Army Medical Officer – Revision of Pension Pre-2006 Pensioner – Inclusion of NPA – PCDA Circular No. 24 dated 11.09.2015

Revision of Pension of Pre- 2006 pensioner – inclusion of Non Practicing Allowance (NPA) for revision of pension/ ordinary family pension in respect of Medical officers of Army Medical Corps (AMC)/Army Dental Corps(ADC)/ Remount Veterinary Corps (RVC):-

Circular No. 24

SUBJECT:- Revision of Pension of Pre- 2006 pensioner – inclusion of Non Practicing Allowance (NPA) for revision of pension/ ordinary family pension in respect of Medical officers of Army Medical Corps (AMC)/Army Dental Corps(ADC)/ Remount Veterinary Corps (RVC).

Update: Further Clarification by PCDA Ciruclar No. 25 dated 21 Dec 2015

Reference is invited towards Govt. of India, MOD letter No. 1(1)/99/D(Pen/ Sers) dated 07.06.1999 issued in implementation of recommendation of V CPC. As per the ibid letter the pension/family pension of all Armed Force Pensioners, irrespective of their date of retirement should not be less than 50% /30% respectively of the minimum pay in the revised scale of pay introduced w.e.f. 01.01.1996 of the rank held by the pensioner. The pension of Armed Force officers including Medical officer was revised as per the ibid letter and benefit of NPA was also allowed. However, the Govt has subsequently issued letter dated 11.09.2001, according to which, NPA granted to Medical officers does not form part of the scales of Pay. It
is a separate element and it is not to be added to the minimum of the revised scale of pay as on 01.01.1996 in case where consolidated pension/ family pension is to be stepped upto 50%/30% respectively in terms of MOD letter dated 07.06.1999.

2. Similarly, Govt. of India, MoD has issued order vide letter No. 17(4)/2008/D(Pen/Policy) dated 16.03.2010 under VI CPC , which provided that NPA element shall not be added to the emoluments to determine minimum guaranteed pension in terms of para 5 of GOI, MOD letter no. 17(4)/2008(1)/D(Pen/Sers) dated 11.11.2008 (Circulated under Circular No. 397).

3. It has been decided vide no. 38/31/11-P&PW(A)(Vol.-IV) dated 14.10.2014 and even No. dated 18.02.2015 in cases of Civilian doctors by Govt., in implementation of Hon’ble Supreme Court order dated 27.11.2013 in Civil Appeal No. 10640-46/2013, that while determining minimum guaranteed pension of past retirees from 01.01.1996 in terms of DP&PW OM dated 17.12.1998 and with effect from 01.01.2006 in terms of DP&PW OM dated 1.09.2008 and with effect from 24.09.2012 in terms of DP&PW dated 28.01.2013, the NPA element shall be added to the minimum of revised pay scale subject to the maximum ceiling prescribed from time to time.

4. Now the Govt. of India, Ministry of Defence has also issued letter NO. 1(7)/2014-D(Pen/Pol) date 31.07.2015 according to which in case of Pre 96 retired medical officers, who were drawing NPA element at the time of their retirement, NPA@ 25% shall be added to the minimum of the scale of pay as on 01.01.1996 while determining minimum guaranteed pension/family pension in terms of MOD letter No. 1(1)/99/D(Pen/Sers) dated 07.06.1999 subject to the ceiling that pay plus rank pay plus NPA should not exceed Rs. 29500/-. It has further been clarified in the ibid letter that in case of pre 2006 retiree medical officers, NPA @ 25% shall be added to the minimum of the pay in pay band plus the grade pay and MSP (subject to Max. ceiling of Rs. 85000/-), where applicable, while determining minimum guaranteed pension /family pension from 01.01.2006 in terms of para 5 of MOD letter dated 11.11.2008. Similarly, for revision of pension/family pension w.e.f. 24.09.2012, NPA @ 25% shall also be added to the minimum of the fitment table for the rank in the revised pay band as indicated under fitment tables annexure with SAI 2/S/2008 and equivalent instructions for Navy and Air Force plus Grade Pay and Military Service Pay
where applicable. The copy of Govt. letter dated 31.07.2015 is enclosed herewith as appendix 1 to this letter.

