CHAPTER XIV
CLASSIFICATION OF SERVICES (INCLUDING METHOD OF RECRUITMENT AND APPOINTMENT THERETO AND NUMBER
AND CHARACER OF POSTS), CONDUCT AND DISCIPLINE AND PUNISHMENT AND APPEALS.
SECTION I. CLASSIFICATION OF SERVICES
(a) GENERAL
14.1. The Public Services of the State under the administrative control of the Government of Punjab shall be classified as under:–
(i) The Punjab State Services Group ‘A’;
(ii) The Punjab State Services Group ‘B’;
(iii) The Punjab State Services Group ‘C’; and
(iv) The Punjab State Services Group ‘D’.
14.2 In the case of a person to whom these rules apply and who is not already included in any of the services given in rule 14.1 the competent authority shall decide the service to which he shall belong.
14.3 (1) Any person who is dismissed from Government service shall not be appointed to any of the State services or posts.
(2) A member of any of the State service when appointed to any other service or post shall not be deprived, without his consent, of any right or privilege to which he may have been entitled as a member of his former service. This protection will however, not be available to a member of the service, whose appointment in his former service has been terminated by awarding the penalty of removal from service under rule 5 of the Punjab Civil Services (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1970.
14.4. A competent authority may make rules regulating (1) the method of recruitment to the different services, (2) the strength (including both the number and character of posts) of such services, and (3) the making of first appointment to the different services.
Note 1.–Rules relating to the subjects mentioned in this rule for the different services have been issued separately by the departments concerned.
Note 2.–This rule in so far as it provides for the number and character of posts and their rates of pay to be determined by rule cannot suitably be applied in respect of all ministerial and petty officers and Group ‘D’ employees. Accordingly these Government employees have been excluded from the operation of this rule to that extent.
Note 3.–The extent up to which the various departments and heads of departments or their subordinate authorities exercise power in respect of the creation or abolition of both permanent and temporary posts and the varying of emoluments of posts are given in Chapter XV.
Note 4.–Although a competent authority has full power to create posts and to fix the pay thereof under this rule, the sanction of the Government of India is necessary to the holding in abeyance of a post borne on the cadre of the All-India Services, and the creation in its place of a temporary post of different status.
Note 5.–(a) Short term vacancies, the duration of which exceeds two months by an appreciable margin, may be filled up in the normal manner by the authorities competent to make appointments against the posts.
(b) Officiating promotions in vacancies of two months’ duration or less continuous chain of vacancies in the same grade, each of a duration of two months or less but which taken together extend beyond two months, should not as a rule be made save in very exceptional circumstances with the prior approval of the Administrative Secretary concerned in the case of Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ appointments and of the Head of Department in the case of Group ‘C’ and Group ‘D’ appointments:
Provided that no leave vacancy, of less than one month duration will ordinarily be filled in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretariat and also that these instructions will not be applicable during its Session days.
(b) STATE SERVICES, GROUP ‘A’ AND GROUP ‘B’ AND SPECIALIST SERVICES
14.5. The State Services, Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ consist of such services as the competent authority may from time to time declare by notification in the Punjab Gazette to be included in Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ Services.
Note. Omitted.
14.6. The Specialist Services shall consist of such services (other than All-India and State Services, Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’) as the Government may from time to time by notification in the Punjab Gazette declare to be Specialist Services.
(c) OTHER SERVICES
14.7. State Services, Group ‘C’ and ‘D’, include persons to whom these rules apply and who are not already included in any of the services comprised in class (i), (ii) and (iii) of rule 14.1.
SECTION II. CONDUCT AND DISCIPLINE
14.8. A competent authority may make rules to regulate the conduct of the members of the State Services, Group ‘A’, Group ‘B’ and Group ‘C’ and holders of special posts.
Note.–Rules issued under this rule are contained in Appendix 23 to these rules.
SECTION III. PUNISHMENT AND APPEALS
14.9. A competent authority may issue rules specifying the penalties which may be imposed on members of the services and the procedure for preferring appeals against the imposition of such penalties.
Note. Omitted.