MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Expenditure)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 25th July, 2016
G.S.R. 721(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred
by the proviso to article 309, and clause (5) of article 148 of the
Constitution and after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General in
relation to persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the
President hereby makes the following rules, namely :-
1. Short title and commencement. –
(1)
These rules may be called the Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016.
(2)
They shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of January, 2016.
2. Categories of Government servants to whom the rules
apply.-
(1)
Save
as otherwise provided by or under these rules, these rules shall apply to
persons appointed to civil services and posts in connection with the affairs of
the Union whose pay is debitable to the Civil Estimates as also to persons
serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department.
(2)
These
rules shall not apply to –
(i) persons appointed to
the Central Civil Services and posts in Group ‘A’, ’B’ and ’C’, under the
administrative control of the Administrator of the Union Territory of
Chandigarh;
(ii) persons locally
recruited for services in Diplomatic, Consular or other Indian establishments
in foreign countries;
(iii)
persons not in whole-time employment;
(iv)
persons paid out of contingencies;
(v) persons paid
otherwise than on a monthly basis including those paid only on a piece rate
basis;
(vi) persons employed on
contract except where the contract provides otherwise;
(vii) persons
re-employed in Government service after retirement;
(viii) any other class
or category of persons whom the President may, by order, specifically exclude
from the operation of all or any of the provisions contained in these rules.
3. Definitions.—In these rules, unless the context
otherwise requires,-
(i) “existing basic pay”
means pay drawn in the prescribed existing Pay Band and Grade Pay or Pay in the
existing scale;
(ii) “existing Pay Band
and Grade Pay” in relation to a Government servant means the Pay Band and the
Grade Pay applicable to the post held by the Government servant as on the date
immediately before the notification of these rules whether in a substantive
capacity or in officiating capacity;
(iii) “existing scale”
in relation to a Government servant means the pay scale applicable to the post
held by the Government servant as on the date immediately before the
notification of these rules in the Higher Administrative Grade, Higher
Administrative Grade+, Apex scale and that applicable to Cabinet Secretary
whether in a substantive or officiating capacity;
(iv) “existing pay
structure ” in relation to a Government servant means the present system of Pay
Band and Grade Pay or the Pay Scale applicable to the post held by the
Government servant as on the date immediately before the coming into force of
these rules whether in a substantive or officiating capacity.
Explanation.- The
expressions “existing basic pay”, “existing Pay Band and Grade Pay” and
“existing scale”, in respect of a Government servant who on the 1st day of
January, 2016 was on deputation out of India or on leave or on foreign service,
or who would have on that date officiated in one or more lower posts but for
his officiating in a higher post, shall mean such basic pay, Pay Band and Grade
Pay or scale in relation to the post which he would have held but for his being
on deputation out of India or on leave or on foreign service or officiating in
higher post, as the case may be;
(v) “existing
emoluments” mean the sum of (i) existing basic pay and (ii) existing dearness
allowance at index average as on 1st day of January, 2006;
(vi) “Pay Matrix” means
Matrix specified in Part A of the Schedule, with Levels of pay arranged in
vertical cells as assigned to corresponding existing Pay Band and Grade Pay or
scale;
(vii) “Level” in the Pay
Matrix shall mean the Level corresponding to the existing Pay Band and Grade
Pay or scale specified in Part A of the Schedule;
(viii) “pay in the
Level” means pay drawn in the appropriate Cell of the Level as specified in
Part A of the Schedule;
(ix) “revised pay
structure” in relation to a post means the Pay Matrix and the Levels specified
therein corresponding to the existing Pay Band and Grade Pay or scale of the
post unless a different revised Level is notified separately for that post;
(x) “basic pay” in the
revised pay structure means the pay drawn in the prescribed Level in the Pay
Matrix;
(xi) “revised
emoluments” means the pay in the Level of a Government servant in the revised
pay structure; and
(xii) “Schedule” means a
schedule appended to these rules.
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