Department of Appointment and Personnel

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|headquarters = Department of Appointment and Personnel, Lal Bahadur Shastri Bhawan (Annexy Building), Sarojini Naidu Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

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|minister1_name = Yogi Adityanath

|minister1_pfo = Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Minister of Appointment and Personnel

|chief1_name = Dr.Devesh Chaturvedi, IAS

|chief1_position = Additional Chief Secretary (Appointment and Personnel)

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The Department of Appointment and Personnel (DoAP) is a department of Government of Uttar Pradesh. The Department of Appointment is responsible for the matters related to transfer posting, training, foreign assignment, Foreign training and compliant monitoring and settlement for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the Provincial Civil Service (PCS) and the Provincial Civil Service-Judicial (only after consulting Allahabad High Court), whereas, the Department of Personnel provides opinion to the Department of Secretariat Administration and other departments in the matter of condition of service and regulation for recruitment to the subordinate services.

The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh serves as the departmental minister, and the Additional Chief Secretary (Appointment and Personnel), an IAS officer, is the administrative head of the department.

Functions

The Department of Appointment and Personnel is responsible for forming and the regulating of the service rules-related rules and regulations for government officers. The department answers questions in the legislative assembly and the legislative council, addresses issues related to the policies and norms—as laid down by it—are followed by all departments in the recruitment, regulation of service conditions, transfer-posting and deputation of personnel and other related issues.{{Cite web|url=http://niyuktionline.up.nic.in/orgapp.htm|title=Organisation|last=|first=|date=|website=Department of Appointment and Personnel, Government of Uttar Pradesh|language=hi-IN|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818170037/http://niyuktionline.up.nic.in/orgapp.htm|archive-date=18 August 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=17 August 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://niyuktionline.up.nic.in/overview.htm|title=Overview|last=|first=|date=|website=Department of Appointment and Personnel, Government of Uttar Pradesh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819140101/http://niyuktionline.up.nic.in/overview.htm|archive-date=19 August 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=17 August 2017}} It is also responsible for framing of policy and giving advise in the matter of appointment in civil service of ex-armed forces personnel and combined competitive examination of different services.

The personnel department is also looking after the departmental examination of officers, constitutions of subordinated service board and there related regulations. The department is also the cadre controlling authority of the Indian Administrative Service and the Provincial Civil Service.

The Allahabad High Court exercises effective control over Higher Judicial Service and Provincial Civil Service-Judicial officers. The power of postings transfers, leave, crossing of efficiency bar, rant of pension in respect of all the officers and promoting munsifs as civil judges is also vested in the high court by virtue of Article 235 of the Constitution of India.

=Organisations=

DoAP supervises and controls the following organisations, namely -

Important officials

The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, is the minister responsible for Department of Appointment and Personnel.{{Cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/yogi-adityanath-allocates-portfolios-to-ministers-retains-home-department-with-himself/articleshow/57774080.cms|title=Yogi Adityanath allocates portfolios to ministers, retains home department with himself|last=|first=|date=22 March 2017|website=The Times of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323035715/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/yogi-adityanath-allocates-portfolios-to-ministers-retains-home-department-with-himself/articleshow/57774080.cms |archive-date=23 March 2017 |url-status=live|access-date=17 August 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/live-updates-on-uttar-pradesh-govt-portfolios-keshav-prasad-maurya-gets-pwd/story-JafGBgr7Oe7VXxcBsnAOdM.html|title=CM Yogi Adityanath keeps home, revenue: UP portfolio allocation highlights|last=|first=|date=22 March 2017|website=Hindustan Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322180752/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/live-updates-on-uttar-pradesh-govt-portfolios-keshav-prasad-maurya-gets-pwd/story-JafGBgr7Oe7VXxcBsnAOdM.html |archive-date=22 March 2017 |url-status=live|access-date=17 August 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://upcmo.up.nic.in/cabinet_minister.htm|title=Cabinet Ministers|website=Uttar Pradesh CMO|publisher=Uttar Pradesh Government|access-date=10 April 2017|archive-date=1 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101095425/http://upcmo.up.nic.in/cabinet_minister.htm|url-status=dead}}

The department's administration is headed by the Additional Chief Secretary, who is an IAS officer, who is assisted by two Special Secretaries, four Joint Secretaries, and nine Deputy/Under Secretaries. The current{{when|date=August 2019}} Additional Chief Secretary (DoAP) is Dr.Deepak Trivedi.