Fundamental Rule 22

Fundamental Rule 22 is the rule that regulates the initial pay of a central government servant appointed to a post on a time scale of pay. It answers one question, and only one: on the day a person lands on a post, which stage of that post’s scale do they start at. It does not set the scale itself, which the pay commission and the pay matrix do, and it does not decide who gets the post, which the recruitment rules do.

The rule has four parts. FR 22(I) carries the operative clauses, and its four sub-clauses split the field by two questions: did the new post carry greater duties, and did the servant move up, sideways or down. FR 22(II) lets the President take a post outside the ordinary line of service out of the rule altogether. FR 22(III) defines when an appointment is not one of greater responsibility. FR 22(IV) stops an ex-cadre posting inflating pay on return to the parent cadre. A separate rule, FR 22-B, governs a probationer or an apprentice in another service or cadre.

The Fundamental Rules came into force on 1 January 1922 under FR 1, and FR 22 has been amended repeatedly since. Its current promotion clause, FR 22(I)(a)(1), was substituted in full by Department of Personnel and Training Notification F. No. 13/1/2017-Estt.(Pay-I), G.S.R. 370, dated 19 November 2018, which rewrote the method in pay-matrix terms and enlarged the option. In the 7th CPC structure the promotion method itself now sits in Rule 13 of the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, but the displacement is partial and its limits are set by Rule 15 of those rules, not by anything in FR 22.

This article works through the rule clause by clause against its bare text, with the pay-matrix figures each clause produces, and then sets out exactly how far Rule 13 displaced it.

The four parts of FR 22 and what each governs

FR 22 is four rules in one, and citing the wrong part is the most common drafting error in a fixation order. The table below maps each part to the case it governs and the figure it produces.

Two of the eight are definitional rather than arithmetical. FR 22(III) does no fixation at all: it decides which of clause (a)(1) and clause (a)(2) is in play. FR 22(II) does the opposite, taking the case outside the arithmetic entirely.

FR 22(I)(a)(1): fixation on promotion to a post of greater responsibility

Pay on promotion is fixed by giving one increment in the level from which the government servant is promoted, and then placing the servant at the cell equal to that figure in the level of the promoted post, or at the next higher cell in that level if no cell is equal. That is the whole method, and it runs in that order.

The clause applies to a servant holding a post other than a tenure post in a substantive, temporary or officiating capacity, promoted or appointed in the corresponding capacity, subject to the eligibility conditions prescribed in the relevant recruitment rules, to another post carrying duties and responsibilities of greater importance than those attaching to the post held. Each of those qualifiers does work. A tenure post is outside the clause. An appointment made in breach of the eligibility conditions in the recruitment rules does not attract it, which is the ground on which an irregular promotion is later re-fixed.

The order of the two steps decides the answer, and reversing them produces a lower figure in most cells. An employee at Cell 12 of Level 6 draws Rs. 49,000. One increment in Level 6 gives Cell 13, Rs. 50,500. Level 7 carries a cell equal to Rs. 50,500 at Cell 5, so the promotee is placed there, and the promotion is worth Rs. 1,500 a month in basic pay. Locating Rs. 49,000 in Level 7 first and then adding an increment would have given a different and lower result.

Where no equal cell exists the promotee gains more. An employee at Cell 12 of Level 10 draws Rs. 77,700; one increment gives Cell 13, Rs. 80,000; Level 11 has no cell at Rs. 80,000, so the next higher cell, Cell 7 at Rs. 80,900, is the fixation, and the promotion is worth Rs. 3,200 a month.

The proviso for an employee at the maximum of the lower level

An employee already at the maximum of the lower level cannot be given an increment in it, so the proviso to FR 22(I)(a)(1) substitutes an equivalent. Pay in the lower post held on a regular basis is increased by an amount equal to the last increment in the level of the lower post, and the servant is placed at the cell equal to that figure in the higher level, or at the next higher cell if no cell is equal.

Level 6 runs to a maximum of Rs. 1,12,400 at Cell 40, the cell below it being Rs. 1,09,100, so the last increment in Level 6 is Rs. 3,300. An employee at that maximum promoted to Level 7 has the figure Rs. 1,15,700 arrived at, and because Level 7 carries no cell at Rs. 1,15,700, the next higher cell, Rs. 1,15,800 at Cell 33, is the fixation.

