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Summary

divisional Office correspondence record and accountant in the case of account records of a divisional office and by the head clerk of a sub divisional office

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PTCUL RTI MANUAL                                                                                                                                                                              
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PRESERVATION 
AND 
DESTRUCTION 
OF 
RECORDS 
 
 
MANUAL 17

PTCUL RTI MANUAL                                                                                                                                                                              
 
 
 
Preservation and destruction of records 
 
 
401.(1) Appendix VI gives a list of the registers maintained in the various officers. Where a register shown is as kept in one office 
only, it is open to the Superintending Engineer and divisional officer to order that it shall be maintained in any of the other offices also. They 
may also order the maintenance of registers other than those mentioned in the appendix. 
 
 
(2) Divisional officer shall order in writing the destruction of records, including registers in their own and subordinate officers, on the 
expiry of the minimum period prescribed in Appendix V, counting form the last day of the latest official year covered by the record. They 
shall on no account destroy the records mentioned in rule (a) of Appendix XVI of Financial Hand Book, Volume V, Part I. As regards records 
for which no minimum period has been prescribed, divisional officers shall seek the order of Superintending Engineer, who shall in the case 
of accounts records, obtain the previous concurrence of the Accountant General before ordering their destruction. 
 
 
(3) The following rules shall be observed in all offices for the weeding of official records: 
After the disposal of a letter or paper in any file, the head clerk or accountant should mark or stamp each letter or paper, in bold 
conspicuous figures about one inch in height, the year in which it is to destroyed, in accordance with the classifications given to it in 
Appendix V showing the various cases to be destroyed or retained and the period of their existence. The intention is that the paper shall be 
marked or stamped on, or shortly after, receipt with the date (year) in which they are to be destroyed and that their selection for destruction 
en masses shall not be left to a clerk, often temporarily entertained. It is to be particularly noted that only papers specifically included in the 
list may be destroyed. Any paper not so included should be permanently retained and marked or stamped “Permanent Record”. No 
document is to be considered disposed of until it has been so marked or stamped. 
 
The weeding of all papers which have passed the date of destruction marked or stamped on them as noted above must be regularly and 
systematically carried out. The portion of the records so weeded out shall be submitted to the head of the office for an order to destroy. All 
papers received in divisional and sub divisional offices will come within one or another of the heads mentioned and the class should be 
determined by the head of the office. Records should be preserved if there be any doubt that premature destruction will be injurious to the 
interest of government. Records in which any important principal is discussed should be retained permanently though the subject may fall  
within the categories for which only temporary retention is prescribed in the rules.  
 
In the case of papers of the accounts branch, the advice of the Accountant General, Utter Pradesh should be taken before the final disposal 
of any records not included in the classification given in Appendix V.

PTCUL RTI MANUAL                                                                                                                                                                              
 
A proper record should be kept in the file register of all paper destroyed. The entries must be signed by the head clerk in the case of 
correspondence record and accountant in the case of account records of a divisional office and b

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