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Bank Staff - Payment of Bonus @ 8.33% for F.Y. 2016-17 for employees - wage ceiling Rs.21,000/- p.m.

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Bank Staff - Payment of Bonus @ 8.33% for F.Y. 2016-17 for employees - wage ceiling Rs.21,000/- p.m. 

Andhra Bank
(A Govt. of India Undertaking) 
Head Office 
HYDERABAD 
Department: HUMAN RESOURCES 
Circular No.168
Ref No.03/31 
Date: 18.8.2017 

Reg: Staff – Payment of Bonus – As per Bonus (Amendment), Act 2015. For the Year 2016-17. 

Payment of Bonus Act was amended recently. As per the amended provisions the ceiling on salary and wage has been increased from Rs.10000/- to Rs.21000/- per month. As such, employees whose salary/wage does not exceed Rs.21000/- per month are now eligible for bonus. 

It has been decided to pay Bonus at the rate of 8.33% of salary to all the eligible employees for the period 01.04.2016 to 31.03.2017. 
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Salary for this purpose includes 1) Basic pay (including FPP & PQP) 2) Special Pay 3) Dearness Allowance 4) Special Allowance with DA only. 

All the branches / offices may note to disburse the Bonus to all the eligible employees as per the procedure given here under:
  • Tentative list of eligible employees together with Bonus Calculation as per the data extracted from HRMS shall be provided to all Zones.
  • Zonal Offices should get the data verified and confirm the correctness of eligibility and amount ofBonus paid and payable.
  • For any modifications required to be undertaken in the list, Zonal Office should submit the details to HO with suitable justification
  • On receipt of the “ Branch-wise difference and addition of Bonus payable details – as per the format given in Annexure-IV ” from the Zonal offices, the Bonus Amount will be credited to the “Cheque Proceeds Account” of the Zonal Office for onward distribution to branches.
  • Branches should enter details of Bonus paid in the Bonus Register for verification by the Labour Department Officials.
  • The entire exercise of verification of calculation and Payment of Bonus to eligible employees should be completed by 25.09.2017.
For the information of our branches/offices, the important guidelines and illustrations are given in Annexure-I, II and III
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All the salary disbursing authorities are advised to go through the contents of this circular carefully and adhere to the stipulations mentioned without any deviation. 


(V B BHAGAVATHI) 
General Manager (HR)

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Departmental Councils at the level of individual Ministries/Departments, including their attached and subordinate offices: DoPT seeks details of last 5 years meeting

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Departmental Councils at the level of individual Ministries/Departments, including their attached and subordinate offices: DoPT seeks details of last 5 years meeting 

F.No.4/3/2009-JCA
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
(Department of Personnel & Training)
Establishment (JCA-I) Section
North Block, New Delhi
Dated August 21,2017

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Functioning of Departmental Councils – Information regarding

The undersigned is directed to say that this Department has been issuing instructions from time to time for holding regular meetings of Departmental Council with a view to making effective use of Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM) Scheme. In this regard, the latest reminder was sent on 13.04.2017 (copy enclosed).

2. From the information received, it has been learnt that Departmental Councils have not been constituted in all Ministries/Departments and in some cases, though the Departmental Councils have been constituted, regular meetings are not being held. It is also to be submitted for kind information that guidelines regarding constitution of Departmental Council are given in JCM Brochure which is available in the public domain on the website of the Department http://persmin.nic.in –>Department of personnel & Training (DOPT) –> Downloads –> Acts & Rules –> Brochure on JCM & CA. 

3. The JCM Scheme provides for Departmental Councils at the level of individual Ministries/Departments, including their attached and subordinate offices. The Staff Side of JCM, however, has been complaining that regular dialogue with the Staff Side through the mechanism of Departmental Councils at Ministry/Department level is not happening. Meetings of Departmental Council at periodic intervals are essential as they help in resolving differences between the Government and the Staff Side.

4. It is, therefore, requested that the relevant information, as asked for, on the Departmental Council meetings held during previous 5 years may kindly be sent at the earliest.

(D.K. Sengupta)
Deputy Secretary (JCA)

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Merger of Associated Banks with State Bank of India- re-alignment of erstwhile CPPCs of SBI and State Bank of Hyderabad

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Merger of Associated Banks with State Bank of India- re-alignment of  erstwhile CPPCs of SBI and State Bank of Hyderabad - CPAO OM

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
CENTRAL PENSION ACCOUNTING OFFICE
TRIKOOT-II, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE
NEW DELHI - 110066

CPAO/IT & Teck/Merger of Associated Banks/68/2017-18/100
Dated : 14.08.2017

Office Memorandum


Subject- Merger of Associated Banks with State Bank of India- re-alignment of  erstwhile CPPCs of SBI and State Bank of Hyderabad.


As a result of acquisition of Associated Banks (ABS) by SBI to facilitate the Government Business of Hyderabad Circle which used to cover the states of Andhra pradesh and Telangana has been bifurcated into two circles Viz Hyderabad and Amaravati.
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The erstwhile SBI, CPPC, Hyderabad will henceforth handle the pension payments of Telangana State and the erstwhile SBH, CPPC now renamed as SBI, CPPC, Amaravati will handle the pension payments of Andhra Pradesh and Yanam District of Pondicherry. SBI has re-aligned the erstwhile CPPCs with new BSR Codes and IFSC Codes. The addresses of both the CPPCs are given below:-.

CPPC-Hyderabad (For Telangana State) CPPC – Amaravati (For Anadhra Pradesh and Yanam District of Pondicherry Union Territory)
Asst. General Manager,
State Bank of India
Centralised Pension Processing Centre CPPC
(Hyderabad circle) : Code No : 04472)
#1st Floor, SCAB building
Hyderabad – LHO Compound
Hyderabad – 500 095
Toll free No. : 18004254787
Fax : 04023466993
e-mail: sbi.04472@sbi.co.in
Chief Manager,
State Bank of India
Centralised Pension Processing Centre, (CPPC)
(Amaravati circle) Code No. (21019)
#1st Floor, Methodist complex
Opp: Charmas Show Room
Abids, Hyderabad – 500 001
Toll free no : 18004251450;
Fax 040 23382871
e-mail: cmcppc.lhoand@sbi.co.in

In view of the above, henceforth all concerned are requested to update their data for  future correspondence on the above addresses only.

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This issues with the approval of Competent Authority.


(Md. Shahid Kamal Ansari)
(Asstt. Controller of Accounts)


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Option 1 recommended by 7th CPC i.r.o. Pre-2016 Pensioners - for parity of pension between Pre & Post-2016 Pensioners: Appeal

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Option 1 recommended by 7th CPC i.r.o. Pre-2016 Pensioners - for parity of pension between Pre & Post-2016 Pensioners: Appeal to PM, FM, DoPT

RAILWAYS SENIOR CITIZENS WELFARE SOCIETY
No. RSCWS/ HO / 7th CPC/2017-16
Dated: 23rd August, 2017

1.Shri Narindera Modi, Hon. Prime Minister India, 152, South Block, New Delhi-110001
2. Shri Arun Jaitley, Hon. Minister of Finance, Govt. of India, North Block, New Delhi-110001
3. Shri Jitendra Singh, Hon. MOS Personnel, PG & Pension, GOI, North Block, New Delhi-110001

Dear Sir,

Subject: Appeal for restoration of Option 1 recommended by 7th Central Pay Commission for Revision of Pension of Pre-2016 Pensioners – For Parity of Pension between Pre & Post-2016 Central Government Pensioners
Reference: i) DOP&PW OM No.38/37/2016-P&PW(A) dated 12th May, 2017 & 6th July, 2017 ii) Para 10.1.67 of 7th CPC Report for grant of Parity of Pension of Pre & Post Seventh CPC Pensioners 

1.We draw your kind attention to the sad plight of large majority of Central Government Pensioners – especially the Pre-2006 Pensioners and more so the Pre-1996 Pensioners, who will suffer a major financial loss in fixation of their Revised Pension on account of an unjust decision on implementation of 7th CPC Report vide DOP&PW OM dated 12-5-2017 cited above. 

2.The Seventh Central Pay Commission (CPC) in Para 10.1.67 & 10.1.68 of its Report had for the first time conceded the long pending demand of the Central Government Pensioners for Parity of Pension between the Pre and Post CPC Pensioners and had recommended the following pension formulation for civil employees including CAPF personnel who had retired before 01.01.2016: 

i) All the Civilian personnel including CAPF who retired prior to 01.01.2016 (expected date of implementation of the Seventh CPC recommendations) shall first be fixed in the Pay Matrix being recommended by this Commission, on the basis of the Pay Band and Grade Pay at which they retired, at the minimum of the corresponding level in the matrix. This amount shall be raised, to arrive at the notional pay of the retiree, by adding the number of increments he/she had earned in that level while in service, at the rate of three percent. Fifty percent of the total amount so arrived at shall be the revised pension. 

ii) The second calculation to be carried out is as follows. The pension, as had been fixed at the time of implementation of the VI CPC recommendations, shall be multiplied by 2.57 to arrive at an alternate value for the revised pension. 

iii) Pensioners be given option of choosing whichever formulation is beneficial to them. 

3.Option 1, cited above, was very much feasible to implement as recommended by 7th CPC for revision of Pension of old Pension since according to the survey conducted by the DOP&PW, it was accepted that the Service Records of over 80% of old Pensioners were available, while those of the others could be re-built as per procedure prescribed in the Rules and as was done after 5th & 6th CPC and as per orders of the Courts in numerous cases. 

4.Regrettably, the Committee formed by the Government, to consider the feasibility of implementation of Option 1 recommended by the Seventh CPC, while finding it non-feasible, did not care for the interest of the more than 80% of the Pensioners merely to save the Administration from the botheration of Re-building the Service Records of the rest less than 20% Pensioners. This was a great injustice since the 80% of the Pensioners who’s Records are available, shall suffer a loss of Pension just because of missing records of the rest 20%. 