The proviso applies only where the servant is at the maximum immediately before promotion or appointment on a regular basis. An officiating stint at the maximum does not attract it.

The option under FR 22(I)(a)(1), and the three appointments it is excluded in

FR 22(I)(a)(1) gives the promotee a choice of the date from which pay is fixed, to be exercised within one month from the date of promotion or appointment. The first choice is fixation under the rule from the date of promotion itself. The second is provisional fixation at the next cell in the level of the promoted post, followed by re-fixation on the date of accrual of the next increment in the lower level, at which point two increments are granted in the lower level, one on account of the annual increment and one on account of the promotion, and the servant is placed at the equal or next higher cell of the promoted level on that combined figure.

The clause excludes the option in three cases, named in it: appointment on deputation to an ex-cadre post, appointment on an ad hoc basis, and appointment on direct recruitment basis. Everything else attracts it.

The second choice is often worth more, because the combined figure enters the promoted level at a higher cell permanently, at the price of drawing the lower provisional pay for the intervening months. The arithmetic turns on the cell the employee currently occupies, so neither option wins in every case; the worked comparison is in option for pay fixation on promotion. To stop employees losing the one-month window to administrative delay, the Department of Personnel and Training directed by Office Memorandum No. 13/02/2017-Estt.(Pay-I) dated 27 July 2017 that the option clause be printed in the promotion order itself.

Ad hoc promotion, regularisation, and the retired officer’s three-month window

FR 22(I)(a)(1) carries two limbs that only bite after the event, and both were part of the text substituted on 19 November 2018.

Where an ad hoc promotion is followed by regular appointment without break, the option is admissible from the date of the initial appointment or promotion, and is to be exercised within one month from the date of the regular appointment. The ad hoc period is not written off; it becomes the reference date for a choice made later.

The second limb covers an officer who retired while still holding the post on an ad hoc basis, was assessed during the regularisation process, and was found fit by the competent authority along with juniors who are still in service and eligible to exercise the option from a date on which the retired employee was still in service. The same option facility is extended to the retired employee, to be exercised within three months from the date on which the junior became eligible; where the retired employee was the junior-most, the three months run from the date the immediate senior became eligible. This is the only place in FR 22 where the window is three months rather than one.

FR 22(I)(a)(2): appointment without greater duties and responsibilities

Where the appointment to the new post does not involve the assumption of duties and responsibilities of greater importance, no increment is given. The government servant draws as initial pay the stage of the time scale equal to the pay in the old post held on a regular basis, or, if there is no such stage, the stage next above it. An employee at Cell 10 of Level 7, Rs. 58,600, moving to another Level 7 post carries Rs. 58,600 across.

Two provisos qualify it. Where the minimum pay of the new post’s time scale is higher than the pay in the post held regularly, the servant draws that minimum as initial pay. And the increment date turns on which of the two limbs applied: where pay is fixed at the same stage, the servant continues to draw it until the point at which an increment would have been received in the old time scale, while where pay is fixed at the higher stage, the next increment falls on completion of the period in which an increment is earned in the new time scale.

Clause (a)(2) carries its own option. On appointment on a regular basis to such a post, other than an ex-cadre post on deputation, the servant may opt within one month for fixation with effect from the date of appointment or with effect from the date of increment in the old post. The clause is therefore not merely the residue of clause (a)(1): it is a parallel scheme with a narrower exclusion, covering deputation but not ad hoc appointment or direct recruitment.

FR 22(I)(a)(3): a lower post on own request under FR 15(a)

FR 22(I)(a)(3) is one sentence and fixes one figure: the maximum. Where appointment to the new post is made on the servant’s own request under sub-rule (a) of FR 15, and the maximum pay in the time scale of that post is lower than the pay in the old post held regularly, the servant draws that maximum as initial pay.

FR 15(a) is the transfer rule, and it bars transferring a government servant to a post carrying less pay than the pay of the post on which a lien is held, except on account of inefficiency or misbehaviour, on the servant’s own written request, or in a case covered by FR 49. Clause (a)(3) is the pay consequence of the second of those three exceptions.

An employee at Cell 33 of Level 7, drawing Rs. 1,15,800, who asks in writing for a Level 6 post is fixed at the Level 6 maximum of Rs. 1,12,400, because that maximum is the lower figure. Nothing in clause (a)(3) grants the difference as personal pay: the clause caps, and it does not compensate. Personal pay in a step-down case comes from a separate sanction, and the broader treatment of the subject is in pay protection and pay fixation on reversion.

