TELANGANA STATE AND SUBORDINATE SERVICE RULES, 1996

2. DEFINITIONS: In these rules, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:- ( 1) “Adhoc rules” means rules issued to govern;

1. a temporary post in a Service, Class or Category which is not covered by any Special Rules; or
2. all or some of the services in regard to issues of common applicability of all such services.

( 2) Appointed to a Service:- A person is said to be “appointed to a service” when, in accordance with these rules, except under rule 10 and in accordance with the Special Rules or Adhoc Rules applicable to such service he discharges for the first time, the duties of a post borne on the cadre of such service or commences the probation, instruction or training prescribed for members thereof.Explanation:- The appointment of a person holding a post borne on the cadre of one service to hold additional charge of a post borne on the cadre of another service or same service or to discharge the current duties thereof does not amount to appointment to the latter service or post in the same service, as the case may be, ( 3) “Approved candidate” means a candidate whose name appears in an authoritative list of candidates approved for appointment to any service, class or category.( 4) “Approved probationer” in a service, class or category means a member of that service, class or category who has satisfactorily completed his probation in such service, class or category. ( 5) Appointment or Recruitment by transfer: A candidate is said to be appointed or recruited by transfer to a service;

1. if, at the time of his first appointment thereto, he is an approved probationer in the High Court Service or Legislature Service in the State of Telangana or in any other service, the rules for which prescribed a period of probation for members thereof; or
2. in case at the time of his first appointment thereto, he is the holder of a post which has been included in another service, but for which no probation has been prescribed, if he has put in that post, satisfactory service for a total period of two years on duty within a continuous period of three years.

( 6) “Armed Forces of the Union” means the Army, Navy or Air Force of the Union.( 7) “Socially and Educationally Backward Classes” mean the communities mentioned in Part-C of Schedule-I.( 8) “Cadre” means the posts in various classes, categories and grades in a service.( 9) “Commission” means the Telangana State Public Service Commission.(10) “Confirmed Member” means a member of a service who has been confirmed in a service under the State Government in accordance with rule 21.(11) “Date of Regular Appointment” means the date of commencement of probation, i.e., the date from which the service rendered by a person after appointment to a service, class or category counts for probation.(12) “Departmental Promotion Committee” means a Committee constituted to advise the appointing authority in regard to the persons to be included in the panel for being appointed by promotion or by transfer to a selection post not within the purview of the Commission.

Provided that the Departmental Promotion Committee may be required to prepare adhoc panels also for appointment to any service by promotion or by transfer even on temporary basis.

(13) “Discharge of a probationer” means, in case the probationer is confirmed or is an approved probationer or probationer of another service, class or category or is an approved probationer or probationer of another post in the same service, reverting him to such service, class or category and in every other case, dispensing with his service.(14) Duty:- A person is said to be ‘on duty’ as a member of a service,—

1. when he is performing the duties of a post borne on the cadre of such service or is undergoing the probation, instruction or training prescribed for such service, or is deputed by the competent authority for higher studies or for undergoing training in India or abroad; or
2. when he is on joining time; or
3. when he is absent from duty during vacation or on authorized holidays or on casual leave taken in accordance with instructions regulating such leave, issued by the State Government, having been on duty immediately before and immediately after such absence; or
4. when he is absent from duty during the period of training for courses of instruction and the period spent in camps as a member of the Auxiliary Air Force and also during the period spent for interview or for attending medical examination at the time of recruitment or commissioning; or
5. when he is absent from duty during the period of training including the period spent in transit as a member of the Indian Fleet Reserve or as a Reservist of the Army or Air Force (excluding the Reserve Officers); or
6. when he is absent from duty during the period of training in the Territorial Army including the period spent in transit for undergoing annual training in the said army; or
7. when he is absent from duty as a member of Air Defence Reserve, when called upon for service in the aid of the Civil Power or for Air Force Service, or during the period of annual training exceeding one month in the case of permanent and temporary Government servant and person on work-charged establishments or during the period of training in Air Defence Reserve or Air Force Service in the case of probationers; or
8. when he is absent from duty for service in the N.C.C. or during the period of training including the period spent in transit thereof.