5. Govt. of India, Ministry of Defence has further issued letter NO. 1(04)/2015(I)-D(Pen/Pol) date 03.09.2015 according to which revised tables indicating minimum guaranteed pension/ ordinary family pension for Indian Commissioned officers which is annexed with GoI, MoD letter No. 1(11)/2012-D(Pen/ Policy) dated 17.01.2013 (Circulated under Circular no. 500) shall be effective from 01.01.2006 instead of 24.09.2012.

6. In view of the above, the pension of all pre 96 and pre 2006 retired medical officers of
Army Medical Corps (AMC)/Army Dental Corps(ADC)/ Remount Veterinary Corps (RVC), who were in receipt of NPA at the time of retirement, is required to be revised after allowing NPA as mentioned above. Therefore, the following Circulars issued earlier on the subject are superseded with this Circular.

(i) Imp. Circular No. 1 dated 20.05.2002 issued from File No. G-1/M/01/NPA
(ii) Imp. Circular No. 2 dated 20.05.2002 issued from File No. G-1/M/01/ NPA
(iii) Imp. Circular No. 3 dated 12.06.2002 issued from File No. G-1/M/01/NPA
(iv) Imp. Circular No. 4 dated 17.07.2002 issued from File No. G-1/M/01/NPA
(v) Imp. Circular No. 5 dated 29.01.2009 issued from File No. G-1/M/01/NPA
(vi) Imp. Circular No. 18 dated 14.02.2014 issued from File No. G-1/M/01/NPA

7. The Pension disbursing officers are requested to identify the affected cases of Medical officers of Armed Forces of Army Medical Corps (AMC)/Army Dental Corps(ADC)/ Remount Veterinary Corps (RVC) who were in receipt of NPA. The minimum guaranteed pension / family pension will be revised by the Pension Disbursing Agencies (PDA’s) in affected cases as indicated in the corresponding tables as per their respective rank and qualifying service. The tables for minimum pension guaranteed pension of different categories of pensioners are enclosed as per the following Annexures:-

8. The pension under respective Annexure has been calculated after adding weightage admissible to actual qualifying service and shown against the qualifying service. Therefore, PDAs are not to allow any additional benefit of weightage in qualifying service.
The revised pension shown in Annexure is admissible only to medical officers of AMC/ ADC/ RVC who were in receipt of NPA at the time of retirement. The non technical officers of AMC/ADC/ RVC are
not entitled to above revision. The Pension of PSU absorbee’s medical officer of AMC/ADC/ RVC will
not be revised as per these tables but cases be referred to this office for further action.

9. The normal rate of family pension will be revised by PDAs as indicated in Annexure. The enhanced rate of family pension will also be revised and the amount of enhanced rate will be the same as retiring pension corresponding to the service rendered by the officer. However, in cases of death-in-service of officer, the enhanced rate of family pension will be revised equal to the amount of retiring pension shown against the qualifying service of 30 years and above. The period of payment of enhanced rate may be verified before making any payment. The amount of enhanced rate of family pension will not be less than the amount of normal rate of ordinary family pension indicated in the table.

10. The tables of minimum guaranteed pension/family pension circulated under this office Circulars No. 397 dated 18.11.2008 as amended vide circulars No. 452 dated 21.02.2011, No. 453 dated 22.02.2011, 500 dated 17.01.2013 and 536 dated 05.02.2015 stand modified in respect of Medical officers of Army Medical Corps (AMC)/Army Dental Corps(ADC)/ Remount Veterinary Corps (RVC). For officers other than medical officer of Army Medical Corps (AMC)/Army Dental Corps (ADC)/ Remount Veterinary Corps (RVC) including non technical officer of AMC separate instructions will be issued to allow revised rate of pension as mentioned in Govt. letter dated 17.01.2013 with effect from 01.01.2006.

