LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS (REVISION OF CERTAIN TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) RULES, 2009
(1) These rules may be called the Life Insurance Corporation of India Development Officers (Revision of Certain Terms and Conditions of Service) Rules, 2009.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires;
(a) "Act" means the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 (31 of 1956);
(b) "annual remuneration" means the basic pay, special pay, personal pay, dearness allowance, and all other allowances and non-profit sharing or ex-gratia bonus due to, or paid to, a Development Officer during the appraisal year and includes the expenses payable or reimbursed to him or incurred by the Corporation during that year in respect of traveling, residential telephone, mobile, insurance premium and taxes on motor vehicles, but does not include incentive bonus paid to him in accordance with rule 13;
(c) "appraisal date" means -
(I) in relation to a Development Officer appointed on or after the date of publication of t
Subject to the provisions of these rules, a Development Officer shall hold office by the same tenure and in the same manner as any other class of employee in the Corporation:
Provided that he shall conform to the expense limit applicable to him:
Provided further that the services of a confirmed Development Officer shall not be terminated on the ground of poor business production resulting in cost ratio in excess of the expense limit applicable to him, unless he has been given an opportunity to conform to the expense limit as provided in rule 6.
(1) The expense limit applicable to a Development Officer shall be as specified in the Table of Expense Limit as provided in clause (j) of rule 2 and it shall be the expense limit applicable to his operational area as increased by two percent, if, at or before such commencement of the relevant appraisal year, he has completed the age of 55 years;
Provided that the increased expense limit specified in the sub-rule (1) shall apply to relevant appraisal date commencing after the date of publication of these rules in the Official Gazette in respect of operational areas 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D'
(2) In respect of a Development Officer who has been confirmed on a date prior to the date of publication of these rules in the Official Gazette and who has put in more than ten years of service as a Development Officer at the commencement of the relevant
(1) Increments shall ordinarily be drawn by a Development Officer as a matter of course in accordance with rule 56 of the staff rules, unless he has reached the maximum of the grade or the increment cannot be allowed in accordance with rule 6 or it is withheld as a disciplinary measure under rule 39 of the staff rules.
(2) Where no increment is granted to a Development Officer in any year in accordance with rule 6 as a disincentive, such increment shall not be granted to him in any subsequent year, except in accordance with the provisions contained in rule 8.
(1) Where the annual remuneration of any Development Officer in the preceding year or years is in excess of the expense limit, his services shall not be terminated merely on that ground if his case is capable of being dealt with by awarding disincentives, subject to the provisions of rule 8, from the relevant appraisal date as provided in the Table of Disincentives, so as to afford him an opportunity to conform to the expense limit:
Provided that for the purpose of award of disincentives in accordance with the Table of Disincentives, his performance shall be appraised with reference to the annual remuneration and the prescribed expense limit applicable to him.
Table of Disincentives
Sl. No. Where the cost ratio is in excess of prescribed limit. Disincentives where the cost ratio is in excess o
(1) Where a Development Officer has failed to conform to the expense limit and where no opportunity to conform to such limit could be given under the provisions of rule 6, the Zonal Manager may terminate his services after giving him three months notice or salary in lieu thereof:
Provided that the Development Officer shall be given an opportunity to show cause against such proposed termination of his service.
(2) An appeal against an order passed under sub-rule (1) shall lie to the Managing Director and the provisions of rules 41, 42, 43, 44 and 45 of the staff rules shall, so far as may be, apply to any such appeal.
(3) In the case of an appeal under sub-rule (2), the Managing Director shall consider the records of the case and pass orders on merits having regard to the circumstances of the c
(1) The disincentives, other than "no increment", shall not be awarded from the relevant appraisal date (hereinafter referred to as "the relevant due date"), but shall be kept in abeyance until after the expiry of the succeeding year, if, in any preceding year a Development Officer, who has completed at least ten years of service, has exceeded the prescribed expense limit attracting disincentives in accordance with the Table of Disincentives.
Provided that he has not exceeded the prescribed expense limit for a continuous period of not less than ten years immediately preceding such relevant appraisal year.
