EXTENSION OF TIME-LIMIT TO RE-EXERCISE OPTION WHOSE INCREMENT WAS DURING FEB-06 TO JUNE-06.

EXTENSION OF TIME-LIMIT TO RE-EXERCISE OPTION WHOSE INCREMENT WAS DURING FEB-06 TO JUNE-06.

1. Officers meeting the following conditions have been given opportunity to re-exercise option as per the form attached:

i. The officer’s DNI (Date of Next Increment) as per Vth CPC fall between Feb 2006 and June 2006 and

ii The officer had exercised an option to switch over to the revised pay structure (VIth CPC) from the date of increment instead of 01/01/2006.

2. The last date to re-exercise this option is 31/07/2013.

3. Officers exercising this option will be entitled to the following :

i. One increment in pre-revised scale on 01/01/2006.

ii. The pay will be fixed in revised Pay Structure (VIth CPC) from 01/01/2006.

iii Annual increment on 01/07/2006.

The officers who are affected as above are requested to exercise the option without any delay.

FORM OF OPTION

(i) I, No.____________________ , Rank ______________________Name___________________________________________________ hereby elect the revised pay structure with effect from 01 Jan, 2006.

(ii) I, No. ______________________, Rank_______________________________Name__________________________________________________ hereby elect to continue in the existing scale of pay of my substantive rank mentioned below until.

*the date of my next increment the date of my subsequent increment raising my pay to Rs.__________

I vacate or cease to draw pay in the existing scale.

Existing scale Rs.____________

Signature
    Name (in Block letters)_____________
Rank_____________
Personal Unit_____________

Date
Station

*To be scored out if not applicable

Courtesy- CGEN.in

Recovery of excess payment of emoluments / allowances from the employee --- Can it be made ?

The Supreme Court referring to the earlier judgements has reiterated that no recovery of excess payment of emoluments / allowance can be made if 1) the excess payment was not made on account of any misrepresentation or fraud on the part of employee and 2) if the excess payment was  made by the employer by applying a wrong principle for calculating the pay /allowance or on the basis of a particular interpretation of rule/order, which is subsequently found to be erroneous. The court has further stated that if in a given case, it is proved the employee had knowledge that the payment received was in excess of what was due or wrongly paid, or in cases where the error is detected or corrected within a short time of wrong payment, the courts may on the facts and circumstances of any particular case may order the recovery of the amount paid in excess.

This important judgement has been made available on this blog under the title " Disciplinary Proceedings-- Important Judgments"
( S.N. 11 in the list) The said judgement can be got downloaded, if required. 

All the Government employees (including the pensioners) are advised to download and go through the said judgemnt.

Obtaining signature in Service Book every year reg.

Updation of service books and its inspection by each employee. : SR 202 (Inspection of Service Book) says,every head of Office has to initiate action to show the service book to the government servant concerned every year and to obtain his signature there in token of their having inspected / seen the Service Book.

EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION

(Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India)

No. HRM/RPFC/PA/CPFC Meeting/2013/7493

Dated: 15.07.2013 / 17 JUL 2013

To 

Director, NATRSS,

All Addl. CPFCs.

All Regional P.F.Commissioners (ROs/SROs - including RPFC(ASD))

Subject: Updation of service books and its inspection by each employee.

Sir,

You are aware that under SR 199 every step in the career of an official / officer should he recorded in the service book and each entry is attested by the Head of the Office / officer so authorized to ensure accuracy in the entries.

2. Further, under SR 202 the updated service book is required to be shown to official / officer every year. The government servant after ensuring the accuracies of each entry affixes his / her signature.

3. In view of the above, it is requested to carry out an exercise towards updation of service book and its mandatory inspection by respective employees. The head of the offices maintaining the service hooks of employees must give a certificate that Service books of all employees in his office has been updated and the signatures of respective employees have been obtained in the service book.

4. This exercise needs to be completed by 15.08.2013.

(This issues with the approval of ACC(HR) ).

Yours faithfully,

sd/-

(UDAY BAXI)

REGIONAL P.F. COMMISSIONER(HRM)

Withholding of 10% gratuity from the retiring Government servants - clarification regarding.

          Department of Pension and Pensioner' welfare  
             Office Memorandum dated 11 th July 2013



Subject: Withholding of 10% gratuity from the retiring Government servants -
clarification regarding.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department's OM of even number dated the 19th
February 2013 on the above cited subject and to say that this Department is still receiving
representations from individuals and Pensioners Associations that Government Departments have
been withholding 10% of the amount of gratuity from retirees even when they had not been
provided any Government accommodation. This is in contravention of existing instructions.

2 The recovery and adjustment of Govt. dues from retirement gratuity is regulated under Rules
71 to 73 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972. Rule (1) to (3) of Rule 72 ibid provide for recovery of
actual amount of Govt. dues in respect of Govt. accommodation from pay & allowances before
retirement and from Retirement Gratuity. Sub rule (5) of Rule 72 ibid stipulates that if, in any
particular case, it is not possible for the Directorate of Estates to determine the outstanding licence
fee, that Directorate shall inform the Head of Office that ten per cent of gratuity may be withheld
pending receipt of further information. Further, if no Government accommodation is allotted to a
Government servant, in accordance with Dte of Estate's OM NO.18011/5/1990-Pol-1I1 dated
12.10.2010, it is for the Administrative Ministry to issue an 'NDC".

3. As regards recovery in respect of 'Govt. dues' other than those pertaining to Govt.
accommodation, the Head of Office is required to complete assessment of such dues eight months
prior to the date of retirement [Rule 73(2)]. The actual amount of such dues and the dues which
come to notice subsequently and remain outstanding are to be adjusted against the amount of
retirement gratuity becoming payable to the Govt. servant on retirement.

4. It is, therefore, clear that there is no provision for withholding any part of gratuity at the
time of retirement for the purpose of recovery of outstanding government dues other than those
pertaining to government accommodation and the onus of timely collection of license fee is on the
Directorate of Estates. If the Directorate of Estate does not specifically inform the Administrative
Department of the outstanding dues and requests for withholding of 10% gratuity for the
outstanding license fee, Gratuity cannot be withheld on this account. The only other circumstance
under which gratuity can be withheld is in case of ongoing disciplinary proceedings against the
Government servant. Thus the Pay and Accounts Officer shall not withhold any gratuity unless
the Head of Office
(a) encloses instructions received from Directorate of Estate for withholding of 10%
gratuity for outstanding license fee or
(b) Informs of ongoing disciplinary proceedings.

These instructions are for strict compliance of all Administrative Ministriesl Departments.

5. A revised FORM 8 - form of letter to the Accounts Officer forwarding the pension papers
of Government servant is also enclosed. Formal amendment in the CCS(Pension) Rules for revised
Form 8 will be notified later.;:
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