The IFS (PAY) Rules, 2007 - Ministry of Personnel, Public ...

(a) both the junior and the senior member of the Service shall belong to the samecadre and the post in which they have been promoted shall be identical in thesame cadre;(b) the pre-revised and revised scale of pay of the lower and higher posts in whichthey are entitled to draw pay shall be identical;(c) the senior member of the Service at the time of promotion has been drawingequal or more pay than the junior; and(d) the anomaly shall be directly as a result of the application of the provisions ofthis clause. If even in the lower post, the junior officer was drawing more pay inthe pre-revised scale than the senior by virtue of any advance incrementgranted to him, provisions of this clause need not be invoked to step up thepay of the senior member of the Service.Note 7 : The order relating to re-fixation of the pay of the senior member of the Servicein accordance with the above provisions shall be issued under the relevant rules and thesenior member of the Service shall be entitled to the next increment on completion of hisrequired qualifying service with effect from the date of re-fixation of pay.Note 8: Subject to the provisions of sub-rule (1) of rule 3, if the pay as fixed in theofficiating post under this rule is lower than the pay fixed in the substantive post, theformer shall be fixed at the stage next above the substantive pay.Note 9: In the case of a member of the Service who is in receipt of personal pay forpassing Hindi Pragya and such other examinations under the Hindi Teaching Schemeprior to the lst day of January, 1996, while the personal pay shall not be taken intoaccount for the purpose of fixation of initial pay in the revised scale, he shall continue todraw personal pay after fixation of his pay in the revised scale on and from the lst day ofJanuary, 1996 or subsequently for the period for which he would have drawn it but for thefixation of his pay in the revised scale and the quantum of such personal pay shall bepaid at the appropriate rate of increment in the revised scale from the date of fixation ofpay for the period for which the member of the Service would have continued to draw it.Explanation. - For the purposes of this rule, "appropriate rate of increment in the revisedscale" means the amount of increment admissible at and immediately beyond the stageat which the pay of the member of the Service is fixed in the revised scale.(C) Where a member of the Service continues to draw his pay in the existing scale andopts for revised scale from a date later than the lst day of January, 1996, his pay fromthe later date in the revised scale shall be fixed under these rules and for this purposehis pay in the existing scale shall be the same as of existing emoluments as calculated inaccordance with clause (A) or clause (B), as the case may be, subject to the conditionsthat the basic pay to be taken into account for calculation of those emoluments shall bethe basic pay on the later date and where the member of the Service is in receipt ofspecial allowance, his pay shall be fixed after deducting from those emoluments anamount equal to the special allowance at the revised rates appropriate to theemoluments so calculated.7