it2025_00925 — Effect of penalty on seniority and promotion

Effect of penalty on seniority and promotion — Forum Query - Effect of penalty on seniority and promotion Summary This chunk discusses the effect of a two-year penalty reduction on an officer's seniority and promotion in Level 7 time-scale under ... — I had been awarded penalty of reduction to a lower stage in the Pay Matrix 7 (7th CPC) by two stages for a period of two years with immediate effect, with further directions that I will not earn increments of pay during the period of reduction and that on expiry of the penalty period, the reduction will not have the effect of postponing his future increments of pay. Please clarify, whether I will get original seniority and notional promotion after completion of penalty.