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Notification of the Canara Bank (Employees') Pension (Amendment) Regulations, 2024 under Section 19 of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970, revising pension, family pension and dearness relief provisions of the 1995 Pension Regulations.

Detailed Summary

By notification No. HRW IRS 228A:PS:1065:2024(E) dated 8th July 2024, effective from the date of publication, the Board of Directors of Canara Bank, in exercise of powers under clause (f) of sub-section (2) of section 19 of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970 (5 of 1970), in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India and with the previous sanction of the Central Government, makes the Canara Bank (Employees') Pension (Amendment) Regulations, 2024, amending the Canara Bank (Employees') Pension Regulations, 1995; key changes include provisos to regulation 2(s)(d) excluding the special allowance introduced from 1st November 2012 and addressing notional stagnation-increment re-adjustment for employees in service on 1st November 2017 (monetary benefit payable from 1st November 2020 or actual entitlement date); a proviso to regulation 22(1) protecting removed workmen from forfeiture of past service and pensionary benefits; a new clause (g) in regulation 36 fixing minimum monthly pensions of Rs. 3,985 for full-time employees and Rs. 1,335/Rs. 2,000/Rs. 3,000 for part-time employees on 1/3, 1/2 and 3/4 scale wages respectively who retired on or after 1st November 2017; amendments to regulation 40 setting the Rs. 12,000 monthly income threshold for discontinuing family pension to sons/daughters and parents, and new sub-clause (vii) provisions fixing family pension at Rs. 26,560 per month (officers and workmen, both categories) and Rs. 13,280 per month for employees who retired or died on or after 1st November 2017, superseded from 1st April 2021 by regulation 39; a revised dearness relief formula in Appendix-II clause (4) of 0.07 percent of basic pension per 4-point rise over 6,352 points on the All India Average Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (series 1960=100) for post-1st November 2017 retirees, alongside historical rates for earlier retirement cohorts; and a new clause (g) in Appendix-III prescribing a family pension percentage table (30/20/15 percent of pay by pay-scale band, with minimums of Rs. 3,985/Rs. 4,900/Rs. 6,365 and a maximum of Rs. 13,280 per month) for post-1st November 2017 retirees, superseded from 1st April 2021 by a uniform 30 percent family pension under new clause (h); the notification (ADVT.-III/4/Exty./273/2024-25) is signed by D. Surendren, Chief General Manager, noting the principal regulations were published on 29th September 1995 and last amended on 24th July 2023.

