Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare has issued Notification dated 23.9.2021 in respect of Rules regarding Payment of Gratuity Rules under National Pension System. The Central Civil Services (Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System) Rules 2021 is provided below
Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System
MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
(Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 23rd September, 2021
G.S.R. 658(E). – In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 and clause (5) of article 148 of the Constitution and after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India in relation to persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the President hereby makes the following rules, namely:-
CHAPTER I
1.Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the Central Civil Services (Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System) Rules, 2021.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Application.– Save as otherwise provided in these rules, these rules shall apply to the Government servants including civilian Government servants in the Defence Services, appointed substantively to civil services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union on or after the 1st day of January 2004, and to whom the Central Civil Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021 apply :
Provided that in the case of a Government servant who dies during service or is boarded out on account of disablement or retires on invalidation and who had exercised option under rule 10 of the Central Civil Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021 for availing benefits under the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 or the Central Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1939, payment of gratuity shall be made in accordance with the said rules.
3.Definitions. – In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, –
(1) (a) ‘Accounts Officer’ means an officer, whatever his official designation, of a Ministry or Department functioning under the scheme of departmentalisation of accounts, who, inter-alia is responsible for receipts, payments, Internal Audit and accounting functions of an office or Department or Ministry of the Central Government or Union territory and includes officers subordinate to the Accountant General who is entrusted with the function of maintaining the accounts or part of accounts of the Central Government or Union territory;
(b) ‘allottee’ means a Government servant to whom Government accommodation has been allotted on payment of license fee or otherwise ;
(c) ‘average emoluments’ means average emoluments as determined in accordance with rule 7;
(d) ‘Emoluments’ means emoluments referred to in rule 6;
(e) ‘Form’ means a Form appended to these rules ;
(f) ‘Government’ means the Central Government ;
(g) ‘Government dues’ means dues referred to in sub-rule (3) of rule 45;
(h) ‘gratuity’ includes retirement gratuity and death gratuity payable under these rules;
(i) ‘Minor’ means a person who has not completed the age of eighteen years ;
(j) ‘Qualifying service’ means the service rendered while on duty or otherwise which shall be taken into account for the purpose of payment of gratuity admissible under these rules;
(k) ‘Service Book’ includes service roll, if any.
(2) Words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Fundamental Rules, 1922 or the Central Civil Services ( Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021 shall have the meanings as respectively assigned to them in those rules.
CHAPTER II
GENERAL CONDITIONS
Regulation of claims to gratuity
4. Regulation of Gratuity:- (1) Any claim to gratuity shall be regulated by the provisions of these rules in force at the time when a Government servant retires or is retired or is discharged or is allowed to resign from service or dies, as the case may be.
(2) The day on which a Government servant retires or is retired or is discharged or is allowed to resign from service, as the case may be, shall be treated as his last working day and the date of death of a Government servant shall also be treated as a working day.
5. Right of President to withhold gratuity.- (1) The President reserves to himself the right of withholding gratuity, either in full or in part, and of ordering recovery from gratuity of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused to the Government, if, in any departmental or judicial proceedings instituted while the Government servant was in service, the retired Government servant is found guilty of grave misconduct or negligence :
Provided that the Union Public Service Commission shall be consulted before any final orders are passed by the President under this rule:
(2) (a) The departmental proceedings referred to in sub-rule (1), shall, after the retirement of the Government servant, be deemed to be proceedings under this rule and shall be continued and concluded by the authority by which they were commenced in the same manner as if the Government servant had continued in service :
Provided that in all cases where the departmental proceedings are instituted by an authority subordinate to the President, that authority shall submit a report recording its findings to the President.
(b) No gratuity shall be payable to the Government servant until the conclusion of the departmental or judicial proceedings referred to in sub-rule (1) and issue of final orders thereon.
(3) The President may at any time, either on his own motion or otherwise call for the records of any inquiry and revise any order made under these rules and may confirm, modify or set aside the order, or remit the case to an authority directing such authority to make such further enquiry as it may consider proper in the circumstances of the case, or pass such other order as he may deem fit :
Provided that no order enhancing the amount of gratuity to be withheld or withdrawn, shall be made.
(4) The President may at any time, either on his own motion or otherwise review any order passed under these rules, where extenuating or special circumstances exist to warrant such review or when any new material or evidence which could not be produced or was not available at the time of passing of the order under review and which has the effect of changing the nature of the case, has come, or has been brought, to his notice :
Provided that no order enhancing the amount of gratuity to be withheld or withdrawn, shall be made.
