Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (Department of Personnel and Training)

New Delhi, dated 7 October, 1997.

Notification

G.S.R…… In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the All India Services Act, 1951 (61 of 1951), the Central Government after consultation with the Governments of the States concerned, hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 1954, namely:-
1.
(1) These rules may be called the Indian Police Service (Pay) Seventh Amendment Rules, 1997.
(2) They shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of January, 1996.
2. In the Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 3,-
(a) for sub-rule (1), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
“(1) Scales of Pay – The scales of pay admissible to a member of the Service and the dates with effect from which the said scales shall be deemed to have come into force, shall be as follows:-

Junior Scale – Rs. 8000-275-13500 (with effect from the 1st day of January, 1996).

Senior Scale-
(i) Time Scale – Rs. 10000-325-15200 (with effect from the 1st day of January, 1996);
(ii) Junior Administrative Grade Rs. 12000-375-16500 (non-functional) (with effect from the 1st day of January, 1996);

Provided that a member of the Service shall be appointed to the senior time scale on his completion of four years of service, subject to the provisions of sub-rule (2) of rule 6A of the Indian Police Service (Recruitment) Rules, 1954 and to the junior administrative grade on completion of nine years of service.

Note:- The four years and nine years of service in this rule shall be calculated from the year of allotment assigned to him under rule 3 of the Indian Police Service (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1988;(iii) Selection Grade – Rs. 14300-400-18300 (with effect from the 1st day of January, 1996);

Supertime Scales – (a) Deputy Inspector General Rs. 16400-450-20000
(with effect from the 1st day of January, 1996);
(b) Inspector General Rs. 18400-500-22400
(with effect from the 1st day of January, 1996).
Above Supertime Scales – (i) Additional Director General of Police Rs. 22400-525-24500
(with effect from the 1st day of January, 1996);
(ii) Director General of Police Rs. 24050-650-26000
(with effect from the 1st day of January, 1996).
Provided that a member of the Service may opt to continue to draw pay in the existing scale until the date on which he earns his next or any subsequent increment in the existing scale or until he vacates his post or ceases to draw pay in that scale. The option shall be exercised in accordance with such orders as may be issued by the Central Government in this behalf.

Explanation 1 – The option to retain the existing scale under the proviso to this rule shall be admissible only in respect of one existing scale.

Explanation 2 – The said option shall not be admissible to any person appointed to the Service on or after the 1st day of January, 1996 and he shall be allowed pay only in the revised scale.

Explanation 3 – Where a member of the Service exercises an option under the proviso to this rule to retain the existing scale in respect of a post held by him in an officiating capacity on a regular basis for the purpose of regulation of pay in that scale, his substantive pay shall be the substantive pay which he would have drawn had he retained the existing scale in e permanent post on which he holds a lien or would have held a lien had his lien not been suspended or the pay of the officiating post which has acquired the character of substantive pay in accordance with any order for the time being in force, whichever is higher.”
(b) for sub-rule (3), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
“(3) The initial pay of a member of the Service who opts or deemed to have opted, in accordance with these rules, to be governed by the revised scale on and from the 1st day of January, 1996 or from a later date, shall be re-fixed as from that date separately in respect of his subs’antive payin the permanent post on which he holds a lien or would have held a lien if it had not been suspended, and in respect of his pay in the officiating post held by him, in the following manner, namely:-
(A) in the cases of all members of the Service –
(i) an amount representing forty per cent. of the basic pay in the existing scale shall be added to the ‘existing emoluments’ of the members of the Service;
(ii) after the existing emoluments have been so increased, the pay shall thereafter be fixed in the revised scale at the stage next above the amount thus computed:

Provided that –
(a) if the minimum of the revised scale is more than the amount so arrived at, the pay shall be fixed at the minimum of the revised scale;
(b) if the amount so arrived at is more than the maximum of the revised scale, the pay shall be fixed at the maximum of that scale:

Provided further that where in the fixation of pay, the pay of a member of the Service drawing pay at more than four consecutive stages in an existing scale gets bunched, that is gets fixed in the revised scale at the same stage, the pay in the revised scale of such member of the Service who is drawing pay beyond the first four consecutive stages in the existing scale shall be stepped up to the stage where such bunching occurs, by the grant of increment(s) in the revised scale in the following manner, namely:-
(a) for a member of the Service drawing pay from the 5 th upto the 8th stage in the existing scale – by one increment;
(b) for a member of the Service drawing pay from the 9th upto the 12th stage in the existing scale, if there is bunching beyond the 8th stage – by two increments;
(c) for a member of the Service drawing pay from the 13th upto the 16th stage in the existing scale, if there is bunching beyond the 12th stage – by three increments;

If by stepping up of the pay as above, the pay of a member of the Service gets fixed at a stage in the revised scale which is higher than the stage in the revised scale at which the pay of a member of the Service who was drawing pay at the next higher stage or stages in the same existing scale is fixed, the pay of the latter shall also be stepped up to the extent by which it falls short of that of the former.Provided also that the fixation thus made shall ensure that every member of the Service shall get at least one increment in the revised scale of pay for every three increments [inclusive of stagnation increment(s), if any] in the existing scale of pay.

