Huge relief to CAPF! Serving employees to get 'disability compensation'

New Delhi, Jan 2: In an employee-friendly decision, the central government decided to extend "Disability Compensation" for all serving employees particularly Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel. It said that if they get disabled in the line of duty while performing their service, they will be retained in service in spite of such disablement.

 

 

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh informed, "the government decision to extend "Disability Compensation" for all serving employees if they get disabled in the line of duty while performing their service and are retained in service in spite of such disablement."

 

This decision will particularly provide a huge relief to young Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel like CRPF, BSF, CISF, etc since disability in the performance of duties is generally reported in their case due to constraints of job requirements as well as hostile or difficult work - environment.

 

Expressing his satisfaction, Dr. Jitendra Singh said, "The Modi Government is making all efforts to simplify the rules and to do away with discriminatory clauses. The ultimate objective of all these new initiatives is to provide ease of living for the Government servants even after they have superannuated and become pensioners or family pensioners or elder citizens".

 

 

1. It will remove an anomaly in service rules, considering the hardship faced by the employees, since as per the earlier OM dated 5/5/2009, the provisions of disability benefits under Central Civil Services(CCS) (EOP) Rules did not provide such compensation to those government servants who were appointed on or after 1.1.2004 and covered under National Pension System (NPS). However, with the new order issued by the Department of Pensions in the Ministry of Personnel, the employees covered under NPS will also get benefits under Rule (9) of Extra-Ordinary Pension (EOP).

 

2. If a government servant gets disabled while performing his duties and this disablement is attributed to government service, in that case if he is still retained in the service in spite of disablement, a lump sum compensation will be paid to him by arriving at the capitalized value of the disability element, with reference to the Commutation Table in force from time to time.

 

3. In another employee-friendly decision, the Ministry of Personnel recently did away with a minimum qualifying service of 10 years for pension, if a government servant is incapacitated due to bodily or medical infirmity and retired from government service. Accordingly, Rule 38 of CCS (Pension) Rules was amended to provide an Invalid Pension at 50% of the last pay, even if the employee had not completed a minimum qualifying service of 10 years.

 

4. In yet another reform in the Pension Rules, a decision was also taken to amend the rule and provide a pension at an enhanced rate to the family of an employee who died during service before completing the requisite service of minimum of 7 years. As a result, now the family pension of 50% of the last payment is also admissible to the family of employees who die even before completing 7 years of service.