THE KERALA PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING
SERVICE SPECIAL RULES 1960
[1]THE KERALA PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING
SERVICE SPECIAL RULES 1960
Rule - 1. Constitution.
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The service shall consist of the following categories of officers
namely: - |
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Category 1- |
Chief Engineer |
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Category 2- |
Superintending Engineer [2][Including Deputy Chief
Engineer] |
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Category 3- |
Executive Engineers [3][xxx] |
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Category 4- |
Assistant Engineers including Driller Engineer and Personal Assistant
to Superintending Engineer. |
Rule - 2. Appointment.
(a)
Appointment to the several categories
shall be made as follows:-
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Category |
Method of recruitment |
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(1) Chief Engineer |
Promotion from Superintending Engineer, or for special reasons,
recruitment by transfer from among Superintending Engineers in the Kerala Engineering
Service. |
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(2) Superintending Engineer [4][including Deputy Chief
Engineer] |
Promotion from Executive Engineers or for special reasons recruitment
by transfer from among Executive Engineers in the Kerala Engineering Service. |
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(3) Executive Engineers [5][x x x x x x] |
Promotion from Assistant Engineers including Driller Engineer and
Personal Assistant to Superintending Engineers. |
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(4) Assistant Engineers including Driller Engineer and Personal
Assistant to the Superintending Engineer. |
[6][Recruitment by transfer from among categories 1 and
2 of the Kerala Public Health Engineering Subordinate Service.] |
(b)
Promotions to categories [7][
1, 2, 3, and 4] shall be made on grounds of merit and ability, seniority being
considered only where merit and ability are approximately equal.
Rule - 3. Qualifications.
(a)
No person shall be eligible for
appointment to the category mentioned in column 1 of the table below unless he
possesses the qualifications prescribed in the corresponding entry in column 2
thereof.
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Category |
Qualification |
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(1) |
(2) |
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Chief Engineer Superintending Engineer |
Must possess any degree or diploma mentioned in item (i) or [8][xxxx] in section A under
item (ii) in the Annexure. |
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Executive Engineers |
Must possess any degree or diploma mentioned in item (i) or [9][x x x x] in section A
under item (ii) in the Annexure. |
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Assistant Engineers including Driller Engineer and Personal Assistant to Superintending
Engineers. |
[10][Must possess any degree or diploma mentioned in item
(i) or item (ii) in the Annexure; or must possess S.M.T. Overseers
Certificate and must have put in a total service of 25 years in the
Department out of which atleast 12 1/2 years must be in any one or more posts
included under categories 1 and 2 of the Public health Engineering
Subordinate Service.] |
(b)
No person shall be eligible for
promotion as Executive Engineer unless he has rendered satisfactory service as
Assistant Engineer for a period of not less than three years.
(c)
Such number of vacancies among
Executive Engineers as the State Government may from time to time determine but
not exceeding 5 per cent of the total sanctioned cadre strength of Executive
Engineers shall be reserved to be filled by selection from among Assistant
Engineers:
(1)
Who possesses the qualifications
mentioned in [11][xxxx]
sub-item (a) of section B in item (ii) in the Annexure; and
(2)
Who have rendered service under
Government for not less than 20 years of which at least five years should be in
the category of Assistant Engineers.
[12][Provided that the Government may reserve one post for
Assistant Engineers with Upper Subordinate Diploma, whenever 5% of the total
sanctioned strength of Executive Engineers in the service does not work out to
at least one post.]
(d)
[13][Any person working in categories 1 or 2 in the Kerala
Public Health Engineering Subordinate Service shall not be eligible for
appointment as Assistant Engineer unless:-]
(1)
he has rendered service under
Government for a total period of not less than 3 years and possesses the
qualification mentioned in item (i) or in [14][xxxx]
Section A in item (ii) of the Annexure, or
(2)
he has rendered service under
Government for a total period of not less than 7 years and possesses [15][x
x x x] any diploma specified in section B in item (ii) of the Annexure.
[16][Note:- Only those Junior Engineers who have passed the
Account Test (Lower) and the Kerala P.W.D. Test shall be eligible for
Appointment as Assistant Engineers).
Rule - 4. Promotion as Executive and Assistant Engineers.
[17][(a) A person who obtains Degree in Engineering or A.M.I.E.
(India) Diploma after appointment as Assistant Engineer shall be eligible for
promotion as Executive Engineer only after the claims of all Assistant
Engineers who on the date of his obtaining the degree in Engineering or the
A.M. I. E (India) Diploma, possessed the qualification mentioned in item (i) in
the Annexure have been considered.]
(b) [18][Vacancies
in the category of Assistant Engineers shall be filled up from among those in
categories 1 or 2 in the Kerala Public Health Engineering Subordinate Service
in the [19][ratio
of 3:1] between-]
(1)
Persons possessing any of the
qualifications mentioned in item (i) or in section A in item (ii) of the
Annexure and
(2)
Those possessing any of the
qualifications mentioned in section B in item (ii) of the Annexure or those
possessing the S.M.T. Overseers certificate, every 5th vacancy being allotted
to the latter and the rest to the former.
