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Gazetted Officer (India)

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Gazetted Officer is a higher level ranked public servant and authority for a gazetted officer to stamp comes from president of India or governor of states or union territories. In India, Gazette is published on regular bases by The eGazette of India (http://egazette.nic.in/) , it is an official Central Government or state government publication (also called Gazette) which publishes the appointment or promotions of certain government officials. An officer or public servant, who is appointed under the seal of the Governor of the concerned state or by the President of India at national level, requires being notified/listed in the Indian Gazette or State Government Gazette is considered to be a Gazetted Officer. If a person's name is published in the Gazette, he/she is called Gazetted, in most cases they are honorary Justice of peace and have same standing as some of the Magistrates. This is the reason why the signature of such public servant is recognised on certain documents. Such officers, among other functions have also in their jurisdiction, the power to verify the documents for academic, immigration and other purposes. The Government of India or the Government of States in India has classified the public servants/ officials into Class I, II and III, IV (also: Group- A, B, C and D). Grade I is the highest rank class and the Grade IV is the least, however Government of India planned to merge the Group IV or D into the Group III or C.[1] Grade I and II belong to the class of officers whose transfer, appointment, promotion and superannuation is published on a yearly basis in the official gazette of state or central government. These officials belong to the managerial class of the government services and belong to the policy formulation, policy implementation, personnel management etc. The State of West Bengal has abolished the system of classifying the State Government employees into Gazetted and non-Gazetted services vide GO No. 10606-F dated 25.09.1978. State Government employees belonging to Group A will be authorised and competent to grant certificates which are required to be granted by Gazetted Officer or to attest papers where such attestation is required to be done by Gazetted Officers in other States or Centre as per GO No. 4890-F dated 16.05.1979. While granting certificates or attesting papers a group A employee of the State Government will indicate his designation and further add that he belongs to Group 'A' under the State Government.[2]

Contents
1 Ranks 2 Who can certify documents 3 Non-Gazetted Officers 4 References 5 External links

Ranks
Indian Government or State Governments in India has categorised their employees into Group A, B, C and D or in Class I to IV. Class I or Group A-Executive power vested in these categorised public servants with decision making powers: Lieutenant and above in Indian Army, members of All India Services, though posted to states; State Government

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Services (selected through Public Service Commissions in States) or promoted public servants/ officers from states to the cadre of Assistant Commissioner or above and to the cadre of All India services; Assistant/ Associate Professors/Principal of Government Degree Colleges, Patent Examiner(Official DesignationExaminer of Patents and Designs) Additional District Civil surgeons,Assistant Executive Engineers(Selected through UPSC) Executive Engineers and above, District Medical Officer and above, , Geologists of Geological Survey of India etc are Gazetted officers and have the authority to verify and attest documents. Class II or Group B-Officers with limited supervisory or subordinate managerial role: In Indian Army/Indian Navy - JCOs like CPO/Chief Petty Officers-Indian Navy,JCOs,Naib Subedar, Subedar & Subedar Major,Air Force - Junior warrant officer to Master Warrant Officer, Section Officer; BDO, Tahsildar, Junior Doctors in Government hospitals, TDO , Magistrate (SDM) and CO (police department),Income Tax Officer(ITO), Lecturers/ Teachers in government intermediate/senior secondary education institutes or schools. Class III or Group C-Semi skilled with no or lesser decision making authority: Headmaster of Government high schools,Clerks, Head clerk,Naik, LAC/AC/CPL/ (AIR FORCE),LeadingIndian Navy Assistant, Typist, Stenographer, Income Tax Inspector, Tax Assistant, Telephone operator, etc.But Assistant Central Intelligence Officer in Intelligence Bureau under Ministry of Home Affairs also comes under grade C non-ministerial,non-gazetted posts Class IV or Group D-manual workers, Unskilled or semiskilled: Peon, attender, gardener, driver etc.

Who can certify documents

Attestation of copies of original documents for academic or immigration: Only Class I and Class II, as the case may be, public servants/officers mentioned above in ranks and bank managers of a nationalised bank as well. Character certificate: Police records verification and Class I gazetted officers Citizenship certification: Citizenship certification is limited to very few officials e.g., Sub-Divisional Magistrate

Non-Gazetted Officers
All officers who are in class III and IV are Non-Gazetted Officers or public servants, e.g. Nationalised bank officials are not gazetted officers but protocol ranks exist and they are authorised to certify copies of documents.

References
Class II (now Class B)services are further divided into gazetted and non-gazetted. It is however not desirable to compare status of commissioned officers with that of gazetted but still in order to have a common protocol all Junior Commissioned officers and their equivalents are given protocol equivalent to Group B Non-gazetted. Therefore, Naib Subedar, Subedar and Subedar Major of Indian army and their equivalents in Indian Navy and Airforce are having the status of Group B(earstwhile Group II) Non-gazetted and therefore they are not having any attestation power. The Commissioned Officers were given an edge in their pay scales by the 3rd and 4th

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Central Pay Commissions over their civil counterparts. This was done by keeping in mind their service conditions but with the passage of time they were granted higher grade pay by the 6th Central Pay Commission and their demand to get risk allowance in the form of Military Service Pay was also granted to them. The 6th CPC recommendations in its letter and spirit never advocated for the inter-functional comparison of grade pay as a status symbol. But, at implementation level since most of the entitlements were clubbed with Grade Pay, the latter automatically became the status symbol. Therefore, ranks upto Major in the Indian Army and their equivalents in the Indian Navy and Indian Airforce are having protocol equivalent to that of Group'B' Gazetted officers of Central and State Government Service. An army Lt. Colonel and his equivalent in the Indian Navy and Airforce is thus equivalent to a group'A' gazetted officer of the Central Government and State Civil Services.
1. ^ http://www.imyideas.com/2010/10/group-d-posts-abolished-in-department.html 2. ^ West Bengal Service Rules, Part 1

External links
http://egazette.nic.in/ http://gazette.kar.nic.in/ http://www.egazette.kerala.gov.in/ http://delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/DoIT/delhi+govt/delhi+home http://delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/DoIT/delhi+govt/delhi+index.html http://wbxpress.com/2011/10/attestation-by-gazetted-officer.html http://www.askwb.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=335 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gazetted_Officer_(India)&oldid=528904361" Categories: Titles Civil Services of India Indian government officials

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