EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No.492 CUTTACK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019/FALGUNA 22, 1940

HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT

NOTIFICATION

The 8th March, 2019

No.6617–HFW-MSIII-MSNG3M-0022/2018/HFW.— In exercise of the powers conferred

by the proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution of India and in supersession of all

Orders and Instructions issued in this regard except as respects things done or omitted

to be done before such supersession, the Governor of Odisha hereby makes the

following rules for regulating the methods of recruitment and conditions of service of

persons appointed to the Odisha Laboratory Technician Service in the Medical

Institutions of the State, namely:—

1. Short title and commencement:— (1) These rules may be called the

Odisha Laboratory Technician Service (Methods of Recruitment and Conditions of

Service) Rules, 2019.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Odisha

Gazette.

2. Definitions:—(1)In these rules unless the context otherwise requires:—

(a) "Schedule" means an Schedule appended to these rules;

(b) "Commission" means the Odisha Sub-ordinate Staff Selection Commission;

rule 14 of these rules;

(d) "Ex-Servicemen" means persons as defined in the Odisha Ex-

Servicemen (Recruitment to State Civil Services and Posts) Rules,

1985;

(e) "Government" means the Government of Odisha ;

(f) "Medical Institution" means the District Government Medicals,

Government Medical College and Hospitals, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Post Graduate Institute of Paediatrics (in short SVPPGIP) at Cuttack

and Capital Hospital at Bhubaneswar.

(g) "Persons with Disabilities" means a person who has been granted a

disability Certificate by Competent Authority as per provisions of “the

Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016”

(h) "Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes(SC and ST)" shall have

reference to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

specified in the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 and

the Constitution (Scheduled Tribe) Order, 1950, as the case may

be made under Articles 341 and 342 of the Constitution of India

respectively;

(i) "SEBC" means the Socially and Educationally Backward

Classes defined as Backward Classes in clause (e) of Section 2 of the

Odisha State Commission for Backward classes Act, 1993;

(j) "Service" means the Odisha. Laboratory Technician and Senior Laboratory

Technician Service;

(k) "Sportsmen" means persons who have been issued with Identity Card, as

sportsmen by the Director, Sports (as per Resolution No.24808/Gen/dated

the 18th November,1985 of the General Administration Department as

amended from time to time), and

(l) "Year" means the calendar year.

(2) All other words and expressions used in these rules but not specifically

defined shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meaning as respectively

assigned to them in the Odisha Service Code.

3. Constitution of Service:— (1) The service shall consist of such posts as specified in

column 2 of the Schedule.

4. Conditions of taking over of existing Laboratory Technicians:— (A) (1) On the date

of commencement of these rules , all the contractual Laboratory Technicians who have been duly

recruited by concerned societies/Schemes and have completed 6 (six) years of satisfactory

contractual service shall be deemed to be regular government employees as one time

measure subject to fulfillment of eligibility criteria as prescribed under rule 5:

Provided that all the contractual Laboratory Technicians who are yet to complete six years

of contractual service and having eligibility criteria as prescribed under rule 5 shall be deemed to

be contractual government employees as one time measure and shall be regularized as and

when they complete six years of satisfactory contractual service, including the service that has

already been rendered in concerned scheme/society:

Provided further that those contractual Laboratory Technicians, who do not meet the

eligibility criteria, as mentioned under rule 5 shall continue as such under the OSH&FW Society till

closure of the project, retirement or disengagement, whichever is earlier:

(2) On their regularisation, such posts of contractual Laboratory Technicians of the

OSH&FW Society as in sub-clause (1) shall be deemed to have been abolished from the date of

such induction of contractual Laboratory Technicians into the Cadre. As these posts shall cease to

exist, no further recruitment to fill up these posts shall be made by the OSH & FW Society other

than by the Commission:

