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The Assam Economic and Statistical (Junior) Service Rules, 1980
The Assam Economic and Statistical (Junior) Service Rules, 1980
Sections
1. Title and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Cadre.
Section 34. Strength of the service.
Section 45. Method of recruitment.
Section 56. Direct recruitment.
Section 67. Age for direct recruitment.
Section 78. Academic qualifications and experience.
Section 810. Character.
Section 1011. Selection as Field Assistants/Punchers and Verifiers.
Section 1112. Recruitment by promotion.
Section 1213. General procedure for promotion.
Section 1314. Special provision for making temporary officiating local promotions.
Section 1417. Selection Board.
Section 1718. Disqualification.
Section 1819. Reservation.
Section 1920. Appointment.
Section 2021. Joining time.
Section 2122. Training and departmental examination.
Section 2223. Seniority.
Section 2324. Probation and confirmation.
Section 2425. Gradation List.
Section 2526. Pay.
Section 2627. Mode of employment.
Section 2728. Other conditions of service.
Section 2829. Relaxation.
Section 2930. Interpretation.
Section 3031. Repeal and saving.
Section 31
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"content": "(a) 'Appointing Authority' means the Director of Economics and Statistics;\n(b) 'Board' means the Selection Board constituted under Rule 17;\n(c) 'Commission' means the Assam Public Service Commission;\n(d) 'Constitution' means the Constitution of India;\n(e) 'Government' means the Government of Assam;\n(f) 'Governor' means the Governor of Assam;\n(g) 'Member' means a member of the Service;\n(h) 'Select list' means the final list as referred to in Clause (d) of Rule 6 (1), sub-rule (6) of Rule 11; sub-rule (6) of Rule 13, sub-rule (2) of Rule 15 and sub-rule (2) of Rule 16, as the case may be;\n(i) 'Year' means a calendar year.",
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"content": "(i) Exhibition Officer.\n(ii) Senior Artist.\n(iii) Sub-Inspector of Statistics/Console Operator/Data Entry Supervisor.\n(iv) Artist-Cum-Draftsman/Artist-Cum-Photographer.\n(v) Primary Investigators/Computers/Data Entry Operator/Punch Supervisors/Operators.\n(vi) Field Assistants/Verifiers/Punchers/Key Punch Operators.",
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"content": "(1) Exhibition Officer. - By promotion in accordance with Rules 12 and 13.\n(2) Senior Artist. - By promotion in accordance with Rules 12 and 13.\n(3) Sub-Inspector of Statistics/Console Operator/Data Entry Supervisor. - (a) By direct recruitment in accordance with Rule 6 against 75 per cent of the vacancies occurring in a year; and (b) by promotion in accordance with Rules 12 and 13 against 25 per cent of the vacancies occurring in a year.\n(4) Artist-cum-Draftsman/Artist-cum-Photographer. - By direct recruitment in accordance with Rule 6 (1).\n(5) Primary Investigators/Computers/Data Entry Operators/Punch Supervisors/Operators. - (a) By direct recruitment in accordance with Rule 6 (1) against 40 per cent of the vacancies occurring in a year; and (b) by promotion in accordance with Rules 12 and 13 against the remaining 60 per cent of the vacancies occurring in a year.\n(6) Field Assistants/Verifiers/Punchers/Key Punch Operators. - (a) By direct recruitment in accordance with Rule 6 (1) against 90 per cent of the vacancies occurring in a year; (b) by selection in accordance with Rule 11 against the remaining 10 per cent vacancies occurring in a year:",
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"content": "(a) Before the end of each year the Appointing Authority shall make an assessment of the likely number of vacancies to be filled up by direct recruitment during the next year in each cadre and shall intimate the same to the Board together with the details about reservation for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or any other category as may be ordered by Government under Rule 19 and about carry forward of such vacancies.\n(b) The Appointing Authority shall then invite applications through advertisement in accordance with the general instructions in force. On receipt of applications in response to the advertisement the Appointing Authority shall prepare a statement of the candidates and forward it to the Board together with copies of advertisement and the original applications and such other informations as may be considered necessary. The Appointing Authority shall simultaneously request the Board to recommend candidates, in order of preference for appointment.