The Centre had constituted a single-member committee under the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to examine all the documents submitted by the probationary IAS officer (Puja Khedkar).
RecentlyQuestions have been raised about her appointment under these categories.
Civil servants are governed primarily by two rules:
The All-India Services (Conduct) Rules, 1968, and
The Indian Administrative Service (Probation) Rules, 1954.
There is an additional set of rules that govern the conduct of officers during their probation period, which lasts for at least two years after selection to the services.
Rule 12 gives the circumstances in which probationers can be discharged.
The Physically Handicapped (PH) reservation was introduced with the batch of 2006 — 3% seats in every category (General, OBC, SC, and ST) are reserved for the differently abled.