Haryana Government has issued instructions for writing of annual confidential reports of Haryana Civil Services (HCS) officers.
Giving this information on Sunday, an official spokesman said as per the guidelines the reporting, reviewing and accepting authority for writing Annual Confidential Reports (ACR) of officers of Haryana Civil Services (HCS) would be only one officer each for a given period of time. However, if more than one person supervises the performance of the member of the service, the Personnel department has to identify the person to report or review well in advance of the relevant assessment year, he added.
He said where more than one person supervises the performance of a member of HCS, the relevant assessment year as reporting or reviewing authority, the person who supervises the performance of the member of the service for the maximum period (minimum of 3 months) during the relevant assessment year, would report or review the performance of the officers reported upon, during the relevant assessment year.
While detailing the schedule for writing ACRs of HCS officers, he said that April 30 would be the cut-off date for blank ACR form to be given to the officer reported upon by the personal department specifying the reporting officer and reviewing authority whereas, May 31 would be the cut-off date for self appraisal for current year.
Similarly, the cut-off date for appraisal by reporting authority would be June 30 and by reviewing authority would be July 31. For appraisal by accepting authority the cutoff date would be August 31, he added.