Order to provide a huge relief to young Central Armed Police Force personnel
New Delhi: The government today decided to to extend “Disability Compensation” for all serving employees, if they get disabled in the line of duty while performing their service and are retained in service in spite of such disablement.
Today’s order will particularly provide a huge relief to young Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel like CRPF, BSF, CISF, etc since disability in performance of duties is generally reported in their case due to constraints of job requirement as well as hostile or difficult work environment, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, said.
The Minister informed that the new order will remove an anomaly in service rules, considering the hardship faced by the employees, since the provisions of disability benefits under Central Civil Services (CCS) (EOP) Rules till now did not provide such compensation to those government servants who were appointed on or after January 1,.2004 and covered under National Pension System (NPS).
However, with the new order issued by the Department of Pensions in the Ministry of Personnel, the employees covered under NPS will also get benefits under Rule (9) of Extra Ordinary Pension (EOP). “In other words, if a government servant gets disabled while performing his duties and this disablement is attributed to government service, in that case if he is still retained in the service in spite of disablement, a lump sum compensation will be paid to him by arriving at the capitalised value of the disability element, with reference to the Commutation Table in force from time to time,” the minister explained.
Dr. Singh further informed that the Ministry of Personnel had recently also done away with minimum qualifying service of 10 years for pension, if a government servant was incapacitated due to bodily or medical infirmity and retired from government service. Accordingly, Rule 38 of CCS (Pension) Rules was amended to provide Invalid Pension at 50% of the last pay, even if the employee had not completed minimum qualifying service of 10 years.
In addition to above, in yet another reform in the Pension Rules, a decision was also taken to amend the rule and provide pension at enhanced rate to the family of an employee who died during service before completing the requisite service of minimum 7 years. “As a result, now the family pension of 50% of the last pay is also admissible to the family of employees who die even before completing 7 years of service,” Dr. Singh stated.
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