Fixation of Pay – Verifications Stamps on Service Books – AG dt 20.05.2008
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Fixation of Pay
An observation has been raised as to which of the District Accounts Officer in the Punjab/Accountant General Punjab’s Main office, Lahore, as the case may be, would be competent to verify the pay fixed on the service books by the respective Drawing and Disbursing Officers of the non-gaze-ted civil servants of the Punjab Government/District and City District Governments in the Punjab, on the occasion of transfer of the concerned Non-Gaze-ted civil servant from the audit jurisdiction of one District Accounts Office to another or to the audit jurisdiction of Accountant General, Punjab office or from the audit jurisdiction of Main Accountant General, Punjab Office, Lahore to the audit jurisdiction of some other District Accounts Offices in the Punjab.
2. The matter was considered in this office and it has been decided that only the District Accounts Offices/Accountant General, Main Office, Lahore, as the case may be, under whose audit jurisdiction, the Non-Gaze-ted Civil Servant was serving, at the time when the occasion of verification of pay on service books took place would be competent to verify the pay and affix “Pay verification stamps” on the service books of such civil servants in the prescribed manner.
The drawing and Disbursing Officers would be required to submit the service books, for this purpose, to the concerned District Accounts Office/Accountant General Main office, Lahore, as the case may be, and not to the District Accounts Office/Accountant General, Main Office, under whose audit jurisdiction the concerned Non-Gaze-ted Civil Servant are presently serving or may be serving.
The DAOs/Pay Fixation Section in the Main office shall maintain diaries for such categories of Service Books and shall record the reason of such verification and would indicate the No. & date of Memo of the D.D.O. (Department) sending the service books for verification of pay at a belated stage. Diary report shall be prepared weekly and be submitted to Assistant Accountant General/Accounts Officer/District Accounts Officer, for approval.
3. Necessary compliance should be ensured.
(This issues with the approval of Accountant General, Punjab)
