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