Government of Pakistan, Cabinet Secretariat, Establishment Division Notification / O.M No. 9/1/2018-R-I1 Islamabad, the 09″ August, 2018
The undersigned is directed to state that the terms and conditions of civil servants are governed under the provisions of Civil Servants Act, 1973 and Rules made there under. According to Section 6 of the Civil Servants Act, 1973 every appointment(initial appointment, by promotion or by transfer) other than ad-hoc shall be on probation. Section 7 of the Act ibid also provides that a person appointed on probation shall on satisfactory completion of his probation is eligible for confirmation.
2. It has been brought to the notice of Establishment Division that Ministries/ Divisions/Departments are not processing the cases of confirmation in respect of their employees, which needs immediate attention of the Ministries/Divisions.
3. In view of the above, Secretaries of the administrative Ministries/Divisions are requested to kindly initiate cases of confirmation in respect of the employees working in Ministries/Divisions/Attached Departments/Subordinate Offices under their administrative control in accordance with the provisions contained in Section 6 and 7 of the Civil Servants Act, 1973 read with rule 21 of the Civil Servants(Appointment, Promotion & Transfer) Rules, 1973 and Civil Servants(Confirmation) Rules, 1993 under intimation to this Division.
