Section 156 in Bihar Board's Miscellaneous Rules, 1958
156. Division of ministerial appointments into upper and lower.
- Ministerial establishments under Commissioners and District Officers comprise upper and lower divisions. The former consists of specific posts for which special salaries have been fixed. The lower division in district office contains appointments on time-scale of pay which is independent of the post occupied. Appointments in the upper division are to be made with regard to special fitness for the post and unless other considerations are equal, seniority is not to be regarded in filling them. Appointment and promotion in the lower division of Commissioner's offices depend upon seniority subject to approved service. In the matter of appointment and promotion the district staff is to be treated as a whole and care must be taken that the staff at sub-divisions shall receive equal consideration with that at headquarters. Although the district and sub-divisional establishments are amalgamated. District Officers are not at liberty to inter-change the salaries attached to particular appointments in the upper division among the different branches of their own and sub-divisional offices in such manner as may from time to time be found convenient.Note. - A clerk on the time-scale in district offices deputed to a post outside the time-scale should retain a lien on his post in time-scale.
