RBE No. 75/2009: Family Pension – Servants Kidnapped
No.F(E)III/2009/PN1/7, dated 30.04.2009
Sub: Grant of family pension to the families of Government servants kidnapped by insurgents/ terrorist.
1. A copy of Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare (DOP&PW)’s O.M. No.1/28/04-P&PW(E), dated 31st March, 2009 on the above subject is enclosed for information and compliance. These instructions shall apply mutatis mutandis on the Railways also.
2. A concordance of DOP&PW’s instructions referred to in the enclosed O.M. and Railway Board’s corresponding instructions is given below.
| S.No. | DOP&PW’s instructions | Railway Board’s corresponding instructions |
| 1 | O.M. No.1/17/86-P&PW, dated 29th August, 1986 | F(E)III/86/PN1/17, dated 19.09.1986 |
| 2 | O.M. No.1/17/86-P&PW(C), dated 25th January, 1991 | F(E)III/86/PN1/17, dated 27.03.1991 (RBE No. 63/1991) |
| 3 | O.M. No.1(17)86-P&PW(E), dated 18th February, 1993 | F(E)III/86/PN1/17, dated 21.01.1994 (RBE No. 03/1994) |
3. Please acknowledge receipt.
Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pensions
Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
O.M. F.No.1/28/04-P&PW(E), dated 31st March, 2009
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Sub: Grant of family pension to the families of Government servants kidnapped by insurgents/ terrorists.
1. The undersigned is to invite a reference to this Department’s earlier OM No.1/17/86–P&PW, dated 29th August, 1986 and the subsequent clarifications issued vide OM No.1(17)86–P&PW(E), dated 18th February, 1993 and OM No.1/17/86-P&PW(C), dated 25th January, 1991, detailing instructions regarding grant of family pension to the eligible family members of the Government servants who have suddenly disappeared and whose whereabouts are not known, within a period of one year from the date of registration of an FIR with the police.
2. The Staff side on the National Council (JCM) have been raising for quite some time the issue concerning withdrawal of the mandatory condition of one year reckoned from the date of filing of FIR with the police, prescribed in regard to sanction of family pension to the eligible family members of the Government employees who are kidnapped by insurgents/ terrorists. The demand of the staff side is based on the premise that this kind of stipulation in the rules has been causing a great deal of hardship to the families of such kidnapped employees.
3. The matter has been considered in this Department in consultation with the Ministry of Finance (Deptt. Of Expenditure)/ Ministry of Law. It has now been decided that the family pension to the eligible family members of the Government employees kidnapped by insurgents/ terrorists, may be sanctioned after a period of six months from the date of registration of FIR with the police. The instructions concerning grant/ disbursal of retirement or death gratuity, as contained in this Department’s OM referred to above, would remain the same.
Hindi version will follow.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 75/2009
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