5.Instead, the Government accepted the following formula vide OM Dated 12-5-2017, as recommended by the Committee on Feasibility of Option 1:

“the revised pension/family pension w.e.f. 01.01.2016 in respect of all Central civil pensioners/family pensioners, including CAPF’s, who retired/died prior to 01.01.2016, may be revised by notionally fixing their pay in the pay matrix recommended by the 7th CPC in the level corresponding to the pay in the pay scale/pay band and grade pay at which they retired/died. This will be done by notional pay fixation under each intervening Pay Commission based on the Formula for revision of pay. While fixing pay on notional basis the pay fixation formulae approved by the Government and other relevant instructions on the subject in force at the relevant time shall be strictly followed. 50% of the notional pay as on 01.01.2016 shall be the revised pension and 30% of this notional pay shall be the revised family pension w.e.f. 1.1.2016 as per the first Permutation.” 

6) The above said formula will very seriously and adversely affect the Revised pension of a large majority of the Pre-2016 Pensioners on account of following reasons: 

a) “Parity of Pension” between Pre and Post-2016 Pensioners – recommended by the Seventh CPC – would be denied to the Pre-2016 Pensioners. 

b) In the process of notional pay fixation in successive Pay Commissions, there is a lot of dilution particularly for pensioners who retired in 4th CPC period resulting in big financial loss. 

c) Irrespective of the date of retirement, Option 1 would have given the same pension to pre-2016 pensioners depending upon the number of increments earned in the last Level. By denying option 1 there will be sub-groups even within the homogenous group of pre-2016 pensioners. 

d) None of the above losses would occur to the Pre-2016 Pensioners if the Option 1 recommended by the 7th CPC is implemented and if the new formula is allowed as a 3rd Option in addition to Option 1 & 2 Recommended by the 7th CPC in the interest of natural justice to all Pre-2016 Pensioners. 

2. It is, therefore, requested that the Pension of Pre-2016 Pensioners be fixed at the highest of the 3 Options – including first two Options as recommended by 7th CPC and 3rd Option as accepted by the Government and Notified vide DOP&PW OM Dated 12-5-2017. 

Hoping for a favourable consideration & thanking you in anticipation. With kind regards, 


Yours faithfully, 

(Harchandan Singh) 

7th CPC Minimum Pay - Rs. 19670 and uniform multiplication factor - 2.81 at all levels - Notes submitted by JCM

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7th CPC Minimum Pay - Rs. 19670 and uniform multiplication factor - 2.81 at all levels  - Notes submitted by JCM

Shiva Gopal Mishra
Secretary
National Council (Staff Side)
Joint Consultative Machinery
for Central Government Employees
13-C, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi - 110001

No.NC-JCM-2017/7th CPC /Fin 
August 14 2017
The Additional Secretary,
(Sh. Pramod Kumar Das)
Government of India,
Department of Expenditure,
Ministry of Finance,
North Block, New Delhi

Dear Sir,

We write this with reference to the discussions the staff side had with you on 21st July, 2017,when the official side explained the various recommendations of the Allowances Committee and the Government's decisions thereon. It is however, our considered opinion that the said allowances committee did not consider various submissions made by the Staff side both orally and in writing especially on those allowances, which has a universal application. Had it been really addressed, the reduction in the transport allowance in the case of employees in the lower strata of hierarchy would not have happened. No justification had been advanced by the 7th CPC for the reduction of the House rent allowance rates by a universal 0.8 factor. The Committee has also not enlightened us as to how the said factor had been applied while making cosmetic changes in the rates. The Committee did not consider the following glaring and untenable and incorrect conclusions of the 7‘h CPC despite that the Staff Side pointed out it in their written submissions.

(i) The house rent allowance is one such allowance which is not cost indexed. As on 1.1.2016, the date on which the pay was revised, the DA stood at 125%. What justification could be offered to reduce the rates by 0.8%is inexplicable. By deferring the date of revised allowance by 18 months, i.e. with effect from 1.7.2017, the Government has enormously gained financially. The actual financial outflow on account of the revision of pay and allowances has thus become less than even what was projected by the 7th CPC. The Committee should have known that on all previous occasions, where the date of effect of pay and allowances had differed, the Govt. had granted Interim Relief and merger of DA. No such decision had been taken by the Government, prior to the setting up of the 7th CPC. Even the precedence on which the committee wrongly relied upon, had been set aside by the Board of Arbitration, not once but twice.
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(ii) The cosmetic changes effected in the rates of HRA which is published to have benefited about 7.5 Iakhs employees is not correct but exaggerated.

(iii) The Committee's decision to retain some of the department specific allowances was on the suggestion made by the concerned heads of departments. The Staff side view had not been considered at all.

(iv) The Pension committee’s recommendation to reject Option No. 1 on the ground of infeasibility is further reflective of the attitude of the Government towards the employees and pensioners.

On 30th June, 2016 the staff side had a meeting with the group of Ministers headed by Shri Rajnath Singh, the Honourable Home Minister, when an assurance was held out to revisit the computation of the Minimum wage and multiplication factor. We were informed that the Committee headed by you would consider as to how the assurance could be implemented. Despite three rounds of meeting with you, nothing tangible in this regard has happened. In our earlier submissions we had pointed out with facts and figures as to how the 7'h CPC erred in their computation of the Minimum wage and how could never be less than Rs.26000 as on 1.1.2016. We are afraid that the repetition thereof would not serve any purpose. However, as desired by you, we give hereunder certain glaring, iniquitous and unjustified factors, the rectification of which could be the least the Government could do while revisiting the computation of Minimum wage and multiplication factor.

1. Dr. Aykhroyd formula does not speak of any averages. The commodity prices of a particular date is to be taken into account for the computation of minimum wage as on that date. Since the pay is cost indexed, the fluctuation in prices of commodities in future is taken care of by grant of dearness allowance. The 7th CPC took the average prices of various commodities between 1.7.2014 to 30.6.2015 to compute the minimum wage. This is clearly impermissible. If this error alone is set right, the minimum wage shall work out at Rs. 19294 and the MF at 2.76 (See Annexure 1)

2. The 7th CPC reduced the housing component by 4.5%. This was in line with the computation formula adopted by the 6tth CPC. Such reduction on the specious plea that Central Government employees are given HRA separately was ostensibly incorrect as the quantum of HRA provided for is insufficient to meet the expenses incurred by an individual employee for hiring an  accommodation. The point however, we would like to mention is that the 7th CPC did not notice that the 6th CPC had increased / retained the rate of HRA whereas the 7th CPC for no valid reason reduced all the three rates by a uniform factor of 0.8. The said decision reduced the HRA in metro cities by 6% in classified cities by 4% and in unclassified towns by 2%. Averaging out to 4%. It must be in the fitness of things, that the unwarranted reduction of housing component is restored especially in the background of the Allowance Committee refusing to restore the erstwhile rates. The computation of the minimum wage if this correction is carried out would be as in annexure 2. The minimum wage would then work out to Rs. 20232 and the multiplication factor at 2.89. This is when the commodity price is taken not as the average for 12 months but the actual price as on 1.7.2015.

3. The Honourable Supreme Court had directed that 25% must be added to arrive at the actual minimum wage in order to enable the employees to meet out various social obligations. Children education was on of the minor components of the social obligations mentioned by Supreme Court. When the Supreme Court delivered its verdict, education in the country was in the public domain and was almost free up to the secondary level. The advent of the neo liberal economic policies, imparting education to the children has become one of the costly affairs. The reduction effected by the 7th CPC to the extent of 10% attributable to children education is totally unjustified and in our opinion even amounts to non adherence to the supreme Court directive in the matter. If this error is rectified, the Minimum wage would be Rs. 21873 (MF 3.12) , the commodity prices being Rs. 9885 (actual as on 17,2015) and would be Rs. Rs. 20391 if computation is done on the basis of the average of the commodity prices as was done by the 7thCPC. The MF In the said two cases would be 3.124 and 2.913 respectively. (See annexure 3 and 3A).

4. The 7th CPC has adopted the family at 3 Units. This is no doubt in consonance with Dr. Aykhroyd formula. The family is taken consisting of husband, wife and two children, value assigned being 1+,O.8,+O.6,+O.6. In the present day society to assign a lower value for women is a misplaced and outdated notion. The gender equality demands that the family unit must be taken at 3.2. ( 1+1+0.6+0.6) Two workings are given in Annexure 4 and 4A. In annexure 4 commodity price is what it should be i.e. the actual prices as on 1.7.2015 and in annexure4 A the same is what is taken by the 7th CPC. The minimum wage in Annexure 4 shall be Rs. 19981 (MF2.94) and in the latter case the MW shall be Rs. 19193 and the MF at 2.74) Please see annexure 4 and 4A for detailed working.
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The 6th CPC while formulating the Pay band and Grade pay system had applied varying multiplication factors to create the four pay bands. They had relied upon the same argument that the skilled workers are entitled to have better pay packets than the unskilled or semi skilled labourers. The 7th CPC has advocated the same theory to apply varying Multiplications factors for creating pay levels. The successive application of different multiplication factors has disturbed the vertical relativity and if this theory is perennially adopted in the construction of pay scales the present equilibrium will be drastically altered. The ratio between the minimum and maximum pay in Government sector has been widening ever since the 5th CPC recommendations were adopted. The 7th CPC has relied upon the private sector wage pattern for justifying this practice. On quite a number of occasions, the previous Pay Commissions had advocated against the wage determination in Government and Public Sector on the basis of the fair wage comparison with the private sector as the functions and assigned responsibilities and objectives are essentially incomparable. Large scale contractorisation and outsourcing have already come into stay in Governmental organizations with consequent suppression of wages at the levels of semi skilled and unskilled levels. We are not presently on the ethical aspect of this unfair practice, which a welfare Government ought not have indulged in. We are to state that by application of different multiplication factors (i.e. Upto pay level 5 =2.57, pay level 6-9=2.62,Level 10-13A=2.67, Level 14-16 =2.72,Level 18:2.78 and level 17:2.81. By applying the multiplication factor at 2.81 for the Secretary level officers, the 7th CPC tacitly admitted that the minimum wage should not have been less than Rs. 19670. (i.e. 2.81 x 7000 = 19670) In this connection we would also like to bring to you notice that the Government has now unilaterally altered the multiplication factor and Pay matrix in respect of Level 13 from 2.57 to 2.67. Assigning a lower multiplication factor to the officers of level 13 appears to be a conscious decision of the 7th CPC as the Government’s executive order in 2008 to place the staid level of officers at a higher level had disturbed the then existing vertical relativity in the Governmental hierarchy. It is, therefore, the considered opinion and suggestion of the staff side that the Government must come forward to apply the uniform multiplication factor of 2.81 at all levels both for the construction of the pay levels as also for the pay fixation in the new Pay levels for the existing employees. If our suggestion is accepted, the Minimum wage would be raised to Rs. 19670 with the multiplication factor at 2.81.

