Madam/Dear Sir,

The President, in terms of the authority given to him by the Council at its 363rd meeting held on 12th February, 2017, has constituted a Group to study how Government Departments deal with non-performing employees and to identify non-performers in ICAI, comprising of the following members:-

• CA. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal (Convenor)
• CA. Sanjiv Kumar Chaudhary
• CA. Jay Chhaira
• CA. Mukesh Singh Kushwah
• CA. Kemisha Soni
• Shri V. Kurian

Ms. Priya Dhamija, Consultant (HR) would be the Secretary to the aforesaid Group.

The following are the Terms of Reference of the Group:

• To study the procedure followed by the Government Authorities for dealing with non-performing employees
• To identify employees who are not working as per the expected level of the specified Job role assigned to them for more than two-three consecutive years (post confirmation) based upon Annual Confidential Report submitted by Supervisor/HoD /Reviewer/Vice Chairman /Chairman of the Committee or frequently on loss of pay and long leave
• To design a framework to develop functional and behavioural skills sets of such employees by training, assigning projects and job rotation
• To develop the process for mentoring and counselling of such employees at defined period as assigned by the Committee
• To make recommendation on how to deal with such employees and
• To develop mechanism to initiate appropriate disciplinary proceedings, if needed