5. Modalities for Induction of Laboratory Technicians into the Cadre:—All the

contractual Laboratory Technicians and Senior TB Laboratory Supervisor who have completed or

are yet to complete 6 years of satisfactory contractual service under the Society/ Scheme, shall be

deemed to have been inducted into the Cadre, subject to following conditions;

(i) Such Laboratory Technicians who have the minimum educational qualification &

other eligibility criteria as per rule 9 at the time of engagement under the

Society/Scheme;

(ii) who have been selected through an open & transparent recruitment process;

(iii) while inducting, the prevalent reservation principles as in rule 7 shall be followed

6. Methods of recruitment:— Subject to other provisions made in these rules,

the method of recruitment to the post in the service shall be made by the following methods,

namely:—

(a) Recruitment to the post of Laboratory Technician shall be made by direct

recruitment through competitive examination to be conducted by the

Commissionin the manner provided under rule 8.

(b) The post of Senior Laboratory Technician shall be filled up by way of

promotion from among the persons holding the post of Laboratory

Technician.

7. Reservations:— Notwithstanding anything contained in these rules the reservation of

vacancies or posts as the case may be, for —

(a) Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes shall be made in

accordance with the provisions for the Odisha Reservation of

Vacancies in Posts and Services (for Scheduled Castes and

Scheduled Tribes) Act,1975 and the rules made thereunder;

(b) SEBC, women, sportsmen, Ex-Servicemen and persons with

disabilities shall be made in accordance with the provisions

made

under

such

Act,

Rules,

Orders,

Resolutions

instructions issued in this behalf by the Government from time

to time.

CHAPER-II

DIRECT RECRUITMENT

8. Procedure for Direct Recruitment:—(1) In the month of January every year

the respective Appointing Authorities of the medical institutions concerned shall determine

the existing vacancies and the vacancies likely to occur in the service in their respective

jurisdictions in the year in which the recruitment is to be made and the vacancies shall be

intimated to the Commission by the end of January indicating therein the number of posts

belonging to different reserved categories as specified under rule 7.

(2) On receipt of the intimation, the Commission shall publish advertisement at

least in two leading vernacular daily newspapers having wide circulation in Odisha,

inviting applications from eligible candidates for appearing in the competitive

recruitment Examination.

(3) The application forms, the manner of submission of application, the documents

required to be accompanied with the application form, fee required and scrutiny of

applications shall be such as may be decided by the Commission.

(4) The standard, syllabus and subjects of examination shall be as decided by the

Commission in consultation with the Administrative Department.

9. Eligibility Criteria for direct recruitment:—In order to be eligible for direct

recruitment to the post of Laboratory Technician, a candidate shall have to satisfy the

following conditions namely:—

(i) Nationality: - He must be a citizen of India;

(ii) Age limit: - He must have attained the age of 21 years and must not be

above the age of 32 years:

Provided that the upper age limit in respect of the reserved categories of

candidates referred to in rule 7 shall be relaxed in accordance with the provisions of

the Act, rules, orders or instructions for the time being in force, for their respective

categories.

Further provided that, the upper age limit for contractual Laboratory Technicians under

OSH&FW Society/Scheme who shall take part in the recruitment process, if otherwise eligible,

shall be 50 years as on the date of advertisement.

(iii) Knowledge in Odia:-He must -(a) be able to read, write and speak Odia

and

(b) have passed middle school examination with Odia as language

subject ; or

medium of examination in non-language subject; or

(d) have passed in Odia as language subject in the final examination of

Class-VII from a school or educational Institution recognized by the

Government of Odisha or the Central Government; or

(e) have passed a test in Odia in Middle English School standard conducted by the

School & Mass Education Department.

(iv) Marital status: -lf married, he must not have more than one spouse

living:

Provided that the Government may, if satisfied that such marriage is

permissible under the personal law applicable to such person or there are other

specific grounds for doing so, exempt any person from the operation of this rule.

(v) Minimum Educational Qualification:- The educational qualification of

the candidate for the post of Laboratory Technician shall be as specified at column 4

of the Appendix.

