This Office Memorandum clarifies how service rendered by officers acting as Private Secretary or Officer-on-Special Duty to Ministers will be counted. It states that such service, when performed by an officer under the Central Staffing Scheme, will be recognized as service under the Central Staffing Scheme itself. This clarification is specifically for the purpose of empanelment as Additional Secretary or Secretary within the Government of India. The memorandum is addressed to the Secretaries of all Ministries and Departments of the Government of India and includes copies for various other offices, including Chief Secretaries of State Governments, the Cabinet Secretariat, and the NIC for website placement.
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No. 31/10/2010-EO (MM-I)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
(Office of the Establishment Officer)
North Block, New Delhi, dated 25th March, 2011.
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Clarification on counting of service rendered by officers as Private Secretary/Officer-on-Special Duty to Ministers for the purpose of empanelment as Additional Secretary/Secretary in Government of India.
It is clarified that the services rendered by an officer (of a service participating under the Central Staffing Scheme) as Private Secretary/OSD to Ministers will be treated as service under the Central Staffing Scheme, for the purpose of empanelment as Additional Secretary/Secretary to the Government of India.
(Trishaljit Sethi)
Director (MM)
The Secretaries,
All Ministries/Departments of Government of India
Copy for information to:
- Chief Secretaries, all State Governments/Union Territories of India
- Cabinet Secretariat (Ms. Nivedita Shukla Verma, Director)
- PS to MOS(PP)/PPS to Secretary (P)
- PS to EO/Dir (MM)/Guard file.
- NIC for placing on the department website.
(Trishaljit Sethi)
Director (MM)