F. No. 1/1(1))/2022 -P& PW (E)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pensions
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare

3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan
Khan Market, New Delhin-110 003
Dated: 26.10.2022

Office Memorandum

Subject: Grant of family pension under Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021 on remarriage of a childless widow.

The undersigned is directed to say that Department of Pension has notified the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021 in supersession of the Central Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 1972. Rule 50 of the Central Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 2021 deals with payment of family pension on death of a Government servant/pensioner.

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2. In accordance with Rule 50(8) of the Central Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 2021, on death of a Government servant/pensioner, family pension is payable to the widow or widower upto the date of death or re-marriage, whichever is earlier and the eligibility of widow or widower for family pension is not affected by the amount of her or his income from other sources. However, on re-marriage by a childless widow, family pension continues to be payable to her, if her income from all other sources is less than the amount of minimum family pension (i.e Rs. 9000/- per month) plus the dearness relief admissible thereon.

3. If after re-marriage, income of childless. widow from all other sources becomes equal to or more than the amount of minimum family pension and the dearness relief admissible thereon, family pension payable to her shall be stopped and it shall become payable to the other eligible member of the family, if any, of the deceased Government servant.

4. It shall be the duty of a childless widow after her re-marriage to furnish a certificate to the Pension Disbursing Authority once in a year that she has not started earning income from other sources which is equal to or more than the minimum family pension and the dearness relief admissible thereon.

5. All Ministries/Departments are requested that the above provisions regarding continuance of family pension on remarriage of a childless widow under Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021 may be brought to the notice of the personnel dealing with the pensionary benefits in the Ministry/Department and attached/subordinate offices thereunder, for strict implementation.

(Vishal Kumar)
Under Secretary to Government of India

To,
All Ministries/ Departments/ Organisations (As per standard list)

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APPENDIX TO DoP&T O.M. No. 43019/9/2019-Estt.(D) DATED 23rd August, 2021

13. PROCEDURE (existing para 13 of OM dated 16.1.2013 stands substituted as follows)

i) The Welfare Officer in each Ministry/ Department/ Office or a senior officer may be deputed to meet the family members of the deceased Government Servant and apprise them of the terminal benefits available to the family. This may be done at the earliest possible, preferably, within 30 days of death,

ii) In case it is observed by the Welfare Officer/Senior Officer that the condition of the family of the deceased Government Servant is indigent, the family should also be apprised of the scheme for compassionate appointment.

iii) In such cases, the Welfare Officer or any other officer would assist the family member of the deceased Government servant in applying for appointment on compassionate grounds. The application should be made in the format prescribed as in Annexure. All assistance should be extended to enable such family member to fill the Application Form for compassionate appointment. The Applicant should be advised in person about the requirements and formalities to be completed by him. The Applicant should also be given detailed information of the posts to which they can apply.

iv) The Administration shall satisfy itself regarding the correctness of the details entered in the Application form and family income and other details computed for processing the Application. During scrutiny, if any additional details or information having a bearing on the case, emerge, the same should be added as supplementary Note to the Application.

v) Every application found to be in order, should be acknowledged by assigning a unique Registration number. All pending Applications should also be assigned unique registration number. This may be done within 2 to 3 weeks of time. Once a unique registration number has been assigned to an application, the Applicant, including those whose applications are pending, may be informed through email or other forms of communication (including digital modes of communication) of their Unique Application Registration Number.

vi) Some Departments such as CBIC, D/o Posts, D/o Defence have devised their own point based merit system, for processing claims for compassionate appointment. In order to bring in transparency and objectivity in dealing with such claims, all Ministries/Departments, who have not yet developed such a system, may do so by devising their own point based merit system for assessing the merit of the claims of compassionate appointments.

vii) While informing the Applicants of the registration number of their Application, they may also be informed of the likely number of vacancies likely to be available to be filled on compassionate grounds as well as be provided with a copy of the point based merit system.

viii) To consider the various applications and to recommend individual applicant for grant of compassionate appointment, a Committee, comprising three members (one Chairman and two Members), may be constituted. The Committee may be chaired by an Officer not below the rank of Director/Deputy Secretary in the Ministry/Department and officers of equivalent rank in the case of attached and subordinate offices.

ix) The Committee may preferably meet once in a year, to consider all fresh requests received in the last calendar year, in addition to pending applications. In case large number of applications are received at different times during the calendar year, the Committee may meet twice or more to consider the applications.

x) Prior to every meeting of the Committee, the Applicants whose applications are being considered, should be informed, through email or other forms of communication (including digital modes of communication), of the number of vacancies in each grade for which they are being considered as also the date the Committee is due to meet to consider their Application. However, the Applicant(s) would not be required to have any personal interaction, either with the Administration or the Committee and that the Applicants may not be asked to be present during the meeting of the Committee.

xi) Every valid application shall be assessed strictly on the basis of the point based merit system formulated by the concerned administrative Ministry/Department.

xii) The Committee should make its recommendation for appointment on compassionate ground as per the total points obtained by each Applicant, under the applicable point based merit system.

xiii) The result of each round of selection should be communicated to the Applicants. The points awarded against each parameter alongwith total merit points earned, should be provided to the Applicants through email or other forms of communication.

xiv) The minutes of each meeting of the Committee including the merit points earned by each Applicant should also be placed, within a period of three weeks from the date of meeting of the Committee, in public domain on the website of the Ministry/Department/Organisation for information of all concerned.

xv) Recommendation of the Committee should be placed before the competent authority for a decision. If the competent authority disagrees with the committee’s recommendation, the case may be referred to the next higher authority for a decision.

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RBA No 72/2020

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA)
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. D-43/43/2020 -F(E)Ill

New Delhi, Dated : 25.08.2020

The GMs/ Principal Financial Advisors,
All Zonal Railways/ Production Units,
(As per mailing list)

Subject : Relaxation of Rule 96 of Railway Services (Pension) Rules, 1993 for payment of provisional Family Pension on death of a Government Servant during service – regarding.

A copy of Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare (DOP&PW’s) O .M No. 1/11/2020 -P&PW(E) dated 29th July, 2020 along with proforma for sanction of the provisional family pension is enclosed herewith for compliance and guidance. These instructions shall apply mutatis mutandis on the Railways also Rule 54, Rule 80 and Rule 80-A of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 correspond to Rule 75, Rule 95 and Rule 96 of the Railway Services (Pension) Rules, 1993 respectively. Also, Form 14 and Form 18 of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972, referred to in the aforesaid O.M. dated 29th July, 2020, correspond to Form 10 and Form 16 of the Railway Services (Pension) Rules, 1993, respectively.

Also check: Benefit of gratuity in respect of Railway employees covered under NPS

(G. Priya Sudarsani)
Director, Finance (Estt.),
Railway Board.

D.A.: as above
No. D-4314312020-F(E)III

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