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Pensions

Pension Regulations

This Division administers (i) Pension Regulations for the Army(PRA), 1961, revised as PRA, 2008 (ii) Pension Regulations for the Air Force, 1961, and (iii) Navy (Pension) Regulation, 1964. It also deals with Entitlement Rules for Casualty Pensionary Awards, 2008.

Kinds of Pension

Pension Division deals with policy matters relating to pensionary matters of Defence Forces Personnel which includes:-

1. Service Pension is granted @ 50% of emoluments last drawn or average of reckonable emoluments during the last 10 months, whichever is more beneficial subject to minimum of Rs. 9000 /p.m. The minimum qualifying service to earn pension is 20 years in case of Commissioned Officer and 15 years in the case Personnel Below Officer Rank.
2. Ordinary Family Pension is granted @ 30% of reckonable emoluments last drawn subject to a minimum of Rs.9000/- p.m. (in case of natural death of the individual).
3. Special Family Pension is granted at a uniform rate of 60% of reckonable emoluments last drawn by the deceased. (in case of death of a individual attributable to military service).
4. Liberalized Family Pension is granted equal to the reckonable emoluments last drawn by the deceased (to the families of personnel killed in war or war like operations,counter-insurgency operations, encounter with terrorists etc.)
5. Disability Pension matter has been reffered to Anomaly committee-Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure.
6. War Injury Pension The rates of War Injury Element for 100% disability for various rank shall be equal to the reckonable emoluments last drawn in case of invalided out and 60% of reckonable emoluments last drawn in case of discharge, which would be proportionately reduced where disability is less than 100%.

7th CPC Minimum Wage & Fitment Formula, NPS Issues and National & Deptt Anomalies – NJCA to hold a meeting on 3.7.2018

National Joint Council of Action

4, State Entry Road, New Delhi-110055

No.NJCA/2018

Dated: June 8, 2018

All Members of the NJCA

Dear Comrades,

Sub: Holding of meeting of the NJCA

It has been decided to hold meeting of the National Council of Action (NJCA) on 3rd July, 2018 from 16.00 hrs, in JCM Office, 13-C, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi

The following would be the issue of discussion:-

(i) To take stock of the current situation in regard to non-settled of major pending issues, viz. improvement in Minimum Wage and Fitment Formula.

(ii) No progress in respect of NPS Covered Central Government Employees.

(iii) Other pending issues related to National and Departmental Anomalies.

All of you are requested to make it convenient to attend the said meeting so as to take the consensus decision for future course of action in the prevalent scenario.

With Fraternal Greetings,

sd/-

(Shiva Gopal Mishra)

Convener

7th CPC Pension Revision - Restoration of full pension for absorbee defence pensioners/family pensioners - Delinking of qualifying service of 33 years w.e.f. 1.1.2006

No.1(04)/2007/D(Pen/Pol)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

New Delhi,Dated: 20th June,2018

To
The Chief of the Army Staff
The Chief of the Naval Staff
The Chief of the Air Staff

Subject: Restoration of pension in respect of Defence Service Personnel who had drawn lump sum payment on absorption in Public Sector Undertakings/ Autonomous Bodies — delinking of qualifying service of 33 years for revised pension with effect from 1.1.2006 reg.

Sir,

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Ministry’s letter No.1(04)/2007-D(Pen/Policy) dated 18th Sept,2017 under which orders have been issued for restoration of full pension for those Defence pensioners who had drawn lump sum payment on absorption in Public Sector Undertaking/Autonomous Bodies after expiry of commutation period of 15 years from the date of payment of 100% lump sum amount. The said order also allows revision of pension in accordance with the instructions issued from time to time in implementation of the recommendations of the Pay commissions including Seventh CPC.

2. Instructions were issued by this Ministry vide letter No 1(2)/2016- D(Pen/Pol.) dated 30.9.2016 to the effect that w.e.f.1.1.2006 revised consolidated pension and family pension of pre-2006 Armed Forces pensioners shall not be lower than 50% and 30% respectively of the minimum of the pay in the Pay Band plus Grade pay corresponding to the pre–revised scale from which the pensioner had retired/ discharged/ invalided out/ died including Military Service Pay and ‘X’ Group pay, if any, without pro rata reduction of pension even if they had rendered qualifying service of less than 33 years at the time of retirement.
3. Matter has been considered by the Government and it has been decided that while determining the revised pension of above said category of absorbee pensioners/ family pensioners with effect from 1.1.2006, the pension/ family pension shall also be revised in accordance with the provisions contained in this Ministry’s letter dated 30.9.2016 referred above.
4. The revised pension in terms of this order shall be revised by respective Pension Sanctioning Authorities suo-moto by issuing Corrigendum PPOs in all affected cases. No application in this regard shall be called for either from the pensioners or from the PDAs concerned.
5. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Division of this Ministry vide their ID No.31(8)/09/Fin/Pen dated 23-05-2018.
6. Hindi version will follow.

