Central Civil Services
(Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 2023

• ✅These rules apply to Government servants to whom the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021 apply.
• 📋NPS employees (CCS NPS Rules 2021): Benefits of family pension, disability pension and constant attendant allowance are payable IF the Government servant had exercised an option to this effect under Rule 10 of CCS (NPS) Rules, 2021 — triggered only on death or discharge due to disability.
• 🚫Excluded: No benefits under these rules for a Govt. servant who dies or gets disabled while on foreign service under a UN body, if the employee had opted NOT to pay pension contributions during the deputation and not to count that service as qualifying service (per Rule 29, CCS Pension Rules, 2021).

A disability pension or family pension shall be granted only if there is a causal connection between:

• 📝No application required: It shall NOT be necessary for the Govt. servant or the family to submit any application for grant of these pensions under these rules.
• 🏢Head of Office responsibility: Must consider each case of death or disability and submit to competent authority within 3 months of receipt of Medical Board report. Claim shall NOT be rejected due to delay on the part of HoO.
• 💡Disability pension consists of a service element + disability element (determined per Rule 10).
• 📌On death of a disability pensioner, family pension is payable per Rule 11(2).

• 🏛️Power is exercised by the Secretary of that Ministry/Department OR any officer not below the rank of Joint Secretary (to GoI) to whom this power is delegated, in consultation with the Financial Adviser.
• 🔽The Secretary may further delegate to an officer not below the rank of Joint Secretary of the concerned organisation/office (with Financial Adviser concurrence).
• 📋Each case must be examined per guidelines in Schedule IV.
• ✅The authority must satisfy itself that conditions in Rule 4 are met and certify causal connection between disablement/death and Govt. service.

• 🚫Where pension/family pension/gratuity under these rules is granted for a period of service, no pension/family pension/gratuity under any other rules shall be payable for the said period during the currency of the grant.
• 🔒The disability element of disability pension shall NOT be taken into account in fixing pay on re-employment in Govt. service.

• 🩺Percentage of disability due to any disease (Schedule I) → as certified by the Medical Board
• 🦴Percentage of disability due to any injury (Schedule II) → as specified in Schedule II, or failing that, as certified by the Medical Board

• 💰If a Govt. servant is retained in service despite disablement, he is paid a lump-sum compensation in lieu of the disability element of disability pension.
• 📐The lump-sum is calculated by capitalising the disability element with reference to the commutation table in force at the time.
• 🚫Broad-banding does NOT apply in these cases (actual % disability is used).
• 🔒Service element is not taken into account for computing lump-sum compensation.

'Date of injury' = actual date of injury in accident or violence (or such date as competent authority may fix, not later than Medical Board report date). 'Date of disease' = date fixed by competent authority having regard to Medical Board opinion (not later than Medical Board report date).

• 🏥Granted to a pensioner eligible for disability pension for 100% disability under these rules.
• 🩹Condition: Medical Board is of opinion that the pensioner is completely dependent on others for day-to-day activities and needs services of a constant attendant.
• 💳Rate: As decided by the Government from time to time.
• 📅Payable for life, in addition to monthly disability pension.
• 🚫No Dearness Relief is admissible on the Constant Attendant Allowance.

General Rule: Family pension shall NOT be payable to more than one member of the family at the same time — except in specific cases provided in Rule 12.

• 📌Pension payable to widow/widower till death or remarriage — whichever is earlier. Eligibility is NOT affected by income from other sources.
• 👶Widow re-marries deceased's brother and continues to live communally or contribute to support of other dependants → family pension continues.
• 💔Childless widow re-marries (other than above) → pension continues if her income from all other sources is less than the minimum family pension + DA. If income later equals or exceeds this, pension stops and passes to next eligible member.
• ⚔️Widow eligible under Cat. C or D re-marries → from date following remarriage, she gets ordinary family pension (as per Rule 50, CCS Pension Rules 2021); AND pension is also payable to the next eligible family member. On death of widow after remarriage, her pension does NOT pass to anyone else.
• 👥More than one widow: Family pension paid in equal shares. On death/ineligibility of one widow, her share (100% in Cat. B or 60% in Cat. C/D) passes to her eligible child/children.

