Service Book is a record of every event occurring in the official life of a government servant. It has to be maintained for every government servant holding a permanent or a temporary post except for those who are not likely to be in service for more than one year or those holding non pensionable service.”
The nodal department of Central Government, Dopt has issued orders
to all the departments to examine the employee’s service records each
year in order to avoid delays in sanctioning the pensions on 30th September 2015.
More than 50 lakhs
employees work in various departments of the Central Government.
Pensions are delayed at the time of their retirement, due to
administrative blunders and mix-ups. In order to avoid this, Service
Book will be updated each year.
The main intention of
the order is eliminating delays in processing of cases of retiring
Government Servants. Rules and instructions of this department are
reiterated time to time. The department of pensions and pensioners
welfare have also suggested that the administrative authorities, to
preclude and to cut down on delays in payment of retrial benefits to
Government servants retiring of superannuation.
Errors in the record, if
any, shall be immediately informed to the concerned employee and the
department, and solved. This has to be completed within a given time
frame. At the time of retirement, the employee will not face any delay
in getting the retirement benefits.
Annual inspection of
Service Book is very essential in this stage. Every Head of Office has
to initiate action to show the service book to the government servant
concerned every year and to obtain his signature there in token of their
having inspected/seen the Service Book. The exercise of Annual
verification be monitored by every Ministry/Department/Cadre Controlling
Authority on a quarterly basis.
The order also insists
to all Ministries/Departments to avoid preclude any delays in
disbursement of retrial benefits of Government servants.
Source : CG staff news