Sd/-

(R K Arora)
Under Secretary to the Govt. Of India.

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7th CPC : Revision of Pension/Family Pension (pre and post 2016) retired faculty and non-faculty of Centrally Funded Technical Institutions

F. No. 15-7/2017-TC

Government of India

Ministry of Human Resource Development

Department of Higher Education

Technical Coordination

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New Delhi, Dated:14th June, 2018

To,

The Directors,

All Centrally Funded Technical Institutions. 

Subject: Revision of pension/family pension of pre-01.01.2016 and post-01.01.2016 retired faculty and non-faculty of Centrally Funded Technical Institutions- regarding.

Sir,

I am directed to convey the approval of the Government of India to revise pension/family pension of pre-01.01.2016 and post-01.01.2016 faculty and non-faculty pensioners /family pensioners of CFTIs, as per Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare OM No. 38/37/2016-P&PW(A)(i)/(ii), dated 04.08.2016 and OM No. 38/37/2016-P&PW(A) dated 12.05.2017 & 06.07.2017, as amended from time to time. 

2. The DoP&PW (as per aforesaid OMs) has provided for following manner of revision of pension/family pension: 

As per 2^nd formulation (recommended by 7th CPC), vide para -4.1 of OM dated 04.03.2016, as follows: 

For existing pensioners, who have retired before 01.01.2016 the revised pension/family pension with effect from 01.01.2016 shall be determined by multiplying the existing pension/family pension, as had been fixed at the time of implementation of 6th CPC recommendations, by 2.57. The amount of revised pension/family pension so arrived at shall be rounded off to next higher rupee. 

OR

As per 1^st formulation (recommended by 7th CPC), vide para-4 of OM dated 12.05.2017, as follows;

The pension/family pension w.e.f. 01.01.2016 may be revised by notionally fixing the pay of pensioners in the pay matrix recommended by the 7th CPC in the level corresponding to the pay in the pay scale/pay band and grade pay at which pensioners retired/died. This will be done by notional pay fixation under each intervening Pay Commission based on the formula for revision of pay. While fixing pay on notional basis, the pay fixation formulae approved by the Government and other relevant instructions on the subject in force at the relevant time shall be strictly followed. Then:

• 50% of the notional pay as on 01.01.2016 shall be the revised pension and 30% of this notional pay shall be the revised family pension w.e.f. 01.01.2016; and

• for family pensioners who were entitled to family pension at enhanced rate, the revised family pension shall be 50% of the notional pay as on 01.01.2016. This shall be payable till the period up to which family pension at enhanced rate is admissible as per rules. The amount of revised pension/family pension so arrived at shall be rounded off to next higher rupee.

All CFTIs may, accordingly, workout pension on the lines of concordance tables prepared by the DoP&PW vide OM dated 06.07.2017 as amended from time to time.

3. The DoP&PW’s OM dated 12.05.2017 vide para-5, further maintains that higher of the two formulations i.e. the pension/family pension already revised in accordance with the OM dated 04.08.2016 or the revised pension/family pension as worked out in accordance with para 4 of OM dated 12.05.2017, shall be granted to pre-01.01.2016 pensioners as revised pension/family pension w.e.f. 01.01.2016.

4. Accordingly, all the CFTIs are requested to workout the pension/ family pension of pre-01.01.2016 faculty and non-faculty pensioners/family pensioners of CFTIs, as per the formulations discussed above read with other principles enunciated in DoP&PW's OMs of dated 12.05.2017 & 06.07.2017 and subsequent OMs dated 18.07.2017 & 13.09.2017.

5. In case of those employees who retired/died before 01.01.1986, the pension may be worked out on the lines of concordance tables given in Department of Pension and Pensioner’s Welfare OM No. 38/37/2016-P&PW(A), dated 06.07.2017 based on their notional pay as on 01.01.1986, which was fixed in accordance with DoP&PW’s OM No. 45/86/97-P&PW(D)(iii), dated 10.02.1998.

6. The revision of pension and pensionary benefits such as gratuity, etc. to those pensioners who retired on or after 01.01.2016 shall be done as per Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare OM No. 38/37/2016-P&PW(A)(i), dated 04.08.2016. The revision of pension and pensionary benefits such as gratuity etc. are to be made applicable to only those who are covered with the schemes which are in accordance with the similar schemes for Central Government employees.

7. This order is applicable in only those cases where such pension schemes have already been adopted with prior approval of Government of India/ Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), as amended from time to time.

8. In case any institute has revised pension in a manner different from the above formulations, the same may have to be reworked by the concerned institute and necessary adjustments are to be made.

9. Any excess payment made on account of incorrect fixation of pension or any other excess payment made shall be adjusted/recovered against the future payments due or otherwise to the beneficiary.

10. This issues with the approval of IFD at note 18 dated 12.06.2018.

11. Hindi version will follow.

(Malathi Narayanan)

Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of India

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