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A webinar was conducted to create awareness on the newly notified Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules and generation of Digital Life Certificates using Face Authentication Technology.

The CCS (Pension) Rules 2021:

• The government has amended the pension rules for Central Civil Services 1972. This was carried out by the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare.
• The CCS (Pension) rules apply to the civil servants who have been appointed before 1/1/2004.
• The civil servants appointed on or after 1/1/2004 are covered under the National Pension Scheme.
• These rules provided new restrictions for the officials of intelligence and security organisations.
• Rule 8(3) (a): Officials who retired from certain intelligence and security establishments will not be allowed to write anything about their organisation without permission. These organisations refer to those that are included in the second schedule of the RTI Act of 2005.
• It covers 26 organisations such as the Intelligence Bureau, R&AW, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation), NCB (Narcotics Control Bureau), BSF (Border Security Force), CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force), ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) and CISF (Central Industrial Security Force).
• Rule 9: Restricts a government servant from making any statements of fact or opinion in writing or in a telecast that hold criticism against the existing policies of the government. Any misconduct might result in departmental proceedings against the official only until four years of the date of committing that misconduct.
• There is no rule to stop the government servants from joining politics after their retirement.