FR 22(I)(b): the minimum of the time scale

FR 22(I)(b) is severe on its face. If the conditions prescribed in clause (a) are not fulfilled, the government servant draws as initial pay the minimum of the time scale. There is no equal-stage rule and no protection in the clause itself; a person who does not fit any limb of clause (a) starts at the bottom of the scale.

What softens it is the proviso to FR 22(I), which applies to cases under clause (a) and clause (b) alike, other than cases of re-employment after resignation, removal or dismissal from the public service.

The proviso to FR 22(I): pay previously drawn in the same or an identical post

The proviso to FR 22(I), not FR 22-B, is the source of the ordinary protection on re-appointment, and the distinction matters because the two are routinely conflated. Where the government servant has previously held substantively or officiated in the same post, or in a permanent or temporary post on the same time scale, or in a permanent or temporary post on an identical time scale, including a post in a body wholly or substantially owned or controlled by the government, the initial pay shall not be less than the pay drawn on the last occasion, and the servant counts the period during which that pay was drawn on a regular basis for increment at that stage.

The protected figure is pay alone. Special pay, personal pay and any other emolument classed as pay by the President under FR 9(21)(a)(iii) are expressly excluded from it. Pay in a temporary post that had been inflated by the grant of premature increments is also reduced for this purpose to what would have been drawn but for those increments, unless the authority competent to create the new post orders otherwise.

A second limb of the proviso covers appointment, subject to the recruitment-rule eligibility conditions, to a tenure post on a time scale identical with that of another tenure post previously held on a regular basis.

Reversion to the parent cadre from a body of the kind described in proviso (1)(iii) is carved out of the general protection and given its own three conditions. The servant must have been approved for appointment to the grade or post in which the previous service is to be counted; all the servant’s seniors except those regarded as unfit must have been serving in posts carrying that scale or higher, with at least one junior holding such a post in the department; and the service counts only from the date the junior was promoted on a regular basis, limited to the period the servant would have held the post in the parent cadre but for the ex-cadre appointment.

FR 22(II): posts outside the ordinary line, and the Next Below Rule

FR 22(II) is the escape hatch. The President may specify posts outside the ordinary line of service whose holder may, notwithstanding the provisions of FR 22 and subject to such conditions as the President may prescribe, be given officiating promotion in the cadre of the service that the authority competent to order promotion may decide, and may then be granted the same pay, with or without any special pay attached to such posts, as would have been received if still in the ordinary line.

This is the rule-level basis of the Next Below Rule and of the proforma promotion granted to an officer serving away from the parent cadre. FR 113(i), on foreign service, cross-refers to it expressly, carrying a bracketed note that the second proviso to the old Rule 30(1) is now FR 22(II), and directs that the competent authority take into account the nature of the work performed in foreign service when giving such promotion. The pay consequence for an officer on deputation is worked through in the deputation articles; the authority for the notional promotion itself is here.

FR 22(III): when an appointment is not one of greater responsibility

FR 22(III) settles the question that decides whether clause (a)(1) or clause (a)(2) applies, and it settles it by reference to the scale and not to the job. For the purpose of FR 22, an appointment is not deemed to involve the assumption of duties and responsibilities of greater importance if the post to which it is made is on the same scale of pay as the post, other than a tenure post, which the government servant holds on a regular basis at the time of the promotion or appointment, or on a scale of pay identical with it.

Two consequences follow. A move that is a promotion in every administrative sense, carrying a different designation and heavier work, attracts no promotion increment under FR 22 if the feeder and promotional posts sit in the same level of the pay matrix. And where the government wanted to grant an increment in exactly that situation it had to do so by a separate order rather than by reading FR 22 differently: Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum No. 10/02/2011-E.III/A dated 7 January 2013 granted one increment on promotion to a post carrying higher duties but the same grade pay.

FR 22(IV): promotion back into the cadre from an ex-cadre post

FR 22(IV) opens with a non obstante clause and therefore prevails over the rest of FR 22. Where a government servant holding an ex-cadre post is promoted or appointed regularly to a post in the parent cadre, pay in the cadre post is fixed only with reference to the presumptive pay of the cadre post the servant would have held but for holding an ex-cadre post outside the ordinary line of service by virtue of which the servant became eligible for the promotion or appointment.

