Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Online Application Submission under Rule-38 Transfers of Postal Manual Vol.-IV

 Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Online Application Submission under Rule-38 Transfers of Postal Manual Vol.-IV

Rule 38 Guidelines

Transfer under Rule 38 shall be permitted only against similar type/categories vacancy ie. Direct Recruit shall be transferred against Direct Recruitment vacancy and promotee against a promotion vacancy. Further, Unreserved (UR) candidate shall be transferred against UR vacancy, OBC candidate against OBC vacancy, SC candidate against SC vacancy and ST candidate against ST vacancy. For the purpose of observing category, it is clarified that category. under which an official is selected, he will be considered for transfer under same category.

Explanation: SC/ST/OBC candidate recruited against UR vacancy shall be considered as UR for transfer under Rule 38.

All recommended transfer requests shall become eligible for indexing in priority list. Priority list shall be drawn by the system on the basis of date of time of submission of request

All requests received till February / May /August/ November month shall be arranged in following manner and placed below the pending request list, based on which transfer cycle for month of March/June/September/December will be operated:-

a. Official with Benchmark Disabilities

b. Official appointed under Compassionate grounds

c. Official/dependent family members suffering from Terminal illness

d. Transfer registered under Spouse ground

e. General cases*Inter-senority fixation of priority amongst similar categories of transfer shall be on the basis of time and date of submission of request.

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