A person who while holding [20][any
of the posts in categories 1 and 2 of the Kerala Public Health Engineering
Subordinate Service] passes Sections A and B of the A.M.I.E. (India)
examination shall be eligible for promotion as Assistant Engineer against the
quota allotted for those processing the qualifications mentioned in item (i) or
Section A in item (ii) of the Annexure only after the claims of all those who,
on the date of his passing the A.M.I.E. (India) Examination, possessed the
qualifications mentioned in item (i) of the Annexure have been considered:
Provided that it will be left to the option of such persons
to continue among [21][those]
possessing the qualifications mentioned in Section B in Item (ii) of the
Annexure and claim promotion against the quota allotted to them.
Rule - 5. Probation.
Every person appointed as Superintending Engineer or
Executive Engineer by promotion shall from the date on which he joins duty be
on probation for a total period of one year on duty within a continuous period
of two years. Every person appointed as Superintending Engineer, or as
Assistant Engineer by transfer shall, from the date on which he joins duty be
on probation for a total period of two years on duty within a continuous period
of three years.
Rule - 6. Test.
Every Person appointed to categories 2,3 or 4 shall during
the period of probation, pass the Account Test (Lower) and the Public Works
Department's Account test if he has not passed the tests already.
Rule - 7. Postings and Transfers.
The Superintending Engineer shall be competent to transfer
Assistant Engineers within their respective circles. The Chief Engineer shall be
competent to transfer Assistant Engineers from one circle to another.
Annexure
(i)
Degree
in Engineering.-
B.Sc. Degree in Engineering (Civil or
Mechanical) of the Kerala University; B.E. Degree (Civil or Mechanical) of the
Madras University or any other qualification recognized as equivalent thereto.
A diploma in Civil Engineering or Mechanical
Engineering or the College of Engineering, Guindy, which was abolished in 1945,
will be treated as equivalent to a Degree.
(ii)
Diploma
in Engineering.
(Section -A)
(a)
Associate
Membership Diploma of the Institution of Engineers India in Civil or Mechanical
Engineering or any other Diploma recognized as equivalent thereto.
(b)
Pass
in Sections A and B of the associate membership Examination of the institution
of Engineers, India, in Civil or Mechanical Engineering.
(Section-B)
(a)
Upper
Subordinate Diploma of the College of Engineering, Guindy.
(b)
Diploma
in Civil or Mechanical Engineering of the Travancore (Now Kerala) University or
Diplomas recognized by Government as equivalent thereto.
(c)
Lower
Subordinate Diploma of the college of Engineering, Guindy.
(d)
Licentiate
in Civil or Mechanical Engineering from the Technical Institutes at Kozhikode,
Trichur, Kalamassery or other equal courses.
[1] Issued under G. O. (P) 612/PD dated 16-9-1960 pub. in K.
G. No. 38 dated 27-9-1960)
[2] Inserted by G. O. (P) No. 105/78/LA & SWD dated
6-5-1978 pub. in K. G. No. 21 dated 23-5-1978 as SRO 441/78, w.e.f. 24-5-1961.
[3] The words "including Deputy Chief Engineer"
deleted, ibid.
[4] Inserted by G. O. (P) No. 105/78/LA & SWD dated
6-5-1978 pub. in K. G. No. 21 dated 23-5-1978 as SRO 441/78, w.e.f. 24-5-1961.
[5] The words "including Deputy Chief Engineer"
deleted, ibid.
[6] Substituted by G. O. (P) No. 229/74/LA & SWD dated
14-10-1974 pub. in K. G. No. 44 dated 29-10-1974 as SRO 806/74.
[7] Substituted by G.O. (P) No. 105/78/LA & SWD dated
6-5-1978, w.e.f. 24-5-1961
[8] Omitted by G. O. (P) 38/71/ Health dated 30-1-1971 pub. in
K.G. No. 7 dated 23-2-1971.
[9] Omitted by G. O. (P) 38/71/ Health dated 30-1-1971 pub. in
K.G. No. 7 dated 23-2-1971.
[10] Sustituted by G. O. (P) No. 229/74/LA & SWD dated
14-10-1974.
[11] Omitted by G. O. (P) 38/71/ Health dated 30-1-1971 pub. in
K.G. No. 7 dated 23-2-1971.
[12] Inserted by Notification No. 8006/Diii/61/HLD dated
14-3-1962 pub. in K.G. No. dated 20-3-1962.
[13] Sustituted by G. O. (P) No. 229/74/LA & SWD dated
14-10-1974.
[14] Omitted by G. O. (P) 38/71/Health dated 30-1-1971.
[15] Omitted by G. O. (P) 38/71/Health dated 30-1-1971.
[16] Inserted by G. O. (P) No. 328/77 dated 14-11-1977 pub. in
K.G. No. 49 dated 6-12-1977 as SRO 1116/77
[17] Substituted by G. O. (P) No. 248/77/LA & SWD dated
3-9-1977 pub. in K. G. No. 5 1 dated 20-12-1977 as SRO No. 1197/77. W.E.F.
16-9-1960.
[18] Substituted by G. O. (P) No. 229/74/LA & SWD dated
14-10-1974
[19] Substituted for "ratio of 4:1" by G. O. (P) No.
328/77 dated 14-11-1977.
[20] Substituted by G. O. (P) No. 229/74/LA & SWD dated
14-10-1974
[21] Substituted by G. O. (P) No. 229/74/LA & SWD dated
14-10-1974