Office of the Principal CDA(Pension)
Draupadi Ghat, Allahabad – 211014

Circular No. 636

Dated: 29.07.2020

To

1. The Chief Accountant, RBI, Deptt. Of Govt Bank Accounts, Central Office, C-7, Second Floor, Bandra-Kurla Complex, P B No. 8143, Bandra East,Mumbai- 400051
2. CMDs, All Public Sector Banks.
3. The Nodal Officers, ICICl/HDFC/AXIS/IDBI Banks
4. All Managers, CPPCs
5. Military and Air Attache, Indian Embassy, Kathmandu, Nepal
6. The PCDA (WC), Chandigarh
7. The CDA (PD), Meerut
8. The CDA, Chennai
9. The Director of Treasuries, All States
10. The Pay and Accounts Officer, Delhi Administration, R K Puram and Tis Hazari, New Delhi.
11. The Pay and Accounts Office, Govt of Maharashtra, Mumbai
12. The Post Master, Kathua (J&K), and Camp Bell Bay.
13. The Principal Pay and Accounts Officer, Andaman and Nicobar Administration, Port Blair.

Subject:- Implementation of Hon’ble Supreme Court Order Dt. 27/09/2018 in Contempt petition (C) No. 1860/2017 and 924/2018 and MA No. 1067/2018 in civil appeal No. 2147/2011 with contempt petition (C) No. 04/2018 in SLP (C) No. 19790/2010, for grant of Special Pension under Regulation 95 of Navy (Pension) Regulations, 1964.

Reference:- This office Circular No. 546 dated 10.09.2015, No. 588 dated 20.10.2017, No. 595 dated 25.01.2018, No. 632 dated 30.03.2020 and No.633 dated 30.03.2020.

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In above mentioned subject, it is intimated that Special pension to Ex-Naval personnel are being notified by generating manual PPOs (Computerised). Hard copies of such PPOs are being sent to the NAVPEN. Descriptive Roll, Ink-singed PPO and other necessary documents are further submitted to respective CPPC/DPDO/Treasury Offices by the NAVPEN Office, Mumbai.

2. In pursuance of the decision to impose various restrictions in view of threat posed by the spread of COVID-19, NAVPEN has been requested to transmit scanned copies of necessary documents alongwith digitally signed pdf of PPO to the Pension Disbursing Agencies through their official email-ID as per Circular No. 632 dated 30.03.2020.

3. In view of above, all PDAs are hereby requested to accept the digitally signed pdf of PPOs (only for Special Naval Pension cases) for immediate implementation of Apex Court order. Digitally signed pdf of PPOs and other necessary documents will be submitted by NAVPEN to PDAs through their official email-ID: navpen-navy@nic.in. All instructions contained in circular No.633 dated 30.03.2020 apply mutatis mutandis in Special Naval Pension cases.

Also Read :

PCDA Circular 635 : Submission of certificates by retiring Armed Forces Personnel / Defence Civilian alongwith pension papers

PCDA Circular 637 : Online submission of pension claims

4. This measure has been necessitated to avoid any adverse comment of Apex Court and will be applicable only in the Special Naval Pension cases.

5. All other instructions will remain unchanged.

6. This Circular has been uploaded on this office website www.pcdapension.nic.in for dissemination to all concerned.

7. Hindi version will follow.

No. Grants/Tech/0148/LX!
Dated: 29.07.2020

(Sushi) Kumar Singh)
Addl. CDA (P)

Signed Copy

Government of India
Ministry of Defence (Finance)
O/o THE PRINCIPAL CONTROLLER OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS (PENSIONS)
DRAUPADI GHAT, ALLAHABAD- 211014

Circular No. 635

Dated: 29.07.2020

To,

1. The Chief Accountant, RBI, Deptt. Of Govt, Bank Accounts, Central Office C-7, Second Floor, Bandre- Kurla Complex, P B No. 8143, Bandre East Mumbai- 400051
2. All CMDs, Public Sector Banks.
3. The Nodal Officers, ICICI/HDFC/AXIS/IDBI Banks
4. All Managers, CPPCs
5. Military and Air Attache, Indian Embassy, Kathmandu, Nepal
6. The PCDA (WC), Chandigarh
7. The CDA (PD), Meerut
8. The CDA Chennai
9. The Director of Treasuries, All States
10. The Pay and Accounts Officer, Delhi Administration, R K Puram and Tis Hazari, New Delhi.
11. The Pay and Accounts Office, Govt of Maharashtra, Mumbai
12. The Post Master Kathua (J&K) and Camp Bell Bay.
13. The Principal Pay and Accounts Officer Andaman and Nicobar Administration Port Blair.

Subject:- Simplification of pension payment procedure – Submission of certificates by retiring Armed Forces Personnel/Defence Civilian alongwith pension papers.

Reference: – Circular No. 633 dated 30.03.2020.

Reference is invited to this office Circular No. 633 dated 30.03.2020 under which this office has issued instructions to credit the pensionary awards notified in favour of the pensioner into his/her bank account without the physical presence of that individual, as and when due, on the basis of documents mentioned in the ibid circular in soft copy (scanned copies in PDF) on dedicated mail IDs of the respective PDAs. Pension disbursing authorities were requested to ensure that the pensionary benefits as given in the PPO are not to held up for want of documents. Where required, PDAs may make the effort to contact the pensioner through his email or mobile number notified in the PPO. It was also mentioned in the circular that this measure will be applicable till further orders.

2. Complaints from various sources have been received in this office that the PDAs are not accepting scanned copies of the documents mentioned in circular No. 633 stating that these instructions were applicable only during the Lockdown period.

Also Read : PCDA Circular 637 : Online submission of pension claims

3. In this context, PDAs are requested to refer this office Circular No. 546 dated 10.09.2015 in implementation of GoI, MoD letter No. 3(01)/2015-D(Pen/Pol) dated 25.08.2015, wherein it was provided that the pensioner would no longer be required to visit the pension disbursing agency to activate the first payment of pension except case where documents provided by the Service HQrs in the case of ICOs (through PSA)/Record Office in the case of PBORs are incomplete. Further, it is once again advised as earlier that this measure has been necessitated to avoid inconvenience to defence pensioners and will be applicable till further orders to change the procedure.

4. All other instructions will remain unchanged.

5. This circular has been uploaded on this office website www.pcdapension.nic.in for dissemination to all concerned.

6. Hindi version will follow.

No. Grants/Tech/0148/LXI
Dated: 29.07.2020

(Sushil Kumar Singh)
Addl. CDA (P)

Signed Copy