To Exercise option under the provisos to rule 5 with in three months of the Notification of Revised Pay Rule 2016 is issued.
shall be exercised in writing in the form appended to these rules so as
to reach the authority mentioned in sub-rule (2) within three months of
the date of notification of Revised Pay Rule 2016.
5. Drawal of pay in the revised pay structure.– Save as otherwise
provided in these rules, a Government servant shall draw pay in the
Level in the revised pay structure applicable to the post to which he is
appointed:
Provided that a Government servant may elect to continue to draw pay in
the existing pay structure until the date on which he earns his next or
any subsequent increment in the existing pay structure or until he
vacates his post or ceases to draw pay in the existing pay structure:
Provided further that in cases where a Government servant has been
placed in a higher grade pay or scale between 1st day of January, 2016
and the date of notification of these rules on account of promotion or
upgradation, the Government servant may elect to switch over to the
revised pay structure from the date of such promotion or upgradation, as
the case may be.
Explanation 1.- The option to retain the existing pay structure under
the provisos to this rule shall be admissible only in respect of one
existing Pay Band and Grade Pay or scale.
Explanation 2.– The aforesaid option shall not be admissible to any
person appointed to a post for the first time in Government service or
by transfer from another post on or after the 1st day of January, 2016,
and he shall be allowed pay only in the revised pay structure.
Explanation 3.– Where a Government servant exercises the option under
the provisos to this rule to retain the existing pay structure of a post
held by him in an officiating capacity on a regular basis for the
purpose of regulation of pay in that pay structure under Fundamental
Rule 22, or under any other rule or order applicable to that post, his
substantive pay shall be substantive pay which he would have drawn had
he retained the existing pay structure in respect of the permanent post
on which he holds a lien or would have held a lien had his lien not been
suspended or the pay of the officiating post which has acquired the
character of substantive pay in accordance with any order for the time
being in force, whichever is higher.
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