GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA
PRADESH
ABSTRACT
Public
Service
- Revision of Pay Scales - Recommendations of the Pay Revision Commission 2005 -
Orders - Issued.
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FINANCE
(P.C.I) DEPARTMENT
G.O.(P).No.213
Dated:
Read the following:-
1. G.O.Ms.No.734, General
Administration (Special-A) Department, dt.
2.
G.O.Rt.No960, General Administration (Special-A) Department, dated
3.
G.O.(P).No.475, Finance (P.C-I) Department, dated
4.
G.O.(P).No.54, Finance (P.C-I) Department, dated
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ORDER:
In the Government Order first read above, orders were issued constituting
Pay Revision Commission and Government appointed Sri J.Rambabu, I.A.S. (Retd.)
as Pay Revision Commissioner. In the Government Order second read above, the
terms of reference of the Pay Revision Commissioner were laid down.
2.
The Pay Revision Commission submitted its Report to Government on
3.
Government held discussions with the Chairman and office bearers of the
Joint Action Committee of Employees, Teachers and Workers of Andhra Pradesh, and
the Chairman and office bearers of A.P. Secretariat Employees Co-ordination
Committee. It has been decided to implement the recommendations of the Pay
Revision Commission with the following modifications:-
(i) It was agreed to allow
an additional fitment benefit of 6% in addition to the 10% fitment recommended
by the Pay Revision Commission.
(ii) It was agreed that the
notional benefit of pay fixation shall be from
4.
The Revised Scales of pay shall be as set out in Schedule-I to the
Notification appended to this order against each of the corresponding existing
pay scales specified in Schedule-I. These scales shall be common to all the
employees in various categories except where specified otherwise in the
Departmental pay schedule (Schedule-II) appended to the Notification. Holders of
posts not included in Schedule-II will be governed by the revised pay scales
corresponding to the present scales as shown in the Schedule-I. The requests for
any further revision of pay scales for the categories already included in the
Schedule-II shall not be entertained in any case.
5. (i) The Revised Pay Scales, 2005
shall be deemed to have come into force on and from
(ii) The Salary in the Revised Pay
Scales, 2005 will be paid in cash from the month of August,
2005.
(iii) The arrears of Salary in the
Revised Pay Scales, 2005 from
(iv) Interim relief paid from
1.3.2005 shall not be recovered. Interim Relief paid for the period beyond
6.
The Pay of the employees in the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 shall be fixed
with effect from
Based
on the pay in the existing scale as on
OR
Based
on the pay in the existing scale including the increment due on
7. The
Revised Pay Scales shall apply to -
(a) all employees of the
State Government;
(b) the employees of the
Local Bodies and Aided Institutions including Aided Polytechnics, in receipt of
pay in a regular pay scale in the Revised Pay Scales of 1999;
and
(c) The Work-charged
establishment in receipt of pay in a regular pay scale in the Revised Pay Scales
of 1999.
8.
(a) Wherever statutory
Notifications are required to be issued for applying these orders to the
employees other than Government employees, the Administrative Departments of the
Secretariat concerned shall issue such Notifications;
(b) Separate orders will be
issued in regard to Officers and Staff of the High Court of the Judicature,
Andhra Pradesh.
9.
(a) The Revised
Pay Scales, 2005 will not apply to the teaching and other staff in Government
Colleges and Government Aided Private Colleges who are drawing the A.P. Revised
UGC/ICAR/ AICTE Pay Scales 1986/1996.
(b) The Revised
Pay Scales, 2005 will also not apply to the officers of the A.P. Higher Judicial
Service and
10.
The Revised Pay Scales, 2005 will not apply to the persons who were
re-employed before
11.
The Revised Pay Scales, 2005 will not apply to the employees of the
Industrial and Commercial Undertakings of Government and Contingent
Establishment and Part-time employees of the Government.
12.
In respect of employees who are already enjoying the benefits of
Automatic Advancement Scheme, the Pay shall be fixed in the corresponding
revised scales of Automatic Advancement grades in accordance with these
instructions.