1[(2)] Where the Development Officer conforms to the prescribed expense limit in the succeeding year, referred to in sub-rule (1), no action shall be taken to award the disincentives which have been kept in abeyance, and if the incremen
(1) The reduction effected in the basic pay of a Development Officer as a result of appraisal on the relevant appraisal date falling on or after the 1st day of April, 1988 (hereinafter referred to as "current decrements") may be reinstated in accordance with the provisions of this rule or rule 10.
(2) Where a Development Officer qualifies for reinstatement in accordance with this rule, the reduction in basic pay which was first effected on or after the 1st day of April, 1988 shall first be reinstated; the reduction in basic pay which was effected thereafter shall be reinstated next and so on:
Provided that if a Development Officer fails to qualify for reinstatement within five appraisal years following the appraisal date from which his basic pay was reduced, there shall be no reinstatement of that reduction, and in that case the next red
Subject to the provisions of sub-rules (2) and (4) of rule 9, if a Development Officer does not exceed the expense limit in three successive appraisal years, the current decrement's pertaining to one year may be reinstated with effect from the relevant appraisal date next following the last such appraisal year.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in rule 8 of the Life Insurance Corporation of India Development Officers (Revision of Terms and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1986, where the current decrements are reinstated to a Development Officer from the relevant appraisal date in accordance with the provisions contained in rule 9 or 10, the Corporation shall contribute to the Provident Fund established by it (hereinafter referred to as the "Fund") a maximum amount of 10 per cent of the aggregate of the basic pay comprised in such decrements in relation to the period for which those decrements have been reinstated:
Provided that if during the period or part of the period in which the said decrements were in force, the rate at which the employer's contribution was higher than 10 per cent, the Corporation may contribute at such higher rate on that part of the basic pay pertaining to the r
The Managing Director may, on the recommendation of the Zonal Manager, review any case of a Development Officer after the date of reduction in basic pay in pursuance of the Table of Disincentives if he does not qualify for reinstatement under rule 9 or rule 10 and grant such relief, having regard to the merits of the case, but not exceeding the relief that would have been admissible to him had he qualified himself under any of the said rules for reinstatement.
The Incentive Bonus may be allowed to a Development Officer for any preceding year under any Scheme approved by the Corporation from time to time.
Every Development Officer shall be entitled to such conveyance allowance as may be granted by the Corporation from time to time.]
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2. Inserted by the Life Insurance Corporation of India Development Officers (Revision of Certain Terms and Conditions of Service) Amendment Rules, 2010 vide Notification No. GSR813(E) dated 05.10.2010 w.e.f. 12.11.2009.
Any Development Officer considered suitable may be promoted as Assistant Branch Manager or Assistant Administrative Officer, in accordance with rule 7 of the staff rules.
If a Development Officer, whose services are terminated in pursuance of rule 7 has completed at least seven years of service in Class II on the date of such termination and has not completed 55 years of age, he shall be eligible for reappointment in the service of the Corporation to do administrative work in Class III either as Assistant or Record Clerk in accordance with such qualification and suitability as may be specified under the Life Insurance Corporation of India (Reappointment of Terminated Development Officers) Rules, 1990:
Provided that notwithstanding the break in service as a consequence of termination, his service in the Corporation shall be deemed to be continuous for the purpose of leave; and also for the purpose of gratuity or provident fund if he has not received or if he has received but repays to the Corporation such amount of gratuity or provident fund as he ha
(1) The Life Insurance Corporation of India Development Officers (Revision of Certain Terms and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1989 are hereby repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, the appraisal year which has commenced prior to the date of publication of these rules, the provisions of the Life insurance Corporation of India Development Officers (Revision of Certain Terms and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1989 shall apply for that appraisal year as if the said rules had not been repealed.
(3) Notwithstanding such repeal, any rules made, any thing done or any action taken under the Life Insurance Corporation of India Development Officers (Revision of Certain Terms and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1989 shall be deemed to have been made, done or taken under these rules.
(4) Nothing contained in these rules shall be deemed to affect
The Chairman may from time to time, issue such instructions as may be necessary to give effect to and carry out the provisions of the Rules. Where any doubt or difficulty arises as to the interpretation of these rules, it shall be referred to the Central Government for its decision.
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