17. Probation and confirmation.

(ii) Unless the Appointing Authority otherwise decides and subject to availability of the permanent posts, a probationer shall by order of the Authority be confirmed in the service on satisfactory completion of the period of probation and on passing such departmental exams/tests as may be or as and when prescribed by the Governor of Appointing Authority.
(iii) A probationer shall be liable to be discharged from the service, or as the case may be reverted to his substantive post, if any, if his performance is found not satisfactory or if he fails in the prescribed departmental exam/test or if he is otherwise considered unsuitable during or at the end of period of probation, or if on any information received relating to his nationality, age, health, character and antecedents, the Appointing Authority is satisfied that the probationer is ineligible or otherwise unfit for being a member of the service.
(iv) A person who immediately before the commencement of these rules is holding any post in the schedule and has been confirmed in any of the posts therein shall be deemed to have been confirmed in the service in that post under these rules.