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The Employees' State Insurance Corporation permits absorbed employees in the nursing cadre to choose between institutional seniority and all India seniority with service and transfer liability. Affected officials select option (a) to continue in institutional seniority, which stops future promotions and makes the post isolated. Alternatively, officials select option (b) to opt for the reclassified post with all India seniority, regular promotions, and transfer liability. Regional Directors must collect the options from each affected official and forward the consolidated response to the Headquarters Office within seven days from the date of issue. Failure to submit an option within the stipulated time results in deemed acceptance of option (b).
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A-24014/1/2022-MED-VI
I/3359088/2025
कर्मचारी राज्य बीमा निगम Employees' State Insurance Corporation श्रम एवं रोजगार मंत्रालय, भारत सरकार Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India
मुख्यालय / HEADQUARTERS पंचदीप भवन, सीआईजी मार्ग, नई दिल्ली-02 Panchdeep Bhawan, CIG Marg, New Delhi-02 Phone: 011-23215489, VOIP: 10011074 Email : med7-hq@esic.gov.in Website: www.esic.gov.in
फाइल सं. :- A-24014/1/2022-MED-VI (ई4936-)
दिनांक - __.12.2025
OFFICE MEMORANDUM / कार्यालय ज्ञापन
Subject: Seeking Options from absorbed employees in nursing cadre regarding Institutional or All India Seniority and service liability – Regarding.
विषय: संस्थागत या अखिल भारतीय वरिष्ठता के संबंध में अधिकारियों से विकल्प मांगना ।
Consequent upon notification of amended recruitment regulations in nursing cadres vide notification dated 05.12.2020, respective regional seniorities in nursing cadres need to be merged into an all India common Seniority List for each of the nursing cadre. It is observed that there are court cases filed by absorbed nursing employees in some of the regions in regard to institutional seniority. All such regional seniority lists shall carry a caveat rendering a revision of the seniority list subject to outcome of these court cases. Wherever any of the regional seniority lists has been challenged and the matter is pending in any court of law, such regional seniority lists as well as the consolidated list shall carry a caveat of revision subject to outcome of the case
Further, in order to resolve the long pending issue relating to institutional seniority in the affected Regions, it has been decided to allow the officials who had earlier opted for institutional seniority an opportunity to exercise and choose from one of the following two options :
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In this regard, all Regional Directors, ESIC are directed to obtain the options from each affected official within their jurisdiction and forward the consolidated response to Headquarters Office within next 07 days from the date of issue of this memorandum, clearly indicating the option exercised by each official.
Failure to submit the option within the stipulated time shall be treated as deemed acceptance of Option (b), i.e., opting for the reclassified post.
The contents of this memorandum may be circulated to all concerned officials under proper acknowledgment.
यह पत्र सक्षम प्राधिकारी के अनुमोदन के उपरांत जारी किया जा रहा है।
This issues after the approval of the competent authority.
भवदीय, Digitally signed by Sanjay Kumar Gupta Date: 22-12-2025 21:24:08 सहायक निदेशक (चिकित्सा प्रशासन)
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