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Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
02-August-2017 15:18
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Fixation of Pension
In implementation of Government's decision on the recommendation of the
Seventh Central Pay Commission (7th CPC), orders have been issued vide
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare O.M. No. 38/37/16-P&PW(A)
(i) dated 04.08.2016 for revision of provisions regulating pension/gratuity/
commutation of pension/family pension/disability pension/ex-gratia lump-sum
compensation, etc. in respect of the employees retiring on or after
01.01.2016.v For revision of pension of pre-2016 civil pensioners, the 7th CPC
recommended the following two formulations:
(i) Notional Pay of employees who retired prior to 01.01.2016 may be
fixed in the Pay Matrix on the basis of the Pay Band and Grade Pay at which
they retired, by adding the number of increments he/ she had earned in that
level while in service, to the minimum of the corresponding level in the
matrix. Fifty percent of the total amount so arrived at shall be the revised
pension.
(ii) The pension, as had been fixed at the time of implementation of the
6th CPC recommendations, may be multiplied by 2.57 to arrive at an alternate
value for the revised pension.
7th CPC recommended that the pensioners may be given the option of
choosing the formulation which is more beneficial to them. Orders were issued
for revision of pension as per Formulation (ii) above vide Department of
Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare O.M. No. 38/37/16-P&PW(A) (ii) dated
04.08.2016 and the pension disbursing authorities were advised to make payment
of revised pension accordingly without waiting for the revised pension payment
authority. A Committee under the chairmanship of Secretary, Department of
Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare was constituted to examine the feasibility of
Formulation (i). The Committee observed that Formulation (i) as recommended by
the 7th CPC might be difficult to implement in a large number of cases and this
method may also cause anomalies.
In implementation of the recommendations of the aforesaid Committee,
orders have been issued vide Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare
O.M. No. 38/37/16-P&PW(A) dated 12.05.2017. It has been provided that the
revised pension/family pension w.e.f. 01.01.2016 in respect of all Central
civil pensioners/family pensioners may be revised by notionally fixing their pay
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 they retired/died by
notional pay fixation under each intervening Pay Commission based on the
Formula for revision of pay. 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. 1.1.2016. Higher of the two Formulations i.e. the pension/family
pension already revised in accordance with this Department’s OM dated
04.08.2016 or the revised pension/family pension as worked out by notional pay
fixation method, shall be the revised pension/family pension w.e.f. 01.01.2016.
There were around 55.51 lakh pensioners/family pensioners (including
defence pensioners/family pensioners) as on 31.03.2016. All Pension Sanctioning
Authorities have been advised to accord top priority to the work of revision of
pension and issue revised Pension Payment Authority in implementation of the
above orders expeditiously.
There is no proposal for creation of any other organisation for pension
related issues.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State for Prime Minister’s Office, Dr
Jitendra Singh in a written reply to question by Adv. Narendra Keshav Sawaikar
and Shri P. Nagarajan in the Lok Sabha today.
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