Chandigarh, October 17 — The Chandigarh administration has directed all departments, boards, and corporations to conduct a comprehensive review of employees working on deputation, with an aim to improve accountability and efficiency across administrative offices.
The personnel department, in a circular signed by the UT additional secretary (personnel), has instructed all administrative secretaries, heads of departments, and institutional authorities to submit a detailed performance evaluation of deputed staff for the current financial year within 15 days.
Officials said the reports must be forwarded to the UT administrator for review. Beginning next year, the annual assessments will become a regular exercise, to be submitted every April and covering the period from April 1 to March 31. Departments have also been told to ensure that the contents of the directive are shared with all officers and officials under their control for strict compliance.
A senior UT official said the move is intended to bring greater transparency in how deputed staff are monitored. “The administration wants a clear assessment of the work output of employees on deputation so that performance gaps, if any, can be addressed in time,” the official noted.
This comes amid a series of administrative measures to tighten deputation norms. In August, the UT administration made it mandatory to seek the administrator’s approval before appointing or relieving any deputed employee across Group A, B, and C posts. Earlier in March, it had fixed a maximum tenure for such staff at seven years.
According to the deputation policy, employees deputed to Chandigarh from Punjab and Haryana — numbering around 1,500 across education, health, and engineering departments — can serve in the Union Territory for up to seven years. The policy also stipulates that repatriation will follow a first-in-first-out system.
As per the notification, the period of deputation or foreign service will be governed by the Recruitment Rules (RR) of the ex-cadre post, or by a five-year term in cases where no tenure provisions exist. No extension beyond seven years will be allowed.
The policy, which aligns with the Central Civil Service Rules implemented in Chandigarh since April 1, 2022, ensures uniformity with central government norms on deputation. “The aim is to maintain administrative discipline and avoid indefinite postings under deputation,” an official from the personnel department said.
