GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA
ABSTRACT
PUBLIC SERVICES – Transfers and postings of employees – Lifting of ban
on transfers – Orders – Issued.
FINANCE (HRM.I) DEPARTMENT
G.O.Ms.No. 61 Dated: 24-05-2018
Read the following:-
1) G.O.Ms.No.119, Finance (DCM-III) Dept., dt.17.05.2013.
2) G.O.Rt.No.948, Genl. Admin. (Spl.A) Dept., dated:16-05-2018.
3) Report of the Committee of Senior Officers Constituted to
Formulate the Guidelines on Transfer of Government
Employees and Teachers, dated:22.05.2018.
* * *
O R D E R
Government in the reference first read above issued orders
imposing ban on all transfers except in respect of certain cases referred
therein. In the reference second read above, Government constituted a
Committee of senior officers under the Chairmanship of Sri Ajay Misra,
IAS, Special Chief Secretary to Government, Energy Department to
formulate the “Transfer Guidelines” for all categories of employees, in
consultation with the concerned stakeholders, with a direction to submit
their recommendation for employees’ transfers, including Teachers, to
Government.
2. The committee of senior officers submitted its report vide reference
third read above, along with their recommendations/ guidelines in regard
to transfers.
3. The Government, after careful consideration, hereby relax the ban
on transfers imposed, vide reference first read above, for the period from
25th May, 2018 to 15th June, 2018. The HoDs and Competent Authorities
shall follow the following guidelines while effecting transfer of employees.
I. Schedule for transfers:
a) The transfers shall be made from 25th May, 2018 to 15th June,
2018 as per the schedule shown in the Annexure-I.
b) The ban on transfers shall come into force with effect from 16th
June, 2018.
(P.T.O.)
2
II. Employees to be transferred
a) No person shall be transferred before completion of two years of
service in a particular station as on 31-05-2018. The condition as
to completion of two years, however, need not be followed in
respect of
i. Transfers on spouse grounds and
ii. Employees transferred and provisionally ordered to
serve in new districts during October, 2016.
b) No person shall be retained beyond 5 years of service in a
particular station as on 31st May, 2018. However, the employees
who are retiring before 31st May, 2019 shall not be transferred
even if they have completed five years of service unless they
make a specific request for their transfer.
c) To ensure that there is no dislocation of the work, not more than
40% of employees in any cadre shall be transferred.
III. Priority criteria for consideration of options:
a) When more than one employee opts for a particular place and
while effecting the transfers, the competent authority shall give
priority in the descending order as given below, subject to
satisfaction of other conditions specified in this G.O. and the
employee not facing charges in departmental/criminal
proceedings:
i) Husband and Wife cases (only one of the spouse shall be
shifted following the prescribed procedure).
ii) The employees retiring before 31st May, 2019, in case of
their opting for transfers.
iii) Employees with disability of 70% or more as certified by a
competent authority as per “Persons with Disabilities
(P.W.D) (Equal opportunities, protection of rights and full
participation) Act, 1995.
iv) Employees having mentally retarded children to a place
where medical facilities are available.
v) Widows appointed under the compassionate appointment
scheme.
(Contd….3)
3
vi) Medical grounds for the following diseases (either self or
spouse or dependent children and dependent parents), to
places where facilities are available for treatment. The
employees who applied for priority under medical grounds
shall be given preference in the following descending
order.
a. Cancer
b. Neurosurgery
c. Kidney Transplantation
d. Liver Transplantation
e. Open Heart Surgery
f. Bone TB
vii) Employees working in hardship areas. Each department
will identify such areas for their employees.
viii) The employee who has put in the longer service in a
hardship area.
b) Once transfers are effected on personal or medical grounds, the
Head of the Department will verify the truthfulness of the
grounds of the reasons in a few test cases and report to
Government if necessary, for further necessary action.