13.
The following principles shall govern the exercise of option to the
Revised Pay Scales of 2005 namely:
(i) All Government
employees including holders of Special Grade, Special Promotion Post and Special
Adhoc Promotion Post Scales, whose pay scales are revised, shall have the option
to come over to the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 or to remain in the existing scale
of pay. A Government employee may also exercise option to remain in the existing
scale of pay until the date on which he earns his next increment in the existing
pay scales. The option shall be exercised within a period of six months from the
date of publication of the Notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette. The
option once exercised shall be final. If any employee does not exercise option
in writing within the specified period he shall be deemed to have elected to be
governed by the Revised Pay Scales, 2005, with effect from 1st July
2003;
(ii) the option shall
be exercised in the specimen form given in the Annexure to the appended
Notification. The Government employee shall communicate his option in triplicate
to the Head of the Office in which he is working. The Heads of the offices, shall
communicate their option to their next superior officers. The Heads of the
Departments shall communicate their options to the Pay and Accounts Officer,
(iii) Government employees holding lower
posts but officiating in a higher post on
(iv) such of the
employees who are either on long leave or on deputation out of India or under
suspension on the date of issue of these orders and are not due to return to duty within a period of
six months from that date and do not join duty before expiry of the last date
for option, are allowed to exercise option to the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 within a period
of one month from the date of joining duty after the expiry of the leave or on
return from deputation out of India or re-instatement, as the case may
be;
(v) All the Heads of
Departments are requested to ensure that these orders are communicated to all
the employees under their administrative control including those on leave or on
deputation/Foreign Service and obtain individual acknowledgements as Government
will not under any circumstances entertain any representations with regard to
exercise of option after the expiry of the stipulated
time;
(vi) Government
employees who opt to remain in the existing pay scales will continue to draw
Dearness Allowance, House Rent Allowance and City Compensatory Allowance at the
existing rates in accordance with the existing orders.
14.
Separate orders are also being issued in regard to the recommendations of
the Pay Revision Commission on Pension and other terminal
benefits.
15.
All Government employees who are required to exercise their option in
terms of these orders are requested to keep in view the implications of such
orders of Government revising House Rent Allowance, Additional House Rent
Allowance and Gratuity. Notional pay will not count for this
purpose.
16.
In case of employees who opt to continue in the existing pay scales, the
Interim Relief will cease to be paid with effect from
17.
The Interim Relief shall not be included as pay for the purpose of
fixation in the Revised Pay Scales, 2005.
18.
The above orders are issued in so far as the recommendations relating to
the scales of pay, pay fixation and other related matters are concerned. Orders
are being issued separately covering the other recommendations of the Pay
Revision Commission regarding House Rent Allowance, the percentage of Additional
House Rent Allowance in lieu of rent free quarters, City Compensatory Allowance
and other Allowances, Special Pays, Automatic Advancement Scheme and related
matters.
19.
All Drawing Officers shall take immediate action for fixing the pay of
all Gazetted and Non-Gazetted Officers whose pay and allowances are drawn by
Heads of Offices in their substantive as well as officiating posts. In the case
of Heads of Departments, the pay shall be fixed by the Pay and Accounts Officer,
20.
The following Notification will be published in the Andhra Pradesh
Gazette:
NOTIFICATION
In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 of the
Constitution of India, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh hereby makes the following
rules, namely:-
1. Short
title, commencement and application:
(1) These rules may be
called the Andhra Pradesh Revised Scales of Pay Rules,
2005.
(2) They shall be deemed to
have come into force on
(3) These rules shall apply
to all the Government employees whether temporary, regular or permanent
appointed before
2.
Definitions:
In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires
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(1) basic pay means pay as defined in Fundamental Rule 9 (21) (a)
(i).
