DOPT ORDERS ON ACR GRADING FOR CONSIDERATION OF DPC

DOPT ORDERES ON ACRs WITH BELOW BENCHMARK GRADING CONSIDERED IN PAST DPCs

Dear Comrades,

DOPT has issued another clarificatory orders on the issue of ACRs with below benchmark grading considered in past DPCs closely on the foot steps of its recent orders on 13.04.2010 making it mandatory to supply the adverse entries in ACRs prior to 2008-09 to the officials for facilitating those officials to make representations if any for the consideration of the Reviewing Authority.

However,, the presnt clarificatory orders dated 27th April 2010 of the DOPT is to make the Officers guarded against granting such promotions if any from a retrospective date based on the upgradation of the grading by the competent authority based on the judgment of the Supreme Court in the Dev Dutt Vs Union of India case. The DOPT has cautioned all the Officers to take advantage of another judgment of the same Supreme Court in the Union of India Vs A.K.Goel & others case and the latest referals to a larger bench of the Supreme Court of India on the face of contradictory judgments of Supreme Court in the past.

This laterst clarificatory orders takes away the benefit of getting the benefit of promotion from a retrospective date even though the Reviewing Authority upgrade the benchmark on representation from the official agains the negative grading made in the ACRs. Therefore this is a negative order.

The full text of the orders of the DOPT can be downloaded by clicking the link below:

http://persmin.gov.in/writedata/CircularNotification/ScanDocument/21011_1_2010-Estt.-A.pdf



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K.Ragavendran
Secretary General NFPE