130. Addition to qualifying service in special circumstances Footnote : 1. Substituted by G.I., M.F., Notification No. 3 (11)-E. V (A)/73, dated the 2nd April, 1975.
(1) 2[A Government servant who retires from a service or post after the 31st March, 1960], shall be eligible to add to his service qualifying for superannuation pension (but not for any other class of pension) the actual period not exceeding one-fourth of the length of his service or the actual period by which his age at the time of recruitment exceeded twenty-five years or a period of five years, whichever is less, if the service or post to which the Government servant is appointed is one - Footnote : 2. Substituted by G.I., Dept. of P. & P.W., Notification No. 28/51/86-P. & P.W., dated the 10th February, 1988, published as S.O. No. 662 in the Gazette of India, dated the 19th March, 1988.
(a) for which post-graduate research, or specialist qualification or experience in scientific, technological or professional fields, is essential; and
(b) to which candidates of more than twenty-five years of age are normally recruited;
Provided that this concession shall not be admissible to a Government servant unless his actual qualifying service at the time he quits Government service is not less than ten years :
Provided further that this concession shall be admissible only if the recruitment rules in respect of the said service or post contain a specific provision that the service or post is one which carries the benefit of this rule. 3[Provided also that this concession shall not be admissible to those who are eligible for counting their past service for superannuation pension unless they opt before the date of their retirement, which option once exercised shall be final, for the weightage of service under this sub-rule forgoing the counting of the past service.] Footnote : 3. Inserted by G.I., Dept. of P. & P.W., Notification No. 28/40/88-P. & P.W. (B), dated the 9th January, 1992, published as G.S.R. No. 39 in the Gazette of India, dated the 1st February, 1992. *(2) A Government servant who is recruited at the age of thirty-five years or more, may, within a period of three months from the date of his appointment, elect to forgo his right to pension whereupon he shall be eligible to subscribe to a Contributory Provident Fund. Footnote : * -. Regarding change over to pension scheme from CPF, please see Appendix 13.
(3) The option referred to in sub-rule (2) once exercised, shall be final.