Suspension and Departmental Inquiries
I was suspended from duties on December 11, 2011, for not attending a meeting. I did not receive any memo or charge sheet. Additionally, I was held accountable for incorrect data entry in vote counting by a junior officer. The junior officer is clearly seen to be sitting on the computer meant for counting in the CD, which was later edited. Subsequently, two Departmental Inquiries (DE) were imposed on me. One was related to the election, and the other was based on various show-cause notices and memos issued to me during the preceding three years. The charge sheets were issued to me three years later.
Local Election Incident
After being transferred, I was once again held responsible in a local election for arriving at the office 20 minutes late during the withdrawal of candidacy while the Assistant Returning Officer (ARO) was present. I had traveled 150 km, and during this time, an observer visited the Returning Officer's (RO) office, reported my absence, and I was removed from the RO post by issuing a memo when the election was only 7 days away. For this particular incident, my increment was postponed for 5 months starting from July 1, 2020, to November 30, 2020, without effect on the next increment. No DE was conducted before imposing this punishment. I am set to retire in December 2020.
Penalty and Pay Reduction
One of the DEs mentioned above was completed in September 2019 and resulted in a penalty of reducing my increment by three stages for one year. The order was issued by a superior officer in December 2019. In this order, my pay was reduced by three stages from July 2019, and a recovery was made from me for the excess payment made to me from July 2019. We were granted a 7th pay commission salary from March 2019 and before that, I was receiving a 6th pay commission salary. As a result, my pay was reduced from my new pay scale of the 7th pay commission by three stages of the same pay commission when during the same period last year my basic was according to the 6th pay commission. Moreover, due to this reduced pay, I was not given the increment due to me from July 2019. This punishment will last until June 2020. As a result of the next punishment, my increment will be postponed from July 1 to November 30, 2020. The conclusion of the other DE is yet to come. My retirement is due in December 2020.
Concern About Pension Impact
I am concerned about the intentional delay and the impact on my pension. Can anyone advise what effect all this will have on my pension? I am based in Pune, India.
I was suspended from duties on December 11, 2011, for not attending a meeting. I did not receive any memo or charge sheet. Additionally, I was held accountable for incorrect data entry in vote counting by a junior officer. The junior officer is clearly seen to be sitting on the computer meant for counting in the CD, which was later edited. Subsequently, two Departmental Inquiries (DE) were imposed on me. One was related to the election, and the other was based on various show-cause notices and memos issued to me during the preceding three years. The charge sheets were issued to me three years later.
Local Election Incident
After being transferred, I was once again held responsible in a local election for arriving at the office 20 minutes late during the withdrawal of candidacy while the Assistant Returning Officer (ARO) was present. I had traveled 150 km, and during this time, an observer visited the Returning Officer's (RO) office, reported my absence, and I was removed from the RO post by issuing a memo when the election was only 7 days away. For this particular incident, my increment was postponed for 5 months starting from July 1, 2020, to November 30, 2020, without effect on the next increment. No DE was conducted before imposing this punishment. I am set to retire in December 2020.
Penalty and Pay Reduction
One of the DEs mentioned above was completed in September 2019 and resulted in a penalty of reducing my increment by three stages for one year. The order was issued by a superior officer in December 2019. In this order, my pay was reduced by three stages from July 2019, and a recovery was made from me for the excess payment made to me from July 2019. We were granted a 7th pay commission salary from March 2019 and before that, I was receiving a 6th pay commission salary. As a result, my pay was reduced from my new pay scale of the 7th pay commission by three stages of the same pay commission when during the same period last year my basic was according to the 6th pay commission. Moreover, due to this reduced pay, I was not given the increment due to me from July 2019. This punishment will last until June 2020. As a result of the next punishment, my increment will be postponed from July 1 to November 30, 2020. The conclusion of the other DE is yet to come. My retirement is due in December 2020.
Concern About Pension Impact
I am concerned about the intentional delay and the impact on my pension. Can anyone advise what effect all this will have on my pension? I am based in Pune, India.