Chandigarh, January 31 : The Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal at New Delhi today, approved General Principles for online transfer of employees posted in various departments.

It may be recalled that Mr Manohar Lal had directed that all departments having more than 500 sanctioned posts, shall frame an online transfer policy.

Implementing the directions of the Chief Minister, the General Principles for online transfer of employees were placed before the Cabinet today for approval. The aim of the General Principles is to ensure distribution of government employees at different locations in a fair and transparent manner and to maximize job satisfaction amongst employees and further to improve performance of the Department.

As per these principles, General transfers will be made only once in a year but employees will be liable to be transferred from one zone to another, in public interest, after a period of 5 years in a zone. The transfer/posting necessitated by promotion, direct recruitment, posts needed to be filled up in public interest, can be made anytime by the competent authority. The online process will be completed upto March 31 and implemented after March 31 or as per exigency/convenience of the Department.

In case of employees who participate in transfer drive willingly, the joining time and Composite Transfer Grant shall not be provided. However, in cases of those employees who have completed five year stay at a location and are transferred under the policy shall be treated as a transfer in public interest and they shall be provided joining time and Composite Transfer Grant as provided in the Rules.

To avoid disproportionate concentration of employees at a particular station, the department will rationalize their sanctioned posts and also block actual posts to be kept vacant in the transfer drive. Merit for allotment of vacant post to an employee will be based on the total composite score of point earned by the employee, out of total 80 points. The employee earning highest points will be entitled to be transferred against a particular vacancy. Age will be the prime factor for deciding the claim of an employee against a vacancy since it will have weightage of 60 points, out of the total points.

A privilege of maximum 20 points can be availed by the employees of special categories. These categories include female, widow/divorced/separated/ unmarried female employee more than 40 years of age/wife of serving Military Personnel/personnel working outside the State, widower, critical diseases, differently abled or mentally challenged children, couple case etc.

However, exemption will be given to persons with hundred per cent disability like blind and persons with 80 per cent or more locomotive disability. They will be given stations of their choice. Employees opting stations in remote areas of Nuh and Morni will be given incentives. However, the employees having Nuh and Panchkula as home districts will not be entitled for this incentive