Facilities Available in Army Postal Service for Officers on deputation to APS

The Facilities Available in Army Postal Service for Group A and B Officers on deputation to APS is given below

FACILITIES AVAILABLE IN ARMY POSTAL SERVICE FOR GROUP ‘A’ & ‘B’ OFFICERS WHO ARE ON DEPUTATION TO APS

Facilities Available in Army Postal Service

1.Equivalent Rank Structure in Army Postal Service at the time of induction

• (a) IPoS Group ‘A’ Officers – HAG – Major General
• (b) IPoS Group ‘A’ Officers – SAG – Brigadier
• (c) IPoS Group ‘A’ Officers – JAG(NFSG) – Colonel
• (d) IPoS Group ‘A’ Officers – JAG – Lieutenant Colonel
• (e) IPoS Group ‘A’ Officers – STS – Major
• (f) IPoS Group ‘A’ Officers – JTS – Captain
• (g) PS Group ‘B’ Officers – 4 years & above service – Captain
• (h) PS Group ‘B’ Officers – below 4 years of service – Lieutenant

2. IPoS Group ‘A’ gazetted service will be equated with full pay commissioned service for the purpose of fixation of Army seniority and will be eligible for further promotion.

3. PS Group ‘B’ gazetted service will also be equated similarly after deducting two years from it. The Officers in the APS are promoted on time scale as under :-

• (a) On commissioning – Lieutenant (b) After completing 2 years service – Captain
• (c) After completing 6 years of service – Major
• (d) After completing 13 years of service – Lieutenant Colonel (e) After completing 26 years of service – Colonel (Time Scale)

4. Age limit and medical category

The Officers upto 45 years of age and in the medical category of SHAPE-1 are eligible to join APS.

Pay and Allowances

(a) Option to draw Army Rate of Pay with the following Grade Pay and Military Service Pay (MSP) of Rs 6000/- as per 6th CPC.

(i) Major General – Rs 10,000/- & PB-4 pay scale
(ii) Brigadier – Rs 8900/- & PB-4 pay scale
(iii) Colonel – Rs 8700/- & PB-4 pay scale
(iv) Lieutenant Colonel – Rs 8000/- & PB-4 pay scale
(v) Major – Rs 6600/- & PB-3 pay scale
(vi) Captain – Rs 6100/- & PB-3 pay scale
(vii) Lieutenant – Rs 5400/- & PB-3 pay scale
OR
Civil rate of pay plus 12.5% Deputation Allowance on Basic Pay plus Grade Pay for the officers of the grade of JAG & above. Below JAG grade officers will get 20% Deputation Allowance plus Civil Pay.

(b) The Officer can exercise option at the time of commissioning and a further option on each occasion of promotion in Army rank to draw either Military Pay and Allowances or Civil Pay plus Deputation Allowance.

(c) Special Compensatory Allowances while serving in Field/Modified Field and Concessional Areas as admissible to Regular Army personnel are as under :-

Ser	Allowances	Lt Col & above(Rs)	Major (Rs)	Captain (Rs)	Lieutenant (Rs)
1	Highly Active Field Area Allowance	12600	11640	10650	10170
2	Field Area Allowance	7800	7200	6600	6300
3	Modified Field Area Allowance	3000	2790	2580	2400
4	Counter Insurgency (Ops) Field Area	11700	10800	9900	9450
5	Counter Insurgency (Ops) Modified Field Area	9000	8310	7620	7260
6	Counter Insurgence (Ops) Peace	7800	7200	6600	6300
7	High Altitude Allowance (9000- 15000ft)	3180	2790	1980	1590
8	High Altitude Allowance (15000ft & above)	4800	4200	3000	2400
9	High Altitude (Uncongenial climate Area)	16800	16800	16800	16800
10	Siachin Allowance	21000	21000	21000	21000
11	Special Compensatory (Remote Locality) Allowance (Part A)	3900	3900	3900	3900
12	Special Compensatory (Hill Area) Allowance	900	900	900	900
13	Island Allowance (More difficult area)	25% of BP + GP*	25% of BP + GP*	25% of BP + GP*	25% of BP + GP*
14	Island Allowance (Difficult Area)	20% of BP + GP*	20% of BP + GP*	20% of BP + GP*	20% of BP + GP*

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