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Recruitment

Recruitment, 'recruitment' according to the dictionary means 'enlist'. It is a comprehensive term and includes any method provided for inducting a person in public service. Appointment, selection, promotion, deputation are all well-known methods of recruitment. Even appointment by transfer is not unknown, K. Narayanan v. State of Karnataka, AIR 1994 SC 55: (1994) Supp 1 SCC 44.The term 'recruitment' connotes and clearly signifies enlistment, acceptance, selection or approval for appointment. Certainly, this is not actual appointment or posting in service. In contradistinction the word 'appointment' means an actual act of posting a person to a particular office, Prafulla Kumar Swain v. Prakash Chandra Misra, (1993) Supp 3 SCC 181.It includes entering into any agreement or other arrangement for recruitment and all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly. [Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979, ...


Recruiting agent

Recruiting agent, means a person engaged in India in the business of recruitment for an employer and representing such employer with respect to any matter in relation to such recruitment including dealings with persons so recruited or desiring to be so recruited. [Emigration Act, 1983 (31 of 1983), s. 2(1) (l)]...


Recruitment year

Recruitment year, means the English calendar year during which the recruitment is actually made, Maharashtra State Public Services (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, De-Notified Tribes (Vimukta Jatis) Nomadic Tribes, Special Backward Categories and Other Backward Classes) Act, 2001, s. 2(j).Means the year in which recruitment is actually made, S. Rajendran v. Union of India, (1998) 3 SCC 620.The recruitment year is the year in which recruit-ment takes place, but not each three successive years in which the vacancy exists, Harish Chandra Ram v. Mukh Ram Dubey, 1994 Supp (2) SCC 490 (492)....


Recruit

To repair by fresh supplies as anything wasted to remedy lack or deficiency in as food recruits the flesh fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits...


Recruited direct

Recruited direct, a person is said to be 'Recruited Direct' to a post, category or class in a service, in case his first appointment thereto is made other-wise than (i) by promotion (ii) by transfer or (iii) by re-employment, G.S. Venkat Reddy v. Government of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1993 SC 2306 (2312): 1993 Supp (3) SCC 425. [Andhra Pradesh State andSubordinate Services Rules, R. 22(e) & 3(14)]...


Recruiter

One who or that which recruits...


Recruitment

The act or process of recruiting especially the enlistment of men for an army...


Year of allotment

Year of allotment, the year of allotment of an Officer appointed to the service after the commencement of these rules shall be: (b) Where the officer is appointed to the service by promotion in accordance with sub-rule (1) of Rule 8 of the Recruitment Rules, the year of allotment of the junior most among the officers recruited to the service in accordance with Rule 7 of these rules, who officiated continuously in a Senior Post from a date earlier than the date of commencement of such officiation by the former. Provided that the year of allotment of an officer appointed to the service in accordance with sub-rule (1), Rule 8 of the recruitment rules who started officiating continuously in a senior post from a date earlier than the date on which any of the Officers recruited to the service in accordance with Rule 7 of these rules, so started officiating, shall be determined ad hoc by the Central Government in consultation with the State Government concerned. Provided further that an offic...


Appointment

Appointment, appointment refers to both initial recruitment and subsequent promotion, Chander Bhan v. Hotilal Gupta, 1991 Supp 2 SCC 156. [Punjab Courts Act, 1918 (6 of 1918), s. 35(1)]The word 'appointment' cannot mean only promotion, It means appointment both by promotion and by direct recruitment, Harkishan Singl v. State of Punjab, (1972) 1 SCC 58: AIR 1971 SC 1602 (1605): (1971) 2 SCC 58. [Punjab Civil Service (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1940, R. 9(c)]...


Attestation

Attestation, the signing by a witness to the signature of another of a statement that a document was signed in the presence of the witness. The (English) Criminal Procedure Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 18), s. 7 (applicable both to civil and criminal cases), renders it unnecessary to prove by the attesting witness any instrument to the validity of which attestation is not requisite, and such instrument may now be proved by admission, or otherwise, as if there had been no attesting witness. Wills and codicils (1 Vict. c. 26), warrants of attorney and cognovits (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), agreements with crews of 'foreign-going' ships ((English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 115), and bills of sale (see BILL OF SALE) require attestation.As to the attestation of deeds in execution of certain powers of appointment, see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 159, replacing (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859, s. 12.As to attestation by a justice of the peace of the enlistment of a rec...


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