(vi) Physical Fitness: - A candidate must be of good mental and physical

health and free from any physical defects likely to make him incapable of discharging

his normal duties in the Service.

(vii) A candidate who after such medical examination as the Government

may prescribe is not found to satisfy these requirements as specified in clause (VI)

shall not be appointed to the Service.

(viii) He must have registered his name in Laboratory Technician Council in the State

and have possessed valid registration certificates as on the date of the advertisement.

10. Procedure for selection by the Commission:-(1) The Commission shall

prepare a select list of successful candidates in order of merit on the basis of written test

which shall be equal to number of advertised vacancies as a whole indicating therein the

names of respective Appointing Authorities under whom the appointment shall be made

subject to fulfilment of all formalities.

If two or more candidates secure equal marks then the candidate securing higher

percentage (%) of Marks in Diploma in Laboratory Technician shall find place above the

others in the merit list and in case percentage (%) of Marks obtained in Diploma in

Laboratory Technician is also the same, the candidate older in age shall be placed above

the younger; and in case the age is also the same, the candidate who secures more

marks in +2 in any stream or equivalent Examination shall find the place above the

others.

(2) The list of successful candidates drawn in order of merit shall be published in the Notice

Board of the Commission as well as in web site and in two leading local newspapers.

11. Select List:— (1) The Commission shall forward the list of the candidates

so prepared under rule 10 to the Appointing Authority for approval and after receiving

the approval the same shall form the select list.

(2) The select list of the candidates prepared on merit shall ordinarily be in force

for a period of one year from the date of its approval by the Government or until another select list

is prepared afresh whichever is earlier.

(3) Appointment to the post shall be made in the order in which their names appear

in the merit list.

CHAPTER-III

PROMOTION

12. Eligibility Criteria for Promotion to the Post of Senior Laboratory

Technician:—The eligibility criteria for promotion to the post of Senior Laboratory

Technician shall be as specified in column 5 of the Appendix.

13. Combined Gradation List for the purpose of Promotion:— (1) For the

purpose of consideration of promotion to the posts of Senior Laboratory Technician a combined

gradation list of Laboratory Technicians of all Medical Institutions shall be prepared by the Director

of Health Services in the following manner:

(a) The names shall be arranged on the basis of the year of recruitment

chronologically.

(b) In each year of recruitment the names shall be arranged as per their

respective merit lists/ date of appointment as Laboratory Technician:

Provided that in case of position of two or more Laboratory Technicians of different Medical

Institutions happens to be the same as per the respective gradation lists, the person older in age

shall be placed above the younger.

en bloc be junior and placed below the persons appointed prior to their

induction.

(d) Names of the Laboratory Technicians inducted under rule 4 shall be

arranged in order of their date of joining in the contractual post. If the date

of joining of two or more Laboratory Technicians is same then the name

of the older one shall be above the younger one.

14. Constitution of the Departmental Promotion Committee:— (1) The

Departmental Promotion Committee for consideration of promotion to the post of

Senior Laboratory Technician shall be constituted with the following members,

namely:—

(a) Director, Health Services, Odsiha :Chairman

(b) Director, Medical Education & Training, Odisha : Member

(d) Addl. Director, Health Services(HRH&R),Odisha : Member

(e) Representative from ST&DC Dev. Deptt. : Departmental

Representative

(f) E.O. (Medical),DHS,Odisha :Member Convenor

(2) The recommendation of the committee shall be valid and can be operated

upon notwithstanding the absence of any one of its members other than the Chairman:

Provided that the member so absenting must have been duly invited to attend

the meeting of the Committee.

15. Procedure for selection by the Committee:— (1) The Committee shall

meet at least once in a year preferably in the month of January to prepare a list of

employees suitable for promotion to the next higher grade taking into account the

existing vacancies anticipated vacancies of the year in which the Committee meets.

