7th pay commission latest news: Government announces big relief for central armed forces | check report

The government has amended the rule that sought minimum qualifying service of 10 years to avail pension. In a significant development recently, the Ministry of Personnel has done away with the minimum qualifying service of 10 years for pension, if a government employee is incapacitated due to bodily or medical infirmity and retired from government service, said a statement issued by the Personnel Ministry.  Source: Reuters

Accordingly, Rule 38 of CCS (Pension) Rules was amended to provide invalid pension at 50 per cent of the last pay, even if the employee had not completed minimum qualifying service of 10 years, the statement said. Source: Pixabay 
 

In addition to above, in yet another reform in the Pension Rules, a decision was also taken to amend the rule and provide pension at enhanced rate to the family of an employee who died during service before completing the requisite service of minimum seven years, it said.  Source: IANS

"As a result, now the family pension of 50 per cent of the last pay is also admissible to the family of employees who die even before completing seven years of service," the statement added. Source: PTI

In yet another similar development, Union Minister Jitendra Singh had said on Friday, 'Disability compensation’ has been extended to all serving central government employees who get disabled in the line of duty and are retained in service in spite of such disablement. Source: PTI

The order will provide a huge relief to young central armed police force (CAPF) personnel of CRPF, BSF, CISF, etc since disability in performance of duties is generally reported in their case. Source: PTI