IV. Qualifying service & criteria:
a) Service in all cadres at a station will be counted while
calculating the period of stay.
b) Station means place (City, Town, Village) of actual working for
the purpose of transfers and not office or institution.
c) The standing instructions on the transfers of office bearers of
employees unions recognized, by the Government, as issued in
Circular Memo No.20914/S.W.I/A2/2012-1 of G.A. (Services
Welfare.I) Department, dt.26-06-2012 read with Circular Memo
No.20914/S.W.I/A2/2012-2 of G.A. (Services Welfare.I)
Department, dt.30-06-2012 shall be followed scrupulously.
d) The transfers shall be effected from focal to non-focal, and vice
versa. The focal and non-focal posts shall be identified by the
department concerned.
(P.T.O.)
4
V. Procedure for transfers:
To ensure that the transfer of employees is implemented in a
transparent and objective manner, the following procedure shall be
followed:
i. The HoDs / Competent Authority shall publish the list of
incumbents working category wise and cadre wise, in all units
under their jurisdiction, along with place and duration.
ii. Similarly, all clear vacancies shall also be published before
seeking options from the employees.
iii. The Competent Authority shall publish a list of employees to
be compulsorily transferred.
iv. The Competent Authority may obtain upto five options for
preferential places of transfers from the employees in the
prescribed proforma in Annexure-II. However, the
Departments may modify the proforma according to their
specific requirements.
v. The competent authority shall ensure that minimum
operational staff is available in offices/ and functional units
even in the hardship areas.
vi. In case, adequate personnel do not opt for hardship area, the
system of lottery shall be followed for effecting transfers.
vii. All transfers shall be done by counselling in a transparent
manner. Wherever possible, counselling will be done on
online/web based application.
viii. To ensure transparency, all the notifications shall be
published online or on the office notice board.
VI. Special provisions for certain departments:
a) Based on this transfer policy, Education Department will formulate
detailed operational guidelines for transfer of Teachers/ Lecturers.
b) The revenue earning departments viz. a) Commercial Taxes
Department, b) Prohibition & Excise Department and c) Stamps &
Registration Departments shall follow the separate guidelines
issued in the G.O.Ms.No.143, Finance (W&M)Department, dt.21-
06-2007. The Transport Department and Forest Department shall
make the general transfers as per the guidelines issued in
G.O.Ms.No.147, TR&B (Ser.IV) Department, dated. 12-06-2007 and
G.O.Ms.No.81, EFS&T (For.V) Department, dated.08-07-2008,
respectively. Similarly the Police Department shall frame specific
guidelines for transfer of police personnel separately.
c) The above mentioned departments, wherever required, may modify
the existing Government Orders to meet their departmental
requirements.
(Contd….5)
5
VII. Competent authority for transfers:
a) All transfers shall be effected by the competent authorities as per
the existing rules and orders on delegation. However the
transfers shall be effected, with the approval of the committees
constituted for this purpose as given in Table-1.
Table-1 : Cadre wise competent authority for transfers
Sl.
No.
Cadre Committee
1 State
cadre
(1) Spl.C.S. / Prl. Secretary/Secretary of the
Department.
(2)HoD concerned (Convener).
(3) Addl./Joint / Deputy Secretary as nominated by
the Secretary concerned.
2 Multizonal/
Zonal
(1) HoD concerned.
(2) Addl./Joint / Deputy Secretary as nominated by
the Secretary concerned
(3) The Regional Officer or Addl./ Joint Director in the
o/o. the HoD (convener)
3 District
Cadre
(1) District Collector of the erstwhile District as per
G.O.Ms.No.92, General Administration (SPF-MC)
Department, dt.27-03-2017 will preside the
committee.
(2) The District Collectors of the new districts
reorganized out of the erstwhile districts shall be
the members.
(3) The District Head of the department of the
erstwhile district as per G.O.Ms.No.92, General
Administration (SPF-MC) Department, dt.27-03-
2017 (convener).
(4) The District Heads of the Department of the new
districts reorganized out of the erstwhile district
shall also be members
b) The entire process shall be completed as per the schedule of
transfers. The employee will be deemed to have been relieved at
the end of 3 days of the issue of the transfer order. Any violation in
this regard shall be viewed seriously by the Government.
c) The Spl.C.S./Prl. Secretary/Secretary of the concerned
administrative departments shall closely monitor the entire process
of transfers.
