Additional Gratuity for Pre-1996 Retirees

In pursuance of the Supreme Court Judgement, the Deptt of Pension & Pensioners Welfare, Govt of India, vide their O.M. No 45/86/97-P&PW(A) Pt I, dated 4.12.2004, the Pre-1996 Retirees have been made eligible for receiving additional Gratuity. All those pensioners who are eligible for this benefit may please apply to their respective departments, giving details eg. PPO No, date of retirement, bank details etc.

The Deptt of Pension & Pensioners Welfare O.M. referred above is reproduced below.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

No 45/86/97-P&PW(A) Pt I, dated 4.12.2004.
Subject: Implementation of Govt decision on recommendation of the Vth CPC revision of provisions regulating pension.

1. The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s O.M. even number dt 27^th Oct 1997 on the above subject and to state that para Nos 4.3 & 6 of the above may please be substituted as under: -

“Emoluments

Para 4.3. In case of all types of gratuity under Rules 49 and 50 of the CCS (pension) Rules, DA admissible on the date of Retirement/ death shall be treated as emoluments alongwith The Emoluments as defined in paragraph 4.1 above, accordingly Rule 50(5) of the Pension Rules shall stand modified to the effect that the emoluments for the purpose of gratuity admissible under this Rule shall be reckoned in accordance with Rule 33 and in addition D.A. admissible on the date of retirement/ death of the government employee shall be treated as emoluments.

Retirement/ Death gratuity

Para 6. The maximum limits for all kinds of gratuity under Rule 50 of CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972, shall be Rs 3.5 lakh. Accordingly the first proviso of Rule 50(1)(b) of the CCS (Pension) Rules 1972, shall stand modified to effect that the amount of retirement/ death gratuity payable under this Rule shall in no case exceed Rs 3.5 lakh.”

Except for the above, the provisions of O.M. dt 27.10.97 stand.

2. These orders issue with the approval of Ministry of Finance Dept of Expenditure vide their U.O. No 648/E.V/2001 dt 29.10.2001.

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APPLICATION FOR GRANT OF
ADDITIONAL GRATUITY TO
PRE-1996 RETIREES

1. No and Name of Pensioner

2. No and Name of deceased in case
of family pension

3. Rank of pensioner

4. Date of retirement

5. Record office (or CDA)

6. Original PPO Number

7. Latest Corrigendum PPO if any

8. Previous reference of correspondence if any

9. Postal address, email ID and tele number

10. Bankers through which pension is being received

At the time of my retirement I have been paid Gratuity only based on Basic Pay.

Additional Gratuity may please be paid to me for the DA being drawn by me at the time of my retirement, as admissible vide Government of India Letter
No 45/86/97 – P&PW(A) dated 04 Dec 2004.

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Performance Reviews: How to Interpret

Some of you might like to know what supervisors are really saying in all those glowing employee work performance evaluations they keeps cranking out.
Read here: http://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/performancereviews.asp

Military Classics Online

If you have not read some of the military classics while in the services because you were busy, here is an opportunity to do so and that too with out leaving your computer desk!

These are the real classics. A military professional who has not read some of these is like a physicist who has not read Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" or a biologist who has not read Darwin's "Theory of Evolution"! It is never too late to catch up on your reading.

Military Dictionary, by Henry Lee Scott
Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1986), by George C. Thorpe, contrib. by Stanley L. Falk (PDF at ndu.edu)
The Art of War, by Niccolò Machiavelli, ed. by Jon Roland, trans. by Henry Neville (illustrated HTML at constitution.org)
The Art of War (with commentary), by Sun Tzu, trans. by Lionel Giles (Gutenberg text)
The Military Institutions of the Romans (De Re Militari), by Flavius Vegetius Renatus, trans. by John Clarke (HTML in Norway)
Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle (1921), by Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq, trans. by John N. Greely and Robert C. Cotton (Gutenberg text)
Principles of War, by Carl von Clausewitz, trans. by Hans W. Gatzke (HTML at clausewitz.com)
Strategic Information Warfare: A New Face of War (1996), by Roger C. Molander, Andrew S. Riddile, and Peter A. Wilson (PDF at rand.org)
Sun Tzu and Information Warfare, ed. by Robert E. Nielson (HTML at ndu.edu)
Defensive Information Warfare (1996), by David S. Alberts (HTML at ndu.edu)
Strategic Information Warfare: A New Face of War (1996), by Roger C. Molander, Andrew S. Riddile, and Peter A. Wilson (PDF at rand.org)


For a full list go here: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?U

Please circulate this info as widely as possible to all those who are likely to benefit with this information.

Russian War College

Hope you like this!

At the Russian War College, the general is a guest lecturer and tells the class of officers that the session will focus on potential problems and the resulting strategies.

One of the officers in the class begins by asking the first question, "Will we have to fight a World War Three?"

"Yes, comrades, looks like you will," answers the general.

"And who will be our enemy, Comrade General?" another officer asks.

"The likelihood is that it will be China."

The class looks alarmed, and finally one officer asks, "But Comrade General, we are 150 million people and they are about 1.5 billion. How can we possibly win?"

"Well," replies the general, "Think about it. In modern war, it is not the quantity, but the quality that is the key.

For example, in the Middle East, 5 million Jews fight against 50 million Arabs, and the Jews have been the winners every time."

"But sir," asks the panicky officer, "Do we have enough Jews"?