Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Definition.—In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) ―appointing ‗authority‖ means an appointing a.1.;1thority specified as such in the Service Rules made under articles .j09 of the Constitution of India in respect of any service of post in connection with the affairs of the State of‘ Punjab; (b) ―Board‖means the Subordinate Services Selection Board Punjab or any other authority constituted to perform its functions; (c) ―Commission‖ means the Punjab Public Service Commission; (d) ―direct appointment‖ means an appointment made otherwise than by promotion or by transfer of a person already in the service of Government of India or of a State Government. . (e) ―Government‖ means the Government of State of Punjab in the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms; (f) ―recognised university or institution‖ means. - (i) any university or institution incor-porated by law in any of the State of India; or (ii) any other university or institution which is declared by the Government to be a recognised university or institution for the purposes of these rules; (g) ―Service‖ means any Class I service, Class II service or Class III service constituted in connection with the affairs of the State of Punjab; (h) ―Service Rules‖ means the service rules made under article 309 of the Constitution of India regulating the recruitment and conditions of Service other than the general and common conditions of service of persons appointed to any service or post in connection with the affairs of the State of Punjab. (i) ―War hero‖ means a defence services personnel, or a paramilitary forces personnel, who is a bona fide resident of Punjab State and is killed, or discharged from the above service on account of disability suffered by him while fighting for defending the border of the country in Kargil sector of the State of Jammu and Kashmir or fighting for the country in any other sector, or similar operation on or after the first day of January, 1999 which may be notified by the State Government: as undertaken for preserving the unity and integrity of the motherland. However, In exceptional cases the cases of 32 those war heroes can also be covered under this definition who, though, not bona fide residents of Punjab State, but are yet closely connected to the State of Punjab, in such exceptional cases, the express approval of the Department of Personnel will be mandatory.