The Himachal Pradesh Municipal Services Act, 1994

AUTHORITATIVE ENGLISH TEXT 

THE HIMACHAL PRADESH MUNICIPAL SERVICES ACT, 1994 

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 

Sections: 

1. Short title, extent and commencement. 

2. Definitions. 

3. Composition of service. 

4. Integration of existing employees. 

5. Power to take over municipal services by the Government 

6. Recruitment to the service. 

7. Probation. 

8. Liability to transfer. 

9. Seniority. 

10. Punishments and appeals. 

11. Resignation from service. 

12. Retirement from service. 

13. Extraordinary pension and gratuity. 

14. Pension in lieu of Contributory Provident Fund. 

15. Departmental examination. 

16. Leave, travelling allowance, joining time, suspension, 

medical facilities, fees, and honoraria and other matters. 

17. Record of service. 

18. Oath of allegiance. 

19. Reservations. 

20. Power to amend Schedules. 

21. Power to make rules 

22. Savings 

23. Repeal of Ordinance No. 4 of 1994. 

 

SCHEDULE-I 

SCHEDULE-II 

SCHEDULE-III 

SCHEDULE-IV 

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THE HIMACHAL PRADESH MUNICIPAL SERVICES ACT, 1994 2 

THE HIMACHAL PRADESH MUNICIPAL SERVICES ACT, 

1994 

(ACT NO. 11 OF 1994)1 

(Received the assent of the Governor, Himachal Pradesh on the 18
th
 

October, 1994 and was published both in Hindi and English in the Rajpatra, 

Himachal Pradesh (Extra-ordinary), dated 18
th
 October, 1994, pp. 3205-3226). 

An Act to provide for the integration, recruitment and conditions of 

municipal services in the State of Himachal Pradesh and other 

matters connected therewith. 

Amended, repealed or otherwise affected by,- 

1. H.P. Act No. 2 of 2012
2
 assented to by the Governor on the 

18
th
 January, 2012, published both in Hindi and English in the 

Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh on the 28
th
 January, 2012, pp. 

5327-5328. 

2. H.P. Act No. 14 of 2023
3
 assented to by the Governor on the 

22
th
 November, 2023, published both in Hindi and English in 

the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh on the 1
st
 December, 2023, 

pp. 10277-10283. 

BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh in the 

Forty fifth-Year of the Republic of India, as follows:- 

1. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be 

called the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Services Act, 1994. 

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Himachal Pradesh. 

(3) It shall and shall be deemed to have come into force on the 30
th
 

day of May, 1994. 

2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- 

(a) “appointing authority” means the authority empowered by the 

State Government to make appointments to the posts under 

the municipal services; 

(b) “direct recruitment” means an appointment made by selection 

otherwise than by promotion from within the service or by 

transfer of an official already in the service of any State or 

                                                 
1. Passed in Hindi by the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. For Statement of Objects 

and Reasons see the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh (Extra-ordinary), dated 19
th
 

September, 1994, pp. 2462 and 2476. 

2  Passed in Hindi by the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. For Statement of Objects 

and Reasons, see the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh, dated 22
nd

 December, 2011, pp. 

4737-4738 and 4739. 

3   Passed in Hindi by the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. For Statement of Objects 

and Reasons, see the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh, dated 23
th
 September, 2023, pp. 

7735-7736 and 7739-7740. 



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Central Government or any Corporation, Board or any other 

local authority under the control of State Government; 

(c) “Government” means the Government of Himachal Pradesh; 

(d) “leave” includes earned leave, maternity leave, leave not due, 

leave on half pay, medical leave, commuted leave and extra-

ordinary leave but does not include casual leave; 

(e)  “member” means a member of the State level municipal 

service constituted under this Act; 

(f) “municipality” means an institution of self-Government,- 

(a) a Nagar Panchayat and a Municipal Council constituted 

under the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 1994; and 

(b) a Municipal Corporation constituted under the Himachal 

Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1994; 

(g) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; 

(h) “service” in relation to municipalities means the municipal 

service constituted in the prescribed manner by the 

Government at the State level under the provisions of this 

Act; and 

(i) “service selection committee” means the committee set-up by 

the State Government under section 6 of this Act. 

3. Composition of service.- 
1
[(1) There shall be State Level Services 

comprising of the posts in Nagar Panchayats and Municipal Councils, 

constituted under the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 1994, and as shown 

in the Schedule-I to this Act.] 

