Section 31: Urgent temporary appointment

*31. Urgent temporary appointment.- A vacancy in the service which cannot be filled in immediately by direct recruitment under the rules may be filled in by the Government or by the authority competent to make appointment, by appointing temporarily thereto a person eligible for direct recruitment to the service: Provided that.- (i) such an appointment will not continue more than a period of one year without referring the case to the commission for concurrence and shall be terminated immediately on its refusal to concur. (ii) in respect of a post in service the authority competent to make appointment shall not, save with the specific permission of the Government in the Department of Personnel, fill the temporary vacancy by a whole-time appointment for a period exceeding three months otherwise than out of person eligible for direct recruitment and after a short-term advertisement.