The Central Government has extend Disability Compensation for all serving employees, if they get disabled in the line of duty while performing their service and are retained in service in spite of such disablement.
- The decision was announced by the Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Dr. Jitendra Singh on January 1, 2021.
- The order will particularly provide a huge relief to young Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel like CRPF, BSF and CISF since disability in performance of duties is generally reported in their case due to constraints of job requirement as well as hostile or difficult work-environment.
- The Ministry of Personnel recently did away with minimum qualifying service of 10 years for pension, if a government servant is incapacitated due to bodily or medical infirmity and retired from government service.
- Accordingly, the rule was amended to provide Invalid Pension at 50 per cent of the last pay, even if the employee had not completed minimum qualifying service of 10 years.
- A decision was also taken to amend the rule and provide pension at enhanced rate to the family of an employee who died during service before completing the requisite service of minimum seven years. As a result, now the family pension of 50 per cent of the last pay is also admissible to the family of employees who die even before completing seven years of service.
