NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 24th February, 2014 G.S.R. 110 (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of Section 13 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 (13 of 1985), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Administrative Tribunal (Principal Private Secretary) Recruitment Rules, 1996, namely:-

1. Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the Central Administrative Tribunal (Principal Private Secretary) Recruitment (Amendment) Rules, 2013. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Central Administrative Tribunal (Principal Private Secretary) Recruitment Rules, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the principal rules), in paragraph 3, for the words, brackets and figures “Column (5) to (14)”, the words, brackets and figures “Column (5) to (13)” shall be substituted.
3. In the principal rules, for the Schedule, the following Schedule shall be substituted, namely:-

SCHEDULE

| Name of post | Number of post | Classification | Pay Bond
Plus Grade
Pay | Whether Selection post or NonSelection post | Age limit for direct recruits | Educational and other qualifications required for direct recruits |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) |
| Principal
Private
Secretary | 16* (2013)
*Subject to variation depending on workload | General
Central
Service
Group ‘A’
Gazetted,
Ministerial | Pay Band-3, Rs. 15600 39100 Plus Grade Pay of Rs. 6600 | Selection | Not applicable | Not applicable |

| Whether age and educational qualifications prescribed for direct recruits will apply in the case of promoters | Period of probation, if any | Method of recruitment:
Whether by direct recruitment or by promotion or by deputation or description and percentage of vacancies to be filled by various methods |
| — | — | — |
| (8) | (9) | (10) |
| Not applicable | Two years | Prenation failing which by deputation |# In case of recruitment promotion or deputation or absorption grades from which promotion or deputation or absorption to be made

(11)

Promotion: –

Private Secretaries in the Central Administrative Tribunal with eight years combined regular service rendered in PB-2 with Grade Pay of Rs. 4800 and PB-3 with Grade Pay of Rs. 5400
Note 1: – Where juniors who have completed their qualifying or eligibility service are being considered for promotion, their seniors shall also be considered provided they are not short of the requisite qualifying or eligibility service by more than half of such qualifying or 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 or eligibility service.
Note 2:- For the purpose of computing minimum qualifying service for promotion, the service rendered on a regular basis by an officer prior to $1^{\text {st }}$ January, 2006 or the date from which the revised pay structure based on the $6^{\text {th }}$ Central Pay Commission recommendations has been extended, shall be deemed to be service rendered in the corresponding grade pay/ or pay scale extended based on the recommendations of that Pay Commission.

By Deputation: –

From amongst officers of the Central Government or State Government or High Courts holding analogous posts of Principal Private Secretary on a regular basis in the Pay Band-3 Rs.15600-39100 with Grade Pay of Rs. 6600 or in the grade of Private Secretary with at least eight years combined regular service rendered in PB-2 with Grade Pay of Rs. 4800 and PB-3 with Grade Pay of Rs. 5400.
Note 1: – The Departmental Officers in the feeder grade who are in direct line of promotion shall not be eligible for appointment on deputation. Similarly a deputationist in the Central Administrative Tribunal shall not be eligible for consideration against promotion.
Note 2: – The period of deputation including the period of deputation in another ex-cadre post held immediately preceding this appointment in same or in some other organisation or Department of the Central Government shall ordinarily not exceed three years. The maximum age limit for appointment by deputation shall not be exceeding 56 years as on the closing date of receipt of application.
Note 3:- For purposes of appointment on deputation the service rendered on a regular basis by an officer prior to 1st January, 2006 or the date from which the revised pay structure based on the $6^{\text {th }} \mathrm{CPC}$ recommendations has been extended, shall be deemed to be service rendered in the corresponding grade pay or pay scale extended based on the recommendations of that Pay Commission except where there has been merger of more than one pre-revised scale of pay into one grade with a common grade pay or pay scale, and where this benefit will extend only for the post for which that grade pay or pay scale is the normal replacement grade without any up-gradation.

¹Foot Note: – The Principal rules were published in the Gazetted of India vide number G.S.R. 344 (E), dated the 31st July, 1996 and subsequently amended vide number G.S.R. 785 (E), dated the 31st December, 1998 and G.S.R. 280 (E), dated the 22nd April, 1999.