DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS SHOULD BE CONSULTED BY THE CONTROLLING AUTHORITY IN CASE OF LONGER OR SHORTER PERIOD OF PROBATION.

The Government of India and the state governments are responsible to follow Aim and objective of the probation, after formal selection for a post and before confirmation there in there should be specified period of probation during which the work of the officer could be carefully watched, and his suitability for confirmation decided on that basis. Since performance in a lower service/grade /post can only indicate an employees potential for a higher service, it is necessary that his suitability should be judged before he is confirmed in the higher service. Therefore those promoted, as well as the fresh entrants to a service should be kept on probation. The controlling authority may, however, have the discretion to count any period of successful officiation in the service as probationary period. As far as period of probation is concerned, it would be desirable to have uniformity as regards the period of probation in different services, and the period of probation should normally be two years. But where there are any special reasons for prescribing a longer or shorter period a suitable period may be fixed in consultation with the Department of Personnel and AR. Concentration of attention on the probationer's ability to pass the probationary, or the departmental examination tends to obscure the wider object of the probation. In judging the fitness for confirmation of employees selected on the result of a vigorous written examination, passing the probationary or a departmental examination should be an essential, but not the most important part of the qualifications for confirmation. There should be a very careful assessment of there outlook, character and aptitude for the kind of work that has to be done in the service before a probationer is confirmed, and only those persons who possess qualities of mind and character needed in the particular service and the constructive outlook and human sympathy needed in the public services generally should be confirmed.