COUNTING OF TRAINING PERIOD FOR MACPS
Respected Viewers,
I
wish to share the following on the counting the period of Induction and
practical training for MACPS in the Department Of Posts. Hitherto the training
period has not been taken into account for the grant of promotion under MACPS.
On perusal of the rulings on the subject, it seems that the period of training
is to be taken into account for MACPS also. Whether this period is included for
MACPS in other circles, is not known.
A
kind reference is invited to the following orders on the subject.
1.Dte letter no
4-7/(MACPS)/2009-PCC dt 18.9.2009
2. Dte letter no 4-7/(MACPS)/2009-PCC
dt 23.6.2016
All
the candidates selected for PA cadre are to undergo Induction and practical
training for 90/105 days, before regular appointment.
1.
Such
period of training was not counted for anything and their pay and allowances,
increments were regulated from their actual date of joining in the department
as Postal Assistants.
2.
Subsequently,
orders were issued for counting the training period for increments and for the
promotions (financial upgradations) under TBOP and BCR schemes, vide Dept. of
Personnel and Trg OM 16/16/92-Estt(pay I) dt 31.3.1992.
3.
The
above provision was made applicable with effect from 1.1.1986. The pay of the
officials was notionally fixed from 1.1.1986 to 30.9.1990 and on actual basis
from 1.10.1990.
4.
The
above provision was applicable to those officials who underwent training on or
after 1.1.1986.
5.
The
provision was extended to officials who underwent training before 1.1.86
videDte order number: 44-2/2011-SPB II dated 5.5.2016. The list of officials is
called for by DO and the same has been submitted to DO.
6.
The
scheme of MACPS was introduced consequent on the implementation of 6th
CPC with effect from 1.1.2006.
7.
This
scheme was given effect from 1.9.2008 vide reference cited under 1 above.
8.
The
salient features of the scheme were given in the Annexure-I to the
communication cited under 2 above.
9.
The
second sentence of para 9 of the Annexure read as follows: “Service rendered on
adhoc/contract basis before regular appointment or pre-appointment training
shall not be taken into reckoning. A casual reading of the text gives the
meaning that the pre-appointment training shall not be taken into reckoning.
Under this context, the training period was omitted for the grant of MACP to
the officials, it is presumed.
10.
But a
close reading of the above text gives a different but correct meaning. The
meaning of the above text may be explained as follows. If the sentence is
broken into smaller parts, they read as follows.
a.
Service
rendered on adhoc/contract basis before regular appointment shall not be taken
into reckoning.
b.
Service
rendered on adhoc/contract basis before pre-appointment training shall not be
taken into reckoning.
11.
From (a)
and (b) above it is clear that only
the service, if any, rendered on adhoc/contract basis either before regular
appointment or before pre-appointment training shall not be taken into
reckoning.
12.
From
the above it is clear that pre-appointment
training shall count for MACPS, as the above text speaks only about the
services rendered on adhoc or contract basis which might before regular
appointment or before pre-appointment training, and nothing about the training
period.
13.
As per
the communication cited under 2 above, the second sentence of para 9 is
modified as follows: “service rendered on adhoc/contract basis before regular
appointment on pre-appointment training shall not be taken into reckoning.”
14.
From
the above it is clear that any service rendered on adhoc/contract basis will
not count, but the training period counts for the grant of promotion under
MACPS. It is added that as per our departmental rules, the training period is
neither treated as service on adhocbasis nor on contract basis in as much as
this period counts for increment and also for TBOP/BCR promotions.
15.
For
clarity sake consider the following rule of our department. “ Air journey on
LTC is not permissible” which means that no government servant is entitled for
air journey on LTC but LTC can be availed. This does not take away the
privileges granted under LTC. The restriction is for air journey only.
16.
Also as
per the developments taken place towards the counting of training period for
service, the training period counts for increment and TBOP/BCR schemes.
17.
It is
added that just like TBOP/BCR schemes, MACPS is also a financial upgradation
only. Hence the provision of counting training period towards TBOP/BCR will
squarely applicable to MACPS also.
Those officials, who have completed 16/26 years’
service before 1.9.2008, had no problems, as their pay would have been fixed on
the date of promotion to TBOP/BCR schemes prior to 1.9.2008. If the training
period is included, the date of promotion to TBOP/BCR would be advanced and
their pay would be refixed accordingly.
In case of the officials who have got their MACP after
1.9.2008, the date of MACPS is to be advanced.
Shri. R.Hariharakrishnan, Postmaster, Srivaikuntam HO, Tamilnadu Circle 628601