2
[(1-a) There shall be State Level Municipal Corporation Services 

comprising of the posts in Municipal Corporations, established under the 

Himachal Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 (12 of 1994) and as 

shown in the Schedule-III of this Act.] 

(2) The Government shall have the right of, by a notification 

published in the Official Gazette, make additions to, or deletion in, the posts 

in Schedule-I 
3
[“or Schedule-III, as the case may be”] with different 

designations and scales of pay, either permanently or temporarily. 

(3) Subject to the provisions contained in the Act, the qualifications, 

method of recruitment, salaries, leave, allowances and other conditions of 

service 
4
[XXXXXXXXXXX] shall be such as may be prescribed. 

                                                 
1  Sub-section (1) substituted vide H.P. Act No. 2 of 2012. 

2    Sub-section (1-a) inserted vide H.P. Act No. 14 of 2023.  

3    The words, signs and  number  “or Schedule-III, as the case may be’’ inserted vide 

H.P. Act No. 14 of 2023. 

4  The words, sign, brackets and figure “referred to in sub-section (1),” deleted vide 

H.P. Act No. 2 of 2012. 



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(4) Notwithstanding anything contained to the contrary in this Act, a 

person appointed to the service under this Act shall not be deemed to have 

been appointed to any civil service or post under the State Government. 

4. Integration of existing employees.- (1) The employees of the 

municipalities in the State of Himachal Pradesh and working on regular basis 

on the commencement of this Act, as may be notified by the Government, 

shall stand integrated in the service according to the procedure as may be laid 

down by the Government. 

(2) There shall be no reduction in the basic pay of the member of the 

service which he was drawing immediately before the commencement of this 

Act, however, any special pay which such member of the service was 

receiving for any additional duties shall not be protected. 

(3) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (2), the pay of a 

member of the service shall be adjusted and fixed in the scale of pay of the 

post included in the Scheduled-I 
1
[Schedule-III] in accordance with the 

provisions of the Fundamental Rules, as applicable to the State Government 

employees. 

5. Power to take over municipal services by the Government. - (1) 

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, any other law inforce, rules 

made thereunder and contracts executed and orders made, the State 

Government if it thinks fit that it is expedient and necessary to do so, may, 

by notification in the Official Gazette, take over all or any class of employees 

working in a municipality, specified in the Schedule-II 
2
[or Schedule-IV]. 

(2) Where any class of employees are taken over under sub-section 

(1), such employees will become the employees of the State Government and 

shall be entitled to such remuneration and shall be governed by such rules 

and regulations as are applicable, to the employees of the State Government 

on equivalent post. 

(3) Where any class of employees the taken over by the State 

Government under sub-section (1), they shall be merged with the employees 

of that Department of the Government to which the State Government may 

order: 

Provided that where such employees are so taken over from a 

municipality, the corresponding posts in the municipality shall be filled in by 

deputation out of cadre of the Government Department concerned and the 

expenditure on account of payment of salary and allowances etc., shall be 

born by the municipality concerned.  

(4) Any service rendered by such class of employees under a 

municipality before taking over such service shall be deemed to be service 

                                                 
1. The word, sign and number “Schedule-III” inserted vide H.P. Act Number 14 of 

2023. 

2.  The words, signs and  number “or Schedule-IV” inserted vide H.P. Act Number 14 

of 2023. 



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rendered under the State Government: 

Provided that where any class of employees are taken over by the 

State Government under sub-section (1), the employees whose services have 

been taken over shall be governed by the pensionary regulations as made 

applicable to the Government employees, provided they exercise their option 

to surrender their contribution of Contributory Provident Fund alongwith 

interest thereon which amount will be deposited in their General Provident 

Fund Account in the Department concerned of the State Government, and the 

share of the municipality alongwith interest thereon shall be credited to the 

Consolidated Fund of the State of Himachal Pradesh. 

(5) Nothing contained in sub-sections (1) to (4) shall apply to any 

employee, who, by notice in writing in that behalf to the State Government 

within a period of two months from the date of such taking over, intimates 

his option for not becoming an employee of the State Government, and 

where any employee gives such notice, his service under the municipality 

shall stand terminated with effect from such date of taking over, and he shall 

be entitled to compensation from the municipality, which shall be as 

follows:- 

(a) in the case of a permanent employee, a sum equivalent to his 

salary (including allowances) for a period of three months or 

for the remaining period of his service, whichever is less; 

(b) in the case of a temporary employee, a sum equivalent to his 

salary (including all allowances) for one month or for the 

remaining period of his service, whichever is less. 

