Subject: - Regarding amendment of the Recruitment Rules (RR) for the post of Higher Selection Grade-II (HSG-2).
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Personnel Division
Dated:3rd April 2023
NOTICE
Subject: - Regarding amendment of the Recruitment Rules for the post of Higher Selection Grade-II (HSG-II).
Department of Posts (DOP) has proposed to revise the Recruitment Rules for the post of Higher Selection Grade-II. As per DoP&T OM No. AB-14017/61/2008-Estt.(RR) dated 13.10.2015, the proposed amendment in the Recruitment Rules is being put up in public domain for 30 days i.e. on the website of India Posts for inviting comments from stakeholders.
[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY,
PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]
Ministry of Communications
(Department of Posts)
New Delhi, the March, 2023
NOTIFICATION
G.S.R. .......(E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 of the Constitution and in supersession of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Department of Posts, Post Offices (including Foreign Post Offices other than at Mumbai), Railway Mail Service Offices, Saving Bank Control Organization, Circle Office/Regional Offices, Returned Letter Offices, Foreign Posts at Mumbai and Independent Postal Stores Depot, Higher Selection Grade II, Group 'B’ Posts, Recruitment Rules, 2013, regulating the method of recruitment to the post of Higher Selection Grade-II, except as respects things done or omitted to have been done before such supersession, the President hereby makes the following rules regulating the method of recruitment to the post of Higher Selection Grade-II in the Department of Posts, namely:-
1. Short title and commencement. (1) These rules may be called the Department of Posts (Higher Selection Grade-II) Recruitment Rules, 2023.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the official Gazette.
2. Number of post, classification, level in the pay matrix - The number of said post, its classification and the level in the pay matrix attached thereto shall be as specified in columns (2) to (4) of the Schedule annexed to these rules.
3. Method of recruitment, age-limit, qualifications etc. - The method of recruitment, age-limit, qualifications and other matters relating to the said post shall be as specified in columns (5) to (13) of the said Schedule.
4. Disqualifications. - No person,-
(a) who has entered into or contracted a marriage with a person having a spouse living; or
(b) who, having a spouse living, has entered into or contracted a marriage with any person, shall be eligible for appointment to the said post:
Provided that the Central Government may, if satisfied that such marriage is permissible under the personal law applicable to such person and the other party to the marriage and that there are other grounds for so doing, exempt any person from the operation of this rule.
5. Power to Relax.- Where the Central Government is of the opinion that it is necessary or expedient so to do, it may, by order, for reasons to be recorded in writing and in consultation with Union Public Service Commission, relax any of the provision of these rules with respect to any class or category of persons.
6. Saving.- Nothing in these rules shall affect reservation, relaxation of age- limit and other concessions required to be provided for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, ex-servicemen and other categories of persons, in accordance with