(5) For the purpose of this rule, –
(a) departmental proceedings shall be deemed to be instituted on the date on which the statement of charges is issued to the Government servant or pensioner, or if the Government servant has been placed under suspension from an earlier date, on such date ; and
(b) judicial proceedings shall be deemed to be instituted –
(i) in the case of criminal proceedings, on the date on which the complaint or report of a police officer, of which the Magistrate takes cognizance, is made, and
(ii) in the case of civil proceedings, on the date the plaint is presented in the court.
CHAPTER III
EMOLUMENTS AND AVERAGE EMOLUMENTS
6. Emoluments.- (1) The expression ‘emoluments’ for the purpose of determining the amount of gratuity payable under these rules shall include the basic pay as defined in rule 9 (21) (a) (i) of the Fundamental Rules, 1922, which a Government servant was receiving immediately before his retirement or on the date of his death and shall also include non-practicing allowance granted to medical officer in lieu of private practice.
Explanation. – For the purposes of this sub-rule, stagnation increment shall be treated as emoluments for calculation of gratuity.
(2) Where a Government servant immediately before his retirement or death while in service had been absent from duty or was on leave for which leave salary is payable or having been suspended had been reinstated without forfeiture of service, the emoluments which he would have drawn had he not been absent from duty or suspended shall be the emoluments for the purposes of this rule:
Provided that any increase in pay [ other than the increment referred to in sub-rule (5)] which is not actually drawn shall not form the part of his emoluments.
(3) Where a Government servant immediately before his retirement or death while in service had proceeded on leave for which leave salary is payable after having held a higher appointment whether in an officiating or temporary capacity, the benefit of emoluments drawn in such higher appointment shall be given only if it is certified that the Government servant would have continued to hold the higher appointment but for his proceeding on leave.
(4) Where a Government servant immediately before his retirement or death while in service had been absent from duty on extraordinary leave or had been under suspension, the period whereof does not count as service, the emoluments which he drew immediately before proceeding on such leave or being placed under suspension shall be the emoluments for the purposes of this rule.
(5) Where a Government servant immediately before his retirement or death while in service, was on earned leave, and earned an increment which was not withheld, such increment though not actually drawn, shall form part of his emoluments :
Provided that the increment was earned during the currency of the earned leave not exceeding one hundred and twenty days, or during the first one hundred and twenty days of earned leave where such leave was for more than one hundred and twenty days.
(6) Pay drawn by a Government servant while on deputation to another Central Government Department and to the Armed Forces of India shall be treated as emoluments.
(7) Pay drawn by a Government servant while on foreign service shall not be treated as emoluments, and the pay which he would have drawn under the Government had he not been on foreign service shall alone be treated as emoluments.
(8) Where a pensioner who is re-employed in Government service and whose pay on re-employment has been reduced by an amount not exceeding his monthly pension, the element of monthly pension by which his pay is reduced shall be treated as emoluments.
Average emoluments.- (1) Average emoluments shall be determined with reference to the emoluments drawn by a Government servant during the last ten months of his service.
(2) Where during the last ten months of his service, a Government servant had been absent from duty on leave for which leave salary is payable or having been suspended had been reinstated without forfeiture of service, the emoluments which he would have drawn had he not been absent from duty or suspended shall be taken into account for determining the average emoluments :
Provided that any increase in pay [ other than the increment referred to in sub-rule (4)] which is not actually drawn shall not form the part of his emoluments.
(3) Where during the last ten months of his service, a Government servant had been absent from duty on extraordinary leave, or had been under suspension the period whereof does not count as service, the aforesaid period of leave or suspension shall be disregarded in the calculation of the average emoluments and equal period before the ten months shall be included and in order that the fractions of a month, when added, worked out to one full month, a month for this purpose shall be reckoned as consisting of thirty days.
(4) Where a Government servant who was on earned leave during the last ten months of his service and earned an increment, which was not withheld, such increment though not actually drawn shall be included in the average emoluments :
Provided that the increment was earned during the currency of the earned leave not exceeding one hundred and twenty days or during the first one hundred and twenty days of earned leave where such leave was for more than one hundred and twenty days.
