ANDHRA PRADESH REVISED PENSION RULES, 1980 (As ... - APHB

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sibility of the employee is restricted only to submission of formal
application for pension, descriptive rolls, list of family members
and any other declaration / certificates that may be prescribed
from time to time. Preparation of the pension papers, calculation
of average emoluments, working out the pension, retirement gratuity
and family pension admissible is the responsibility of the
Head of the Office and the pensioner is in no way responsible for
preparation of these papers.
(c) Every Head of the Department / Head of the Office shall undertake
the work of preparing pension papers in Part-II of the form i.e. “form
for assessing Pension & Gratuity, 6 months before the date on
which a Government servant is due to retire on superannuation
after verifying the service particulars, dues position etc. during
the preceding 12 months. This work shall not be delayed till the
Government servant has actually submitted the application for pension.
Even in cases where the application for pension along
with the descriptive rolls is not received from the retiring Government
servant, the other pension papers shall be prepared and
finalised by the Head of the Office and forwarded to the Pension
sanctioning authority, when he is not himself the authority competent
to sanction pension.
(d) Once the pension has been verified by the verifying authority, the
release of pension depends upon the submission of the pension
papers required, by the pensioner himself. Unless the pensioner
furnishes the pension papers, the pension shall not be released
and the pensioner himself shall be solely responsible for delay on
this account.
6. Procedure for processing of Pension papers
(a) The existing rules provide for the processing and sending the pension
papers to the Accountant General/ Audit Officer, Local Funds
six months before the known date of retirement. The process of
scrutiny of Pension papers should be completed twelve
months in advance from the date of retirement. Immediately,
any affidavits or information required from the employee should be
called for and secured within a period of twelve months and in this
period the determination of the qualifying service, calculation of
average emoluments and determination of the admissible pension
and gratuity should also be completed. The pension paper should