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The Assam State Electricity Board Engineering Service Regulations, 1973
The Assam State Electricity Board Engineering Service Regulations, 1973
Sections
1. Short title, commencement and application.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Constitution of service.
Section 34. Cadre.
Section 45. Nationality and domicile.
Section 56. Recruitment.
Section 67. Age limit.
Section 78. Qualification for direct recruitment.
Section 89. Recruitment of Assistant Engineers by promotion.
Section 910. Procedure for direct recruitment.
Section 1011. Liability to serve in the Defence department.
Section 1112. Appointment by promotion to the rank of Executive Engineer Superintending Engineer/Additional Chief Engineer/Chief Engineer.
Section 1213. Probation.
Section 1314. Resignation.
Section 1415. Seniority.
Section 1516. Pay of members of service.
Section 1617. Leave, pension and other matters.
Section 1718. Departmental Examinations.
Section 1819. Liability to transfer.
Section 1920. Superannuation.
Section 2021. Discipline, penalty and appeal.
Section 2122. General.
Section 2223. Power to relax.
Section 231. Asstt. Engineer
Section 12. Sub-Divisional Officer
Section 23. Executive Engineer
Section 34. Superintending Engineer
Section 45. Addl. Chief Engineer
Section 56. Chief Engineers
Section 6
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"content": "(i) \"Act\" means the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948.\n(ii) \"Appointing Authority\" means Assam State Electricity Board and/or Chairman of the Board, as the case may be.\n(iii) \"Board\" means the Assam State Electricity Board constituted under Section 5 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948.\n(iv) \"Chairman\" means the Chairman of the Assam State Electricity Board.\n(v) \"Departmental Committee\" means the Committee consisting of three officers of the Board as may be appointed/notified by the appointing authority from time to time.\n(vi) \"Direct recruitment\" means recruitment made otherwise than by promotion to the service, or by transfer of an officer already in the service of any other Board/Government/Government undertaking/ Electrical Undertaking taken over the Board.\n(vii) \"Government\" means any state Government or the Central Government.\n(viii) \"Junior Engineer\" means a Subordinate Engineer Grade I who is at least a Matriculate and who possesses a 3 or 4 years' diploma in Civil/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering from a recognised Institute and who has been designated/appointed as such.\n(ix) \"Medical Authority\" means an authority as may be appointed and/or declared by the Board as such.\n(ix) \"Selection Committee\" means the Selection Committee as may be constituted and notified by the Board from time to time.\n(xi) \"Service\" means the Assam State Electricity Board Engineering Service comprising of Electrical/Mechanical and Civil Engineers.\n(xii) \"Subordinate Engineer Grade I\" means Overseers Grade I, Computers, Draftsman Grade I, Foreman Grade I (Electrical/Mechanical and Civil) and holders of such other posts as may be specified by the Board from time to time.\n(xiii) \"Waiting list\" means the list of candidates recommended by the Selection Committee or the Departmental Committee as the case may be.\n(xiv) \"He\" , \"him\" or \"his\" includes \"she\" , \"her\" and \"hers\" wherever it occurs.",
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"content": "(i) The Electrical branch will have a cadre of its own with the following categories of posts :\nAssistant Engineers, Sub-Divisional Officers, Executive Engineers, Superintending Engineers, Additional Chief Engineers, Chief Engineers and such other posts as may be specified by the Board from time to time.\n(ii) The Civil branch will have a cadre of its own with the following categories of posts :\nAssistant Engineers, Sub-Divisional Officers, Executive Engineers, Superintending Engineers, Additional Chief Engineers, Chief Engineers and such other posts as may be specified by the Board from time to time :",
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"content": "(ii) The members of the service shall not constitute one single cadre. The posts under the two branches will be identified as Electrical/Mechanical or Civil.",
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"content": "(ii) A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to an examination or interview conducted by the Board or any other recruiting authority on his furnishing proof that he has applied for a certificate and he may also be appointed provisionally subject to certificate being given to him by the competent authority.",
