7.

RETIREMENT & PENSION

7.8 Voluntary Retirement - Giving weightage of 5 years - Amendment to Rule 56(3)

Personnel and Administrative Reforms (FR.IV) Department

G.O. (Ms) No. 362 Dated :16.11.2004
Read:
1. G.O. (Ms) No. 302, Personnel & Administrative Reforms (FR.III) Department,
Dated 6.7.2004
2. From the Accountant General (Audit), Chennai-35 Lr. No. CC/IV/2004-05/
131 dated :3.11.2004.
ORDER
The following Notification will be published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette.

Notification
In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309, read with Article 313 of
the Constitution of India and all other powers hereunto enabling, the Governor of Tamil Nadu
hereby make the following amendment to the Fundamental Rules.
2. The amendment hereby made shall be deemed to have come into force on and from the
1st April 2003.
AMENDMENT
In the said Fundamental Rules, in rule 56 in sub rule (3) in clause (d). For sub-clauses (i)
and (ii), the following sub-clauses shall be substituted, namely :-
(1) A Government Servant including a Government Servant in the Tamil Nadu Basic
Service retiring voluntarily shall be given a wightage not exceeding five years,
subject to the condition that the total qualifying service rendered by such Government
Servant, including weightage does not in any case exceed Thirty three years of
qualifying service and it does not take him beyond the date of superannuation as the
case may be.
The weightage shall be calculated as specified in the Table below:

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THE TABLE

Weightage with reference to qualifying service Weightage with reference to age

1 2
Qualifying service Weightage Age Weightage
(a) (b) (a) (b)
For all the Government Servants For all the Government Servants other
than the Government Servants in the
Tamil Nadu Basic Service.
28 Years and 5 Years of weightage and 53 Years and 5 Years of
below it shall not exceed thirty below weightage
three years of qualifying
service
29 years 4 years of weightage 54 years 4 years of
weightage
30 years 3 years of weightage 55 years 3 years of
weightage
31 years 2 years of weightage 56 years 2 years of
weightage
32 years 1 year of weightage 57 years 1 year of
weightage
For the 5 years of
Government weightage
Servants in the
Tamil Nadu Basic
Service 55 years
56 years 4 years of
weightage
57 years 3 years of
weightage
58 years 2 years of
weightage
59 years 1 year of
weightage

(ii) The weightage given shall be in addition to the actual qualifying service for purposes
of pension and gratuity only, and it shall not entitle a Government Servant retiring
voluntarily to any notional fixation of pay for purposes of calculating the pension and
gratuity.
“The pension shall be determined based on the 50% of average emoluments drawn
during the last ten months of service rendered reckoned from the date of voluntary
retirement.”
(By order of the Governor)
C. CHANDRAMOULI
SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT

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