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Haryana Government Gazette

Published by Authority

No. 36-2022] CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 (BHADRA 15, 1944 SAKA)

PART-I

Notifications, Orders and Declarations by Haryana Government

HARYANA GOVERNMENT

WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

Amended Notification

The 8th February, 2022

No. 52/WCD/2022.— In Supersession of Notification No. 931-SW(3)-2018 dated 13.07.2018, 1677-SW(3)-

2018 dated 30.10.2018 and 240-SW(3)-2020 dated 12.03.2020 and 39-SW(3)-2021 dated 02.06.2021 Governor of

Haryana is hereby pleased to notify the Transfer Policy for Women and Child Development Project Officer

(WCDPO), Assistant, Statistical Assistant, Clerk, Peon and Supervisor of Women and Child Development

Department on the following Condition:-

Vision:- To ensure equitable distribution of Government employees at different locations in a fair and

transparent manner and to maximize job satisfaction amongst employees and further to improve performance

of the Department.

Application:- This policy shall be applicable to all Women and Child Development Project Officers

(WCDPOs), Assistants, Statistical Assistants, Clerks, Peons and Supervisors working on regular basis.

Definition:- In this policy, unless there be anything repugnant in the subject or context;

‘Blocked Posts’ means the vacancies of a employee remain unfilled at any given point of time due to

shortage of employees in the department.

‘Employees Special Category’ means the blind employees or the differently abled employees or their

child(ren) and spouse, women employees, divorcees/separated women, widows, couple case,

employees suffering from Diseases of Debilitating Disorder;

‘Prescribed Tenure’ means the tenure of appointment for a period of five years. While calculating the

tenure of an employee for the purpose of this policy, the date from which employee is working in any

office as on 31st March of the calendar year of transfer shall be counted irrespective of the fact she has

been appointed by temporary transfer or otherwise. However, an employee may participate in the

transfer drive subject to completion of minimum three years service in any office.

‘Qualifying date’ shall be the 31st December of the calendar year of transfer. ;

‘Service’ means duty period and all kinds of leave including extraordinary leave availed by a employee

during the prescribed tenure.

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‘Transfer’ means posting/appointment from any office to another office on or before completion of

prescribed tenure in any office;

‘Vacant Post for transfer’ means

a post not occupied by any employee;

ii.

a post presently occupied by an employee for a period of five years or more;

iii.

a post on which an employee has been appointed by temporary transfer or due to non-

availability of online transfer drive;

iv.

a post occupied by an employee who has been adjudged eligible and allowed by the competent

authority to participate in general transfer drive even if she/he has not completed the prescribed

tenure in any office where she/he is presently posted.

Note 1.—

Where there are Blocked Posts in a cadre the same shall be excluded from the

number of vacant posts for transfer.

Note 2.—

The post against which an employee has been posted/transferred on compulsion of

administrative reasons or litigational nature shall also not be included in the vacant

posts for transfer.

‘Office’ means an area prescribed by the competent authority for the purpose of calculation of

prescribed tenure and entitlement of an employee for transfer from one office to another office under

this policy;

General Principles:

(i)

Time Schedule for online transfer:

General transfers online will be made only once in a year. However, transfer/posting

necessitated by promotion, direct recruitment, posts needed to be filled up in public interest, can

be made anytime by the competent authority.

The Service Verification and blocking of posts is to be done by 31st December, Filling of

Choices to be freezed by 31st January and the online transfer order generation will be completed

by 31st March. The Qualifying date for Calculation of points, eligibility to participate on the

basis of Period of Stay, eligibility for exemption to participate due to retirement within year etc

would be considered as 31st December. In case, the transfer drive is got delayed for any reason,

the Qualifying date can be taken as any date after the above mentioned date.

(ii)

Liable to be posted anywhere:

Employees are liable to be transferred under this Policy in any office in the State, in public interest, on

completion of prescribed tenure or on exhaustion of all the options provided by the employee in online

transfer drive.

(iii)

Computerization of relevant service record of employees:

All concerned officers maintaining service book of employees shall ensure the authenticity of data in

HRMS for all employees through verification process undertaken in coordination with concerned

employees. Every employee shall be responsible for the accuracy and regular updation of data in

HRMS and any other Management Information System relevant for Online Transfer Policy. In case of

non-updation, Department shall be at liberty to post her/him anywhere in the State.

