The document defines key terms related to pay rules such as substantive pay, special pay, personal pay, presumptive pay, cadre, honorarium, and joining time. It provides details on fixation of pay on promotion, reversion, restoration, and surplus. Joining time allowed is up to 30 days depending on distance traveled, with preparation time of 6 days and travel time calculated based on mode of transportation. Exceptions to joining time rules are also outlined.

2. Fundamental Rules
 Framed 1922
 Effective from 01st January, 1922

3. Definitions

4. Definitions
 Substantive pay
 Means the pay other than special pay, personal pay etc. to
which an employee is entitled on account of post to which he
has been appointed substantively by reason of his qualification
or his substantive position in the cadre.

5. Definitions
 Special pay
 Means an addition , of the nature of pay, granted in
consideration of:
 Specially arduous nature of duties.
 Un healthiness of locality or
 Specific addition to the work or responsibility.
 Subsistence grant
 Monthly grant made to an employee who is not in receipt of
pay or leave salary.

6. Definitions
 Personal pay
 Means additional pay granted to an employee to save him from
the loss of substantive pay otherwise that as a disciplinary
measure.
 Presumptive pay
 The pay to which an employee would be entitled if he held the
post and were performing his duties.

7. Occasions of Personal Pay
o On reaching maximum of pay scale Annual
increment granted becomes Personal Pay.
o On adjustment of an employee in lower post on
rendering surplus on abolition of his substantive
post .
o On reversion to lower post

8. Definitions
 Cadre
 Cadre means the strength of a service or a part of service
sanctioned as a separate unit.

9. Definitions
 Compensatory allowance
 Means an allowance granted to meet personal expenditure
necessitated by the special circumstances in which duty is
performed.
 Travelling allowance
 Means an allowance granted to cover the expenses incurred in
travelling in the interest of the Authority.

10. Definitions
 Foreign Service
 Means service in which an employee receives his substantive
pay, with the approval of the Authority, from any source other
than the revenues of the Authority.
 Lien
 Means the title of an employee to hold substantively, either
immediately or on the termination of a period of absence, a
post to which he has been appointed substantively.

11. Definitions
 Honorarium
 Means a recurring or a non recurring payment granted to an
employee from general revenues as remuneration for special
work of an occasional or intermittent character.

12. Government Decision
 Any work which falls within the orbit of the normal
duties of Govt. servant, cannot, as far as he is
concerned, be treated as, ‘special work’. Hence, grant
of honorarium to a Govt. servant for temporary
occasional, periodical, frequent or general increase
in the quantum of such work as falls within the orbit
of his normal duties, would involve contravention of
F.R.9(9) as such, is not admissible

13. Definitions
 Ministerial servant
 Means a Govt. servant/ WAPDA employee in a sub-ordinate
service whose duties are entirely clerical.

14. Definitions
 Tenure post
 Means a permanent post which an individual may not hold for
more than a limited period.

15. Definitions
 Month means a calendar month
In calculating period expressed in terms of months
and days, complete calendar months irrespective of
the No. of days in each, should first be calculated and
the odd No. of days calculated subsequently.

16. Illustrations
 A period of 3 months and 20 days from 25th January,
3 months should be taken as ending on 24th April,
and the 20 days on 14th May.
 The period from 30th January to 2nd March should be
reckoned as 1 month and 2 days because one month
from 30th January ends on 28th February

17. Fixation of Pay
 On Promotion
 On reversions
 On restoration to original post
 On surplus

18. Fixation of Pay
 If promoted to a post involving higher responsibility, his pay will be
fixed at the stage next above in the higher scale.
 If increase is less than or equal to one increment of higher scale then
one premature increment will be allowed and pay will be fixed at next
stage.
 Present Pay in BPs-15 Pay in BPs -16
16120-1330-56020 18910-1520-64510
13510 Last Pay drawn - 29420
(10th) 29420 Next above Stage - 29550
Pay fixed at - 31070
adding one premature increment