Full Text

REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99 The Gazette of India CG-KA-E-11072024-255340 EXTRAORDINARY PART III—Section 4 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 506] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2024/ASHADHA 19, 1946 CANARA BANK (Human Resources Department) (HEAD OFFICE, BENGALURU) NOTIFICATION Bengaluru, the 8th July, 2024 No. HRW IRS 228A:PS:1065:2024 (E) dated 08.07.2024–In exercise of the powers conferred by Clause (f) of Sub-Section (2) of Section 19 of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970 (5 of 1970), the Board of Directors of the Canara Bank in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India and with the previous sanction of the Central Government, hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Canara Bank (Employees') Pension Regulations, 1995, namely:— 1. Short title and commencement ----(1) These regulations may be called the Canara Bank (Employees') Pension (Amendment) Regulations, 2024. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Canara Bank (Employees') Pension Regulations, 1995 (hereinafter referred to as the said regulations), in regulation 2, in clause (s), in sub-clause (d), the following provisos shall be inserted, namely: "Provided further that special allowance introduced with effect from the 1st day of November, 2012 shall be excluded: Provided further that an employee who was in the services of the Bank as on 1st November 2017 and whose stagnation increment/s has been re-adjusted as per revised periodicity from the date of reaching their maximum scale of pay shall be notionally eligible for such revised stagnation increment/s with effect from the 1st November, 2017 for the purposes of Pension but the monetary benefit on account of such re-adjustment shall be payable only with effect from the 1st November, 2020 or the actual date of entitlement, whichever is later". 3. In Regulation 22 of the said Regulations, in sub-regulation (1), the following proviso shall be inserted namely:- "Provided that the removal of an employee, who is employed in the service of the Bank as a workman on full time work on permanent basis or on part-time work on permanent basis on scale wages, shall not entail for forfeiture of his entire past service and shall qualify for pensionary benefits." 4. In Regulation 36 of the said Regulations, after Clause (f), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:- "g) rupees three thousand nine hundred and eighty five per month in respect of an employee, other than a part-time employee, where the employee retired on or after the 1st day of November, 2017 and rupees one thousand three hundred and thirty-five per month in respect of a part-time employee drawing 1/3 scale of wages, rupees two thousand per month in respect of part-time employee drawing ½ scale wages and rupees three thousand per month in respect of a part-time employee drawing ¾ scale wages, where the part-time employee retired on or after the 1st day of November, 2017". 5. In Regulation 40 of the said Regulations, (a) In Sub-regulation (1) (i) In clause (b), the first proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely:- "Provided the family pension payable to sons/daughter (including widowed or divorced) shall be discontinued/not admissible when the eligible son/daughter starts earning a sum in excess of Rs. 12,000 per month from employment in Government/private sector/self-employment etc:"; (ii) For clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted namely:- "(c) in the case of parents the family pension shall be discontinued/not admissible if the income of one of the parents or the aggregate income of both the parents from employment in Government/ Private sector / self – employment, exceeds Rs. 12,000 per month:”; (b) in Sub-regulation (4), - (i) in clause (a), after Sub-clause (vi), the following shall be inserted, namely:- "(vii) twenty-six thousand five hundred and sixty rupees per mensem only in respect of employees, both officers and workmen, who retired or died on or after 1st day of November 2017: Provided that on and from the 1st day of April, 2021, sub clause (i) to (vii) shall cease to have effect and amount of both pensions for all the above said category of employees shall be payable as per the provisions of sub-clause (i) of clause (a) and sub-clause (i) of clause (b) of sub-regulation (3) of Regulation 39."; (ii) in Clause (b), after Sub-clause (vi), the following shall be inserted, namely:- "(vii) twenty-six thousand five hundred and sixty rupees per mensem only in respect of employees, both officers and workmen, who retired or died on or after the 1st day of November, 2017. Provided that on and from the 1st day of April, 2021, sub clause (i) to (vii) shall cease to have effect and amount of both the pension for all the above said category of employees shall be payable as per the provisions of said sub-clause (i) of clause (a) and sub-clause (i) of clause (b) of sub-regulation (3) of regulation 39 or sub-regulation (1) of regulation 39 or, as the case may be"; (iii) in Clause (c), after Sub-clause (vi), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:- "(vii) Thirteen thousand two hundred and eighty only in respect of employees, both officers and workmen, who retired or died on or after the 1st day of November, 2017." Provided that on and from the 1st day of April, 2021, sub clause (i) to (vii) shall cease to have effect and the amount of the two pensions for all the above said category of employees shall be payable as per the provisions of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 39". 6. In Appendix-II to the said regulations, for clause (4), the following shall be substituted, namely:- "(4) In respect of employees who retired on or after the 1st May, 2005, dearness relief shall be payable for every rise or be recoverable for every fall, as the case may be, of every 4 points over 2288 points in the quarterly average of the All India Average Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers in the series 1960=100. Such increase or decrease in dearness relief for every said 4 points shall be calculated at the rate of 0.18 percent of basic pension. Provided that on and from the 1st day of May, 2005, in respect of employees who retired on or after the 1st day of November, 2002 but on or before the 30th day of April, 2005, dearness relief shall be payable in terms of this clause: Provided that in respect of employees who retired on or after the 1st day of November, 2007, dearness relief shall be payable for every rise or be recoverable for every fall, as the case may be, of every 4 points over 2836 points in the quarterly average of the All India Average Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers in the series 1960=100. Such increase or decrease in dearness relief for every said 4 points shall be calculated at the rate of 0.15 percent of basic pension. Provided also that in respect of employees who retired on or after the 1st day of November, 2012, dearness relief shall be payable for every rise or be recoverable for every fall, as the case may be, of every 4 points over 4440 points in the quarterly average of the All India Average Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers in the series 1960=100. Such increase or decrease in dearness relief for every said 4 points shall be calculated at the rate of 0.10 percent of basic pension. Provided also that in respect of employees who retired on or after the 1st day of November, 2017, dearness relief shall be payable for every rise or be recoverable for every fall, as the case may be, of every 4 points over 6352 points in the quarterly average of the All India Average Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers in the series 1960=100. Such increase or decrease in dearness relief for every said 4 points shall be calculated at the rate of 0.07 percent of basic pension". 7. In Appendix-III of the said Regulations, after clause (f), the following clauses shall be inserted namely:- "(g) in respect of employees (both officers and workmen) other than part-time employees retiring on or after the 1st day of November, 2017:— +-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Scale of pay per| Amount of monthly Family Pension | | month | | +=================+====================================================================================================+ | (1) | (2) | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Upto Rs.15,880 | 30 percent of the pay shall be the basic family pension and additional 30 percent of | | | allowance which are counted for making contribution to provident fund but not for dearness | | | allowance, shall be the additional family pension: | | | Provided that the aggregate of basic and additional family pension shall be subject to a | | | minimum of Rs.3985 per month. | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Rs.15,881 to | 20 percent of the pay shall be basic family pension and additional 20 percent of allowance | | Rs.31,760 | which are counted for making contributions to provident fund but not for dearness | | | allowance, shall be the additional family pension: | | | Provided that the aggregate of basic and additional family pension shall be subject to | | | minimum of Rs.4900 per month. | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Above Rs.31,760 | 15 percent of the pay shall be the basic family pension and additional 15 percent of | | | allowances which are counted for making contributions to provident fund but not for the | | | dearness allowance, shall be the additional family pension: | | | Provided that the aggregate of basic and additional family pension shall be subject to a | | | minimum of Rs.6365 per month and maximum of Rs.13280 per month." | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ (h) On and from the 1st day of April 2021 clauses (a) to (g) shall cease to have effect and in respect of all employees (both officers & workmen) mentioned in the said clauses, 30 percent of the 'Pay' shall be the basic family pension plus 30 percent of allowance which are counted for making contribution to provident fund but not for dearness allowance, shall be the additional family pension." Explanatory Memorandum The regulations which have been given retrospective effect are as per the agreed terms and conditions of the settlements and Joint Notes signed between the Indian Banks' Association on behalf of member banks on the basis of specific mandate given by the respective banks in this regard and Apex Level Workmen Unions and Officers' Associations of the banks. Therefore, interests of no person shall be adversely affected by such retrospective effect. D. SURENDREN, Chief General Manager [ADVT.-III/4/Exty./273/2024-25] Note: The principal regulations were published in the Gazette of India, Part III, section 4 vide notification number IRS/PEN/2879/URH dated the 29th September, 1995 and lastly amended, vide the notification No.HRW IRS 228A PS 886 2023 dated the 24th July, 2023. Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.

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