See rule 15(1)

Sr. No. 1-2, Designation: Fisheries Development Officer / Fisheries Research Officer. Nature of Penalty: (a) Warning with a copy in the personal file; (b) Censure; (c) Withholding of increments including stoppage at an efficiency bar; (d) recovery from pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused to Government by negligence or breach of orders; (e) reduction to a lower post or time scale or to a lower stage in a time scale; (f) removal from the Service which does not disqualify from future employment; (g) dismissal from the Service which does ordinarily disqualify from future employment. Appointing authority: Government (for a); Head of Department (for b, c, d); Government (for e, f, g). Appellate authority: Government / Do.