The clause exists because the deputation or ex-cadre pay is usually the higher figure, and fixing the cadre post against it would let an officer convert a temporary posting into a permanent pay advantage over colleagues who stayed in the cadre. Presumptive pay is defined in FR 9(24) as the pay to which the servant would be entitled if the post were held substantively and its duties were being performed, excluding special pay unless the work in consideration of which it was sanctioned is actually being done.

FR 22-A and FR 22-C

Neither is operative. The Department of Personnel and Training compilation of the Fundamental Rules prints FR 22-A as not printed and FR 22-C as deleted.

FR 22-C leaves a loose end. It is still cross-referred in FR 22-B(1)(b), FR 22-B(3)(b) and the provisos to both, each of which directs fixation “under Rule 22 or Rule 22-C, as the case may be”. The consequential amendment was never made, so the alternative in those clauses has no content and the fixation falls to FR 22 alone.

FR 22-B: probationers and apprentices in another service or cadre

FR 22-B is not a general pay-protection rule, and reading it as one is the commonest error made about it. It governs one situation: a government servant appointed as a probationer in another service or cadre, and subsequently confirmed in that service or cadre.

During the period of probation the servant draws pay at the minimum of the time scale, or at the probationary stages of the time scale of the service or post. The proviso is what makes the rule protective: if the presumptive pay of the permanent post on which the servant holds a lien, or would hold a lien had it not been suspended, is at any time greater than the pay so fixed, the servant draws the presumptive pay of the permanent post instead. On confirmation in the service after the period of probation, pay is fixed in the time scale of the service or post under FR 22, with a proviso barring fixation by reference to the pay that would have been drawn in a previous post held in a temporary capacity.

Sub-rule (2) applies the same scheme mutatis mutandis to a servant appointed on probation with definite conditions against a temporary post in another service or cadre where recruitment to permanent posts is made through probationers, except that the fixation is done under FR 31 immediately on expiry of the probation period and on regular officiating appointment. Sub-rule (3) covers an apprentice in another service or cadre: the stipend or pay prescribed for the apprenticeship, subject to the same presumptive-pay proviso, and fixation under FR 22, FR 22-C or FR 31 on satisfactory completion and regular appointment.

The pay protection an employee obtains on a technical resignation to another government post is a related but separate route, resting on FR 22-B read with Ministry of Finance Office Memorandum No. 3379-E.III(B)/65 dated 17 June 1965, and it is treated in full in pay protection.

Worked examples across the clauses

Each row below is worked from the cell values in the 7th CPC pay matrix notified in the Schedule to the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016.

The third row is the one that surprises people. An employee who has exhausted a level still gains on promotion, because the proviso manufactures the increment the level can no longer supply.

Rule 13 of the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, and the extent of the displacement

Rule 13 of the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, notified as G.S.R. 721(E) on 25 July 2016, supplies the promotion method for a promotion or a MACP financial upgradation taking effect on or after 1 January 2016, in the same two ordered steps FR 22(I)(a)(1) uses: one increment in the level from which the employee is promoted, then the equal or next higher cell in the level of the promoted post. Its own illustration takes an employee drawing Rs. 28,700 in Level 4, gives Rs. 29,600 on the increment, and lands on Rs. 30,100 in Level 5.

The displacement is not a repeal, and Rule 15 sets its limits. Rule 15 provides that the Fundamental Rules and the six earlier revised pay rules of 1947, 1960, 1973, 1986, 1997 and 2008 do not apply, save as otherwise provided in the 2016 rules, to cases where pay is regulated under those rules, to the extent they are inconsistent with them. Inconsistency is the whole test. Rule 13 is inconsistent with the method in FR 22(I)(a)(1) and displaces it. Rule 13 says nothing at all about the date of fixation, so the FR 22(I)(a)(1) option is not inconsistent with it and survives untouched, which is why a promotion fixation order today is drawn as Rule 13 read with FR 22(I)(a)(1).

The same pattern held at the 6th CPC, where Rule 13 of the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 carried the method for the pay band and grade pay structure while the FR 22 option continued to apply.

Nothing in Rule 13 touches FR 22(I)(a)(2), FR 22(I)(a)(3), FR 22(I)(b), the proviso to FR 22(I), or FR 22(II) to FR 22(IV). Those clauses operate today in their own terms, translated into the matrix by reading “stage of the time scale” as “cell of the level”.

