General Pool Residential Accommodation for Defence Civilian Employees

General Pool Residential Accommodation for Defence Civilian Employees – Grant of eligibility to the Defence civilian employees for the General Pool Residential Accommodation (GPRA) allotted by the Directorate of Estates

General Pool Residential Accommodation for Defence Civilian Employees – Ministry of Defence Circular

No. 17(19)/2014/D (Civ-II)

Government of India

Ministry of Defence

(Department of Defence)

D (Civ-II) Section

B-Wing, Sena Bhavan, New Delhi

Dated: 07.07.2017

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Grant of eligibility to the Defence civilian employees for the General Pool Residential Accommodation (GPRA) allotted by the Directorate of Estates -Representation from BPMS

The undersigned is to refer to Ministry of Urban Development’s OM No. 12033/4/67- Po1.11 dated 3rd, October, 1969 on the subject — ‘Eligibility of the staff of Central Government Office for allotment of residential accommodation from the General Pool-Criteria regarding’ and to say that a number of defence civilian employees working in many Defence establishments located in Delhi/New Delhi/Delhi Cantt are not able to avail the facility of GPRA for the reason that their offices have not been declared “eligible offices” for allotment of GPRA allotted by Directorate of Estates (DoE). The small quota of 15% of residential accommodation of the Defence/Army Pool is grossly inadequate and therefore it causes extreme hardship to the defence civilian employees who have to make their own arrangement for residential accommodation.

2.It has been noticed that Dte of Estates has already granted eligibility for GPRA to majority of defence establishments in Delhi. The defence civilian employees serving in these defence establishments are already availing the facilities of Residential Accommodation of Dte of Estates. Only a few defence establishments are not covered in the list of eligible offices maintained by the Dte of Estates and a list of 8 such defence establishments in Delhi is at Annexure.

3. In view of the hardship being experienced by the Civilian employees of these eight defence establishments, it is requested that eligibility code for allotment of General Pool Residential accommodation (GPRA) to the staff of these defence establishments/offices may please be allotted. It is certified that the essential requirements, listed below, for a Central Government offices to be treated as ‘eligible offices’ for the purpose of the allotment of Government Residences (General Pool in Delhi) Rules, 1963, are fulfilled by these offices/defence establishments:

These offices/establishments have been situated in Delhi/New Delhi/Delhi Cantt since decades and in most of the cases before independence.
They are attached/subordinate offices of Ministry of Defence under Government of India.
The salary of their employees is paid from the Consolidated Fund of India
15% quota of residential accommodation of the Defence/Army Pool is not

4. This issues with the approval of Defence Secretary.

(Anil Kumar)

Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of India

Director of Estates

Ministry of Urban Development

(Directorate of Estates)- Pol. IV

Nirman Bhavan, New Delhi

Annexure to MoD OM No. 17(19)/2014/D(Civ-II) dated 7th July 2017

LIST OF 08 DEFENCE ESTABLISHMENTS/OFFICES IN DELHI / NEW DELHI / DELHI CANTT TO BE GRANTED ELIGIBILITY FOR ALLOTMENT OF GENERAL POOL RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION (GPRA):

SI. No	Name and address of the Office/Defence establishment	Eligibility required in respect of	Total No. of defence civilian employee s in position	No. of houses already available in Departmental Pool of the concerned Dte/Establishment for allotment to its employees
1.	Ordnance Depot, Shakurbasti, Rohtak Road, Delhi.	Defence Civilian Employees only	1397	Nil	Station HQ provides 15% accommodation in their Central Pool for allotment to the defence civilian employees on the basis of seniority. However, in view of large number of defence civilians posted in Delhi/New Delhi/Delhi Cantt, this quota of 15% is highly inadequate to satisfy the requirement of the residential accommodation.
2.	505 Army Base Workshop, Delhi Cantt under DG/EME	Defence Civilian Employees only	1593	Nil
3.	Military Farm-1, West Block-III, RK Puram.	Defence Civilian Employees only Defence Civilian Employees only	08 22	Nil 02
4.	Provost Marshal-5, `B’ Wing, Sena Bhavan, New Delhi.		08 22	Nil 02
5.	Director General Medical Services (3B), Army HQ, L- Block, Church Road, New Delhi.	Defence Civilian Employees only	497	08
6.	HQ, Technical Group EME, Delhi Cantt. 110010.	Defence Civilian Employees only Defence Civilian Employees only	105 234	Nil Nil
7.	DG Armed Forces Medical Services (DG-2B), M Block, Church Road, New Delhi.		105 234	Nil Nil
8.	Central Aviation Support Depot, Delhi Cantt.	Defence Civilian Employees only	218	Nil