EFFECT OF NOT PASSING THE ACCOUNT TEST ON INCREMENTS AND PROBATION : The probation of all the Assistant Engineers

will commence from the date of appointment. The probation period is two years within continuous period of three years. The passing of The Account Test for Highways and Rural Works Officers and Subordinates (first and second papers) is essential to get the second and subsequent increments and to have completed the probation. The probationers will be eligible to get the first increment before passing the Account Test. But the second and subsequent increments will be sanctioned only after passing the Test. The stoppage of increments till passing the Test will not be treated as penalty, but only as a condition of extension of probation and will not have the effect of postponing the increments i.e if an Assistant Engineer passed the Test after the normal date of second increment, the second and subsequent increments will be sanctioned retrospectively on normal dates of those increments only after passing the Account Test, but the monetary benefits of these increments will be given only from the day following the last day of the Account Test which he / she passed. It an Assistant Engineer has not passed the Account Test during the probation period, the orders declaring to have satisfactorily completed the probation will be issued only after passing the Test. The maximum period upto which the probation be extended so as to enable him / her to pass the Account Test is five years. If he / she fails to pass the Test within the maximum period of five years, his / her probation will be terminated. The duration of the Test and the maximum marks for each paper is two hours and 100 respectively. The two papers of Account Test will be passed at a time i.e not in instalments. A minimum of 33 marks in each paper and a total of 80 marks in two papers (i.e 2/5 of aggregate number of marks) will be secured to pass the Test.