GENERAL ADMINISTRATION (SER.A) DEPATMENT
Memo.No.140733/Ser.A/2003-l, Dated: 14-11-2003
Sub: Public Services - Compassionate appointment – Compassionate appointments to the dependents of deceased Government employees Certain clarification - Issued.
Ref: 1. G.O.Ms.No.687,GA (Ser.A) Dept., dt. 03.10.1977.
2.G.O.Ms.No.612, GA (Ser.A) Dept., dt. 30.10.1991.
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In the G.O. first cited, orders were issued on the Scheme of Compassionate appointment to the dependents of deceased Government employees. Among others, it is mentioned that the candidates eligible for appointment under this measure shall be the spouse of the deceased Government servant or the dependent children of the deceased Government servant who died in harness, there being no other earning member in the family. Further instructions were issued in the G.O. second cited, among others, that where the deceased employee does not have any male child but leaves behind him a married daughter and an unmarried minor daughter, the choice of selection of one of them for appointment under the social security scheme shall be left to the mother.
2. It is brought to the notice of the Government, that the Compassionate appointments are not being considered for the female dependent children of the deceased Government Employee, when the male child is available and certain discrimination is shown between the male child and the female child in considering the Compassionate appointment. The objective of the Scheme of Compassionate Appointment to the dependents of deceased Government employee is to provide
immediate relief to the family of the deceased, in distress. Under the scheme ordered in the G.O. first cited, the Spouse / Son / Daughter of the deceased Government employee shall be considered for Compassionate appointment.
3. Government direct that the Compassionate appointment to the dependents of the deceased Government employee shall be considered either to spouse, son or daughter. In case, if the wife of the deceased Government employee is not inclined to take appointment on compassionate grounds or not qualified for the appointment, the choice of selecting one of her dependent children either son or daughter, shall vests with her (the wife of the deceased Government employee)
B. ARAVINDA REDDY
Secretary to Government (Ser.)
