Pension Rule No.31: Counting Of Service Paid From Contingencies

31. Counting Of Service Paid From Contingencies:-

In respect of a railway servant, in service on or after the 22nd day of August, 1968, half the service paid from contingencies benefits on absorption in regular employment, subject to the following condition namely: –

(a)   The service paid from contingencies has been in a job involving whole- time employment;

(b)   The service paid from contingencies should be in a type of work or job for which regular posts could have been sanctioned such as posts of malis, chowkidars and khalasis;

(c)   The service should have been such for which payment has been made either on monthly rate basis or on daily rates computed and paid on a monthly basis and which, though no analogous to the regular scales of pay, borne some relation in the matter of pay to those being paid for similar jobs being performed at the relevant period by staff in regular establishments;

(d)   The service paid from contingencies has been continuous and followed by absorption in regular employment without a break;

Provide that the weightage for past service paid from contingencies shall be limited to the period after 1st January 1961 subject to the condition that authentic records of service such as pay bill, leave record or service-book is available.

NOTE –

(1)   The provisions of this rule shall also apply to casual labour paid from contingencies.

(2)   The expression Absorption In Regular Employment means absorption against a regular post.