RBE No. 199/2006: Emoluments – Pensionary Benefit

No.F(E)III/2006/PN1/6 dated 29.12.2006

Sub: Emoluments to be taken into account for pensionary benefits in respect of a Government servant who has been given the benefit of NBR while on foreign service.

1.         A point has been raised as to the emoluments that should be taken into account for calculating pensionary benefits of a Railway servant, who retires while on foreign service without returning to the cadre but has already been given proforma promotion under Next Below Rule (NBR) in his cadre.

2.     The matter has been examined in consultation with the Department of Pension & Pensioner’s Welfare. In terms of Note 6 below Rule 49 of Railway Service (Pension) Rules, 1993, pay drawn by a railway servant while on foreign service shall not be treated as emoluments, but the pay which  he would have drawn under the railway, had he not been on foreign service shall alone be treated as emoluments. This would imply that but for his having been on foreign service, pay of a Railway servant on his regular promotion in his cadre would have been fixed in the scale of pay of the post to which he has been promoted. In view of this position, it is clarified that a Railway servant who has been given proforma promotion under NBR in his cadre while on foreign service and retires without returning to his cadre, shall be entitled to have his pensionary benefits, calculated on the basis of the emoluments admissible under NBR.

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