GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

(G.O. Ms. No. 29/FD/F2/A2/2021, Puducherry, dated 03rd August 2021)

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution of India, read with the

Notification No. F.5/4/65-Gp., dated 11th January 1965 of the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs,

New Delhi and in supersession of Finance Department's Notification-II issued in G.O. Ms. No. 69/99-F2, dated

7th December, 1999 of the Finance Department, Government of Puducherry and published in Supplement to the

Gazette No. 3, dated 18th January 2000, save as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession,

the Lieutenant-Governor, Puducherry, hereby makes the following rules regulating the method of recruitment to the

Group 'B' post of Deputy Director of Accounts and Treasuries/Senior Accounts Officer in the Government of

Puducherry, namely:—

1. Short title and commencement.— (1) These rules may be called the Government of Puducherry,

Group 'B' post of Deputy Director of Accounts and Treasuries/Senior Accounts Officer Recruitment Rules, 2021.

(2) They shall come into force on and from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. Number of posts, their classification and Level in the Pay Matrix.— The number of said post, its

classification and Level in the Pay Matrix attached thereto shall be as specified in columns (2) to (4) of the Schedule

annexed thereto.

3. Method of recruitment, age-limit and other qualifications.— The method of recruitment to the said post,

age-limit, qualifications and other matters relating thereto, shall be as specified in columns (5) to (13) of the said

Schedules.

4. Disqualifications.— No person,

(a) who has entered into or contracted a marriage with a person, having a spouse living; or

(b) who, having a spouse living, has entered into or contracted a marriage with any person, shall be eligible

for appointment to the said posts:

Provided that the Lieutenant-Governor may, if satisfied, that such marriage is permissible under the Personal Law

applicable to such person and the other party to the marriage and there are other grounds for so doing, exempt any

person from the operation of this rule.

5. Power to relax.— Where, the Lieutenant-Governor is of the opinion that it is necessary or expedient so to

do, he may, by order and for reasons to be recorded in writing, relax any of the provisions of these rules in consultation

with the Commission with respect to any class or category of persons.

6. Savings.— Nothing in these rules shall affect the reservations, relaxations in upper age-limit and other

concessions required to be provided for the Scheduled Castes/the Scheduled Tribes and other special categories of

persons in accordance with the orders issued by the Government from time to time in this regard.

SCHEDULE

RECRUITMENT RULES FOR THE POST OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTS AND

TREASURIES / SENIOR ACCOUNTS OFFICER

1. Name of the post

Deputy Director of Accounts and Treasuries / Senior

Accounts Officer.

2. Number of posts

32 (Thirty-two) [2021] *Subject to variation dependent

on work-load.

3. Classification

General

Central

Services–Group-'B'–Gazetted–

Non-Ministerial.

4. Pay Level in the Pay Matrix

Level–8 (` 47,600-1,51,100) in the Pay Matrix

5. Whether selection post or non-selection post

Selection Post

6. Age-limit for direct recruits

Not applicable

7. Educational and other qualification required for

Essential

direct recruits.

Qualification : Not applicable Experience : Not applicable

Desirable

Qualification : Not applicable Experience : Not applicable

Qualification Standard Note :

Experience Standard Note :

Not applicable

8. Whether age and educational qualification :

Age

: Not applicable

prescribed for direct recruits will apply in the

Educational Qualification : Not applicable

case of promotees.

9. Period of probation, if any

Not applicable

10. Method of recruitment, whether by direct :

Method

recruitment or by promotion or by deputation/

Promotion failing which by deputation 100 Percent

absorption and percentage of the vacancies to

be filled by various methods.

11. In case of recruitment by promotion /deputation/ :

Promotion

absorption, grades from which promotion/

Junior Accounts Officers in the Level 7 in the Pay Matrix

deputation/absorption is to be made.

(Pre-revised Pay Band-2 ` 9,300-34,800 with Grade Pay

` 4,600) with two years of regular service in the grade

rendered after appointment thereto on a regular basis and

have successfully completed the short-term training in the

Institute of Government Accounts Finance (INGAF),

Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance or National

Institute of Financial Management (NIFM).

Note : The requirement of training for promotion is not

applicable to the officers holding the feeder post

on regular basis on the date of notification of these

rules.

Where the juniors who have completed their qualifying/

eligibility service are being considered for promotion, their

seniors would also be considered provided they are not

short of the requisite qualifying/eligibility service by more

than half of such qualifying/eligibility service or two years,

whichever is less and have successfully completed their

probation period for promotion to the next higher grade along

with their juniors who have already completed such

qualifying/eligibility service.

Deputation

Officers of Indian Audit and Accounts Department/Indian

Railway Accounts Department/Indian Defence Accounts

Department/Indian Posts and Telegraph Accounts and

Finance Department –

(i) holding analogous post on regular basis in the

Parent cadre/Department; or

(ii) with 2 years service in the grade rendered after

appointment thereto on a regular basis in posts in

Level 7 in the Pay Matrix in the parent cadre/

Department.

Note : The Period of deputation including the period of

deputation in another ex-cadre post held immediately

preceding this appointment in the same or some

other Organization/Department of the Central

Government shall ordinarily not exceed 3 years.

The maximum age-limit for appointment by

deputation shall be not exceeding 56 years as on

the lost date of receipt of applications.

The departmental officers in the feeder category who are

in the direct line of promotion shall not be eligible for

consideration for appointment on deputation. Similarly, the

deputationist shall not be eligible for consideration for

appointment by promotion.

12. If, a Departmental Promotion Committee exists,

Promotion

what is its composition?

Group "B" Departmental Promotion Committee (for

considering Promotion):—

(1) Chief Secretary to Government,

. . Chairman

Puducherry.

(2) Secretary to Government (Finance),

. . Member

Puducherry.

(3) Director of Accounts and Treasuries, . . Member

Puducherry.

Confirmation of DR

1. Not applicable

13. Circumstances in which the Union Public :

Consultation with Union Public Service Commission is not

Service Commission is to be consulted in making

necessary.

recruitment.

ARJUN RAMAKRISHNAN,

Under Secretary to Government (Finance).

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