Hand Book on Defence Pension for Personnel Below Officers Ranks (PBORs) 2021
Hand Book on Defence Pension for Personnel Below Officers Ranks (PBORs) 2021
HAND BOOK
DEFENCE PENSION
FOR
PERSONNEL BELOW OFFICERS RANKS (PBORs)
2021
Preface
New Pension Code came into force w.e.f 01.06.1953 vide A.I 1/S/53. Since then tremendous changes have taken place in pensionary awards of the Armed Forces Personnel and their families due to the recommendations of the successive Central Pay Commissions. These changes are scattered over a number of Govt. letters, memoranda etc. issued from time to time.
2. A need was, therefore, felt to review and update. The same with reference to latest Govt. letters, ruling and clarifications issued over a past these years and to summaries them in a precise manners.
3. Keeping the above facts in view, the efforts have been made to put the important changes made upto 12/2020 in fundamental principles in pension structure of various kinds of pensionary awards precisely in the form of a Hand Book.
4. I, hope, this Hand Book will be a useful guide to all the dealing staff and officers of this office who are employed on the sanction of various kinds of pensionary awards in their day to day working.
5. For facility, a few illustrations based on the Seventh CPC are given showing calculation of pension.
6. Appendices showing changes in rates of the pension etc. with relevant authority have also been given. The Govt. letters mentioned in the Hand Book have also been listed with Group Order No. for necessary check as and when required.
7. The Hand Book has been prepared separately for PBORs and Commissioned Officers.
8. Any suggestion to improve this Hand Book would be gratefully acknowledged.
Rajiv Ranjan, IDAS
Principal Controller of Defence Accounts(Pension)
Prayagraj
Foreword
Changes in pensionary entitlement of Armed Forces Personnel and their families are made by the Govt. from time to time. These changes are being notified by the Govt. in letters, memoranda etc.
Pr.C.D.A(Pension) Allahabad being the pension sanctioning authority in respect of these personnel, circulate these orders in the form of Group Orders for information and guidance of the Staff and Officers in their day to day working.
Since these orders are scattered and not consolidated, the same may have lost sight due to the passage of time and the Officers and Staff may sometime feel difficulty to deal with the pensionary entitlement in an effective way.
To overcome the above, an effort had been made to review the important changes made in pensionary entitlements and update them in a precise way and put them in a Hand Book which may be handy.
I hope this Hand Book may be useful to all the Officers and Staff to have a knowledge about the pensionary entitlement at a glance.
Any suggestion to improve this Hand Book would be gratefully acknowledged.
A. K. MALVIYA
Sr. ACCOUNTS OFFICER (Gts/Tech)
A few words from the writer of the Hand Book
Pension in respect of Armed Forces Personnel is in fact a very complex subject in itself as the orders issued thereon are scattered. Nothing is available on which one can lay his hands for a compact knowledge. This has given me an idea to put all the relevant orders issued on a particular subject at one place in the form of a Handbook.
With this fact in view, I reviewed the Govt. letters issued upto 12/2020 and summarize them precisely on each subject and tried to put them in the Handbook separately for PBORs and ICOs.
For this I got blessings of benevolent Principal Controller Mr. Rajiv Ranjan. I express my heartfelt gratitude to him.
Further, I would also like to convey my sincere thanks to Officer In Charge Grants Tech. Mr. A. K. Malviya whose valuable guidance and cooperation of his staff at each stage have helped me a lot.
At last, I request esteem readers to ignore the shortcomings, if any, considering the same as my incompetency.