Page 4 of 59 Explanation:- Participation of a Government servant in the ceremonial parade on special occasions like the Territorial Army Day, Republic Day, visit of a Minister and the like in his capacity as a member of the Air Defence Reserve, shall be treated as part of his training; or when he is absent from duty to attend the annual day celebrations of the Home Guards Organisation or when called upon for duty in times of emergency as a member of the Home Guards Organisation.(15) Direct Recruitment:- A candidate is said to be recruited direct to a post, class or category in a service, in case his first appointment thereto is made otherwise than by the following methods:-

1. by promotion from a lower post, category or class in that service or from a lower grade of any such post, category or class, or
2. by transfer from any other class of that service, or
3. by appointment by transfer from any other service, or
4. by re-employment of a person in case he had retired from service of Government prior to such appointment, or
5. by appointment by agreement or contract.

(16) “Ex-Serviceman” means a person who has served in any rank (whether as a combatant or as a non-combatant) in the Regular Army, Navy and Air Force of the Indian Union but does not include a person who has served in the Defence Security Corps, the General Research Engineering Force, Lok-Sahayak Sena and the Para-Military Forces, i.e., Border Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Central Industrial Security Force, Central Secretariat Security Force, Assam Rifles and Railway Protection Force; and

1. who has retired from such service after earning his/her pension; or
2. who has been released from such service on medical grounds attributable to military service or circumstances beyond his control and awarded medical or other disability pension; or
3. who has been released, otherwise than on his own request, from such service as a result of reduction in establishment; or
4. who has been released from such service after completing the specific period of engagement, otherwise than at his own request or by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct, inefficiency and has been given a gratuity and includes personnel of the Territorial Army of the following categories; namely:-
   1. pension holders for continuous embodied services;
   2. person with disability attributable to military services; and
   3. gallantry award winners.

Explanation:- The persons serving in the Armed Forces of the Union, who on retirement from service, would come under the category of ex servicemen, may be permitted to apply for re-employment one year before the completion of the specified terms of engagement and avail themselves of all concessions available to ex-servicemen but shall not be permitted to leave the uniform until they complete the specified term of engagement in the Armed Forces of the Union. Page 6 of 59(17) “General Rules” means the Telangana State and Subordinate Service Rules, 1996.(18) “Government” means the State Government of Telangana.(19) “Member of a Service” means a person who has been appointed to that service and who has not retired or resigned, or who has not been removed or dismissed, or substantively transferred or reduced to another service, or who has not been discharged otherwise than for want of a vacancy. He may be a probationer, an approved probationer or confirmed member of that service.(20) “Meritorious Sportsman” means a sportsman who has represented the State or the Country in a national or international competition or Universities in the Inter-University tournaments conducted by the Inter University Boards or the State School team in the national sports/games for schools conducted by the All India School Games Federation in any of the games, sports, mentioned below; and any other games/sports as may be specified by the Government from time to time:

1. Atheletics (including Track and Field events)
2. Badminton
3. Basketball
4. Cricket
5. Hockey
6. Football
7. Swimming
8. Volleyball
9. Table Tennis
10. Tennis
11. Weightlifting
12. Wrestling
13. Boxing
14. Cycling
15. Gymnastics
16. Judo
17. Rifle Shooting
18. Kabbadi
19. Kho Kho
20. Ball Badminton
21. Archery
22. Equistrain Sports
23. Hand Ball
24. Rowing
25. Chess
26. Taek wondo
27. Carroms

Page 7 of 59(21) Officiating Appointment:-A person is said to be officiating in a post, if his appointment has been made after his inclusion in the relevant panel, but whose appointment has not been regularised.(22) “Panel” means the authoritative list of candidates approved for regular appointment to any service, class or category drawn up by the Commission or by the Government or by the appointing authority concerned, but does not include the panel or list prepared for temporary appointment by the appointing authority pending preparation of a panel for regular appointment in accordance with the rules.(23) “Persons with disabilities” means the persons with the following disabilities:

