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Regn.No. KERBIL/2012/45073 dated 05-09-2012 with RNI Reg No.KL/TV(N)/634/2021-2023 മകരള സർകാർ Government of Kerala 2023
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2023 ഡിസംബർ 11 11th December 2023
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No. 4020 വാലം 12 Vol. XII
1199 വൃശികം 25 25th Vrischikam 1199 Thiruvananthapuram, Monday
1945 അ്ഗഹായനം 20
20th Agrahayana 1945
GOVERNMENT OF KERALA
Finance (Pension-B) Department
NOTIFICATION
G.O.(P)No.119/2023/FIN
Dated, 11th December, 2023
Thiruvananthapuram S. R. O. No. 1318/2023
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Kerala Public Services Act, 1968 (19 of 1968), read with section 3 thereof, the Government of Kerala hereby make the following rules further to amend the Kerala Service Rules, namely:-
2RULES
1. Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the Kerala Service (Ninth Amendment) Rules, 2023.
(2) Sub-rule (1) and clause (a) and items (i) and (ii) of clause (c) of sub-rule (3) of rule 2 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day July, 2019, clause (a) of sub-rule (2) of rule 2 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 5th day of May, 1979, clause (b) of sub-rule (2) of rule 2 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1 st day of April, 2021 and clause (b) of sub- rule (3) of rule 2 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of August, 2021.
2. Amendment of the Rules.- In Part III of the Kerala Service Rules,-
(1) in rule 65, after item (b), the following item shall be inserted, namely:-
"(c) Maximum pension - 83,400/-, Minimum pension - 11,500/-"
(2) in rule 68,-
(a) for the figure and word "15 times", the figure and words "16 and half times" shall be substituted;
(b) for the figure and word "14 lakhs", the figure and word "17 lakhs" shall be substituted.
(3) in rule 90,-
(a) in clause (4) of sub-rule (4CC), for the figures, "8,500" and "36,000", the figures "11,500" and "50,040" shall respectively be substituted;
(b) in note 5 below sub-rule (6) and in clause (1) of sub-rule (6A), for the figures "30,000", the figures "60,000" shall respectively be substituted;
(c) in sub-rule (7), in clause (b),-
(i) in sub-clause (a), for the figures and letters "1,20,000 viz; 60,000", the figures and letters "1,66,800 viz; 83,400" shall be substituted;
(ii) in sub-clause (b), for the figures and letters "1,20,000 viz; 36,000" the figures and letters "1,66,800 viz; 50,040" shall be substituted.
By order of the Governor, SANJAY M KAUL, IAS,
Secretary (Finance)
3Explanatory Note
(This does not form part of the notification, but is intended to indicate its general purport.) The pension and other related benefits of pensioners were revised pursuant to revision of pay scale of State Government Employees with effect from 1st July, 2019 as per G.O(P)No.30/2021/Fin., dated 12th February, 2021. The ceiling of 15 times the emoluments for death-cum-retirement gratuity raised to Sixteen and half times as per G.O(P)No.456/79/(41)/Fin.
dated 5th May, 1979. Also the income limit for the eligibility for family pension to unmarried daughters above 25 years of age and parents revised with effect from 1st August, 2021 as per G.O(P)No.127/2021/Fin. dated 21st September, 2021. To give statutory validity to the provisions contained in the above said Government Order, the Government have decided to amend Part III of the Kerala Service Rules suitably.
The notification is intended to achieve the above object.
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