Amendment to CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 – Notification Regarding

MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS

(Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 3rd March, 2014

G.S.R. 138 (E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 and clause (5) of article 148 of the Constitution and, after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in relation to conditions of service of persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the President hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972, namely’-

1.(1) These rules may be called the Central Civil Services (Pension) Second Amendment Rules, 2014.

(2) They shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from the 1st October, 2000.

2. In the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972, in rule 37A,-

(a) in sub-rule (22) and sub-rule (23), after the words “Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited” in both the places where they occur, the words-rand Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited” shall be inserted; .

(b) for sub-rule (24), the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely:-

“(24) The arrangements under sub-rule (23) shall be applicable to the existing pensioners and to the employees who are deemed to have retired from the Government service for absorption in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited and shall not apply to the employees directly recruited by the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited for whom they shall devise their own pension schemes and make arrangements for funding and disbursing the pensionary benefits.”

[F. No. 4/23/2013-P&PW(D)]

VANDANA SHARMA, Jt. Secy

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

Payment ofpensionary benefits to all categories of the erstwhile employees of the Government (Group A, B, C and D) absorbed in Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited who have opted for pension on combined service will be made by the Government in the same manner as in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited with effect from 1st October, 2000.Such erstwhile Government employees including those absorbed in Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited with effect from 1st November, 1998 andgovemed vide DOP&PW’s O.M.No. 4/18/87-P&PW(D) dated 5.7.1989 shall be brought within the purview of these rules with effect from 1st October, 2000. This is certified by the Department of Telecommunication that no one shall be adversely affected by giving retrospective effect to this notification.

Source:http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D3/D03ppw/notification_040314_E.pdf

Review of Forms for Pensionary/retirement benefits and Nominations under various Rules of the Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare.

No. 1/19/2013-P&PW (E)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions
Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare

Lok Nayak Bhawan,
Khan Market, New Delhi
Dated: 1st August, 2013

Circular

Sub: Review of Forms for Pensionary/retirement benefits and Nominations under various Rules of the Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare.

   The undersigned is directed to state that the Department of Pension &PW is in the process of reviewing Forms for Pensionary/retirement benefits and Nominations under the following Rules administered by this Department:

Pensioners Portal Order 2013: Simplification of pension process for permanently disabled children/siblings and dependent patients - instructions regarding.

No. 1127/2011-P&PW (E)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare

3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan,
Khan Marke, New Delhi
Dated: 1st July, 2013.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Sub: Simplification of pension process for permanently disabled children/siblings and dependent patients - instructions regarding. This Department’s O.M. No.1/19/11-P&PW (E), dated 3.8.2011, O.M. No.1/6/2008-P&PW (E), dated 22.6.2010 and O.M. No.1/21/91-P&PW (E), dated 20.1.93 refer.

   The undersigned is directed to state that a number of representations are being received in the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare about the difficulties being faced in getting the revised Pension Payment Orders (PPOs) issued for old parents and disabled children/siblings after the death of the pensioner family pensioner.

Introducing a dedicated day for attending pensioners in person — reg.

No. 55/40/2012-P&PW(C)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions
Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare

3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan,
New Delhi, the 31st Dec., 2012.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Introducing a dedicated day for attending pensioners in person — reg.

   The undersigned is directed to inform that in order to facilitate mitigation of problems of Central Civil Pensioners, it has been decided that on every Wednesday, concerned officers of the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare will he available between 1500 and 1600 hrs, in person, in Room No. 310, Lok Nayak Bhavan (near Gate No.1) to meet pensioners and, as far as possible, answer the queries/points raised by the pensioners.