\n(c) The Board shall make the selection in accordance with the scheme of selection prescribed by the Government holding interview and undertaking the scrutiny of the certificates and other documents as it may consider necessary. After selection, the Board shall recommend the list of candidates found suitable for appointment to the Appointing Authority in order of preference which shall constitute the select list.\n(d) The Appointing Authority shall consider the list prepared by the Board and approve the same, unless it considers any change necessary. If the Appointing Authority considers it necessary to make any change in the list received from the Board,it shall inform the Board of the change proposed after taking into account the comments, if any, of the Board and may approve the list finally with such modification, if any, as may, in its opinion, be just and proper. This approved list shall constitute the select list. The Appointing Authority shall publish the select list at such places as it may consider proper.",
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"content": "9.\n(1) of sound health, both mentally and physically, and free from any organic defect or bodily infirmity likely to interfere with the efficient performance of his duties; and\n(2) required to undergo medical examination before appointment to the service.",
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"content": "(a) The Principal, Academic Officer of the University, College or other Educational Institutions in which he studied last;\n(b) Two respectable persons, who are well acquainted with (but not related to) the candidate.",
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"content": "(a) passed Matriculation or an equivalent examination with mathematics or arithmetic as one of the subjects, and\n(b) rendered at least five (5) years continuous service in any office under the control of the Director of Economics and Statistics, on the first day of the year of selection.\n(a) Status of the Government servant;\n(b) Date of joining;\n(c) Where the date of joining is the same in respect of two or more such persons, the date of birth.\nNote. - (i) A Government servant holding a post of a higher category will be senior to a person holding a post of a lower category. All the categories of posts borne on the same scale of pay shall be treated as one category, for example, a Duftry and a Jamadar, both borne on the same scale of pay, shall be treated as Government servants of the same category.\nNote.\n(ii) A peon might have been promoted to the cadre of Duftry against a purely temporary post, which is not likely to continue for more than one year, in which case the Duftry will be treated as borne in the category of peon.\n(iii) \"Date of joining\" means the date of joining the post in the category which he is holding.",
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"content": "(i) From Senior Artist to Exhibition Officer;\n(ii) From Senior Artist-cum-Draftsman/Artist-cum-Photographer to Senior Artist;\n(iii) From Primary Investigators/Computers/Data Entry Operators/Punch Supervisor/Operator to Sub-Inspector of Statistics; and\n(iv) From Field Assistants/Verifiers/Punchers/Key Punch Operators to Primary Investigators/Computers/Data Entry Operators/Punch Supervisors and Operators.\n(a) rendered service for a continuous period of 5 (five) years in his respective existing cadre, and\n(b) successfully undergone such training and has passed such departmental examination as may be prescribed by the Government for this purpose.",
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"content": "(a) information about the number of likely vacancies;\n(b) list of officers in order of seniority, eligible for promotion (separate lists for promotion to different cadres shall be furnished) indicating the cadre to which their case for promotion is to be considered;\n(c) character rolls, and other particulars of the officers listed;\n(d) details about reservations and about carry forward of vacancies as provided under sub-rule (3) of Rule 12, and\n(e) any other documents and information as may be considered necessary by the Appointing Authority or required by the Board.",
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"content": "(i)\nDirector of Economics and Statistics\n-Chairman\n(ii)\nSenior-most Joint Director of Economics and Statistics\n-Member-Secretary\n(iii)\nA Deputy Secretary or Under-Secretary nominated by the\n\t\t\t\tSecretary, Planning and Development Department\n-Member.",
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"content": "(a) unless he is a citizen of India; or\n(b) if he has more than one wife living or in case of a female candidate who has married a person who has one wife living:",