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"content": "(a) in the case of the post of Assistant Engineer or equivalent rank-\n(i) by direct recruitment;\n(ii) by promotion from amongst Junior Engineers;\n(b) in the case of the post of Executive Engineer and equivalent rank, by promotion from amongst the Assistant Engineers/Sub-Divisional Officers of the Board, possessing the minimum qualifications laid down for Junior Engineers ;\n(c) in the case of the post of Superintending Engineer and equivalent rank, by promotion from amongst the Executive Engineers of the Board, possessing the minimum qualifications laid down for direct recruits to the service vide Regulation 8(a) below;\n(d) in the case of the post of Additional Chief Engineer and Chief Engineer, by promotion respectively from amongst the Superintending Engineer and Additional Chief Engineers of the Board.",
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"content": "(a) Scheduled castes and Scheduled tribes-by five years.\n(b) Political sufferers-as per Government directive issued from time to time.\n(c) Post Graduate Degree holders-by three years.\n(d) War Service candidates-by actual period of continuous was service in World War II not exceeding five years :\n(i) in case of candidate possessing the requisite qualification who are already in the service of Government or any other organisations the upper age limit may be relaxed up to the extent of continuous service rendered by them;\n(ii) in exceptional circumstances the appointing authority may condone over age of a candidate to the extent necessary on the merit of each case.",
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"content": "(a) holds an Engineering Degree or equivalent qualifications in the respective branches of Engineering viz. , Electrical/Mechanical and Civil from any Indian University/Institution or Foreign University/ Institution which has been notified by the Government of Assam as recognised for the purpose of recruitment for a superior post of Engineering Service under the State Government;\n(b) produces from the Medical Authority, a certificate of mental and physical fitness in all respects for active outdoor duties;\nNote. - Fee to the Medical Authority may be payable by the candidate.\nNote.\n(c) his character and antecedents are such as to qualify him for such service :",
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"content": "(b) Junior Engineers who are degree-holders and/or who pass Parts A and B of the Associate Membership examination of the Institution of Engineers (India) should be treated as eligible for appointment as Assistant Engineers in each branch in accordance with the procedure laid down for direct recruitment and they shall be treated as direct recruits.",
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"content": "(b) Fees. Candidates for direct recruitment shall pay at the time of submitting the application such fees as may be prescribed by the Board from time to time.\n(c) All direct recruitment to the service shall be made by the Board after written test or interview or other test and interview of the candidates as may be decided by the Selection Committee constituted by the Board for the purpose.\n(d) The selection of candidates. The Selection Committee will prepare a list of candidates approximately twice the number of vacancies for direct recruitment in order of merit. The list of candidates forwarded by the Selection Committee shall be treated as the Waiting List which will remain valid for a period not exceeding 12 months from the date of selection.\n(e) Appointments will be made by the appointing authority according to the order of preference given in the merit list received from the Selection Committee (subject to such reservation in favour of candidates belonging to Scheduled castes. Schedule tribes as may be prescribed by the State Government).\n(f) The Board, however reserves the right to accept in whole or in part the recommendation of the Selection Committee for the purpose of appointment.",
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"content": "Note. - This provision, however, may change as per Rules issued by Government from time to time.\nNote.\n(b) 25% of the permanent vacancies in the Board which are filled up by direct recruitment will be reserved for Graduate Engineers commissioned in the Armed Forces on a temporary basis and released later on; provided such candidates are available in each year of recruitment; otherwise the reserved quota for that year will lapse.",
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"content": "(b) An officer shall not be eligible for promotion to the rank of Executive Engineer unless he passes such departmental examination as may be prescribed by the Board from time to time. The Board may, however, promote an officer who has not passed the aforesaid examination on a provisional basis subject to the condition that he shall have to pass the said examination within such period as may be stipulated at the time of promotion :\n(c) (i) Promotion to the post of Executive Engineer and equivalent rank shall be made from the rank of Assistant Engineer :\nor\n(ii) Promotion to the post of Superintending Engineer and equivalent rank shall be made from the rank of Executive Engineer and rank equivalent thereto from those possessing the minimum qualification as laid down in Rule 8(a) :\n(iii) Promotion to the posts of Additional Chief Engineer and Chief Engineer and equivalent ranks shall be made respectively from the ranks of Superintending Engineers and Additional Chief Engineers and ranks equivalent thereto.",