• 📝A son/daughter (not disabled) is "not earning livelihood" if income from sources OTHER than family pension is less than minimum family pension + DA.
• 🔄Family pension first payable to children below 25 in order of birth; after the eldest becomes ineligible, the next receives it.
• 👶👶Twin children: Paid in equal shares; when one ceases to be eligible, entire amount reverts to the other.
• 🏥Disabled child: If the Govt. servant is also survived by children below 25, pension first goes to younger children in birth order; disabled child's pension commences when last child below 25 becomes ineligible.
• 📋Disability must be such as to prevent the child from earning livelihood — evidenced by certificate from competent authority under RPDA 2016 Rules, OR a 3-member Medical Board (with at least one specialist in the disability).
• 🔁Certificate of disability: required once if disability is permanent; every 5 years if disability is temporary.
• 💍Marriage of a disabled child shall NOT render him/her ineligible for family pension.
• 🚫Son/daughter becomes ineligible from date of marriage/remarriage or from date of starting to earn livelihood.
• 📅Posthumous son/daughter included in definition of 'son'/'daughter'.

• 👩Payable first to mother, failing which to the father.
• 📋Parents under Category B must furnish a certificate once a year that they have not started earning their livelihood. Pension stopped if they start earning.

• 👫Family pension equal to 50% of the rate specified in Rule 11 is payable to a dependent sibling till age 25 or marriage, whichever is earlier.
• ♿A dependent sibling with mental/physical disability → pension equal to 50% of the sibling rate, payable for life, if wholly dependent on the Govt. servant immediately before death. Minimum: not less than ordinary family pension (CCS Pension Rules 2021).
• 📝A sibling below 25 is deemed to be earning livelihood if income from other sources is ≥ minimum family pension + DA (and is therefore ineligible). Must furnish annual declaration of not earning livelihood.
• 💰The income criteria for disabled child (Rule 12(4)) also applies to determine eligibility of a disabled sibling.

• 👫If both husband and wife are Govt. servants and one dies, family pension of the deceased is payable to the surviving spouse.
• 👦👧On death of the surviving spouse, children receive both family pensions in respect of deceased parents.
• 📋Family pension from one Govt. servant's death shall NOT be counted as income when determining eligibility for family pension from the other's death.

• 1️⃣HoO submits statement of circumstances, Inquiring authority findings, and Medical Board report to competent authority (Rule 5).
• 2️⃣Once decision is taken, eligible family members are informed and asked to submit Form E-5 + other required forms.
• 3️⃣HoO draws Accounts Officer's attention to outstanding Govt. dues.
• 4️⃣HoO completes Part I of Form E-6 with checklist, Service Book, and supporting documents, and forwards to Accounts Officer within 2 months of receipt of forms from family.
• 5️⃣Government dues info furnished in Form E-3 for recovery from death gratuity.
• 6️⃣Accounts Officer issues pension payment order within 2 months of receipt of family pension case.
• 7️⃣If final decision pending → provisional family pension and provisional gratuity per Rule 75, CCS Pension Rules 2021. Revised authority issued in Form E-7 when final decision is taken. Final amounts adjusted.
• 📌If eligibility of a family member is not covered under these rules but is covered under CCS Pension Rules 2021 → the latter applies (if not repugnant to these rules).

• ✅Head of Department to ensure all cases processed within timelines specified in Rules 14 & 15, and provisional pension/family pension is sanctioned pending final authorisation.
• 💸Where provisional pension not sanctioned or payment authorised later than due date AND delay is due to administrative reasons/lapses → interest shall be paid on arrears and responsibility shall be fixed for the delay (per Rule 65, CCS Pension Rules 2021).
• 📋A report of all cases where provisional/final pension has been authorised later than due → submitted to the Secretary of Administrative Ministry/Department by 15th January every year.

• ⚖️Where a Ministry/Department is satisfied that operation of any rule causes undue hardship in a particular case, it may — by order with recorded reasons — dispense with or relax the requirement of that rule to deal with the case in a just and equitable manner.
• 🔒No such relaxation order shall be made except with the concurrence of DoPPW (Dept. of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare).

Part I — Permanent Total Disablement (100%)

• ⚫Loss of both hands or amputation at higher sites
• ⚫Loss of a hand and a foot
• ⚫Double amputation through leg or thigh; or amputation on one side + loss of other foot
• ⚫Loss of sight to such extent as to render unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential
• ⚫Very severe facial disfigurement
• ⚫Absolute deafness

Part II — Permanent Partial Disablement (Select Items)

Complete and permanent loss of use of any limb/member = deemed equivalent to loss of that limb/member.

