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Review of three years time limit for making compassionate appointment

F.No.14014/3/2011-Estt. (D) 
Government of India 
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions 
Department of Personnel and Training

North Block, New Delhi, 
Dated the 26th, July 2012

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject : Review of three years time limit for making compassionate appointment.

The primary objective of scheme for compassionate appointment circulated vide O.M. No. 14014/6/94-Estt(D) dated 09.10.1998 is to provide immediate assistance to relieve the dependent family of the deceased or medically retired Government servant from financial destitution i.e. penurious condition. The Hon’ble Supreme Court in its judgment dated 05.04.2011 in Civil Appeal No. 2206 of 2006 filed by Local Administration Department vs. M. Selvanayagam ® Kumaravelu has observed that "an appointment made many years after the death of the employee or without due consideration of the financial resources available to his/her dependents and the financial deprivation caused to the dependents as a result of his death, simply because the claimant happened to be one of the dependents of the deceased employee would be directly in conflict with Articles 14 & 16 of the Constitution and hence, quite bad and illegal. In dealing with cases of compassionate appointment, it is imperative to keep this vital aspect in mind”.

2. This Department’s O.M. No. 14014/6/1994-Esst.(D) dated 09.10.1998 provided that Ministries/Departments can consider requests for compassionate appointment even where the death or retirement on medical grounds of a Government servant took place long back, say five years or so. While considering such belated requests it was, however, to be kept in view that the concept of compassionate appointment is largely related to the need for immediate assistance to the family of the Government servant in order to relieve it from economic distress. The very fact that the family has been able to manage somehow all these years should normally be taken as adequate proof that the family had some dependable means of subsistence. Therefore, examination of such cases call for a great deal of circumspection. The decision to make appointment on compassionate grounds in such cases was to be taken only at the level of the Secretary of the Department/Ministry concerned.

3. Subsequently vide this Department’s O.M. No.14014/19/2002-Estt.(D) dated 5th May, 2003 a time limit of three years time was prescribed for considering cases of compassionate appointment. Keeping in view the Hon’ble High Court Allahabad judgment dated 07.05.2010 in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 13102 of 2010, the issue has been re-examined in consultation with Ministry of Law. It has been decided to withdraw the instructions contained in the O.M. dated 05.05.2003.

4. The cases of compassionate appointment may be regulated in terms of instructions issued vide O.M. dated 09.10.1998 as amended from time to time. The onus of examining the penurious condition of the dependent family will rest with the authority making compassionate appointment.

sd/- 
(Mukta Goel) 
Director (E-I)

LIST OF IDENTIFIED POST OFFICES FOR INSTALLATION OF ATMs UNDER CBS (ODISHA)

DIVISION                                           OFFICE TYPE       NAME OF THE OFFICE

BHUBANESWAR	751001	HO	Bhubaneswar G.P.O.
PURI	752001	HO	Puri H.O
PURI	752055	HO	Khurda H.O
PURI	752069	HO	Nayagarh H.O
CUTTACK CITY	753001	HO	Cuttack G.P.O.
CUTTACK CITY	753002	HO	Chandinchowk H.O
CUTTACK SOUTH	754029	HO	Athagarh H.O
CUTTACK SOUTH	754103	HO	Jagatsinghpur H.O
CUTTACK NORTH	754211	HO	Kendrapara H.O
CUTTACK NORTH	755001	HO	Jajpur H.O
BALASORE	756001	HO	Balasore H.O
BALASORE	756032	HO	Jaleswar H.O
BHADRAK	756100	HO	Bhadrak H.O
MAYURBHANJ	757001	HO	Baripada H.O
MAYURBHANJ	757043	HO	Rairangpur H.O
KEONJHAR	758001	HO	Keonjhargarh H.O
DHENKANAL	759001	HO	Dhenkanal H.O
DHENKANAL	759122	HO	Angul H.O
BERHAMPUR	760001	HO	Berhampur(GM) H.O
BERHAMPUR	761020	HO	Chatrapur H.O
ASKA	761110	HO	Aska H.O
ASKA	761126	HO	Bhanjanagar H.O
BERHAMPUR	761200	HO	Parlakhemundi H.O
PHULBANI	762001	HO	Phulbani H.O
KORAPUT	764001	HO	Jeypore(K) H.O
KORAPUT	764020	HO	Koraput H.O
KORAPUT	765001	HO	Rayagada(K) H.O
KALAHANDI	766001	HO	Bhawanipatna H.O
BALANGIR	767001	HO	Balangir H.O
SAMBALPUR	768001	HO	Sambalpur H.O
SAMBALPUR	768028	HO	Bargarh H.O
SAMBALPUR	768201	HO	Jharsuguda H.O
SUNDARGARH	769001	HO	Rourkela H.O
SUNDARGARH	769012	HO	Uditnagar H.O
SUNDARGARH	770001	HO	Sundargarh H.O
Bhubaneswar	751002	SO	Old Town, Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar	751007	SO	Sahidnagar
Puri	752050	SO	Jatni
Cuttack City	753003	SO	College Square
Cuttack North	754215	SO	Pattamundai
Koraput	764059	SO	Nabarangpur
Kalahandi	766105	SO	N.Tanwat
Sambalpur	768222	SO	Kuchinda
Sundargarh	770033	SO	Biramitrapur

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