IMPORTANT GOVT ORDER
A MAJOR VICTORY OF THE STRUGGLE OF CENTRAL GOVT
EMPLOYEES:
Confederation of central Govt Employees &
Workers have been continuously fighting against pension reforms implemented by
Govt in tune with the neo-liberal policies and demanding SCRAPPING OF THE NEW
PENSION SYSTEM (NPS). Further we have been demanding that those employees who
are covered by NPS should be eligible for payment of Death cum Retirement
Gratuity (DCRG) and Family Pension and also Govt guaranteed Minimum Pension and
Compensation for price rise (Dearness Relief). Now the Govt has conceded one of
our demand. Govt of India has issued orders to extend the benefit of Gratuity
to all NPS Employees. Further the Cabinet has decided to constitute a committee
for streamlining the implementation of NPS. We shall present the remaining
issues before that Committee also. Scrapping of NPS is one of the main demand
of 2016 September 2nd General Strike also. No struggle will go in vain. Let us
make the strike a grand success
M.Krishnan,
Secretary
General
Confederation.
No.
7/5/2012-P&PW(F)/B
Ministry
of Personnel, Public (Grievances and Pensions
Department
of Pension and Pensioners Welfare
Lok
Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market,
New
Delhi-110 003, Dated the 26th August, 2016
OFFICE
MEMORANDUM
Subject:
Extension of benefit of Retirement Gratuity and Death Gratuity to the Central
Government Employees covered by new Defined Contribution Pension System
(National Pension System) – regarding.
The undersigned is directed
to say that the pension of the Government servants appointed on or
after 1.1.2004 is regulated by the new Defined Contribution Pension
System (known as National Pension
System), notified by the Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic
Affairs)
vide their O.M. No. 5/7/2003-ECB & PR dated 22.12.2003. Orders were
issued
for payment of gratuity on
provisional basis in respect of employees covered under National
Pension System on their retirement
from Government service on invalidation or death in service,
vide this Department’s O.M. No. 38/41/2006-P&PW(A) dated 5.5.2009.
2. The issue of grant of gratuity in
respect of government employees covered by the National Pension System has been
under consideration of the Government. It has been decided that the
government employees covered by National
Pension System shall be eligible for
benefit of ‘Retirement gratuity and
Death gratuity’ on the same terms and
conditions, as are applicable to
employees covered by Central Civil
Service (Pension) Rulke,1972.
3. These orders issue with the concurrence
of Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure, vide their .D. Note No.
1(4)/EV/2006-II dated 29.07.2016.
4. In their application to the persons
belonging to the India Audit and Accounts Department, these orders issue after
consultation with Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
5. These orders will be applicable to
those Central Civil Government Employees who joined Government Service on or
after 1.1.2004 and are covered by National Pension System and will take effect
from the same date i.e. 1.1.2004.
Sd/-
(Harjit
Singh)
Director
(Pension Policy)
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