L.P. CHAURASIA, IDAS
Retired DCDA (P)
PENSIONARY AWARDS IN RESPECT OF PERSONNEL BELOW OFFICERS RANKS
INDEX
| Sl No. | Subject | Para |
| 1 | Qualifying service for earning Service Pension | 1 |
| 2 | Condonation of deficiency in service | 3 |
| 3 | Determination of amount of service pension | 4 |
| 4 | Reckonable emoluments for calculating service pension | 5 |
| 5 | Retirement gratuity | 6 |
| 6 | Reckonable emoluments for calculating Retirement Gratuity | 7 |
| 7 | Commutation of pension | 8 |
| 8 | Calculation of commuted value of pension | 11 |
| 9 | Restoration of commutation portion | 12 |
| 10 | Disability pension | 13 |
| 11 | Categorization of disability | 14 |
| 12 | Procedure for adjudication of entitlement of disability | 15 |
| 13 | Disability pension on invalidment | 16 |
| 14 | Broad-banding of Disability | 17 |
| 15 | Disability element on retirement / discharge | 18 |
| 16 | Rates of Disability Element for period w.e.f. 1.1.1996 to 1..2006 | 19 |
| 17 | Lump sum compensation in lieu of disability element | 20 |
| 18 | Invalid Pension | 24 |
| 19 | Invalid Gratuity | 25 |
| 20 | War injury pension on invalidment | 26 |
| 21 | War injury pension on retention | 27 |
| 22 | Lump sum compensation in lien of war injury pension | 28 |
| 23 | War injury element on subsequent retirement | 30 |
| 24 | Liberalized Disability pension | 31 |
| 25 | Ex-gratia lump sum compensation in cases of invalidment | 32 |
| 26 | Broad-banding of percentage of disability/war injury on discharge w.e.f. 01.01.2016 | 33 |
| 27 | Constant Attendance allowance | 34 |
| 28 | Rate of constant attendance allowance | 36 |
| 29 | Special pension to blind soldiers | 37 |
| 30 | Rate of special pension to blind soldiers | 38 |
| 31 | Appeals | 39 |
| 32 | Ordinary family pension | 40 |
| 33 | Eli2ible member for ordinary family pension | 42 |
| 34 | Ordinary family pension in case of missing personnel /pensioners | 43 |
| 35 | Pending enquiry award | 44 |
| 36 | Special family pension | 45 |
| 37 | Eligible members for special family pension in absence of nomination | 47 |
| 38 | Rates of special family pension | 48 |
| 39 | Second life award | 49 |
| 40 | Special family pension on re-marriage of widow | 50 |
| 41 | Liberalized family pension | 51 |
| 42 | Liberalized family pension on re-marriage of widow | 53 |
| 43 | Ex- gratia lump sum compensation who die in harness | 54 |
| 44 | Death Gratuity | 55 |
| 45 | Monetary allowance attached to gallantry decorations | 56 |
| 46 | Grant of family pension under the Employees pension scheme, 1995 and family pension scheme, 1971 in addition to family pension from Military side | 57 |
| 47 | Illustrations | |
| APPENDICES | ||
| 48 | Appendix – 1 : Evolution of pensionary structure of PBOR prior to 01.06.53 | 29 |
| 49 | Appendix – 2 : Effective dates from which pension in respect of JCOs/ NCOs/ ORs/ NCs(e) of Regular Army revised | 41 |
| 50 | Appendix – 3 : Effective dates from which pension in respect of JCOs/ORs of DSC revised | 42 |
| 51 | Appendix – 4 : Effective dates from which pension in respect of Hony. Commissioned Officer (Regular Army) revision | 43 |
| 52 | Appendix – 5 : Effective dates from which pension in respect of Hony. Commissioned Officer DSC revised | 44 |
| 53 | Appendix – 6 : The rates of disability element for 100% disablement sanctioned from time to times for different ranks prior to 01.01.1996 | 44 |
| 54 | Appendix – 7 : The rates of special family pension admissible form time to time | 45 |
| 55 | Appendix – 8 : The rates of ordinary family pension admissible prior to 01.01.96 | 46 |
| 56 | Appendix – 9 : Rates of Monetary Allowances attached to post independence Gallantry decorations | 47 |
| 57 | Appendix – 10 : List of Govt. letters referred to in the hand book with group order no. under which reproduced | 49 |