Annexure-IX
DoP&T O.M. No. 8/6/86-CS.II Dated 4.6.1987.
Subject: |
Scale of personal staff to Ministers/Deputy Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries - Entitlement thereto. |
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department O.M. No. 8/5/85-CS.11 dated 4.4.85 on the subject mentioned above.
2. Situations arise when a Minister quits the Council of Ministers by resignation or otherwise and the portfolio held by him is given temporarily to another Minister as an additional charge. It has been decided that in such a situation, the Minister who is given the additional charge of the portfolio which was held earlier by another Minister may be allowed a separate set of personal staff for the additional charge to the extent indicated below for the duration he holds the additional charge:-
| Private Secretary/ Addl. Private Secretary | 1 |
| First PA | 1 |
| Second PA | 1 |
| LDC | 1 |
| Attendent(Earlier Jamadar) | 1 |
| Peon | 1 |
(Note : If Private Secretary is already there, he need not be changed and may be allowed to continue for the reason that sometimes officers are taken from various services as Private Secretary and it may be desirable to allow him to continue till a permanent incumbent takes charge).
3. The above mentioned decision will not be applicable in a case where a part of any Minis- try/Department is clubbed with the existing portfolio of the Minister. In doubtful cases, the test that may be applied is whether any particular Ministry/Department which has been put under charge of a Minister, as an additional one, was earlier having any Minister in-charge of.
4. The scale of personal staff circulated with this Department 0. M. No. 8/5/85-CS.11 dated 4.4.85 provides, inter alia, that a Minister of State holding charge of more than one independent Department will be allowed a Special Private Secretary It may be clarified that the post of Special Private Secretary will not be available in addition to the staff indicated in para 2 above to a Minister of State, if additional charge given to him temporarily results in his holding charge of more than one independent Department.
5. This issues with the concurrence of the Ministry of Finance vide their U.0. No. 539/EG. 1/87 dated 5.5.87.