CHAPTER IV
QUALIFYING SERVICE
8.Commencement of qualifying service. – Subject to the provisions of these rules, qualifying service of a Government servant shall commence from the date he takes charge of the post to which he is first appointed either substantively or in an officiating or temporary capacity :
Provided that officiating or temporary service is followed without interruption by substantive appointment in the same or another service or post.
9. Conditions subject to which service qualifies. – (1) The service of a Government servant shall not qualify, unless his duties and pay are regulated by the Government, or under conditions determined by the Government.
Explanation. – For the purposes of this sub-rule, the expression “service” means service under the Government and paid by that Government from the Consolidated Fund of India or a Local Fund administered by that Government.
(2) In the case of Government servant belonging to a State Government who is permanently transferred to a service or post to which these rules apply, the continuous service rendered under the State Government in an officiating or temporary capacity, if any, followed without interruption by substantive appointment, or the continuous service rendered under that Government in an officiating or temporary capacity, as the case may be, shall qualify.
10. Counting of service on probation. – Service on probation against a post if followed by confirmation in the same or another post shall qualify.
11. Counting of service as apprentice. – Service as an apprentice shall not qualify, except in the case of Subordinate Audit or Account Services (S.A.S.) apprentice in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department or the Defence Accounts Department.
12. Counting of periods spent on leave. – All leave during service for which leave salary is payable and all extraordinary leave granted on medical certificate shall count as qualifying service:
Provided that in the case of extraordinary leave other than extraordinary leave granted on medical certificate the appointing authority may, at the time of granting such leave, allow the period of that leave to count as qualifying service if such leave is granted to a Government servant, –
(i) due to his inability to join or rejoin duty on account of civil commotion; or
(ii) for pursuing higher studies considered useful in discharge of the official duty of the Government servant.
13. Counting of periods spent on training. – (1)The Government may, by order, decide whether the time spent by a Government servant under training immediately before appointment to a Group ‘A’ or Group ‘B’ post under tha Government shall count as qualifying service.
(2) Time spent by a Government servant under training immediately before appointment to a Group ‘C’ post under the Government shall count as qualifying service.
(3) Group ‘C’ employees, who are required to undergo departmental training relating to jobs before they are put on regular employment, training period may be treated as qualifying service for gratuity, if the training is followed immediately by an appointment and the benefit shall be admissible to Group ‘C’ employees even if the officers concerned are not given the scale of pay of the post but only a nominal allowance.
14. Counting of periods of suspension. – Time passed by a Government servant under suspension pending inquiry into conduct shall count as qualifying service where, on conclusion of such inquiry, he has been fully exonerated or a minor penalty is imposed on the Government servant or the suspension is held to be wholly unjustified; in other cases, the period of suspension shall not count unless the authority competent to pass orders under the rule governing such cases expressly declares at the time that it shall count to such extent as the Competent Authority may declare.
15. Forfeiture of service on dismissal or removal. – Dismissal or removal of a Government servant from a service or post entails forfeiture of his past service.
16. Counting of past service on reinstatement. – (1) A Government servant who is dismissed, removed or compulsorily retired from service, but is reinstated on appeal or review, is entitled to count his past service as qualifying service.
(2) The period of interruption in service between the date of dismissal, removal or compulsory retirement, as the case may be, and the date of reinstatement, and the period of suspension, if any, shall not count as qualifying service unless regularised as duty or leave by a specific order of the authority which passed the order of reinstatement.
17. Forfeiture of service on resignation. – (1) Resignation from a service or a post, unless it is allowed to be withdrawn in the public interest by the appointing authority, entails forfeiture of past service.
(2) A resignation shall not entail forfeiture of past service if it has been submitted to take up, with proper permission, another appointment, whether temporary or permanent, under the Government where service qualifies.
(3) Interruption in service in a case falling under sub-rule (2), due to the two appointments being at different stations, not exceeding the joining time permissible under the rules of transfer, shall be covered by grant of leave of any kind due to the Government servant on the date of relief or by formal condonation by present organisation to the extent to which the period is not covered by leave due to him.
(4) Where an order is passed by the appointing authority under Central Civil Services (Implementation of National Pension System ) Rules, 2021, allowing a person to withdraw his resignation and to resume duty, the order shall be deemed to include the condonation of interruption in service but the period of interruption shall not count as
qualifying service.
(5) A resignation submitted for the purpose of rule 32 shall not entail forfeiture of past service under the Government.