19. Fixation of pay
 If minimum pay of new post is higher than his pay in old
post his/her pay will be fixed at the minimum of the new
post.
Present pay in BPS-9
11770-730-33670
11770
730
730
13230
Minimum pay in BSP-15
16120-1330-56020
Pay fixed at minimum of the
scale - 16120
(diff. in old pay and minimum
of new scale is more than one
increment (16120-13230=2890)

20. Fixation of pay Cont.
 If the benefit (new scale – old pay) is less or equal to
one increment of higher scale then one Premature
increment of higher scale will be allowed.
Pay in BPS-09 - 15420 Minimum of BPS-15 – 16120
Diff. in old pay and minimum
of BPS-15 (16120-15420 = 700)
benefit is less than one
increment 1330
Premature increment is added
1330
Pay fixed at - 17450

21. Fixation of Pay
 If appointed to a post involving equal responsibility.
present pay in BPS-16 pay in BPS-17
18910-1520-64510 30370-2300-76370
37150 Pay fixed – 37270 (next above stage)

22. Fixation of pay
 On reversion from a higher post to a lower post the
pay will be fixed in lower post scale on the stage next
below and difference of pay if any will be termed as
personal pay.
Present pay in BPS-15 Pay in BPS-9
16120-1330-56020 11770-730-33670
16120 Pay fixed Rs. 22720 15th stage
(next below stage)
(1330 x 5) +6650 23450 (16th stage)
22770 PP – Rs. 50
Adjustable with annual increment.

23. Fixation of Pay
 On restoration to the substantive position on expiry of period of penalty
imposed pay is fixed in old scale on presumptive basis.
 Penalty of reduction to lower post from Accounts Assistant to Jr. Clerk
was imposed on 25/08/2015 for two years.
Pay in BPS-15 - Rs.22770 as on 22/08/2015
Stage Next below in BPS-9 - 22720 PP= Rs. 50
Annual increment 01/12/15 - 23450
Annual increment 01/12/16 - 24180
Note: PP will be adjusted on grant of increment
01/12/2015
Had he not been reverted he would have drawn the
pay in BPS-15 as on 22/08/2015 – 22770
Annual increment 01/12/2015 – 24100
Annual increment 01/12/2016 – 25430
Pay fixed on 22/08/2017 at - 25430

24. Joining time

25. Joining time
 Joining time
 Means the time allowed to an employee to join a new post or to
travel to or from a station to which he is posted.
 Occasions of joining time
 To join a new post.
 To travel from a specified station to join a post in a remote
locality, which is not easy of access.
 To travel from a station which is in a remote locality to a
specified station.

26. Joining time
 How much joining time will be allowed
 On transfer from one post to another in the same office no
joining time is allowed
 On transfer from one office to another at the same station one
day joining time is allowed. A holiday counts as a day for this
purpose.
 On transfer from one station to another station maximum 30
days joining time can be allowed (except in exceptional cases
where joining time can exceed 30 days).

27. Joining time
 How much joining time will be allowed
(cont.)
 Normally on transfer from station to another following joining
time will be allowed.
 For preparation Six days, plus
 Time taken in actual journey as under:
1) By rail/Road = One day for each 400Km
2) By personal car/Full taxi = One day for each 128Km
3) By air = No of days actually taken

28. Joining time
 For fractional portion of distance a day is allowed.
 In case of Rail/Road, short journey less than 8 Km
will not count.
 Gazetted holidays does not count in joining time but
it is included in maximum limit (30 days)
 In special circumstances joining time can be
reduced/restricted.
 Joining time will be allowed by the route usually
used (not the actual route used by the employee if it
is different)

29. Joining time
 If the employee is ordered to relinquish charge
(while on tour) at a station other than his
headquarter, his joining time will start from that
station.
 If an employee (under transfer) during transit is
posted to another station, his new joining time will
start on next day from the day he received new
orders but preparation time will not be allowed
twice.

30. Joining time
 If during transit leave is taken, the days elapsed
between relinquishing charge and start of leave will
also count as leave (except in case of medical leave)