Completed 18 Years Service ? Be prepared for Periodic Verification to Determine Qualifying Service – Latest DoPPW Instructions

Service Verification After Completion of 18 Years Service and 5 Years Before Superannuation

The Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare (DoPPW) has issued an Office Memorandum (OM) concerning the Periodic Verification to Determine Qualifying Service for government employees who has Completed 18 Years Service and on his being left with 5 years of service before the date of superannuation

According to this OM, 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 Format 4, the period of qualifying service so determined

Periodic Verification to Determine Qualifying Service – DoPPW OM dated 25.10.2024

No. 57/03/2022-P&PW(B)/8361(7)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare

3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market,
New Delhi, Dated the 25th October, 2024

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Periodic verification of qualifying service and monitoring at the level of Secretary of the administrative Ministry/ Department.

The undersigned is directed to say that Sub-rule (1) of Rule 30 of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021, provides that on a Government servant 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 Format 4, the period of qualifying service so determined.

2.The rule further provides that a report shall be submitted to the Secretary of the Administrative Ministry/Department by 31st January of each year, giving the details of the Government servants who were required to be issued a certificate of qualifying service during the previous calendar year under sub-rule (1), the details of the Government servants who have actually been issued the said certificate during the said period and the reasons for not issuing the said certificate in the remaining cases.

3.Similar provisions of verification of qualifying service have been made in rule 21 of the CCS ( Payment of Gratuity under NPS) Rules, 2021 in respect to Central Government employees covered under the National Pension System.

4.Even though these statutory provisions are being repeatedly communicated to Ministries Departments, it is noticed that the qualifying service is not invariably communicated to the Government servant required under the above rules.

5.All Ministries/Departments are, therefore, again requested to bring these provisions to the notice of Head of Offices for strict compliance.

(S. Chakrabarti)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

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