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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
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EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 80]
NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2025/MAGHA 15, 1946
MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 20th January, 2025
[F. No. 01(06)/2024-P.III]
G.S.R. 113(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 of the Constitution, and in
supersession of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Senior Secretariat Assistant, Limited Departmental
Competitive Examination Rules, 2018, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the
President hereby makes the following rules regulating the Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to
the post of Senior Secretariat Assistant in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, namely: -
1.
Short title and commencement. (1) These rules may be called the Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology, Senior Secretariat Assistant, Limited Departmental Competitive Examination Rules, 2025.
(2)
They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2.
Definition. - In these rules unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a)
"appointing authority" means the Director or Deputy Secretary (Personnel) to the Government of India,
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology;
(b)
"available vacancy" means a vacancy in the post of Senior Secretariat Assistant's grade in the Ministry of
Electronics and Information Technology which is required to be filled up on the basis of the results of the
examination;
(c)
"crucial date" means the first day of January of the year of the vacancies for which such examination is
held;
(d)
"examination" means the limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the post of
Senior Secretariat Assistant held in the manner specified in the Schedule;
(e)
"recruitment year" means the period commencing from the 1st day of January and ending on the 31st day
of December of the same year;
(f)
"Schedule" means the Schedule annexed to these rules;
(g)
"Scheduled Castes" and "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in
clauses (24) and (25) of article 366 of the Constitution of India.
3.
Conditions of eligibility. – (1) Junior Secretariat Assistant in level-2 in the pay matrix (Rs. 19,900-63,200) in the
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology with five years regular service in the grade and having successfully
completed two weeks training in relevant field or area as decided from time to time on the crucial date shall be eligible to
appear in the Limited Departmental Competitive Examination.
(2) The eligibility shall continue to be the same for persons holding the feeder posts on regular basis on the date of
notification of the revised rules.
4.
Holding of the examination. – (1) The appointing authority shall notify the dates and place of the examination and
number of available and anticipated vacancies assessed at the time of announcing the examination. The examination shall be
conducted after the expiry of at least thirty days from the date of notifying the vacancies in the manner specified in the
Schedule.
(2) The number of vacancies reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and other special categories of
person, if any, shall be clearly indicated in the notification.
5.
Results. - (1) On the basis of the aggregate marks secured by the candidate in Part I and II of the examination,
a merit list containing the names of the successful candidates in order of merit shall be notified, keeping in view the number
of vacancies and anticipated vacancies, if any, falling in the recruitment year. The standards of evaluation for candidates
belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes shall be as per the Government instructions from time to time.
(2) The candidates for appointment against the available vacancies shall be considered in the order in which their names
appear in the merit list prepared under sub-rule (1).
(3) The merit list shall remain in operation till the notified vacancies are filled up or upto a period of eighteen months
from the date of its approval by the appointing authority or till next merit list is approved by the appointing authority,
whichever is earlier.
6.
Appointment. – The inclusion of the name of any candidate in the merit list shall not confer a right to appointment
and he shall be appointed by the Appointing Authority only after satisfying itself that no vigilance or disciplinary case is
either pending or contemplated against the candidate and after taking into account his placement in the merit list, the
reservation of posts or such other requirements as may be laid down by statutory orders or rules issued by the Central
Government, from time to time, in this regard.
7.
Liability to pass typewriting test. – The candidates, who are appointed to the Senior Secretariat Assistant' Grade
on the basis of this examination, shall be required to pass a test in typewriting, if not already done, at a minimum speed of
thirty-five words per minute in English or thirty words per minute in Hindi only on computer (35 w.p.m and 30 w.p.m.
correspond to 10500 KDPH/9000 KDPH on an average of 5 key depressions for each word) within a period of one year
from the date of their appointment, failing which no annual increments shall be allowed to them until they have passed the
said test or exempted under the relevant rules with the approval of competent authority.
8.
Removal of name from merit list on resignation, etc. - (1) In case a candidate after appearing at the
examination resigns from the service or whose services are terminated or who is appointed to an ex-cadre post or to any
other service and does not have a lien on any of the posts mentioned in rule 3, his name shall not be included in the merit
list, or if included in the said merit list shall be struck off therefrom.
(2) Where a candidate, whose name is included in the said merit list, is appointed to an ex-cadre post or is transferred to
another department of the Central Government with the permission of the appointing authority and continue to have a lien
on any of the posts mentioned in rule 3, shall not be appointed as Senior Secretariat Assistant till he resumes the duties in
the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on his initial post during the period the merit list remains in force:
Provided that his claim for proforma promotion may be considered by the appointing authority in accordance with
the orders and rules of the Central Government, issued in his behalf from time to time.
9.
Penalty for impersonation or other misconduct. – A candidate, who is or has been declared by the appointing
authority to be guilty of-
(i) obtaining support for his candidature by any means; or
(ii)
impersonation; or
(iii)
procuring impersonation by any person; or
(iv) submitting fabricated documents or documents which have been tampered with; or
(v)
making statements which are incorrect or false or suppressing material information; or
(vi)
resorting to any other irregular or improper means in connection with his candidature for the
examination; or
(vii)
using unfair means in the examinations hall; or
(viii)
misbehaving in the examination hall; or
(ix)
attempting to commit or, as the case may be, abetting the department of all or any of the acts specified in
clauses (i) to (viii);
may in addition to the criminal proceedings, liable –
(a) to be disqualified by the appointing authority from the examination; or
(b)
to disciplinary action, under the appropriate rules. Provided that no penalty under this rule shall be imposed
except after-
(i) giving the candidate an opportunity of making such representation in writing as he may wish to make in that
behalf; and
(ii) taking the representation, if any submitted by the candidate within the period allowed to him, into
consideration.
