This communication from the Department of Personnel & Training notifies Chief Secretaries of all States/UTs about amendments to the All India Services (Performance Appraisal Report) Rules, 2007. Key changes include updated PAR forms, uniform timelines for all stages of the appraisal process, mandatory electronic recording with auto-forwarding features, and a separate reporting tab within the SPARROW portal for Financial Advisors in dual reporting roles. The amendments aim to streamline the PAR process for IAS officers at all levels, ensuring timely completion and consistent application of the rules. The SPARROW portal has been updated to reflect these changes, and strict compliance is requested from all state government officers.
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F.No. 3/4/2019 – EO(PR)
Government of India
M/o Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
D/o Personnel & Training
North Block, New Delhi
Dated, the 1st March, 2020
To,
The Chief Secretaries of all the States/UTs.
Sub: Amendment to AIS(PAR) Rules-2007 -reg.
I am to refer to the Gazette Notification No. G.S.R No. 519 (E) dated 23.07.2019 introducing amendments in AIS(PAR) Rules, 2007, already communicated vide letter no. 11059/01/2016 – AIS-III dated 27.09.2019 which, inter-alia, provides as under:
i. PAR Form I and Form II and guidelines for filling the said PAR Forms appended below these Forms under appendix-I applicable for IAS officers have been substituted with new Form I & II and the guidelines there under.
ii. The aforesaid amendments provide for uniform timelines for various stages of recording of PAR (i.e. Submission of Self Appraisal, Reporting, Reviewing and Accepting), disclosure of PAR and disposal thereof in respect of IAS officers at all levels.
iii. Since, electronic recording of PAR is mandatory under AIS(PAR) Rules, 2007 as amended, in order to give effect to the time-bound recording of PAR, there shall be an auto-forwarding provision of PAR from one stage to another, after specified due date as envisaged under newly provided schedule for completion of PAR in respect of IAS officers at all levels.
iv. A separate tab in the SPARROW for dual reporting in case of Financial Advisors posted as Joint Secretary/Additional Secretary in the different Ministries/Department of Government of India has been created to provide both the Reporting authorities to report separately without being privy to the report of the other Reporting authority.
- In view of the amendments to the AIS(PAR) Rules, 2007, relevant modifications have been made in the SPARROW portal by replacing the old forms with the new ones introduced vide the aforesaid notification. Similarly, with the introduction of the provision of auto-forward of PAR from the Assessment Year 2019-20, PARs will automatically move forward from the account of ORU to the Reporting authority and thereafter to the next level, in case the PAR is not submitted by the concerned authority within the specified timelines. It may be important to reiterate that the aforesaid amendments provide for uniform timelines for all the officers either working in the Super-time scale or below or working as Additional Secretary/Secretary to the Government of India i.e. now the ORU will get two months time to submit the self-appraisal irrespective of the level at which he is working.
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It is requested that these modifications may be brought to the notice of all the officers posted in the State Government, for strict compliance.
Yours sincerely,
(Varsha Sinha)
Director
Tel: 011-23092755