GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
ABSTRACT
PENSIONS – Training period of employees – Reckoning the period as qualifying service for the purpose of pension – Amendment – Issued.
FINANCE (PENSION-I) DEPARTMENT
G.O.Ms.No. 69 Dated:28.04.2011
Read the following:-
1. G.O. (P) No.88 Finance & Plg. (FW.Pen.I) Dept., dated 26.03.1980.
2. G.O.Ms.No.438 G.A. (Spl.A) Dept., dated.07.07.2008.
3. G.O.Ms.No.598 G.A. (Spl.A) Dept., dated. 26.11.2009.
4. G.O.Ms.No.178, FINANCE (PENSION-I) DEPARTMENT Dated:17.05.2010
5. Letter No.367/2010 dt. 11-12-2010 of Sri. Pochim Reddy Subba Reddy, MLC.
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ORDER:
In the Government Order 4th read above, orders were issued that in respect of the employees who retired/ retire on or after 1.7.2008, the training period of the employees for whom training or apprenticeship is a pre-requisite shall be reckoned as qualifying service for purpose of pensionary benefits irrespective of the fact whether he/ she was paid salary or stipend for the period of training/ apprenticeship, if any, if such period of training/ apprenticeship is a pre- requisite for appointment .
2. In the letter 5th read above, Sri Pochim Reddy Subba Reddy MLC has stated that the orders issued in G.O.Ms.No.178, Finance (Pen.I) Department, dated 17-05-2010 come into force with effective from 1-72008, resulting those who joined apprenticeship service will only get pension, but the legal heirs of deceased employees are not eligible to get pension. Hence, he has requested to issue an amendment to the said orders to make it applicable to the legal heirs of those who joined prior to 1-7-2008 as apprenticeship teachers and expired while in service to get family pension.
3. Government, after careful consideration of the matter, have decided to extend the benefit of treating the training/ apprenticeship period for pension purpose to all the employees who retired or retire from service as on or after 1-7-2008 and as well as in respect of employees who died prior to 1-7-2008.
4. The G.O is available on Internet and can be accessed at the address http://www.ap.gov.in/goir
5. Accordingly, the following notification will be published in an Extraordinary issue of the Andhra Pradesh Gazettee dated 28.04.2011.
NOTIFICATION
In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution of India and of all the powers hereunto enabling the Governor of Andhra Pradesh hereby makes the following amendment to the Andhra Pradesh Revised Pension Rules, 1980 issued in G.O.(P) No.88 Finance & Planning (Fw.Pen.I) Department dated 26.03.1980, as subsequently amended from time to time.
AMENDMENT
In the proviso to rule 16 of the said rules, the expression “In respect of employees who retired/retire on or after 1-7-2008” shall be omitted.
(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH)
L.V.SUBRAHMANYAM
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT (FP)
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