Dearness Relief on Pension/ Family Pension 107% from 1st July, 2014.
Government of Maharashtra
Finance Department
Government Resolution No.: DRP-2015/CR.18/SER-4,
Madam Cama Road, Hutatma Rajguru Chowk,
Mantralaya, Mumbai- 400 032.
Date: 12th February, 2015.
Read - Government Resolution No.: DRP-2014/CR.57/SER-4, 08.05.2014.
Resolution
Government is pleased to decide that the rate of dearness relief with effect from 1st July, 2014 to the State Government pensioners /family pensioners on their Basic Pension/Family Pension and Dearness pension/ Dearness family pension(if any) will be enhanced from 100% to 107%. Dearness relief will be payable in cash from 1st February, 2015. The orders regarding payment of arrears with effect from 1st July, 2014 to 31st January, 2015 will be issued separately.
2. It will be the responsibility of the Pension Disbursing Authority, i.e. Pay and Accounts Officer, Mumbai/Treasury Officers, as the case may be, to calculate the quantum of dearness relief payable in each individual case.
3. Government is also pleased to direct that above decision should, mutatis mutandis, apply to those employees including family pensioners of Recognised and Aided Educational Institutions, Non-Agricultural Universities and Affiliated Non-Government Colleges and Agricultural Universities to whom the pension scheme is made applicable.
4. In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Section 248 of the Maharashtra Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samities Act, 1961 (Mah. V of 1962) and of all the other powers enabling it in that behalf, Government is further pleased to decide that the above decision shall apply to the pensioners including family pensioners of Zilla Parishads.
5. State Government Employees who had drawn lumpsum payment on absorption in a PSU/Autonomous body/Local Bodies and have become entitled to restoration of 1/3rd commuted portion of pension as well as revision of the restored amount in terms of Government Resolution, Finance Department, No. COP1099/306/SER-4, dated 15th Novermber 1999 will also be entitled to the payment of dearness relief on full pension as per the provisions of Government Resolution, Finance Department, No. COP-1001/50/SER-4, dated 9th April 2001, at the prescribed rate and from the date, prescribed in paragraph 1 above.
6. The expenditure on this account should be debited to the Budget Heads to which the retirement benefits of the employees mentioned in the above paras are debited and should be met from the grants sanctioned thereunder.
7. All orders in force in regard to the payment of relief on pension sanctioned by Government from time to time will, mutatis mutandis, apply to the dearness relief now sanctioned.
This Government resolution of Maharashtra Government is available at the website www.maharashtra.gov.in. Reference no. for this is 201502111301597005. This order has been signed digitally.
By order and in the name of the Governor of Maharashtra.
S.H.Bhosale
Under Secretary to Government of Maharashtra
