All India Services pay rules, 2016

The All India Services pay rules, 2016 are three separate sets of statutory rules, one for each All India Service, made by the Central Government under section 3(1) of the All India Services Act, 1951 to carry the 7th Central Pay Commission pay matrix into the Indian Administrative Service, the Indian Police Service and the Indian Forest Service with effect from 1 January 2016. No single instrument called the All India Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 has ever been notified. The rules in force are the Indian Administrative Service (Pay) Rules, 2016 (G.S.R. 870(E), 8 September 2016), the Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 2016 (G.S.R. 910(E), 23 September 2016) and the Indian Forest Service (Pay) Rules, 2016 (G.S.R. 924(E), 28 September 2016).

The distinction is practical. An officer of the All India Services serves a state cadre, draws pay from the state treasury while posted there, and is paid on a basic that the Union fixes and every state must follow. The CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 that govern a central civil servant do not reach that officer at all, and a figure, a rule number or an increment date lifted from them can be wrong for an IAS, IPS or IFoS officer.

The three rule sets share one skeleton of fourteen rules, one fitment factor of 2.57, one entry cell of Rs. 56,100 and one pair of increment dates. They differ in the grade ladder each service climbs, in the two additional increments on promotion that the IAS alone keeps, and in the cadre post schedule that fixes which post in which state sits at which level. The sections below set out each instrument, the shared structure, the ladders side by side, the fitment and option provisions of 2016, the June 2017 amendments that changed the Level 13 cell, and the separate instruments that carry dearness allowance, allowances and pension.

Three instruments, one per service

Each All India Service has its own Pay Rules of 2016, notified by the Department of Personnel and Training in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section 3(i), within three weeks of September 2016.

Rule 1(2) of each set provides that the rules “shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of January, 2016”, so arrears from January to September 2016 flowed from the rules themselves. Each preamble supersedes the 2007 rules “except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession”, which is the only saving clause the three sets carry.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is the cadre-controlling authority for the IPS and hosts the consolidated IPS text, and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change controls the IFoS cadre. The Pay Rules for all three are nonetheless notified by DoPT, because DoPT administers the All India Services Act, 1951 for every service created under it.

The name “All India Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016” is a back-formation from the CCS title. Fifteen articles on this site used it until September 2026, when the slug of this page was renamed to remove it. The All India Services had no common pay instrument in the 6th Central Pay Commission round either: each 2016 set supersedes its own (Pay) Rules, 2007, so the earlier round was likewise three instruments.

Legal basis in the All India Services Act, 1951

Section 3(1) of the All India Services Act, 1951 empowers the Central Government, after consultation with the state governments, to make rules regulating the recruitment and the conditions of service of persons appointed to an All India Service. Pay is a condition of service, so each Pay Rules set cites section 3(1) as its source of power. The constitutional footing sits one level above, in Article 312, which lets Parliament create All India Services common to the Union and the states and regulate their recruitment and conditions of service by law.

That footing separates the three Pay Rules from the central civil service rules in two ways. The CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 (G.S.R. 721(E), 25 July 2016) are made by the President under the proviso to Article 309, and a central ministry can change them by its own notification. The AIS Pay Rules bind every state cadre and joint cadre at once, so section 3(1) requires consultation with the state governments concerned before they are made or amended.

The Act also fixes who pays. An officer serving a state is paid by that state, and an officer on deputation to the Union is paid by the Union, but the basic pay, the cell and the level are set centrally in Appendix I of the Pay Rules and cannot be varied by any state. The All India Services (Conduct) Rules, 1968, the All India Services (Leave) Rules, 1955 and the probation rules for each service rest on the same section 3(1), which is why a single amendment to one AIS rule set is notified three times over when the change applies to every service.

The fourteen rules every set shares

The three rule sets carry the same fourteen headings in the same order, from the short title in Rule 1 to the joint cadre provision in Rule 14.

Schedule I governs initial pay of a member promoted or selected from the state service. Schedule II lists the cadre posts, state by state, with the level each carries. Appendix I is the pay matrix.

The identical skeleton is what lets a single rule number travel between services: Rule 8 is the increment rule in all three, and Rule 7 is the deputation pay-protection rule in all three. The contents inside each rule are where the services part.

Grade ladders compared

Rule 3(1) of each rule set lists the grades and the level of the pay matrix attached to each. The entry grade and the first three promotions are common; above Level 13 the ladders diverge.