Stepping up of pay where FR 22 fixation inverts seniority

FR 22 both creates and cures a recurring anomaly. Because fixation on promotion runs off the pay actually drawn in the lower level at the moment of promotion, a junior promoted a few months later, after drawing the annual increment on 1 July or 1 January under Rule 10 of the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, can enter the promoted level at a higher cell than a senior promoted earlier.

Stepping up of pay raises the senior’s pay to the junior’s, and it is granted under the consolidated guidelines in Department of Personnel and Training Office Memorandum No. 4/3/2017-Estt.(Pay-I) dated 26 October 2018, framed for the 7th CPC pay matrix. Clause (b) of that order bars stepping up where the senior forwent or refused promotion, and clause (g) states that the full benefits of FR 22(I)(a)(1) are not available on an ad hoc promotion but only on the regular promotion following it without break. The pay anomaly and anomaly committee route is the alternative where the case does not fit the stepping-up conditions.

FR 22 compared with the neighbouring fixation rules

FR 22 is one of a small group of Fundamental Rules that touch the pay figure, and the case each governs is distinct.

FR 23 is the one most often miscited as FR 22. Where a scale is revised and the post’s pay changes under the employee, the governing rule is FR 23 and its retention option, not FR 22, because the servant has not moved anywhere.

Effect on allowances, contributions and the date of drawal

The re-fixed basic pay under FR 22 flows through to every entitlement computed on basic pay, from the date the fixation takes effect. Dearness allowance at 60% of basic pay from 1 January 2026, notified by Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum No. 1/1(i)/2026-E.II(B) dated 22 April 2026, is recomputed on the new figure. House rent allowance at 30%, 20% and 10% of basic pay for X, Y and Z cities under Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum No. 2/5/2017-E.II(B) dated 7 July 2017 moves with it. Transport allowance is a slab amount by pay level under Office Memorandum No. 21/5/2017-E.II(B) dated 7 July 2017, so it changes only where the fixation crosses a slab boundary.

Contributions move too. An employee covered by the National Pension System contributes 10% of basic pay plus dearness allowance and the government 14% of the same base, so both rise with the fixation. A General Provident Fund subscriber’s minimum subscription is a percentage of emoluments and rises on the same base.

FR 22 fixes the figure; FR 17(1) fixes the date it is drawn from. Under FR 17(1) a government servant begins to draw the pay and allowances attached to a post with effect from the date of assuming the duties of that post, and ceases to draw them on ceasing to discharge those duties, with a proviso denying pay and allowances for any period of absence from duty without authority.

Bearing on the 8th Central Pay Commission

FR 22 will survive the 8th Central Pay Commission in the same partial form it survived the 7th. The commission was constituted by Ministry of Finance Resolution F. No. 01-01/2025-E.III(A) dated 3 November 2025 under Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai. When its recommendations are accepted, the government will notify a fresh set of revised pay rules carrying their own promotion-fixation rule in place of Rule 13, and a fresh overriding provision in place of Rule 15.

What changes then is the arithmetic, because the levels and cell values will be new. What does not change is the structure of FR 22, which has outlasted six revisions of the pay scales since 1947 by describing the situations in which pay is fixed rather than the figures. On the pattern of Rule 15, the new rules will displace FR 22 only to the extent of inconsistency, so the clauses Rule 13 never touched, FR 22(I)(a)(2) to FR 22(IV) and the proviso to FR 22(I), should continue to apply as they do now. That is an expectation drawn from the 2008 and 2016 precedents, not a notified position: the 8th CPC has issued no report and no revised pay rules have been drafted.

