Memorandum submitted to 7th Central Pay Commission : Corrigendum on the Proposed Pay Scales

Memorandum submitted to 7th Central Pay Commission : Corrigendum on the Proposed Pay Scales

Corrigendum – Revision of Pay Scales of Running Staff and Nursing Cadre from proposed pay scales in Memorandum submitted to 7th Central Pay Commission.

All India Railwaymen’s Federation
4, State Entry Road,
New Delhi – 110055
INDIA

No.AIRF/405(VII CPC)

Dated: September 8, 2014

Hon’ble Chairman,
Seventh Central Pay Commission,
New Delhi

Respected Sir,
Sub: Corrigendum on the Proposed Pay Scales

This refers to detailed memorandum submitted by the All India Railwaymen’s Federation to Seventh Central Pay Commission on 30th July, 2014. Consequent upon certain internal deliberations, the proposed pay scales, as contained in our original memorandum submitted to VII CPC, need to be revised as appended below:-

S.No.	Categories	Existing Pay Scales	Minimum of the open-ended proposed scale
1.	Guard(Goods)	PB-I GP Rs.2800	Rs.56000
2.	Asstt. Station Master, Pharmacist	PB-I GP Rs.2800	Rs.74000
3.	Loco Pilot(Shunting)	PB-I GP Rs.2400 & GP Rs.4200	Rs.56000
4.	Loco Pilot(Goods), Loco Pilot(Passenger), Motorman, Loco Pilot(Mail/Express) Guard (Passenger), Guard(Mail/ Express), Shunting Master, Chief TNC and any other posts in PB-II(GP Rs.4200)	PB-II GP Rs.4200	Rs.74000
5.	Staff Nurse	PB-II GP Rs.4600	Rs.74000
6.	Nursing Sister	PB-II GP Rs.4800	Rs.78000
7.	Chief Matron	PB-III GP Rs.5400	Rs.88000
8.	Railway Stenographers may be provided with same pay scales and remunerations as those of CSS/RBSS, as the Ministry of Railways has not yet granted parity to them.	-	As already proposed in the memorandum

The VII CPC are earnestly requested to kindly consider the above proposal of the AIRF favourbaly.
With kind regards!

Yours faithfully,
sd/-
(Shiva Gopal Mishra)
General Secretary

Copy to: Member Secretary, Seventh Central Pay Commission, New Delhi – for kind information and taking necessary action

Source: AIRF

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Confederation decides to protest nationwide for the demands including Merger of DA and Interim Relief

Confederation decides to protest nationwide for the demands including Merger of DA and Interim Relief - Indian Government News

Confederation publishes the nationwide agitational programme starts from 11th, 19th and 25th September, 2014…

CONFEDERATION’S NATIONWIDE AGITATIONAL PROGRAMME

MAKE IT A GRAND SUCCESS

Phase I – 11.09.2014 – Protest Demonstration at all important places and submission of Memorandum to Cabinet Secretary and all Departmental Heads

NB: copy to the Memorandum, Charter of Demands and explanatory notes on Charter of Demands will be exhibited in the website on 10.09.2014.

Phase – II – 19.09.2014 – Nationwide Day Long Mass Dharna at all important centres.
Phase – III – 25.09.2014 – Mass Dharna at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi

Following are the Demands: –

1. Merger of DA with pay for all employees w.e.f. 01.01.2014 including Gramin Dak Sewaks and Pensioners.

2. Grant of Interim Relief to all employees including Gramin Dak Sewaks and Pensioners.

3. Inclusion of Gramin Dak Sewaks under the purview of 7th Central Pay Commission

4. Scrap PFRDA Act and grant statutory defined pension to all including those appointed on or after 01.01.2004.

5. Date of effect of 7th CPC recommendation should be 01.01.2014.

6. Regularisation and Revision of wages of casual labourers and contract workers.

7. Removal of 5% condition for compassionate appointment.

8. Fill up all vacant post and creation of New Post wherever justified.

9. Stop Downsizing, Outsourcing, Contractorisation and Privatisation of Government function.

10. Grant productivity Linked Bonus to all without ceiling; Compute bonus as weighted average of PLB for those not covered by PLB agreement.

11. Revise OTA and NDA and implement arbitration awards.

12. Settle all pending anomalies of 5th and 6th Pay Commission.

All CHQ office bearers, General Secretaries of State C-O-Cs, Chief Executives of all affiliates and Branch/District/Divisional Secretaries are requested to mobilize maximum employees in the above programme.