Level 13A and Level 16 are carry-overs from the 6th CPC structure: Level 13A is the old grade pay of Rs. 8,900 in pay band 4, and Level 16 is the old HAG+ scale of Rs. 75,500 to Rs. 80,000. Paragraph 7.2.66 of the 7th CPC report declined the Indian Forest Service Association’s demand to merge the Conservator and Chief Conservator posts and kept both Level 13A and HAG+ in the IFoS. Paragraph 7.2.52 kept HAG+ in the IPS. Neither level appears anywhere in the IAS rules.

Level 18 is the IAS outlier. Rule 3(1)(D)(iii) of the IAS rules reserves it for the post of Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India, a single fixed cell of Rs. 2,50,000. The IPS and IFoS ladders stop at Level 17, which the IFoS rules give to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests who heads the forest force of a state: Note 2 below Rule 3(2) fills that post by selection from officers already holding a Principal Chief Conservator post at Level 16. Schedule II Part (C) of the IPS rules places eight central posts at Level 17, among them the Directors of the Intelligence Bureau and the Central Bureau of Investigation.

The two cells at Levels 17 and 18 have nothing below them in the same column, so an officer at either level earns no further annual increment. Rs. 2,25,000 is the last basic pay an IPS or IFoS officer can draw.

Eligibility service for each grade

Note 1 to Rule 3(1) of each rule set fixes the years of service after which a member becomes eligible for each grade. Note 2 counts them from the year of allotment under the seniority rules of the service: the IAS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1987, the IPS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1988 and the IFoS (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1966.

Note 3 excludes extraordinary leave from the count, except leave on medical certificate, leave the state government accepts was taken for a cause beyond the officer’s control, and leave for study in the public interest that would otherwise qualify under the All India Services (Study Leave) Regulations, 1960.

Eligibility is not entitlement. Rule 3(2)(ii) of the IFoS rules makes appointment at Selection Grade and above “subject to availability of vacancies”, and requires the state or joint cadre authority to obtain the Central Government’s prior concurrence on the number of vacancies in each grade; Rule 3(2)(iii) deems that concurrence given if the Centre does not answer within thirty days. Rule 3(2)(iv) allows pay in the Selection Grade and above only on actual appointment to the grade.

The IFoS rules add two training gates in the provisos to Rule 3(2). A member is appointed to the Junior Administrative Grade only after completing Phase III of the mandatory Mid Career Training Programme, and to Level 14 only after Phase IV, in each case with effect from the date the member would otherwise have been eligible. A member with less than three years of service left after the year slotted for Phase III, IV or V is not sent for the training. The IPS rules carry the same training gates, and a Phase V requirement governs the increment after 28 years of service.

Two additional increments: the IAS edge

The IAS rules grant two additional increments on promotion at three stages, and the IPS and IFoS rules grant none. Rule 3(1)(B) of the IAS (Pay) Rules, 2016 attaches the words “Two additional increments shall be granted at the time of pay fixation on promotion” to each of the Senior Time Scale at Level 11, the Junior Administrative Grade at Level 12 and the Selection Grade at Level 13. Rules 5(2), 5(5) and 5(6) carry the mechanism: one increment in the old level, placement at the equal or next higher cell of the new level, then two further cells down the new level.

Rule 5 of the IFoS rules fixes each promotion from Level 10 to Level 16 by adding one increment in the lower level and placing the officer at the equal or next higher cell, with no additional increments at any stage. The IPS rules are worded the same way. The difference opens at the first promotion. From the fourth cell of Level 10 at Rs. 61,300, one increment reaches Rs. 63,100 and the next higher cell of Level 11 is Rs. 67,700; an IAS officer then moves two cells down to Rs. 71,800, and an IPS or IFoS officer stays at Rs. 67,700, a gap of Rs. 4,100 in basic pay from the day of promotion.

The edge is older than the matrix. Paragraph 7.2.14 of the 7th CPC report records that earlier Commissions gave the IAS slightly higher pay scales at the three stages, and that the 6th CPC converted the edge into higher grade pay. Paragraph 7.2.15 records that on implementing the 6th CPC the government continued it for the IAS and the Indian Foreign Service “in the form of two additional increments @ 3 percent each” at the Senior Time Scale, the Junior Administrative Grade and the Non Functional Selection Grade.