(P.T.O.)
6
VIII. General provisions:
a) The provisions of the Presidential Order shall be followed. For this
purpose, the erstwhile district / zonal / multi-zonal cadres shall be
adhered to. The cadre controlling authority shall ensure a
balanced distribution of the cadre, among all the new districts
falling within the erstwhile district/zonal unit.
b) The existing instructions on posting of second level and higher
level Gazetted Officers to their native districts shall be followed.
c) All the transfers effected by following the procedure where
employees indicated preference for stations shall be treated as
request transfers for the purpose of sanction of T.T.A. and other
transfer benefits.
d) Transfer of State Cadre Employees who come under the purview of
the process of allocation of employees between the successor
states, shall be subject to the final allocation of the employees, if
any pending.
e) This transfer policy is expected to be an effective tool in capacity
building with departmental employees getting a variety of
experience within the department, thus becoming more fit to hold
higher responsibilities.
f) The HoD and competent authority shall be personally responsible
for compliance with the guidelines prescribed above and any
deviation from the guidelines herein shall be viewed seriously.
(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF TELANGANA)
SHAILENDRA KUMAR JOSHI
CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT
To
All Departments of Secretariat.
All Heads of Departments.
All District Collectors.
The Registrar, High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the state of
Telangana and the state of Andhra Pradesh.
The Secretary, T.S.P.S.C., Hyderabad.
The Accountant General, Telangana, Hyderabad.
The Pay and Accounts Officer, Hyderabad.
The Director of Treasuries and Accounts, Telangana, Hyderabad.
All District Treasury Officers.
All Officers/Sections in Finance Department.
Copy to SF/SCs.
// FORWARDED:: BY ORDER//
SECTION OFFICER
7
ANNEXURE – I
(G.O.Ms.No.61 Finance (HRM-I) Department, Dated:24-05-2018)
T R A N S F E R S C H E D U L E
1 Day -01 to 07
(25-05-2018 to
31-05-2018)
: Finalizing operational mechanism based
on the G.O.Ms.No.61 Finance (HRM-I)
Department, Dated:24-05-2018 by the
concerned departments, in consultation
with the Unions / Associations.
Preparation and publication of
Incumbency particulars, clear vacancies
and list of the employees to be
compulsorily transferred.
2 Day – 08 to12
(01-06-2018 to
05-06-2018)
: Submission of applications with option by
the employees.
3 Day–13 to19
(06-06-2018 to
12-06-2018)
: Verification of Applications and arranging,
as per transfer policy and
preparation of master list accordingly
after counseling.
4 Day 20 to 22
(13-06-2018 to
15-06-2018)
: Issue of transfer orders, and 3rd day of
issue of orders employees shall be deemed
to have been relieved from the previous
station.
SECTION OFFICER
8
ANNEXURE – II
(G.O.Ms.No.61 Finance (HRM-I) Department, Dated:24-05-2018)
GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA
GENERAL TRANSFERS – 2018
EMPLOYEE OPTION FORM
I Employee Information
a EMPLOYEE ID
b Name of the Employee
c Date of Birth
d Gender
e Post Cadre/Category
Name
f Multizone/Zone/District
to which allotted
g Date of Initital joining
into Service (optional)
II Details of present post
held
a Name of the office
presently working
b Name of the Present
Post
c Present Post Location
(Head Quarters)
d Date from which
working in the present
station
III Spouse Employment
Details
a Whether Employee/
(Yes/No) (If yes give
below details)
b Employees of
GoTS/GoTS
Undertaking/Telangana
State Local Bodies /GoI/
GoI Undertaking
c Spouse Name
9
d Name of the Department
e Name of the Post
f Post Head quarters
IV Preferred Post (In the
order of Priority)
a 1st Preference
b 2nd Preference
c 3rd Preference
d 4th Preference
e 5th Preference
Date:
Place: (Signature of Employee)
SECTION OFFICER
ABSTRACT
PUBLIC SERVICES – Transfers and postings of employees – Lifting of ban
on transfers – Orders – Issued.
