As is the case, any adverse remark is invariably communicated to the concerned officials.
Some relevant post:
http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/3159-post11.html
The Rule says any adverse grade or any adverse remark even with good grade need to be communicated to the officer concerned.
DoPT has dissolved any super session based on good ACR, and introduced the minimum benchmark for all to get promoted. Thus if one's ACR has 5 good and another has 5 outstanding, the level remains the same.
Further for example, a particular promotion requires a minimum grading of 'GOOD', and one officer gets 5 'Good', another gets 5 'outstanding', and the last one gets 1 Average and 4 'Outsanding'; the first 2 will both get promotion without break in seniority and the 3rd one will not get promotion.
But as you can see, the 'average' grading need to be communicated to officer concerned, it is but clear that he has ample time to represent and know his fault and correct and represent thereof.
However, I in one case, agree that is '
deputation', which is primarily driven by so to say .... "outstanding".