Introduction of CPS to AP Govt employees and all the posts with effect from the 1st September 2004 - Amendment to AP Revised Pension Rules, 1980 - Notification – Orders

Introduction of CPS to AP Govt employees and all the posts with effect from the 1st September 2004 - Amendment to AP Revised Pension Rules, 1980 - Notification – Orders.

GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH ABSTRACT

PENSIONS – New Pension Scheme (NPS) – Introduction of Contributory Pension Scheme to Andhra Pradesh State Government employees and all the posts with effect from the 1st September 2004 - Amendment to Andhra Pradesh Revised Pension Rules, 1980 - Notification – Orders – Issued.

 

FINANCE (Pension -I) DEPARTMENT

G.O. Ms. No. 653                                                                                                  Dated: 22-9-2004

O R D E R:

In the Budget for 2001-2002, the Government of India have announced that a new Pension Scheme based on defined contribution will   be introduced to those who enter Central Government service including the All India Services, such as Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service and Indian Foreign Service (Defence, Railways, Posts, Telecom, Autonomous Bodies and Scientific Organizations) after 1.10.2001. The Government of India had constituted a High Power Committee with Sri

B.K. Bhattacharya, former Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka as Chairman to go into pension reform with the specific reference to recommending a contribution scheme. Based on the recommendation of the above Committee, Government of India introduced a Contributory Pension Scheme to all its employees in place of the existing non-contributory Defined Benefit Pension Scheme primarily guided by the long-term fiscal interest of the State with effect from 1-1-2004.

Government of Andhra Pradesh after careful consideration, decided to adopt the Government of India’s a New Pension Scheme based on Defined Contributions for the employees of the State, who are newly recruited on or after 1-9-2004. Under the new Contributory Pension Scheme, each employee has to contribute a certain amount and Government may contribute a certain amount. The New Contributory Pension Scheme is not applicable to the already existing / serving, employees of the Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Accordingly, the following orders are issued:

A New Contributory Pension Scheme based on defined contributions will be introduced to all the newly recruited employees. This will apply to all the employees who are recruited on or after 1-9-2004 and whose pay and allowances are drawn from the Consolidated Fund of the State, including all the new recruits of all the tiers of all the Rural and Urban Local Bodies, Universities etc.,

The employee’s contribution and the Government contribution, if  any, towards the scheme shall be spelt out separately.

After issue of detailed orders from Government of India, introducing new scheme to their employees, the State Government will, if necessary, modify these orders and issue rules and regulations for the Contributory Pension Scheme for State Government employees recruited on or after 1-9-2004.

The following notification will be published in the  extraordinary  issue of the Andhra Pradesh Gazettee dated         22-9-2004

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution of India, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh hereby makes the following amendment to the Andhra Pradesh Revised Pension Rules, 1980.

2.The amendment hereby made shall be deemed to have come into  force on the 1st September 2004.

AMENDMENT

In the said Rules, in part-I after rule 2 (f) the following shall be  added, namely:-

“(g) (i) These rules shall not apply to all the Government Servants appointed on or after 1-9-2004, to services and posts in connection with the affairs of the State which are borne on pensionable establishment, whether temporary, or permanent.

These rules shall not apply to all appointments, whether temporary or permanent, made on or after 01-09-2004 in all the State Public Sector Undertakings, whose pay and allowances are drawn from the Consolidated Fund of the State or not.

These rules shall not apply to all appointments, whether temporary or permanent, made on or after 01-09-2004 of all the tiers of the Rural and Urban Local Bodies such as the Gram Panchayats, Mandal Parishads, Zilla Parishads, Municipalities, Municipal Corporations, Urban Development Authorities, Co-operative and Urban Local Bodies, Zilla Grandhalaya

Samsthas, Agriculture Marketing Committees, including all the Universities in the State, including all the Institutions functioning under the Universities, whose pay and allowances are drawn from the Consolidated Fund of the State or not.

These Rules shall not apply to appointments, whether temporary or permanent made on or after 01-09-2004 into all the Institutions receiving Grant-in-Aid from the Government.

These rules shall not apply to appointments, whether temporary or permanent, made on or after 01-09-2004 to all Co-operative Institutions, Autonomous Corporations, whose pay and allowances are drawn from the Consolidated Fund of the State or not.”

(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH)

                                                                                                       V. S. Sampath

Principal Secretary to Government

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