There is great news for the employees. Actually an order has been issued by the ministry for this. APAR timeline for the year 2023-24 has been issued under the issued order. Employees will get the benefit of promotion transfer after filing APAR. Along with this, they will also be given the benefit of increment.
7th Pay Commission, Employees Promotion APAR: There is big news for the employees. They will get the benefit of promotion and increment. Preparations have started for this. The date for filling APaR of employees for 2022 -23 has been issued. Employees will have to complete the process within this date. Its orders have been issued by the Ministry of Railways. Under the issued order, the entire process is to be completed by September 30.
The order states that in order to ensure timely completion of e-APARs in respect of non-gazetted employees of Indian Railways, it has been decided by the competent authority to adhere to the following timelines:
S.No.—Activity—Target Date
- Finalization of Hierarchy and Online Generation of APARs – From 15th May, 2023
- Submission of Self-Appraisal to the Reporting Officer – June 15, 2023
- Presentation of the Reporting Officer to the Reviewing Officer – July 15, 2023
- Forwarding the report by the review officer to the sanctioning authority – July 31, 2023
- Evaluation by the sanctioning authority – August 15, 2023
- Sending the report of APAR to the authority – on 31st August, 2023
- 15 days from the date of communication of APAR or submission of representation on APAR, whichever is earlier – 15th September, 2023,
- Completion of the process related to the representation submitted by the officer within 15 days from the date of receipt of the representation or whichever is earlier – September 30, 2023.
- End of entire process – September 30, 2023
This is the rule
All the field units have been requested to give proper publicity of the timelines among the staff as well as CR Cell to ensure that the APAR process is completed in time. It is also informed that no extension will be given to complete the process as in previous years and if the APAR is not completed within the time limit, it will be
will be treated as not written for the period.
The dates indicated against each activity are cut-off dates and efforts will be made to complete the process before the target dates. This is issued with the approval of the Competent Authority.