Hardship faced by the widowed/unmarried daughters in getting Family Pension.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA)

(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. F(E)III/2007/PN1/5

New Delhi, dated 30.08.2011.

The General Secretary,
AIRF,
4 State Entry Road,
New Delhi-110055.

Dear Sir,

Sub: Hardship faced by the widowed/unmarried daughters in getting Family Pension.

   I am directed to refer to your letter No.AIRF/44(159) dated 09.06.2011 on the above subject and to inform that the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare (DOP&PW), the nodal department of the Government on pensionary matters, have not prescribed any documents for preferring claim for family pension by the unmarried/widowed/divorced daughters of the Railway Servant/Pensioner

. Extant instructions provide that the divorce, in respect of a divorced daughter, should be valid in Law and in the case of the unmarried daughters, a certificate of income is required to be furnished once in a year. As such, you are requested to furnish the details of type of certificates being sought from the Tehsildars by Pension Sanctioning Authorities alongwith the names of the Zonal Railways/Divisions/Production Units which are insisting on production of such certificates, so that the matter could be examined in the right perspective, and if necessary, in consultation with DOP&PW.

Yours faithfully,

sd/-

for Secretary/Railway Board.

Courtesy: airf