6. Recruitment to the service.- (1) Save as provided under sub-

section (2), the recruitment to various posts in the service shall be made on the 

recommendation of the service selection committee constituted at the State 

level by the State Government to conduct examinations, and interviews for 

recruitment to various posts in the service. 

(2) Nothing contained in this section shall apply for the appointment 

of- 

(i) the Commissioner, Joint Commissioner and Assistant 

Commissioners under sections 45 and 46 of the Himachal 

Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1994; 

(ii) the Executive Officer of a Municipal Council and the 

Secretary of a Nagar Panchayat under section 305 of the 

Himachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 1994; 

(iii) promotions to the posts in the service for a period not 

exceeding six months; and 

(iv) municipal services taken over by the State Government under 

section 5. 

7. Probation.- (1) A person appointed to any post in a service shall 

remain on probation for a period of two years: 



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Provided that- 

(a) any period, after such appointment, spent on deputation on a 

corresponding or a higher post shall count towards the period 

of probation; and 

(b) any period of officiating appointment shall be reckoned as the 

period spent on probation, but no person who has so 

officiated shall, on the completion of the prescribed period of 

probation, be entitled to be confirmed, unless he is appointed 

against a permanent vacancy. 

(2) If, in the opinion of the appointing authority, the work, or conduct 

of a person appointed to any post in the service during the period of his 

probation is not satisfactory, it may - 

(a) if such person is appointed by direct recruitment, dispense 

with his service; 

(b) if such person is appointed by promotion,- 

(i) revert him to his former post; or 

(ii) deal with him in such a manner as the terms and 

conditions of the previous appointment permit; or 

(iii) extend his period of probation and thereafter pass such 

order as it could have passed on the expiry of the first 

period of probation: 

Provided that the total period of probation including extension, if any, 

shall not exceed three years. 

(3) On the completion of the period of probation of a person, the 

appointing authority may, if his work or conduct has, in its opinion, been 

satisfactory:- 

(i) confirm such person from the date of his appointment, if 

appointed against a permanent vacancy; or 

(ii) confirm such person from the date from which a permanent 

vacancy occurs, if appointed against a temporary vacancy; 

(iii) declare that he has completed his probation satisfactorily, if 

there is no permanent vacancy. 

8. Liability to transfer.- The member of the State level municipal 

service shall be liable to serve at any place in the State of Himachal Pradesh. 

9. Seniority.- The seniority inter-se of the members of the service 

shall be determined separately for every category by the length of their 

continuous service on a post in the said category: 

Provided that in the case of members appointed by direct recruitment, 

their inter-se seniority shall be in the order of merit determined by the service 

selection committee or of any authority, as the case may be: 



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Provided further that in the case of two or more members appointed 

on the same date, a member appointed by direct recruitment shall be senior to 

a member appointed otherwise. 

10. Punishments and appeals.- (1) Every member of the service, 

shall be liable to have his increments or promotion withheld or to be 

censured, reduced in rank, compulsorily retired, reverted or dismissed for 

breach of any departmental rules/regulations or of discipline or for 

carelessness, unfitness, neglect of duty or office misconduct by such 

authority as may be prescribed by rules made in this behalf :  

Provided that no such member of the service, as aforesaid, shall be 

reduced in rank, compulsorily retired, removed, or dismissed by an authority 

subordinate to that by which he was appointed. 

(2) No member of the service shall be punished under sub-section (1) 

unless he has been given a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against 

the action proposed to be taken in regard to him: 

Provided that this sub-section, shall not apply,- 

(a) where a member of service is removed or dismissed on the 

ground of conduct which has led to his conviction on a 

criminal charge; or 

(b) where the authority empowered to remove or dismiss such a 

member of the service is satisfied that for such reasons to be 

recorded by that authority, it is not reasonably practicable to 

give that person an opportunity of showing cause; 

(c) where the Governor is satisfied that in the interest of security 

of the State it is not expedient to give a member of the service 

an opportunity of showing cause; and 

(d) if any question arises whether it is reasonably practicable to 

give a member of the service an opportunity of showing cause 

under this sub-section the decision thereon of authority 

empowered to remove or dismiss him, shall be final. 

