DDO for School Teachers

Abnormal.:eek:
West Bengal Recognized Non-Government Educational Institution Employees’ (Management of General Provident Fund Accounts) Scheme, 1995 is applicable to all approved employees of recognized non-govt. educational institutions.
As per the said Scheme,
The subscriber shall apply in Form – I, to the Head of the Institution (DDO in case of State Govt. Employee), at least 3 months before completion of 1 (one) year of continuous service.
The subscriber must fill up Nomination Form in Form No. II.
Head of the Institution shall maintain an Index Register in Form – III.
Head of the Institution shall also acknowledge the receipt of nomination in Form – IV.
Head of the Institution shall prepare a schedule of recovery (deduction from salary) in duplicate in each month for the purpose of deduction in Form V.
Monthly minimum subscription is 6% of pay.

Thank you sir for your informative reply. It would be an immense help if you kindly upload/provide a link to the 1995 GPF rules for Aided Educational Institute. Your starting word i.e. ‘Abnormal’ makes me even more worried . Please let me know whether Asstt. Teachers are allotted any personal GPF account number. If so, who is the allotting authority for such numbers and how one is to know the annual balance including the accrued interest in each year?
With sincere thanks,
kaushik

Hi kaushik,
I am sorry being late to reply. :p
I don’t have softcopy of the said Scheme. I have hard copy. (more than 20 pages). So it will be difficult for me to type all those pages. Rather, I shall post a brief summary for you soon. The Head of the Institution is responsible for opening GPF Account. He should be much more worried than you. He should take necessary action for quick disposal of the issue.

A N N E X U R E
THE SCHEME
1. This Scheme may be called West Bengal Recognised Non-Government Educational Institution Employees’ (Management of General Provident Fund Accounts) Scheme, 1995.
2. It shall come into force with effect from thy 1st day of November, 1995.
3. Extent of applicability – This scheme shall be applicable to all employees covered by the provisions of the West Bengal recognized Non-Government Educational Institution Employees (Death-Cum-Retirement Benefit) Scheme, 1981 (as contained in this Departments Memo No. 136-Edn. dated 15.5.85) as may be amended from time to time as indicated in Statement-I referred to in paragraph 3 of the West Bengal Recognised Non-Government Educational Institutions Employees (Death-Cum-Retirement Benefit) Scheme, 1981 and who have opted for pension (including family pension)-cum-gratuity in terms of para 4 of the said scheme of 1981.
4. Definitions: In this Scheme unless there is anything repugnant to the subject or context –
(a) ‘Approved/ Affiliated Institution’ shall mean those educational which are recognised by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education/West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education/ West Bengal Board of Madrasah Education/ West Bengal Board of Primary School Education/District Primary School Council or any such authority specifically authorized by the State Government in this respect.
(b) ‘Approved teaching/ Non-teaching Employees’ shall mean a whole time teaching/ Non-teaching employee attached to the institutions included in the Statement – I referred to in paragraph 3 of the Memo No. 136-Edn dated 15.5.85 duly recruited by a competent appointing authority in accordance with approved recruitment rules/ norms framed by a competent authority and such appointment approved by competent authority, wherever necessary.
(c) ‘Pay’ in this scheme shall mean basic pay and includes personal pay, special pay and dearness pay, if any.
(d) ‘State Government’ shall mean Government of West Bengal in the Education Departments and in charge of matters of School Education, Higher Education, Mass Education Extension and Technical Education & Training and where necessary, in consultation the Finance Department.
(e) ‘Subscriber’ shall mean an employee who subscribes to the General Provident Fund.
(f) Family means –
(i) in the case of a male subscriber, the wife or wives and children of a subscriber and the widow or widows and children of deceased son of the subscriber, provided that, if a subscriber proves that his wife been judicially separated from him or has ceased under the customary law of the community to which she belongs to be no entitled to maintenance, she shall thenceforth be deemed to be no longer a number of the subscriber’s family in matters to which these rules relate, unless the subscriber subsequently indicates by express notification in writing to the Head of the Institution that she shall continue to be so regarded;
(ii) in case of a female subscriber, the husband and children of a subscriber, and the widow or widows and children of deceased son of the subscriber:
Provided that if a subscriber by notification in writing to the Head of the Institutions expresses her desire to exclude her husband from her family, the husband shall thenceforth be deemed to be no longer a member of the subscriber’s family in matters to which these rules relate, unless the subscriber subsequently cancels formally in writing her notification excluding him.
Note-1. ‘Children’ means legitimate Children.
Note-2. An adopted child shall be considered to be child when the Head of the Institution, or if any doubt arises in the mind of the Head of the Institution, the Government is satisfied that under the personal low of the subscriber adoption is legally recognized as conferring the status of a natural child, but in this case only.
(g) ‘Fund’ shall mean General Provident Fund.
(h) ‘Year’ shall mean the financial year followed by the State Government, with ‘paid months’ meaning the months from March to February next year and ‘credited months’ meaning the months from April to March next year.
(i) ‘Subscription’ shall mean the amount subscribed by an employee at a fixed rate for each month of a year.
(j) ‘Advance’ shall mean amount as may be withdrawn by a subscriber on specific by a competent authority.
(k) ‘Refund of Advance’ shall mean amount repaid on a fixed monthly rate for the purpose of a repayment of the amount withdrawn temporarily.
(l) The ‘Act’, for the purpose of this Scheme and schedule there under shall mean West Bengal Non-Government Educational Institutions and Local Authority (Control of Provident Fund of Employees) Act, 1983 as may be amended from time to time.
(m) The ‘Rules’ referred to in this scheme and schedule thereunder shall mean West Bengal Non-Government Educational Institution and Local Authorities (Control of Provident Fund of Employees) Rules, 1984 as may be amended from time to time.
(n) The ‘authorised officer’, for the purpose of appreciation and interpretation of the Scheme and schedule thereunder shall mean the officer in whose name Provident Fund Deposit Account is to be opened in the Treasury for making transactions of General Provident Fund of Employees of the Non-Government Educational Institution in accordance with act and rules thereunder.
(o) ‘Natural heir’ means all members of the family.
5. All approved employees of the Recognised Non-Government Educational Institution shall be required to subscribe to the General Provident Fund on completion of one year’s continuous service.
N.B. Employees recruited against deputation/ leave/ short-term vacancies shall not be eligible to subscribe to the General Provident Fund.
6. A subscriber on being eligible to subscribe to the General Provident Fund shall have to submit application in prescribed form for allowing him to subscribe to the General Provident Fund. In case an eligible employee fails to submit required application form within one month from the date of attaining eligibility the Head of the institution shall suo-motu fill up the form and commence deduction of subscription from the salary of the eligible employee at the minimum rate prescribed in para 10 of this Scheme.
NOTE: Sometimes communication of approval is issued with retrospective effect from an earlier date. The employee concerned shall have to subscribe to the fund with commensurate retrospective effect. Head of the institution shall realise the subscription out of arrear claim.
7. All subscriber shall have to submit nominations in prescribed form conferring right to receive the amount that may stand to his credit in the fund in the event of his death before that amount has become payable or having become payable has not been paid.
Provided a subscriber shall not make any nomination in favour of a person who is not member of his family. A subscriber having no family may, however, nominate any person provided further that the nomination shall become invalid on subsequently acquiring a family.
8. A subscriber shall be allotted an account number by the Head of the Institution immediately after the starts subscribing to the General Provident Fund.
9. Account in respect of each account number of each individual subscriber shall be maintained by the respective Head of the Institution in the manner prescribed in the schedule annexed to this Scheme.

