‘16/23-III Miscellaneous – Payments of Military Pension from the Bahrain Treasury and other Correspondence regarding’ [328r] (655/736)
The record is made up of 1 file (366 folios). It was created in 13 Aug 1938-19 Mar 1945. It was written in English, Persian, Hindi, Punjabi and Tamil. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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PoC. NO. 416 (Part I) Dated the / 6 “ 8-1944.
-?- MiP0RAHY INCREASE IN SleALL PEI-SIGNS.
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£s 3/-/-p .m.
„ 4 .E em S (> 55' r ^ i ncr °ase in sna.ul pensions of civilian pensioners
1 rom A tJle Defence Services Estimates (including pensioners of the ,
kilrtary Accounts Department) has been sanctioned at the following sci/ae
w.e.,f. the 1st Novembdr^ 1943 and will bo in operation, for one year;-.
S UPERIOR PEI-;SIGNS . ' \ ^
Pensions not exceeding Rs 20/-/- p.m
Pensions eccepding Rs 2V* p .m. but not
exceed ' 0 Rs. 40/-/- p.t Rs 4/-/- p.m.
INF ERIOR PENSIONS.
Uniform^increase ofRs 3/-/- p.m.. subject to pension (including
emporary increase;not exceeding Rs 20/-/-p,m. Pension for this purpose
shall include the commuted portion also, if any. Persons in receipi of
^superior pensions higher than Rs 40/-/- but not higher than Rs 44/-/-^.m.
snail receive such an. amount asr would bring the total pension to Rs 44/-/-
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ADlhQPJl'Y. s - Aol.(l) No. 41 of 1944, F.D. Notification No .F-2(36)-4/43
dated the 25-11-43 copy received with F.A.Ii.F. No. 25-E
dated the 13-1-1944 and F.D.letter No. F-2/(36) -W/43 dated
the 15-7-1944.
2 ’ ... . The alD0 ^ G temporary increase will be paid subject to the undernoted
conditions and restrictions:-
(a.) The increase is payabl ; in addition to the temporary
or permanent increase which the pensioners ere already in receipt of.
“■A C -*-u rGsent • lncr ? asG sl ? Gu1 ^ te reckonr3d on the basis of the total amount
0 . the pensions including increases sanctioned in the past.
^t)_ The increase is aj nlicable to wound or injury pensions
and family pensions sanctioned under Chapter XXXVIII C.S.R. or A.I.(I) No
^58 of^1940, provided that where such a pension is drawn in addition to
a service or any other pension, the total amount of the pension is below
the limit on weich the increase is admissible. Where children are also
in receipt of pension as as operate item und£u?<£Yl. (I) No.258 of 1940, the
. 5 y-l fO assessed on'the combined amount of family pension.t^^i*s%
i.e. TS'iPORARY INCASE will not admissible a^a sepaLto iter to
children. 5 t cO*-ov^.vwc. a, ^4.. P h . j
a & _ 4 .^ a P g11s ^-ool is divisible between the Central(Civil)
ana p.S. Estimates, ^the .increase, if-admissible on the total value of the
pension should bo divided proportionately between those several estimates.
„ ,. , (^0 If a pension is divisible between the Defence Service
Estimates and a Provincial Government, the present increase will bo cal-
cuiated on the basis of the total amount of the pension (received from
line D.b. Estimates and the Provixxxnx-ncial Government), and the-amount of
™v! U lncrGas( /should be'divided in the proper proportion between thorn.
Where a Provincial Government has not sanctioned any increase, only the
Defence portion of the pension will be inciv. sod provided the total
pension* is below the limit for which increase is" admissible.
(o) _ Whore a person is in receipt of both civil and military
pensions, his eligibility for the temporary increase should’ bo determined
ia v 0tal P? n f iGn hG d^ws and propc ■tionate share of the increase
should be debited to-the Civil Department.
thu cases of clauses (c) (d) & (e) above, any share
of less than one rupee should be' did-regarded and debits of less than
a rupee need net be raised.
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The increase will not bo paid cases falling under the
categories until further notification:-
Special pensions sancthjaou under Art. 924(b) NOW Art .921(a)
C.S.R. (ii) Comp’a^lonate allowance sancticnod under Art.
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P.T.O.
3.
undernoted
(i)
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C.S.R.
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Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments made from the Bahrain Treasury. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain; the Controller (or Deputy Controller) of Military Pension Accounts [CMPA] in the Lahore Cantonment. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘Miscellaneous:– Payments of Military Pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and their Correspondence regarding’ (IOR/R/15/2/1519).
Papers in the file include:
- copies of monthly statements (submitted by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ) of the names of pensioners transferred from the Bahrain Treasury to other Pension Disbursing Offices, and lists of pensions brought on the Check register of the Bahrain Treasury, for months covering period August 1938 to May 1944. Most statements and lists are marked ‘nil’;
- monthly statements of casualties amongst members of OBI, IOM, VC and MC (Order of British India, Indian Order of Merit, Victoria Cross, Military Cross) on the Pension Establishment in the payment of the Bahrain Treasury. Statements are marked ‘nil’;
- circular memoranda from the CMPA and other Government administrations, concerning various aspects of pension payments, such as procedure, policy, overpayments, fraud, pay increases, cases of Indian military pensioners convicted in criminal courts;
- correspondence relating to checks on the identity of individuals claiming pensions, including depositions made by pensioners and supporting statements (recorded at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ) and certificates of verification, issued by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. ;
- papers relating to the transfer of pension payments.
The file also includes: fragments of a pension certificate (ff 131-134) and two complete pension certificates, dated 1933 (ff 283-285) and 1925 (ff 304-305) respectively, the former with an accompanying pension warrant and record of payments (f 286). The pension certificates include terms and conditions printed in English, as well as in a number of other languages used on the Indian subcontinent, including Punjabi, Hindi and Tamil.
An invoice is included in the file, dated 19 May 1932 (f 339), which has no obvious relation to surrounding correspondence, and was presumably included in the file in error.
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- 1 file (366 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 347-367) mirror the chronological arrangement.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 368; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-346; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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