Section 8(7) in The Indian Forest Service (Pay) Rules, 2016
(7)When a member of the Service holds an ex-cadre post in a time scale of pay identical with the time scale of pay of an ex-cadre post held by him on an earlier occasion, his initial pay in the latter ex-cadre post shall not be less than the pay which he drew on the previous occasion and he shall count the period during which he drew that pay on such last and on any previous occasion for increment in the stage of the scale equivalent to that pay and the service so rendered shall, on his reversion to the cadre, count towards initial fixation of pay to the extent and subject to the conditions stipulated in sub-rule (4).
