Reporting Officer
Stub article on the reporting officer, reviewing officer and accepting authority in the appraisal chain. A full encyclopedic entry is pending.
What this article will cover
A full salary-calculator article on the reporting officer will cover the three authorities in the appraisal chain, the reporting officer, the reviewing officer and the accepting authority, their definitions in rules 2(j), 2(k) and 2(a) of the All India Services (Performance Appraisal Report) Rules, 2007, the absence of any corresponding definition for the central civil services, the three-month minimum period of supervision and how earned leave is deducted in computing it, the power of a reviewing officer to differ from the reporting officer and the requirement to record reasons, the cadres in which no accepting authority exists, and the treatment of a chain broken by transfer, retirement or death, with internal links to neighbouring topics on salary-calculator.in and a references section pointing to primary sources.