FINANCE (HRM.I) DEPARTMENT
G.O.Ms.No. 61 Dated: 24-05-2018
Read the following:-
1) G.O.Ms.No.119, Finance (DCM-III) Dept., dt.17.05.2013.
2) G.O.Rt.No.948, Genl. Admin. (Spl.A) Dept., dated:16-05-2018.
3) Report of the Committee of Senior Officers Constituted to
Formulate the Guidelines on Transfer of Government
Employees and Teachers, dated:22.05.2018.
* * *
O R D E R
Government in the reference first read above issued orders
imposing ban on all transfers except in respect of certain cases referred
therein. In the reference second read above, Government constituted a
Committee of senior officers under the Chairmanship of Sri Ajay Misra,
IAS, Special Chief Secretary to Government, Energy Department to
formulate the “Transfer Guidelines” for all categories of employees, in
consultation with the concerned stakeholders, with a direction to submit
their recommendation for employees’ transfers, including Teachers, to
Government.
2. The committee of senior officers submitted its report vide reference
third read above, along with their recommendations/ guidelines in regard
to transfers.
3. The Government, after careful consideration, hereby relax the ban
on transfers imposed, vide reference first read above, for the period from
25th May, 2018 to 15th June, 2018. The HoDs and Competent Authorities
shall follow the following guidelines while effecting transfer of employees.
I. Schedule for transfers:
a) The transfers shall be made from 25th May, 2018 to 15th June,
2018 as per the schedule shown in the Annexure-I.
b) The ban on transfers shall come into force with effect from 16th
June, 2018.
(P.T.O.)
2
II. Employees to be transferred
a) No person shall be transferred before completion of two years of
service in a particular station as on 31-05-2018. The condition as
to completion of two years, however, need not be followed in
respect of
i. Transfers on spouse grounds and
ii. Employees transferred and provisionally ordered to
serve in new districts during October, 2016.
b) No person shall be retained beyond 5 years of service in a
particular station as on 31st May, 2018. However, the employees
who are retiring before 31st May, 2019 shall not be transferred
even if they have completed five years of service unless they
make a specific request for their transfer.
c) To ensure that there is no dislocation of the work, not more than
40% of employees in any cadre shall be transferred.
III. Priority criteria for consideration of options:
a) When more than one employee opts for a particular place and
while effecting the transfers, the competent authority shall give
priority in the descending order as given below, subject to
satisfaction of other conditions specified in this G.O. and the
employee not facing charges in departmental/criminal
proceedings:
i) Husband and Wife cases (only one of the spouse shall be
shifted following the prescribed procedure).
ii) The employees retiring before 31st May, 2019, in case of
their opting for transfers.
iii) Employees with disability of 70% or more as certified by a
competent authority as per “Persons with Disabilities
(P.W.D) (Equal opportunities, protection of rights and full
participation) Act, 1995.
iv) Employees having mentally retarded children to a place
where medical facilities are available.
v) Widows appointed under the compassionate appointment
scheme.
(Contd….3)
3
vi) Medical grounds for the following diseases (either self or
spouse or dependent children and dependent parents), to
places where facilities are available for treatment. The
employees who applied for priority under medical grounds
shall be given preference in the following descending
order.
a. Cancer
b. Neurosurgery
c. Kidney Transplantation
d. Liver Transplantation
e. Open Heart Surgery
f. Bone TB
vii) Employees working in hardship areas. Each department
will identify such areas for their employees.
viii) The employee who has put in the longer service in a
hardship area.
b) Once transfers are effected on personal or medical grounds, the
Head of the Department will verify the truthfulness of the
grounds of the reasons in a few test cases and report to
Government if necessary, for further necessary action.
