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Power of Transfer Posting Delegated to Additional Chief Secretary South Punjab against the encadred Post of BS17 dt 31.01.2022OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Power of Transfer No.SO(Admin-II)8-4/2020. The Additional Chief Secretary, South Punjab is hereby delegated power of transfer / posting of officers on the encadred posts of BS-17 in South Punjab.

Posting of Officers of BS16 as Section Officer dt 24.02.2023OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Posting of OfficersI am directed to refer to your letters No.FD.SR-V.44-9/2009 dated 01.02.2023 and 06.02.2023 on the subject cited above and to draw your attention towards S&GAD’s Notification No.SO(Admn-11)8-4/2020 dated 31.01.2022, wherein, Competent Authority has only delegated the powers of transfer / posting of officers on the encadred posts of BS-17 in South Punjab to Additional Chief Secretary, South Punjab (copy enclosed).2. It is further informed that as per policy in vogue, S&GAD is posting those Superintendents and Private Secretaries (BS-17), born at the cadre strength of S&GAD, as…

Policy for Posting Section Officer in Own Pay & Scale (OPS) dt 27.02.2023OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Posting Section OfficerI am directed to refer to the subject cited above and to state that the Competent Authority has constituted a committee to deliberate the guidelines/ long term policy regarding posting of Superintendents and Private Secretaries born at the Cadre Strength of S&GAD as Section Officers, in their own pay & scale (OPS), in Administrative Departments, vide orders dated 13.02.2023 (copy enclosed). The Competent Authority has further approved following policy guidelines for posting of officers as Section Officers on OPS, till the final recommendations of…

Payment of Financial Assistance and Leave Encashment through FI Module – AG dt 27.10.2023OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Leave EncashmentPlease refer to the Government of the Punjab Finance Department letter No.SO(TT)61/2019 dated 24.10.2023 regarding observance of financial discipline in the province during the month of October 2023.02. The payments of leave encashment and financial assistance payments are made through off-cycle. Since, regular monthly payroll has already been executed, off-cycle cannot be run. Worthy Accountant General Punjab has allowed to process leave encashment and financial assistance claims through Fl for two days i.e. 27-10-2023 & 28-10-2023 after fulfilling all local formalities and SOPs.03. The…

Objections raised by the District Accounts Office dt 15.11.1993OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: District Accounts OfficeIt has been observed that the cases are referred at random to the Finance Department for clarification without quoting any rule or Govt. instruction on the point at issue which shows that such cases are not properly examined by the addresses. All the District Accounts Officers / Treasury Officers, Lahore are, therefore, directed that they should not refer any case to this department in a perfunctory manner. All the cases should be disposed of under the existing relevant Rules and Government’s instructions. In case any departmental authority is…

Liberalization of Family Pension to Sons and Unmarried, Divorced, Widow Sister dt 19.06.2018OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Family PensionThe undersigned is directed to refer to the Finance Division’s O.M. No. F. 1(13)-Reg.6/83, dated the 23rd October, 1983 on the subject noted above and to state that in compliance with honourable Lahore High Court, Lahore order dated 10.01.2018 in Writ Petition No.69226/18 titled Zakia Shoukat Rizvi vs Controller Military Pension. It has been decided that paras 8(1) (2) (a) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) of Finance Division O.M. No. F. 1(13)-Reg.6/83 dated 23rd October, 1983 would be substituted with following new para 8(1) (2) (a)…

Extension of Study Leave dt 01.03.2007OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Study LeaveNo.FD.SR-1/2-124/06. In exercise of the Powers conferred upon him under Section 23 of the Punjab Civil Servants Act, 1974 (VIII of 1974), the Governor of the Punjab is pleased to direct that Note-1 of Rule 9 of Government of the Punjab Study Leave Rules, 1989 shall, with immediate effect, be substituted with the following.Note-1.”The period of two years may be extended to four years on the merit of each case for obtaining a Doctorate, subject to the condition that the extension should not be available for scholars who fail to complete the…

Exclusion of Extra Ordinary Leave EOL from Qualifying Service for Pension – Federal dt 04.01.1975OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Extra Ordinary Leave The undersigned is directed to refer to para 5 of this Division O.M.No.OB.2/63-IMP(I), dated 18.3.1966 according to which the right to seek voluntary retirement accrues to a Government servant after he has completed 25 years of qualifying service for pension. A number of cases have come to the notice of this Division in which it was found, after such an application for retirement under para 5 of the O.M. referred to above had been submitted and accepted by the competent authority…

Clarification – Quota for Appointment under Rule 17A dt 13.09.2004OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Quota for Appointment Kindly refer to your letter No.9988 dated 23-08-2004 on the subject noted above.2. It is stated that the questions raised in your letter referred above are answered in an annotated form as under:-SR. No.QUESTIONANSWER1.Government has fixed the following quotas for filling up of vacancies:i) 20% quota of Junior Clerk to be filled from among class-IV civil servants.ii) 20% quota for sons/daughters of working employees in BS-1 to 5.iii) 20% quota for disabled persons.Clarification is required as to how the quotas are to be calculated.Calculation of quotas…

Clarification – Non Entitlement of Special Allowance 2021 @ 25% dt 06.04.2023OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Special Allowance 2021I am directed to refer to your letters No.TM-1/2-3A(iv)/4/2022-23/4116-13267 dated 01.03.2023 and 14.02.2023 on the subject cited above and to state that Finance Department vide para-2 of its letter No. FD.SR.V.3-2/2021 dated 15.03.2022 has already clarified that the employees who are drawing allowances which are equal to or more than 25% of initial of basic pay scale 2017 are not entitled for special allowance 2021, hence, there is no need to fix an amount in the light of para 2 of letter No. FD.SR.V.3-2/2021 dated…