Counting half of the service paid from contingencies with regular service.

(1) Counting half of the service paid from contingencies with regular service. - Under Article 368 of the CSRs (Rule 14) periods of service paid from contingencies do not count as qualifying service for pension. In some cases, employees paid from contingencies are employed in types of work requiring services of whole-time workers and are paid on monthly rates of pay or daily rates computed and paid on monthly basis and on being found fit brought on to regular establishment. The question whether in such cases service paid from contingencies should be allowed to count for pension and if so, to what extent has been considered in the National Council and in pursuance of the recommendation of the Council, it has been decided that half the service paid from contingencies will be allowed to count towards pension at the time of absorption in regular employment subject to the following conditions, viz. :- (a) Service paid from contingencies should have been in a job involving wholetime employment (and not part-time for a portion of the day). (b) Service paid from contingencies should be in a type of work or job for which regular posts could have been sanctioned, e.g., malis, chowkidars, khalasis, etc. (c) The service should have been one for which the payment is made either on monthly or daily rates computed and paid on a monthly basis and which though not analogous to the regular scale of pay should bear some relation in the matter of pay to those being paid for similar jobs being performed by staffs in regular establishments. (d) The service paid from contingencies should have been continuous and followed by absorption in regular employment without a break. (e) Subject to the above conditions being fulfilled, the weightage for past service paid from contingencies will be limited to the period after 1st January, 1961, for which authentic records of service may be available. [G.I., M.F., O.M. No. F. 12 (1)-E. V/68, dated the 14th May, 1968.] It has been decided that half the service paid from contingencies will be allowed to be counted for the purpose of terminal gratuity as admissible under the CCS (TS) Rules, 1965, where the staff paid from contingencies is subsequently appointed on regular basis. The benefit will be subject to the conditions laid down in OM, dated the 14th May, 1968, above. [G.I., Dept. of Per. & Trg., O.M. No. 12011/1/85-Est. (C), dated the 10th March, 1986.