FUNCTION OF THE DPC WILL DEAL CASES OF PROMOTION OF OFFICERS TO SELECTION AS WELL AS NON SELECTION POSTS AND CONFIRMATION IN THEIR RESPECTIVE GRADES/POSTS INCLUDING ASSESSMENT .

FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENTAL PROMOTION COMMITTEE:-- The departmental Promotion committee will deal with the cases of:-- (1) Promotion of officers to selection as well as the non -selection posts (2) Confirmation of officers in their respective grades /Posts.(3) Assessment of the work . FREQUENCY AT WHICH DPC SHOULD MEET :-- The DPC should be convened at the regular annual intervals to draw panels which could be utilised for making Promotion against the vacancies occuring during the course of a year .It has been observed that Ministries/Departments do not convene meetings of the DPCs annually for various reasons even though eligible officers of the lower grade were available and the vacancies in the higher grade were also available for their Promotion.This is often due to non - finalisation of the seniority list of officers at the lower grade which forms the field of consideration,Sometimes meetings of the DPC are also not convened annually under the impression that a panel ,prepared by a DPC for filling Selection posts could be kept operative for a period of one year and six months and that, therefore, action to convene the next meeting of the departmental Promotion committee could be initiated only after the expiry of that period .As delay in convening the DPC meeting results not only in the financial loss to the concerned officer,due to delay in their promotion to the higher grade , but also affects them adversely in their future carrier in as much as their Promotion to the next higher grade is also delayed , So it is necessary that the DPC meeting should be convened at the regular intervals as indicated above .