Apply for invalidation

Invalid pension

(1)    Invalid pension may be granted if a Government servant retires from the service on account of any bodily or mental infirmity which permanently incapacitates him for the service.

(2)    A Government servant applying for an invalid pension shall submit a medical certificate of incapacity from the following medical authority, namely :-

(a)a Medical Board in the case of a Gazetted Government servant and of a non-gazetted Government servant whose pay, as defined in Rule 9 (21) of the Fundamental Rules, exceeds 3[Two thousand and two hundred rupees] per mensem ;

(b)Civil Surgeon or a District Medical Officer or Medical Officer of equivalent status in other cases.

    NOTE 1. - No medical certificate of incapacity for service may be granted unless the applicant produces a letter to show that the Head of his Office or Department is aware of the intention of the applicant to appear before the medical authority. The medical authority shall also be supplied by the Head of the Office or Department in which the applicant is employed with a statement of what appears from official records to be the age of the applicant. If a service book is being maintained for the applicant, the age recorded therein should be reported.

    NOTE 2. - A lady doctor shall be included as a member of the Medical Board when a woman candidate is to be examined.

(3)    The form of the Medical Certificate to be granted by the medical authority specified in sub-rule (2) shall be as in Form 23.

(4)    Where the medical authority referred to in sub-rule (2) has declared a Government servant fit for further service of less laborious character than that which he had been doing, he should, provided he is willing to be so employed, be employed on lower post and if there be no means of employing him even on a lower post, he may be admitted to invalid pension.

Footnote : 2. Substituted by G.I., M.F., Notification No. F. 19 (3)-E. V (A)/74, dated the 29th January, 1976.
                3. Substituted vide G.I., Dept. of P. & P.W., Notification No. 2/18/87-P. & P.W. (PIC), dated the 20th July, 1988. Published as S.O. No. 2388 in the Gazette of India, dated the 6th August, 1988.

Yes sir. As per this provision, he can apply for invalidation. If he appears before Medical Board, I want to know whether the problems he is having , can be established? 

He has to produce the documentary evidences to establish his medical ailments to the satisfaction of the medical board or the authorities concerned.

The law in this regard has been explained, the further steps are to be taken based on the guidelines provided. 

Ok sir. Thanks for your guidance 

You are welcome.