(1) This scheme is applicable to regular employees of religious institutions. The scheme is not applicable to the part-time employees of religious institutions or specifi c endowments attached thereto. However, if any part-time employee is in regular service in any religious institutions or specifi c endowments attached thereto, then, the scheme will be applicable to him.
(2) The Commissioner shall sanction the lump-sum amount to the nominee, legal heirs of the employees who die in harness. The amount shall be sanctioned even in the case of suicide, murder and unnatural death like accident, poisoning, drowning and burning.
(3) An amount of subscription fi xed by the Government from time to time shall be collected from the salaries of the employees of the religious institution.
(4) Every institution shall calculate the total annual subscriptions of all the employees, draw the amount from the General Funds of Institutions and remit the amount in advance to the Commissioner before the end of July of every year and such annual subscription so paid by the institution on behalf of its employees shall be recovered from the salary of the employees every month as mentioned above.
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(5) The Commissioner shall credit the amount in Savings Bank Account in any nationalised or co-operative bank and the account shall be operated by the Commissioner for this purpose.
(6) In case of death of an employee while in service, the Commissioner shall sanction and pay a sum of rupees as prescribed from time to time by the Government from out of the fund to the family of the deceased employee. If the legal heir is a minor, the amount shall be deposited in a nationalised or co-operative bank in the name of the minor person and the amount with the interest accrued shall be paid as and when the person attains his legal majority.
(7) The Executive Authority of the institution and the administrative authority of the Department are responsible for the collection of the subscriptions due from all the employees and necessary entries shall be made as to the payment of yearly subscription in the service register of the incumbent along with the certifi cate of service verifi cation. Form of nomination shall be obtained from every employee and affi xed to the Service Register of the employee. The claim shall be made by the eligible member of the family of the deceased employee through the Executive Authority of the religious institution and such application shall be sent to the Commissioner through the administrative authority of the department having jurisdiction over the institution. The recommendation of the authority shall contain the following particulars and documents and in the absence of any of the following, no claim shall be entertained:-
(a) Date of birth (as per Service Register)
(b) Date of entry into service.
(c) Order No. and date of authority sanctioning the post.
(d) Date of death with original death certifi cate.
(e) The nomination along with the Service Register.
(f) Particulars regarding the remittance of subscription.
(g) Legal heirship certifi cate in original in the absence of nomination.
(8) The Commissioner may, at his discretion, relax any of the rules relating to the Family Benefi t Fund Scheme in favour of the family of the deceased employee.