Transfer Policy

ix) When the question of transfer is considered, as a normal rule, a person with the longest continuous stay at the station, irrespective of the rank(s) held by him earlier, should ordinarily be transferred first. For this purpose, the service rendered at a station as a local recruit will not be taken in to consideration on for determining the length of continuous stay at thet Station. Also, the actual period of continuous service at the site(s) of installation(s) will be excluded for computation of continuous is more than ninety days in a calender year.

x) As far as possible, every employees will be posted to a category 'C' station at least once during his service.

xi) Persons who already had a spell of posting at a 'C' station would not be posted to such a station a second time if there are candidates in the same grade who are still to be posted to such a station. They may, however, be posted again on promotion.

xii) Persons over the age of 45 years shall not be ordinarily posted to a station of high altitude, which term for the purpose will mean a station located at an altitude, of 2250 or more above mean sea level.

xiii) For the purpose of determining the date of completion of his tenure, all kinds of leave availed of by an officer after posting to Category 'C' station will be excluded except the leave availed of by him, during his such posting, upto the extent of "Earned Leave" earned by him at that station.

xiv) The head of the main station authorised to make recruitment may review the position of Transmission Executives posted at Category 'C' station will before completion of tenure at the station and forwarded proposals to the Directorate regarding transfers of those persons to other stations after ascertaining the preference of the persons concerned.

xv) Regional offices/sections concerned in the Directorate should, at the commencement of a year, prepare a list of those whose tenure at Category 'C' stations is due to be completed during that year. Proposals to post substitutes in their places would be formulated well ahead of the actual completion of tenure. Those who are due for promotion and who have not done a term of posting at any category 'C' station would be posted to a category 'C' station on promotion.

xvi) Six months before expiry of normal tenure of posting at a station, an employee may indicate his choice of minimum of three different stations where he would like to be preferably posted and such option may be taken into consideration before his next posting is decided.

xvii) If an official offers himself for a posting at any of the category 'C' stations, a suitable note will be made of the offer and to the extent possible such an offer would be accepted.

xviii) In case an official posted at a category 'C' station is willing to continue at that station not withstanding completion of his normal tenure there, he may not be transferred from that station, unless the conditions other than the tenure justify his transfer from that station.

xix) Posting/transfer orders of an employee who is serving at a category 'C' to a category 'A' or 'B' station on completion of his tenure at a category 'C' station shall be issued at least one month before the completion of his tenure.

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