Indian Kanoon - Search engine for Indian Law

3. A detailed reply has been filed by the first and second respondents (hereinafter referred to as official respondents). After referring to the procedure, it is stated in the reply that in G.O. Ms. No. 563 dated 5.7.1978 instruction's were stipulated for appointment of Indian Forest Service Officers to Selection Grade as well as Supertime Scale Post. It is a selection post based on merit-cum-seniority as per Rule 3(3) of the Indian Forest Service (Pay) Rules, 1968. The officials respondents have brought out in paragraph 4 of the reply the rules with regard to the selection. In the light of these instructions, the Screening Committee which met on 3.12.1997, adjudged by evaluating the merits, character roll record as a whole and general assessment of her work as seen from the Confidential Reports of the applicant and decided not to include her name not only in the panel of Deputy Conservatory of Forests fit for promotion as Conservatory of Forests but also for appointment to Selection Grade in the post of Deputy Conservator of Forests. It is also stated in the reply that with regard to the adverse remarks in the Confidential Reports and based on her representation for expunging the adverse remarks, the Government in G.O. Rt. No. 84, Environment and Forests (FR. Spl. B) Department, dated 4.2.1998 expunged the entries adverse remarks recorded in her Confidential Report for the period from 1.4.1991 to 31.3.1992. But in G.O. Rt. No. 85, Environment and Forests (FR. Spl. B) Department dated 4.2.1998, the Government have allowed to stand the entire adverse remarks recorded by the Reporting Authority and the Accepting Authority against the applicant in Part III, IV, V and VI of her Confidential Reports for the period from 1.4.1992 to 31.3.1993. As such, it has been taken that she has no merit to argue that the adverse remarks need not be taken into account for inclusion of her name in the panel, if included will be violative of instructions issued in G.O.Ms. No. 563, Forests and Fisheries Departed, dated 5.7.1978. It has been stated in paragraph 11 of the reply that the Government has passed orders by allowing to stand the entire adverse remarks recorded in her Annual Confidential Report for the period ended 31.3.1993. The State Government will now send the Annual Confidential Reports of the applicant to the Government of India. It is also pointed out that when she earns two more reports in her Annual Confidential Reports in future she will be reconsidered for Selection Grade as well as to Supertime Scale, that is the instructions of the Government of India.