"
Provided
that the age of superannuation in respect of the doctors belonging to
the General Duty Medical Officers sub-cadre of Central Armed Police
Forces and Assam Rifles and Specialist Medical officers of Central Armed
Police Forces and Assam Rifles shall be sixty-five years."
Retirement Age of Doctors: Amendment in FR-56
The Gazette of India
MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
(Department of Personnel and Training)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 11th August, 2018
G.S.R.
767(E).- 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 Fundamental Rules, 1922, namely :-
1. Short title and commencement.- (1)These rules may be called the Fundamental (Second Amendment) Rules, 2018.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2.
In the Fundamental Rules, 1922, in rule 56, for clause (bb), the
following shall be substituted, namely: "(bb) (i) The age of
superannuation in respect of the doctors belonging to -
(i) Central Health Service;
(ii) Indian Railways Medical Service;
(iii) AYUSH and working under the Ministry of AYUSH;
(iv) Civilian doctors under the Directorate General of Armed Forces Medical Service;
(v) Medical Officers of the Indian Ordnance Factories Health Service;
(vi) Dental Doctors under the Department of Health and Family Welfare;
(vii) Dental doctors under the Ministry of Railways; and
(viii)
General Duty Medical Officers, Specialist Grade doctors and Teaching
Medical Faculty working in Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre,
shall
be sixty-two years unless they exercise the option of posting to
Teaching, Clinical, Patient Care, Implementation of Health programmes,
Public Health programmes and functions including advisory and
consultancy depending on their expertise and experience, as decided by
the competent authority in the concerned Ministry or Department from
time to time, in case they desire to continue in their service upto the
age of sixty-five years:
Provided that the age of
superannuation in respect of the doctors belonging to the General Duty
Medical Officers sub-cadre of Central Armed Police Forces and Assam
Rifles and Specialist Medical officers of Central Armed Police Forces
and Assam Rifles shall be sixty-five years.
(ii) The
serving doctors belonging to the services referred to in sub-clause (i)
who have either already attained the age of sixty-two years or attaining
the age of sixty-two years within six months from the date of
publication of these amendment rules in the Official Gazette, may
exercise their option in regard to their posting to Teaching, Clinical,
Patient Care, Implementation of Health programmes, Public Health
programmes and functions including advisory and consultancy as specified
in sub-clause (i), within a period of thirty days from the date of the
commencement of the Fundamental (Second Amendment) Rules, 2018.
(iii)
The serving doctors who fail to exercise the option in regard to their
posting to Teaching, Clinical, Patient Care, Implementation of Health
programmes, Public Health programmes and functions including advisory
and consultancy as specified in sub-clause (i), within the period
specified in sub- clause (ii), shall be superannuated form their service
on attaining the age of sixty-two years or on expiry of a period of
thirty days from the date of the commencement of the Fundamental (Second
Amendment) Rules, 2018, whichever is later."
[F. No. 25012/4/2016-Estt.(A-IV)]
GYANENDRA DEV TRIPATHI, Jt. Secy.
Note : The
Fundamental Rules were published in the Gazette of India on the 1st day
of January, 1922 and were last amended vide notification number G.S.R.
27(E), dated the 5th January, 2018.
Source:
http://egazette.nic.in/
