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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