1. blindness;
2. low vision;
3. leprosy cured;
4. hearing impairment;
5. locomotor disability;
6. mental Retardation;
7. mental Illness;

1. “Blindness” refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions, namely:-
   1. total absence of sight; or
   2. visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses; or
   3. limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse;
2. “Person with Low Vision” means a person with impairment of visual functioning even after treatment or standard refractive correction but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or execution of a task with appropriate assistive device i.e., a person with impairment of vision of less than 6/18 to 6/60 with best correction in the better eye or impairment of field in any of the following categories:
   1. Reduction of fields less than 50 degrees
   2. Heminaopia with macular involvement
   3. Attitudinal defect involving lower fields
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3. “Leprosy cured person” means a person who has been cured of leprosy, but is suffering from not less than 40% of disability as follows:-
   1. loss of sensation in hands or feet as well a loss of sensation and paresis in the eye and eye lid but with no manifest deformity;
   2. manifest deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility in their hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic activity;
   3. extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which prevents him from undertaking any gainful occupation; and the expression “Leprosy cured” shall be construed accordingly;
   4. The “Leprosy cured” persons generally become “Locomotor Disabled” and the Medical Certificate may, in such cases, have to be issued under the category of Locomotor Disability.
4. “Hearing impairment” means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies.
5. “Locomotor disability” means disability of the bones, joints or muscles leading to substantial restrictions of the movement of the limbs which includes Dwarfs, persons with Hunch back, leprosy cured persons, persons suffering from Muscular Dystrophy or any form of Cerebral palsy.
6. “Cerebral Palsy” means a group of non progressive conditions of a person characterized by abnormal motor control posture resulting from brain insult or injuries occurring in the pre-natal, peri-natal or infant period of development.

(24) “Presidential Order” wherever it occurs in these rules shall mean the Public Employment (Organization of Local Cadres and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) Order, issued by the President of India under Article 371-D of the Constitution of India and applicable to the extent of territorial jurisdiction of the State of Telangana, from time to time, in its true spirit.(25) “Probation” means the period during which a fresh entrant to a service or a person appointed to a higher post for the first time either by promotion within the service or by transfer from any other service, is put on test for determining his fitness to hold the post in a service, class or category.(26) “Probationer” means a member in a service class or category who has not completed his probation.(27) “Promotion” means the appointment of a member of any category or grade of service or a class of service to a higher category, grade, of such service or such class of service.(28) “Schedule” means the schedule to these rules.(29) “Scheduled Castes” mean the communities mentioned in Part-A of Schedule-I.Page 9 of 59Explanation: No person who professes a religion different from Hinduism, the Sikh or Budhist shall be deemed to be a member of a Scheduled Caste.(30) “Scheduled Tribes” means the communities mentioned in Part-B of Schedule-I.(31) “Screening Committee” means a Committee constituted by Government to recommend the names for inclusion in the panel for promotion or appointment by transfer involving promotion to the posts, for which it is necessary to consult the Telangana State Public Service Commission under the Regulations of the Telangana State Public Service Commission.(32) “Service” means a post or a group of posts or categories of posts classified by the State Government as State or Subordinate Service, as the case may be:

Provided that for the purpose of recruitment, probation and transfer, each class included in the General Service and in the General Subordinate Service of the State of Telangana shall be regarded as a separate service.

Note:- Where the context so requires ‘Service’ means the period during which a person holds a post in accordance with these rules, special or Ad-hoc rules except rule 10 or a lien on a post or is a member of a service as above defined.(33) “Special Rules” mean the rules applicable to each service or class or category of a service, which include adhoc rules applicable to temporary posts in a service, or class or category, which are not covered by the special rules.Explanation:- The words importing either gender in these or special rules shall be taken to include those of the other gender if circumstances so require.