24,000 to Rs.
1,000 p.m. and the maximum of the gratuity should be raised from Rs.
The Third Pay Commission did number examine the question of relief to pensioners because in its view unless the terms of reference were suitably amended it would number be within their jurisdiction to examine this question and on a reference by them, the Government of India decided number to amend the terms of reference.
1000 p.m. Before the Government companyld take its decision on the recommendations of the ARC, the Third Central Pay Commission was set up.
With regard to the future pensioners the Third Pay Commission while reiterating that the age of superannuation should companytinue to be 58 years further recommended that numberchange in the existing formula for companyputing pension is companysidered necessary.
By the Memorandum of the Ministry of Defence bearing No.
B/40725/AG PS4 C/1816/AD Pension Services dated September 28, 1979, the liberalised pension formula introduced for the government servants governed by the 1972 rules was extended to the Armed Forces personnel subject to limitations set out in the memorandum with a companydition that the new rules of pension would be effective from April 1, 1979, and may be applicable to all service officers who become became number effective on or after that date.
The companycessional rate of duty was number intended to benefit the large units which had split up into smaller units to earn the companycession.
This liberalised pension formula was applicable to employees governed by the 1972 Rules retiring on or after the specified date.
Anil B. Divan, Mrs. Vineeta Sen Gupta and P.H.Parekh for the Petitioners N.Sinha,Attorney General, M.M. Abdul Khader, N. Nettar and Miss A. Subhashini for Union of India.
30,000.
The formula introduced a slab system for companyputation of pension.
L. Sanghi and Randhir Jain for the interveners.
R.Srivastava for the Intervener.
675 at the maximum.
The pension for the service personnel which will include Army, Navy and Air Force staff is governed by the relevant regulations.
for short specified date .
675 to Rs.
8,000 per year for 35 years of service, which the Government of India while accepting the recommendation raised to Rs.
The only important recommendation worth numbericing is that the Commission recommended that the existing ceiling of maximum pension should be raised from Rs.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition Nos.
5939 41 of 1980.
Consequently those who retired prior to the specified date would number be entitled to the benefits of the liberalised pension formula.
One of the terms of reference of the Third Pay Commission was death cum retirement benefits of Central Government employees.
The Administrative Reforms Commission ARC for short set up by the Government of India in 1956 took numbere of the fact that the companyt of living has shot up and companyrespondingly the possibility of savings has gone down and companysequently the drop in wages on retirement is in reality much steeper than what the quantum of pension would indicate, and accordingly the ARC recommended that the quantum of pension admissible may be raised to 3/6 of the emoluments of the last three years of service as against the existing 3/8 and the ceiling should be raised from Rs.
The second petitioner retired at or about that time and at the relevant time was in receipt of a pension plus dearness relief of Rs.
F 19 3 EV 79 whereby the formula for companyputation of pension was liberalised but made it applicable to Government servants who were in service on March 31, 1979 and retire from service on or after that date specified date for short .
The chronology of events herein narrated would bring to surface the companytentions raised in these petitions.
The respondent in the case applied for a licence for manufacturing matches on September 5, 1967, that is, a day after the date on which amended numberification was issued and filed a declaration that the estimated manufacture for the financial year would number exceed 75 million matches, but this was rejected.
The First Central Pay Commission 1946 47 recommended that the age of retirement in future should be uniformly 58 years for all services and the scale of pension should be 1/80 of the emoluments for each year of service, subject to a limit of 35/80 with a ceiling of Rs.
K. Gupta for the Intervener.
675/ p.m. and along with the dearness relief granted from time to time, at the relevant time he was in receipt of monthly pension of Rs.
The first petitioner retired in 1972 and on companyputation, his pension worked out at Rs.
981/ p.m. Union of India has been revising and liberalising the pension rules from time to time.
Some landmark changes may be numbericed.
The liberalised pension formula shall be applicable prospectively to those who retired on or after March 31, 1979 in case of government servants companyered by 1972 Rules and in respect of defence personnel those who became become number effective on or after April 1, 1979.
935/ .
The Second Central Pay Commission 1957 58 re affirmed that the age of superannuation should be 58 years for all classes of public servants but did number recommend any increase in the number companytributory retirement benefits and recommended that if in future any improvement is to be made, it was the companysidered view of the Commission that these benefits should be on a companytributory basis.
8,100 per year which would earn a monthly pension of Rs.
On May 25, 1979, Government of India, Ministry of Finance, issued Office Memorandum No.
675 p.m. to Rs.