The 7th CPC could not agree. Paragraph 7.2.17 states that the Commission “was not able to arrive at a consensus view on the matter”. The Chairman, Justice A. K. Mathur, recommended in paragraphs 7.2.18 and 7.2.19 that the edge continue for the IAS and be extended to the IPS and the IFoS, on the ground that district-level responsibility is common to all three. Member Vivek Rae would have kept it for the IAS and the Indian Foreign Service alone (paragraph 7.2.20), and Member Rathin Roy would have removed it (paragraph 7.2.21). Paragraph 14 of Department of Expenditure Resolution No. 1-2/2016-IC dated 25 July 2016 placed the grant of two additional increments to the IPS and IFoS “at par with” the IAS and the Indian Foreign Service among the items without consensus and held them at status quo. The 2016 Pay Rules write that outcome into law.

The refusal has a second consequence, in Note 1 below Rule 3(2) of the IPS and IFoS rules. When an IAS officer of a batch is posted at the Centre at Level 10, 11, 12, 13 or 14, members of the IPS or IFoS who are two years or more senior and have not reached that level are granted it on a non-functional basis in their state cadres from the date of the IAS officer’s posting. Non-functional upgradation therefore uses the IAS batch as its benchmark, and the IAS officer is never a beneficiary of it.

Fitment into the pay matrix: Rules 3, 4 and 6

The 2.57 multiplier that moved every All India Services officer into the pay matrix is written into Rule 4(A)(i) of each Pay Rules set. It fixes pay in the applicable level “by multiplying the existing basic pay by a factor of 2.57, rounded off to the nearest rupee”, with the officer placed at the identical cell or, where no cell matches, at the immediate next higher cell. Rule 4(A)(ii) makes the first cell of the level a floor. The CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 contain the same fitment factor in their Rule 7, but the AIS Pay Rules repeat it in full because the CCS rules do not reach an AIS officer.

Rule 4 carries the protective notes of the migration. Where fitment would place officers drawing different pre-revised pay in the same cell, one additional increment is given for every two stages bunched, provided the higher pay was at least 3% above the lower, the same bunching of pay rule the CCS rules apply. Note 2 grants personal pay where the existing emoluments exceed the revised emoluments, Note 3 allows stepping up of pay where a senior would otherwise draw less than a junior, and Notes 6 and 7 deal with a senior promoted before 1 January 2016.

The proviso to Rule 3(1) let an officer keep the pre-revised pay band and grade pay until the date of the next or any subsequent increment in that structure, or until the officer vacated the post. Explanation 1 confines the option to one existing pay band and grade pay, and Explanation 2 denies it to anyone appointed on or after 1 January 2016, who is paid only in the revised structure. Rule 6 required the option within three months of the notification, and Rule 6(3) deemed an officer who sent none to have elected the revised structure from 1 January 2016. The second proviso to Rule 8(1)(b) added one increment on 1 January 2016 for every two completed years an officer had spent stagnating at the maximum of the pre-revised scale, capped at the maximum of the new level.

A worked figure shows the arithmetic. An officer drawing Rs. 21,840 in pay band 3 with grade pay of Rs. 5,400 on 31 December 2015 had a basic of Rs. 27,240. Multiplied by 2.57 it gives Rs. 70,006.80, rounded to Rs. 70,007. No cell of Level 10 equals Rs. 70,007: the column reads Rs. 69,000 at cell 8 and Rs. 71,100 at cell 9, so the officer was placed at Rs. 71,100, the next higher cell.

The June 2017 amendments and the Level 13 cell

The three rule sets were each amended within a year of notification, and the amendments changed a figure every AIS officer at Selection Grade draws. The Indian Forest Service (Pay) Amendment Rules, 2017 (G.S.R. 573(E)) and the Indian Police Service (Pay) Amendment Rules, 2017 (G.S.R. 574(E)), both dated 12 June 2017 and deemed in force from 1 January 2016, made the same three changes:

• substituted Rule 2(xi), so that “Level in the Pay Matrix” refers to the pay matrix in Appendix I;
• substituted Rule 7, so that pay protection on central deputation runs “with effect from the 1st January, 2016”;
• substituted Appendix I, with Level 13 opening at Rs. 1,23,100.

The original 2016 gazette texts printed Rs. 1,18,500 as the first cell of Level 13. The change followed Department of Expenditure Resolution No. 1-2/2016-IC dated 16 May 2017, which raised the index of rationalisation for Level 13 from 2.57 to 2.67 across the services, and the CCS (Revised Pay) (Amendment) Rules, 2017 (G.S.R. 592(E), 15 June 2017), which made the same substitution for central civil servants. The Selection Grade cell of an AIS officer has been Rs. 1,23,100 from 1 January 2016.

