Understanding the intricate details of public service remuneration is crucial for maintaining transparency and fairness. A significant update has been issued concerning the pay structure for officers within the Indian Police Service. This amendment clarifies key principles for how pay is determined, particularly for those promoted or appointed to cadre posts from the State Police Service. It meticulously defines terms such as ‘actual pay,’ ‘assumed pay,’ ‘higher scale,’ and ‘lower scale,’ laying out the precise methodologies for calculating entitlements. These definitions take into account not only basic pay scales but also dearness allowance, dearness pay, and interim or additional relief as they stood on a specific historical date, January 1, 1973. This move ensures a standardized and clear approach to salary fixation, aiming to eliminate ambiguity and provide a solid framework for financial entitlements across the police forces.
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No. 11030/3/80-AIS.II
Government of India/Bharat Sarkar
Ministry of Home Affairs/Brih Mantralave
Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms
(Karnik Aur Prashasnik Sudhar Vibhag).
New Delhi, the
July, 80
NOTIFICATION
G.S.P. No. ……………. In exercise of the powers conferred by Sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the 411 India Services Act, 1951 (61 of 1951), this Central Government, after consultation with the Governments of the States concerned, hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Indian Police Services (Pay) Rules, 1954, namely:-
(1) These rules may be called the Indian Police Service (Pay) (Fifth) Amendment Rules, 1980.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Gazette.
- In Schedule II of the Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 1954, for clauses (i) to (iv) under the heading “Principles of pay fixation of proposed officers on appointment to the Indian Police Service and of members of the State Police Service appointed to officiate in Padre Posts”, 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 Police Service is entitled by virtue of this substantive position, in the cadre of that service, and if the State Government have not revised the scales of pay applicable to the State Police Service as on the 1st day of January, 1973 or thereafter actual 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.
(ii) ‘assumed pay’ means the pay which a member of the State Police Service, officiating or confined in a higher scale would have drawn in the lower scale (which does not include higher scale) of his service had he not been officiating or confined in the higher scale and if the State Government have not revised, scale of pay applicable to the State Police 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 Police 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 Police Service were revised for the first time after the first day of January, 1973 provided that in the later case the decrease, decreases, 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 Police 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 Police Service were revised for the first time after the first day of January, 1973 provided that in the later case the decrease, decreases, 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.
(V.P. Srinivasan)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India
No. 11030/3/80-AIS (II) New Delhi, the July, 80
A copy each is forwarded for information to:
- Chief Secretary to All State Governments and Union Territories.
- The Controller & Auditor General of India (with three spare copies).
- The Secretary, Union Public Service Commission, New Delhi (with 10 spare copies).
- All the Accountants General Including the Accountant General, Central Revenue, New Delhi and the Accountant General, Commerce, Works and Miscellaneous, New Delhi.
- Director, S.V.P. National Police Academy, Hyderabad (AP)
- Lok Sabha Secretariat (Committee Branch), New Delhi.
- Ministry of Home Affairs (UPS Section), New Delhi
- Ministry of Home Affairs (UPS Section) (with 20 spare copies).
(V.P. Srinivasan)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India.
Internal distribution
AIS (I)/AIS (III)/AIS (IV)/ Office of the P.O. Board File, Pay Unit. I with 2 spare copies.