Revision of amount of honorarium to IO/PO in connection with Inquiry under Rule-10 GDS (C&E), Rules, 2020

17-31/2016-GDS00/PO/DA)

No. 17-31/2016-GDS (IO/PO/DA) 

Government of India

Ministry of Communications 

Department of Posts (GDS Section)

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi-110001

Dated:02.01.2025

To
All Chief Postmasters General

Subject: Revision of amount of honorarium to IO/PO in connection with Inquiry under Rule-10 GDS (C&E), Rules, 2020- draft proposal.

Sir/Madam,

The matter regarding revision of honorarium to IO/PO in connection with inquiries under Rule 10 of the GDS (Conduct and Engagement) Rules, 2020 is under consideration. Considering the overall efforts needed to carry out inquiries in the matters of GDS, it is proposed to revise the honorarium to be given to the IO/PO as under:

(a) The amount of honorarium may not be given to the IO/PO in all cases where the delinquent GDS unconditionally admits all the charges in first sitting of the case. However, if the same are admitted at later stage, then 10 and PO [retired as well as serving] both the may be allowed an Honorarium of Rs. 3,000/- and Rs. 2,000 respectively.

(b) In other cases, where full fledged inquiry is conducted, the amount of honorarium for retired/serving officers is proposed as under:

ii) Serving Officers

The amount of honorarium proposed for serving officers is as under:

10-15% of Basic Pay

PO-10% of Basic Pay

(c) In addition to the Honorarium, retired Government servants, who are appointed as Inquiry officer will be entitled to TA/DA as per their entitlements in accordance with rules/instructions. The TA claim would be settled by the office from where the govt. servant had retired. The retired officers will not be given any secretarial assistant. The charges for the same are included in the proposed honorarium.

(d) The serving govt. servants will also be entitled to TA/DA as per their entitlements in accordance with instructions issued from time to

2. All the Circles/stakeholders are requested to furnish their commentson the above proposal within a fortnight, i.e, latest by 15.01.2025. Circles are also requested to furnish data in respect of inquiries conducted in the matters of GDS in the last three years to calculate the financial implication in implementing the proposal in the following format:

Yours sincerely.

(Ravi Pahwa) Director (GDS)

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Tel. No. 011-23096629

Email: adggds426@gmail.com

1. General Secretary. All India Association of Inspectors and Assistant Superintendent of Posts.

2. All recognized Unions

3. All recognized GDS Unions