The IAS amendment is G.S.R. 575(E), the next number in the same gazette series. The DoPT consolidated text of the IAS rules footnotes it as notification No. 14021/1/2016-AIS-II dated 12 July 2017, though its two companions carry 12 June 2017. The same consolidated text still prints Rs. 1,18,500 in Appendix I, and so does the consolidated IPS text published by the Ministry of Home Affairs. A reader who opens either consolidation sees a Level 13 figure that the gazette amendments replaced.

A later IAS amendment, G.S.R. 824(E) dated 30 August 2018 (notification No. 11030/3/2017-AIS-II), substituted Rule 5(9). That rule gives an officer on promotion the option to have pay fixed from the date of promotion or from the date of the next increment in the lower level, 1 January or 1 July. The option for pay fixation on promotion in the CCS rules works the same way.

Schedule II is the part of each rule set amended most often. A cadre review changes the number and level of posts in one state, and DoPT gives effect to it by notifying a substitution of that state’s entries in the relevant Schedule II. The cadre review cycle is the reason no consolidated text of the three Pay Rules stays current for long.

Increments under Rules 8 to 10

Rule 8(1)(a) of each rule set grants the annual increment by moving the officer to the next cell down the same level, the cells having been built at 3% and rounded to the nearest hundred. Rule 8(1)(b) replaced the single 1 July increment date of the 6th CPC era with two dates, 1 January and 1 July. Under Rule 8(1)(c) an officer appointed, promoted or granted a financial upgradation between 2 January and 1 July receives the increment on 1 January, and one appointed or promoted between 2 July and 1 January receives it on 1 July. The first proviso limited everyone to a single increment in 2016, on either 1 January or 1 July. The date of next increment rule in the CCS rules has the same form.

Rule 9 lets the state government withhold an increment, for such period as it directs, from a direct recruit or a promoted officer who fails to pass the departmental examination within the time the state prescribes. It is a service-specific rule: the CCS rules have no counterpart tied to a departmental examination, and a withholding of increment under the CCS (CCA) Rules is a penalty, which Rule 9 is not.

Rule 10 is the other side of the same examination. Notwithstanding the probation rules of the service, the state government sanctions the second and third increments due to a direct recruit from the prescribed date once the recruit passes the prescribed departmental examination, irrespective of length of service, so an officer who passes late recovers the increments Rule 9 held back. The increment an IFoS or IPS officer earns after 28 years of service turns on completing Phase V of the Mid Career Training Programme, the last of the training gates the rules attach to pay.

Schedule II, Rules 11 and 12, and special allowances

Schedule II lists every senior cadre post by state with its level. Rule 11 fixes the pay of an officer holding a post in Schedule II at the level shown there, “plus Special Allowance or Central (Deputation on Tenure) Allowance, wherever admissible”. Rule 12 governs a post outside Schedule II, including a post in a government-controlled body, where pay follows a declaration by the government that the post is equivalent in status and responsibility to a listed post.

Schedule II Part (B) of the IPS and IFoS rules lets a state government sanction a special allowance for a post of greater responsibility: Rs. 400 a month in the Junior Time Scale, Rs. 600 in the Time Scale, Rs. 800 in the Junior Administrative Grade and Rs. 1,000 in the Selection Grade.

The two rule sets part on the Selection Grade. Schedule II Part (B) of the IPS rules caps the number of Selection Grade posts in a state cadre at 20% of the senior posts, less the posts carrying pay above the Selection Grade. Clause (1) of Part (B) in the IFoS rules states no percentage and leaves the number to the norms the Central Government issues for fixing cadre strength. Rule 12(7) of the IFoS rules bars a state from holding more non-cadre posts at Level 16 against its State Deputation Reserve than it has cadre posts at that level, without central approval.

Part (C) of Schedule II lists central posts. In the IFoS rules it follows the Central Staffing Scheme table, with Secretary or Special Secretary at Level 17, Additional Secretary at Level 15, Joint Secretary at Level 14 and Director at Level 13.