(3) The member of the service upon whom a punishment has been 

inflicted under this section may, within such time and in such manner, appeal 

to such officer or authority as may be prescribed. 

(4) The authority empowered to impose penalties and the appellate 

authority in respect of a category of posts in services shall be such as may be 

prescribed. 

(5) The Central Civil Services Rules, including the Central Civil 

Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules; and the Central Civil 

Services (Conduct) Rules, as amended from time to time and made 

applicable to the employees of the State Government, shall apply to the 

members of the service, constituted under this Act, so far as they are not 

inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder. 



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11. Resignation from service.- If the member of the service wishes 

to resign from service he shall give one month's notice in writing to the 

appointing authority. If the member of the service fails to give such a notice, 

or gives a shorter notice, the appointing authority may recover one month’s 

salary with usual allowances or the salary and allowances for the period by 

which the notice falls short of one month, as the case may be, from such 

member, in lieu of the notice. 

12. Retirement from service.- Members of the service shall retire on 

the afternoon of the last day of the month in which they attain the age of 

fifty-eight years; except the workman, who will retire on attaining the age of 

sixty years. 

Explanation.- For the purpose of this section, the expression 

"workman" means a skilled, semi-skilled or un-skilled, artisan employed on 

monthly rate of pay in the service and includes a peon, chowkidar, safai 

karamchari, mali, cook and other servants declared by the Government to be 

the workman : 

Provided that – 

(i) the appointing authority shall, if it is of the opinion that it is 

in public interest to do so, have the absolute right, by giving 

an employee prior notice in writing, retire that employee on 

the date on which he completes thirty years of service or such 

period of service as the State Government may prescribe for 

its employees from time to time or attains fifty-five years of 

age or such age as the State Government may prescribe for its 

employees from time to time or on any date thereafter to be 

specified in the notice; 

(ii) the period of such notice shall not be less than one month and 

in case at least one month's notice is not given or notice for a 

period of less than one month is given, the employee shall be 

entitled to claim a sum equivalent to the amount of his pay 

and allowances, at the same rate at which he was drawing 

them immediately before the date of retirement, for a period 

of one month or, as the case may be, for the period by which 

such notice falls short of one month; 

(iii) any employee may, after giving at least one month's previous 

notice in writing to the appointing authority, retire from 

service on the date on which he completes twenty years of 

service or such period of service as the State Government 

may prescribe for its employees from time to time, or attains 

fifty years of age or such age as the State Government may 

prescribe for its employees from time to time or from any 

date thereafter to be specified in the notice, but no employee 

under suspension shall retire from service except with the 

specific approval of the appointing authority. 



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13. Extraordinary pension and gratuity.- (1) With the prior 

approval of the Government the municipality may give extraordinary pension 

or gratuity- 

(a) to an employee injured in the discharge of his duties; 

(b) to the family of an employee who is killed in the discharge of 

his duties. 

(2) The extraordinary pension or the gratuity shall not exceed the sum 

to which such member of service or his family would be entitled if he was an 

employee under the State Government. 

14. Pension in lieu of Contributory Provident Fund.- (1) A 

member of the service may, in lieu of the Contributory Provident Fund 

benefits admissible to him under the Provident Fund Act, 1925, opt for 

service and family pensions and in that event he will be governed by the 

rules, as are applicable to the employees of the State Government; and such a 

person shall contribute to the General Provident Fund: 

Provided that -  

(a) the share of money contribution by the municipality 

alongwith interest accrued thereon, to the credit of such a 

person in his Contributory Provident Fund, shall be credited 

to the Pension and Gratuity Fund; established for this 

purpose; 

(b) the share of money, alongwith interest accrued thereon, to the 

credit of such a person in the Contributory Provident Fund on 

account of his own contribution, shall be transferred to his 

credit in the General Provident Fund established for the 

purpose; and any loss caused to the municipality through 

withdrawals during the service shall be made good by him. 

(2) The municipality shall, in relation to the members of the service 

who have exercised the option for pension under sub-section (1), shall credit 

its contributions regularly but not later than fifth day of the month following 

the month to which the contribution relate, into the Pension and Gratuity 

Fund. 

