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Thursday 8 May 2014

REDUCTION IN “APAR” MARKS UNIFORM APPLICATION TO ALL BANKS REQUESTED



ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION

CENTRAL OFFICE]
A.K.Nayak Bhavan, 2nd Floor 14, Second Line Beach,
CHENNAI-600 001
Phone: 25265511 / M 9840645081 / FAX: 044-25249081 / e mail: aiboa.hq@gmail.com /web: www.aiboa.org

MIN:RBI:57:2014
May 7, 2014


The Secretary
Department of Financial Services
Government of India
NEW DELHI


Sir,

REG: GUIDELINES ON PROMOTIONS IN PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS
REDUCTION IN “APAR” MARKS
UNIFORM APPLICATION TO ALL BANKS

REF: 1. Your communication dated 14.03.2012
2. Your communication dated 04.04.2013

The guidelines for promotions in Public Sector Banks was issued on 14.03.2012, wherein various provisions were dealt with, notable amongst them are

[a] Channel of promotion and minimum experience requirement at various levels
[b] Minimum 75% marks to be secured in Performance appraisal for fast track/merit channel

2. Subsequently, vide the second communication referred herein above, the minimum requirement of “APAR marks” relaxation, with approval of the Bank Boards, to an average of 75% marks of APAR with a minimum of 60% in each preceding five years.

3. The above guidelines are applicable to all Public Sector Banks without any exception or deviation. We have been given to understand that Corporation Bank having its headquarters in Mangalore, has taken up with your department the subject matter of APAR marks and the Ministry has reported to have relaxed the eligible marks under APAR to 40% / 35% to general category /SC/ST category respectively.

4. Accordingly the Board of the Bank has reduced the Annual Performance Appraisal Report marks to 40% marks for the General category and 35% marks to for SC/ST category and issued the circular for initiating the promotion from Scale III to IV, Scale IV to V, Scale V to VI and Scale VI to VII, by relaxing the eligibility years of service.

5. There are certain contradictions in implementing the above guidelines. They are:

[a] When the eligibility years for participation in the promotion process is reduced to 2 years or less than 5 years, obtaining 5 years APAR marks is incorrect and non-implementable one.

[b] Relaxation in APAR marks from 75% to 40% / 35% should be made applicable to all banks and to all channels.

5. As the Banks are getting into the “promotion mode” subsequent to the finalisation of yearly accounts, we request you to issue appropriate instructions to all Banks immediately.

Please expedite the instructions so as to enable the eligible officers with the revised/reduced marks of “APAR” from the present stipulation of 75% or 60% / 40% / 35%.

Yours faithfully,


/S.NAGARAJAN/
GENERAL SECRETARY


cc to:

The Chairman, Indian Banks’ Association, Mumbai
All Chairman and Managing Director, Public Sector Banks

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