Substantive Promotions - Approval of 5 CPC Recommendations

No. 14(1)/98/D(AG)

Government of India,

Ministry of Defence,

New Delhi, the 14th January, 2000.

To

Chief of the Army Staff

Chief of the Naval Staff

Chief of the Air Staff

Subject: Implementation of Vth Pay Commission Recommendations – Para 147.21

Conditions regarding grant of substantive rank to officers of Army, Air Force and Navy.

Sir,

In supersession of the existing orders on the grant of substantive promotion to officers of Army, Air Force and Navy, the President is pleased to sanction the following revised years of service required for promotion to substantive cadres of the following Services/Corps :-

Arms/Service/Corps	Lt & Equiv	Capt & Equiv	Major & Equiv	Lt Col (TS) & Equiv
		Years	Years	Years
(i) Officers of Services   other than AMC, ADC,   MNS, RVC, SCO, MF, SL, SD List Officers (Navy) & RCO Officers	On completion of training	4	10	20
(ii) RVC	Date of joining	1	7	17
(iii) MF	On completion of training	5	12	23
(iv) SL Officers	-do-	5	12	20
(v) RCOs	Do	3	-	-
(vi) Special Commissioned Officers	Do	4	10	20
(vii) Army Medical Corps (a)   AFMC (b) Direct Entry	Date of Joining -	1 Date of joining	5 4	14 13
(viii) Army Dental Corps (a)   without internship (b)   with internship	Date of joining	1y 6m 0y 6 m	5y 6m 4y 6m	14y 6m 13y 6m
MNS	On completion of training	5	12	20
(ix) Navy (a)   General List Officers (b)   SD List Officers	On completion of training On commissioning	3 3	7 years as Sub Lt 10 years commissioned service	20 years commissioned service -do-
(x) Air Force (a)   Permanent Commissioned Officers (b)   Branch Commissioned officers	On completion of training -do-	4 5	10 11	20 -

2. The respective Rules/regulations in this regard will be amended by the Service HQrs

in consultation with their administrative wing in Ministry of Defence.

3. This issues with the concurrence of Defence (Finance/AG) vide their U.O. No. 239-

PA dated 12.1.2000.

Yours faithfully.

Sd/- x x x x x x

(Jose Thomas)

Under Secretary to the Govt of India.

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