Provided that in no case the amount of family pension determined under sub-clause (b) shall exceed the pension authorized on retirement from railway service: (b) In the event of death of a railway servant after retirement, the family pension as determined under sub clause (a) shall be payable for a period of seven years, or for a period up to the date on which the retired deceased railway servant would have attained the age of sixty-seven years had he survived, whichever is less: of the pay last drawn and the amount so admissible shall be payable from the date following the date of death of the railway servant for a period of ten years. (4) (i) (a) Where a railway servant, who is not governed by the Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), dies while in service after having rendered not less than seven years’ continuous service, the rate of family pension payable to the family shall be equal to fifty per cent. Provided that in no case a family pension in excess of the maximum specified under this rule shall be allowed.ģ(A) In addition to family pension admissible in accordance with sub rules (2), (3) and (4), after completion of eighty years of age and above, additional family pension shall be payable in the following manner Sl. (3) The amount of family pension shall be fixed at monthly rates and expressed in whole rupees and where the family pension contains a fraction of a rupee, it shall be rounded off to the next higher rupee The family of the deceased shall be entitled to family pension (hereinafter in this rule referred to as family pension) under the Family Pension Scheme for Railway Servants, 1964, the amount of which shall be determined at a uniform rate of thirty per cent of basic pay subject to a minimum of three thousand and five hundred rupees per mensem and a maximum of twenty-seven thousand rupees per mensem.Įxplanation- The expression One Year Of Continuous Service wherever it occurs in this rule, shall be construed to include less than one year of continuous service, as provided in clause (b). (c) After retirement from service and was on the date of death in receipt of a pension, or compassionate allowance, referred to in these rules, (b) Before completion of one year of continuous service, provided the deceased railway servant concerned immediately prior to his appointment to the service or post was examined by the appropriate medical authority and declared fit by that authority for railway service or (a) After completion of one year of continuous service or (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-rule (18) and without prejudice to the provisions contained in sub-rule (4), where a railway servant dies, Note: The provisions of this rule have also been extended from 22 nd September 1977, to railway servants on pensionable establishments who retired or died before the 31st December, 1963 and also to those who were alive on that date but had opted out of the 1964 Scheme.
F (P) 63 PN-1/40 dated the 2nd January 1964 as in force immediately before the commencement of these rules. (b) To a railway servant who was in service on the 31st December, 1963 and came to be governed by the provisions of the Family Pension Scheme for railway employees, 1964, contained in the Railway Board’s letter No. (a) To a railway servant entering service in a pensionable establishment on or after the 1st January, 1964 and (1) The provisions of this rule shall apply: – Family Pension Scheme For Railway Servants, 1964:.