11. The pension will not be revised to the disadvantage of a pensioner. Such cases and other doubtful cases will be referred to this office by making a reference to the following officer with the details of PPO No., Name of officer, personal No., PDA details alongwith A/c No. and address of correspondence.
Sri R.B. Sharma, Sr. A.O.(P)
Office of the PCDA (Pension)
G-1/M/ Section, Draupadi Ghat
Allahabad-211014

12. The PDAs will prepare due – drawn statement and the amount of pension already paid is to be adjusted in full before making any payment of arrear. Any overpayment coming to the notice of PDA’s or under recovery may be recovered from arrear due.

13. All other subsidiary payment instructions will be the same as already circulated vide this office circulars quoted under reference.

14. It is also requested that a copy of this circular may please be circulated to all the PDAs under your jurisdiction in order to ensure prompt action for the revision of pension/family pension.

15. This circular has been uploaded on PCDA (P) website www.pcdapension.nic.in for dissemination across the Defence pensioners and PDAs.

No. G-1/M/01/ICOS/NPA/ Vol.-III
Date: 11 .09.2015

RANK	2nd Lt./ Lt.	Captain	Major	Lt. Col. (TS)	LT.Col.	Colonel	Brigadier	Maj. Gen.	Lt. Gen.	DGAFMS
Q.S.
10	2969	3599	4364	4364	4862	5506	5506	5506	5516	5811
10.5	3047	3694	4485	4485	5005	5668	5668	5668	5728	6035
11	3125	3788	4607	4607	5148	5830	5830	5830	5940	6258
11.5	3204	3883	4728	4728	5291	5992	5992	5992	6152	6482
12	3282	3978	4849	4849	5434	6154	6154	6154	6364	6705
12.5	3360	4072	4970	4970	5577	6316	6331	6331	6576	6929
13	3438	4167	5091	5091	5720	6478	6512	6512	6788	7152
13.5	3516	4262	5213	5213	5863	6640	6693	6693	7000	7375
14	3594	4357	5334	5334	6006	6802	6874	6874	7213	7599
14.5	3672	4451	5455	5455	6149	6964	7054	7054	7425	7822
15	3750	4546	5576	5576	6292	7125	7235	7235	7637	8046
15.5	3829	4641	5697	5708	6435	7287	7416	7416	7849	8269
16	3907	4735	5819	5847	6578	7449	7597	7597	8061	8493
16.5	3985	4830	5940	5986	6721	7611	7778	7778	8273	8716
17	4063	4925	6061	6125	6864	7773	7959	7959	8485	8940
17.5	4141	5019	6182	6265	7007	7935	8140	8140	8697	9163
18	4219	5114	6304	6404	7150	8097	8321	8321	8910	9387
18.5	4297	5209	6425	6543	7293	8259	8501	8501	9122	9610
19	4375	5304	6546	6682	7436	8421	8682	8682	9334	9834
19.5	4454	5398	6667	6822	7579	8583	8863	8863	9546	10057
20	4532	5493	6788	6961	7722	8745	9044	9044	9758	10281
20.5	4610	5588	6910	7100	7865	8907	9225	9225	9970	10504
21	4688	5682	7031	7239	8008	9069	9406	9406	10182	10728
21.5	4766	5777	7152	7378	8151	9231	9587	9587	10394	10951
22	4844	5872	7273	7518	8294	9393	9768	9768	10607	11175
22.5	4922	5966	7394	7657	8437	9554	9948	9948	10819	11398
23	5000	6061	7516	7796	8580	9716	10129	10129	11031	11622
23.5	5079	6156	7637	7935	8723	9878	10310	10310	11243	11845
24	5157	6250	7758	8074	8866	10040	10491	10491	11455	12069
24.5	5157	6250	7879	8214	9009	10202	10672	10672	11667	12292
25	5157	6250	8000	8353	9152	10364	10853	10853	11879	12516
25.5	5157	6250	8000	8492	9295	10526	11034	11034	12091	12739
26	5157	6250	8000	8631	9438	10688	11215	11215	12304	12963
26.5	5157	6250	8000	8770	9438	10688	11395	11395	12516	13186
27	5157	6250	8000	8910	9438	10688	11576	11576	12728	13410
27.5	5157	6250	8000	9049	9438	10688	11757	11757	12940	13633
28	5157	6250	8000	9188	9438	10688	11938	11938	13152	13857
28.5	5157	6250	8000	9188	9438	10688	11938	11938	13364	14080
29	5157	6250	8000	9188	9438	10688	11938	11938	13576	14304
29.5	5157	6250	8000	9188	9438	10688	11938	11938	13788	14527
30 & above	5157	6250	8000	9188	9438	10688	11938	11938	14000	14750