Related Articles

• Pay fixation
• Pay fixation on promotion
• Option for pay fixation on promotion
• Pay protection
• Pay fixation on reversion
• Stepping up of pay
• Pay anomaly and the anomaly committee
• Personal pay
• Presumptive pay
• Tenure post
• Lien
• Technical resignation
• Probation for central government employees
• Confirmation in service
• Ad hoc appointment
• Recruitment rules
• Next Below Rule
• Proforma promotion
• Foreign service
• Deputation for central government employees
• Date of next increment
• Annual increment
• Bunching of pay
• Fundamental Rule 27
• FR 35 officiating pay limit
• Fundamental Rules and Supplementary Rules
• Modified Assured Career Progression
• CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016
• Pay matrix
• Basic pay
• Dearness allowance
• House rent allowance
• Transport allowance
• National Pension System
• General Provident Fund
• Seniority
• Central Pay Commission
• 6th Central Pay Commission
• 8th Central Pay Commission
• Department of Personnel and Training
• Department of Expenditure
• Central government employees in India

External references

• Fundamental Rules and Supplementary Rules, Part I, DoPT compilation
• Department of Personnel and Training
• Department of Personnel and Training: acts and rules
• DoPT establishment (Pay) circulars
• Department of Expenditure
• Department of Expenditure: pay rules and orders

References

1. Fundamental Rules, Part I, in force from 1 January 1922 under FR 1; FR 9(21)(a)(iii) and FR 9(24) (definitions of pay and of presumptive pay), FR 15(a) (transfer to a post carrying less pay), FR 17(1) (date from which pay is drawn), FR 23 (change in the pay of a post), FR 27 (premature increment), FR 28 (transfer as a penalty) and FR 113(i) (promotion during foreign service, cross-referring to FR 22(II)).
2. Fundamental Rule 22(I)(a)(1), as substituted by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Personnel and Training Notification F. No. 13/1/2017-Estt.(Pay-I), G.S.R. 370, dated 19 November 2018: the one-increment method, the proviso for a servant at the maximum of the lower level, the one-month option and its exclusion on deputation to an ex-cadre post, ad hoc appointment and direct recruitment, the ad hoc-followed-by-regular limb, and the three-month window for a retired ad hoc officer.
3. Fundamental Rule 22(I)(a)(2) (appointment without greater duties: the equal or next-above stage, the minimum-pay proviso, the increment-date proviso and the one-month option) and Fundamental Rule 22(I)(a)(3) (a lower post on own request under FR 15(a): the maximum of the lower time scale).
4. Fundamental Rule 22(I)(b) (the minimum of the time scale) and the proviso to Fundamental Rule 22(I) (pay not less than that drawn on the last occasion in the same, the same-scale or an identical post, excluding special pay and personal pay, with the three conditions on reversion to the parent cadre).
5. Fundamental Rule 22(II) (posts outside the ordinary line of service), Fundamental Rule 22(III) (an appointment to a post on the same or an identical scale is not one of greater responsibility), Fundamental Rule 22(IV) (fixation in the cadre post by presumptive pay on return from an ex-cadre post), Fundamental Rule 22-A (not printed), Fundamental Rule 22-B, sub-rules (1) to (3) (probationers and apprentices in another service or cadre) and Fundamental Rule 22-C (deleted).
6. CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, G.S.R. 721(E), Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure, dated 25 July 2016: Rule 10 (date of next increment), Rule 13 (fixation of pay on promotion and on MACP financial upgradation, with its illustration) and Rule 15 (overriding effect on the Fundamental Rules to the extent of inconsistency), with the pay matrix in Part A of the Schedule.
7. Department of Personnel and Training Office Memorandum No. 13/02/2017-Estt.(Pay-I) dated 27 July 2017 (the option on promotion, and the direction to print the option clause in the promotion order) and Office Memorandum No. 4/3/2017-Estt.(Pay-I) dated 26 October 2018 (consolidated guidelines on stepping up of pay, clauses (b) and (g)).
8. Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum No. 10/02/2011-E.III/A dated 7 January 2013 (one increment on promotion to a post carrying higher duties but the same grade pay), Office Memorandum No. 2/5/2017-E.II(B) dated 7 July 2017 (house rent allowance), Office Memorandum No. 21/5/2017-E.II(B) dated 7 July 2017 (transport allowance) and Office Memorandum No. 1/1(i)/2026-E.II(B) dated 22 April 2026 (dearness allowance at 60% from 1 January 2026).
9. Ministry of Finance Office Memorandum No. 3379-E.III(B)/65 dated 17 June 1965 (pay protection on technical resignation, read with FR 22-B) and Department of Personnel and Training Office Memorandum No. 1/4/2017-Estt.(Pay-I) dated 28 February 2019 (restriction of officiating pay under FR 35).
10. Ministry of Finance Resolution F. No. 01-01/2025-E.III(A) dated 3 November 2025 (constitution of the 8th Central Pay Commission).