GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

(G.O. Ms. No. 113/FD/F2/A2/2022-23, Puducherry, dated 14th February 2023)

NOTIFICATION

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

Notification No. F5/4/65-GP, dated 11th January, 1965 of the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs,

New Delhi and in supersession of the Finance Department's Notification-I 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 'A' post of Director of Accounts and Treasuries/Financial Controller in the Government of Puducherry, namely:-

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

Group 'A' post of Director of Accounts and Treasuries/Financial Controller Recruitment Rules, 2023.

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

2. Number of post, its classification and Pay Band 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

Schedule.

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/she may, by order and for reasons to be recorded in writing and in consultation with Union Public Service

Commission, relax any of the provisions of these rules with the 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 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 DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTS AND

TREASURIES/FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

1. Name of the post

Director of Accounts and Treasuries/Financial Controller

2. Number of posts

2 (Two) [2023] Subject to variation dependent on work-load.

3. Classification

General Central Service – Non-Ministerial Gazetted

Group-'A'.

4. Pay Level in the Pay Matrix

Level–11 (` 67,700-2,08,700) in the Pay Matrix.

5. Whether selection post/non-selection post

Selection Post

6. Age-limits for direct recruits

Not applicable

7. Educational and other qualifications required for

Essential

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 qualifications

Age

: Not applicable

prescribed for direct recruit will apply in the case

Educational qualification : Not applicable

of promotees.

9. Period of probation, if any

Two years

10. Method of recruitment, whether by direct

Method

Percentage

recruitment or by promotion or by deputation/

absorption and percentage of the vacancies to

1. Promotion

100

be filled by various methods.

11. In case of recruitment by promotion/deputation/

Promotion

absorption, grades from which promotion/

deputation/absorption is to be made.

Deputy Director of Accounts and Treasuries/Senior

Accounts Officer in Level 8 in the Pay Matrix with 8 years

of 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) failing which Deputy Director of

Accounts and Treasuries/Senior Accounts Officer

with ten years of combined service in the grade of

direct recruits.

Junior Accounts Officer (Level 7 of Pay Matrix) and Deputy

Director of Accounts and Treasuries/Senior Accounts

Officer (Level 8 of Pay Matrix) subject to a minimum of

three years of regular service in the grade of Deputy

Director of Accounts and Treasuries/Senior Accounts

Officer.

Standard Note

Where, juniors who have completed their qualifying/

eligibility service are being considered for promotion, their

senior 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.

12. If, a Departmental Promotion Committee exists,

Departmental Promotion Committee :—

what is its composition?

1. Chairman/Member,

. . Chairman

Union Public Service Commission.

2. Chief Secretary,

. . Member

Government of Puducherry.

3. Secretary to Government (Finance), . . Member

Puducherry.

Departmental Confirmation Committee :—

1. Chief Secretary,

. . Chairman

Government of Puducherry.

2. Secretary to Government (Finance), . . Member

Puducherry.

3. Secretary to Government (Personnel), . . Member

Puducherry.

13. Circumstances in which Union Public Service :

Consultation with the Union Public Service Commission is

Commission is to be consulted in making recruitment.

necessary.

K. GOVINDARAJAN,

Under Secretary to Government (Finance).

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