(iv)

Rationalization and Blocking of posts: To avoid disproportionate concentration of employees at a

particular station, the department would rationalize their sanctioned posts and also block actual vacant

posts to be kept vacant in the transfer drive. In the long run, however, the departments may

increase/decrease the total number of sanctioned posts as per their assessment/requirement in

consultation with Work Assessment Cell in the Administrative Reforms Department and Finance

Department.

Note.— The Headquarter post shall also be included in Transfer Drive.

Merit Criteria for allotment of post:

Merit for allotment of vacant post to an employee shall be based on the total composite score of points

earned by the employee, out of 80 points as described below. The employee earning highest points shall

be entitled to be transferred against a particular vacancy.

Age shall be the prime factor for deciding the claim of an employee against a vacancy since it shall

have weightage of 60 points, out of total points.

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A privilege of maximum 20 points can be availed by the employees of special categories as indicated

below:-

Age: The first set of merit points will be the Age of the Government employee concerned

enumerated below:–

Sr.

No.

Major Factor

Sub-Factor

Max.

Points

Criteria for calculation

Age

(Present

date

i.e.

(1st January of the year of

consideration minus date of

birth)

Eldest person shall be

given maximum points.

Age in number of days/365

(Maximum four decimal points

only)

Special Category: The second set of merit points will come from the Special Category

enumerated hereinafter:

Sr.

No.

Major Factor

Sub-factor

Max.

points

Explanation

1. Gender

Female

10 points shall be given to all

female

employees

except

WCDPO and Supervisor as these

posts are only for women.

2. Special

Category

female employees

Widow/divorced/separated/

unmarried female employee

more than 40 years of age/ wife

of serving Military personnel/

Paramilitary personnel working

outside the State

All female of this category shall be

given 10 marks only.

3. Differently

abled

persons

Vision

40% to 60% disability=10 Marks.

Above 60% to 80% = 15 Marks

Above 80% = 20 Marks

Locomotors

Deaf & Dumb

Sr.

No.

Major Factor

Sub-factor

Max.

points

Explanation

4. Diseases

“Debilitating

Disorders” i.e.

(a) currently

suffering

from cancer; or

(b) having undergone by-

pass heart surgery; or

(d) currently undergoing

dialysis.

Self

Valid medical certificate issued

during last one year by AIIMS

(Including

its

branches

Haryana),

PGI

Rohtak,

PGI

Khanpur Kalan, Kalpana Chawla

Medical College, Karnal, PGI

Chandigarh, Medical College of

Haryana Govt. or a Medical Board

so constituted.

5. Diseases of “Debilitating

Disorders”

(a)

currently

suffering

from cancer; or

(b) having

undergone

by-pass

heart

surgery; or

(d) Currently

Spouse/ unmarried Children 10

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, Medical College

of Haryana Govt. or a Medical

Board so constituted.

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undergoing dialysis.

6. Differently abled or

mentally challenged

children

Employee having Mentally

challenged or 100%

differently abled child

Employees having mentally

challenged or 100% differently

abled children shall be provided

maximum 10 points.

7. Couple case

Male/Female Spouse.

Employees’ spouses working in

any Department/Board/

Corporations under any State Govt.

or Govt. of India.

Note.—

If husband and wife both are working in any Department/Board/Corporation under State

Government or Government of India, the benefit of 5 points under category of “Couple

Case” above can be claimed by only one of them for which he/she has to submit a

declaration in this regard that the spouse has not taken the benefit of this category. This self

declaration should be uploaded on the portal at the time of participating in the drive.

The employees who are 100% blind or 100% deaf & dumb or having 80% or more locomotors

disabilities involving both the legs shall be given full points 80 out of 80 and shall have option to

participate or not to participate in transfer drive irrespective of period of Stay.

Procedure to be adopted:

Head of Department shall seek preferences for choice of stations in any office from the eligible

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

application. An employee needs to fill any number of Choices based on their preference over and above

minimum requirement of 20 Choices. The allocation of stations would be done on the basis of

maximum points and the vacancy available at the time of executing the transfer drive. However, before

executing the transfer drive, if a station is allocated to an employee due to court case/in public

interest/as a result of disciplinary action, causing change in vacancy position, the station would not be

allocated to the employee having maximum point.

ii.

