Promotion

No member of Service shall be eligible for promotion from the category in which he was appointed to the Service unless he has satisfactorily completed his probation in that category: Provided that a member of a Service who, having satisfactorily completed his probation in the category in which he was appointed to the service, has been promoted to the next higher category shall, notwithstanding that he has not been declared to have satisfactorily completed his probation in such higher category be eligible for promotion from such higher category: Provided further that if the scale of pay or pay band or pay matrix of post in the feeder categories are different, the person holding post carrying a higher scale of pay or pay band or pay matrix in the feeder category shall be considered first and that, if no qualified and suitable persons holding post in that feeder category are available, the persons holding post carrying the next higher scale of pay or pay band or pay matrix in descending order in other feeder categories shall be considered.