JK Civil Providers Rules Amended

SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has accepted an modification to the Civil Providers Rules of 1956. The modification is aimed toward helping households of lacking authorities workers, pensioners, and household pensioners. It allows them to petition for entitlements corresponding to a household pension, pending wage, depart encashment, disbursements from the Basic Provident Fund (GPF), and gratuity.

A discover issued by the Finance Division reads, “In train of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 of the Structure, the Lieutenant Governor is happy to direct that the next modification shall be made within the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Providers Rules, 1956.”

“Article 249-P shall be substituted by the next: Notification of household of a lacking authorities servant/pensioner/household pensioner. (1) Within the case of a lacking worker/pensioner/household pensioner, the household can apply for the grant of household pension, quantity of wage due, depart encashment due, and the quantity of GPF and gratuity (no matter has not already been acquired) to the Head of Workplace of the division the place the worker/pensioner had final served, six months after lodging of the Police report,” it stated.

The method entails the household to file a report with the involved Police Station and acquiring affirmation from the authorities that the worker/pensioner/household pensioner stays unaccounted for regardless of exhaustive efforts.

This report could take the type of a First Info Report (FIR) or every other official documentation corresponding to a Every day Diary/Basic Diary Entry.

Moreover, it stated that the nominee or dependants of the worker, pensioner, household pensioner are required to supply an Indemnity Bond assuring that any funds made will probably be adjusted towards future claims ought to the lacking particular person return.

Within the case of a lacking worker, the household pension will start both from the expiration of depart, the final date of pay and allowances, or the date of the police report, whichever is later.

For lacking pensioners/household pensioners, the household pension will start from the date of the police report or the following day following the final date till which the pension/household pension was disbursed, whichever is later.

The retirement gratuity shall be disbursed to the household inside three months of the applying date. Any delays will incur curiosity on the prevailing charges, and accountability for such delays will probably be assigned accordingly. The disparity between demise gratuity and retirement gratuity will probably be settled as soon as the worker’s destiny is definitively established or after seven years from the date of the police report.

Earlier than authorizing gratuity funds, the Head of Workplace is obligated to evaluate and recuperate any excellent authorities dues from the worker/pensioner in accordance with Article 168-AA of J&Okay CSR, Vol. I and different pertinent directives.

The household will obtain the pending wage, depart encashment, and GPF disbursements based mostly on the worker/pensioner’s nominations upon submitting a police report and submitting the requisite indemnity bond.

All advantages prolonged to the household/nominee of the lacking worker/pensioner will probably be computed and ruled by the person’s earlier emoluments and relevant rules/orders as much as their final date of obligation, together with authorised depart intervals.