Understanding the intricacies of government employee compensation is crucial for ensuring fairness and clarity in public service. Significant amendments were introduced to clarify the pay fixation principles for officers appointed to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) or those from the State Civil Service officiating in Cadre Posts. These new rules, effective upon their gazette publication, specifically define key terms such as ‘actual pay’, ‘assumed pay’, ‘higher scale’, and ‘lower scale’. ‘Actual pay’ refers to the entitled remuneration based on an officer’s substantive position, encompassing dearness allowances and other reliefs, particularly after January 1, 1973. ‘Assumed pay’ clarifies what an officer would have earned in a lower scale if they hadn’t been officiating or confirmed in a higher role, also considering similar allowances post-January 1, 1973. The rules also meticulously define ‘higher scale’ and ‘lower scale’ based on prescribed pay structures. A notable point is the treatment of dearness allowance, dearness pay, interim, or additional relief; if these were sanctioned and merged into a revised pay scale after January 1, 1973, they are to be excluded from certain calculations. These amendments aim to streamline and standardize the process of pay determination for promoted officers, providing a clearer framework for their remuneration.
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No. 11030/29/78-41S(II)
Government of India/Bharat Shrikar
Ministry of Home Affairs/Grih Mantralaya –
(Department of Personnel and administrative Reforms)
(Karmik aur Prashasnik Sudhar Vibhag)
New Delhi, 110001, the 24th Oct., 1979.
NOTIFICATION
G.S.R.NO. In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section
(1) of Section 3 of the All India Services Act, 1951(sl of 1951),
the Central Government, after consultation with the Governments
of the States concerned, hereby makes the following rules
further to amend the Indian administrative Service (Pay)
Rules, 1954, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Indian administrative
Service (Pay) Tenth amendment Rules, 1970.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their
publication in the Gazette.
2. In Schedule 11 of the Indian administrative Service
(Pay) Rules, 1954, for clauses (i) to (iv) under the heading
“Principles of pay fixation of promoted officers on appointment
to the Indian administrative Service and of members of the
State Civil Service appointed to officiate in Cadre Poste”,
the following shall be substituted, namely:-
“(i) ‘actual pay’ means the pay whether in the lower
scale or in the higher scale, to which a member of the State
Civil Service is entitled by virtue of his substantive position
in the cadre of that service, and if the State Government have
not revised the scales of pay applicable to the State Civil
Service as on the 1st day of January, 1973 or thereafter
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(ii) ‘assumed pay’ means the pay which a member of the State Civil Service, officiating or confirmed in a higher scale would have drawn in the lower scale (which does not include higher scale) of his service had no not been officiating or confirmed in the higher scale and if the State Government have not revised scale of pay applicable to the State Civil Service as on the first day of January, 1973 or thereafter assumed pay includes dearness allowance, dearness pay, interim or additional relief admissible on such pay at the rates in force as on the first day of January, 1973.
(iii) ‘higher scale’ means any scale of pay higher than the ‘lower scale’ prescribed for the State Civil Service and in force on the first day of January, 1973 or any date subsequent thereto, the subsequent date being the date on which the scales of pay applicable to the State Civil Service were revised for the first time after the first day of January, 1973 provided that in the later case the dearness allowance, dearness pay, interim or additional relief sanctioned by the State Government after the first day of January, 1973 and merged in the revised pay scale shall be excluded.
(iv) ‘lower scale’ means the ordinary or the lowest scale of pay prescribed for the State Civil Service and in force on the first day of January, 1973 or any date subsequent thereto, the subsequent date being the date on which the
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Sd/-
(ReC. Semal)
Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of India.
No. 1103C/29/73-AIS(II), dated the 24th October, 1973.
A copy each is forwarded for information to:
- Chief Secretary to All State Governments and Union Territories.
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The Comptroller & Auditor General of India (with three spare copies).
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The Secretary, Union Public Service Commission, New Delhi (with 10 spare copies).
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All the Accountants General including the Accountant General, General Revenues, New Delhi and the Accountant General, Commerce, Works and Miscellaneous, New Delhi.
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Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.
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Lok Sabha Secretariat (Committee Branch), New Delhi.
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Ministry of Home Affairs (UTS Section), New Delhi.
Sd/-
(R.C.Semal)
Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of India.
Internal Distribution
AIS(I)/AIS(II)/AIS(IV)/Office of the EU/Guard File.
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