(2) The Committee while considering the promotion of suitable employees

preparing the list of such officers shall follow the provisions of;

(a) the Odisha Reservation of Vacancies in Posts and Services (for Scheduled

Caste and Scheduled Tribe) Act, 1975 and the rules made thereunder.

(b) the Odisha Civil Services ( Zone of Consideration for Promotion)

Rules, 1988

(d) the Odisha Civil Services (Criteria for Selection for appointment including

Promotion) Rules, 2003.

16. Select list:— (1) The committee shall forward the list of the employees

so prepared under sub rule (2) of rule 14 to the Appointing Authority for approval and after

receiving the approval the same shall form the select list.

(2) The select list shall ordinarily be in force for a period of one year from the

date of its approval by the Government or until another select list is prepared and approved

whichever is earlier within the same year.

(3) The validity of the select list beyond the prescribed period shall be only by

specific Government order justifying the reasons thereof.

(4) Appointment to any post in the service shall be in the order in which their names

appear in the select list.

CHAPTER-IV

OTHER CONDITION OF SERVICE

17. Probation and Confirmation :—(1) Every person appointed to any post in

the service by direct recruitment shall be on probation for a period of 2 (two) years and

when appointed on promotion shall be on probation for a period of one year from the

date of joining the post:

Provided that the Appointing Authority may, if thinks fit, in any case or class of cases extend

the period of probation but in no case it shall be more than a year:

Provided further that such period of probation shall not include period of,

(a) extraordinary leave;

(b) unauthorized absence; or

(2) The appointment of a probationer coming through direct recruitment may for

good and sufficient reasons to be recorded in writing, be terminated by the Appointing

Authority at any time without previous notice during the period of probation including

extension of such period if any and in case of the employee who has been appointed by

way of promotion be reverted to his former cadre or post.

(3) A probationer after completion of the period of probation to the satisfaction of

the Appointing Authority shall be eligible for confirmation subject to availability of

substantive e vacancy in the service.

18. Inter-se-Seniority :—(1)The Inter-se-Seniority of the persons appointed through

direct recruitment under rule-6 (a) in the service in a particular year shall be in the order in which

their names appear in the select list.

(2) Laboratory Technicians inducted under rule 4 shallen-bloc be junior to the Laboratory

Technicians existing under the respective Medical Institutions on the date of commencement of

these rules.

(3) Seniority of Laboratory Technicians inducted under rule 4 shall be determined taking

into account their date of joining in the contractual service under the Society/Scheme.

19. Other Conditions:—The conditions of Service in regard to matters not covered

by these rules shall be the same as are or as may from time to time be prescribed by the

Government.

20. Relaxation:— When it is considered by the Government that it is necessary or

expedient to do so in the public interest, it may, by order, for reasons to be recorded in

writing, relax any of the provisions of these rules in respect of any class or category of the

employees.

21. Interpretation:— If any question arises relating to the interpretation of any of these

rules, it shall be referred to the Government whose decision thereon shall be final.

SCHEDULE

(See rules 3, 9 & 12)

SI. No. Name of the Post,

Classification and

cadre

Method of

recruitment

Minimum qualification for

direct recruitment

Eligibility criteria for promotion

Laboratory

Technician

(District Cadre)

Direct

recruitment

Must have passed +2

Science Examination under

Council of Higher

Secondary Education,

Odisha / equivalent, and

passed Diploma in Medical

Laboratory Technology

from Government Medical

College &

Hospitals of the State / any

other private Institutions

recognized by Government

of Odisha or All India

Council of Technical

Education.

Senior Laboratory

Technician (State

Cadre)

Promotion from

Laboratory

Technician

Completion of 10 (Ten)

years of continuous

services as Laboratory

Technician

By Order of the Governor

Dr. PRAMOD KUMAR MEHERDA

Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Government

Printed and published by the Director, Printing, Stationery and Publication, Odisha, Cuttack-10

Ex. Gaz. 2443-173+50