Annual pay increments accrue across qualifying service, subject to disciplinary withholding, efficiency certification, and authorised leave treatment.

Annual increments accrue in incremental scales during probationary, officiating, and substantive service, and become admissible from the first day of the month of accrual. Officiating service in higher and relevant intervening grades counts for increments, while leave without pay is excluded unless authorised in writing. Increments require competent-authority sanction and may be withheld only as a disciplinary measure. Efficiency-bar increments require fitness certification, without retrospective benefit on removal of the bar. Stagnation increments may be granted to employees at the final stage of the applicable scale.

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