This office memorandum from the Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pensions, Department of Personnel & Training, addresses the review and potential recovery of excess payments made due to incorrect stepping up of pay for senior assistants of the Central Secretariat Service (CSS). It follows up on previous communications regarding the matter, requesting all Ministries/Departments to review cases where pay stepping up was allowed without meeting the specified conditions. A compliance report was initially requested by August 31, 2014, but response has been limited. The memorandum reiterates the request for compliance, including a ‘Nil’ report if no violations were found, and clarifies the need for forwarding reports for officers who have transferred to different Ministries/Departments. It emphasizes adherence to previous OM’s regarding pay fixation and recovery of excess payments.
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F.No.18/2/2014-CS-I(S)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
2nd Floor, A Wing, Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market
New Delhi, the 30th April, 2015
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Stepping up of pay of senior Assistants of CSS drawing less pay on promotion in the Section Officers’ Grade than their juniors – OM No.18/2/2007-CS-I dated 20.05.2014 – Follow up action regarding.
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s OMs No.18/2/2007-CS-I dated 20.05.2014 and 08.07.2014 and subsequent reminder No.18/2/2014-CS-I(S) dated 09.09.2014 on the subject mentioned above.
2. The Ministries/Departments were requested vide OM dated 20.05.14 that stepping up of pay already allowed in cases where the individuals are not covered by the OMs dated 13.04.1988, 23.02.1994 and 08.10.1996 and where conditions laid down in the OM dated 04.11.1993 are also not fulfilled, may be reviewed and pay re-fixed accordingly. They were further requested that the excess payments made to the employees in the cases of wrong stepping up of pay may be recovered in terms of DOP&T’s OM No.18/26/2011-Estt(Pay-I) dated 06.02.2014 and a compliance report in this regard furnished to this Department by 31.08.2014. However, till date information about re-fixation of pay, in respect of cases of stepping up of pay allowed wrongly, has been received from very few Ministries/Departments, like Ministry of Textiles, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation and Ministry of Labour and Employment, only. However, in the cases reviewed by these Ministries/Departments, many of the officers involved are presently working outside that Ministry/Department. Therefore, the compliance reports in respect of these officers are to be forwarded by their present Ministry/Department.
4. The Ministries/Departments are, therefore, once again requested to furnish the compliance report in this regard immediately. If no information is to be provided, a ‘Nil’ report may be sent to this Department as a token of confirmation that all cases of stepping up of pay have been reviewed by that Ministry/Department in terms of this Department’s OM dated 20.05.2014 read with clarifications issued vide OM dated 08.07.2014 and no violations found.
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India
Ph:24629412
To
All the Cadre Units of CSS
Ministry/Department of
(Deputy Secretary/Director (Admn./Estt.))