Source: http://confederationhq.blogspot.in/

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GENC declares agitation to remove bonus ceiling of Rs.3500

GENC will observe an Agitation Programme throughout the country from 15.09.2014 to 20.09.2014 to remove the ceiling of Rs. 3500/- per mensem under the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 and Productivity Linked Bonus Scheme

BHARATIYA PRATIRAKSHA MAZDOOR SANGH
(AN ALL INDIA FEDERATION OF DEFENCE WORKERS)
(AN INDUSTRIAL UNIT OF B.M.S.)
(RECOGNISED BY MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, GOVT. OF INDIA)

CENTRAL OFFICE: 2-A, NAVEEN MARKET, KANPUR – 208001, PH & FAX : (0512) 2332222
MOBILE: 09415733686, 09235729390, 09335621629, WEB : www.bpms.org.in

No. BPMS/14/CIR/2014

Dated: 08.09.2014

To,
The Office Bearers / CEC Members &
President / Secretary of the unions
affiliated to BPMS

SUB: AGITATION PROGRAMME FROM 15.09.2014 to 20.09.2014.

Dear Brothers & Sisters,
Sadar Namaskar,

It has been decided by Government Employees National Confederation that all the constituent Federations of GENC will observe an Agitation Programme throughout the country from 15.09.2014 to 20.09.2014 to remove the ceiling of Rs. 3500/- per mensem under the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 and Productivity Linked Bonus Scheme. You are aware that Section 12 of the Payment of Bonus Act has been amended by Act 45 of 2007 (w.e.f. 01.04.2006) regarding calculation of bonus with respect to certain employees which states as under:-

“Where the salary or wage of an employee exceeds three thousand and five hundred rupees per mensem, the bonus payable to such employee under Section 10 or, as the case may be, under Section 11, shall be calculated as if his salary or wage were three thousand and five hundreds rupees per mensem.”

Meanwhile, Central Government accepted the recommendations of 06th CPC with effect from 01.01.2006 and fixed the minimum basic pay plus grade pay as Rs. 5200 + 1800 = 7000.

Therefore 28,06,369 Group ‘C’ (Non Gazetted) and 1,13,477 Group ‘B’ (Non Gazetted) total thirty lakh approx. Central Government employees are getting the bonus @ Rs. 3500/- per mensem under the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 or Productivity Linked Bonus whereas none of them is drawing wages less than Rs. 7000/- per mensem excluding other allowances which has beencausing discontentment amongst the employees.

In this agitation programme Gate Meetings, Demonstration at Main Gate, Rallies, Wearing Black Badges and may include other peaceful methods decided at your levels will be organized as per feasibility. This demand week will be concluded with the giving Memorandum to respective Head of Department on last working day (20.09.2014) addressed to Hon’ble Prime Minister of India and copy to the Minister of Labour & Employment, Govt of India.We hope for full support and co-operation to give a great success to this programme.

Brotherly Yours
sd/-
(M.P.Singh)
General Secretary

Source: BPMS

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7% DA from July 2014 – Prompt decision is worth appreciating..!

7% DA from July 2014 – Prompt decision is worth appreciating..!

The Centre has announced an additional 7% DA hike for the Central Government employees and Pensioners from July 2014.

Usually, agendas for central government employees’ DA hike are presented at the Cabinet meeting only on the third or fourth Thursdays of the month. There are times when these decisions were made during the last cabinet meeting of the season. Sometimes, these decisions are not made even during the last meeting and are taken up only during special meeting or at critical times.

On the 4th of this month, out of the blue, the Government announced a 7% DA hike. The cabinet’s announcement gives a positive conclusion to the relentless waiting of the past few weeks.

DA is calculated twice a year (from January to June, and from July to December) based on the changes in the Consumer Price Index (IW) BY 2001=100. The AICPIN numbers of the month are released by the Labour Bureau the following month.

In the month of August, the Labour Bureau sends the AICPIN data for the months of January to July, to the Finance Ministry. Based on the data, the Finance Ministry calculates the DA hike and the additional expense likely to be incurred, and presents the findings and reports towards the end of August to the Cabinet for its approval. The final decision is made in the month of September. This is the usual procedure.

Irrespective of the date of the Cabinet approval in the month of September, the DA hikes are calculated and given along with the salary for the month of September. Increase for the month of July and August are calculated and given as arrears to the employees and pensioners too.

Although 7% hike has been confirmed already, the prompt decision is worth appreciating!

Source : www.cgstaffnews.in

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DoPT Order on Search/Selection Committees

DoPT Order on Search/Selection Committees

Press Information Bureau 

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

05-September-2014 18:12 IST

DoPT Order on Search/Selection Committees

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has directed that the Search Committee/Search-cum-Selection Committee should recommend panels in the order of merit. The ACC has, however, observed that in some of the cases submitted by various Ministries/Departments, the Selection Committees/Search-cum-Selection Committees are not recommending the panel in order of merit/preference.

In view of the above, the ACC has reiterated that unless statutorily required not to arrange the names in the panel in the order of preference, the Selection Committee/Search-cum-Selection Committee must invariably indicate the order of preference.