Central deputation and Rule 7

Rule 7 of each rule set protects an officer’s pay on deputation to the Central Government. Where pay fixed on deputation, under the Pay Rules or under the instructions for the deputation post, is lower than the pay the officer would have drawn in the parent cadre, the difference is paid as personal pay. The June 2017 substitutions dated that protection from 1 January 2016 for the IPS and IFoS, closing the gap between the date the matrix took effect and the date the 2016 rules first provided for it.

Rule 13 settles pay where a member holds more than one post. On posts connected with the affairs of the Union it applies the rules for the Central Services, Group A; on posts connected with the affairs of a state it applies the rules for the state’s Class I civil, police or forest service.

The Central Deputation Tenure Allowance, which Rule 11 names, is set by DoPT outside the Pay Rules. The Pay Rules fix only the basic; the allowance on top of it follows the officer’s place of service.

Dearness allowance through the 1972 Rules

The Pay Rules do not mention dearness allowance. It reaches the All India Services through Rule 3 of the All India Services (Dearness Allowance) Rules, 1972, as substituted by Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms notification No. 22/1/74-AIS(II) dated 28 January 1975. Rule 3 entitles a member to dearness allowance “at such rates, and subject to such conditions, as may be specified by the Central Government, from time to time, in respect of the officers of Central Civil Services, Class I.”

A Government of India decision under the rule, DoPT letter No. 11014/1/97-AIS(II) dated 2 July 1997, records that every Ministry of Finance order on dearness allowance is ipso facto applicable to all members of the All India Services, “irrespective of whether the officer concerned is working in the State Government or is outside his cadre”, and that state governments and Accountants General need not wait for a separate communication. The DA rate for an IAS, IPS or IFoS officer serving any state is therefore the central rate from the date the Department of Expenditure notifies it, currently 60% of basic pay.

The text of Rule 3 is itself out of date in one respect. It still refers to the IAS and IPS (Pay) Rules, 1954 and the IFoS (Pay) Rules, 1968, the pay rules in force when it was substituted, and has not been amended to name the 2016 sets.

Allowances the state sets

Basic pay and dearness allowance are uniform across cadres; most other allowances are not. Rule 2(b) of the All India Services (Compensatory Allowance) Rules, 1954 defines the “Government” for a member serving in connection with the affairs of a state as that state government, and Rule 3 grants compensatory allowances under the general or special orders of that government. House rent allowance, transport allowance, accommodation and medical facilities for an officer serving a state therefore follow the state’s rates, and an officer on central deputation draws them at central rates.

This is why an in-hand salary for an All India Services officer is only meaningful with a place of posting attached. The IAS salary and IPS salary articles compute the entry in-hand for the central deputation case in an X-class city, at about Rs. 1,01,300 a month, and label it as such.

How the rules differ from the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016

The AIS Pay Rules and the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 were built from the same 7th CPC matrix and share its cells, the 2.57 multiplier, the bunching rule and the two increment dates. They differ on five points that change pay:

The organised Group A services of the Centre sought the IAS edge before the 7th CPC and were refused (paragraph 7.2.16 of the report records their argument). They receive non-functional upgradation on the IAS batch benchmark, the same mechanism the IPS and IFoS receive under Note 1 below Rule 3(2).

Pension and retirement are outside the Pay Rules

The Pay Rules end at pay. Pension for a member appointed before 1 January 2004 comes from the All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958, at 50% of emoluments or average emoluments under Rule 18(1)(b), and Rule 16(1) of those rules retires a member at 60. A member appointed on or after 1 January 2004 is outside the 1958 Rules under the second proviso to Rule 1(2)(b) and is in the National Pension System. The Unified Pension Scheme reaches such an officer through the PFRDA regulations gazetted on 19 March 2025 and DoPT letter No. 25014/01/2025-AIS-II (Pension) dated 30 April 2025, exercised through the state government.

Rule 2(e) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 (G.S.R. 868(E), 20 December 2021) excludes members of the All India Services by name. A pension figure for an IAS, IPS or IFoS officer worked out under Rule 44 of the CCS rules is worked out under the wrong instrument.

Position under the 8th Central Pay Commission

The 8th Central Pay Commission was constituted by Department of Expenditure Resolution F. No. 01-01/2025-E.III(A) dated 3 November 2025, with Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai as Chairperson and a reporting window of eighteen months from constitution. Clause 2(a)(ii) of its terms of reference covers personnel of the All India Services. It has published no report, so no fitment factor, revised matrix or effective date exists for the All India Services, and none can be stated.

