Government of Odisha
General Administration & Public Grievance Department
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ORDER
ruo. -/Gen., Bhubaneswar Dated 29th Dec, 2018
GAD-SC-ASSO-0005 - 20 1 7
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The restructuring of District Ministerial cadre has treen under consideration for
sometimes past. Government after careful consideration have been pleased to revise
the existirrg structure effecting change of designation as well as creation of further
hierarchy in the cadre.
2. The existing and new structure of the District Ministerial cadre along with the
cadre strength and the basis of such distribution as per the data obtained from HRMS is
given in the table below:
sl. Existing Posts Re-designated Level of Pay as Existing New Cadre Remarks
No. AS per Pay Matrix Sandion Strength
Strength after Re-
structurinq
1 Junior Clerk Junior Level-4 (GP- 15668 15668 Unchanged
Assistant 1900) ( 100o/o)
I Senior Clerk Senior Level-7 7545 7545 Unchanged
Assistant (GP-2400) (49o1o)
3 Head Cterk Section Officer Level-9 2599 1928 - 671
(so) (GP-4200) 02o/o\
4 Office Establishment Level-10 34 627 (4o/o) +593
Superintendent Officer (EO) (GP-4600)
5 Senior Level-11 78 (0.50/o) New
Establishment (GP-4800) +78
Officer
(Sr. EO)
Total 25846 2s846
3. The existing Junior Clerks and Senior Clerks who have been posted in Revenue
Organization or services placed to other depaftments against posts sanctioned by
Revenue Department will be re-designated as .lunior Revenue Assistant and Senior
Revenue Assistant respectively. Other Junior Clerks (re-designated as Junior Assistants)
may be designated as Junior Assistants suffixed with the name of the Department
(or abbreviated name of the Depaftment). For example, Junior Assistants posted in
Health Department offices of the district cadre may be designated as lunior Assistant
(H u r w), those in the Agriculture Department may be designated as Junior Assistant
(Agriculture) and so on. This designation wilt continue up to the Senior Assistant level.
There will be no mention of Department name once the Senior Clerk (re designated
as Sr. Asst.) gets promoted to Head Clerk (Re-designated as Section Officer).
(re-desiqnated as Establislrment
similarly the posts of office superintendent
posts of Senior Establishment officer (sr' EO)
wili have
officer (EC)) and newly created
office rvhere the employee is posted'
no suffix to identify the Departrnerrt/
4,Inorciertoopenbetterprontotionprospectsandtoavoidstagnationinthecadre,
aCommoncadrewillbecreatedatthelevelofEstablishmentofficer(Eo)andabove
(including the post of Senior Establishment
officer)' coltector of the concerned district
on the vacancies/administrative
will be the cadre Controlling Authority. Basing
posting of the Eo and sr' Eo irrespective
requirement, the collector will make transfer/
oftheofficestheywereinitiallypostedas.]uniorClerks(JuniorAssistant).Thedateof
of the Gradation list for the
joining as Junior clerks will be the basis for preparation
Common Cadre.
section officer and Establishm'ent
5. The post of Junior Assistant, senior Assistant,
pay as existing in the posts of lunior Clerk' senior
officer will carry the same scale of
respectively'
Clerk, Head Cterk and Office Superintendent
officer beyond the existing
6. The newly created of post of senior Establishment
Pay Matrix of oRSP Rules' zoLT '
cadre structure will be in Level-11 of the
clerk' senior
7. consequent to re-designation, the existing designation of Junior
Clerk,HeadClerkandofficeSuperintendentshatlstandabolishedandmodified.
to the post of
B. The existing odisha Ministerial services (Method of recruitment
Rules, 1985 wilt remain unchanged with
amendment
Junior clerk in the District ffices)
post and matters relating to creation of common
only to the extent of re-designation of
cadre.
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HRMS site, haS been taken into consideration.
After restructuring, the sanctioned
strengthhasbeenre-fixedasperthefollowingproportion:-
lunior Assistant 100o/o 15668
Senior Assistant -
4}o/o 7545
Section Officer (SO) - LZo/o 1928
Establishment Offrcer (EO) 4o/o 627
Sr. Establishment Officer (Sr' EO) - O'5o/o - 78
kept intact'
In the above process, the total cadre strength has been
10. The Departments of the District cadre wilt submit requisition to
collector for
ministerial officers' The
recruitment in vacancies against Group-c district cadre
requisition of recruitment to the
collector will consolidate the requirements and submit
Odisha Sul:-ordinate Staif Selection Commission (OSSSC), who in turn will submit the
select tist after followir-rg due recruitment procedure, to the Collector against the
number of vacancies. Collector will allocate offices to the selected candidates as per the
merit list strictly in compliance to the GAD Resolution No. 14327, dtd' 04.07.2017
(principle for flrst posting of all newly recruits under the State Government), There will
be a single merit list to be prepared by the OSSSC for all the successful candidates for
each district which will be treated as the Gradation list.
11. Necessary amendment is being made in the Odisha Ministerial Services (Method
of recruitment to the post of Junior Clerk in the District Offices) Rules, 1985.
W{,r\s
Special Secretary to Government
iagm6. 37836 /Gen., Bhubaneswar Datd 29th Dec, 2O1B
Copy forwarded to all Departments of Govemmen(all Heads of Departments/all
RDGI all Collectors for information and necessary action.
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Special Secretary to Government