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Expected Dearness Allowance from January 2015: Indian Government

Expected Dearness Allowance from January 2015

As all of us expected, 7% DA hike has been approved by Cabinet on 4th September 2014. Necessary order for payment of DA with effect from 1st July 2014 will be issued by Ministry of Finance soon. Here after our focus will be moving on to next instalment of dearness allowance which will be paid from 1st January 2015. We just analyse the trend of Consumer Price Index with the past seven months AICPCIN to arrive the expected DA from January 2015.

Since 2006, the AICPIN has witnessed second highest ever increase in July 2014. In 2009 the AICPIN increased by 7 points from 153 to 160 in the month of July. After that, an increase of 6 points over 246 points was declared in July 2014. It is the second highest monthly increase on AICPIN records from 2006. See the table below…

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	MaxIncrease
2006	119	119	119	120	121	123	124	124	125	127	127	127	2
2007	127	128	127	128	129	130	132	133	133	134	134	134	2
2008	134	135	137	138	139	140	143	145	146	148	148	147	3
2009	148	148	148	150	151	153	160	162	163	165	168	169	7
2010	172	170	170	170	172	174	178	178	179	181	182	185	3
2011	188	185	185	186	187	189	193	194	197	198	199	197	4
2012	198	199	201	205	206	208	212	214	215	217	218	219	4
2013	221	223	224	226	228	231	235	237	238	241	243	239	4
2014	237	238	239	242	244	246	252						6

What is the impact of this highest increase of AICPIN on expected Dearness Allowance from January 2015?
It is observed that when it was 7 points increase in July 2009, it influenced very much on increasing the rate of DA to be paid from 1st January 2010 and 1st July 2010. The rate of Dearness Allowance had been enhanced by 8% from 25% to 35% with effect from 1.1.2010 and 10% increase from 35% to 45% was declared with effect from 1.7.2010. Though there was no considerable increase after those 7 points in that particular 12 months from July 2009 to June 2010, the rate of DA had been reached 8% and 10% increase level for  successive two instalments.

From this point of view, it is quite obvious that this one month increase on AICPIN is enough to play a vital role to have a considerable hike in rate of Dearness Allowance for forth coming two instalments. So this 6 points increase of AICPIN in July 2014, we can expect, will have a profound impact on increasing the rate of Dearness allowance to be paid, not only from 1st January 2015, but also from July 2015.

Let us see the three probabilities of  AICPIN trend, through which we can figure out approximately the expected DA from January 2015 

Probabilities (with AICPIN-IW points)	Expected DA from Jan 2015
Average increase of 3 points for remaining 5 months	9%
Average increase of 2 points for remaining 5 months	8%
If same points (252)continues for remaining  5 months	6%

Source: www.centralgovernmentnews.com

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DOPT letter to Secretaries on filing Returns of Assets and Liabilities - Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013

DOPT letter to Secretaries on filing Returns of Assets and Liabilities - Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013

Government of India
Department of Personnel & Training
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
North Block New Delhi 110001

Bhaskar Khulbe
Additional Secretary
D.O.No. 407/12/2014-AVD-lV(B)

Dated: 8th September, 2014

Dear Secretary,

Please refer to my D.O. letter of even No. dated 1st August, 2014 regarding furnishing of information relating to assets and liabilities by public servants under section 44 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013.

2. In this regard, I am forwarding a copy of the Central Governments notification dated 08th September, 2014 (Annexure-l). containing an Order amending the Lokpal & Lokayuktas (Removal of Difficulties) Order, 2014, for the purpose of extending the time limit for carrying out necessary changes in the relevant rules relating to different services from two hundred and seventy days to three hundred and sixty days’, from the date on which the Act came into force, i.e., 16 January, 2014.

3. Government has also notified on 8th September, 2014, the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Amendment Rules, 2014, extending the time limit for filing of revised returns by all public servants from 15th September, 2014 to 31st December, 2014, A copy of the notification containing the said amendment Rules is enclosed (Annexure-II)

4. I request you to kindly issue orders towards ensuring compliance with these Rules by all officers and staff in your Ministry/Department and in various organisations/PSUs under the control of your Ministry/Department, within the revised time-limit mentioned in the amended Rules, by filing their revised returns of assets and liabilities to the competent authority on or before 31 December, 2014.

5. I also request you to kindly ensure that necessary follow-up action for harmonizing the provisions of the relevant rules relating to all categories of public servants (as defined in the Act) falling under the jurisdiction / administrative /cadre control of your Ministry/Department is completed within the revised time limit of 360 days now provided in the Order dated 8th September, 2014 (Annexure-l).

Yours Sincerely
(Bhaskar Khulbe)

Source : DOPT

[http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02ser/do_letter_Sec.pdf]

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