(1) The job description of civil posts as referred to in Schedule-4 shall be enforced by the concerned secretary, Head of Department and Chief of Office. One copy of such job description shall be sent to the Ministry of General Administration.
(2) The following authority shall approve the job description of the following posts:
(a) In the case of the job description of the chief secretary of the Government of Nepal, the Government of Nepal,
(b) In the case of the job description of the civil employees of gazette special class, the chief secretary,
(c) In the case of the job description of the civil employees in the Ministry, Secretariat, Commission or other civil employees at the central level and Heads of Department, other than those employeesas referred to in Clause (b), the concerned secretary or gazetted special class civil employees;
(d) In the case of the job description of the gazette civil employees in the department, regional, zonal, divisional, district and area level offices, other than those employees as referred to in Clauses (b) and (c), the concerned Head of Department,
(e) In the case of the non-gazetted and class-less posts of the offices as referred to in Clause (d), the concerned Chief of Office.
(3) The concerned authority shall approve and enforce the job description of the civil employees in service at the time of commencement of this Rule within Six months after the date of commencement of this Rule.
(4) The job description as referred to in Sub-rule (1) shall also state objective criteria that can be measured and the indicators of each job shall also be specified.
(5) The subordinate Departments shall be monitored by the concerned Ministry, the subordinate offices by the Department and all Ministries, Secretariats, Commissions or central bodies by the Ministry of General Administration as to whether the provision of job description has been enforced.
(6) The Competent Authority shall, on the recommendation of the Ministry of General Administration, warn the secretary or Head of Department or Chief of Office who fails to enforce the job description pursuant to this Act and these Rules. If the job description is not enforced even upon receiving such warning, the Competent Authority
shall take departmental action against him or her pursuant to the Act and these Rules.
(7) The supervisor shall evaluate the work performance of each civil employee on the basis of work progress of indicators set forth in the job description.
(8) Each gazette civil employee shall, on the basis of the job description of his or her post, prepare an annual action plan of the jobs to be done by him or her, get it approved by the Chief of Office within the First Four monthly period of each financial year and discharge his or her job accordingly.
Provided that, the civil employees may prepare such action plan within the Second Four monthly period, for the first time after the commencement of this Rule.