Assistant in PHC

Assistant Section Officer or Assistant in PHC

Grade Pay: 4600

Salary: Rs. 40056 (in 6th pay)

Posting: In Patna only throughout your career

Examination process:

1. Pre(Objective questions, OMR based)-Reasoning, Maths, English, Hindi, GK (Total:100 marks)
   To download pre 2016 paper, click here.
2. Mains( Descriptive paper) which includes essay, letter, comprehension based questions, precis writing. These will be in Hindi and English both(Total 100 marks)
3. Interview: panel of 2 judges, 10-15 minutes, (Total: 20 marks)
4. Computer Test: Simplest activities like 2 lines typing only in 7 minutes, searching 'phc' on Wikipedia etc.

Pre & Computer test is of qualifying nature.Merit will be on the basis of Mains+Interview marks.


Work Profile:

           PHC is divided into administrative and judicial wings. Furthermore each wing is divided into sections. Work nature is clerical. Assistants are called Dealing Assistants. As obvious in judiciary, there is huge pending work so if you are in judicial side, there is work pressure. In administrative side , a comparative low work pressure is there.Office timing is 10 am to 5 pm, from Monday to Saturday.(2nd Saturday is holiday).

Pay& Perks:

         There are enough leaves in High court.If you are preparing for UPSC, it is the best place for you. PHC works around 7 months only if you count total leaves. For leaves, you can check PHC calender here. Perks are as per Bihar Govt. rules. LTC (Leave travel) is 4 only throughout your life period unlike central govt. which is one travel leave biannually. Medical reimbursement is there.

Govt. quarters are very few. So you have to wait for 4-5 years.

Power:
        There is a social respect but Assistants don't enjoy any power as such. PHC is also a corruption free institution. So there is no scope of UTM.

Promotion:

Promotion is very bad in PHC. Normally an Assistant gets promotion to Section Officer in 13-20 years.After Section Officer, rest promotion is in every 3-4 years.

Here is the bottom up hierarchy:

Assistant Section Officer (GP: 4600)

                   ↓

     Section Officer (GP: 4800)

                   ↓

      Assistant Registrar

                   ↓

       Deputy Registrar

                   ↓

          Joint Registrar

                   ↓

              Registrar

Disclaimer:         Aforesaid information are writer's personal views only. Please go through PHC website for actual information.