Whatever it recommends will reach the IAS, IPS and IFoS the way the 7th CPC did: through fresh Pay Rules, or amendments to the 2016 sets, notified under section 3(1) of the All India Services Act, 1951 after consultation with the states. The question the 7th CPC left open in paragraph 7.2.17, whether the IPS and IFoS should share the IAS edge, will be before the 8th CPC again.

Related Articles

• All India Services
• IAS salary
• IPS salary
• Indian Forest Service
• Indian Administrative Service
• Indian Police Service
• Indian Foreign Service
• All India Services Act, 1951
• Article 312 of the Constitution
• Article 309 of the Constitution
• All India Services (Conduct) Rules, 1968
• All India Services (Leave) Rules, 1955
• Probation in the All India Services
• All India Services Group Insurance Scheme
• CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016
• Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016
• Pay matrix
• 7th Central Pay Commission
• 6th Central Pay Commission
• 8th Central Pay Commission
• Fitment factor
• Index of rationalisation
• Bunching of pay
• Stepping up of pay
• Personal pay
• Annual increment
• Date of next increment
• Withholding of increment
• Pay fixation on promotion
• Option for pay fixation on promotion
• Non-functional upgradation
• Mid Career Training Programme
• Seniority
• Cadre review
• Central Staffing Scheme
• Deputation to the central government
• Cabinet Secretary pay
• Organised Group A services
• Dearness allowance
• House rent allowance
• CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021
• National Pension System
• Unified Pension Scheme
• Department of Personnel and Training
• Basic pay

External references

• Department of Personnel and Training, Indian Administrative Service (Pay) Rules, 2016, consolidated text: dopt.gov.in
• Ministry of Home Affairs, Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 2016, consolidated text: mha.gov.in
• Ministry of Home Affairs, All India Services Rules Volume I, All India Services (Dearness Allowance) Rules, 1972 with Government of India decisions: mha.gov.in
• Department of Expenditure, Report of the 7th Central Pay Commission (Chapter 7.2, All India Services): doe.gov.in
• The Gazette of India, for G.S.R. 870(E), 910(E), 924(E), 573(E) and 574(E): egazette.gov.in
• Department of Personnel and Training: dopt.gov.in

References

1. Indian Administrative Service (Pay) Rules, 2016, notification No. 14021/1/2016-AIS-II, G.S.R. 870(E) dated 8 September 2016, made under section 3(1) of the All India Services Act, 1951; amended by G.S.R. 575(E) (footnoted in the DoPT consolidated text as 12 July 2017) and G.S.R. 824(E) dated 30 August 2018 (notification No. 11030/3/2017-AIS-II).
2. Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 2016, notification No. 14021/3/2016-AIS-II, G.S.R. 910(E) dated 23 September 2016; Indian Police Service (Pay) Amendment Rules, 2017, G.S.R. 574(E) dated 12 June 2017.
3. Indian Forest Service (Pay) Rules, 2016, F. No. 14021/5/2016-AIS-II, G.S.R. 924(E) dated 28 September 2016, Rules 1 to 14, Schedule II and Appendix I; Indian Forest Service (Pay) Amendment Rules, 2017, G.S.R. 573(E) dated 12 June 2017.
4. Report of the 7th Central Pay Commission, November 2015, Chapter 7.2 (All India Services), paragraphs 7.2.14 to 7.2.21, 7.2.52 and 7.2.66.
5. Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure, Resolution No. 1-2/2016-IC dated 25 July 2016, paragraph 14; Resolution No. 1-2/2016-IC dated 16 May 2017 on the Level 13 index of rationalisation.
6. Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, G.S.R. 721(E) dated 25 July 2016; Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) (Amendment) Rules, 2017, G.S.R. 592(E) dated 15 June 2017.
7. All India Services (Dearness Allowance) Rules, 1972, Rule 3, as substituted by notification No. 22/1/74-AIS(II) dated 28 January 1975; Department of Personnel and Training letter No. 11014/1/97-AIS(II) dated 2 July 1997.
8. All India Services (Compensatory Allowance) Rules, 1954, notification No. 20/1/54-AIS(II) dated 14 September 1954, Rules 2(b) and 3.
9. All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958, Rules 1(2)(b), 16(1) and 18(1)(b); Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021, G.S.R. 868(E) dated 20 December 2021, Rule 2(e).
10. Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure, Resolution F. No. 01-01/2025-E.III(A) dated 3 November 2025, constituting the 8th Central Pay Commission.