Incentives to Sports persons

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Incentives to Sports persons 20 DEC 2018 Incentives in the form of Cash awards are given to medal winners in international sports events of various sports disciplines including those of Football, Hockey, Badminton, Lawn Tennis.  Cash awards are given in accordance with the provisions of the Scheme of 'Special Awards to Medal Winners in International Sports Events and their Coaches'. As Cricket is at present not included in Olympic Games/Asian Games/Commonwealth Games, no cash award is given...

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Promotion of Sports

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Promotion of Sports 20 DEC 2018 There is a proposal under consideration of the Government to bring "Sports" under concurrent List from State List. In this regard, the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports (Department of Sports) has sought comments from the concerned Ministries/Departments as well as Governments of States/UTs. The main objective of shifting "Sports" from State List to Concurrent List is to enable the Central Government to provide for a robust comprehensive framework for sports. All...

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Annuity based alternate pension proposal for the employees of NVS prior to 1.1.2004

Annuity based alternate pension proposal for the employees of NVS prior to 1.1.2004 F. No. 3-1/2018 -NVS(Admn)/3584 Date : 4/12/2018 To, The Deputy Commissioner, All Regional Offices Sub: Annuity based alternate pension proposal for the employees of NVS prior to 1.1.2004 - reg. Sir, In continuation to this office letter of even number dated 06.12.2018 seeking willingness of the employees with regard to introduction of alternate annuity...

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7th Pay Commission Fitment Factor and House Rent Allowance - No Change Therein is Envisaged

7th Pay Commission Fitment Factor and House Rent Allowance - No Change Therein is Envisaged 7th CPC Fitment and HRA - No Change Therein is Envisaged In written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on 11th December 2018 , Minister of State for Finance Shri P.Radhakrishnan said no change in 7th CPC Fitment Factor and House Rent Allowance. Increase in Pay Fitment Factor and HRA "The fitment factor for the purpose of fixation of pay in the revised pay structure based on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission is 2.57 which...

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Senior Citizen Entitlement of Employees

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Senior Citizen Entitlement of Employees 19 DEC 2018 Department of Social Justice & Empowerment has informed that there is at present no proposal in that Department for lowering the age of senior citizen. Government employees become entitle to pension on retirement. There is also no proposal to increase or decrease the age of retirement of Central Government Employees. The salient features of the pension entitlements of employees retiring from the Central Government are as under: A ...

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Redresasal of Public Grievances & CPGRAMS

Redresasal of Public Grievances & CPGRAMS Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Redresasal of Public Grievances 19 DEC 2018 As per the data available on the online Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS), the year-wise number of grievances received and disposed off during the period from 1.1.2014 to 13.12.2018 in respect of Ministries/Departments of Government of India is as under: There has been about fivefold increase in the number of grievances received in CPGRAMS from 2014 to 2017. ...

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Promotion on Public Rating

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Promotion on Public Rating 19 DEC 2018 The Government has no proposal under consideration to promote the Government officials based on public rating/feedback. Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare has informed that an “Aadhar-based Digital Life Certificate (DLC)" for pensioners was launched on 10th November, 2014. Aadhaar is used for authentication of pensioners.  As a result of this facility the pensioner is not required to present himself before his pension disbursing...

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