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The Ministry of Defence has issued orders today sanctioning the revision of various terms and conditions of service for Army Officers of all Arms/Services except AMC (including AMC Non-technical), ADC, RVC and APS.
To reduce the age profile and supersession levels in the Army as also to improve vertical mobility, promotion to the substantive ranks of officers will be made on completion of reckonable commissioned service as indicated below:
Rank
Reckonable Commissioned Service
Lieutenant
On commissioning
Captain
Two years
Major
Six years
Lieutenant Colonel
Thirteen years
Colonel (Time Scale)
Twenty six years
Officers will be eligible for grant of substantive rank of Lieutenant Colonel on qualifying promotion examination Part 'D'. Subject to this, seniority in service of officers will be protected until they complete 13 years reckonable commissioned service. Loss of seniority for non qualification in promotion examinations already awarded will continue to hold good. Qualification in Part 'D' examination will no longer be mandatory for grant of substantive rank of Major. Promotions accruing from Para 2 above shall also be subject to the officers fulfilling other criteria to be notified immediately by the Army Headquarters through Army Orders.
Those serving in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Time Scale) will now be eligible for grant of the substantive rank of Lieutenant Colonel. The existing rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Selection) shall remain applicable till the existing Lieutenant Colonels (Selection) are either promoted to the rank of Colonel (Selection) or Colonel (Time Scale) or are retired. No further consideration for promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Selection) shall be made after 16 Dec 2004. .
Those officers who could not be considered for promotion due to organisational constraints to the select grade rank of Lieutenant Colonel (as per earlier policy) will be provided protection of their seniority vis-à-vis their own batchmates while being promoted to the select Colonel.
Officers not promoted to the rank of Colonel by selection may be granted the substantive rank of Colonel by Time Scale, irrespective of vacancies, provided they are considered fit in all other respects, The terms and conditions governing the rank of Colonel by Time Scale to these officers are as under:
(a) Pay Scale : As applicable to Colonel Selection Grade which is currently Rs 15,100 – 450 -17,350.
(b) Rank Pay : Officers will be entitled to rank pay of a Lieutenant Colonel which is currently Rs. 1,600/- p.m.
(c) Other Allowances & Perks : Officers holding the rank of Colonel by Time Scale will be eligible for all allowances and other perks as applicable to Colonel Selection Grade.
(d) Age of Superannuation : All officers belonging to Judge Advocate General's Department, Army Education Corps, Military Farms, Special List Officers (Quartermaster, Technical, Record Officers) and Army Physical Training Corps (Master-at-Arms), Special Commissioned Officers and Food Inspection Organisation cadre holding the rank of Colonel (Time Scale) will superannuate on attaining the age of 57 years. Officers holding the same rank in other Arms/Services will superannuate on attaining the age of 54 years.
(e) Medical Criteria : The provisions of AO 23/1990 and amendments thereto applicable so far for the rank of Lt Col (Time Scale) will now be applicable mutatis mutandis to the new grade of Col (Time Scale).
Officers holding the rank of Colonel by Time Scale will be held against the authorisation of Lieutenant Colonel. Such officers shall, in precedence, rank junior to the following officers:
(i) Substantive Colonel by selection.
(ii) Acting Colonel by selection.
Detailed criteria and procedure for grant of substantive rank of Colonel by Time Scale will immediately be notified by the Army Headquarters through Army Order.
Various orders and instructions affected by the above decisions would be amended in due course. These orders will take effect from 16 Dec 2004.
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