We request you to kindly convene a meeting of the staff side to cause discussions on the above submissions and arrive at a mutually acceptable conclusion.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

Shiv Gopal Mishra.
Secretary

Annexure-1
S.No.Details
Amount
1Commodity prices as on 1.7.2015 (actual)9885.00
2Misc: 20%2471.00
312356.00
4Social obligations: 15% as taken by 7 cpc2180.00
514536.00
6Conversion of unskilled into semi skill category.25%3634.00
718170.00
8Housing 3% as adopted by 7th CPC562.00
918732.00
10Updating to 1.1.20016 as per 7 cpc formula 3%562.00
11Total: Minimum wage as on 1.1.201619294.00
12Multiplication factor
2.76
Annexure 2.
S.No. Details
Amount
1Commodity prices as on 1.7.2015 (actual)9885.00
2Misc: 20%2471.00
312356.00
4Social obligations: 15% as taken by 7 cpc2180.00
514536.00
6Conversion of unskilled into semi skill category.25%3634.00
718170.00
8Housing 7.5% as per formula1473.00
919643.00
10Updating to 1.1.20p16 as per 7 cpc formula 3%589.00
11Total: Minimum wage as on 1.1.201620232.00
12Multiplication factor
2.89
Annexure 3.
S.No.DetailsAmount
1Commodity prices as on 1.7.2015 (actual)9885.00
2Misc: 20%2471.00
312356.00
4Social obligations: 25% as per formula4119.00
516475.00
6Conversion of unskilled into semi skill category.25%4119.00
720593.00
8Housing 3% as per 7th CpC638.00
921231.00
10Updating to 1.1.20p16 as per 7 cpc formula 3%637.00
11Total: Minimum wage as on 1.1.201621873.00
12Multiplication factor
3.124
Annexure -3A
S.No.Details
Amount
1Commodity prices as taken by 7cpc (average)9218.00
2Misc: 20%2305.00
311523.00
4Social obligations: 25% as per formula3841.00
515364.00
6Conversion of unskilled into semi skill category.25%3841.00
719205.00
8Housing 3% as per 7th CPC593.00
919798.00
10Updating to 1.1.2016 as per 7 cpc formula 3%593.00
11Total: Minimum wage as on 1.1.201620391.00
12Multiplication factor
2.913
Annexure 4
S.No.Details
Amount
1Commodity prices as on 1.7.2015 (actual)=9885.Converted into 3.2 family units10544.00
2Misc: 20%2636.00
313180.00
4Social obligations: 15% as per 7th CPC2326.00
515506.00
6Conversion of unskilled into semi skill category.25%3876.00
719382.00
8Housing 3% as per 7th CPC599.00
919981.00
10Updating to 1.1.2016 as per 7 cpc formula 3%599.00
11Total: Minimum wage as on 1.1.201620580.00
12Multiplication factor2.94
Annexure -4A
S.No.DetailsAmount
1Commodity prices as on 1.7.2015 (average as per 7cpc)=9218. Converted into 3.2 family units9832
2Misc: 20%2459.00
312291
4Social obligations: 15% as per 7th CPC2169
514460
6Conversion of unskilled into semi skill category.25%3615
718075
8Housing 3% as per 7th CpC559.00
918634
10Updating to 1.1.20p16 as per 7 cpc formula 3%559
11Total: Minimum wage as on 1.1.201619193
12Multiplication factor2.74

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Payment of arrears of Pension & Family Pension in cases where valid nomination has not been made: DeSW Order

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No.1 (10)/2013-D(Pen/Policy)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare


New Delhi-110011
Dated: 29th August 2017


To
The Chief of the Army Staff
The Chief of the Naval Staff
The Chief of the Air Staff

SUB: (i) Payment of arrears of pension in cases where valid nomination has not been made under the payment of arrears of pension (Nomination) Rules, 1983;

(ii) Payment of arrears of family pension-regarding.
Sir,
Attention is invited to provisions for payment of Arrears of Pension under Regulation 90 of Pension Regulation Part-II (2008), which provide that after the death of the Armed Force Pensioner, all money payable to the pensioner on account of pension due to the estate of a deceased pensioner may be paid to the nominee of the deceased Armed Forces Pensioner. In the absence of any nomination made by the Armed Forces Pensioner, the arrears of his/her pension are paid as per the "Will" if such a "Will" has been made by the deceased Armed Force Pensioner. In case neither nomination nor 'Will" has been made by the deceased Armed Forces Pensioner, the arrears of his/her pension are paid under the orders of the Pension Disbursing Authority to the heir without production of usual legal authority, if the gross amount of arrears of pension claim does not exceed Rs. 10,000=00, provided he is otherwise satisfied about the right of the claimant. If the gross amount of arrears of pension claim exceeds Rs. 10,000=00, the arrears of his/her  pension are paid under the orders of Principal Controller of Defence Accounts  (Pension) on execution of an Indemnity Bond in Form IAFA-642 duly stamped  for the gross amount due for payment with such sureties as may be deemed  necessary and accepted on behalf of the “President by an officer duly  authorized under Article 299(i) of the Constitution. In case of any doubt,  payment is made only to the person producing the legal authority.
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2. Considering difficulties in obtaining the legal heir-ship-certificate it has been decided that in the absence of nominee or any "Will" of the deceased pensioner, the arrear of pension will be paid as under.-

(i) Under the orders of the Pension Disbursing Authority to the heir without production of legal authority, if the gross amount of arrears of pension claim  does not exceed Rs. 25,000/-, provided he is otherwise satisfied about the  right of the claimant.

(ii) If the gross amount of arrears of pension claims exceeds Rs 25,000/- but does not exceed Rs  2,50,000/-, under the orders of Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Pension) on execution of an Indemnity Bond in Form IAFA-642 duly stamped for the gross amount due for payment with such sureties as may be deemed necessary and accepted on behalf of the President by an officer duly authorized under article 299(i) of the Constitution. 

(iii) In case of any doubt and also in cases where the amount of arrear exceeds Rs 2,50,000/-, payment shall be made only to the person producing the legal authority.

3. Normally there should be two sureties both of known financial ability. However, in case the amount of claim is less than Rs 75,000/- the authority accepting the Indemnity Bond for and on behalf of President of India should decide on the merits of each case whether to accept only one surety instead of two. The obligor as well as the sureties executing the Indemnity Bond should have attained majority so that the bond has legal effect or force. The Bond is required to be accepted on behalf of the President by an Officer duly authorized under Article 299(i) of Constitution. 

4. This Ministry letter No. 1(16)/2009-D(Pen/Policy) dated 15.03.2010 stipulates that in the event of death of a family pensioner, the right to receive any arrears of family pension would automatically pass on to the eligible member of the family next in line. The requirement of succession certificate for payment of any arrears occurs only where there is no member in family who is eligible to receive family pension after the death of the family pensioner. Therefore, it has been decided that the provision of this letter will also apply to the payment of arrears of family pension where no member of family is eligible to receive family pension. 
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5. These orders will not be applicable In the cases where valid nomination exist under GOI, MOD letter No.4(2)84/868/B/D(Pens/Services) dated 09.05.1984. 

6. This issue with the concurrence of Ministry of Defence (Finance/Pension) vide their ID No. 10(04)/2017/Fin/Pen dated 03 August 2017

Yours faithfully

(Manoj Sinha)
Under Secretary to the Government of India 

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7th CPC Pre-2016 Pension Revision of Defence Establishment: Minutes of the review meeting held on 23.08.2017

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7th CPC Pre-2016 Pension Revision of Defence Establishment: Minutes of the review meeting held on 23.08.2017
Urgent/Time Bound
7th CPC Matter

Government of India
Ministry of Defence
(Department of Defence)
D(Civ-2)


Sub: Review of the progress made by Defence Establishments for revision of Pension/ Family Pension of pre-2016 Central Civil Pensioners - Minutes of the meeting convened by Shri Barun Mitra, Additional Secretary (BM) on 23. 8.2017 at 11.00 AM in the Committee Room No. 111, South Block


A copy of the minutes of the meeting held on 23 Aug 2017 on the subject cited above is enclosed for immediate action by all the concerned administrative divisions, Heads of Departments of Defence Organisations and subordinate formations.

2. Joint Secretaries-in-charge of various Defence organisations/subordinate offices are requested to kindly ensure timely compliance of the decisions as contained in he minutes of the meeting, and also furnish the requisite information, urgently.

Encl: As above
(Gurdeep Singh)
Under Secretary (Civ-2)
Tele:011 23014675


All participant of the meeting dated 23 Aug 2017 (list Annexed)

MoD ID No.12(8)/2017-.D(Civ-2) dated 29 Aug 2017
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Minutes of the meeting taken by Shri Barun Mitra, Additional Secretary (BM) on 23.08.2017 at 11.00 AM in the Committee Room No. 111, South Block to review the progress made by Defence Establishments for revision of Pension/Family Pension of pre-2016 Central Civil Pensioners



List of participants is at Annexure


1. The Second Review meeting convened under the chairmanship of Shri Barun Mitra, AS(BM)   commenced with his note that being a very large Ministry, it continues to be in the focus of Ministry of Finance (MoF) during the process of review of the progress of pension revision. In view of this, he reiterated the need for holding such review meetings periodically within the organisation by the Organisational Nodal Officers, to impress upon the Field Nodal Officers to show some concrete progress in numbers so as to present an appreciable achievement during the meetings being conducted by the MoF.