18. Effect of interruption in service. – (1) An interruption in the service of a Government servant entails forfeiture of his past service, except in the following cases, namely :-
(a) authorised leave of absence ;
(b) unauthorised absence in continuation of authorised leave of absence so long as the post of absentee is not filled substantively ;
(c) suspension, where it is immediately followed by reinstatement, whether in the same or a different post, or where the Government servant dies or is permitted to retire or is retired on attaining the age of compulsory retirement while under suspension ;
(d) transfer to non-qualifying service in an establishment under the control of the Government if such transfer has been ordered by a competent authority in the public interest ;
(e) joining time while on transfer from one post to another.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1), the appointing authority may, by order, commute retrospectively the periods of absence without leave as extraordinary leave.
19. Condonation of interruption in service. – (1) In the absence of a specific indication to the contrary in the service book, an interruption between two spells of civil service rendered by a Government servant under Government including civil service rendered and paid out of Defence Services Estimates or Railway Estimates shall be treated as automatically condoned and the pre-interruption service treated as qualifying service.
(2) Nothing in sub-rule (1) shall apply to interruption caused by resignation, dismissal or removal from service or for participation in a strike.
(3) The period of interruption referred to in sub-rule (1) shall not count as qualifying service.
20. Period of deputation. – Service rendered by a Government servant on foreign service in India or abroad or on deputation to United Nations or other International organisations shall count as qualifying service for gratuity provided contributions in respect of gratuity have been deposited for the said period either by the Government servant himself or by the foreign employer.
Explanation.- For the purposes of this rule, the rate of contribution for counting of period as qualifying service for the purpose of grant of gratuity shall be regulated in accordance with the instructions issued by the Department of Personnel and Training from time to time.
21.Verification of qualifying service after eighteen years’ service and five years before retirement. – (1) On each occasion after a Government servant has completed eighteen years of service and on his being left with five years of service before the date of superannuation, the Head of Office in consultation with Accounts Officer shall, in accordance with the rules for the time being in force, verify the service rendered by such a Government servant, determine the qualifying service and communicate to him, in Form 1, the period of qualifying service so determined.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1), where a Government servant is transferred to another Department from a temporary Department or on account of the closure of the Department he had been previously serving or because the post he held had been declared surplus, the verification of his service may be done whenever such event occurs.
(3) The verification done under sub-rules (1) and (2) shall be treated as final and shall not be reopened except when necessitated by a subsequent change in the rules and orders governing the conditions under which the service qualifies for gratuity.
CHAPTER V
Regulation of Retirement Gratuity and Death Gratuity
22. Retirement gratuity or death gratuity. – (1) A Government servant, who has completed five years’ qualifying service and who, –
(i) retires on attaining the age of superannuation, or on invalidation, or
(ii) retires or is retired, in advance of the age of superannuation in accordance with rule 56 of the Fundamental Rules, 1922 or rule 12 of the Central Civil Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021; or
(iii) on being declared surplus to the establishment in which he was serving, opts for Special Voluntary Retirement Scheme relating to voluntary retirement of surplus employees; or
(iv) on has been permitted to be absorbed in a service or post in or under a Corporation or Company wholly or substantially owned or controlled by the Central Government or a State Government or in or under a body controlled or financed by the Central Government or a State Government, shall, on his retirement, be granted retirement gratuity equal to one-fourth of his emoluments for each completed six monthly period of qualifying service, subject to a maximum of 16½ times the emoluments.
(2) Where a Government servant dies while in service, the death gratuity shall be payable to his family in the manner indicated in sub-rule (1) of rule 24 at the rates given in the following Table, namely : –
Provided that the amount of retirement gratuity or death gratuity payable under this rule shall in no case exceed twenty lakh rupees:
Provided further that where the amount of retirement or death gratuity as finally calculated contains a fraction of a rupee, it shall be rounded off to the next higher rupee.
(3) The emoluments for the purpose of gratuity admissible under this rule, shall be reckoned in accordance with rule 6:
Provided that if the emoluments of a Government servant have been reduced during the last ten months of his service otherwise than as a penalty, average emoluments as referred to in rule 7 shall be treated as emoluments:
Provided further that the dearness allowance admissible on the date of retirement or death, as the case may be, shall also be treated as emoluments for the purpose of this rule.
