A brief description of General Provident Fund
(GPF) rules and conditions of central government employees are given below.
The GPF rules are applicable to those central
Government employees who have been appointed on or before 31-12-2003.
2: Eligibility:
Temporary Government Servants after the service
of one year, re-employed pensioners and permanent Government servant shall subscribe
to GPF compulsory. Temporary Government servants may subscribe to GPF even
before competition of one year’s service.
3: Amount of Subscription:
A sum (in Whole rupees) as fixed by the
subscriber , subject to minimum of 6% of emoluments and not more than his total
emoluments.
Emoluments means pay + grade pay, leave salary
and any remuneration of the nature of pay received in foreign service. It does
not include Dearness Allowance (DA).
4: Minimum Subscription:
It should be fixed with reference to the
emoluments on the 31st March of the preceding year and in the case of the
subscribers to the emoluments on the date of joining the fund.
5: Enhancement and Reduction:
Subscription may be increased and / or reduced
once at any time during the year.
6: Suspension of Subscription:
Subscription to the fund shall be stopped during
suspension and at the option of the Government servant during leave on half
pay, leave without pay and dies non. Proportionate subscription to be recovered
for the period of duty and any leave other than HPL / EOL.
7: Recovery
Recovery to be stopped 3 months before
retirement on superannuation. No subscription should be recovered during the
last three months of his service.
8: interest for 2008-2009:
8%.
9: Nomination:
A subscriber can nominate one or more persons
conferring the right to receive his GPF amount in the event of his death. If
more than one person is nominated, then the amount or share payable to each
should be indicated separately. A subscriber may cancel nomination at any time
and send a fresh notice.
10: Family:
“Family” includes wife / wives except judicially
separated wife, husband (unless expressly excluded), parents, a paternal
grandparent when no parent is alive, children (including adopted children) ,
minor brothers, unmarried sisters and deceased son’s widow and children.
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