(2) existing emoluments means the aggregate of:-
(a) (i) the basic pay including the stagnation
increments if any, in the existing scale of pay as on 1st July,
2003 or on any other date of entry into the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 according
to clause (b) of sub rule (1) of rule 5;
(ii) personal pay sanctioned
under rule 9 (23) (a) of the Fundamental Rules or Rule 7 (40) (a) of the
(iii) personal pay sanctioned
in pursuance of proviso (ii) under rule 5 (b) of the Andhra Pradesh Revised
Scales of Pay 1999 to the extent such personal pay has not been absorbed in
increases in pay on promotion till the date of entry into the Revised Pay
Scales, 2005;
(iv) special pay, if any, in
addition to pay in the existing scale of pay, in a case where the revised scale
is in lieu of both the existing scale of pay and special
pay.
(b) dearness allowance
admissible at the rate which existed on the 1st July, 2003 appropriate to the
basic pay referred to in sub-rule 2(a)(i);
(3) existing scale of pay
means the Revised Pay Scales, 1999;
(4) Revised Pay Scales,
2005 means the Revised pay Scales set out in column (4) in Schedule-I or in column
(4) in Schedule-II as the case may be.
3.
Revised Pay Scales, 2005:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in sub-rule-2, the existing scales of
pay specified in column (2) of
Schedule-I shall be revised as specified in the corresponding entry in
column (4) of the said
Schedule.
(2) Where, in the case of any post on an existing scale of pay specified
in column (2) of Schedule-I, a
revised scale of pay other than the revised scale of pay specified in the
corresponding entry in column (4)
of that Schedule is specified in column
(4) of Schedule-II, the revised scale of pay so specified in column (4) of Schedule-II shall
apply.
4. Date
of Entitlement to the Monetary Benefit:
No Government employee who enters into the Revised Pay Scales, 2005
before 1.4.2005 shall be entitled to any monetary benefit for any period prior
to that date.
5.
Principles for exercising option:
(1) Subject to other provisions
of this rule, a Government employee holding a post under the Government on
(a)
to remain in the existing scale of pay, or
(b)
to draw pay in the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 either from
(2) A Government employee, who is
entitled to exercise option under sub-rule (1) shall do so within a period of
6 (six) months from the date of
publication of these rules, in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette. The option once exercised shall be
final.
(3) (a) If a Government employee
does not exercise his option in writing within the time specified in
sub-rule (2), he shall be deemed to
have opted to the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 from
(b)
If a Government employee exercises option to enter the Revised Pay Scales, 2005
from a date beyond 30-6-2004, such option shall be deemed to be invalid and
shall be governed by sub-rule
(3)(a) of this rule.
(4) A Government employee shall
exercise his option in respect of the post held by him on
(5) Every Government employee
shall exercise his option in writing in the form specified in the Annexure and
shall communicate it in triplicate to, and obtain an acknowledgment of its
receipt, from;
(a)
the head of office in which he is for the time being working at the time of
giving the option if he is a non-Gazetted Officer or a Gazetted Officer whose
salary is drawn by the head of his office;
(b)
the next superior officer, if he is the Head of the
Office.
(c) the Pay & Accounts Officer,
(6) In a case where the date of
increment in the existing scale of pay of a Government employee is altered or
the circumstances that existed on the date of exercise of option are materially
altered by any order of the Government or other authority, he may exercise a
revised option within a period of one month from the date of receipt of the
relevant order.
(7) A Government employee who is
on leave or on deputation/Foreign Service or under suspension on the date of
publication of these rules in the Andhra Pradesh Gazettee and who could not
exercise option before the last date under sub-rule(2) of this rule may exercise
option as aforesaid within a period of one month from the date of resumption of
duty after the expiry of leave or from the date of his rejoining Government
service on the termination of his deputation/Foreign Service or reinstatement,
as the case may be.
6.
