(1) The following shall be the eligibility criteria for placement on trainee reserve as Government sponsored candidates for the Officers of the West Bengal Dental Education Service and the West Bengal Dental Service :
(i) a minimum of three years qualifying service under the employment of the Government ofWest Bengal in the respective cadre as determined an the thirty-first day ofMarch o;the concerned year and for the 12 File No. HFW-55099/5/2025-LAW SEC-Dept. of HFW (Computer No. 111393) Generated rrom eutfice Dy UEBHI> AHKAAH, HA(DJS}-LAW(HFW), HA[LAW IE&ELL tEAI LE & EBAYWELFARE-EIEPARTMEFT-on2TOT7Oz U12Tp • 5$19776/2025/LAW SEC(H&FW) THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013 [PARr I t ¥.
officers who have been appointed in any of the two cadre service from any of the two other services, they must have put in at least three years service in the West Bengal Dental Education Service and the West Bengal Dental Service taken together.
Provided that for officers ofWest Bengal Dental Service, the minimum period ofqualifying service required shall have to be rendered in rural areas in Primary Health Centers, Block Primary Health Centers and Rural Hospitals, for being considered for placement on trainee reserve as Government sponsored candidate.
(ii) Officers, who had acquired any post-graduate degree, irrespective of the fact whether such degree was acquiredwith or without Governmentsponsorship, shall only be allowed to undergo post-doctoral courses and in no case shall be allowed any trainee reserve facilities for undergoing any other post-graduate degree or diploma courses. Officers with postgraduate degree may be allowed trainee reserve for certain relevant and recognized or authorized Post Doctoral Diploma courses provided that there are scopes of utilization ofthe qualification in the service and/or this is necessary for up gradation of the concerned discipline, as would be determined by the Health and Family Welfare Department from time to time.
Officers in possession of any post-graduate diploma acquired with Government sponsorship shall only be eligible for trainee reserve in post-graduate degree courses of the concerned discipline.
(iii) The officers mustnot be more than fifty years of age on the thirty-first day of March of the concerned year ofplacement on trainee reserve. However, no officer shall be eligible for trainee reserve in excess of a total period of eight years during his entire service tenure;
(iv) For placement on trainee reserve for undergoing post-graduate degree or post-doctoral courses, other eligibility criteria as may be prescribed by the concerned University or concerned Institution both within the State or outside shall also determine the eligibility for being placed on trainee reserve. Officers joininganypost-graduate course ontrainee reserve shall notbe allowedsuchfacility in any other discipline, unless such change is determined by way of recounselling conducted by the same University for the same batch ofpost-graduate course entrants and for the same academic session.
(2) The officers of the West Bengal Dental Education Service and the West Bengal Dental Service shall be eligible to be placed on trainee reserve for the courses as recognized by the Dental Council of India.
(3) No officer shall be placed on any further trainee reserve unless he had successfully passed the post graduate course in which he had been placed on trainee reserve earlier subject to the provisions contained under these rules and unless he has served in their respective cadre or service or in any ofthem ( subject to the provisions of other rules in force ) for a minimum period of three years as contained in the bond he has executed prior proceeding on trainee reserve during the first occasion.