Procedural actions for revision of pension of pre-1.1.2016 retirees of
Central Government in pursuance of the OM of Department of Pension and
Pensioners’ Welfare dated 12.5.2017
No.1(13)/EV/2017
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
New Delhi, the 23rd May, 2017
Office Memorandum
Subject: Procedural actions for revision of pension of pre-1.1.2016 retirees of Central Government in pursuance of the OM of Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare dated 12.5.2017 – Regarding.
The Ministries/Departments of the Central Government are aware of the
orders issued by Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
(DoP&PW) contained in their OM No. 38/37/2016-P&PW(A) dated 12.5.2017
regarding revision of pension of pre-1.1.2016 retirees. In terms of
para 4 thereof, the revised pension/family pension w.e.f. 1.1.2016 in
respect of all Central civil pensioners/family pensioners, including
CAPF’s who retired/died prior to 1.1.2016 may be revised by notionally
fixing their pay in the pay matrix recommended by the 7th Central Pay
Commission in the level corresponding to the pay in the pay scale/pay
band and grade pay at which they retired/died. The said OM further
provides that this will be done by notional pay fixation under each
intervening Pay Commission based on the formula for revision of pay. 50%
of the notional pay as on 1.1.2016 shall be the revised pension and 30%
of this notional pay shall be the revised family pension w.e.f.
1.1.2016.
2. The Ministries/Departments are aware that actual implementation of
the aforesaid order contained in the OM dated 12.5.2017 of the
Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare involves a procedure for
revision of pension of such pensioners, which covers a number of
agencies like the Heads of Departments/Heads of Offices, under whose
administrative control a particular pensioner had worked before
retirement/death, the concerned PAOs, pension accounting organizations
like CPAO in case of civil pensioners and similar pension accounting
organizations pertaining to pensioners in Ministries of Railways,
Defence and Department of Posts, etc. Therefore, a coordinated action
amongst these agencies is required to ensure that revision of pension in
such cases is processed expeditiously.
3. Accordingly, while the substantive matter pertaining to revision of
pension of pre-1.1.2016 Central Government retirees concerns Department
of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare as already provided in their
aforesaid OM dated 12.5.2017 and any further substantive order thereon
issued by them, there are certain procedural actions which need to be
taken by the concerned administrative agencies in each
Ministry/Department as well as the pension accounting organisations like
the Central Pension Accounting Office under the Ministry of Finance,
Department of Expenditure; Controller General of Defence Accounts under
the Ministry of Defence and similar pension accounting organisations
under the Ministry of Railways and Department of Posts etc so that
appropriate implementation of the orders of Department of Pension and
Pensioners’ Welfare as per their OM dated 12.5.2017 is carried out
expeditiously.
4. In order, therefore, to put the procedural issues in this regard in
perspective and to provide for coordinated action amongst the concerned
agencies, the following procedural points of action are to be taken by
the concerned agencies as brought out below:
(A) Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance
(i) The fitment tables for fixation of notional pay will be worked out
by the Department of Expenditure and provided to Department of Pension
and Pensioners’ Welfare for appropriate guidelines for the purpose of
issue of any further substantive order in the matter.
(B) Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare
(i) The appropriate guidelines/ instructions for revision of pension
based on fitment tables for notional pay will be issued for use by the
pension revising administrative authorities, PAOs and pension accounting
organisations in the Central Government.
(C) Pension Accounting Authorities
(i) The Central Pension Accounting Office in case of civil pensioners
and similar pension accounting offices in the Ministry of Defence,
Ministry of Railways, Department of Posts etc., shall pass on the
available and relevant data of live pensioners to the concerned PAOs by
31.05.2017, if such data is already available with them. This action
will be completed within two weeks. In cases where the data is not
available, the same will be obtained by the pension accounting offices
from the disbursing banks and shall be passed on to the concerned PAOs.
This action will be taken up simultaneously and completed within four
weeks.
(ii) The pension accounting offices, while passing on the data to the
concerned PAOs, may also devise a suitable mechanism for electronic
revision, as far as possible, to enable PAOs to process the cases of
pension revision expeditiously.
(iii) The central pension accounting offices like the CPAO, at the time
of passing on the data to the concerned PAOs, shall send a few
illustrative examples on pension revision in such cases to the pension
disbursing Banks to enable them to consider suitable changes in the
software, if necessary, for the purpose.
(D) Pay & Account Office (PAO)/Head of the Department.
(i) The concerned PAOs, on receiving data from the pension accounting
organizations, shall immediately, and not later than 3 days from the
receipt of data, pass on the data to the concerned
administration/establishment Branches/Heads of the Office (HOO)s under
various Heads of Department (HODs) of the Ministries/Departments. The
HOOs will also check their records to ascertain the actual numbers of
retirees.
(ii) The concerned administration/establishment branches/Heads of
Offices (HOO) under various Heads of Departments (HODs) of the
Ministries/Departments shall take action to revise the pension in case
of retirees who had worked under their administrative control, based on
the orders issued by the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
dated 12.5.2017 and any further order containing the fitment table
providing for notional pay, after due verification of the relevant
records.
(iii) In cases where records are readily available with the HoD/DDO, the
action to process revision of pension shall be initiated forthwith and
not later than 30 days from the date of receipt of the list of
pensioners by the PAOs from the CPAO. In such cases, revised pension
cases will be sent to the PAOs for further necessary action by the
concerned administrative Branches/HOOs, which normally process the
pension cases in case of employees under their administrative domain on
their retirement/death.
(iv) In cases where records are not readily available, the concerned
HOOs/HODs will ensure appropriate action for verification of such cases
and ensure expeditious revision of pension as per the prescribed
procedure and passing on the same to PAOs for further necessary action.
(v) On receipt of revised pension cases from the
administrative/establishment branches, the PAOs shall take further
appropriate action expeditiously and pass on the duly verified pension
revision authorities to the pension accounting offices like the CPAO,
which will in turn take further action to issue necessary
instructions/authority to the disbursing Banks without delay.
(vi) Once the revised pension authority is received by the Banks, they
will ensure timely payment of revised pension and arrears, if any, to
the accounts of pensioners.
5. In order to ensure effective monitoring of the progress of pension
revision based on the procedure outlined above, a monitoring mechanism
will also be followed as brought out below:
(i) DOP&PW will periodically monitor the Ministry-wise progress of
pension revision. For this purpose, Ministry-wise details would be made
available by the respective pension accounting organisations, viz, CPAO,
CGDA, etc, to the Department of P&PW.
(ii) The progress of pension revision at the HOD/HOO level will be
monitored by the concerned JS(Admn) of the Ministry/Department on a
weekly basis. This will be included as one agenda in the Senior Officers
Meetings (5OM) in each Ministry/Department.
(iii) CPAO and similar pension accounting organisations shall place
online a dashboard of the progress of revision of pension cases with
PAOs, CCAs, nodal authorities of Ministries/Departments and Department
of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare.
(iv) In order to ensure timely action on the part of Chief Controller of
Accounts/Controller of Accounts/PAOs and Pension Accounting
Organisations, a weekly progress meeting shall be held at the level of
Chief Controller of Pension and this shall be monitored on monthly basis
by Controller General of Accounts, CGDA and similar levels in the
Ministry of Railways, Department of Posts, etc.
sd/-
(Amar Nath Singh)
Director
Source: Click here from Finmin Website
No comments:
Post a Comment