Principles of fixation of pay in the Revised Pay Scales of
2005:
Notwithstanding anything in the Fundamental Rules or in the Hyderabad
Civil Service Rules, the principles which shall govern the fixation of pay of a
Government employee who opts to the relevant revised pay scale in the Revised
Pay Scales of 2005 shall be as follows:
(a) An amount representing
sixteen (16%) percent of the Basic Pay referred to in Rule
2(2)(a)(i);
Explanation:
If the amount so computed includes a part of a rupee, it shall be rounded off to
the nearest rupee, i.e., less than 50 paise shall be ignored while 50 paise or
more shall be rounded off to the next higher rupee;
(b) After the existing emoluments
are increased as required by clause(a), the pay shall be fixed in the Revised
Pay Scales of 2005 at the stage next above the amount of the existing emoluments
as so increased irrespective whether the amount of the existing emoluments as so
increased is a stage or not in the Revised Pay Scales of
2005;
Provided further that:
(i) If the amount
of the existing emoluments as so increased under clause (a) is less than the
minimum of the Revised Pay Scales of 2005, the pay shall be fixed at the minimum
of that scale;
(ii) if the
amount of the existing emoluments as so increased under clause (a) is more than
the maximum of the Revised Pay Scales of 2005, the pay shall be fixed at the
maximum of that scale, the difference shall be treated as Personal
Pay;
(c) The short fall if any, in the
sum total of pay and other allowances in the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 compared
to the pay and other allowances in the existing scale shall be allowed as
Personal Pay to be absorbed in future increases;
(d) A Government employee who is
on leave or under suspension on
(e) Where an employee is covered
by an order of stoppage of increments without cumulative effect on the date of
entry into the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 his pay shall be
fixed:
(i) based on the actual pay drawn
by him on the date of entry into the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 ;
and
(ii) based on the presumptive pay,
that is, the pay which he would have drawn on the date of entry into the Revised
Pay Scales, 2005 but for stoppage of the increments:
Provided
that he has opted for the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 from a date which falls
within the period during which the order imposing the penalty of stoppage of
increments is operative;
Provided further that he shall draw the
pay as fixed under clause (i) above based on the pay drawn by him on that date
of entry into the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 until the expiry of the period during
which the order imposing the penalty of stoppage of increments is operative and
the pay as fixed in clause (ii) above on the presumptive pay after the expiry of
the period covered by the stoppage of increments.
(f) The principles of
fixation of pay laid down in this rule shall apply to substantive, officiating
and temporary holders of Government posts.
(g) (i) where the pay of a Government
employee in a higher officiating or temporary post as fixed in the Revised Pay
Scales, 2005, is less than or equal to the pay fixed in the lower post his pay
in the higher post shall be fixed at the stage next above his substantive pay in
the lower post.
(ii)
Where a Government employee exercises option to remain in the existing
scale of pay in respect of a post held by him in an officiating capacity, for
the purpose of regulation of pay in that scale under Fundamental Rule 22 or 31,
his substantive pay shall be the substantive pay which he would have drawn had
he remained in the existing scale of pay in respect of the permanent post on
which he holds a lien or would have held a lien, had his lien not been
suspended.
(iii)
Where a Government employee, who had actually officiated in higher post
prior to 1.7.2003 in regular capacity but who stood reverted to the lower post
on the crucial date of 1-7-2003 for want of vacancy and who would be repromoted
on or before 30-6-2004 shall be allowed the benefit of fixation of pay in the
Revised Pay Scales, 2005 in the higher category subject to the following
conditions:
(1) The employee should
have held the post prior to
(2) On subsequent
appointment to the post after
(3) Pay in such cases,
shall be fixed in the Revised Pay Scales, 2005 in accordance with the principles
laid down in proviso to Fundamental Rule 22/Rule 34 of Hyderabad Civil Service
Rules notionally treating the employee to have held the higher post on 1-7-2003
and elected to the Revised Scale of pay from that date. In other words, the
employee should be deemed to have held the post in question on
(4) The pay in the
Revised Pay Scales shall be fixed in accordance with the principles of pay
fixation laid down in these rules on the basis of the pay which he would have
drawn in the pre-revised scales had he been holding that post on
1-7-2003.
(5) The subsequent
increments shall be allowed in accordance with the rule 7 of the A.P. Revised
Scales of Pay Rules, 2005.
(6) The monetary
benefit shall be allowed from the date of actual
repromotion.
