Lok Sabha Question No. 2209 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-11
Subject: Ex-Serviceman Status to GREF Employees
Ministry: DEFENCE
Asked by: CHHOTELAL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF DEFENCE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2209

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 11 TH  DECEMBER, 2015

## EX-SERVICEMAN STATUS TO GREF EMPLOYEES

2209.  SHRI  CHHOTE LAL:

Will the Minister of DEFENCE j{kk ea=h be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the status of ex-servicemen has been accorded to the employees of the General Reserve Engineer Force for their re-employment;
- (b)  if so, the details thereof; and
- (c)  if not, the reasons therefor?

## A    N    S    W    E    R

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

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(RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

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(a) & (b):   Ex-Servicemen status has not been accorded to the employees of General Reserve Engineer Force by the Government.

- (c)  The  retired  employees  of  General  Reserve  Engineer  Force  do  not come  under  the  category  of  Ex-Servicemen  in  terms  of  Ministry  of Personnel,  P.G.  and  Pensions,  (Department  of  Personnel  &  Training) Notification  No.36034/5/85-Estt.  (SCT),  dated  27 th October,  1986  as  per Annexure.

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## ANNEXURE  REFRRED  IN  THE  REPLY  GIVEN  IN  PART  (c)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2209, FOR ANSWER ON 11.12.2015

No. 36034/5/85-Estt (SCT) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions (Department of Personnel and Training)

New Delhi, 27 October, 1986

## NOTIFICATION

GSR-In  exercise  of  the  powers  conferred  by  the  proviso  to  article  309  of  the Constitution,  the  President  hereby  makes  the  following  rules  further  to  amend  the  Exservicemen (Re-employment in Central Civil Services and Posts) Rules, 1979:

1.          (1) These  rules  may  be  called  the  Ex-servicemen  (Re-employment  in  Central Civil Services and Posts) Amendment Rules, 1986
- (2) they  shall  come  into  force  on  the  date  of  their  publication  in  the  Official Gazette.
2. In rule 2 of the Ex-servicemen (Re-employment in Central Civil Services and Posts) Rules, 1979, for clause (c) the following clause shall be substituted, namely
4. (c) 'ex-servicemen' means a person, who has Served in any rank (whether as a combatant or as a non-combatant) in the Regular Army, Navy and Air Force of  the  Indian  Union  but  does  not  include  a  person  who  has  served  in  the Defence  Security  Crops,  the  General  Reserve  Engineering  Force,  the  Lok Shhayak Sena and the para military forces; and
5. (i) who has retired from such service after earning his/her pension; or
6. (ii) who has been released from such service on medical grounds attributable to military service or circumstances beyond his control and awarded medical or other disability pension; or
7. (iii) who has been released, otherwise than on his own request, from such service as a result of reduction in establishment; or
8. (iv) who has been released from such service after completing the specific period of engagement, otherwise than at his own request or by way of dismissal or discharge  on  account  of  misconduct  or  inefficiency,  and  has  been  given  a gratuity;  and  includes  personnel  of  the  Territorial  Army  of  the  following categories, namely:
9. (i) Pension holders for continuous embodied service;
10. (ii) Persons with disability attributable to military service; and
11. (iii) gallantry award winners.

Explanation: The  persons  serving  in  the  Armed  Forces  of  the  Union,  who  on retirement  from  service,  would  come  under  the  category  of  'exservicemen'  may  be  permitted  to  apply  for  re-employment  one  year before the completion of the specified term of engagement and avail themselves of all concessions available to ex-servicemen but shall not be  permitted  to  leave  the  uniform  until  they  complete  the  specified term of engagement in the Armed Forces of the Union.

Note: The  principal  rules  were  published  vide  notification  No.GSR-1530,  dated  the  29 th December, 1979 in the Gazette of India,  Part-II,  Section-3,  Sub-section(i)  at  pages  30043005.

(BATA K. DEY) Director (JCA)

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