The last day of the month rule that decides a government retirement
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 23 Oct 2026.Superannuation date here means the last day of service in Indian government employment, not the Australian super preservation age. Central government service does not end on a birthday: Fundamental Rule 56(a) retires a servant on the afternoon of the last day of the month in which the age is attained.
Rates and rules read from DoPT, Retirement/Extension in service (F.R. 56) on 23 Oct 2026; they may have changed since.
Government (F.R. 56) is already selected as the rule.
Enter your "Date of birth" and set "You retire at", 60 for most central government service.
Read the "Last day of service": the last day of the month you reach that age, or of the month before if you were born on the 1st.
Open "The three rules side by side" to see the days the rule adds or costs against your birthday.
Somebody born on the first of a month goes a whole month earlier, at the end of the preceding one. This page applies both parts of Fundamental Rule 56(a) and shows the days the rule gains or costs.
Most people assume they retire on their birthday, and in central government service almost nobody does.
Fundamental Rule 56(a), as published by the Department of Personnel and Training, says every government servant "shall retire from service on the afternoon of the last day of the month in which he attains the age of sixty years", with a proviso that a servant born on the first of a month retires on the last day of the preceding month. So someone born on 14 August 1975 works until 31 August 2035, seventeen days past their birthday, while someone born on 1 August 1975 stops on 31 July 2035 — a month earlier than they usually expect, and worth knowing before a pension form is filled in.
The retirement age itself is always your own input. Sixty is the central government age under that rule, but the same extract sets 62 for specialists in the Central Health Service and 65 for its teaching sub-cadre and for nursing faculty, several states use 58, and private employers set their own. Nothing here assumes one for you.
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Retiring at 60 under central government rules, the last day of service is 31 August 2035, because Fundamental Rule 56(a) retires a servant on the last day of the month in which the age is attained. A private employer using the birthday rule would make it 14 August 2035 instead.
Fundamental Rule 56(a) says a government servant retires on the afternoon of the last day of the month in which the age of sixty is attained. Ending everyone's service on a month boundary keeps pay, pension and the last month's records on one cycle rather than splitting a month in two.
Service ends a month earlier than most people expect. The proviso to Fundamental Rule 56(a) retires a servant born on the first of a month on the last day of the preceding month, so a birth date of 1 August 1975 gives a retirement date of 31 July 2035, not 31 August.
Retirement ki date kaise nikale needs two things: your date of birth and the age your service retires you at. Enter both above and pick the rule your employer follows — the birthday itself, the end of that month, or the full government rule — and the exact last day of service appears.
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