14. Final withdrawal: – The amount standing at the credit of a subscriber shall become payable on the following eventualities:
(a) When a subscriber ceases to be in employment on superannuation.
(b) When a subscriber resigns from service, and after such resignation is accepted, provided that if the subscriber joins an employment having General Provident Fund Scheme regulated by the provision of Acts or regulations of Govt. of India or State Govt. or any statutory authority under the Central and State Govt. or authority constituted by Central or State Government, the balance standing at his credit may be transferred to the account of the subscriber to be opened at his new place of appointment, if the new employee agrees to such transfer.
(c) A subscriber may be allowed to withdraw 90% of the balance standing at his credit on the closing date of the previous year (less amount already withdrawn, if any) at any time prior to one year from the date of retirement.
(d) In the event of the death of the subscriber before the amount standing at his credit becomes payable normally.
(e) In the event of dismissal of the subscriber from service provided that if the subscriber is re-instated after the dismissal the amount shall have to be refunded by the subscriber to his Account/ newly-opened account.
15. On the death of a subscriber before the amount standing to his credit has become payable, or where the amount has become payable, before payment has been made –
(i) When the subscriber leaves a family –
(a) if a nomination made by the subscriber in accordance with the provisions of para 7 of or of the corresponding para heretofore in force in favour of a member or members of his family subsists, the amount standing to his credit in the Fund or the part thereof to which the nomination relates shall become payable to his nominee or nominees in the proportion specified in the nomination;
(b) if no such nomination in favour of a member or members of the family of the subscribe subsists or if such nomination relates only to a part of the amount standing to his credit in the Fund, the whole amount or the part thereof to which the nomination does not relate, as the case may be, shall, notwithstanding any nomination purporting to be in favour of any person or persons other than a member or members of his family, becomes payable to the members of his family in equal shares:
Provided that no share shall be payable to –
(1) sons who have attained legal majority;
(2) sons of a deceased son who have attained legal majority;
(3) married daughters whose husbands are alive;
(4) married daughters of a deceased son whose husbands are alive;
If there is any member of the family other than those specified in clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4):
Provided further that the widow or widows and the child or children of a deceased son shall receive between them in equal parts only the share which that son would have received if he had survived the subscriber and had been exempted from the provisions of clause (1) of the first proviso.
(ii) When the subscriber leaves no family, if a nomination made by him in accordance with the provisions of para 7 or of the corresponding para heretofore in force in favour of any person or persons subsists, the amount standing to his credit in the Fund or the part thereof to which the nomination relates, shall become payable to his nominee or nominees in the proportion specified in the nomination.
16. Detailed procedures to be followed from the very beginning of the allotment of account number and till the balance standing at the credit of the subscriber have been finally paid have been specified in the schedule annexed hereto.
17. When the amount standing to the credit of the subscriber in the Fund becomes payable, it shall be the duty of the Authority to make payment as provided in the paras 14 and 15.
18. The employees or Members of an organization who have obtained interim orders from the Hon’ble Court, Calcutta relating to the application of the Act and rules thereunder shall not be covered with the provisions of the scheme and scheduled thereunder provided that each employee shall have to submit documentary evidence to the effect that he is covered by the order of the Hon’ble Court, and provided further that any such employee may apply to come under the Scheme with the leave of the Hon’ble Court.
19. The State Government may from time to time, issue such instructions as considered necessary, for proper implementation of the scheme or for any other matter in connection with the scheme.
20. If any question arises relating to the interpretation of any provision of this scheme, it shall be referred to the State Government, whose decision shall be final.