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"content": "(b) Every probationer shall, during the period of his probation, appear at and pass such departmental examinations or tests and successfully undergo such training as may be prescribed for the Service by the Government:\n(a) if his service is not satisfactory during his period of probation; or\n(b) if he fails to appear at or pass the departmental examination or other tests, as may be prescribed, or fails to undergo successfully such training as may be prescribed, unless the Appointing Authority permits him to sit for re-examination in the subject or subjects or in the tests in which he failed or to undergo the training again which he failed to undergo successfully; or\n(c) if on any information received relating to his nationality, age, health, character or antecedents, the Appointing Authority, is satisfied that the probationer is ineligible or otherwise unfit for being a member of the service; or\n(d) if he fails to comply with any of the provisions of these Rules; or\n(e) if for any reason to be recorded in writing the post against which a probationer is appointed/promoted/appointed on selection is abolished during and after the probation, in such cases the services of persons who had joined last will be terminated first.\n(a) if he has passed the prescribed departmental examinations completely and/or has passed such other tests and/or successfully undergone such training as may be prescribed:\n(b) if he is considered by the Appointing Authority to be otherwise fit for confirmation; and\n(c) if he is senior most in accordance with the order of seniority determined under Rule 23 amongst all the unconfirmed members of the cadre who are otherwise eligible for confirmation under this rule; and\n(d) if a permanent post is available in the cadre against which no other member of the cadre has been confirmed for the time being.",
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"number": "31",
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"content": "Schedule I\n[Rules 4 and 26]\nStrength of the cadres and scale of pay\nStrength of the cadres and scale of pay\nSl. No.\nCategory of post\nScale of pay\nNumber of posts\nPer.\nTem.\nTotal\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\n(5)\n(6)\n1.\nExhibition Officer\nRs. 2095-60-2395-80-2635-EB-80-2875-100-3575-125-3950\n-\n1\n1\n2.\nSenior Artist\nRs. 1835-50-2035-60-2395-80-2555-EB-80-2875-100-3575-125-4325\n1\n-\n1\n3.\nArtist-Cum-Draftsman\nRs.\n\t\t\t\t1285-30-1435-40-1635-50-1735-EB-50-2035-60-2395-80-2875-100-3075\n2\n-\n2\n4.\nArtist-Cum-Photographer\ndo\n-\n1\n1\n5.\nSub-Inspector of Statistics/ Console Operator/ Data Entry\n\t\t\t\tSupervisor\nRs.\n\t\t\t\t1285-30-1435-40-1635-50-1735-EB-50-2035-60-2395-80-2875-100-3075\n178\n69\n247\n6.\nPrimary Investigator\nRs. 1125-20-1225-30-1435-EB-40-1635-50-2035-60-2215\n115\n46\n161\n7.\nComputer\ndo.\n8.\nOperator\ndo.\n9.\nData Entry Operator\ndo.\n10.\nPunch Supervisor\ndo.\n11.\nField Assistant.\nRs. 1065-20-1225-30-1345-EB-30-1435-40-1635-50-2035-60-2095\n155\n38\n193\n12.\nPuncher\ndo.\n13.\nVertifier\ndo.\n14.\nKey Punch Operator\ndo\nSchedule II\n[Rule 8]\nMinimum qualification for direct recruitment\nMinimum qualification for direct recruitment\n1.\nSub-Inspector of Statistics\nA degree of a recognised University in Arts, Science or\n\t\t\t\tCommerce with Mathematics/ Statistics/ Economics as one of the\n\t\t\t\tSubjects.\n2.\nConsole Operator\n3.\nData Entry Supervisor\n4.\nArtist-Cum-Draftsman\nPassed H.S.L.C. or equivalent examination and a\n\t\t\t\tdiploma/certificate in Arts of a recognised Arts Institution.\n5.\nArtist-Cum-Photographer\nPassed H.S.L.C. or equivalent examination and a\n\t\t\t\tdiploma/certificate in Arts with Photography as one of the\n\t\t\t\tsubjects of a recognised Arts Institution.\n6.\nPrimary Investigator\nPassed Higher Secondary Examination in Arts, Science or\n\t\t\t\tCommerce of a recognised University with Statistics/Mathematics\n\t\t\t\tas one of the subjects.\n7.\nComputer\n8.\nData Entry Operator\n9.\nOperator\n10.\nPunch Supervisor\n11.\nField Assistant\nPassed H.S.L.C. or equivalent examination with Mathematics or\n\t\t\t\tArithmetic as one of the subjects.\n12.\nKey Punch Operator\n13.\nPuncher\n14.\nVerifier",
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"Act ID": "Last Updated 11th February, 2020 [ass156]",
"Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. PDS 25/74/362, dated 13th December, 1982 in the Assam Gazette, Part 2A, dated 1-6-1983, pages 615-630",
"Enactment Date": "",
"Act Year": "1980",
"Short Title": "The Assam Economic and Statistical (Junior) Service Rules, 1980",
"Type": "STATE",
"Location": "Assam"
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"updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
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