( 1) The Departmental Promotion Committee shall prepare. a list of,suitable persons, who qualify the conditions prescribed in rule-14 above and are held by the Committee to be suitable for promotion to the service. The list shall be sufficient to cover the anticipated vacancies on account of retirements, and promotion during the course of one year from the date of preparation of. the select list. A reserve list of the 25% of the number of persons included in the said list shall also be prepared to meet. the unforeseen vacanGies occurring, during the course of the aforesaid period. .
(2)The selection for inclusion in such list shall be based on merit and suitability in all respects with due regard to seniority.
(3)The names of the officers included in the list shall be arranged in order of seniority in the service or posts as specified in column (2) of . Schedule IVat the time of preparation of such select list:
. Provided that any junior employeewhoin the opinion of the Committee is.of exceptional m.eritand-Buit9-bHityshaltbe.assigned Ju.tcheJist a:higher.:~:.-.'_:..:_~'-.:'- place than that of Senior Officers senior to him.
I ! Explanation.-A person, whose name- is included in a select list but who is not p"romotedduring the validity of the list, .shall have no claim to seniority over those considered in a subsequent selection merely by the " fact of his earlier selection. .
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-'.(~)The list so prepared shall b~ reviewed and revised everyyear:.
(5)',If in the process of selection, review or revision it is proposed to supersede any member of Service, the Committee shall record its reasons f~!"the p~~po~edsuperse~~i0!l. _".__ _ - . _