Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
(A Government of India Enterprise)
To
All Heads of Telecom Circles/Metro Districts & Other Administrative Units of BSNL All PGMs/Sr. GMs/GMs of BSNLCO, New Delhi
Subject: Forwarding of Recruitment Rules of Junior Telecom Officer (Telecom)-2023.
In pursuance of the approval of the Board of Directors of BSNL,the undersigned is directed to forward herewith a set of Recruitment Rules of Junior Telecom Officer (Telecom)-2023 issued on 31.12.2022 for information and further necessary action.
Hindi version will follow.
Copy to:
1. The CMD, BSNL,New Delhi
2. All the Directors of BSNL
3. The CS&GM(Legal), BSNLCO, New Delhi
4. The DDG(Establishment)/Director(Staff)/Director(PSU), DoT
5. CGM(BW)/CGM(EW)/PGM(TF) BSNLCorporate Office
6. The GM(Personnel)/GM(Recruitment)/PGM(SR), BSNL
7. All the DGMs & AGMs of Personnel branch of Corporate Office, BSNL
8. The DGM(Training)/DGM(Recruitment), BSNL
9. The DM(OL) for Hindi version
10. Order Bundle
11. BSNLIntranet
Regd. & Corporate Office: Bharat Sanchar Bhavan, H.C.Mathur Lane,' Janpath, .New Delhl•ll 0001
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BHARAT SAN CHAR NIGAM LIMITED
(AGovt. of India Enterprise)
1. Short title and commencement:
(i)With the approval of BSNL Board and in supersession of the Recruitment Rules of Junior Telecom Officer (Telecom)-2014,the followingrules regulating the method of recruitment to the post of Junior Telecom Officer (Telecom) [JTO(T)] in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited are hereby made.
(ii) These rules shall be called the Junior Telecom Officer (Telecom)Recruitment
Rules, 2023.
(iii)These rules shall come into force from 31. 12.2022(A/N).
2. Definition: In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires,
(i)Company: means the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (AGovernment of India Enterprise), hereinafter called BSNL, having its Registered Office at Bharat Sanchar Bhawan, Janpath, New Delhi.
(ii) Board: means the Board of Directors of the Company and includes in relation to the exercise of powers any Committee of the Board/Management or any other Officer of the company to whom the Board delegates any of its powers.
3. Application: These rules shall apply to the posts as specified in Column (1) of the
Schedule annexed to these rules.
4. Number of posts, classification and scale of pay:The number of the said post, its classification and the scale of pay attached thereto shall be as specified in Column 2 to
4 of the Schedule annexed.
5. Method of recruitment, age limit, qualifications etc.:The method of recruitment, age limit, qualifications and other matters relating to the said post shall be as specified in Column 5 to 12 of the Schedule annexed.
6.Disqualification: No Person
a) Who has entered into or contracted a marriage with a person having a spouse living, or
Provided that the Appointing Authority may, if satisfied that such marriage is permissible under the personal law applicable to such person and the other party to the marriage and that there are other grounds for so doing, exempt any person from the operation of this rule.
7. Bond & Pre-appointment training: All candidates recruited against the vacancies for Direct Recruitment shall execute a Bond in the format as specified by the Company to serve in BSNL for a period of five years from the date of their appointment as Junior Telecom Officer or for a period as specified by BSNL for the post from time to time.
The selected candidates both against the Direct Recruitment quota of vacancies and intemal promotional (LICE) quota of vacancies shall have to successfully undergo training for such period as may be specified from time to time by BSNL. If a selected candidate does not qualify the pre-appointment training in 1st attempt, he/she will be given one more chance to qualify the pre-appointment training examination without fresh training, failing which he/she will not be appointed as JTO and he/she has to appear afresh in the subsequent LICE/Direct Recruitment Examination. During the period of training, the Direct Recruit JTO will be entitled to Stipend (Training allowance) as decided by BSNL from time to time.
8. Power to relax: Where BSNL Board is of the opinion that it is necessary or expedient so to do, it may, by order and for reasons to be recorded in writing, relax any of the provision of these rules with respect to any class or category of persons.
9. Saving: Nothing in these rules shall affect reservations, relaxation of age limit and other concession required to be provided for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Ex-Servicemen and other special category of persons in accordance with the orders issued by the Central Govemment from time to time in this regard.
10. Initial Constitution: All executives holding the post of Junior Telecom Officer on regular basis before the date of commencement of these rules shall be deemed to have been appointed under these rules on regular basis as Junior Telecom Officer.
11. Liability to serve anywhere in India: In case of emergencies/ exigencies, the persons appointed to the JTO post shall be liable for transfer anywhere in India / at any place falling in the operation area of BSNL in the interest of service.
12. Interpretation: Where any doubt arises as to the interpretation of any of the provisions of any of these rules, or the regulations made there under, the matter shall be referred to BSNL Board whose decision shall be final.
Junior Telecom Officer (Telecom) Recruitment
JTO (Telecom) Recruitment Rules-2023
1. JTO will be Circle Cadre and the unit of recruitment will be the respective
Recruiting Circle. CGM of the respective recruiting Circle shall be the Appointing Authority. The proceedings of the Corporate Promotion Committee (CPC) as prescribed in Column 12 of the schedule will be approved by respective CGM.
2. The Direct Recruitment to the post of JTO will be done through open competitive examination or through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Score in the disciplines mentioned under column '7' of Schedule of Recruitment Rules of JTO (T) or through any other method as approved by the Management Committee of BSNL Board from time to time. Scheme and Syllabus of Direct Recruitment as well as LICE shall be issued separately.
