Section 7(9) in The M.P. Public Services (Promotion) Rules, 2002
(9)The Departmental Promotion/Screening Committee shall make a relative/comparative assessment of the merits of public servants who are within the zone of consideration and make an overall grading of the public servants' merit on the basis .of their service records and place them in the categories as "Outstanding", "Very-Good", "Good", "Average" and "poor", as the case may be. However, only those public servants who are graded as "Very-Good" and above will be included in the select list, by placing the public servants graded as 'Outstanding" on top followed by those graded as "Very-Good", subject to availability of vacancies, with the public servants with the same grading maintaining the inter-se seniority in the feeder cadre/part of the service/pay scales of post.
