Regarding calculation of qualifying service for pension assessment

Date: May 17, 2001

Letter No.: 1346-P and R-28 / PCL / 2001-49P / 89
All General Managers/ Chief General Manager
Chief Engineer (Hydel)
UP Power Corporation Limited

Dear Sir,
Under the provisions of Schedule 35 of the Uttar Pradesh Civil Service Regulation, all establishments of the formerly UP State Electricity Board and the present UP Power Corporation, either temporary or permanent, are covered under pension rules. For the calculation of service qualifying for pension in a pension-covered establishment, Rule-3 (8) of the UP Retirement Benefit Rules, 1961 read along with the arrangement given in provisions/clauses of Schedule 370 of the UP Civil Service Regulation, all continuous service rendered after being made permanent on the same or other position of the formerly UP State Electricity Board and the present UP Power Corporation, whether temporary or on transfer, shall be qualifying service barring following conditions:
1. Duration of permanent or substitute service in a non-pensionable establishment
2. Duration of service done at work-charge establishment
3. Duration of service at any post rendered by contingency expenditure
The restriction is that if service is rendered in a pensionable establishment between two periods of temporary service, or, rendered in a pensionable establishment between temporary and permanent service on account of non-pensionable establishment or work-charged establishment or contingency-charged post, in which case there shall occur no service break in the service of the formerly UP State Electricity Board and the present UP Power Corporation. For this reason, except for the service rendered in a non-pensionable establishment/work-charged establishment/contingency-charged post, the service before this shall be added to the service period qualifying for pension.

This has been brought to the knowledge of Corporation by the Electricity Pensioners Parishad that there were many employees in the formerly UP State Electricity Board and the present UP Power Corporation, who had provided their services without any break between two durations of temporary service in a pensionable establishment, and/or between two durations of temporary and permanent service in a pensionable establishment, in a work-charged establishment; but their service duration rendered in a pensionable establishment before the service rendered in a work-charged establishment, is not being included in the service qualifying for pension, which is not correct.
Therefore, I am directed to say that those employees of the formerly UP State Electricity Board and the present UP Power Corporation, who have provided service in a pensionable establishment between two periods of temporary service; and/or provided service in a pensionable establishment between two periods of temporary and permanent service on a post in work-charged establishment or created by a work-charged or in a contingency-charged establishment, then in such matters, excluding their service in a non-pensionable establishment/work-charged establishment/contingency-charged post, their prior service in a pensionable establishment their service should be included in qualifying service for pension and other retirement benefits.