Revision of Service Element of Liberalized Disability Pension for Pre-2006 Pensioners

Amendment to Armed Forces Pay Rules and Regulations, 2017 (Army)

Revision  of Service Element of Liberalized Disability Pension/ War Injury  Pension in for Pre-2006 Commissioned Officers/ JCOs/ OR pensioners.

PCDA Circular on Service element calculation for Pre-2006 Commissioned Officers.   Annexure attached to the Circular No. 554 dated 14.01.2016 is required to be modified and in this respect annexure attached to Circular No.  560 dated 08.06.2016 will serve the purpose.

Revision of Service Element of Liberalized Disability Pension/ War Injury Pension in for Pre-2006 Commissioned Officers/ JCOs/ OR pensioners

Office of the Principal CDA (Pensions)
(Draupati Ghat,Allahabad –  211014

Circular No. 562

Dated:  13.06.2016

 

Subject:   Revision  of Service  Element  of Liberalized Disability   Pension/  War Injury  Pension in r/o Pre-2006 Commissioned    Officers/  JCOs/ OR pensioners.

Reference: This Office Circular No.547 & 548 dated 11.09.2015,   Circular No. 549 dated 30.09.2015 and Circular No.  551 dated 28.12.2015   Circular No.  554 dated 14.01.2016.

(Available on this Office website www.pcdapension.nic.in)

In this office Circular No.547 dated 11.09.2015, pension tables have been provided for carrying out the revision of Service  Element of War  Injury  Pension  by the  Pension Disbursing Agencies- for qualifying service of  15 years or more. For less than  15 years qualifying service, Annexure was provided in this Office Circular No.  551 dated 28.12.20015  and Circular No. 554 dated 14.01.2016, which was to be submitted to respective Pension Sanction Authorities.

2.             While issuing the PPOs of Service Element of war injury pension on receipt of the Annexure to the Circular  No. 554,  it has been noticed that there is a cap restriction in  war injury pension till 30.06.2009.   It  is  also  stated  that  the  rates of  war  injury  element  vide  GOI,   MOD  letter  No.16(01)/2014/D(Pen/Pol) dated 18th   May,  2016 has been revised w.e.f.  01.01.2006.   Accordingly, the war injury cases irrespective of qualifying service of the personnel needs to be revised in totality (i.e. Service Element, War Injury Element) and PPO will be reflecting cap restriction till 30.06.2009.

3.          Therefore, keeping in view the above,  the Annexure attached to the Circular No. 554 dated 14.01.2016 is required to be modified and in this respect annexure attached to Circular No.  560 dated 08.06.2016 will serve the purpose. All pension Disbursing agencies are requested to submit the same to respective Pension Sanctioning Authorities through concerned Record Offices.

4.            All  Record  offices  are  requested   to forward  to the Annexure   attached   to Circular  No.  560 dated  08.06.2016  along with   Sheet·Roll    so that  PPO  may  be  issued  taking into  consideration   the Cap  restriction.   In those  cases  where cap  restriction  will  not be implemented,   necessary  instruction will be issued  by the G-3  Section  and G-1/  Military  Section of this  office  in cases  of JCOs/  ORs and  commissioned   officers  respectively.

5.    All other terms  and conditions  shall remain unchanged.

No. Gts/Tech/05/LXXVI,

Dated: 13.06.2016

(Nasim Ullah)

Asst. Controller (P)

PCDA Circular No.562  No.Gts/Tech/05/LXXV dated 13.06.2016