10.
Power to relax. – Where the Appointing Authority is satisfied that the operation of any of these rules causes undue
hardship in any class or category of persons or posts, it may dispense with or relax the requirement of the rule to such extent
and subject to such conditions, as it may consider necessary.
Schedule
(See rule 4)
The examination shall be conducted in the following two parts, namely: -
Part-I
1.
Written examination shall carry a maximum of 300 marks. The subject of the written examination, the maximum
marks allotted to each paper and the time limit allowed shall be as follows, namely: -
+-------+-------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+----------+
| Sl. No. | Paper | Subject | Maximum | Time |
| | | | Marks | |
+=======+=======+==========================================================================+================+==========+
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
+-------+-------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+----------+
| 1. | I | (Objective Type) | 200 | 2 hours |
| | | (a) General Awareness | | |
| | | (100 Questions) - 100 Marks | | |
| | | (b) Comprehension and writing ability of English Language. | | |
| | | (100 Questions)- 100 Marks | | |
+-------+-------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+----------+
| 2. | II | (Descriptive Type) | 100 | 2 hours |
| | | Noting, Drafting and Office Procedure | | |
+-------+-------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+----------+
2.
Syllabus for examination:
WHERE KNOWLEDGE OF THE RULES, ORDERS, INSTRUCTIONS ETC. IS REQUIRED, CANDIDATES WILL BE
EXPECTED TO BE CONVERSANT WITH AMENDMENTS ISSUED UP TO THE DATE OF NOTIFICATION OF
THIS EXAMINATION.
PAPER-I
(a) General Awareness: - Question will be aimed at testing the candidates General Awareness of the environment around
him and its application to society. Question will also be designed to test knowledge of current events and of such
matters of every day observations and experience in their scientific aspect as may be expected of any educated
person. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighboring countries especially pertaining to
History, Culture, Geography, Economics, Science, General Politic and Scientific research.
(b) Comprehension and Writing ability of english language: - Question will be designed to test the candidates
understanding and knowledge of english language, vocabulary, spelling, grammar, sentence structure, synonyms,
antonyms, sentence completion, phrases and idiomatic use words etc. There will be question on comprehension of a
passage also. The question will be of matriculation level.
PAPER-II
Noting, Drafting and Office Procedure. - The paper on noting, drafting and office procedure shall be designed to test the
candidate's knowledge of office procedure in the Secretariat and Attached Offices and generally their ability to write and
understand notes and drafts. Candidates are required to be generally familiar with the broad features of the Manual of Office
Procedure issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Pension and Public Grievances (Department of Personnel and Training).
Notes on office procedure issued by the Institute of Secretariat Training and Management, the rules of
Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha and the handbook of Orders issued by the
Ministry of Personnel, Pension and Public Grievance regarding use of Hindi for official purposes of the Union.
3.
Candidates are allowed the option to answer the Paper-II on Noting, Drafting and Office Procedure either in
English or Hindi. All the two question papers/test booklets will be set both in Hindi and English.
Note 1. - The option will be for a complete paper and not for different question in the same paper.
Note 2. - Candidates desirous of exercising the option to answer the Noting, Drafting and Office Procedure paper in Hindi
(Devnagari) should indicate their intention to do so in the application form otherwise it would be assumed that they would
answer the aforesaid paper in English. The option once exercised shall be treated as final and no request for change shall be
entertained later on. No credit shall be given for examination taken in a language other than the one opted for by the
candidate.
Note 3. - Candidates exercising the option to answer the paper in Hindi (Devanagari) may, if they so desire, give English
version within brackets of the description of the technical terms, if any, in addition to the Hindi version.
4.
Penalty for wrong answers (in Objective Type Paper)
THERE WILL BE PENALTY (NEGATIVE MARKING) FOR WRONG ANSWERS MARKED BY A CANDIDATE IN
THE OBJECTIVE QUESTION PAPERS:
(i)
There are four alternatives for the answer to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been
given by the candidate, one fourth (0.25) of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty.
(ii)
If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers
happens to be correct and there will be same penalty as above for that question.
(iii) If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.
5.
The minimum qualifying marks in each of the two subjects in Part I should be thirty-five per cent. and aggregate
marks should be forty-five per cent.
6.
Marks will not be allotted for mere superficial knowledge.
7.
Deduction upto five per cent. of the maximum marks in the descriptive paper will be made for illegible handwriting.
8.
Credit will be given for neat and methodical expression of ideas with due economy of words, in the subjective paper.
9.
The decision of the Ministry with regard to the acceptance of the application of a candidate and his eligibility or
otherwise for admission to the examination shall be final.
10.
Appearance of candidates in all the two papers is a must for qualifying in the examination.
11.
Candidates should use only international form of Indian numerals (e.g. 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc.) while answering paper-II.
Part-II
Evaluation of the records of service of the candidate by a Departmental Promotion Committee consisting of: -
1. Director (Personnel) or Deputy Secretary (Personnel) or Deputy Secretary,
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology - Chairperson;
2. Under Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology - Member; and
3. One Under Secretary or equivalent to the Government of India from
Ministry or Department or Organisation other than the Ministry of Electronics
and Information Technology - Member.
This part shall carry a maximum of 100 marks. The Annual Performance Appraisal Reports of the candidates shall be
scrutinised for the service period reckoned for promotion and marks will be accordingly allotted by the Department
Promotion Committee. The minimum qualifying marks in the Annual Performance Appraisal Reports of each year during
the residency period will not be lower than the benchmark prescribed for promotion to the post of Senior Secretariat
Assistant.
[F. No. 01(06)/2024-P.III]
BHUVNESH KUMAR, Addl. Secy
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