(3) The "Pension and Gratuity Fund" and “General Provident Fund” 

referred to in sub-section (1), shall be established and maintained by the 

Director, Urban Local Bodies, Himachal Pradesh in such manner, as may be 

prescribed. 

(4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act, the 

persons, who were in the regular service of any municipality as on 1
st
 April, 

1992 and had retired before the 30
th
 day of May, 1994, provided they opt for 

service and family pensions under this section, and refund to the Director, 

within such period as may be specified, the employer's contribution to the 

Provident Fund including interest received by them from the employer 

together with simple interest at six per cent per annum from the date of its 



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withdrawal till the date of repayment, will also be eligible for service and 

family pensions payable under this Act. 

15. Departmental examination.- The Government may, by 

notification, direct that the persons appointed to any post in a service, as may 

be specified, shall be required to pass a departmental examination, the details 

and syllabus for which and the consequences for failure to pass it shall be, as 

may be prescribed by the Government. 

16. Leave, travelling allowance, joining time, suspension, medical 

facilities, fees, and honoraria and other matters.- In respect of leave, 

travelling allowance, joining time, suspension, leave, medical facilities, fees, 

honoraria, house rent allowance, dearness allowance, fixation of pay, grant of 

increment, deputation and other matters not expressly provided in this Act, the 

member of the service shall be governed by the corresponding provisions 

contained in the rules applicable to the State Government employees : 

Provided that leave salary shall be payable to a member of the service 

by a municipality where he happens to serve at the time of proceeding on 

leave: 

Provided further that a person on transfer shall draw his travelling 

allowance and joining time benefits from the municipality to which he is 

transferred. 

17. Record of service.- (1) There shall be maintained a personal file 

for every member in which shall be placed all papers, record and other 

documents relating to his service. The file shall contain in particular a service 

book giving the date of birth, history of service from the date of his 

appointment, particulars of increment, promotion, reward, punishment and all 

other special events of his career. The service book shall also contain the 

leave account form showing a complete record of leave except causal leave. 

(2) The date of birth shall be recorded in the service book maintained 

under sub-section (1), in red ink both in words and figures and duly signed by 

the concerned member of the service and authenticated in the case of the 

Municipal Corporation by the Commissioner, in the case of Municipal 

Corporation by the Commissioner, in the case of Municipal Council by the 

Executive Officer and in the case of a Nagar Panchayat by the Secretary; and 

said entry of date of birth shall be deemed to be the conclusive proof and shall 

not be questioned in any court of law. 

(3) A confidential file shall be maintained for each member: 

Provided that the Government may, if it so decides, make such 

arrangements, as it may deem necessary to maintain, in addition, a 

centralised record of leave, pay and service of members in the manner 

prescribed. 

18. Oath of allegiance. -Every member, unless he has already done 

so, shall be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of India 

as by law established. 



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19. Reservations.- Nothing contained in this Act shall effect the 

reservations and other concessions required to be provided for Scheduled 

Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes, Ex-servicemen, physically 

handicapped persons or any other class or category of persons in accordance 

with the orders issued by the Government in this regard from time to time: 

Provided that the total percentage of the reservations so made shall 

not exceed fifty percent at any time. 

20. Power to amend Schedules.- The Government may, by 

notification publish in the Official Gazette, amend by way of addition, 

omission or variation any of the items of the 
1
[Schedule-I, II, III and IV] to 

this Act, and when the Schedule is so amended, such addition, omission or 

variation shall have the effect as if it had been made by this Act. 

21. Power to make rules.- (1) The State Government may make rules 

for carrying out the purposes of this Act. 

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the 

foregoing powers, such rules may provide for all or any of the matters which 

under the provisions of this Act are required to be prescribed or to be provided 

for in the rules. 

(3) All rules made under this Act shall be subject to the conditions of 

previous publication. 

(4) All rules framed under this section shall be laid on the Table of the 

Legislative Assembly. 

22. Savings.- (1) All corresponding provisions contained in any 

enactment, rules, regulations and bye-laws relating to the municipal services 

in force in the municipalities immediately before the commencement of this 

Act, shall stand repealed: 

Provided that any order made or action taken under the Act, rules, 

regulations or bye-laws so repealed shall deemed to have been made under the 

corresponding provisions of this Act. 

(2) Nothing contained in this Act shall apply to the officers or 

officials of the State Government working on deputation basis with a 

municipality. 