(4) Where a Government servant, who has become eligible for retirement gratuity dies within five years from the date of his retirement from service including compulsory retirement as a penalty and the sums actually received by him at the time of death on account of such annuity under National Pension System, if any, together with the retirement gratuity admissible under sub –rule (1) are less that the amount equal to twelve times of his emoluments, a residuary gratuity equal to the deficiency may be granted to his family in the manner indicated in sub-rule (1) of rule 24.
(5) For the purposes of this rule and rules 23, 24, 25 and 26, ‘family’, in relation to a Government servant, means, –
(i) wife or wives including judicially separated wife or wives in the case of a male Government servant;
(ii) husband, including judicially separated husband in the case of a female Government servant;
(iii) sons including stepsons and adopted sons;
(iv) unmarried daughters including stepdaughters and adopted daughters;
(v) widowed or divorced daughters including stepdaughters and adopted daughters;
(vi) father, including adoptive parents in the case of individuals whose personal law permits adoption;
(vii) mother, including adoptive parents in the case of individuals whose personal law permits adoption;
(viii) brothers below the age of eighteen years including stepbrothers;
(ix) unmarried sisters and widowed sisters including stepsisters;
(x) married daughters, and
(xi) children of a pre-deceased son.
Explanation. – (1) In calculating the length of qualifying service, fraction of a year equal to three months and above shall be treated as a completed one half-year and reckoned as qualifying service.
(2) Death gratuity shall also be admissible in the case of a Government servant who commits suicide.
23.Nominations. – (1) A Government servant shall, on his initial confirmation in a service or post, make a nomination in Form 2, conferring on one or more persons the right to receive the retirement gratuity or death gratuity payable under rule 22 :
Provided that if at the time of making the nomination, –
(i) the Government servant has a family, the nomination shall not be made in favour of any person or persons other than the members of his family ; or
(ii) the Government servant has no family, the nomination may be made in favour of a person or persons, or a body of individuals, whether incorporated or not.
(2) Where a Government servant nominates more than one person under sub-rule (1), he shall specify in the nomination the amount of share payable to each of the nominees, in such manner as to cover the entire amount of
gratuity.
(3) A Government servant may provide in the nomination, –
(i) that in respect of any specified nominee who predeceases the Government servant, or who dies after the death of the Government servant but before receiving the payment of gratuity, the right conferred on that nominee shall pass to such other person as may be specified in the nomination :
Provided that if at the time of making the nomination the Government servant has a family consisting of more than one member, the person so specified shall not be a person other than a member of his family :
Provided further that where a Government servant has only one member in his family, and a nomination has been made in his favour, it is open to the Government servant to nominate alternate nominee or nominees in favour of any person or a body of individuals, whether incorporated or not ;
(ii) that the nomination shall become invalid in the event of the happening of the contingency provided therein.
(4) The nomination made by a Government servant who has no family at the time of making it, or the nomination made by a Government servant under the second proviso to clause (i) of sub-rule (3) where he has only one member in his family shall become invalid in the event of the Government servant subsequently acquiring a family, or an additional member in the family, as the case may be.
(5) A Government servant may, at any time, cancel a nomination by sending a notice in writing to the Head of Office Provided that he shall, along with such notice, send a fresh nomination made in accordance with this rule.
(6) Immediately on the death of a nominee in respect of whom no special provision has been made in the nomination under clause (i) of sub-rule (3) or on the occurrence of any event by reason of which the nomination becomes invalid in pursuance of clause (ii) of sub-rule (3), the Government servant shall send to the Head of Office a notice in writing cancelling the nomination together with a fresh nomination made in accordance with this rule.
(7) (a) Every nomination made including every notice of cancellation, if any, given by a Government servant under this rule, shall be sent to the Head of Office.
(b) The Head of Office shall, immediately on receipt of such nomination, verify that the nomination made by the Government servant is in accordance with the provisions of this rule and, if the Government servant has a family, the nomination made is in favour of one or more members of the family as referred to in sub-rule (5) of rule 22 and the Head of Office shall, thereafter, countersign the nomination indicating the date of receipt and keep it under his custody :
Provided that the Head of Office may authorise his subordinate Gazetted Officers to countersign nomination forms of non-Gazetted Government servants.
(c) Suitable entry regarding receipt of nomination shall be made in the service book of the Government servant concerned.
(8) Every nomination made, and every notice of cancellation given, by a Government servant shall, to the extent that it is valid, take effect from the date on which it is received by the Head of Office.
