Rule 26 - Increment Calculation

FR. 26. The following provisions prescribe the conditions on which service counts for increments in a time-scale:—

(a) All duty in a post on a time-scale counts for increments in that timescale:

Provided that, for the purpose of arriving at the date of the next increment in that time-scale, the total of all such periods as do not count for increment in that time-scale, shall be added to the normal date of increment.

(b)

(i) Service in another post, other than a post carrying less pay referred to in Clause

(a) of Rule 15, whether in a substantive or officiating capacity, service on deputation out of India and leave except extraordinary leave taken otherwise than on medical certificate shall count for increments in the time-scale applicable to the post on which the Government servant holds a lien, as well as in the timescale applicable to the post or posts, if any, on which he would hold a lien had his lien not been suspended.

(ii) All leave except extraordinary leave taken otherwise than on medical certificate and the period of deputation out of India shall count for increment in the time-scale applicable to a post in which a Government servant was officiating at the time he proceeded on leave or deputation out of India and would have continued to officiate but for his proceeding on leave or deputation out of India:

Provided that the President may, in any case, in which he is satisfied that the extraordinary leave was taken for any cause beyond the Government servant's control or for prosecuting higher scientific and technical studies, direct that extraordinary leave shall be counted for increments under Clause

(i) or (ii).

(c)

(i) If a Government servant, while officiating in a post of holding a temporary post on a time-scale of pay, is appointed to officiate in a higher post or to hold a higher temporary post, his officiating or temporary service in the higher post shall, if he is reappointed to the lower post, or is appointed or reappointed to a post on the same time-scale of pay, count for increments in the time-scale applicable to such lower post. The period of officiating service in the higher post which counts for increment in the lower post is, however, restricted to the period during which the Government servant would have officiated in the lower post but for his appointment to the higher post. This clause applies also to a Government servant who is not actually officiating in the lower post at the time of his appointment to the higher post, but who would have so officiated in such

lower post or in a post on the same time-scale of pay had he not been appointed to the higher post.

(ii) If a Government servant on reversion from an ex cadre post to the parent cadre is appointed to a post on a scale lower than that of the ex cadre post but not on the same time-scale as the post held at the time of his transfer to the ex cadre post, the service rendered on the higher scale in the ex cadre post shall count for increments in the time-scale applicable to the cadre post, subject to the same conditions as are laid down for cases falling under proviso (1)

(iii) to Rule 22.

(d) Foreign service counts for increments in the time-scale applicable to— (i)the post in Government service on which the Government servant concerned holds a lien as well as the post or posts, if any, on which he would hold lien had his lien not been suspended,

(ii)the post in Government service in which the Government servant was officiating immediately before his transfer to foreign service, for so long as he would have continued to officiate in that post or a post on the same timescale but for his going of foreign service, and

(iii) any post in the parent cadre in a lower scale of pay to which the Government servant is appointed on reversion from the ex cadre post, subject to the fulfilment of the conditions mentioned in proviso (1)

(iii) to Rule 22.

(e) Joining time counts for increment—

(i) If it is under Clause

(a) or Clause

(c) of Rule 105, in the time-scale applicable to the post on which a Government servant holds a lien or would hold a lien had his lien not been suspended as well as in the time-scale applicable to the post, the pay of which is received by a Government servant during the period; and

(ii) If it is under Clause

(b) of Rule 105, in the time-scale applicable to the post / posts on which the last day of leave before commencement of the joining time counts for increments.

EXPLANATION.— For the purposes of this rule, the period treated as duty under sub-clause

(b) of Clause (6) of Rule 9 shall be deemed to be duty in a post, if the Government servant draws pay of that post during such period.

What This Means

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Key Points

• 1Time spent officiating or holding a temporary post in a higher position can count towards increments in the lower post.
• 2This applies when the employee is reappointed to the lower post or a post on the same time scale.
• 3The period counted is limited to the time the employee would have spent in the lower post had they not been promoted.
• 4The rule applies even if the employee wasn't actively working in the lower post at the time of promotion, but was due to be there.
• 5This rule is part of the Fundamental Rules governing government employees' service conditions.

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