Employment of technical personnel in the national service

(1) Subject to any rules made in this behalf under this Chapter the Central Government may require a National Service Tribunal to report what technical personnel, whether employed in an establishment or not, is available within its jurisdiction for employment in the National service and may by order in writing, ----- (a) require the employer in any establishment by which such technical personnel is employed to release such personnel as may be specified in the order, for employment in the national service; (b) direct any technical personnel to undertake such employment in the national service as may be specified in the order; (c) direct that any technical personnel engaged in any establishment under conditions not amounting to employment in the national service shall, for the purposes of sub-section (8), be deemed to have been taken into employment in the national service; and (d) require any notified establishment, notwithstanding that it has not made any application under section 16, to take into its employment such technical personnel within such period as may be specified in the order. (2) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (1), a National Service Tribunal may---- (a) exercise the powers conferred on the Central Government by clauses (a) (b) of sub-section (1); (b) require by order any employer to give training in his establishment to persons for qualifying them as technical personnel; (c) direct by order technical personnel to present themselves at such place and time as may be specified in the order for interview or inquiry and if so required, for submission to a test of their technical skill. (3) Any order made by the Central Government under sub-section (1) and by a National Service Tribunal under sub-section (2) shall be complied with within such period or on such date as may be specified in this behalf in the order. (4) The Central Government or, as the case may be, a National Service Tribunal may, by order in writing, transfer technical personnel from one form or place of employment in the national service to another; and the employer and the personnel concerned shall comply with such order.