Section 4 in The Orissa Private Secretaries to Secretaries to Departments of Government Rules, 1974
4. Eligibility to the service.
(1)The Private Secretaries in the cadre of the service shall be filled up by promotion of permanent and officiating Personal Assistants.(2)No Personal Assistants, who has not completed five years of continuous service as a Personal Assistant on or before the 1st January of the year in which the Board meets, shall be eligible for promotion to the service :Provided that if in a particular year adequate number of Personal Assistants having continuous service of five years as Personal Assistants are not available, the [State Government] [Substituted vide Orissa Gazette Part III-A No. 6/11.2.1994.] may, for reasons to be recorded in writing and having regard to consideration of efficiency, reduce the aforesaid continuous service to such extent as they deem fit.
