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(1) An employee or his family (in the event of death of an employee) shall be entitled to the grant of gratuity on the pattern of Haryana Govt. rules regarding Death-cum-Retirement Gratuity as per (Appendix-A):- Appendix-‘A’ 6.16-A (1) An officer who has become eligible for pension or gratuity under the rules applicable to him and has completed five years qualifying service, may, on his retirement from service, be granted an additional gratuity not exceeding the amount specified in sub-rule (3). (2)(a) If an officer, who has completed five years’ qualifying service, dies while in service, a gratuity, not exceeding the amount specified in sub-rule(3) may be paid to the person or persons on whom the right to receive the gratuity is conferred under rule 6.16-B or if there is no such person, it shall be paid in equal shares to those surviving members of a government servant’s family as detailed in rule 6.16-B who belongs to categories (i) to (iv) mentioned therein except widowed daughters. Where there are no such surviving members, but there is/are surviving widowed daughters and/or one or more members of the family of the government servant who belongs to categories (v) to (ix) mentioned in rule 6.16-B, the gratuity may be paid to all such persons in equal shares. In cases where the KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY KURUKSHETRA 60 qualifying service is less than the prescribed minimum (viz., 5 years) the deficiency should not be condoned. (b) The family of a pensionable employee who dies before completing five years qualifying service shall also be eligible for the gratuity equal to six months’ emoluments of a Government employee at the time of his death except in cases in which death occurs in the first year of service where the gratuity admissible shall be equal to two months emoluments. (3) In the case of government employee retiring in accordance with the provisions of these rules, the amount of gratuity shall be one fourth of the emoluments of the Government employee for each completed six monthly period of qualifying service subject to maximum to 16½ times the emoluments in the case of Class-I, II & III and 17½ times the emoluments in the case of Class–IV employees. In the event of the death of a Government employee while in service, the gratuity shall be subject to a minimum of 12 times the “emoluments” of a Government employee at the time of his death, provided that in no case shall it exceed Rs.36,000/-. Limit of DCRG raised to Rs.1,00,000/- w.e.f. 1-1-1986. (4) If an officer who has become eligible for pension or gratuity under the rules applicable to him, dies after he has retired from service, and the sum actually received by him at the time of death on account of such gratuity or pension together with the gratuity granted under sub-rule (1) and the commuted value of any portion of pension commuted by him are less than the amount equal to 12 times his “emoluments” a gratuity equal to the deficiency may be granted to the person or persons specified in sub-rule (2). Note:- 1. The residuary Gratuity mentioned in sub-rule (4) is admissible only if the death of the Government servant takes place within five years, from the death of his retirement.