(a)Annual confidential reports are recorded for the period 1st April to the 31st March of every year. Ordinarily, no report is required on a Government servant who has served under the reporting officer for less than four months. Certain special reports for short periods as for instance training in Training School, or College, or in the Secretariat, have to be entered in character rolls. A reporting officer who goes on long leave or transfer after holding charge of a post for more than six months in the course of a reporting year, should record remarks which will be incorporated in the annual confidential reports on the subordinate officers. If the period is shorter than six months, notes on individual officers should be left for the successor.
