Swamy's Pension Rules Made Easy

The rules relating to pension and gratuity of Government servants with numerous changes from time to time, have always an air of mystery excepting to a few who actually deal with the pension and gratuity claims. This book was brought out as a pioneer attempt to make the rules less forbidding and more easily understood. We have pleasure in presenting the thirty-fourth edition of the book to our readers.

Care has been taken to explain the nuances of the rules at each stage with suitable comments and easy illustrations. Wherever possible, the official phraseology of the original rules has been substituted by plain language, so as to make the study easy and interesting.

On the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission, the provisions in the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972, have been modified to take effect from 1-1-1996. From 1-4-2004, Dearness Allowance equal to 50% of Basic Pay is treated as emoluments for calculation of pension. These modifi­cations have been incorporated in this book and problems solved accordingly. Though the CCS (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1939, have not been prescribed in the syllabus for Departmental Examinations, a separate chapter on the provisions of these rules with illustrations has been incorporated so that this book may be useful in the Central Government offices that may have to apply these" rules in their day-to-day work. In February, 2002, Government of India announced a new scheme titled "Special Voluntary Retirement Scheme for Surplus Central Government Employees". A separate lesson explaining the salient features of the Scheme with illustration has been incorporated in this edition.

Suggestions for improvement and for rectification of errors and omissions will be gratefully accepted.