Thursday, February 13, 2020

Govt issues guidelines for appointment on compassionate grounds
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:13.02.2020

Following court directions, the government issued comprehensive guidelines for the legal heirs of government staff, eligible for consideration under compassionate grounds.

An order issued by chief secretary K Shanmugam said the legal heirs of government staff who died in harness, retired on medical invalidation (within age of 53), defence personnel killed/disabled in action and who died in harness were eligible for consideration. The legal heir or dependents of missing government servants may be considered when a competent court declared the missing government staff was dead in view of the provisions of Indian Evidence Act 1872. That apart, legal heirs of government staff who die under suspension and yet to reach the age of superannuation, and the dependents of the persons belonging to SC killed in communal clash, will also be considered.

The legal heirs of those staff, who are retained in service after the date of superannuation, under temporary appointment, consolidated pay, daily wage, contract appointment and whose services not regularised, those not coming under regular time scale of pay, are not eligible. The order said the legal heirs/close relatives of the deceased government staff are also eligible for compassionate. This included, son/unmarried daughter/wife/husband/legally adopted son/legally unmarried adopted daughter/widowed daughter/divorced daughter/deserted daughter. Father/mother and unmarried brothers and unmarried sisters of the unmarried deceased government staff also eligible.

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