IV. Qualifying service & criteria:
a) Service in all cadres at a station will be counted while
calculating the period of stay.
b) Station means place (City, Town, Village) of actual working for
the purpose of transfers and not office or institution.
c) The standing instructions on the transfers of office bearers of
employees unions recognized, by the Government, as issued in
Circular Memo No.20914/S.W.I/A2/2012-1 of G.A. (Services
Welfare.I) Department, dt.26-06-2012 read with Circular Memo
No.20914/S.W.I/A2/2012-2 of G.A. (Services Welfare.I)
Department, dt.30-06-2012 shall be followed scrupulously.
d) The transfers shall be effected from focal to non-focal, and vice
versa. The focal and non-focal posts shall be identified by the
department concerned.
(P.T.O.)
4
V. Procedure for transfers:
To ensure that the transfer of employees is implemented in a
transparent and objective manner, the following procedure shall be
followed:
i. The HoDs / Competent Authority shall publish the list of
incumbents working category wise and cadre wise, in all units
under their jurisdiction, along with place and duration.
ii. Similarly, all clear vacancies shall also be published before
seeking options from the employees.
iii. The Competent Authority shall publish a list of employees to
be compulsorily transferred.
iv. The Competent Authority may obtain upto five options for
preferential places of transfers from the employees in the
prescribed proforma in Annexure-II. However, the
Departments may modify the proforma according to their
specific requirements.
v. The competent authority shall ensure that minimum
operational staff is available in offices/ and functional units
even in the hardship areas.
vi. In case, adequate personnel do not opt for hardship area, the
system of lottery shall be followed for effecting transfers.
vii. All transfers shall be done by counselling in a transparent
manner. Wherever possible, counselling will be done on
online/web based application.
viii. To ensure transparency, all the notifications shall be
published online or on the office notice board.
VI. Special provisions for certain departments:
a) Based on this transfer policy, Education Department will formulate
detailed operational guidelines for transfer of Teachers/ Lecturers.
b) The revenue earning departments viz. a) Commercial Taxes
Department, b) Prohibition & Excise Department and c) Stamps &
Registration Departments shall follow the separate guidelines
issued in the G.O.Ms.No.143, Finance (W&M)Department, dt.21-
06-2007. The Transport Department and Forest Department shall
make the general transfers as per the guidelines issued in
G.O.Ms.No.147, TR&B (Ser.IV) Department, dated. 12-06-2007 and
G.O.Ms.No.81, EFS&T (For.V) Department, dated.08-07-2008,
respectively. Similarly the Police Department shall frame specific
guidelines for transfer of police personnel separately.
c) The above mentioned departments, wherever required, may modify
the existing Government Orders to meet their departmental
requirements.
(Contd….5)
5
VII. Competent authority for transfers:
a) All transfers shall be effected by the competent authorities as per
the existing rules and orders on delegation. However the
transfers shall be effected, with the approval of the committees
constituted for this purpose as given in Table-1.
Table-1 : Cadre wise competent authority for transfers
Sl.
No.
Cadre Committee
1 State
cadre
(1) Spl.C.S. / Prl. Secretary/Secretary of the
Department.
(2)HoD concerned (Convener).
(3) Addl./Joint / Deputy Secretary as nominated by
the Secretary concerned.
2 Multizonal/
Zonal
(1) HoD concerned.
(2) Addl./Joint / Deputy Secretary as nominated by
the Secretary concerned
(3) The Regional Officer or Addl./ Joint Director in the
o/o. the HoD (convener)
3 District
Cadre
(1) District Collector of the erstwhile District as per
G.O.Ms.No.92, General Administration (SPF-MC)
Department, dt.27-03-2017 will preside the
committee.
(2) The District Collectors of the new districts
reorganized out of the erstwhile districts shall be
the members.
(3) The District Head of the department of the
erstwhile district as per G.O.Ms.No.92, General
Administration (SPF-MC) Department, dt.27-03-
2017 (convener).
(4) The District Heads of the Department of the new
districts reorganized out of the erstwhile district
shall also be members
b) The entire process shall be completed as per the schedule of
transfers. The employee will be deemed to have been relieved at
the end of 3 days of the issue of the transfer order. Any violation in
this regard shall be viewed seriously by the Government.
c) The Spl.C.S./Prl. Secretary/Secretary of the concerned
administrative departments shall closely monitor the entire process
of transfers.