Category B:

• ▪️Diseases in Schedule I (and diseases not in Schedule I but attributable to service)
• ▪️Accidents while travelling on duty in official/public/private/mass transport (train, aircraft, ship, etc.)
• ▪️Accidents while working on machinery, equipment, boilers, storage tanks, chemicals, etc.
• ▪️Fire accidents while on duty (other than fire-fighting staff — that is Category C)
• ▪️Accident during mountaineering/gliding expeditions organised or permitted by service authorities
• ▪️Electrocution while on duty (other than flood/cyclone relief personnel)
• ▪️Accident while proceeding from duty station to leave station or returning
• ▪️Accidents while participating in local/national/international sports tournaments as member of service teams
• ▪️Accident journeying by reasonable route from official residence to and back from appointed place of duty (any mode of conveyance)

Category C:

• ▪️Bomb blasts or indiscriminate shooting in public places or public transport
• ▪️Act of violence or attack by a fellow Govt. servant
• ▪️Riots/revolt by demonstrators/public servants, causing injuries to Govt. servants employed in aid of civil administration for quelling agitation
• ▪️Fire-fighting operations by fire-fighting staff
• ▪️Accidents during test flights of aircraft

Category D:

• ▪️Attack targeted against the Govt. servant by terrorists/extremists/anti-social elements
• ▪️Action against terrorists/extremists/anti-social elements
• ▪️Enemy action in international war, border skirmishes, and warlike situations
• ▪️Operation to evacuate Indian nationals from war-torn foreign country
• ▪️Extremist acts / exploding of mines while on way to operational area
• ▪️After kidnapping by extremists
• ▪️Training exercises with live ammunition
• ▪️Acts of violence against Income Tax/Customs/Excise/Central Police Organisations/law enforcement agencies during action against tax evaders/anti-social elements
• ▪️Acts of violence by terrorists/smugglers/dacoits targeted against individual Govt. servant — (a) to deter/prevent discharge of duties; (b) because of act done in lawful discharge; (c) because of official position

• ⚖️Benefit of doubt: All evidence (direct and circumstantial) shall be taken into account and benefit of reasonable doubt given to the claimant, more liberally in field service cases.
• 📅Post-discharge claims (within 7 years): If a disease did not lead to discharge but arose within 7 years thereafter, may be recognised as attributable to service if medically established as a delayed manifestation of a pathological process set in motion by service conditions.
• 🏠Disability pensioner dies at home: (a) within 7 years of invaliding → benefit of doubt to family; (b) after 7 years → benefit of doubt to the State. (If death at age 60+ → due to natural causes, not service.)
• 🩺Death of disability pensioner on aggravation basis: If last assessment ≥ 50% → may be accepted as due to Govt. service. If < 50% → should not be regarded as due to service.

'On Duty' — Definition for Central Armed Police Battalions:

• ✅Performing an official task or task failure of which would constitute an offence under disciplinary code
• ✅Moving from one place of duty to another
• ✅During recreation organised/permitted by service authorities; travelling under organised arrangements
• ✅Proceeding from duty station to leave station or returning
• ✅Journeying by reasonable route from official residence to appointed place of duty (any mode)
• ✅Injury/death even when not strictly 'on duty' — if the risk was enhanced by nature/conditions/obligations of service AND not a risk common to human existence in modern conditions

Disease Guidelines (Schedule IV, Para 7):

• ▪️If service conditions did not determine onset but influenced subsequent course → aggravation basis
• ▪️Disease leading to discharge/death → ordinarily deemed to have arisen in service if no note of it at time of acceptance for service
• ▪️Diseases running independent of external circumstances (e.g. Leukaemia, Hodgkin's) → not accepted as aggravated by service unless exigencies of service delayed/prevented satisfactory treatment
• ▪️Venereal disease → normally rejected; sequela may be accepted as aggravated if exceptional strain of service hastened its manifestation
• ▪️Disability/death due to indulgence in drugs or drinks within one's own control → entitlement not conceded
• ▪️Unforeseen complications from service medical treatment → normally accepted as attributable to service

Assessment Rules:

• 📐At time of discharge → entire disablement assessed (including pre-existing aggravated conditions); after discharge → non-service factors and natural progress deducted.
• 👀Paired organs (eyes, ears, arms, legs): Considered together; assessment includes functional defect of the pair. Increases in non-service disablement after discharge normally excluded — except where combined disablement nears 100%.
• ➕Composite assessments: Two or more service disabilities → composite assessment = arithmetic sum if effects are entirely different; reduced in proportion to overlapping if functional effects overlap.
• 🔵Nil disablement: Where disability has ceased or become too small to admit assessable compensation, assessment is expressed as "nil disablement".
• ✂️Where disability due to service has no connection with pre-existing disability → compensation restricted to service disability only.