The option once availed and confirmed by the employee shall be final and cannot be changed for

current transfer drive.

iii.

An employee who is due for superannuation within one year or less service from the Qualifying date

shall not be eligible to participate in the transfer drive unless she/he desires. Once she/he desires and

she/he could not find station of her/his choice, she/he will be transferred anywhere else in the State.

iv.

Merit criteria for allotment of station will be as per Para 5 above.

All transfers shall be implemented within seven days of their issuance. The DDO concerned shall not

draw the salary of the employees who have not complied with the orders.

vi.

A Committee headed by the Deputy Commissioner and comprising of CMO and District Programme

Officer, may recommend deputation/temporary transfer of an employee after the transfer drive, on the

basis of genuine and compelling reasons.A web portal will be provided for taking online applications

from the employees for this purpose. The Committee will scrutinize such cases and send their

recommendations to the Govt. which will be dealt under relaxation clause of the Transfer Policy.

vii.

Online general transfer due to completion of prescribed tenure of five years shall be treated as ‘transfer

in public interest’ and in such case the joining time and composite transfer grant shall be admissible as

per provision in Haryana Civil Services Rules, 2016.

viii.

An employee aggrieved by the transfer order can represent on the web portal within 15 days of issuance

of order and after joining at the transferred place,his/her grievances shall be redressed by the committee

and appropriate decision shall be passed by the competent authority and shall be conveyed to him/her.

ix.

In case of employees who exhaust their preferred choices, before posting them under ‘Anywhere in the

state’ option, the department shall again seek their options against the remaining available posts at that

point of time. Changes in the transfer software would be made accordingly so that they are not

randomly posted too far away from their place of posting.

Bar against canvassing: No employee shall canvass for her/his case except through a representation to the

Head of Department or to higher authorities in Haryana, as per this policy. All other individual representations

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shall be treated as an attempt to bring extraneous influence on the due process. No relief can be sought except

the one already sought as per Para 6 above.

Appointment by promotion/direct recruitment: Employees taken in a cadre through direct recruitment/

promotion/repatriation shall be posted in any office as per eligibility and availability. Such employees shall

have to participate in the online transfer drive after completion of 5 years of service. However, they shall be

given opportunity to participate in the transfer drive after 3 years of service.

Opportunity of option to certain categories: The following categories of employees will not be

transferred unless they desire to participate in the transfer drive irrespective of period of stay:-

Employees having 12 months or less in retirement from qualifying date.

Unmarried female employees upon marriage; (Within one year from the qualifying date)

Married female employees upon divorce; or (Within one year from the qualifying date)

Widow employees on the death of spouse; (Within one year from the qualifying date)

10.

Posting in remote areas: Incentive for serving on the choice of Anywhere in the State: If an employee opts

for ‘anywhere in the State’ and is thereafter posted in an office in Morni Hills Area, Hathin (Palwal) or Nuh

District against a vacancy for which no employee has opted, he will be paid remuneration @ 10% of the Basic

Pay + D.A. during the period of said posting provided this incentive shall not be admissible in case of transfer

in home district Nuh and Panchkula.

11.

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

provisions of this policy, the Administrative Department in consultation with General Administration

Department shall be the competent authority to clarify such doubt or to remove such difficulty by issuing a

reasoned order to this effect.

12.

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

relaxation in transfer policy and he/she is given posting as per his/her choice.

13.

Out of Cadre Transfer: Any employee can be transferred and posted in any Department/Board/Corporation

of the State, in public interest and administrative exigencies, without his/her consent and relaxing the provision

of this policy as per clause 14 of this policy and he/she shall be treated on deputation in that

Department/Board/Corporation etc. and shall be eligible for compulsory transfer after completion of three

years of service at such station. The lieu of such employee will remain in this department.

14.

Power to relax: Notwithstanding anything contained in the policy, the Administrative Secretary to Govt. of

Haryana with the prior approval of the Chief Minister, Haryana, shall be competent to transfer an employee to

any place in relaxation of any or all of the above provisions after recording reasons justifying such relaxation.

DR. G. ANUPAMA,

Chandigarh:

Principal Secretary to Government Haryana,

The 3rd February, 2022.

Women & Child Development Department.

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