IDENTIFICATION OF EACH DIGIT OF THE 16 DIGITS IN NEW PPO./e-PPO

After 7th CPC, PCDA has started issuing PPO no with 16 digits- with and without Notional fixation.
First 12 digits will be the PPO number and the other 4 digits as Suffix indicating the Type of pension.

Previously, we had Prefix to the PPO number Like S/C/ 123/1998 and
D/BC/ 123/1998.
The S/C and D/BC was the indication of Type of pension.

Now the Prefix is completely removed and Suffix is brought IN.

Here, Each digit has its own indication.
For example:
Latest PPO No; 1 85 2016 00204- 0100
First Digit – indicate the Service i.e – Army, Navy and Air force.
No. 1 is for Army No. 2 for Navy and No.3 for Air force
No. 4 for civilians and No. 5 for NPS in r/o Civilians.

Now we go and identify the given PPO number-185201600204- 0100
First digit : 1………Indicates, the pensioner is from ARMY
Digits Second and Third.85 indicate the record office of the pensioner –AMC
Digits : 4 to 7(four)……..Indicate the year of sanction of pension…..2016
Digits : (8 to 12) (five)… indicate the running serial number of PPO.00204.

SUFFIX NO. ( FOUR ) Type of pension.
Digit 13 to 14…..Type of pension of the pensioner. Here No.01 is Service pension, then if there is any Corr PPO, the number will be after this ( 15 to 16).

In the given PPO, there is no Corr PPO issued, it is the first PPO hence it is 0100.

Suppose, there was, say 3 Corr PPO issued later,
Then it will be indicated as 0102/ 0103/ 0104 and so on up to 0149.
Corr. PPO for JOINT NOTIFICATION WILL BE – 0150.
Note:

If there is any major changes like 7th CPC or OROP II, then the Suffix will change.

For Example if the Notional Pay/ Pension is implemented as per 7th CPC,
Then the SUFFIX No WILL be as 0199, then further Major revision
like OROP II, it will change as 0198, in dissenting order 0197, 0196 and so on.
In the normal cases, the corr PPO will bear the Suffix numbers like, 0101, 0102, 0103 etc Service pension revised corr. PPO…

But these numbers will vary according the types of pension, Like
Disability, War injury pension, Ordinary Family pension, Special Family pension, Liberalised Family pension, Dependent pension, Reservist Pension and Ex-Gratia payment etc.
For example:
Service pension with Disability – discharge case: 0200
Service pension with war injury – discharge case: 0400
Disability invalided pension:2100
War injury invalided pension: 2300
Ordinary Family pension: 3000
Special Family pension : 3300
Liberalised Family pension :
3700 and so on

There is a Table indicating the Suffix numbers for Different type of pensions,
Record Offices Code/ HOO code for Defence civilians ..

For Commissioned Officers, and Civilian’s / Defence Civilians the Suffix code are listed separately.

Authority: PDA(P) Letter no: EDP/ 120/ E.Audit/ 2017 dated 4-7-2017.