MACP - Grant of financial upgradations under Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme

MACP - Grant of financial upgradations under Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme

No.A-26011/20/MACPS/2017/MF.CGA(A)/NGE/162

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE
CONTROLLER GENERAL OF ACCOUNTS

MAHALEKHA NIYANTRAK BHAWAN
'E' BLOCK, GPO COMPLEX, INA
NEW DELHI-110023
Dated: 4th June, 2018

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Grant of financial upgradations under Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme.

Reference is invited to this office OM No. A- 26011/20/MACPS/2017/MF.CGA(A)/NGE/39 dated 13th April, 2018 and its subsequent reminder of even no. 110 dated 31.05.2018 vide which Ministries/Departments were requested to forward the cases of such AAOs/PS who are eligible for grant of financial upgradation upto 31.03.2019, in the enclosed proforma along with Service Book, complete CR Dossier upto 2016-17 and latest vigilance clearance certificate respectively by 15.05.2018 & 31.05.2018.

In this regard, it is stated that the requisite information is yet to be received from the Ministries/Departments mentioned below.

In view of above, it is requested that the matter may please be expedited and the cases of eligible AAOs/PS may be forwarded in the enclosed proforma alongwith Service Book, complete CR Dossier upto 2016- 17 and latest vigilance clearance certificate by 11.06.2018 positively. In case of NIL information the same may also be furnished.

End: As above.

S/d,
(S.K.Gupta)
Senior Accounts Officer

To
All Pr.CCAs/CCAs/CAs
(CBEC,Coal,Commerce,CPAO,E&F,MEA,Health,HRD,INGAF,L &E,MNRE,RD,S&T,SRTH,H&UA)
Sr.A.O. (ITD)for uploading the OM on the CGA website.

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World Bank approves Rs. 6,000 crore Atal Bhujal Yojana

Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

World Bank approves Rs. 6,000 crore Atal Bhujal Yojana

06 JUN 2018

The World Bank has approved Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABHY), a Rs.6000 crore Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. The scheme is to be implemented over a period of five years from 2018-19 to 2022-23, with World Bank assistance. The scheme proposal has already been recommended by the Expenditure Finance Committee and the Ministry will be seeking Cabinet approval for the project shortly.

Atal Bhujal Yojana has been formulated by the Ministry to address the criticality of ground water resources in a major part of the country. The scheme aims to improve ground water management in priority areas in the country through community participation. The priority areas identified under the scheme fall in the states of Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. These States represent about 25% of the total number of over-exploited, critical and semi-critical blocks in terms of ground water in India. They also cover two major types of groundwater systems found in India - alluvial and hard rock aquifers- and have varying degrees of institutional readiness and experience in groundwater management.

Funds under the scheme will be provided to the states for strengthening the institutions responsible for ground water governance, as well as for encouraging community involvement for improving ground water management to foster behavioural changes that promote conservation and efficient use of water. The scheme will also facilitate convergence of ongoing Government schemes in the states by incentivizing their focussed implementation in identified priority areas. Implementation of the scheme is expected to benefit nearly 8350 Gram Panchayats in 78 districts in these states. Funds under the scheme will be made available to the participating states as Grants.

Ensuring active community participation in groundwater management is among the major objectives of the scheme. The scheme envisages active participation of the communities in various activities such as formation of Water User Associations, monitoring and disseminating ground water data, water budgeting, preparation and implementation of Gram-Panchayat wise water security plans and IEC activities related to sustainable ground water management. Community participation is also expected to facilitate bottom-up groundwater planning process to improve the effectiveness of public financing and align implementation of various government programs on groundwater in the participating states.

The implementation of the scheme is expected to have several positive outcomes like better understanding of the ground water regime, focused and integrated community based approach for addressing issues related to ground water depletion, sustainable ground water management through convergence of on-going and new schemes, adoption of efficient water use practices to reduce ground water use for irrigation and augmentation of ground water resources in targeted areas.

PIB

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DoPT: Training of Non- Statutory Departmental Canteens employees on Food Safety & Standards norms by Food Safety & Standards Authority of India

DoPT: Training of Non- Statutory Departmental Canteens employees on Food Safety & Standards norms by Food Safety & Standards Authority of India

No. 17/I/2018-Dir (C)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel & Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training

Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market
New Delhi, dated 5th June, 2018

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Training of Non- Statutory Departmental Canteens employees on Food Safety & Standards norms by Food Safety & Standards Authority of India.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department's O.M. of even number dated 24.05.2018 on the above subject and to state that no nomination for the aforesaid training has yet been received by FSSAI from any Ministry/ Department.

2. All the Ministries /Departments are, therefore, once again requested to nominate individual for aforesaid training programme latest by 12.06.2018 on e-mail I.D- Shantnu@green-foods.in and ensure their active participation in the same, under intimation to this Department.

3. For further information queries, Sh. Shantnu Gupta, Food Technologist, FoSTaC (Mobile No. 09717171919 and e-maiII.D- Shantnu@green- foods.in) may be approached.

(Kulbhushan of India)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Tel No. : 011-24646961

Source: DoPT

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Need Uniform Format to Claim Children Education Allowance - NFIR

Need Uniform Format to Claim Children Education Allowance - NFIR

NFIR writes to Railway Board to issue proper unifrom format to claims for reimbursement of CEA to avoid delay…

NFIR
National Federation of Indian Railwaymen
3, Chelmsford Road, New Delhi - 110 055

Affiliated to:
Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
International Transport Workers; Federation (ITF)

No.I/13(a)

Dated: 04/06/2018

Sub: Grant of Children Education Allowance to the railway employees implementation of Board's decision - problems - reg.

