All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Amendment Rules, 2024 – Allowing options for foreign service pension contributions

All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Amendment Rules, 2024: New rules amend All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958, allowing options for foreign service pension contributions.

MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
(Department of Personnel and Training)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi the 6th February, 2024

G.S.R. 102(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the All India Services Act, 1951 (61 of 1951), the Central Government, after consultation with the Government of the States concerned, hereby makes the following rules further to amend the All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958, namely:—

1. (1) These rules may be called the All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Amendment Rules, 2024.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958, in rule 8, after sub-rule (7), the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely:—

“(7A) A member of service who is deputed on foreign service to the United Nations’ Secretariat or other United Nations’ Bodies or the International Monetary Fund or the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development or the Asian Development Bank or the Commonwealth Secretariat or any other International organisation may opt –

(a) to pay the pension contributions in respect of his foreign service, at such rates as the Central Government may, from time to time, prescribe and count such service as qualifying for retirement benefits under these rules; or

(b) not to pay the pension contributions in respect of his foreign service and not to count such
service as qualifying for retirement benefits under these rules:=

Provided that where a member of service opts for clause (b), pension contributions, if any, paid by the member of service, shall be refunded to him.”

[F. No. 29018/01/2023-AIS-II(Pension)]
BHUPINDER PAL SINGH, Under Secy. (AIS-II)

Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India vide notification number G.S.R. 728(E), Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), dated the 18th August, 1958 and was last amended vide notification number G.S.R. 487(E), Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), dated the 06th July, 2023.