QUALIFYING SERVICE FOR PROMOTION

Eligibility for promotion : - It is necessary to fix suitable standards for promotion from one grade to another, including minimum length of service in the lower grade. As far as possible, the minimum length of service in the lower grade prescribed as a condition for promotion to the higher grade should not markedly be different from that prescribed by other Departments for promotion to similar grades involving the same nature of duties and responsibilities. 

The qualifying service for promotion from one grade to another is necessary so that there is no premature promotion or undue jump in pay and also to ensure that the officer has sufficient opportunity to demonstrate his competence/potential for holding the higher post. The period of qualifying service varies from post to post depending upon the scale of pay and the experience, required for manning the higher post. Broadly, the following qualifying service for promotion from one grade to another may be followed:

Field of Promotion 

From Grade Pay   (in Rs.)	To Grade Pay  (in Rs.)	Qualifying Service  (in years)
1800	1900	3 Years
1900	2000	3 Years
1900	2400	8 Years
2000	2400	5 Years
2400	2800	5 Years
2400	4200	10 Years
2800	4200	6 Years
4200	4600	5 Years
4200	4800	6 Years
4200	5400	8 Years
4200	6600	10 Years
4600	4800	2 Years
4600	5400	3 Years
4600	6600	7 Years
4800	5400	2 Years
4800	6600	6 Years
5400	6600	5 Years
6600	7600	5 Years
6600	8700	10 Years
7600	8700	5 Years
7600	8900	6 Years
8700	8900	2 Years
8700	10000	3 Years
8900	10000	2 Years
10000	HAG	3 Years
HAG	HAG+Scale	1 Year
HAG	Apex scale	2 Years
HAG+Scale	Apex scale	1 Year

(DOPT OM No. AB 14017/61/2008-Estt. (RR) dated 24.3.2009 and dated 12.3.2010)

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