Due to the extra ordinary situation arises due to virus outbreak, DOPT extended timeline for submission, review and appraisal for the APAR Year 2019-20.
Important dates are :
Activity Last Date
Disreibution of Blank Forms 31st May
Submission of self appriasal 30th June
Forwarding report of review officer 31st July
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It is clarified bt DOPT that "the Central Govt. employees who are attaining the age of superannuation on 31st March 2020, shall retire irrespective of whether they are working from home or working from office :
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Current lockdown throughout the country paralyzed the entire system of Govt. and Public. All salaried employees are in a dilemma whether to get their salary in time this month. Normally Govt. employees get their salary credited on the first BANK working day of April.
Now the salary bill is created in PFMS and uploaded online to the PAO and subsequently the hard copy is submitted to the Accounts Office.
In the present scenario, bills can be prepared and submitted online from home but sending of hard copy is not possible. It is learnt from Controller General of Accounts' office that for this month the necessity of sending hard copy is dispensed with.
An order issued on 23.03.2020, Dept. of Expenditure, assured prompt functioning of Govt. Expenditure Mechanism in the hour of crisis.
Order
Ministry of Home Affairs issued an addendum to include CGA employees in the exemption list in the lockdown.
"In the new guidelines, the ministry said Reserve Bank of India and RBI-regulated financial markets, pay and accounts officers and field officers of the CAG, petroleum products and supply chain and forest staff are exempted from the purview of the lockdown."
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It is expected that salary may be credited in time.
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