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How to Conduct/Defend Departmental
Inquiry - Table of Contents

Table of Contents - How to conduct

1. Title Page

2. PREFACE

3. Evolution of Departmental Inquiry Concept in India

4. Learn to Understand the complexities of Departmental Inquiry

5. Basic Concepts Underlying Departmental Inquiry

6. Advanced Features of Departmental Inquiry

7. Departmental Inquiry -Objective Setting and Merging with Goals of the Organization

8. Life Span Cycle of Departmental Inquiry - Part: 1

9. Life Span Cycle of Departmental Inquiry - Part: 2

10. Positive approach - Promoting employees as human capital Part: 1

11. Positive approach - Promoting employees as human capital Part: 2

1. Disciplinary Authority (14 pages)

2. Inquiry Officer (6 pages)

3. Presenting Officer (7 pages)

4. Defence Assisting Officer (2 pages)

5. Charged Officer (17 pages)

1. Receipt And Disposal of Complaints

2. Receipt And Disposal of Complaints (Contd)

3. Importance of objective preliminary investigation

4. Preliminary investigation - guidelines of CVC Part: 1

5. Preliminary Investigation - Guidelines of CVC Part: 2

6. How to Draft a Charge Sheet?

7. How to reply a charge sheet?

8. How to prepare the list of defence documents & witnesses?

9. How to prepare the defence statement & defence brief?

10. How to examine & cross-examine witnesses?

11. How to reply final reference from disciplinary authority before his order, but after inquiry officer's report (2nd stage natural justice)?

12. How to submit appeal & review petitions?

13. How to face a suspension from service

14. Guidelines of Government of India regarding verbal orders of senior officers

15. Policy guidelines defining what is "vigilance angle" & When disciplinary action is to be taken

16. If You are prosecuted, how to meet the situation

17. My Message to officers facing charge sheets/departmental inquiries

18. A word about this website with officers of public sector banks

 & Defend Departmental Inquiry

1. Abuse of power by management - incidence of malice, malafide and victimisation in disciplinary inquiries

2. Deficiencies and perversities in the system of conducting departmental inquiries

3. Departmental inquiries -frequently asked questions (FAQs)

4. Departmental Inquiries - Text of Regulations & Manuals Relevant
   for Public Sector Banks(details as per Annexure)

• Text of C.C.S.(C.C.A)Rules, 1965(6 Pages)

• **Text of PNB Officer Employees (Discipline & Appeal) Regulations, 1977(3 pages + schedule)

• **Text of PNB Officer Employees (Conduct) Regulations, 1977(3 pages)

• Text of Chapters 10, 11, & 12 from CVC Manual with table of Contents of all chapters

• CVC Publication - Special Chapter on Vigilance in Nationalised Banks

[**Note: Conduct/DA Regulations of all PSBs are identical - for a model we have given the respective Regulations of Punjab National Bank, the oldest Indian Bank]

• My Special Message to All Bank Officers (PSBs)

• My Special Message to Charge-sheeted Officers

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