Persons to whom gratuity is payable.
Persons to whom gratuity is payable.- (1) (a) The gratuity payable under rule 22 shall be paid to the person or persons on whom the right to receive the gratuity is conferred by means of a nomination under rule 23;
(b) If there is no such nomination or if the nomination made does not subsist, the gratuity shall be paid in the following manner, namely : –
(A) if there are one or more surviving members of the family as specified in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) of sub-rule (5) of rule 22, to all such members in equal shares;
(B) if there are no such surviving members of the family as specified in sub-clause (A), but there are one or more members as specified in clauses (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) and (xi) of sub-rule (5) of rule 22, to all such members in equal shares.
(2) If a Government servant dies after retirement without receiving the gratuity admissible under sub-rule (1) of rule 22 the gratuity shall be disbursed to the family in the manner provided in sub-rule (1).
(3) The right of a female member of the family, or that of a brother, of a Government servant who dies while in service or after retirement, to receive the share of gratuity shall not be affected if the female member marries or re- marries, or the brother attains the age of eighteen years, after the death of the Government servant and before receiving her or his share of the gratuity.
(4) Where gratuity is granted under rule 22 to a minor member of the family of the deceased Government servant, it shall be payable to the guardian on behalf of the minor.
Explanation.- (1) Payment of the minor’s share of gratuity shall be made to the natural guardian of the minor, if any and in the absence of a natural guardian, the payment of minor’s share of gratuity shall be made to the person who furnishes a certificate of guardianship.
(2) In the absence of a natural guardian, the payment of twenty per cent. of minor’s share of gratuity may be made to the guardian without the production of a guardianship certificate but on production of an indemnity bond in Proforma A and the balance amount of minor’s share of gratuity may be paid to the guardian on production of the certificate of guardianship.
(3) The share of the gratuity payable to a member of the family who has died or become disqualified before receiving actual payment, shall be distributed equally among the remaining members of the family in accordance with clause (b) of sub-rule (1) of rule 24.
(4) Disbursing authorities shall ascertain, before making actual payment of a death or retirement gratuity whether all the member of the family in whose favour the sanction was issued have continued to be qualified. If not, and also if any of them is dead, the fact shall be reported immediately to the sanctioning authority for the issue of a revised sanction in favour of the remaining members of the family.
25.Debarring a person from receiving gratuity. – (1) Where a person who in the event of death of a Government servant while in service is eligible to receive gratuity in terms of rule 24, is charged with the offence of murdering the Government servant or for abetting in the commission of such an offence, his claim to receive his share of gratuity shall remain suspended till the conclusion of the criminal proceedings instituted against him.
(2) Where on the conclusion of the criminal proceedings referred to in sub-rule (1), the person concerned, –
(a) is convicted for the murder or abetting in the murder of the Government servant, he shall be debarred from receiving his share of gratuity which shall be payable to other eligible members of the family, if any;
(b) is acquitted of the charge of murdering or abetting in the murder of the Government servant, his share of gratuity shall be payable to him.
(3) The provisions of sub-rule (1) and sub-rule (2) shall also apply to the undisbursed gratuity referred to in sub-rule (2) of rule 24.
26. Lapse of retirement gratuity or death gratuity. – Where a Government servant dies while in service or after retirement without receiving the amount of gratuity and leaves behind no family, and, –
(a) has made no nomination; or
(b) the nomination made by him does not subsist, the amount of retirement gratuity or death gratuity payable in respect of such Government servant under rule 22 shall lapse to the Government :
Provided that the amount of death gratuity or retirement gratuity shall be payable to the person in whose favour a
Succession Certificate in respect of the gratuity in question has been granted by a Court of Law.
27.Superannuation gratuity. – A superannuation gratuity shall be granted in accordance with rule 22 to a Government servant who is retired on his attaining the age of superannuation or, if the service of the Government servant has been extended beyond superannuation, on expiry of such period of extension of service beyond the age of superannuation.
28. Invalid gratuity. – An Invalid Gratuity shall be granted in accordance with rule 22 to a Government servant who retires from the service on account of any bodily or mental infirmity which permanently incapacitates him for the service in accordance with rule 16 of the Central Civil Services ( Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021 and who had exercised option or in whose case the default option under rule 10 of that rules, is for availing benefits under National Pension System:
Provided that where a Government servant, who had exercised option or in whose case the default option under rule 10 of the Central Civil Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021 is for availing benefits under the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 or the Central Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1939 and in whose case the provision of section 20 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (49 of 2016) are not applicable, retires on account of any bodily or mental infirmity which permanently incapacitates him for the service, further action will be taken by the Head of Office for disbursement of benefits in accordance with the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 or the Central Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules,1939 as the case may be.
