due to

shortage of Junior Engineers in the department. To avoid disproportionate concentration of

Junior Engineers in some Divisions/Sub-Divisions/Zone, the department may block some actual

vacant posts to be kept vacant in the transfer drive. The gap in sanctioned strength and actual

number of JEs available will be evenly distributed over various divisions / zones to block the

vacancies.

10.

Power of relaxation: Notwithstanding anything contained in the policy, the Administrative Secretary,

Public Health Engineering Department with the prior approval of the Chief Minister, Haryana, shall be

competent to transfer any Junior Engineer to any place in relaxation of any or all of the above

provisions after recording reasons justifying such relaxation.

Further, a Committee headed by the Deputy Commissioner and comprising of CMO and

Superintending Engineer of this Department, may recommend deputation/ temporary transfer of an

employee after the transfer drive, on the basis of genuine and compelling reasons. A web portal should

be provided for taking online applications from the employees for this purpose. The Committee will

scrutinize such cases and send their recommendations to the Government which will be dealt under this

clause.

11.

No TA/DA will be given, if the transfer is done on the request of the employee himself by giving

relaxation of the transfer policy and he/she is given a posting of his/her choice.

12.

Clarification & Implementation: In case of any doubt or difficulty in making out the true intention of

the provisions of this policy, the Administrative Secretary of the department shall be competent

authority to clarify such doubt or to remove such difficulty by issuing a reasoned order to this effect.

13.

Bar against canvassing: No Junior Engineer shall canvass for his/her case and bring any outside

influence.

Note.— In the first phase negative performance points due to punishments etc. will not be taken into account.

A. K. SINGH,

Principal Secretary to Government Haryana,

Public Health Engineering Department.

HARYANA GOVT. GAZ., JAN. 18, 2022 (PAUS. 28, 1943 SAKA)

[PART–I

Annexure-A

Sr.

No.

Name of Circle

Name of Division

Name of Sub Division

Ambala (Mech.)

PHED (Mech.) –

Ambala Cant.

Sub Division (Mech.), Ambala Cantt.

Sub Division (Mech.), Karnal

Sub Division (Mech.), Kurukshetra

PHED (GWI) – Rewari

1 Sub Division(GWI), Rewari

Sub Division (Mech.), Faridabad

Sub Division (Mech.), Nuh

PHED (Mech.) – Sonipat

Sub Division (GWI), Sonipat

Sub Division (Mech.), Fatehabad

Sub Division(Mech.), Jind

Anywhere in the State

Note.— The Sub Division or Division or Circle may increase or decrease in case of creation or abolition of offices by

the Government.

9440—C.S.—H.G.P., Pkl.