(l) Recruitment to the Panchayat Service or to a post or class of posts shall be made by the following methods :-
(a) By direct recruitment, by written examination or interview or by Q~th;
(b) By promotion of person employed in the Panchayat service;
(c) By ,transfer on deputaU:>n of a person serving in connection with the affairs of any local authority or of the State Government; and
(d) By transfer of persons who hold in a substantive capacity such posts in such services as may be specified in this behalf.
, .. - (2) .The-number of persons .recnlited under..c1ause_-!b)..oLsub:-IJ.lle_(lL --"'-----,----- shall not at any time exceed the percentage shown in Schedule-II of the number of duty posts as specified in Schedule- I.
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(3) Subject to the pr~)Visionsof these rules, the method or methods of recruitment to be adopted for the purpose of filling any particular vacancy or vacancies in the service. as may be required to be filed during any .particular period of recruitment, and the number of persons to be recruited by each method, shall be determined on each occasion by the Appointing Authority in consultation with General Administration Committee of the Panchayat.
--..- ...---- -(4)-Notwithstanding -anything- contained ii1. sub-rule (l),--if--.iIl.-the- -.------.
opinion of the appointing authority, the exigencies of service so require, the a)lpointing authority may with the prior permission of the prescribed authority may adopt such other methods of recruitment other than those specifitd in the said sub-rule. .