2. Following decisions were made:

Action on part of CGDA/PCDA(P)

1. CGDA shall issue directions to the PCDA(Pension), Allahabad to allot the HOO Codes suo moto in those cases where the details of Heads of Offices are already available with PCDA.‘This will also be uploaded on the website of CGDA/PCDA(P).

2. PCDA(P) to display on their website the data of pensioners already shared with defence organisations and the HOO Codes allotted by them so far.

3. Substantial gap in the total number of pensioners as figured out by PCDA(P) and as claimed by the Defence Organisations shall be corrected by PCDA in coordination with Defence Organisations by locating the data- of remaining pensioners.

4. An abstract of the progress (showing total number of cases of pension revision received in PCDA and No. of cases in which Corr. FPO has been issued) should be displayed on the website of PC DA to reflect the actual achievement of PCDA in this task.

5. The requirement of counter-Signatures of applications for allotment cf HOO Code need not be routed through the HoDs to simplify the procedure and save time.

6. In view of the decision of the MoF, as contained in minutes of the meeting held on 4 Aug 2017 (also available on MoD Website at “mod/dod/employeescorner/seventh CPC”), the PPO revision process shall not be held up for want of non-inclusion of pensioners’ Adhaar No./PAN number in the pay fixation order/data sheet. Directions to this effect shall be Conveyed by CGDA to all the field offices/CDAs/HOOs.

7. To prevent delay of auditing of the cases where pension revision has already been completed by HOO, CGDA shall ensure deployment of additional staff where the audit Work is held up due to scarcity of staff.

8. Some organisations like DGQA have not received the data of 'pensioners, PCDA shall provide all necessary assistance to such organisations in locating the details of the pensioners.

Action on part of Organisations
9. In the major defence organisations (like Army, Navy, BRO, DOPE, MES, OFB etc) which are having major chunk of civilian pensioners, the Organisational Nodal Officers shall have to speed up the process of revision of pension, by holding regular review meetings with the Field Nodal Officers.

10. Before the next Review meeting, “the Organisations shall prepare lists of HOOs with their NlC email IDs to ascertain the exact total no. of HOOs under their organisation, and to whom the Code have not been issued by PCDA so far. This shall be completed by 31 Aug 2017.

11. In the‘meantime, the process of revision of pension'should {continue at the level . HOO, and forwarding of data/ Pension revision sheets; for auditing by LAO must continue and should not be? allowed to linger simply on the grounds that th HOO code is still awaited from PCDA(P).

12. The details of the Organisational Nodal Officers (ONOs) nominated to monitor the progress at Organisational level,'shall also be communicated to MoD before 31st Aug 2017.

13. The Organisational Nodal Officers shall hold the review meetings with the Field odal Officers (FNOs), on weekly basis. Only ONO's should attend the periodical review meetings in the MoD so as to maintain continuity of action/ instructions.

14. As per recent directions of Finance Secretary, issued on 9 Aug 2017, the monitoring of progress of pension revision shall be undertaken by a committee headed by Financial Advisors by “holding weekly meetings, with respective Joint Secretaries.
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15. All the Defence organisations concerned and JS-in-charge a to be advised to tak appropriate action to complete all the pre-reqpisites in coordination with CGDA/PCDA(P) so that they are able to exhibit ‘significant and substntial progress, percentage wise during the next Review meeting to be convened by the MoF.

Meeting ended with vote of thanks to the chair.


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Annexure
Revision of Pension of pre-2016 Central Civil Pensioners/ Family Pensioners on the basis of 7th CPC: Pay Matrix
Meeting held on 23rd Au 2017 11.00 AM under the chairmanship of AS(BM) 
List of Participants
 
S. No. Name of the Officer S/Shri Designation Name of the Defence Organisation / Wing
1 Jayant Sinha JS (PG/Coord) MoD
2 Bharat Khera JS (Air/BR) MoD
3 M. Subbarayan JS(E) MoD
4 V Anandarajan JS&AM(M&S) & CAO
5 Sanjay Prasad JS(LS) DDP
6 Chandrakar Bharti JS(Aero) DDP
7 Dhirendra Verma Dir(Q) MoD
8 D K Paliwal Director (N-III) MoD
9 Anil Kumar DS(CP) MoD
10 Smt Poornima Rajendran DS(Trg) MoD
11 V Chaturvedi US MoD
12 Maj Gen Mukesh Kumar, SM ADG MP(P&P) AHQ/AG Br
13 Ms Vanali Sharma DDG MP-4 AHQ/AG Br/MP-4
14 Aaron Pamei Dir(PC) Air HQ
15 Cmde I S Grewal PDCP Naval HQ
16 Kamaldeep Singh Jt CGDA(Pen) CGDA
17 A K Bhatnagar CE(Civ) DDG(Pers) BRO
18 Gopal Bhushan DoP DRDO
19 Alok Mall Assoc Dir DRDO HQ
20 V. S. Pathania DDG(HRD) Coast Guard
21 Dinesh Rajaputhran PD(Per) Coast Guard
22 P Daniel Addl DG Def Estates DGDE
23 V K Gupta Jt DG (RTI & Legal) MES/E-in-C’s Branch
24 K D Mitra Director Adm DGAQa
25 P V Rao Director CRO
26 P Mohanty DDG OFB
27 Sarvjeet Singh DyCAO CAO Office

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Inordinate delay in finalization of pension cases on all units of Indian Railways/Production units. - Railway Board Order after Railway Minister concern

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Inordinate delay in finalization of pension cases on all units of Indian Railways/Production units. - Railway Board Order after Railway Minister concern

Government of India
Ministrv of Railways
Rallway Board


No. 2016/AC-II /21/8/Pt-l New
Delhi dated: 28.08.2017


PFAs,
All Zonal Railways / PUs
Sub- Division/ Railway -wise status of pending pension eases of Normal retirement and Other than normal retirement.
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Hon’ble Minister for Railways has expressed concern that there has been inordinate delay in  finalization of pension cases on all units of Indian Railways/Production units. It is desired that immediate Steps be taken to streamline the system in place. A division/Railway-wise status report on pending pension cases of Normal retirement and Other than normal retirement as on 31.3.2017 has been sought.
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It is therefore requested the requisite details may be provided in the following format by mail at jda[at]rb.railnet.gov.in by 31.08.2017.
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Railway
Division
Number of pending cases for Settlement of Normal Retirement as on 31.03.2017
Number of pending cases for
Settlement of other
than Normal
Retirement as on 31.03.2017
Reasons for delay






(Vlvek P. Trlpathi)
Director Finance/CCN
Railway Board

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Fixed Medical Allowance (FMA) to the Armed Forces Pensioner/Family Pensioners: Order issued

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Fixed Medical Allowance (FMA) to the Armed Forces Pensioner/Family Pensions - Clarification

No.1(10)/2009-D(Pen/Policy)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare
New Delhi-110011
Dated: 29th August 2017
To
The Chief of the Army Staff
The Chief of the Naval Staff
The Chief of the Air Staff

SUB: GRANT OF FIXED MEDICAL ALLOWANCE (FMA) TO THE ARMED FORCES PENSIONERS/FAMILY PENSIONERS IN SUCH CASES WHERE DATE OF RETIREMENT IS PRIOR TO 1.4.2003 AND WHO HAD OPTED NOT TO AVAIL MEDICAL FACILITIES AT OPD OF ARMED FORCES HOPITALS/MI ROOMS AND ARE NOT MEMBERS OF ECHS.
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Sir,
The undersigned is directed to refer to the Govt. of India, Ministry of Defence letter No.1(1)/98/D(Pen/Sers) dated 15th June 1998 and letter No. 1(10)/09-D(Pen/Policy) dated 12th January 2011 & No. 1(10)/2009-D(Pen/Policy) dated 5th May 2015 regarding grant of Fixed Medical Allowance (FMA) of Rs.500/- pm. with effect from 19.11.2014 to Armed Forces Pensioners/Family' Pensioners for meeting expenditure on day to day medical expenses that do not require hospitalization unless the individual had opted for OPD treatment in Armed Forces Hospitals/ M.I. Rooms and convey the sanction of the President for enhancement of the amount of FMA from Rs. 500/- to Rs. 1000/-per month. The other conditions for grant of FMA shall continue to be in force.

2. Ex-Servicemen who retired on or after 01 Apr 2003 have to-become member of ECHS Compulsorily and are not eligible to draw Fixed Medical Allowance. These orders applicable only in such cases, where the date of retirement is prior to 1.4.2003 and who had opted not to avail medical facilities at OPD of Armed Forces Hospitals/ MI rooms and are not members of ECHS.

3. These orders will take effect from 01.07.2017.
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4. All other conditions as laid down in Government of India letter No. 1(1)/98-D(Pen/Sers) dated 15th June 1998 will continue to apply.

5. This issue with the concurrence of Ministry of Defence(Finance/Pension) vide their ID No. 32(9)/2010/Fin/Pen dated 16 August 2017.

6. Hindi version will follow.

Yours faithfully

sd/-
(Manoi Sinha)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

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Exemption for travel in airlines other than Air India on Govt. Tour: Deptt of Posts OM

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Exemption for travel in airlines other than Air India on Govt. Tour: Deptt of Posts OM

F. No.9-1/2016-FC (Posts)
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & IT 
Department of Posts
(Integrated Finance Wing)

New Delhi, the 24th August, 2017

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Exemption for travel in airlines other than Air India - reg.

Consequent upon the delegation of powers to the Financial Advisors to accord exemption for air travel in airlines other than Air India in individual cases, this office is receiving requests from the officers seeking exemption for air travel by airlines other than Air India.
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While processing such proposals, it has been observed that in spite of repeated instructions issued by the Directorate vide letter no. 17-01/2015-PAP dated 28.07.2016, OM no. 9-1/2016-FA (Posts) dated 09.08.2016 and dated 28.02.2017 (Copies enclosed for ready reference), requests for seeking exemption are being submitted in the last days / hours of the proposed journey and that too with incomplete/insufficient reasons/documents in' prescribed Performa (Revised) as required vide Directorate OM no. 9-1/2016-FA (Posts) dated 28.02.2017. This results in avoidable delay in processing such cases and higher expenditure due to the last minute booking of tickets. It is-also seen that even without obtaining approval of the competent authority, the journey by airlines other than Air India is performed and at a later stage requests seeking ex-post facto approval are submitted, violating the instructions on the subject.

