Notional Increment for Military Pensioners : Order issued by Defence Ministry

Notional increment related orders of the Appex Court has been implemented by the Department/ministries and pensionary benefit  has already been extended to all the applicants.

The Hon’ble Supreme Court has ordered/allowed the grant of one annual increment to the petitioners retiring on 30th  June and 31st  December, which they earned on the last day of their service for rendering one year qualifying service preceding one year to the date of retirement.

 It has been decided by the departments to extend the benefit of one annual increment with monetary benefit to all the employees retiring from service on 30th June /31st December, on completion of one year qualifying service, for pension and pensionary benefits, irrespective of whether they are party/ applicant to a court case or not with respect to the said matter provided such affected officials are otherwise eligible for the same.

However, the said benefit shall be granted only to those officials who have retired  or who will be retiring from service after the date of orders of the Hon’ble supreme Court dated 11.04.23 i.e to the officials retired or retiring on and from 30th June 2023 onwards.

Now, the Armed Forces Tribunal has also passed order on the basis of the Order of Appex Court and Defence Ministry allowed Notional increment for the Armed Forces Veterans also. Copy of IHQ of MoD Letter may be downloaded from the link below –

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dwsqmz3ewKTLErXDj7TLQlibobblFyMc/view?usp=sharing

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