23. Repeal of Ordinance No.4 of 1994.- (1) The Himachal Pradesh 

Municipal Services Ordinance, 1994 is hereby repealed. 

(2) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Himachal Pradesh Municipal 

Services Ordinance, 1994, anything done or any action taken under the said 

Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the 

corresponding provisions of this Act. 

____________ 

                                                 
1.   Substituted for the words, signs, and number “Schedule I and II” vide H.P. Act 

No. 14 of 2023. 



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SCHEDULE-I 

[See section 3(1)] 

Sl. No. 

1 

Name of the Service 

     2 

           HIMACHAL PRADESH STATE LEVEL SERVICES OF- 

1. Superintendent Grade-I 

2. Superintendent Grade-II 

1
[3. *********** 

4. *********** 

5. *********** 

6. *********** 

7. *********** 

8. *********** 

9. *********** 

10. *********** 

11.
 

*********** 

12. *********** 

13. *********** 

14. *********** 

15. ***********] 

 

2
[SCHEDULE-II 

[See section 5(1)] 

Sr. No. 

1 

Name of service  

      2 

1. Health Officers. 

2. Executive Engineers. 

                                                 
1. Sr. No. 3 to 15 omitted vide Notification No. LSG-B(1)-2/95 dated 19

th 
September, 

2000, published in the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh (Extra-ordinary) dated 27
th
 

September, 2000, pp. 3182-3183. 

2. SCHEDULE-II substituted vide Notification No. LSG-B(1)-2/95 dated 19
th
 

September, 2000, published in the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh (Extra-ordinary) 

dated 27
th

 September, 2000, pp. 3182-3183.  



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3. Assistant Engineers. 

4. Junior Engineers. 

5. Market Superintendents. 

6. Draughtsmen. 

7. Assistant Draughtsmen. 

8. Patwaries. 

9. Divisional Forest Officers. 

10. Range Officers. 

11. Deputy Forest Rangers. 

12. Forest Guards. 

13. Assistants/Accountants 

14. Tax Inspectors 

15. Sanitary Inspectors. 

16. Surveyors. 

17. Laboratory Technicians. 

18. Sanitary Supervisors. 

19. Clerks]. 

 
1
[“SCHEDULE-III 

[See section 3(1-a)] 

 

        SI No.                    Name of Service 

          1                                       2 

 

HIMACHAL PRADESH STATE LEVEL MUNICIPAL CORPORATION 

SERVICES OF- 

1. Executive Engineer 

2. Assistant Engineer 

3. Administrative Officer 

4. Superintendent Grade-I 

5. Superintendent Grade-II 

6. Chief Accountant 

7. Chief Sanitary Inspector 

8. Private Secretary 

9. Personal Assistant 

10. Secretary 

11. Junior Engineer 

12. Draughtsman 

                                                 
1.    Schedule-III and Schedule-IV Inserted vide H.P. Act No. 14 of 2023.  



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13. Senior Assistant 

14. Statistical Assistant 

15. Accountant 

16. Junior Accountant 

17. Sanitary Inspector 

18. Community Organizer 

19. Stenographer 

20. Steno Typist 

21. Surveyor 

22. Sanitary Supervisor 

23. Work Supervisor{Redesigned as Technician(Supervisor)} 

24. Computer Assistant 

25. Driver 

26. Meter Reader 

27. Meter Mechanic 

28. Technical Mechanic 

29. Junior Office Assistant(IT) 

30. Junior Draughtsman/Assistant Draughtsman 

31. Clerk/Junior Assistant 

32. Data Entry Operator 

33. Ferro Printer 

34. Laboratory Technician 

35. Technician(Carpenter,Mason,Blacksmith,Electrician,Fitter/Plumber,

& Mechanic) 

36. Male and Female Health Worker 

37. Tailoring Teacher 

_______ 

 

SCHEDULE-IV 

[See Section 5(1)] 

 

        SI No.                    Name of Service 

         1                                       2 

 

1. Architect Planner 

2. Corporation Health Officer/Health Officer 

3. Town Planner 

4. Veterinary Public Health Officer  

5. Law Officer  

6. Planning Officer 

7. Naib Tehsildar 

8. Veterinary Pharmacist  

9. Deputy Controller Accounts 

10. Section Officer (F&A) 

11. Assistant Architect Planner  

12. Kanungo 

13. Patwari.