In view of the above, it is once again reiterated that the requests in the revised Performa complete in all respect are submitted to JS&FA at least 7 working, days in advance from date of travel so that adequate time is made available for processing in Integrated Finance Wing. It may also be noted that non-receipt of approval by the stipulated date does not entitle one to claim relaxation as a matter of right.
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This issue with the approval of Competent Authority.

(Nirdosh Kumar Yadav)
Director (FA)

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7th CPC DA from Jul, 2016 & Jan, 2017 for Defence Personnel: MoD Order

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7th CPC DA from Jul, 2016 & Jan, 2017 for Defence Personnel: MoD Order

F. No. 1(2)/2004/D (Pay/Services)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
New Delhi, the 18th August, 2017

To

The Chief of the Army Staff
The Chief of the Air Staff
The Chief of the Naval Staff

Subject: Recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission Decision of Government relating to grant of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees - Rates effective from 1st July, 2016.

Sir,

Consequent upon acceptance of the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission by the Government relating to Dearness Allowance, the undersigned is directed to refer to Ministry of Finance (Department of Expenditure) O.M. No. 1/2/2016-E-II(B) dated 04.11.2016 & 1/3/2017-E-II(B) dated 30.03.2017 on the above subject

The provisions of the said letters will mutatis-mutandis be applicable to Armed Forces Personnel. These letters will be in supersession of letters of even number dated 23.11.2016 and 17.04.2017.

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2. These letters issue with the concurrence of Finance Division of this Ministry vide their Dy. No. 229-PA dated 17.08.2017 based on Ministry of Finance (Department of Expenditure) O.M. No. 1/2/2016-E.II(B) dated 04.11.2016 & O.M. No. 1/3/2017-Ell (8) dated 30.03.2017.

Yours faithfully,

(Prashant Rastogi)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

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Opening of CGHS Wellness Centre (Allopathic) at Kohima

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Opening of CGHS Wellness Centre (Allopathic) at Kohima Order dated 24 August 2017

GOVT. OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE
CENTRAL GOVT. HEALTH SCHEME
GOPINATH NAGAR, A.K.AZAD ROAD, GUWAHATI -781 016.

No.A.22012/1/2015/1778
Dated: 24.08.2017
NOTIFICATION

Sub: Opening of a CGHS Wellness Centres (Allopathic) at Kohima-regarding.

This is for information to all eligible Central Govt. Employees, Pensioners & other stake holders that, Central Govt. Health Scheme (CGHS) Wellness Centres sanctioned vide  Govt. of India, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, CGHS(P) Division Order No.S.11045/1/2013/HEC, New Delhi dated 17th November 2014 will be inaugurated on 4th September 2017 at H.No.MRH/D-67, Paramedical Colony Opp. Paramedical Training Institute, Merhulietsa, Kohima (N agaland), Pin-797001 to provide comprehensive medical facilities. Date of full functioning expected to be from 1st of October 2017.
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The scheme will cover Kohima city, all eligible Central Govt. Employees and their dependent family members, Central Govt. Pensioners and their dependents and others eligible as per CGHS guideline residing in Kohima city. Application for CGHS Plastic Card for serving beneficiaries have to be applied/uploaded online @ cghs1.nic.in by respective offices & submit the hard copy to CGHS WC Kohima. Monthly subscription towards CGHS have to be deducted from the monthly salary of the beneficiary from October 2017 onwards and respective offices submit the contribution to this office either through Demand Draft/Banker Cheque in favour of Additional Director, CGHS, Guwahati or through Book adjustment with PAO, MOH&FW, Kolkata with intimation to this office. All pensioner beneficiary need to visit CGHS WC Kohima for enrollment under CGHS.

The beneficiaries will be able to avail the CGHS facilities through the Wellness Centre during office hours i.e. from 7.30 am to 2.00 pm in all working days except on Sundays/Holidays.
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(Dr. H.K. Sonowal)
Addl. Director.

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Revision of Contractual Fees of the persons engaged at ECHS Branch Nepal

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Revision of Contractual Fees of the persons engaged at ECHS Branch Nepal

No.22D (50)/2007/US(WE)/D(Res) Vol-II
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
New Delhi, the  2 June, 2017
To,
The Chief of Army Staff
The Chief of Naval
The Chief of Air Staff
CORRIGENDUM
Sir,

1. With reference to following:-
(a) Gol, MoD letter No. 22D (48)/2006/US (WE)/D (Res) date 07 Feb 2012
(b) Gol, MoD letter No. 22D (50)/07/US (WE)/D (Res) dated 05 Feb 2013
(c) Gol, MoD letter No. 22D (50)/2007/US (WE)/D (Res) Vol-II dated 03 May .2016

2. I am directed to convey the sanction of the President of India for the revision of contractual fees of the persons engaged at ECHS Branch Embassy of India in Nepal in respect of the following categories:-
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Sl.No Category For Contractual Fees Per month (in Rs) Read Contractual Fees Per month( in Rs.)
1.ClerksRs. 12,000/-Rs. 18,000/-
3. The remuneration for MTS which included posts of Peon, Daftary, Jamadar, Junior Gestetner Operator, Farash, Chowkidar, Safiwala, Mali etc. as per DoP & T order No AB-14017/6/2009-Estt (RR) dated 30 April 2010 would continue to be drawn as per rates fixed for the post of Peon, Safiwala i.e. Rs. 13,455/- in accordance with Order issued vide Gol MoD letter No 22D(50)/2007/US(WE)/D(Res) Vol-H dated 03 May 2016. Similarly, the remuneration for Drivers would remain the same as revised vide Gol, MoD letter No 22D (50)/2007/US(VVE)/D(Res) Vol-II dated 03 May 2016.

4. The revised orders will be effective from 27 Nov 2015.

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5. This issue with the concurrence of Ministry of Defence (Finance) vide their U.O.No.33(05)/09/Fin/Pen dated 30.05.2017.

Yours faithfully,

(A.K.Karn)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

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7th CPC Transport Allowance to the Railway employees: Higher rate to those working in Pay Level 1& 2

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7th Central Pay Commission —Transport Allowance to the Railway employees — Deprive of higher rate to those working in pay Level 1 & 2-reg

N.F.I.R.
National Federation of Indian Railwaymen's

No.IV/NFIR/7 CPC/Allowance/2016/Part I

Dated: 28/08/2017

The Secretary (E),
Railway Board,
New Delhi

Dear Sir,

Sub: Government’s decision on recommendation of the 7th Central Pay Commission —Transport Allowance to the Railway employees — Deprivel of higher rate to those working in pay Level 1 & 2-reg.

Ref: Railway Board’s letter No. PC-V/2017/A/TA/1 dated 17/08/2017 (RBE No.96/2017).

NFIR invites kind attention of the Railway Board to the modified instructions issued vide Board’s letter dated 17/08/2017 on payment of Transport Allowance at revised rates, stating that the Railway employees who are drawing pay of Rs.24,200/- & above in Pay Level 1 & 2 of the 7th CPC Pay Matrix are entitled for Transport Allowance @ Rs.3600 plus DA thereon in cities mentioned in the Annexure to Board’s letter dated 03/08/2017 and @ Rs.1800 plus DA thereon at all other places.

In this connection, Federation desires to state that with the issuance of instructions dated 17/08/2017, an anomalous situation has arisen wherein the Railway employees in Pay Level 3, drawing pay Rs. 21,700/- and above upto Level 8 are entitled for Transport Allowance @ Rs. 3600 + DA thereon (in Al/A class cities and in other cities @ Rs. 1800 + DA thereon), while those in Pay Level 1 & 2 are made eligible for the Transport Allowance at the said rate (i.e. Rs. 3600/- + DA thereon) on reaching the Pay of Rs. 24,200/- and above.
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Federation further desires to state that pursuant to the recommendations of 5th CPC and 6th CPC, the following instructions were issued:-

Recommendations of 5th CPC — Transport Allowance
RBE No. 179/1997 (rates w.e.f. 01/08/1997)

S.NoPay Scale of the EmployeesA 1/A Class CityOther Places
1Rs.8000-13500 or above800400
2Rs.6500-10500 or above but below Rs.8000-13500400200
3Below Rs.6500-1050010075

Above position reveals that all the employees working in pay scale below Rs. 6500-10500 i.e. upto Rs. 6000-9800 (S1 to S1OA) were allowed Transport Allowance at the uniform rate of Rs. 100/- p.m. in Al/A class cities irrespective of their pay.

Recommendations of 6th CPC -Transport Allowance
RBE No.111/2008 (rates w.e.f 01/09/2008) & RBE No.95/2015

Employees drawing Grade Pay of
Rate of Transport Allowance For A 1/A Class cities
GP 5400 & above 3200 + DA
GP 4200-4800,GP below 4200 and pay in pay band = Rs.7440 1600 + DA
GP below 4200 and Pay below Rs.7400 600 + DA

From the above, it could be seen that the employees were allowed higher rate of Transport Allowance on reaching the pay @ Rs.7440/- irrespective of their Grade Pay (PB-) viz., GP 1800,1900,2000,2400,2800.

The above position shows that the Board’s instructions dated 03-08-2017 and 17-08-2017 have deprived the Transport Allowance at Rs.3600/- + Da thereon to the staff working in pay Level 1 & 2 of 7th CPC Pay Matrix due to the restriction that such higher rate of Transport Allowance is allowed on reaching the pay of Rs.24,200, inspite of the fact that they were already drawing higher rate when their pay was Rs.7,440/- in 6th CPC Grade Pay 1800,1900,2000,2400 and 2800.

