HomePENSIONPENSION - Kerala Service (Fifth Amendment) Rules, 2020 PENSION - Kerala Service (Fifth Amendment) Rules, 2020 0 kpmuralidharan Saturday, October 31, 2020 Amendment of the Rules - In part III of the Kerala Service Rules, for rule 57 - reg.S. R. O. No. 7356/2020In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Kerala Public Services Act, 1968 (19 of 1968), read with section 3 thereof, the Government of Kerala hereby make the following rules further to amend the Kerala Service Rules, namely:- RULES 1. Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the Kerala Service (Fifth Amendment) Rules, 2020. 2) Theyshall be deemed to have comein to force on 1* day of October, 2020. 2. Amendment of the Rules.- In Part II of the Kerala Service Rules, for rule 57, the following rule shall be substituted, namely:- “57 - The amount of pension that shall be granted is determined by the length of service as set forth in rules 64 to 70. Qualifying service for the minimum pensionshall be 10 years and maximum pension shall be 30 years respectively. In calculating the length of qualifying service, fraction of a year, if any, in the service will be rounded to the nearest completed year, 1e., fractions less than half year, will be ignored and half year and above rounded to the next completed year: Provided that for the purpose of minimum service (1.e., 10 years) and maximum service (1.e., 30 years) for pension, fraction of less than a half year, if any, in the qualifyimg service above 9 years and 29 years respectively will be rounded to the next completed years, i.e., 10 years or 30 years as the case may be: Provided further that for calculating the qualifying service, a month shall be a calendar month irrespective of the days contained in it and a year shall mean a completed year of service. The completed years of service shall be taken first, then completed calendar months and the remaining days in the leftover months shall be counted. If the total number of remaining days plus an extra day for each leap year in the entire service is 30 days or more, it can be considered as an additional month. Further, calculation of the period of additions to qualifying service, non qualifying service, if any, also shall be calculated applying the same principle. Note 1.- The term “pension” includes gratuity, death-cum-retirement gratuity and family pension also. For the calculation of maximum death-cum-retirement gratuity, 32 years and one day will be rounded to 33 years. Note 2.- The grant of compassionate allowance being an “act of grace” the grant of any further concession in the shape of rounding fraction of a year will not be allowed. Note 4.- A minimum qualifying service of 10 years is required for the grant of invalid pension. Minimum qualifying service of 10 yearsis the total service including weightage admissible as per rules 42 and 43”. Note 3.- Head of the Department/ Pension Sanctioning Authority should verify the extra days in leap year for qualifying service based on the Attendance Register/ Pay Bill Register and Service Book of the employee. In the case of Gazetted employees, Accountant General should verify the Entitlement Register. After verification the authority should affix the following certificate in the Service Book /Verification Report of Gazetted Employees.Click Here to Leap Year Certificate Kerala Service (Fifth Amendment) Rules, 2020 Click Here to G.O.(P)No.145/2020/Fin Dated, 30-10-2020 Tags PENSION Newer Older
