Panchayat Raj Dept Unveils Transfer Guidelines
Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Department issues 2025 transfer guidelines, mandates relocation after five years of continuous service.
By : Sampat G. Samritan
Update: 2025-05-22 17:23 GMT
Vijayawada: The department of panchayat raj and rural development has issued a set of specific guidelines for transfer and posting of its employees for the year 2025.
PR and RD principal secretary Shashi Bhushan Kumar issued an order here on Thursday. Accordingly, an employee who has completed more than five years of service continuously at a duty station duly continuing the total service rendered in all cadres shall be transferred without any exception. All transfers are to be done in a transparent manner on the basis of performance by way of conducting counselling. Wherever required, self-approval may be obtained quickly from the employees, and those who have completed more than five years and have ACB cases pending against them shall not be posted in focal posts.
With regard to additional transfer guidelines relating to the panchayat raj wing, the mandal parishad development officers shall not be posted in their native division. The commissioner PR and RD shall make transfers of divisional panchayat officers, administrative officers and allot to stations as per the rules in force. The divisional panchayat officers and administrative officers shall not be posted in their native revenue division.
The posts of panchayat secretaries shall be filled up in all the mandals duly rationalising the vacancies, and proportionate distribution shall be ensured in all mandals.
It may be mentioned that the AP government relaxed the ban on transfer of employees from May 16 to June 2.