(1) Recruitment to the Service in the respective cadre shall be made by the Government by any one or more of the following methods:—
(a) by direct appointment; or
(b) by transfer of an officer already in the service of a State Government or the Central Government; or
(c) by promotion from Group B Service of the respective cadre.
(2) Recruitment to the cadre post shall be so regulated that the number of posts in the respective cadre filled by promotion from Group B Service shall not exceed fifty percent of the cadre strength in respective cadre excluding the posts of Assistant Executive Engineers :
Provided that if adequate number of Assistant Executive Engineers who are eligible and fit for promotion are not available, the cadre posts in the respective cadres even beyond fifty percent may be filled up by promotion of members of Group B Service or by transfer as may be decided upon by the Government.
(3) In the case of persons who were members of the Service as on 1[the 20th March, 2009] it shall be assumed that the number recruited by promotion from Group B Service is in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2) and future recruitment shall be based upon this assumption.
(4) All first direct appointments to the Service shall be made to the posts of Assistant Executive Engineer.
(5) An officer promoted from Group B Service shall be appointed to the post of Executive Engineer.
(6) Appointment by transfer of an officer shall ordinarily be made to the rank of Executive Engineer.
(7) The selection of candidates shall be made by the Commission, after holding competitive examination, the syllabus for which shall be such, as may be specified by Government:
Provided that if the number of candidates is more than twenty times the number of vacancies advertised, the Commission may hold a screening test to shortlist the candidates for the competitive examination:
Recruitment to Service.
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Provided further that a candidate shall not be considered qualified for appointment, unless he obtains not less than forty percent marks in each subject and also not less than fifty percent marks in the aggregate and no candidate who fails to obtain the qualifying marks shall be called for interview by the Commission:
Provided further that for a candidate belonging to Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes, the requirement of aggregate marks shall be forty-five percent.
Explanation.—When so requested by the Government, the Commission may hold a combined competitive examination for selection to the Service as well as to any other engineering service or services of the State and in such an event, appointments shall be made in the order of merit indicated by the Commission, after allowing persons that are appointed to another service.
6. No person shall be appointed to the Service on or after the date of publication of this Act in the Official Gazette, unless he,—
(a) in case of appointment by direct recruitment, possesses one of the degrees or other qualifications in the respective engineering discipline from a University or deemed University approved by University Grants Commission or from a technical institution approved by All India Council of Technical Education or has passed sections A and B of the Associate Membership Examination of the Institution of Engineers (India). The requisite qualifications shall be possessed by the candidate on or before the last day of submission of application to the Commission :
Provided that no degree obtained through correspondence or distance education mode from any University or deemed University or technical institution shall be considered for appointment by any mode of recruitment to the Service. The degrees awarded must be approved by All India Council of Technical Education :
Provided further that the candidates to be appointed for Civil cadre shall be recruited with qualification in Civil or Public Health Engineering, whereas those recruited in Mechanical cadre shall be required to possess qualification in Mechanical Engineering;
Qualifications.
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(b) in case of an appointment by promotion from Group B Service, has, in addition to the qualifications provided in clause (a), eight years completed service and passed the departmental examination of Group B Service:
Provided that the Government may relax the condition of eight years service in the case of an officer who has completed five years service and in such case, the officer shall earn the first increment as an Executive Engineer on the completion of nine years service.
Explanation.— For the purpose of computing eight years service, the service in Group B, as well as in Group A, shall be counted;
(c) is a person with a satisfactory character and antecedents, verification in respect of which shall be arranged through appropriate Government agency, except in cases where such verification may have already been made at the time of his entry into Government Service;
(d) has not more than one wife living or, in the case of a woman, is not married to a person already having a wife living:
Provided that the Government may, if satisfied that there are special grounds for doing so, exempt any person from the operation of this condition;
(e) obtains from the Standing Medical Board a certificate of physical fitness after being examined in accordance with the Punjab Civil Services Rules as applicable to the State of Haryana and is considered by the Standing Medical Board to be fit in all respects for active outdoor duties.
7. The minimum and maximum age for direct appointment shall be such, as may be notified by the Government. The cut off date for determining the minimum and maximum age shall be the First day of January of the calendar year in which the vacancies are advertised by the Commission.