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Composition and strength of the Service.- (1) The Service shall consist of the following wings namely:- (i) Engineering Wing. (ii) Research and Survey Wing. The nature of posts included in each wing of the Service shall be as specified in Column 2 of the Schedule. (2) The strength of posts in each wing of the Service shall be such may be determined by Government, from time to time. ______________________________________________________________________ θ Added vide Notification No. F. 7(3)DOP/A-II/73 dated 05.07.1974. @ Substituted for #“(j) „Service‟ or „Experience‟ wherever prescribed in these rules as a condition for promotion from one Service to another or within the Service from one category to another or to Senior Posts in the case of person holding such posts in substantive capacity shall include the period for which the person has continuously worked on such post after regular recruitment in accordance with the Rules promulgated under proviso to Article 309 and shall also include the experience gained by officiating, temporary or ad-hoc appointment, if such appointment is in the regular line of promotion and was not of stop-gap or fortuitous nature or invalid under any law and does not involve supersession of any senior official, except when such supersession was either due to want of prescribed academic and other qualifications, unfitness or non-selection by merit or the default of the senior official concerned. *“or when such ad hoc or urgent temporary appointment was in accordance with seniority-cum-merit.” Note:- Absence during service e.g., training and deputation which are treated as “duty” under the R.S.R., shall also be counted as service for computing minimum experience or service required for promotion.” vide Notification No. F. 6(2)DOP/A-II/71 dated 29.08.1982 # Inserted vide Notification No. F. 6(2)Apptts/A-II/71 dated 9.10.1975. * Inserted vide Notification No. F. 6 (2) Apptts/A-II/71 dated 13.07.1976 w.e.f. 9.10.1975. $ Added vide Notification No. F. 7(2)DOP/A-II/81 dated 21.12.1981 w.e.f. 01.04.1981 3 Provided that Government may- (a) Create any post, permanent or temporary, from time to time, as may be found necessary, and (b) Leave unfilled or hold in abeyance or abolish or allow to lapse any post, permanent or temporary, from time to time, without thereby entitling any person to any compensation; @ 5. Constitution of the Service.- The Service shall consist of – (a) All persons holding substantively, at the commencement of these rules, the posts specified in the Schedule; and (b) All persons appointed to the Service after such commencement in accordance with the provisions of these Rules except those appointed under Rule 27. PART III - Recruitment.