Memo No. 3ए-2 वे.पु.-16/09-630 Government of Bihar FINANCE DEPARTMENT Resolution

Patna, dated- 21st January, 2010

Subject: - Revision of the pay scales of State Government employees with effect from 01.01.2006.

5.Exercise of Option:

A Government employee may elect to continue to draw pay in the existing scale until the date on which he earns his next or subsequent increments in the existing scales or until he vacates his post or ceases to draw pay in that scale subject to the following condition :- (i) The option to retain the existing scale shall be available only in respect of the present pre-revised scale of pay. (ii) The aforesaid option shall not be admissible to any person appointed to a post on or after 1st January, 2006, whether for the first time in Government Service or by transfer or promotion from ex-cadre post and he/she shall be allowed pay in the revised pay structure. (iii) The option shall have to be exercised in writing within three months from the date of publication of this Resolution in the Gazette in the form of option as contained in ‘Schedule IV’ appended to 'this Resolution, so as to reach the Head of Office in case of non-Gazetted Government servants and in case of Gazetted Government servants, the pay slip section of the Finance Department/Accountant General, with a copy to the head of the Office. Where a Government employee is under suspension/ on leave on the date, the option may be exercised within three months from the date of his/ her return to duty. (iv) If the intimation regarding the option is not received within the stipulated period" or the employee concerned draws his pay in the new pay structure within the period, it will be deemed that he/she has elected to be governed by the new pay structure with effect from 01.01.2006. (v) A Government Servant who opts to continue in the existing scale will be entitled to the Dearness Allowance and other allowances at the existing pre-revised rates. (vi) The option once exercised shall be final.

6. Drawal of pay in the revised pay structure: Save as otherwise provided in this Resolution, a Government servant shall draw pay in the revised pay structure applicable to the post to which he is appointed; Provided that a Government servant may elect to continue to draw pay in the existing scale until the date on which he earns his next or any subsequent increment in the existing scale or until he vacates his post or ceases to draw pay in that scale. Provided further that in cases where a Government servant has been placed in higher pay scale between 01.01.2006 and the date of issue of this order on account of promotion, etc., the Government servant may elect to switch over to the revised pay structure from the date of such promotion, etc. Explanation -1 the option to retain the existing scale under this provision shall be admissible only in respect of one existing scale. Explanation -2 The aforesaid option shall not be admissible to any person appointed to a post on or after the 1st day of January, 2006, whether for the first time in Government service or by transfer from another post and he shall be allowed pay only in the revised pay structure.

7.Fixation of Initial pay in the revised pay structure:-

(1) The initial pay of a Government servant who elects, or is deemed to have elected to be governed by the revised pay structure on and from the 1st day of January, 2006 shall, unless in any case the State Government by special order otherwise directs, be fixed separately in respect of his substantive pay in the post on which he holds a lien or would have held a lien if it had not been suspended, in the following manner, namely:-

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