Explanation – For the purpose of this clause, “existing emoluments” shall include –
(a) the basic pay in the existing scale;
(b) dearness allowance appropriate to the basic pay admissible at index average 1510 $(1960=100)$, and
(c) the amounts of first and second instalments of interim relief admissible on the basic pay in the existing scale;
(B) in the case of a member of the Service who is in receipt of special pay component with any other nomenclature in addition to pay in the existing scale, such as personal pay for promoting small family norms, Central (deputation on tenure) Allowance, etc., and in whose case the same has been replaced in the revised scale with corresponding allowance or pay at the same rate or at a different rate, the pay in the revised scale shall be fixed in accordance with the provisions of clause (A) above. In such cases, the allowance at the new rate as recommended, shall be drawn in addition to pay in the revised scale of pay.

Note 1- Where the increment of a member of the Service falls on 1st day of January, 1996, he shall have an option to draw the increment in the existing scale or the revised scale.

Note 2- Where a member of the Service is on leave on the 1st day of January, 1996, he shall become entitled to pay in the revised scale of pay from the date he resumes duty. In case of a member of the Service under suspension, he shall continue to draw subsistence allowance based on existing scale of pay and his pay in the revised scale of pay will be subject to the final order on the pending disciplinary proceedings.

Note 3- Where the existing emoluments as calculated in accordance with clause (A) or clause (B), as the case may be, exceed the revised emoluments in the case of any member of the Service, the difference shall be allowed as personal pay to be absorbed in future increases in pay.Note 4- Where in the fixation of pay under these rules, pay of a member of the Service who in the existing scale was drawing immediately before the 1st day of January, 1996, more pay than another member of the Service junior to him in the same cadre, gets fixed in the revised scale at a stage lower than that of such junior, his pay shall be stepped upto the same stage in the revised scale as that of the junior.

Note 5- Where a member of the Service is in receipt of personal pay on the 1st day of January, 1996, which together with his existing emoluments as calculated in accordance with clause (A) or clause (B), as the case may be, exceeds the revised emoluments, then, the difference representing such excess shall be allowed to such member of the Service as personal pay to be absorbed in future increases in pay.

Note 6- Where a senior member of the Service promoted to a higher post before the 1st day of January, 1996 draws less pay in the revised scale than his junior who is promoted to the higher post on or after the 1st day of January, 1996, the pay of the senior member of the Service shall be stepped up to an amount equal to the pay as fixed for his junior in that higher post. The stepping up shall be done with effect from the date of promotion of the junior member of the Service subject to the fulfilment of the following conditions, namely:-
(a) both the junior and the senior member of the Service shall belong to the same cadre and the post in which they have been promoted shall be identical in the same cadre;
(b) the pre-revised and revised scales of pay of the lower and higher posts in which they are entitled to draw pay shall be identical;
(c) the senior member of the Service at the time of promotion has been drawing equal or more pay than the junior; and
(d) the anomaly shall be directly as a result of the application of the provisions of this sub-rule. If even in the lower post, the junior officer was drawing more pay in the pre-revised scale than the senior by virtue of any advance increments granted to him, provisions of thisNote need not be invoked to step up the pay of the senior member of the Service.

The order relating to re-fixation of the pay of the senior member of the Service in accordance with the above provisions shall be issued under re-evant rules and the senior member of the Service shall be entitled to the next increment on completion of his required qualifying service with effect from the date of re-fixation of pay.

Note 7- Subject to the provisions of sub-rule (1), if the pay as fixed in the officiating post under this sub-rule is lower than the pay fixed in the substantive post, the former shall be fixed at the stage next above the substantive pay.

Note 8- In the case of a member of the Service who is in receipt of personal pay for passing, Hindi Prajya and such other examinations under the “Hindi Teaching Scheme” prior to the 1st day of January, 1996, while the personal pay shall not be taken into account for purposes of fixation of initial pay in the revised scale, he shall continue to draw personal pay after fixation of his pay in the revised scale on and from the 1st day of January, 1996 or subsequently for the period for which he would have drawn it but for the fixation of his pay in the revised scale. The quantum of such personal pay shall be paid at the appropriate rate of increment in the revised scale from the date of fixation of pay for the period for which the member of the Service would have continued to draw it.

Explanation- For the purpose of this Note, “appropriate rate of increment in the revised scale” means the amount of increment admissible at and immediately beyond the stage at which the pay of the member of the Service is fixed in the revised scale.

