Meghalaya Services (Revision of Pay) Rules, 1997
No: F(PR)-98/97/5 Dated: Dec, 01 1997
GOVERNMENT OF MEGHALAYA
FINANCE (PAY REVISION) DEPARTMENT
NOTIFICATION
No.F(PR)-98/97/5 :- In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution of India, the Governor of Meghalaya is pleased to make the following rules, namely:-
1. Short title and commencement:- (1) These rules may be called the Meghalaya Services (Revision of Pay) Rules, 1997.
(2) They shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of January, 1996.
2. Categories of Government employees to whom the rules apply:- (1) Save as otherwise provided by or under these rules, these rules shall apply to persons appointed to civil services and posts in connection with the affairs of the State of Meghalaya including persons in work-charged establishment holding posts(s) carrying identical scales of pay as admissible to corresponding categories of employees in regular establishments.’’
(2) These rules shall not apply to :-
(a) persons not in whole - time employment;
(b) persons paid out of contingencies;
(c) persons paid otherwise than on a monthly basis, including those paid only on a piece-rate basis;
(d) persons employed on contract except where the contract provides otherwise.
(e) persons re-employed in Government service after retirement;
(f) persons belonging to the All India Services; and,
(g) Any other class or category of persons whom the Governor of Meghalaya may, by order, specifically exclude from the operation of all or any of the provisions contained in these rules.
3. Definition :- In these rules unless the context otherwise requires:-
(1) “Basic pay” means pay as defined in Rule 7(17)(i) of the Meghalaya Fundamental Rules and Subsidiary Rules, including stagnation increment(s);
(2) ‘existing emoluments’ means the emoluments of a Government employee in relation to the existing scale of pay on the date on which he becomes entitled to draw pay in the revised scale under these rules and shall include :
(i) basic pay
(ii) personal pay, if any, granted for the loss of substantive pay but does not include any other allowances or other emoluments which count as pay under the Meghalaya Fundamental Rules and Subsidiary Rules, 1984;
(iii) dearness allowance appropriate to the basic pay admissible at the index average 306; and,
(iv) the amount of first Interim Relief at 10 percent on the basic pay subject to the minimum of Rs.250.00 in the existing scale.
(3) ‘Existing scale’ in relation to a Government employee means the present scale of pay applicable to the post held by the Government employee (or, as the case may be, personal scale applicable to him) as on the 1st day of January, 1996, whether in a substantive or in an officiating capacity
Explanation :- In case of a Government employee who was on the 1st day of January, 1996 on deputation out of India or on leave or on foreign service, and who would have on the aforesaid date officiated in one or more lower posts but for his officiating in a higher post or in the corresponding ‘extended scale’ applicable thereto, ‘existing scale’ includes the scale of pay applicable to the post/extended scale which he would have held or entitled to but for his being on deputation out of India or on leave or on foreign service or, as the case may be, but for his officiating in a higher post and/or extended scale;
(4) ‘extended scale’ means the scale of pay specified as such in the First Schedule or, as the case may be in the Meghalaya Services (Revision of Pay) Rules, 1988;
(5) ‘F.Rs and S.Rs’ means the Meghalaya Fundamental Rules and Subsidiary Rules, 1984 as amended and ‘F.R’. refers to a rule thereof;
(6) ‘personal pay’ means the pay as defined in F.R.7(19) and as also intended in F.R.34;
(7) ‘present scale’ in relation to any post/grade specified in column 2 of the First Schedule means the scale of pay specified against that post/grade in columns 3 and 4 thereof, as the case may be.
(8) ‘revised emoluments’ means the basic pay of a Government employee in the revised scale specified in columns 5 and 6 of the First Schedule and includes the revised special pay, if any, admissible to him, in addition to the personal pay, if any;
(9) ‘revised scale’ in relation to any post/grade specified in column 2 of the First Schedule means the standard scale or extended scale of pay, as the case may be, specified against that post/grade in columns 5 and 6 thereof, unless a different revised scale is notified separately for that post/grade.
(10) ’rules’ means the Meghalaya Services (Revision of Pay) Rules, 1997;
(11) ’’Schedule’’ means a schedule annexed to these rules;
(12) ’’standard scale’’ means the scale of pay specified as such in the First Schedule;
(13) ’’State Government’’ means the Government of Meghalaya.
Note:- 1. Words and expressions not defined in these rules shall have same meaning as in the Meghalaya Fundamental Rules and Subsidiary Rules.
2. Where a female Government employee is concerned, the words ‘he’, ‘his’, and ‘him’ used in these rules shall be taken to mean ‘she’, ‘her’ and ‘her’, respectively.