3. The candidates possessing higher qualifications viz. M.Tech in the prescribed
disciplines as provided in column '7' of the schedule for direct recruitment (DR)
shall also be eligible to appear in the direct recruitment (DR) examination.
4. The seniority on appointment of candidates in the cadre of JTO (T) shall be determined on the basis of 60% weightage of marks obtained in their respective examination i.e. Direct recruitment Examination or LICE and 40%weightage of marks obtained in pre-appointment Phase-I training. If the combined marks of DR/LICE and Training are same for two candidates, then seniority among them will be decided on the basis of marks obtained in DR/LICE. Further, in case of equal marks obtained by two or more candidates in DR/ LICE, the seniority among them shall be determined on the basis of date of birth i.e. older one will be senior to younger one.
5.The inter-se seniority of an Executive appointed shall be determined as
under:
(i)Inter-se-seniority between Limited Internal Competitive Examination (LICE) quota and Direct Recruit (OR) quota who are promoted/recruited against the vacancies of the respective quota, would be reckoned with reference to the calendar year in which they join, i.e. year in which they are borne in the cadre, irrespective of the vacancy year or the type of vacancy. However, if senior in the selection panel (review panel) after issue of promotion orders could not join in the same calendar year due to administrative reasons but his immediate junior has joined, then senior will also be considered to have joined in the same calendar year only for the purpose of seniority.
Promotees (LICE) or DR Quota appointees who join in a particular calendar year will be placed en-bloc senior to promotees (LICE) or DR Quota appointees who join in subsequent calendar year/years.
The rotation of quota based on the percentage of vacancies allocated to LICE (50%) and DR (50%) in the Recruitment Rules will apply for determination of number of vacancies to be filled by the respective quotas in a vacancy year (calendar year).
The inter-se-seniority of the persons promoted .against LICE and those who are recruited through DR quota (50%) against' tlie same vacancy year and actually join in the same calendar year shall befixedin a ratio of 1: 1 and the appointees
shall be given seniority of that calendar ~e~:
Illustration:
1. JTO (LICE)
2. JTO (DR)
3. JTO (LICE)
4. JTO(DR)
......... and so on
They shall not get seniority of any earlier year viz. year of vacancy /panel, or year in which promotion process, etc. is initiated. In case of LICE/DR, date of notification/ date of examination/ date of declaration of results etc. will have no relevance for the purpose of seniority.
(v) The inter-se-seniority of the persons promoted against LICE quota (50%) and those who are recruited through DR quota (50%) against the same vacancy year and actually join in the next year or any year subsequent to the vacancy year, the seniority of such persons would be determined with reference to the year of their actual joining to the post (actual joining date means the date on which the person joins in the cadre after completion of first phase (pre-induction) of training prescribed for JTO cadre). Thus, they would get seniority of the year in which they actually join and they shall not get seniority of any earlier year viz. year of vacancy / panel or year in which promotion process etc. is initiated. In case of LICE/DR, date of notification/date of examination/date of declaration of results etc. will have no relevance for the purpose of seniority.
(vi)If in one calendar year, the LICE promotions and DR recruitment are being carried out for more than one vacancy years, the inter-se seniority for executives joining in same calendar year will be determined as follows:
a) For executives promoted in LICE quota (50%) belonging to different vacancy years (joining in the same calendar year), their seniority within the LICE quota will be as per the vacancy year / select panel wise.
b) For executives joining in the same calendar year, the inter-se-seniority between LICE quota and DR quota will be on the basis of vacancy year. Those who have joined as a result of earlier selection would be placed senior in the seniority list to those who have joined as a result of subsequent selection of vacancies.
(vii) If adequate number of LICE promotees or DR Quota appointees do not become available (i.e. actual number of appointees) in a particular year, the rotation of quotas for the purpose of determining inter-se-seniority would stop after available (i.e. actual number of appointees) LICE promotees and DR quota appointees are assigned their slots on their joining in that calendar year. Remaining LICE or DR quota of the concerned selection/panel (same year of joining) would be bunched together in accordance with their position in the panel approved for promotion.
(viii)If no LICE quota promotee is available (actual number of appointees) in a particular calendar year, actual number of DR quota appointees would be bunched together in accordance with their position approved for promotion. Similarly, if no DR quota appointee is available in a calendar year, actual number of LICE quota promotees would be hunched together as per their position obtained in the selection process.
6.BSNL will resort to direct recruitment of JTO from open market strictly on need basis. BSNL mayor may not necessarily go for direct recruitment of JTO every year due to administrative reasons/ constraints. As such,• directly recruited Executives in
subsequent years will not have any claims for allotment of vacancy year against the vacancy years in which BSNL does not resort to direct recruitment of JTO.
7. Non-Executives (Industrial and Non-Industrial) of Telecom Factories on their selection as JTO(T) after qualifying LICE shall have to give an undertaking to the effect that they will henceforth be governed by prevailing Conduct, Discipline & Appeal(CDA) Rules of BSNL and not by Certified Standing Order (CSO) as in vogue in Telecom Factories. Violation of the same shall tantamount to cancellation of their candidature as JTO (Telecom).
8. For any LICE to be conducted for promotion in JTO (T) grade, in case of availability of eligible candidates in feeder grade (required residency period) is less than 5 times of vacancies for a particular examination, then the Management Committee of BSNL Board is empowered to consider for relaxation in the residency period in the feeder cadre so as to ensure proper competition in the LICE quota.
9. The employees belonging to streams other than Telecom stream (viz. Telecom
Factory, Civil, electrical etc.) shall be eligible to appear in LICE in the Territorial
Circle where they are presently working.