(C) Fixation of pay in the revised scale subsequent to the 1st day of January, 1996 – Where a member of the Service continues to draw his pay in the existing scale and opts for revised scale from a date later than the 1st day of January, 1996, his pay from the later date in the revised scale shall be fixed under these rules and for this purpose, his pay in the existing scale shall have the same meaning as of existing emoluments as calculated in accordance with clause (A) or clause (B), as the case may be, subject tohe conditions that the basic pay to be taken
into account for calculation of those
emoluments shall be the basic pay on the
later date and where the member of the
Service is in receipt of special pay his pay
shall be fixed after deducting from those
emoluments an amount equal to the special pay
at the revised rates appropriate to the
emoluments so calculated.”

1. In rule 5 of the said rules, for sub-rule (3A),
   the following shall be substituted, namely:-

“(3A) The next increment of a member of the
Service whose pay has been fixed in the revised
scale in accordance with rule 3 shall be granted
on the date he would have drawn his increment, had
he continued in the existing scale:

Provided that where the pay of a member of
the Service is stepped up in accordance with the
second proviso or Note 4 or Note 6 to sub-rule (3)
of rule 3, the next increment shall be granted on
the completion of qualifying service of twelve
months from the date of stepping up of the pay in
the revised scale:

Provided further that in other cases, the
next increment of a member of the Service whose
pay is fixed on the 1st day of January, 1996 at
the same stage as the one fixed for another member
of the Service junior to him in the same cadre and
drawing pay at a lower stage than him in the
existing scale shall be granted on the same date
as admissible to his junior, if the date of
increment of the junior happens to be earlier:

Provided also that in case of a member of
the Service who had been drawing maximum of the
existing scale for more than a year as on the 1st
day of January, 1996, the next increment in the
revised scale shall be allowed on the 1st day of
January, 1996.”

1. In rule 9 of the said rules, in sub-rule (7),
   for the word and figures “Rs. 7300-7600” and
   “Rs. 7600-8000”, wherever they occur, the word and
   figures “Rs. 24050-650-26000” shall be substituted.

2. In rule 9C of the said rules, for the word and
   figures “Rs. 4500-150-5700”, wherever it occurs, the
   word and figures “Rs. 14300-400-18300” shall be
   substituted.

3. In the said rules, in Schedule II, for the
   words and figures “first day of January, 1988” wherever
   they occur, the words and figures “1st day of January,
   1996” shall be substituted.

4. In the said rules, in Schedule III, in parts A,
   C and D, for the word and figures “Rs. 8000”,
   “Rs. 7600-100-8000”, “Rs. 7300-100-7600”,
   “Rs. 5900-200-6700” and “Rs. 5100-150-5400” (18th year or- 8 –

later)-150-6150″, wherever they occur, the word and
figures “Rs. 26000”, “Rs. 24050-650-26000”,
“Rs. 24050-650-26000”, “Rs. 18400-500-22400” and
“Rs. 16400-450-20000” shall respectively be substituted.

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The Central Government has decided to implement
the recommendations made by the Fifth Central Pay
Commission relating to revision of scales of pay in
respect of the All India Services with effect from the
1st January, 1996. With a view to implement these
recommendations, the Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules,
1954 are being amended accordingly with effect from the
1st January, 1996.

It is certified that no member of the Indian
Police Service is likely to be adversely affected by
giving retrospective effect to these rules.

(A.K. SARKAR)
Director
(No. 14021/2/97-AIS(II)-B)| Item | Price (£) | Price (£) |
|———-|———|———|
| 1. | 115 | 15.353 |
| 2. | 1474 | 9.065 |
| 3. | 1475 | 9.065 |
| 4. | 1597 | 15.165 |
| 5. | 1438 | 24.966 |
| 6. | 1779 | 26.1166 |
| 7. | 1832 | 3.1266 |
| 8. | 878 | 18.873 |
| 9. | 1017 | 22.973 |
| 10. | 1124 | 3.1173 |
| 11. | 1407 | 29.1273 |
| 12. | 33 | 19.174 |
| 13. | 270 | 16.374 |
| 14. | 549 | 8.674 |
| 15. | 666 | 29.574 |
| 16. | 945 | 7.974 |
| 17. | 4708 | 15.1174 |
| 18. | 4718 | 15.1174 |
| 19. | 1261 | 30.1174 |
| 20. | 224 | 22.275 |
| 21. | 51 | 18.175 |
| 22. | 1863 | 2.475 |
| 23. | 3473 | 25.675 |
| 24. | 753 | 21.675 |
| 25. | 651 | 31.575 |
| 26. | 3813 | 25.675 |
| 27. | 3498 | 25.675 |
| 28. | 4568 | 22.875 |
| 29. | 25588 | 25.075 |

(1. K. SARKAR) 16.1097 Director

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