watardt afer Pritt worcr (CO se, sIRA ee) Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (Ministry of Labour, Govt. Of India) yon aa” Head Office te fa mete, 94 ROO ea Re, (Re 99008 Bhavishys Nidhi Bhawan, 14-Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi-110066 No. Pension./A&C/1/2000/PIC/Vol.VI Gore Dated: Te e - ‘0 4 . ct 19 Fes 207 All Regional Provident Fund Commissioners Incharge of the Regions, Alll Officers-in-Charge of Sub Regional Offices. Sub: Determination of eligible service under para 9 of EPS,1995 — Rounding off of past service and actual service Ref:- This office circular No.Pension-A&C/1/2000/PIC/54483 dated 2.11.2001. Sir, (On a plain reading of para 9 of EPS,1995 it is ve off of service is possible only for determining the eligi too only once i.e. either rounding off of actual service for the new entrants OR rounding off of past service for the existing members. In other words, the rounding off of actual service is not available for existing members. Further, it also means that the rounding-off is not available for calculating pension but restricted only for determining the eligibility of 10 years or more. To sum up, the facility of rounding-off of service is available under EPS-1995 only for eligible service and that too only in the following situations. i, Rounding-off of actual service only for new entrants for the purpose of determining the eligible service ii, Rounding-off of past service only for existing members for the purpose of determining the eligible service However, the field offices separately round-off both past service and actual service for the purpose of determining the eligibility as stipulated vide Para 6.2.14 of MAP Vol.III though this is not backed by the Scheme provision as seen above. Therefore, this provision of MAP which contradicts the provisions contained in para 9 of EPS,1995 has no force and can be considered to bewithdrawn as the Scheme provisions shall prevail over the above Manual provisions to avoid unintended overpayments. Therefore, the rounding off of past service or actual service has to be carried out only once for determining the eligible service ie. only past service in respect of existing members and only actual service in respect of new entrants and not both. All the cases referred to Head Office in this regard can be considered as rejected as they do not have an eligible service of 10 years or more. Yours faithfully, aye sO (K.C. PANDEY) Additional Central Provident Fund Commissioner (Pension) 1. PS to CPFC 2. PS toFA & CAO 3. All Addl. CPFCs ZonegHead Office 4, Director NATRSS 5. Director/Deputy Director(Audit) 6. Director/Deputy Director(Vig.) 7. All Zonal Training Institutes 8. All Zonal Audit Offices 9. Director(IS) — With request to webcast the above circula: 10. All Officers of Head Office. Rl, (RAMAN DHANASEKAR) Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner(Pension)