The Gov­ern­ment is propos­ing changes to pen­sion rules that would al­low po­lice, prison and fire of­fi­cers who spent ex­tend­ed pe­ri­ods act­ing in high­er po­si­tions to re­tire with ben­e­fits based on their act­ing salaries rather than their sub­stan­tive ap­point­ments.

The mea­sure is con­tained in the Fi­nance Bill, 2026, which was laid in Par­lia­ment by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo.

Un­der the pro­posed amend­ments, of­fi­cers who act­ed in a high­er of­fice for at least one con­tin­u­ous year, but less than three con­tin­u­ous years, im­me­di­ate­ly be­fore re­tire­ment would be­come el­i­gi­ble to have their pen­sion, gra­tu­ity and oth­er re­tire­ment al­lowances cal­cu­lat­ed as though they had been sub­stan­tive­ly ap­point­ed to that high­er post.