(7) Where the pay of
such employee on repromotion to the higher post after
(h) The principles of fixation of pay
laid down in this rule shall not apply to a Government employee who elects to
remain in the existing scale of pay.
7. Date
of next increment in the Revised Pay Scales, 2005:
The next increment of a Government employee whose pay in the Revised Pay
Scale of 2005 is fixed on
Provided that, in case of Government employee who has reached maximum of
the pre-revised scale and has exhausted all the stagnation increments beyond the
maximum of the scale and stagnated for less than one year on Ist July, 2003, the
next increment shall be allowed on completion of one year from the date he has
reached that stage.
Provided further that
in case of Government
employee who has reached maximum of the pre-revised scale and has exhausted all
the stagnation increments beyond the maximum of the scale and stagnated for more
than one year on 1.7.2003, the next increment shall be allowed on
1.7.2003.
8. Power
to remove difficulties:
If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of these
rules, the Government may by order make such provisions or give such directions
as appear to them to be necessary for removing the
difficulty.
9.
Effect of other Rules:
(1) No rules made
or deemed to have been made under proviso to article 309 of the Constitution
shall, in so far as it is inconsistent with any of the provisions of these
rules, have any effect.
(2) Save as
otherwise provided in these rules, these rules shall be in addition to any other
rules made or deemed to have been made under the proviso to article 309 of the
Constitution.
21.
The G.O. is available on Internet and can be accessed at the address
http://www.aponline.gov.in.
(BY
ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH)
Ranjeev
R. Acharya
SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT (FP)
To
The
Accountant General, Andhra Pradesh,
The
Accountant General, Andhra Pradesh,
The
Pay & Accounts Officer,
The
Secretary to Governor, Andhra Pradesh,
All
Secretaries to Government.
The
Private Secretary to the Chief Minister and Private Secretaries to all
Ministers.
All
the Departments of Secretariat (10 copies each)
All
the Heads of Departments (including Collectors and District
Judges).
The
Registrar, High Court of Andhra Pradesh,
The
Secretary, Adhra Pradesh Public Service Commission,
All
the District Treasury Officers (with copies for Sub-Treasury
Officers).
The
Secretary, Andhra Pradesh GENCO/TRANSCO.
The
General Manager, A.P. State Road Transport Corporation,
All
District Educational Officers/All Principals of Junior
Colleges.
All
the District Development Officer, Zilla Praja Parishads.
All
District Panchayat Officers.
All
Mandal Development Officers.
All
Secretaries of Zilla Grandhalaya Samsthas through Director of Public Libraries,
All
Secretaries of Agricultural Market Committees through Director of Marketing,
A.P.,
All
Commissioners/Special Officers of Municipalities.
All
Recognised service Associations.
The
Director, Government Printing Press, A.P. Hyderabad for publication in the
Andhra Pradesh Gazette.
Copy
to the General Administration (Cabinet) Department.
Copy
to the General Administration (SW) Department.
Copy
to SF/S.Cs.
//FORWARDEED
BY ORDER//
SECTION
OFFICER
ANNEXURE
FORM FOR EXERCISING OPTION UNDER THE
ANDHRA PRADESH REVISED SCALES OF PAY RULES, 2005.
(*) I,
..holding the post
of
..in the scale of Rs
in the
Office of
do hereby elect to come under the
Revised Pay Scales, 2005 with effect from lst July,2003 date of my next increment
on
..
(*) I,
holding the post
of
in the scale of Rs
.in the office
of
.
do hereby
elect to continue in the existing scale of pay.
The option hereby exercised is final and will not be modified at any
subsequent date.
Date:
Signature:
Name:
Station:
Designation:
Office in which employed
Signed before me.
Signature of Head of
Office
(with date)
(In case of Non-gazetted
Officer)
Signature of Another Gazetted
Officer
(In case of Gazetted
Officer)
Note: Separate option should be given in
respect of substantive and officiating posts.
(*) To be
scored out if not applicable.
Received the above declaration:
Date:
Signature:
Pay and Accounts Officer/
Head of Office.
SCHEDULE I
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