4th Part of C.C.A Rules

Sl. No.		Penalty	Effect
(i)		Censure	In terms of orders issued in G.O.Ms. No. 53, General Administrator (Ser.C) dated 4-2-1997 “every Censure awarded shall debar a Government employee for promotion / appointment by transfer for one year to both selection and non-selection posts.”
(ii)		Withholding of Promotion.	This penalty awarded to Government employees shall debar the individual for promotion/appointment by transfer to a higher post during the period of subsistence of penalty which shal be indicated in the order imposing the period of one year, both for selection and non-selection posts.
(iii)		Recovery from pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused by him to the State Government or the Central Government or to a Local Authority or to a Corporation owned or controlled by the state or Central Government by negligence or breach or orders while working in any department of the State or the Central Government , Local Authority or Corporation concerned.	Whenever a Government Employee is awarded the penalty of recovery from pay, it shall debar the individual for promotion/ appointment by transfer to a higher post during the period of penalty which shall be indicated in the order imposing the penalty subject to a minimum period of one year both for selection and non-selection posts. Even if an employee remits the amount in one lumpsum, he/she promotion /appointment by transfer for a minimum period of oneyear.
(iv)		Withholding of increments of pay (a) With Cumulative effect:	(i) In G.O. Ms. No. 335, General Administrator (Ser.-C) Department , Dated 14-6-93 orders were issued to the effect that the penalty of stoppage of increments with comulative effect amounts to a major penalty under the Andhra Pradesh Civil Services (CCA) Rules, 1991 and the elaborate procedure prescribed under Rule 20 of the said rules is to be followed. (ii) In terms of G.O. Ms. No. 968, General Administrator (Ser.-C), Department , Dt. 26-10-95, whenever any Government employee is awarded the penalty of stoppage of increment with cumulative effect, the cases of such employees promotion]/appointment by transfer for twice the period for which the increment(s) is/are stopped with cumulative effect, both for selection and non-selection posts. (iii) Whenever any Government employee is awarded the penalty of stoppage of increment with cumulative effect, the individual [Shall not be recommended for promotion] appointment by transfer for twice the period with a minimum of one year both for selection and non-selection posts. Substituted by G.O. Ms. No. 431, G.A.D., Dated 14-10-1997.
		(b) Without Cumulative effect.	This penalty awarded to Government employees Shall debar him/her for promotion/appointment by transfer to a higher post during the period subsistence of penalty which shall be indicated in the order subject to a minimum period of one year, both for selection and non-selection posts.
(v)		Suspension, where a person has already been suspended under Rule 8 to the extent considered necessary.	Where suspension is revoked exonerating a person fully his/her case may be considered for promotion with retrospective effect. Where the disciplinary proceedings finally resulted in a penalty he/she will be debarred during the period of one year from the date of reinstatement. In case the suspension period itself is treated as substantive penalty, he/she shall be debarred for promotion/appointment by transfer for a period of minimum one year both for selection/non-selection posts.

4. All Departments of Secretariat/Heads of Departments/all District Collectors shall follow the above orders scrupulously and bring it to the notice of all concerned.