Pension Rule No.17: Pensionary Benefits To Staff Declared Unfit

17.   Pensionary Benefits To Staff Declared Unfit:-

If a railway servant is unfit for his post but is retained in service in an alternative appointment under the provision of the code and subsequently becomes entitled to receive retirement gratuity or pension, he shall be given the option of accepting either of following, whichever he may, prefer-

(i)       The gratuity or pension which he would normally be granted with reference to his total service taken together,

(ii)      The sum of:-

(a)   Gratuity or pension which he would have been granted if he had been medically invalidated out of service instead of being retained in an alternative appointment at the end of the spell of his service; and

(b)   The retirement gratuity or pension which he would normally have been granted for the second spell of this service rendered in the alternative appointment:

Provided that if total qualifying service of the railway servant in both the spells of service taken together exceeds 33 years, the qualifying service in the second spell shall be reduced by the number of years by which total qualifying service in both the spells taken together exceeds 33 years and ordinary gratuity or pension and death-cum-retirement gratuity for the second spells of service shall be calculated with reference to the reduced qualifying service so calculated.