Federation contends that the ends of justice would be met if the Railway employees working in Pay Level 1 & 2 are also allowed payment of Transport Allowance at higher rate i.e.Rs.3600/- + DA thereon when their pay is Rs.21,700/- instead Rs.24,200/-.

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NFIR, therefore, requests the Railway Board to make out a case and refer the matter to the Ministry of Finance for removal of aberration for ensuring justice to lower level staff (i.e.Pay level 1 and 2 also). A Copy of the reference made to the Ministry of Finance, may be provided to the Federation for follow up action.


Yours faithfully,


(Dr.M.Raghavaiah)
General Secretary.

7th CPC – First Meeting of Departmental Anomaly Committee to Settle the anomalies arising: Railway Board

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7th CPC – First Meeting of Departmental Anomaly Committee to Settle the anomalies arising

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No.PC-VII/2016/DAC/1
New Delhi, dated:25.08.2017

The General Secretary,
All India Railwaymen,s Federation
4, State Entry Road,
New Delhi – 110055.

The General Secretary
National Federation of
Indian Railwaymen,
3-Chemsford Road,
New Delhi – 110055.
Room No. 256-E, Rail Bhawan

Dear Sirs,

Sub: First Meeting of Departmental Anomaly Committee to Settle the anomalies arising out of the implementation of 7th CPC.

Ref:- Draft Minutes circulated vide letter dated 21.07.2017.


The Minutes of the First meeting of Departmental Anomaly Committee held on 20.06.2017, finalised in consultation with the Fedaration are enclosed.

Yours Sincerely,

For Secretary Railway Board

Minutes of the First Meeting of Departmental Anomaly Committee held on 20.06.2017.

The first meeting of Departmental Anomaly Committee (DAC) was held on 20.06.2017 at 11 A.M. in Room No.402. The following attended the meeting.

Official Side

i) Shri Manoj Pande, AM (Staff)
ii) Shri Tanveer Ahmed, EDF(E)
iii) Shri Dhruv Singh ,EDPC-I
v) Shri Alok Kumar, ED E(IR)
v) Shri S.Balachandra Iyer, EDPC-II

The Federation:
AIRF
NFIR
1. Shri Rakhal Das Gupta, President1. Shri Guman Singh, President
2. Shri Shiv Gopal Mishra, General Secretary2.Dr.M. Raghavaiah, General Secretary
3. Shri J R Bhosle, Treasurer3.Dr.R.P.Bhatnagar, Working President

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2. Shri Manoj Pande, AM (Staff), Chairman/DAC welcomed all the representatives to the meeting and stated that the meeting is to address the anomalies arising out of the implementation of 7th CPC as defined in DoP&T’s OM dated 16th August,2016 and circulated vide Ministry of Railways letter no.PC-VII/2016/DAC/1 dated 29.03.2017 and PC-VII/2016/DAC/1 dated 25.05.2017, As advised through these Letters, anomaly will include the following cases:-

(a) Where the official Side and Staff Side are of the opinion that any recommendation is in contravention of the principle or the policy enunciated by the Seventh Central Pay Commission itself without the Commission assigning any reason;

(b) where the maximum of the Level in the Pay Matrix corresponding to the applicable Grade Pay in the Pay Band under pre-revised structure, as notified vide CCS(RP) Rules,2016, is less than the amount an employee is entitled to be fixed at, as per the formula for fixation of pay contained in the Said Rules;

(c) where the Official Side and the Staff Side are of the opinion that the vertical and horizontal relativity have been disturbed as a result of the 7th Central Pay Commission to give rise to anomalous situation.

3. It was also stated by AM (Staff) that both the Federations were requested to submit the agenda items which have been observed as anomalies within the provision of anomalies as defined in the aforesaid letters. As agenda was given only by NFIR, on the NFIR agenda items remarks were circulated to the participants of the meeting.

4. Dr.M. Raghavaiah, General Secretary , NFIR Stated in his introduction speech that the definition of anomaly should be interpreted liberally.The official side and the staff definition of ‘anomaly’ to ensure that Railway employees are given justice. He said that careful examination and ground realities would reveal that anomalies arised in Railways specific categories are needed to be addressed judiciously. He also brought out following issues/Suggestions.


  • During the Implementation of 6th CPC after due discussions Ministry of Railways sent a detailed proposal in respect of various anomalies especially in respect of pay structure of Technical Supervisors to Ministry of Finance and DoP&T. However, Ministry of Railways failed to place these proposals before 7th CPC.
  • Till the implementation of 6th CPC recommendations the pay structure of Technical Supervisors were placed on a higher pedestal on comparison with pay structure of the corresponding categories of Accounts Department. with the implementation of 6th CPC pay structure the relativity in the case of the technical Supervisors category of Indian railways got disturbed and 7th CPC also did not address this core issue which is affecting thousands of employees.
  • Various proposals /references sent to the Ministry of Finance and Department of Personal and Training are not getting addressed and thereby the issues remain unresolved. As such Ministry of railways may try find out an in house mechanism for addressing these issues. In support of this, past precedent of 1997 was quoted.
  • Certain factual inaccuracies have crept into the 7th CPC Report which need to be addressed. For example, through there was demand from the Federation to raise the entry qualification in respect of Assistant Loco Pilot to Diploma as recommended by Dr. Anil Kadokar, Chairman, HLSRC, whereas, the 7th CPC had wrongly quoted in its report that Federations have demanded Degree qualification. He cited Para 11.40.63 of the 7th CPC report and wanted DAC to take note of this for appropriate action.

5. W.r.t the points raised by Dr. Raghavaiah, the Official Side clarification that all the factual position and historical background were brought before 7th CPC w.r.t the anomailes existing inrespct of the pay strucutre of Technical supervisors.

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6. Shri Shiv Gopal Mishra, General Secretary/AIRF took up the issue regarding up gradation of pay structure in respect of Accounts and CMA cadre as per the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission and stated that there has been no action on implementing these recommendations.

7. As regards, AIRF’s issue regarding of pay structure of various categories of Indian Railways, it was stated by Official Side that while approving the recommendations of 7th CPC, Ministry of Finance in its resolution dated 25.07.2016 decided to refer the recommendations of 7th CPC to upgraded the pay structure of thirteen categories in various Ministries including Accounts and CMA cadres of Indian Railways to DoP&T for taking a comprehensive view. In pursuance of the communications made by Ministry of Railways with 7th CPC and Implementation Cell in this regard. DoP&T after due consideration, in the first week of April 2017 returned these proposals stating that in terms of Transaction of Business Rule (TBR) the up gradation of pay structure is an refer the issue to Department of Expenditure. While acknowledging the 7th CPC recommendation and the Federation’s demand in this case, the Official Side also pointed out that historical relativity across cadres have to be kept in mind.

8. the 28 point agenda given by NFIR was briefly taken up for discussion. The comments of the Nodal Directorate on these issues were shared to all the delegates in the meeting. It is observed that certain issues such as Item no.20 (Perfusionist in Railways) Item no. 18 (Dietician in Railways) already stand resolved. However, point wise detailed discussion of the agenda was not taken up for study to enable the Federation to respond to these comments.

9. Before concluding, it was stated by the Official Side that various anomalous issues and damands such as non-replacement of -1S Scale, ambiguity in 14.29% increase in pay fixation in the case of Running Staff category, Upgradation of pay structure of Railway Dressers, clarifications on FR (22) options and “bunching” increments, improvement in Technical Supervisors’ and group ‘B’ officers pay scale have already been taken up with Ministry of Finance for redressal.

The meeting ended with a note of thanks to the Chair.

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(Jaya Kumar G)
Deputy Director, Pay Commission-VII
Railway Board

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मंत्रिमंडल ने सरकारी पदों के साथ केन्द्रीय सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के उपक्रमों (पीएसयू) बैंक, बीमा संस्‍थाओं में पदों की समतुल्यता को मंजूरी दी, सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के उपक्रमों तथा अन्‍य संस्‍थाओं में निम्‍न श्रेणी के कर्मचारियों के बच्‍चे अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग आरक्षण सुविधा प्राप्‍त कर सकेंगे 

प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेन्‍द्र मोदी की अध्‍यक्षता में केन्‍द्रीय मंत्रिमंडल ने सरकारी पदों के साथ केन्‍द्रीय सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र (पीएसयू) के उपक्रमों, बैंकों में पदों की समतुल्‍यता तथा अन्‍य पिछड़ा वर्ग के आरक्षण लाभों का दावा करने के लिए अपनी मंजूरी प्रदान कर दी है। इससे लगभग 24 साल से लंबित चला आ रहा मुद्दा समाप्‍त हो जायेगा। इससे पीएसयू और अन्‍य संस्‍थाओं में निम्‍न श्रेणियों में काम कर रहे लोगों के बच्‍चों को सरकार में निम्‍न श्रेणियों में काम कर रहे लोगों के बच्‍चों के समान ओबीसी आरक्षण का लाभ मिल सकेगा। इससे ऐसे संस्‍थानों में वरिष्‍ठ पदों पर काम कर रहे लोगों के बच्‍चों को इस लाभ से रोक लग सकेगी जिन्‍हें ओबीसी के लिए आरक्षित सरकारी पदों को दरकिनार कर आय मापदंडों की गलत व्‍याख्‍या के चलते तथा पदों की समतुल्‍यता के अभाव में गैर-क्रीमीलेयर मान लिया जाता था और वास्‍तविक गैर-क्रीमीलेयर उम्‍मीदवार इस आरक्षण सुविधा से वंचित रह जाते थे।

केन्‍द्रीय मंत्रिमंडल ने देश भर में सामाजिक दृष्‍टि से अगड़े व्‍यक्‍तियों/वर्गों (क्रीमीलेयर) को ओबीसी आरक्षण की परिधि से बाहर करने के लिए क्रीमीलेयर प्रतिबंधित व्‍यवस्‍था के लिए वर्तमान 6 लाख रुपए वार्षिक आय के मापदंड को बढ़ाने की भी मंजूरी प्रदान करती है। नई आय का मापदंड 8 लाख रुपए वार्षिक होगा। क्रीमीलेयर से बाहर किए जाने के लिए आय की सीमा में वृद्धि उपभोक्‍ता मूल्‍य सूचकांक में बढ़ोतरी को देखते हुए की गई है और इससे ओबीसी को सरकारी सेवाओं में प्रदान किए गए लाभों तथा केन्‍द्रीय शैक्षिक संस्‍थाओं में दाखिले के लिए ज्‍यादा-से-ज्‍यादा लोगों को इसका लाभ मिल सकेगा।

