7th Pay commission Latest News Today: Government makes big announcement on compensation, pension rules| Check how this 7th CPC move will help CAPF, CRPF, BSF, CISF personnel will benefit

7th Pay commission Latest News Today: In an important move that will help all concerned, the government has decided to 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.

Informing about the same, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday tweeted, "In a significant New Year decision, "Disability Compensation" has been extended for all serving govt employees, if they get disabled while performing their service & are still retained in service. This also includes those who were appointed on or after 1.1.2004 & covered under NPS.”

See Zee Business Live TV Streaming Below:

7th CPC Rule: Whom It Covers?

A 2009 order of the government did not provide such compensation to those government servants who were appointed on or after January 1, 2004 and covered under National Pension System (NPS), according to a statement issued by the Personnel Ministry.

This new move will provide a huge relief to young central armed police force (CAPF) personnel of CRPF, BSF, CISF, etc, since disability in performance of duties is generally reported in their case

7th CPC Rule: Remove Anomaly

"Pertinent to mention that this new order will remove an anomaly in service rules, considering the hardship faced by the employees. The Modi government is making all efforts to simplify rules and to do away with discriminatory clauses," said Singh, the minister of state for personnel.

7th CPC Rule: Objective of making change

“The ultimate objective of all these new initiatives is to provide ease of living for government servants even after they have superannuated and become pensioners or family pensioners or elder citizens,” he was quoted as having said in the statement.

7th CPC Rule: How it will work

As per the new rule, if a government servant gets disabled while performing his duties and this disablement is attributed to government service, in that case if he is still retained in the service in spite of disablement, a lump sum compensation will be paid to him by arriving at the capitalised value of the disability element, with reference to the commutation table in force from time to time, the statement said.