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:-
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.)
- Disability Pension matter has been reffered to Anomaly committee-Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure.
- 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%.
Service pension= please correct your blog. for officers min QS to earn FULL pension is 20 yrs and for less than 20 yrs service prorata pension granted.
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