29. Retiring gratuity. – A Government servant who retires or is retired, in advance of the age of superannuation in accordance with rule 56 of the Fundamental Rules, 1922 or rule 12 of the Central Civil Services ( Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021 on being declared surplus to the establishment in which he was serving, opts for Special Voluntary Retirement Scheme for surplus employees notified by the Department of Personnel and Training vide Office Memorandum No. 25013/6/2001-Estt. (A), dated the 28th February, 2002 as amended from time to time, shall be entitled to gratuity admissible under rule 22.
30. Gratuity on compulsory retirement.- (1) A Government servant compulsorily retired from service as a penalty may be granted, by the authority competent to impose such penalty, gratuity at a rate not less than two-thirds of gratuity admissible to him on the date of his compulsory retirement.
(2) Whenever in the case of a Government servant the President passes an order (whether original, appellate or in exercise of power of review) awarding a gratuity less than the full gratuity admissible under these rules, the Union
Public Service Commission shall be consulted before such order is passed.
31.Effect of dismissal or removal. – A Government servant who is dismissed or removed from service shall forfeit his gratuity :
Provided that the authority competent to dismiss or remove him from service may, if the case is deserving of special consideration, sanction a compassionate gratuity not exceeding two – thirds of retirement gratuity calculated at the rates mentioned in sub-rule (1) of rule 22.
32. Benefit on absorption in or under a corporation, company or body. – (1) A Government servant who has been permitted to be absorbed in a service or post in or under a corporation or company wholly or substantially owned or controlled by the Central Government or a State Government or in or under a body controlled or financed by the Central Government or a State Government, shall be deemed to have retired from service from the date of such absorption and, subject to sub-rule (4), he shall be eligible, on such absorption, to receive retirement gratuity on the basis of the qualifying service and emoluments on the date of absorption in accordance with rule 22 :
Provided that on retirement from such corporation or company or body, the total amount of gratuity in respect of the service rendered under the Government and the service rendered in such corporation or company or body shall not exceed the amount that would have been admissible had the Government servant continued in Government service and retired on the same pay which he drew on retirement from that corporation or company or body.
(2) The provisions of sub-rule (1) shall also apply to Central Government servants who are permitted to be absorbed in joint sector undertakings, wholly under the joint control of the Central Government and State Governments or Union territory Administrations or under the joint control of two or more State Governments or Union territory Administrations.
(3) (a) where a Government employee joins a corporation or company or body on immediate absorption basis, the relieving order shall be issued in the Form 3 and the relieving order shall indicate the period within which the Government servant shall join the corporation or company or body :
Provided that this period may be extended by the relieving authority for reasons beyond the control of the Government servant, which shall be recorded in writing.
(b) The period between the date of relief and the date of joining in the corporation or company or body may be regularised by grant of leave due and if no such leave is due, the period may be regularised by grant of extraordinary leave.
(c) The relieving authority, before processing the case for sanction of retirement benefits, shall ascertain the date of joining by the Government servant in the corporation or company or body and accept the resignation of the Government servant from the date preceding the date of joining.
(d) No lien of the Government servant shall be retained in the relieving Department and all his connections with the Government shall stand severed on his absorption in the corporation or company or body.
(4) Where a gratuity scheme similar to the gratuity scheme under these rules exists in a body controlled or financed by the Central Government or a State Government in which a Government servant is absorbed, he shall be entitled to exercise option either, –
(a) to receive retirement benefits for the service rendered under the Central Government in accordance with sub-rule (1); or
(b) to count the service rendered under the Central Government in that body for pension.
(5) Where a Government servant is absorbed in a body controlled or financed by the Central Government or a State Government and exercises an option under clause (b) of sub-rule (4), the Government shall discharge its gratuity liability by paying in lump sum as a one time payment and the gratuity liability shall be the capitalised value of retirement gratuity for the service up to the date of absorption in that body.
(6) The date of absorption shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of rule 15 of the Central Civil Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021.
Explanation. – For the purpose of this rule, the expression ‘body’ means an autonomous body or a statutory body.
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