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GOVERNMENT OF RAJASTHAN

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

(RULES DIVISION)

No.F.12(8)FD(Rules)/2017 Jaipur, dated : J 0 SEP 2018

ORDER

Subject: - Grant of Dearness Relief to State Government Pensioners.

The Governor is pleased to order that the existing rate of Dearness

Relief sanctioned vide Finance Department Order of even number dated

23-03-2018 to the State Government Pensioners who are in receipt of

superannuation, retiring, invalid, compensation, family and extraordinary

pension etc. shall be revised from 7% to 9% with effect from 01-07-2018.

For the purpose of this order -

(i) Pension/Family Pension in the case of pre-01-01-2016 retirees

and where Family Pension was sanctioned prior to 01-01-2016,

means the Revised Pension or Revised Family Pension, as the

case may be, effective from 01-01-2016 in terms of Finance

Department Memorandum No. F.12(6)FD(Rules)/2017 dated 30-

10-2017 as amended vide Order No. F.12(6)FD(Rules)/ 2017

dated 09-12-2017 and F.12(6)FD(Rules)/ 2017 Pt.-I dated 06-06-

2018.

(ii) In the case of pensioners who retire from service on or after

01-01 -2017 or where family pension is sanctioned for the first time

on or after 01-01-2017, Pension/Family Pension means the Basic

Pension/Basic Family Pension, as the case may be, in terms of

Finance Department Notification No. F.12(6)FD(Rules)/ 2017

dated 30-10-2017 as amended vide Order No. F.12(6)FD(Rules)/

2017 dated 09-12-2017.

(iii) Dearness Relief will also be admissible on the additional quantum

of pension / family pension allowed to the pensioners who have

attained the age of 80 years and above.

(iv) Payment of Dearness Relief involving a fraction of a rupee shall

be rounded off to the next higher rupee.

(v) Other provisions governing grant of dearness relief to pensioners'

such as regulation of dearness relief during employment/re- employment, regulation of dearness relief where more than one

pension is drawn etc., will remain unchanged.

(vi) This order shall also be applicable in case of Pensioners/Family

Pensioners who are in receipt of provisional pension.

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(vii) This order shall not be applicable in case of Old Age Pensions,

Political Pensions or any other kind of similar pensions, which are

not related to the service rendered under Government.

(viii) Dearness Relief at revised rates as above would also be

admissible to pensioners who retired/retire from service of

Panchayat Samiti or Zifa Parishad and whose Pension Payment

Orders have been issued by the Director, Local Fund Audit

Department or Director, Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare

. Department, Rajasthan, Jaipur.

(ix) The payment of arrears of Dearness Relief shall be made after

01- 10- 2018.

By order of the Governor,

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Secretary Finance (Budget)

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Copy forwarded to the: -

1. Principal Secretary to Hon’bie Governor.

2. Principal Secretary to Hon'ble Chief Minister.

3. All Special Assistants / Private Secretaries to Ministers / State Ministers.

4. All Additional Chief Secretaries/ Principal Secretaries/Secretaries/Special

Secretaries to the Government.

5. J.S. to Chief Secretary.

6. Accountant General Rajasthan, Jaipur { with 4000 spare copies).

7. All Sections of the Secretariat.

8. All Heads of the Departments.

9. Director, Treasuries & Accounts, Rajasthan, Jaipur with 100 spare copies for

sending to all Sub-Treasury Officers.

10. All Treasury Officers.

11. Administrative Reforms {Gr. 7) Department with 7 spare copies.

12. Vidhi Rachana Sangthan, for Hindi translation.

13. Director, Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare Department, Rajasthan, Jaipur (500

copies).

14. Additional Director, Finance Department (Computer Cell).

15. Guard File.

Copy also to the -

1. Secretary, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, Jaipur with 20 extra copies for

Subordinate Legislative Committees.

2. Registrar General, Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur/ Jaipur.

3. Secretary, Rajasthan Public Service Commission, Ajmer.

4. Secretary, Lokayukta Saehivalaya, Jaipur.

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