सरकार के प्रयासों में इन उपायों से ओबीसी के सदस्‍यों को बृहदत्‍तर सामाजिक न्‍याय और समावेशन सुनिश्‍चित हो सकेगा। सरकार राष्‍ट्रीय पिछड़ा वर्ग आयोग को संवैधानिक दर्जा दिलाने के लिए संसद में पहले ही एक विधेयक पेश कर चुकी है। सरकार ने, संविधान के अनुच्‍छेद 340 के अन्‍तर्गत ओबीसी की उप-श्रेणियों के निर्माण के लिए एक आयेाग की स्‍थापना की है जिससे ओबीसी समुदायों के बीच और अधिक पिछड़े लोगों की शिक्षण संस्‍थाओं एवं सरकारी नौकरियों में आरक्षण के लाभों तक पहुंच बन सके। एक साथ लिए गए इन सभी निर्णयों से यह उम्‍मीद है कि शिक्षण संस्‍थाओं और नौकरियों में ओबीसी का बृहत्‍तर प्रतिनिधित्‍व सुनिश्‍चित हो सकेगा वहीं इस श्रेणी के भीतर ज्‍यादा वंचित लोगों को समाज की मुख्‍य धारा में उनके अवसर से वंचित नहीं होना पड़ेगा।

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उच्चतम न्यायालय ने रिट याचिका (सी) 930/1990 (इंद्रा साहनी मामला) में दिनांक 16.11.1992 के अपने निर्णय में सरकार को संगत और आवश्यक सामाजिक-आर्थिक मानदण्डों को लागू करके अन्य पिछड़ा वर्गों से सामाजिक तथा आर्थिक रूप से सम्पन्न व्यक्तियों के अपवर्जन के लिए आधार विनिर्दिष्ट करने का निदेश दिया था।

फरवरी, 1993 में एक विशेषज्ञ समिति गठित की गई थी जिसने अन्य पिछड़ा वर्गों के बीच सामाजिक रूप से सम्पन्न व्यक्तियों अर्थात क्रीमी लेयर की पहचान करने के लिए मानदण्ड विनिर्दिष्ट करते हुए दिनांक 10.03.1993 को अपनी रिपोर्ट प्रस्तुत की थी। इस रिपोर्ट को तत्कालीन कल्याण मंत्रालय द्वारा स्वीकार कर लिया गया था और कार्मिक और प्रशिक्षण विभाग को अग्रेषित कर दिया गया था जिसने क्रीमी लेयर के अपवर्जन के संबंध में दिनांक 08.09.1993 को एक कार्यालय ज्ञापन जारी किया था।

दिनांक 08.09.1993 के कार्यालय ज्ञापन में क्रीमी लेयर की पहचान करने के लिए (क) संवैधानिक/सांविधिक पद, (ख) केन्द्रीय तथा राज्य सरकारों के समूह ‘क’ और समूह ‘ख’ अधिकारी, पीएसयू तथा सांविधिक निकायों, विश्वविद्यालयों के कर्मचारी, (ग) सशस्त्र बलों में कर्नल और उससे ऊपर तथा अर्द्ध-सैनिक बलों में समतुल्य, (घ) डॉक्टर, वकील, प्रबंधन परामर्शदाता, इंजीनियर इत्यादि जैसे व्यावसायिक, (ड़) कृषि भूमि अथवा खाली भूमि और/अथवा भवनों के सम्पत्ति मालिक तथा (छ) आय/सम्पदा करदाता के लिए छह श्रेणियां विनिर्दिष्ट की गई हैं।

इस कार्यालय ज्ञापन में यह भी व्यवस्था है कि उक्त मानदण्ड आवश्यक परिवर्तनों के साथ सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के उपक्रमों, बैंकों, बीमा संगठनों, विश्वविद्यालयों इत्यादि में समतुल्य अथवा तुलनीय पद धारक अधिकारियों के लिए लागू होंगे। इन संस्थाओं में समतुल्यता स्थापित करने के मद्देनजर आय मानदण्ड इन संस्थाओं के अधिकारियों पर लागू होंगे। इस कार्यालय ज्ञापन में यह भी व्यवस्था है कि सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के बैंकों सहित सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के उपक्रमों और वित्तीय संस्थाओं के संबंध में क्रमशः लोक उद्यम विभाग और वित्त मंत्रालय इस संबंध में अनुदेश जारी करेंगे।

तथापि, सरकार तथा पीएसयू, पीएसबी इत्यादि में पदों में समतुल्यता के निर्धारण की यह कवायद आरम्भ नहीं की गई थी। अतः पदों की समतुल्यता के निर्धारण का मामला लगभग 24 वर्ष से लंबित है।

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उसके पश्चात, समतुल्यता स्थापित करने संबंधी मामले की विस्तृत जांच की गई है। सार्वजनिक उपक्रमों में सभी कार्यपालक स्तर के पदों अर्थात् बोर्ड स्तरीय कार्यपालक अधिकारियों और प्रबंधक स्तरीय पदों को सरकार में समूह ‘क’ पदों के समतुल्य समझा जाएगा तथा क्रीमी लेयर माना जाएगा। सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के बैंकों, वित्तीय संस्थाओं और सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के बीमा निगमों के कनिष्ठ प्रबंधन ग्रेड स्तर-1 तथा इससे ऊपर को भारत सरकार में समूह ‘क’ के समतुल्य समझा जाएगा और क्रीमी लेयर माना जाएगा। सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के बैंकों, वित्तीय संस्थाओं तथा सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के बीमा निगमों में लिपिकों एवं चपरासियों हेतु, समय-समय पर यथा संशोधित आय का मानदंड प्रयोज्य होगा। ये व्यापक दिशा-निर्देश हैं तथा प्रत्येक पृथक बैंक, पीएसयू, बीमा कंपनी अपने संबंधित बोर्ड के समक्ष मामले को प्रस्तुत करेंगे ताकि विशिष्ट पद की पहचान की जा सके।
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Government of India
Cabinet
30-August-2017 14:50 IST

Cabinet approves equivalence of posts in Central Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), Banks, Insurance Institutions with Posts in Government so that the children of those serving in lower categories in PSUs and other institutions can get the benefit of OBC reservations 

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval to the norms for establishing equivalence of posts in Government and posts in PSUs, PSBs etc. for claiming benefit of OBC reservations. This addresses an issue pending for nearly 24 years.  This will ensure that the children of those serving in lower categories in PSUs and other institutions can get the benefit of OBC reservations, on par with children of people serving in lower categories in Government. This will also prevent children of those in senior positions in such institutions, who, owing to absence of equivalence of posts, may have been treated as non Creamy Layer by virtue of wrong interpretation of income standards from cornering government posts reserved for OBCs and denying the genuine non creamy layer candidates a level playing field.

The Union Cabinet also approved the increase in the present income criterion of Rs. 6 lakh per annum for applying the Creamy Layer restriction throughout the country, for excluding Socially Advanced Persons/Sections (Creamy Layer) from the purview of reservation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs). The new income criterion will be Rs. 8 lakh per annum. The increase in the income limit to exclude the Creamy Layer is in keeping with the increase in the Consumer Price Index and will enable more persons to take advantage of reservation benefits extended to OBCs in government services and admission to central educational institutions.

These measures are a part of the Government's efforts to ensure greater social justice and inclusion for members of the Other Backward Classes. The Government has already introduced in Parliament, a bill to provide Constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes. It has also decided to set up a Commission, under section 340 of the Constitution, to sub categorize the OBCs, so that the more backward among the OBC communities can also access the benefits of reservation for educational institutions and government jobs. All these decisions, taken together, are expected to ensure greater representation of OBCs in educational institutions and jobs, while also ensuring that the more under-privileged within the category are not denied their chance of social mobility.

Background:

In its judgment dated 16.11.1992 in WP(C) 930/1990 (IndraSawhney case) the Supreme Court had directed the Government to specify the basis, for exclusion of socially and economically advanced persons from Other Backward Classes by applying the relevant and requisite socio-economic criteria.

An Expert Committee was constituted in February 1993 which submitted its report on 10.03.1993 specifying the criteria for identification of socially advanced persons among OBCs i.e. the Creamy Layer. The report was accepted by the then Ministry of Welfare and forwarded to DoPT which issued an OM dated 08.09.1993 on exclusion from the Creamy Layer.

The OM of 08.09.1993 specifies six categories for identifying Creamy Layer (a) Constitutional/Statutory post (b) Group  ‘A’  and Group ‘B’ Officers of Central and State Governments, employees of PSUs and Statutory bodies, universities, (c) Colonel and above in armed forces and equivalent in paramilitary  forces (d) professionals like Doctors, Lawyers, Management Consultants, Engineers etc. (e) Property owners with agricultural holdings or vacant land and/or buildings  and (f) income/wealth tax asessee.

The OM further stipulates that the said parameters would apply mutatis mutandis to officers holding equivalent or comparable posts in PSUs, Banks, Insurance Organizations, Universities, etc. and Government was required to determine equivalence of positions in these organizations with those in Government.

Pending the equivalence to the established in these institutions Income criteria would apply for the officers in these Institutions.

However, this exercise of determining the equivalence of posts in Government and posts in PSUs, PSBs etc. had not been initiated. The determination of equivalence of posts has been thus pending for almost 24 years.

