Adverse Remarks

Stub article on adverse remarks in the appraisal report of a central government servant. A full encyclopedic entry is pending.

What this article will cover

A full salary-calculator article on adverse remarks will cover the entries in an annual performance appraisal report that reflect unfavourably on an employee’s performance, conduct or fitness, the duty to communicate every entry rather than only the adverse ones, the fifteen-day representation and its quasi-judicial disposal by the competent authority, the expunction of a remark and the obliteration of every trace of it from the dossier, the bar on relying on an uncommunicated entry to deny promotion, and the treatment of a below benchmark grading before a departmental promotion committee, with internal links to neighbouring topics on salary-calculator.in and a references section pointing to primary sources.