(P.T.O.)
6
VIII. General provisions:
a) The provisions of the Presidential Order shall be followed. For this
purpose, the erstwhile district / zonal / multi-zonal cadres shall be
adhered to. The cadre controlling authority shall ensure a
balanced distribution of the cadre, among all the new districts
falling within the erstwhile district/zonal unit.
b) The existing instructions on posting of second level and higher
level Gazetted Officers to their native districts shall be followed.
c) All the transfers effected by following the procedure where
employees indicated preference for stations shall be treated as
request transfers for the purpose of sanction of T.T.A. and other
transfer benefits.
d) Transfer of State Cadre Employees who come under the purview of
the process of allocation of employees between the successor
states, shall be subject to the final allocation of the employees, if
any pending.
e) This transfer policy is expected to be an effective tool in capacity
building with departmental employees getting a variety of
experience within the department, thus becoming more fit to hold
higher responsibilities.
f) The HoD and competent authority shall be personally responsible
for compliance with the guidelines prescribed above and any
deviation from the guidelines herein shall be viewed seriously.
(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF TELANGANA)
SHAILENDRA KUMAR JOSHI
CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT
To
All Departments of Secretariat.
All Heads of Departments.
All District Collectors.
The Registrar, High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the state of
Telangana and the state of Andhra Pradesh.
The Secretary, T.S.P.S.C., Hyderabad.
The Accountant General, Telangana, Hyderabad.
The Pay and Accounts Officer, Hyderabad.
The Director of Treasuries and Accounts, Telangana, Hyderabad.
All District Treasury Officers.
All Officers/Sections in Finance Department.
Copy to SF/SCs.
// FORWARDED:: BY ORDER//
SECTION OFFICER
7
ANNEXURE – I
(G.O.Ms.No.61 Finance (HRM-I) Department, Dated:24-05-2018)
T R A N S F E R S C H E D U L E
1 Day -01 to 07
(25-05-2018 to
31-05-2018)
: Finalizing operational mechanism based
on the G.O.Ms.No.61 Finance (HRM-I)
Department, Dated:24-05-2018 by the
concerned departments, in consultation
with the Unions / Associations.
Preparation and publication of
Incumbency particulars, clear vacancies
and list of the employees to be
compulsorily transferred.
2 Day – 08 to12
(01-06-2018 to
05-06-2018)
: Submission of applications with option by
the employees.
3 Day–13 to19
(06-06-2018 to
12-06-2018)
: Verification of Applications and arranging,
as per transfer policy and
preparation of master list accordingly
after counseling.
4 Day 20 to 22
(13-06-2018 to
15-06-2018)
: Issue of transfer orders, and 3rd day of
issue of orders employees shall be deemed
to have been relieved from the previous
station.
SECTION OFFICER
8
ANNEXURE – II
(G.O.Ms.No.61 Finance (HRM-I) Department, Dated:24-05-2018)
GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA
GENERAL TRANSFERS – 2018
EMPLOYEE OPTION FORM
I Employee Information
a EMPLOYEE ID
b Name of the Employee
c Date of Birth
d Gender
e Post Cadre/Category
Name
f Multizone/Zone/District
to which allotted
g Date of Initital joining
into Service (optional)
II Details of present post
held
a Name of the office
presently working
b Name of the Present
Post
c Present Post Location
(Head Quarters)
d Date from which
working in the present
station
III Spouse Employment
Details
a Whether Employee/
(Yes/No) (If yes give
below details)
b Employees of
GoTS/GoTS
Undertaking/Telangana
State Local Bodies /GoI/
GoI Undertaking
c Spouse Name
9
d Name of the Department
e Name of the Post
f Post Head quarters
IV Preferred Post (In the
order of Priority)
a 1st Preference
b 2nd Preference
c 3rd Preference
d 4th Preference
e 5th Preference
Date:
Place: (Signature of Employee)
SECTION OFFICER