The matter of formulating equivalence has since been examined in detail. In PSUs, all Executive level posts i.e. Board level executives and managerial level posts would be treated as equivalent to group 'A' posts in Government and will be considered Creamy Layer. Junior Management Grade Scale–1 and above of  Public Sector Banks, Financial Institutions and Public Sector Insurance Corporations will be treated as equivalent to Group 'A' in the Government of India and considered as Creamy Layer. For Clerks and Peons in PSBs, FIs and PSICs, the Income Test as revised from time to time will be applicable. These are the broad guidelines and each individual Bank, PSU, Insurance Company would place the matter before their respective board to identify individual posts.
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रक्षा मंत्रालय ने सशस्त्र बलों में सुधार के पहले चरण को मंजूरी दी 


आजादी के बाद पहली बार रक्षा मंत्रालय ने भारतीय सेना के साथ परामर्श के तहत भारतीय सेना में योजनाबद्ध तरीके से सुधार करने का निर्णय लिया है। रक्षा से संबंधित सभी पक्षों के साथ विस्तृत विचार-विमर्श करने के पश्चात रक्षा मंत्री श्री अरुण जेटली ने इन निर्णयों को मंजूरी दी है।

सुधार के पहले चरण में अधिकारी/जेसीओ/ओआर और असैन्यकर्मियों के लगभग 57,000 पदों का पुनर्गठन किया जाएगा। मंजूर किए गए प्रमुख सुधार निम्न हैं-
  • सिग्नल प्रतिष्ठानों के अधिकतम उपयोग के लिए रेडियो निगरानी कंपनी, एयर सपोर्ट सिग्नल रेजिमेंट, एयर फॉर्मेशन सिग्नल रेजिमेंट, संयुक्त सिग्नल रेजीमेंट्स को सिग्नल प्रतिष्ठानों में शामिल किया जाएगा तथा कोर संचालन और इंजीनियरिंग सिग्नल रेजिमेंटों का विलय कर दिया जाएगा।
  • सेना के रख-रखाव व मरम्मत इकाईयों की पुर्नसंरचना की जाएगी। इसके अंतर्गत बेस वर्कशॉप, एडवांस बेस वर्कशॉप और स्टेशन वर्कशॉप को शामिल किया जाएगा।
  • आयुध विभाग की पुर्नसंरचना। इसके अंतर्गत वाहन डिपो, आयुध डिपो और केन्द्रीय आयुध डिपो को शामिल किया जाएगा।
  • पशुओं की परिवहन इकाइयों के आपूर्ति और परिवहन विभागों का बेहतर उपयोग किया जाएगा।
  • शांतिपूर्ण क्षेत्रों में सैन्य फार्मों और सैन्य डाक प्रतिष्ठानों को समाप्त करना।
  • सेना में वाहन चालकों और लिपिकों की भर्ती को उच्च स्तरीय बनाया जाएगा।
  • राष्ट्रीय कैडेट कोर की कार्य दक्षता में सुधार।
सुरक्षा पर कैबिनेट कमेटी के निर्णय के पश्चात 39 सैन्य फार्मों को समयबद्ध तरीके से समाप्त करने का कार्य प्रारंभ कर दिया गया है।

रक्षा मंत्रालय ने लेफ्टिनेंट जनरल (सेवानिवृत्त) डीबी शेकाटकर की अध्यक्षता में विशेषज्ञों की एक समिति गठित की थी, जिसका उद्देश्य सेना की युद्ध क्षमता बढ़ाने तथा रक्षा व्यय को संतुलित करने के संबंध में सुझाव देना था।

विशेषज्ञों की समिति ने दिसंबर, 2016 में मंत्रालय को अपनी रिपोर्ट सौंप दी थी। रक्षा मंत्रालय ने इसपर विचार करने के पश्चात 99 सिफारिशों को सशस्त्र बलों को भेज दिया। इसका उद्देश्य सिफारिशों के अनुसार कार्यान्वयन योजना बनाना था। रक्षा मंत्री श्री अरुण जेटली ने कार्यान्वयन के लिए भारतीय सेना से संबंधित 65 सिफारिशों को मंजूरी दी है।

इन सुधारों को 31 दिसंबर, 2019 तक पूरा कर लिया जाएगा। भारतीय सेना के पुनर्गठन का उद्देश्य सेना की युद्ध क्षमता बढ़ाना, अधिकारियों/जेसीओ/ओआर का परिचालन तैयारी में उपयोग और असैन्य रक्षाकर्मियों की कार्य कुशलता बढ़ाने के लिए सेना के विभिन्न प्रभागों में प्रतिनियुक्ति करना है।
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Press Information Bureau 
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
30-August-2017

Ministry of Defence approves first phase of reforms in The Armed Forces 


In a first ever exercise after Independence, the Ministry of Defence in consultation with the Indian Army has decided to reform the Indian Army in a planned manner. These decisions were approved by the Defence Minister Shri Arun Jaitley after an extensive consultation with all stakeholders.

The first phase of the reforms involves redeployment and restructuring of approximately 57,000 posts of officers/JCOs/ORs and civilians. Major reforms concerning the following have been approved:-
  • Optimisation of Signals Establishments to include Radio Monitoring Companies, Corps Air Support Signal Regiments, Air Formation Signal Regiments, Composite Signal Regiments and merger of Corps Operating and Engineering Signal Regiments.
  • Restructuring of repair echelons in the Army to include Base Workshops, Advance Base Workshops and Static/Station Workshops in the field Army.
  • Redeployment of Ordnance echelons to include Vehicle Depots, Ordnance Depots and Central Ordnance Depots apart from streamlining inventory control mechanisms.
  • Better utilization of Supply and Transport echelons and Animal Transport units.
  • Closure of Military Farms and Army postal establishments in peace locations.
  • Enhancement in standards for recruitment of clerical staff and drivers in the Army.
  • Improving the efficiency of the National Cadet Corps.

Implementation has begun with the decision of the Cabinet Committee on Security to close 39 military farms in a time bound manner.

The Ministry of Defence had constituted a Committee of Experts under the Chairmanship of Lt Gen (Retd) (Dr.) DB Shekatkar with a mandate to recommend measures for enhancing of Combat Capability & Rebalancing Defence Expenditure of the Armed Forces with an aim to increase "teeth to tail ratio".

The Committee of experts had submitted its report to the Ministry in December, 2016, which was considered by the Ministry of Defence and 99 recommendations were sent to the Armed Forces for making an implementation plan. The Defence Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has approved 65 of these recommendations pertaining to the Indian Army for implementation.

These reforms will be completed in all respects by 31 December 2019. Restructuring by the Indian Army is aimed at enhancing Combat Capability in a manner that the officers/JCOs/ORs will be used for improving operational preparedness and civilians will be redeployed in different wings of the Armed Forces for improving efficiency.
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Issuance of pensioners copy of the PPO to the Pensioner at the time of retirement: Railway Board Order

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Issuance of pensioners copy of the PPO to the Pensioner: Railway Board Order

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)
RBA NO. 121/2017
No. 2012/AC-II/ 21/ Misc matters/Pt-II
New Delhi, dated 2?08.2017

All Zonal Railways / PUs
Sub:- Issuance of pensioners’ copy of the PPO to the Pensioner.

It has been brought to the notice of Board by one of the Pensioners’ Association that the both the pensioners’ copy and disbursers’ copy of the PFC are being sent to the nodal branch of the Public Sector Banks. In this connection, attention is invited to Para 4 of Board’s letter no. F E(HI)/ 2008/ PN1/ 23 dated 17.03.2015 regarding simplification of pension procedure. 

Para 4 of the letter envisages that the pensioners’ copy may be handed over to him at the time of retirement along with other retirement dues in all cases where the Government servant had submitted pension papers within the time-limits.

It is therefore, requested to review and streamline the system prevailing on your Railway. Feedback on action taken may kindly be apprised to Board.

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(Vivek.P. Tripathi)
Director Finance/CCA
Railway Board

7th CPC Allowance Order by Railway Board: National Holiday Allowance

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7th CPC Allowance Order by Railway Board: National Holiday Allowance

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)
PC-VII No.46
RBE No. 108/2017
No. E(P&A)I-2017/HL/1 
New Delhi, dated 30.08.2017.

The General Managers and Principal Financial Advisers,
All Indian Railways & Production Units.

Sub: Implementation of recommendations of Seventh Central Pay Commission accepted by the Government - National Holiday Allowance.

Consequent upon the decisions taken by the government on the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission relating to revision of allowances, the President is pleased to revise the rates of National Holiday Allowance as under:
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Level in the Pay Matrix (VII CPC)
Rate of Allowance (per day)
1 and 2384
3 to 5477
6 to 8 (limited to non-gazetted staff)630

2. The rates of this allowance will further increase by 25 percent each time DA rises by 50 percent.

3. The revised rates of allowance shall be admissible with effect from the 1st July, 2017.

4. The other terms and conditions as contained in Board’s letter No. E(P&A)l-97/HL/2 dated 18.02.1998 for grant of this allowance shall remain unchanged.

5. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
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6. Please acknowledge receipt.

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(Anil Kumar)
Dy. Director/E(P&A)-I
Railway Board.

Government Retires 13 Group ‘A’ Officers of Indian Ordnance Factories Service due to their overall unsatisfactory performance

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Press Information Bureau 
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
31-August-2017 16:10 IST
Press Communique 

Government Retires 13 Group ‘A’ Officers of Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) 

The ordnance factories under the administrative control of the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence are managed by the officers of Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS), which is an organized Group 'A' Central Service. The Service is responsible to ensure that the ordnance factories are always geared to cater to the varied logistical needs of the Armed Forces. Indian Ordnance Factories Service provides requisite leadership to the 39 Ordnance Factories employing about 1 lakh employees.

The Government is taking various steps to improve the performance of Ordnance Factories by making its officers accountable to ensure delivery of quality products to Armed Forces of the nation in prescribed timelines.

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One of the steps taken in this direction was to initiate rigorous screening of overall performance of its officers based on their entire service records in pursuance of instructions contained in the Fundamental Rule 56(j) and Rule 48(1)(b) of Central Civil Service(Pension) Rules, 1972 and prematurely retire the officers whose overall performance is not found upto the mark.

The Government, after having assessed the overall performance of officers of Indian Ordnance Factories Service, following the prescribed procedure, has decided to retire its 13 Group 'A' officers from Government service in public interest due to their overall unsatisfactory performance.

Source: PIB
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