FINANCE (PENSION-I) DEPARTMENT
G.O.MS.No 30 Dated:21-02-2019
Read the following:
Ref:- 1.G.O.MS.No.51, Finance
(Pen.I) Department, dated 08.05.2015
2.G.O.Ms.No.75,
GA (SC.A) Department, dated 28.05.2018.
3.G.O.
MS.No.11, Finance (Pen.I) Department, dated.
4.
G.O.Ms. No.21, Finance (PC-TA) Department, dated 18.02.2019
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ORDER:
In the G.O 2nd read above, orders
were issued appointing the Pay Revision Commissioner and also laying down the
terms of reference of the Pay Revision Commission. Review of existing pension
structure is also one of the terms of reference of the Pay Revision
Commissioner.
2. Pending recommendations of the Pay Revision
Commissioner, in the G.O.4th read
above, Government issued orders to all State
Government employees who are drawing pay in Revised Pay Scales, 2015 at the
rate of 20% of the basic pay with effect from 1.07.2018 notionally and with
monetary benefit from 01.04.2019 payable in June, 2019 subject
to terms and conditions laid down therein.
3.
As the review of existing pension structure is also one of the terms of reference
of the Pay Revision Commission, Government has considered it appropriate to
sanction Interim Relief to the Pensioners also pending recommendations of the
Pay Revision Commission in this regard.
4.
Accordingly, Government hereby
sanctioned Interim Relief at the rate of 20% of the
basic pension notionally w.e.f 01.07.2018. Monetary benefit will be w.e.f.01.04.2019
and payable in the month of June 2019
to the Govt. pensioners who are currently drawing pay in the Revised Scales of
Pay 2015 subject to the following terms and conditions:
(a) Interim Relief shall be shown as a separate
element. No Dearness Relief on this element shall be admissible. Interim Relief
involving a fraction of rupee will be rounded off to the next higher rupee.
(c) The
Interim Relief sanctioned shall be fully adjusted against and included in the
package, which may become admissible to the pensioner/ family pensioner as a
result of Government decision on the final report of the Pay Revision Commissioner.
5.
The Interim Relief ordered above shall apply to:
(a) (i)
those who retired from service after 01.07.2013 drawing pay in the Revised Pay
Scales, 2015;
(ii) those who retired prior to 01.7.2013
and whose pension was consolidated in the light of orders issued in the G.O. 1st
read above;
(b) Jagir and Estate Pensioners and
(c) Service pensioners or Family
pensioners in respect of the categories mentioned at para 2(c) of the GO 4th
cited and who are governed by AP Revised Pension Rules, 1980.
6.
These
orders are not applicable to:
(i)
The pensioners who retired while drawing
UGC /AICTE and ICAR Scales.
(ii) Financial assistance grantees who are not
getting Dearness Relief.
(iii) Pensioners/Family
Pensioners of the members of the A.P. State Higher Judicial Service and A.P.
State Judicial Service.
(iv) Pensioners/Family
Pensioners whose pension was consolidated in the light of the orders issued
vide G.O. Ms. No.54, Higher Education (UD.II) Department, Dated 08.06.2011,
G.O. (P) No.95 Finance (Pension.I) Department, Dated 01.08.2010 and G.O.Ms.
No.31, Higher Education (UE.II) Department, dated 24.05.2013
7. The
term pension for the purpose of calculation of above Interim Relief:
(i) Pension/ Family Pension in case of
pre 1.7.2013 retirees and where family pension was sanctioned prior to 1.7.2013
means the consolidated pension or consolidated family pension in terms of G.O
1st read above.
(ii) In the case of pensioners who
retire from service on or after 1.7.2013 or where family pension is sanctioned
for the first time on or after 1.7.2013.
Pension/ Family Pension means the basic pension/ basic family pension as
the case may be.
8. In case of pensioners in receipt of more
than one pension, the Interim Relief shall be calculated on both the pensions.
9.
If
any pensioner is re-employed/ employed under the State or Central Government or
any Public Enterprise or Autonomous Body under the control of State or Central
Government, he/she shall not be eligible to draw Interim Relief on Pension/Family
Pension during the period of such re-employment/employment.
10.
All the Treasury Officers/ Pension
Payment Officers shall work out and make payments of Interim Relief on pension
sanctioned in this order without waiting for further authorization/
instructions from the Accountant General (A&E), A.P., Hyderabad in terms of
the orders issued in G.O.(P) No.270 Finance & Planning (FW: PSC.I)
Department dated 7.10.1986.
11. The
expenditure is allocable among the various States in accordance with provisions
of Rule 24 of the incidence of pension rules in Appendix – IIIB of the Andhra
Pradesh Accounts Code, Volume-I.
