No. 14014/04/2013-AIS-I

Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
North Block, New Delhi
Dated $25^{\text {th }}$ January, 2018

ORDER

Whereas, this Department in the wake of Hon’ble High Court of Punjab and Haryana order dated 01.02.2010 in CWP No. 15798/2009 in the case of Praveen Kumar, an State Civil Service officer of Punjab cadre Vs Union of India and as confirmed by Hon’ble Supreme Court, issued notification dated 18.4.2012 for making amendment in the respective seniority regulations for IAS/IPS/IFoS. These amendments were however made applicable to the Select Lists prepared as per the ratio laid down in the case of Praveen Kumar and accordingly, seniority/year of allotment of the officers included in the said Select Lists were determined as per the amended seniority regulations.
2. And whereas, consequent upon dismissal of SLP No.4930-4931 of 2016 and Review Petition No. 001428 -001429/2017 filed by DoPT in the case of F.R. Jamadar and other connected court cases filed by the Ministry of Home Affairs viz. CA No. 4419 of 2016 -UOI Vs Kailash Chandra Agarwal \& Ors, CA No. 8199 of 2016 -UOI Vs Arvind Kumar Sharda \& Ors, CA No. 8200 of 2016 -UOI Vs Keval Krishna Indoria \& Ors, CA No. 1396 of 2016 -UOI Vs R.A. Sanjeev and WP (C) No. 301 of 2016 -N.K.S. Chauhan Vs UOI, this Department vide OM No. No.14014/14/2014-AIS-I dated 21.8.2017 has decided to apply the amended seniority regulations prospectively i.e. w.e.f. 18.04.2012.
3. And whereas, this Department vide OM No. 14014/14/2014-AIS-I dated 03.11.2017 has decided that Seniority/year of allotment of officer appointed after 18.4.2012 against the vacancies arisen between 1.2 .2010 to 18.4 .2012 may be fixed as per pre-amended seniority rules throughout the Cadres.
4. And whereas, this Department vide OM No. 14014/14/2014-AIS-I dated 22012018 has also decided to count the service of the officer rendered in the rank of Deputy Collector or equivalent upto the $31^{\text {st }}$ December of the vacancy year against which he has been appointed to the IAS.
5. And whereas, the seniority /year of allotment of officers appointed by promotion to IAS of Uttar Pradesh cadre from Select List 2004-A, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 notified during the period from 01.02 .2010 to 18.04 .2012 and prepared against the vacancies arisen during the said period have been reviewed and re-determined by applying pre-amended seniority regulations Rules. Rule 3 (3)(ii) of IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1987 read with clarification dated 21.08.2017, 03.11.2017 and 22.01.2018 as under:

Weightage Formula as per pre-amended Seniority Rules is as under:-

• Seniority/year of allotment of officers mentioned at SI. No. 1 to 8 in the Select List of 2004-A has been restricted under provisions of the rule 3(3)(ii) of IAS(Regulation of Seniority ) Rules, 1987 which provide that an officer shall not be assigned year of allotment earlier than year of allotment assigned to other officer senior to him in that select list or appointed on the basis of earlier select list.

6.1 As per Rule 4 of the IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1987, the officers whose name has been mentioned at SI. No. 1 to 8 in the Select List of 2004-A shall be placed below Shri Raj Narayan Singh, the junior most promotee IAS officer of 1996 batch (SL 2004), and above Shri Mahendra Pd. Agarwal, the senior most RR IAS officer of 1997 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
7.

Select List – 2005

Since retired.

• Seniority/year of allotment of officers mentioned at SI. No. 1, 2 and 4 in the Select List of 2005 has been restricted under provisions of the rule 3(3)(ii) of IAS(Regulation of Seniority ) Rules, 1987 which provide that an officer shall not be assigned year of allotment earlier than year of allotment assigned to other officer senior to him in that select list or appointed on the basis of earlier select list.
  7.1 As per Rule 4 of the IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1987, the officers whose names has been mentioned at SI. No. 1 to 4 of the select list of 2005 shall be placed below Shri Sushil Kumar Yadav, the junior most promotee IAS officer of 1996 (SL-2004-A) batch and above Shri Mahendra Pd. Agarwal, the senior most RR IAS officer of 1997 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

# Since retired.

8.1 As per Rule 4 of the IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1987, the officers whose names has been mentioned at SI. No. 1 to 20 of the select list of 2006 shall be placed below Shri Pramod Kumar Upadhyay, the junior most promotee IAS officer of 1996 batch (SL-2005) and above Shri Mahendra Pd. Agarwal, the senior most RR IAS officer of 1997 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
9.