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"content": "(b) Officiating service shall be reckoned as a period spent on probation.\n(c) Service spent on deputation to a corresponding or a higher post may be allowed by the Board to count towards the period of probation fixed under this regulation.\n(d) Period of probation may be extended by the Board for such period as it may deem fit in the case of a member whose (i) work and/or conduct has, in the opinion of the Board, not been satisfactory and/or (ii) who has not been able to pass the departmental examinations as may be prescribed by the Board: Provided that the total period of probation including extension, if any, shall not exceed 5 years in any case.",
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"content": "(i) that in the case of members appointed by direct recruitment, the order of merit determined by the Selection Committee shall not be disturbed so far as the seniority in the class of post to which direct appointment was made is concerned, if they join their appointment within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of the order of appointment. If a candidate is prevented from joining the appointment within this period by circumstances of a public nature and beyond his control, the period may be extended not exceeding three months under the order of the appointing authority;\n(ii) further, that when the batch of selection consists of both direct recruits and promotees, the promotees shall come before the direct recruits of the same year;\n(iii) further, that the relative seniority of the promotees in their immediate lower cadre shall be maintained;\n(iv) that if a member of the service is promoted temporarily to a post earlier than his senior, for reasons other than the inefficiency of the senior person or his ineligibility for promotion, they will rank inter se according to their relative seniority in the class which they were promoted when the senior is promoted subsequently to a higher rank.",
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"title": "23. Power to relax.",
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"content": "24.\nAppendix 'A'\nAppendix 'A'\n(Referred to in Regulation 4)\nCadre of strength as on 1.1.1973\nCadre of strength as on 1.1.1973\nName of Posts\nElectrical Branch\nCivil Branch\nPermanent\nTemporary\nTotal\nPermanent\nTemporary\nTotal\nAsstt. Engineer Sub-Divisional Officer/ Resident\n\t\t\t\tEngineer/Shift Engineer\n123\n110\n111 122\n57\n8\n20 45\nExecutive Engineer\n30\n12\n42\n10\n6\n16\nSuperintending Engineer\n4\n5\n9\n2\n2\n4\nAdditional Chief Engineer\nNil\n2\n2\nNil\n1\n1\nChief Engineer\n1\nNil\n1\n1\nNil\n1\nAppendix 'B'\nAppendix 'B'\n(Referred to in Regulation 16)\nScales of Pay\nScales of Pay\nPre-revised\nRevised with effect from 1.1.1973",
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"number": "1",
"title": "1. Asstt. Engineer",
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"content": "Rs. 400-30-550-EB-30-670-35-740-EB-35-950\nRs. 400-40-460 EB-780-45-960-EB-1050-50-1200 (The three (3)\n\t\t\t\tadvance increments after completion of 8 years' service\n\t\t\t\tsanctioned in respect of Asstt. Engineers vide Board's Order No.\n\t\t\t\tASEB (GE) 67/68/20, dated 9.12.1972 are adjusted in the revised\n\t\t\t\tscale and the said order shall stand cancelled in respect of\n\t\t\t\tAsstt. Engineers who opt for this scale.)",
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"number": "2",
"title": "2. Sub-Divisional Officer",
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"content": "As above plus special pay of Rs. 50 P.M.\nAs above plus special pay of Rs. 50 P.M. in iieu of a separate\n\t\t\t\tpay scale.",
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"number": "3",
"title": "3. Executive Engineer",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Rs. 800-50-1000-EB-50-1200\nRs. 800-50-1200-EB-60-1440.",
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"number": "4",
"title": "4. Superintending Engineer",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Rs. 1200-50-1500\nRs. 1250-60-1550-EB-75-1775.",
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"number": "5",
"title": "5. Addl. Chief Engineer",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Rs. 1600-50-1800\nRs. 1600-100-2000.",
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{
"number": "6",
"title": "6. Chief Engineers",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Rs. 1800-100-2300\nRs. 1800-100-2300.",
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"Short Title": "The Assam State Electricity Board Engineering Service Regulations, 1973",
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