KAUN GAZETTED OFFICERS Ah-SAY?

Let’s first define, who is a gazetted officer?

A gazetted officer is someone who works as a public servant (not slave) in a higher rank but every government employee is not a gazetted officer. It derives it service and recruitment conditions from the Gazette of India as mentioned in the Article 390 of the Indian Constitution, 1950. These gazetted officers have stamp in their name, which is used to authorize the documents. Remember before the self-attestation of documents came into the scene, we ran from pillar to post for attestation from a gazetted officer? A gazetted officer ceases to be one after retirement, their name and appointment is no more reflected in the Gazette of India document.

The government has categorized its employees into four classes, Class I, Class II, Class III and Class IV and under it only Class I and Class II officers are deemed as gazetted officers.

Let’s see which officer comes under which class.

Class I (GAZETTED)

Central and State Government employees with A service rules- IAS/IPS/IES/SDPO/ASP/ACP/IGP/DIG/ IFS/DIB/SSP etc, officers of Armed forces, officers of State Cadres of Assistant Commissioner and above, Magistrates and above in judicial services, District Medical Officer, Doctors (Government: Central and state services). In Central and State Universities- Vice-Chancellors, Assistant Registrars, Principals, and Faculty Members, Scientists of Government-funded Research Organization, Engineers (Government, State, and Central Services), Drug Controllers (Government: State and Central Services), Patent Examiner, etc.

CLASS II (GAZETTED)

Junior doctors in government hospitals, circle inspector, section officers, tahsildars, drug inspectors, headmaster in government high school, assistant executive engineers, block development officer, superintendent of excise and customs, officers in state civil services, JCOs in armed forces, income tax and revenue officers, chief pharmacists etc.

CLASS II (NON-GAZETTED)

Junior Engineers in different departments, income tax officers, custom/excise officers, senior pharmacists in the health department of governments. assistant section officers in various ministries, etc.

CLASS III (NON-GAZETTED)

These are non-gazette officers who are employed with the government but in non-supervisory roles example includes, nurses, stenographer, telephone operators, head clerks, head police constables, etc.

CLASS IV

They are amongst the lowest pay scale and are generally manual workers who are semi-skilled or skilled in that respect like, peons, trackmen, sweepers, and multi-tasking staff attached to governmental activities, etc.

 *This article might have missed out names of many or certain posts which should be placed in one of the four categories, please check the Gazetted officer list or post your questions on Quora to address your queries. Thank you!