Henceforth, appointment under Rehabilitation Assistance (RA) scheme can only be given in Group-D post in genuine cases only. In this regard, the General Administration Department and Public Grievance (GA&PG) Department have brought out an official resolution.

It has been clarified in the resolution that in deserving cases, a member of the family of the Government servant who dies while in service, shall be appointed on compassionate ground only in any base level Group-D post by the competent authority which shall be limited up to 50 per cent of the sanctioned strength following the RA Rules.

The State Government has further decided that compassionate appointment shall ordinarily be available to the spouse of the deceased Government employee.

However, in case the spouse is more than 50 years age or in case found to be medically unfit for the job, the spouse may nominate any one eligible member of the family for compassionate appointment.Appointment on compassionate ground shall be made without following the due recruitment procedure subject to satisfaction of the educational qualification prescribed for the post. However, in case of the widow of the deceased employee, it is not required to satisfy the educational qualification if appointing authority is satisfied that the duties attached to the post can be satisfactorily performed without having the requisite educational qualification.

It is further decided that on being appointed under RA Rules, the candidate shall be placed under the category to which he/she may belong to under post based reservation principles. In this regard, the Government is going to amend the RA Rules very shortly.

The RA scheme has been prescribed as a compassionate major for saving the family of a Government servant who dies while in service and accordingly the State Government framed RA Rules in the year 1990.

Such compassionate appointment is need-based to save the family from immediate distress. It is not meant to cater to the economic status of the family or suit the educational qualification of the applicant for appointment under the RA scheme. In the resolution, once again it is clarified that appointment under compassionate ground cannot be claimed as a matter of right. In order to improve efficiency in administration and timely delivery of service, changes have been made in different cadre rules.