TABLE 2: NORMAL RATE OF ORDINARY FAMILY PENSION

RANK	2nd Lt./ Lt.	Captain	Major	Lt. Col. (TS)	LT.Col.	Colonel	Brigadier	Maj. Gen.	Lt. Gen.	DGAFMS
Q.S.	3095	3750	4800	5513	5663	6413	7163	7163	8400	8850

NOTES:-
1.While the Qualifying Service indicated in Table-1 above is the actual
qualifying service,the amount of pension indicated against qualifying service is inclusive of the rank weightage as admissible in terms of Para 5(b)(I)of this
Minisrty letter No.1(6)/98/D(Pen/Sers) dated 03.02.1998

2.In order to remove the anomaly in pension of a senior rank with same qualifying service of a lower rank,arising as a result of the difference in weightage allowable to different ranks, the pension of senior rank has been stepped up to the level of their junior rank officer.

3.Revised minimum guaranteed pension in respect of Non Technical Officer of Army Medical Corp shall not be revised as per this Annexure.

4. Rate of pension in above Table have been shown for qualifying service of 10 years and above as Armed Forces Personnel are
entitled for invalid pension after 10 years of qualifying service. In order to cover all conceivable
situations, revised pension with as low as 10 years of qualifying service has been shown in this Table even for such senior ranks as Lt. Gen/Maj. Gen./Brig, even though such cases may not occur in reality.

TABLE-1: RETIRING PENSION

RANK	2nd Lt./ Lt.	Captain	Major	Lt. Col. (TS)	LT.Col.	Colonel (TS)	Colonel	Brigadier	Maj. Gen.	Lt.Gen.	DGAFMS
AMOUNT	10995	11772	14123	20255	20255	21458	21473	22560	23438	25500	25500

NOTES:-

1.While the Qualifying Service indicated in Table-1 above is the actual qualifying service,
the amount of pension indicated against qualifying service is inclusive of the rank weightage as admissible in terms of Para 5(b)(I)of this Minisrty letter
No.1(6)/98/D(Pen/Ser) dated 03.02.1998

2.In order to remove the anomaly in pension of a senior rank with same qualifying service of a lower rank, arising as a result of the difference in weightage allowable to different ranks, the pension of senior rank has been stepped up to the level of their junior rank
officer.

3.Revised minimum guaranteed pension in respect of Non Technical Officer of Army Medical Corp shall not be revised as per this Annexure.

4. Rate of pension in above Table have been shown for qualifying service of 10 years and above as Armed Forces Personnel are entiled for invalid pension after 10 years of qualifying service. In order to cover all conceivable situatioins, revised pension with as low as 10 years of qualifying service has been shown in this Table even for such senior ranks as Lt. Gen/Maj. Gen./Brig, even though such cases may not occur in reality
indicated is inclusive of the rank weightage

TABLE-1: RETIRING PENSION

TABLE 2: NORMAL RATE OF ORDINARY FAMILY PENSION

NOTES:

Source: http://pcdapension.nic.in/6cpc/Circular-24.pdf