Non-Productivity Linked Bonus (ad-hoc bonus) to Armed forces Personnel

Non-Productivity Linked Bonus (ad-hoc bonus) to Armed Forces personnel equilvalent to bonus paid to Central government employees – Defence Ministry order

Ministry of Defence circular on grant of Non-Productivity Linked Bonus.

Ministry of Defence

D(Pay/Services)

Subject: Grant of Non-Productivity Linked Bonus (ad-hoc bonus) to the Armed  for the year 2015-16.

A copy of Ministry of Finance (Department of Expenditure) O.M. No.7/24/2007/E III(A) dated 3rd October, 2016 on the above subject is forwarded herewith for information and necessary action in so far as Armed Forces personnel are concerned.

2. It is hereby clarified that Personnel Below Officer Ranks (PBORs) of the Armed Forces including JCOs in the Army and Officers of the equivalent rank in the Navy and Air Force will be eligible for the ad-hoc bonus for the year 2015-16 in terms of the Ministry of Finance OM referred to in para 1 above subject to the availability of requisite funds in the sanctioned budget provisions of Defence Services for the current financial year 2016-17.

3. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Division of this Ministry vide their Dy.No.354/AG/PD dated 10.10.2016.

(Prashant Rastogi)

Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

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