Assam Assembly: Bill paves rational redeployment of employees across departments

 Redeployment with retrospective effect from May 17, 2023

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The passage of the Mobility of Employees Bill in the State Assembly today has paved the way for the rational redeployment of employees from one department to another. The aim of the bill is to even out the strength of employees in the departments through rational redeployment from department to department. The passage of this bill has put an end to the existing practice of an employee superannuating from the department that he had joined at the time of appointment.

The State Assembly today passed 'the Assam Mobility of Employees of State Government and Other Establishments (for Optimum Utilisation of Available Manpower for Efficiency) Bill, 2023.

The rational redeployment of employees would be effective with retrospective effect on May 17, 2023. According to the Bill, a government employee, irrespective of the fact that the employee is borne in a particular establishment or in any subordinate office under that establishment or state public sector government, may be placed for deployment or on a secondment basis to any other establishment or public sector undertaking or mission, which may be within and outside the state, having the same pay scale and grade pay for a period as may be specified by the notification published in the official gazette.

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