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7th Pay Commission: Pay Fixation Consolidated instructions DoPT OM dated 13.09.2022

Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
Establishment (Pay-I Section)
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Pay Fixation

Department of Personnel and Training has issued various instructions from time  to time on pay fixation of Government servants. These instructions are broadly  categorized as under:

A. Pay fixation on promotion and availability of option.
B. Pay fixation on transfer to a lower post on own volition under FR 15(a).
C. Restriction of Officiating Pay under FR 35.
D. Stepping up of Pay.

2. All these instructions issued till date have been consolidated under easily comprehensible headings for the facility of reference and guidance of all concerned.

I. FUNDAMENTAL RULE
1F.R. 22 (I) The initial pay of a Government servant who is appointed to a post on a time 
scale of pay is regulated as follows:

(a)(1) Where a Government servant holding a post, other than a tenure 
post, in a substantive or temporary or officiating capacity is promoted or 
appointed in a substantive temporary or officiating capacity, as the case 
may be, subject to the fulfillment of the eligibility conditions as prescribed 
in the relevant Recruitment Rules, to another post carrying duties and 
responsibilities of greater importance than those attaching to the post held 
by him, his initial pay in the time-scale shall be fixed by giving one 
increment in the level from which the Government servant is promoted and he or she shall be placed at a cell equal to the figure so arrived at in the 
level of the post to which promoted or appointed and if no such cell is 
available in the level to which promoted or appointed, he shall be placed at 
the next higher cell in that level. 
Save in cases of appointment on deputation to an ex cadre post or 
to a post on ad hoc basis or on direct recruitment basis, the Government 
servant shall have the option, to be exercised within one month from the 
date of promotion or appointment, as the case may be, to have the pay 
fixed under this rule from the date of such promotion or appointment or to 
have the pay fixed initially at the next higher cell in the level of the post to 
which he or she is promoted on regular basis and subsequently, on the 
date of accrual of next increment in the level of the post from which 
Government Servant is promoted, his pay shall be re-fixed and two 
increments (one accrued on account of annual Increment and the second 
accrued on account of promotion) shall be granted in the level from which 
the Government Servant is promoted and he or she shall be placed at a 
cell equal to the figure so arrived, in the level of the post to which he or 
she is promoted; and if no such cell is available in the level to which he or 
she is promoted, he or she shall be placed at the next higher cell in that 
level. 

In cases where an ad hoc promotion is followed by regular 
appointment without break, the option is admissible from the date of initial 
appointment or promotion to he exercised within one month from the date 
of such regular appointment. 

In cases where an officer has retired as ad hoc before being 
regularised to that post and later on has been assessed during the 
process of regularisation and found fit by the competent authority along 
with his or her juniors, who are still in service and are eligible to avail of 
the option facility from a date on which the retired employee was still in 
service, the same option facility shall also be extended to the retired 
employee, to be exercised within three months from the date when his or 
her junior became eligible to avail of option facility and in cases where 
such retired employee was himself the junior most, he or she may 
exercise the option facility within three months from the date when his or 
her immediate senior became eligible to avail of option facility:
Provided that where a Government servant is immediately before 
his promotion or appointment on regular basis to a higher post, drawing 
pay at the maximum of the level of the lower post, his initial pay in the level of the higher post shall be fixed at the cell equal to the figure so arrived at 
in the level of the post to which promoted or appointed by increasing his 
pay in respect of the lower post held by him on regular basis by an amount 
equal to the last increment in the level of the lower post and if no such cell 
is available in the level to which he is promoted or appointed, he shall be 
placed at the next higher cell in that level.




(2) When the appointment to the new post does not involve such 
assumption of duties and responsibilities of greater importance, he shall 
draw as initial pay, the stage of the time scale which is equal to his pay in 
respect of the old post held by him on regular basis, or if there is no such 
stage, the stage next above his pay in respect of the old post held by him 
on regular basis:
Provided that where the minimum pay of the time scale of the new 
post is higher than his pay in respect of the post held by him regularly, he 
shall draw the minimum as the initial pay:
Provided further that in a case where pay is fixed at the same 
stage, he shall continue to draw that pay until such time as he would have 
received an increment in the time scale of the old post, in cases where 
pay is fixed at the higher stage, he shall get his next increment on 
completion of the period when an increment is earned in the time-scale of 
the new post.
On appointment on regular basis to such a new post, other than to 
an ex-cadre post on deputation, the Government servant shall have the 
option, to be exercised within one month from the date of such 
appointment, for fixation of his pay in the new post with effect from the 
date of appointment to the new post or with effect from the date of 
increment in the old post.

(3) When appointment to the new post is made on his own request 
under sub-rule (a) of Rule 15 of the said rules, and the maximum pay in 
the time-scale of that post is lower than his pay in respect of the old post 
held regularly, he shall draw that maximum as his initial pay. 
(b) If the conditions prescribed in clause (a) are not fulfilled, he shall draw as 
initial pay on the minimum of the time-scale:
Provided that, both in cases covered by clause (a) and in cases, 
other than the cases of re-employment after resignation or removal or 
dismissal from the public service, covered by Clause (b), if he—..


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