Select List – 2007

# Since retired.
9.1 As per Rule 4 of the IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1987, the officers whose names has been mentioned at SI. No. 1 to 22 of the Select List of 2007 shall be placed below Ms. Kamini Chauhan Ratan, the junior most RR IAS officer of 1997 batch and above Shri Alok Kumar III, the senior most RR IAS officer of 1998 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

| S.No. | Name of the Officer (S/Shri/Smt.) | Date from which holding continuous service in the State Civil Service not below the rank of Dy. Collector or equivalent. | Completed year of continuous service in the completed year of service rendered in the rank not below that of Deputy Collector or equivalent upto the $31^{\text {th }}$ December of the year for which the meeting of the committee to make selection was held to prepare the Select List on the basis of which the said officer(s) were appointed to IAS (Fractions if any, are to be ignored) i.e. 31.12.2008 | Total weightage in years in terms of the IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules 1987 as amended from time to time, till date | Year of allotment entitled | Name, year of SL and YQA of the officer in PQ (SCS), immediately senior to the one whose name is in column no. 03 | Year of Allotment assigned |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1 | Shankar Singh # | 15.04.1980 | 28 | 10 | 1998 | Shri
Shyam
Lal-B
allotted
1997 on
the basis
of SL
2007. | 1998 |
| 2 | Parveen Kumar
Singh # | 15.08.1980 | 28 | 10 | 1998 | As at S.
No. 1in
column
no. 2 | 1998 |
| 3 | Lal Bihari # | 06.06.1981 | 27 | 10 | 1998 | As at S.
No. 2 in
column
no. 2 | 1998 |
| 4 | Ram Prasad
Goswami # | 24.06.1980 | 28 | 10 | 1998 | As at S.
No. 3 in
column
no. 2 | 1998 |
| 5 | Devendra Nath
Verma # | 15.04.1980 | 28 | 10 | 1998 | As at S.
No. 4 in
column
no. 2 | 1998 |

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# Since retired.

10.1 As per Rule 4 of the IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1987, the officers whose names has been mentioned at SI. No. 1 to 10 of the select list of 2008 shall be placed below Shri Ajay Kumar Singh-I, the junior most RR IAS officer of 1998 batch and above Shri Navdeep Rinwa, the senior most RR IAS officer of 1999 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Since retired.

11.1 As per Rule 4 of the IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1987, the officers whose names has been mentioned at SI. No. 1 to 17 of the select list of 2009 shall be placed below Shri Ravinder, the junior most RR IAS officer of 1999 batch and above Sorabh Babu, the senior most RR IAS officer of 2000 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
12.

Select List – 2010

# Since retired.

• Seniority/year of allotment of officers mentioned at SI. No. 5 to 21 and 23 to 31 in the Select List of 2010 has been restricted under provisions of the rule 3(3)(ii) of IAS(Regulation of Seniority ) Rules, 1987 which provide that an officer shall not be assigned year of allotment earlier than year of allotment assigned to other officer senior to him in that select list or appointed on the basis of earlier select list.
  \$ Included in the Select list 2010 vide Notification No.14015/22/2012-AIS-I dated 16.01.2018.
  12.1 As per Rule 4 of the IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1987, the officers whose names has been mentioned at SI. No. 1 to 3 of the select list of 2010 shall be placed below Shri Shri Anurag Yadav, the junior most RR IAS officer of 2000 batch and above Shri Ajay Kumar Shukla, the senior most RR IAS officer of 2001 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
  12.2 As per Rule 4 of the IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1987, the officers whose names has been mentioned at SI. No. 4 to 35 of the select list of 2010 shall be placed below Shri S. V. S. Ranga Rao, the junior most RR IAS officer of 2001 batch and above Shri Pankaj Kumar, the senior most RR IAS officer of 2002 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

# Since retired.
13.1 As per Rule 4 of the IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1987, the officers whose names has been mentioned at SI. No. 1 to 16 of the select list of 2011 shall be placed below Shri Pramod Chandra Gupta, the junior most promotee IAS officer of 2001 batch(SL-2010) and above Shri Pankaj Kumar, the senior most RR IAS officer of 2002 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre
14. This will supersede this Department’s order No. 14014/15/2005-AIS.I dated 01.02.2013 (partial) and 21.3.2013 and No. 14014/04/2013-AIS-I dated 30.06.2016.
15. This issues with the approval of Secretary(P) and is subject to outcome of any court case pending in any court of law.
(Udai Bhăn Singh)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Tel: 23094142
To:-
1 The Chief Secretary, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow for onward transmission to the officer concerned. It is also requested that necessary steps may be taken to withdraw all the cases on the similar issue pending in any court of law.
2. The Accountant General, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow
3. EO (PR)/RO (CM)
4. US(S-II)/US(AIS (III)
5. NIC, for uploading on the DOPT’s website.