Requirement of No Demand Certificate From Retiring Government for Pension Purpose 14.12.2006
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: No Demand Certificate
I am directed to invite your kind attention to the instructions as contained in department letter No. even, dated 19th November, 2001, which inter alia provide guide-lines to the departments that the government losses pointed out in the audit pas should be finalized well before the retirement of the employee concerned and where any audit para was pending against a retiring government servant, the pension for such employee should not be withheld; instead an undertaking on the stamp paper may obtained from the retiring government servant that in case the recovery was established at any stage against him then he would be liable to pay the amount of recovery.
2. The Provincial Ombudsman, Punjab, in his Annual Report, 2005, has observed that in a large number of cases, gratuity/pension was withheld where some audit paras were pending against a retiring government servant, in disregard of the instructions as mentioned above. Resultantly, a number of retiring government servants or their families could not get their pensionary benefits, in time.
3. I am, therefore, directed to request you to ensure that gratuity/pension may not be withheld merely on the ground that some audit para was pending against a retiring government servant. I am, to reiterate further that in case any audit para is pending against a miring civil servant, the pension/gratuity for such employee may not be withheld, instead an undertaking on stamp paper may be obtained from the civil servant that in case the recovery is established at any stage against him, he will be liable to pay the amount of recovery.
4. Needless to mention, government losses as pointed out in the audit paras/audit observations should be finalized in time, well before the retirement of the civil servant concerned.
