Odisha Govt Frames Guidelines For Transfer Of Engineers

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Tuesday issued a set of interim guidelines for the transfer of the engineers of the Odisha Engineering Service (OES) and Odisha Diploma Engineers’ Service (ODES) cadres.

Acting on the 5-Ts initiative, the Works Department has taken steps to formulate comprehensive policy guidelines to ensure rule-based transfer and posting of engineers to bring transparency and improve their efficiency.

The department has put forth the following interim guidelines, which will be followed to execute the transfer the posting of the engineers of these two cadres.

— Transfers shall be on administrative or personal grounds. Transfer on administrative grounds shall include those carried out to rationalise the requirement of personnel in various field establishments, while personal grounds shall be either on the basis of health or on any other personal ground.
—Engineers should ordinarily be transferred after completion of tenure of three years in a particular station/post. But no official shall be allowed to continue in a particular post/place for more than five years.
— No engineer of OES cadre will be allowed to work in a particular revenue district for more than 10 years. This stipulation for ODES cadre will be 15 years.
— The OES cadre engineers shall not be posted in their home districts and ODES cadre engineers in their home sub-divisions.
— Engineer having less than two years of service before their superannuation shall not be transferred except on administrative grounds or in medical cases.
— However, the above guidelines can be relaxed in the interest/exigencies of public service and on the medical grounds of his/her spouse and dependent family member(s).
—Officials, who have served 10 years on deputation, including in different organisations cumulatively, will be reverted to the department.
— To examine the necessity for transfer and to implement the above guidelines, three Engineering Establishment Committees (EECs) will be constituted, which will recommend transfer and posting as required for approval by the competent authority.

The interim guidelines shall come into force immediately and remain in force till the detailed guidelines are finalised.