Ref: Railway Board's RBE No.147/2017 letter No.E(W)2017/ED- 2/3 dated 12/10/2017.

Pursuant to Government decision on the recommendation of 7th Central Pay Commission, the DoP&T vide No.A-27012/02/2017- Estt.(AL) dated 16/08//2017 had issued instructions revising the amount for reimbursement of Children Education Allowance and Hostel Subsidy. The Railway Board vide RBE No.147/2017 dated l2th Oct, 2017 has issued corresponding instructions to the General Managers for ensuring payment of Children Education Allowance & Hostel Subsidy at revised rates from 01/07/2017.

On Zonal Railways, the staff are facing much inconvenience on account of non-issuance of proper proforma/format for preferring claims, consequently the reimbursement is delayed and claims continued to remain pending due to queries being raised at different levels. It is further learnt that the Eastern Railway, South Eastern Railway and Central Railway have issued proforma/format which are however not common. Other Zonal Railways have not at all issued proforma for preferring the claims. It has however been found that the Eastern Railway Administration has not only circulated format, but also issued JPO.

NFIR is of the view that it would be necessary to bring reimbursement to avoid delay as well staff grievances.

NFIR therefore requests the Railway Board to arrange to issue proper format to enable the employees to prefer claims without hassles together with certificate from the Heads of the Institutions. Such uniform format will be advantageous to the Railway Administration as well to staff who are entitled for reimbursement of Children Education allowance/Hostel Subsidy.

Yours faithfully,

sd/-

(Dr M.Raghavaiah)

General Secretary

Source: NFIR

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Review of Model constitution and Rule and Regulations for the Residents Welfare Associations recognised by the government of India, Department of Personnel and Training

Review of Model constitution and Rule and Regulations for the Residents Welfare Associations recognised by the government of India, Department of Personnel and Training

No. 5/02/2018-Welfare
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions
(Department of Personnel & Training)

Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market,
New Delhi, Dated 4th June, 2018

To
1) All Area Welfare Officers.
2) Presidents of all RWAs.
3) Secretary of all RWAs.
4) All Ministries/Departments.
5) Placed on website of Department of Personnel and Training.

Sub:- Review of Model constitution and Rule and Regulations for the Residents Welfare Associations recognised by the government of India, Department of Personnel and Training- regarding.

Sir/Madam,
Keeping the following objectives in view, the Government of India, Department of Personnel & Training has been encouraging the formation of Residents' Welfare Associations in Government residential colonies as well as private colonies in which 2 or more Central Government employees are residing in one compact area:-

(a) To foster a spirit of mutual help and goodwill among the inhabitants of the colonyin general, and the members of the Association in particular, thereby, promoting communal harmony and national integration.
(b) To make all possible effort to achieve general amenities. Consumer protection such as interaction with traders on quality and quantity of goods, over charging etc. monitoring of the public distribution system including supply of essential and
consumable items and environmental protection such as steps to curb pollution, ensure cleanliness, plantation of tress, interaction with authorities on any environmental aspects and for this purpose, represent the interest of the residents
before appropriate authorities.
(c) To undertake all such other lawful acts, deeds or thing including Sports Cultural activities as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of any or all of the above objects including the general welfare of the Employees and their families.
(d) To promote such welfare and socio-economic activities as may be approved by the Department of personnel and Training.

2. Welfare Division of the Department of Personnel and Training, with a view to bring about uniformity and to provide guidance to these Association in their organizational matters have formulated a "Model constitution" and "Rules and Regulations" for the Residents Welfare Association. A copy of these documents is enclosed as ready reference.

3. Lately, it has been noticed that the very objective of fostering a spirit of mutual help and goodwill among the inhabitants of the colony has gone on back foot due to growing disputes among the office bearers and members of RWAs and lack of transparency in the functioning of RWAs.

4. In view of the above, a need has been felt to re-visit the Model Constitution and Rules and Regulations for the RWAs. Accordingly, all RWAs and AWOs are requested to suggest modification/amendment in the existing Model Constitution and Rules and Regulations for the RWAs in the following format for comparative analysis and consideration of the suggestion.

Sl.No.	Provision in existing Model constitution and Rules and Regulation for the RWAs	Modification/amend ment suggested	Justification for suggesting the modification/amen dment

5. Your suggestions should focus on:-

i) Transparency and accountability in the functioning of the RWAs;
ii) Enhancing effectiveness and efficiency of the RWAs;
iii) Any other point you may wish to add.

6. You may submit your suggestions to the welfare Division of the Department of Personnel and Training by 30.06.2018 by post or email (i.e.- cgerwa123gmail.com) positively.

Yours faithfully,
(Kulbhushan Malhotra)
Under Secretary (RWA)

Source: DoPT

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Payment of revised pension including arrears w.e.f. 1.1.2016 to the pensioners

Payment of revised pension including arrears w.e.f. 1.1.2016 to the pensioners

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

RBA No.55/2018
No.2016/AC-II/21/8/Pt.VI

New Delhi dated 30.05.2018

Principal Financial Advisors,

All Zonal Railways
Sub: Payment of revised pension including arrears w.e.f. 1.1.2016 to the pensioners.

Kindly refer to RBA No.170/2017 dated 30.11.2017 on the above subject. requesting Railways to verify the scrolls received from various Pension Paying Banks to establish that payment of revised pension has commenced in favour of all pensioners for whom revised PPOs have been issued. It is understood that despite lapse of nearly 6 months, revised pension is not being received by many pensioners and the issue is being raised in various Pensioners' Forums including SCOVA.
Follow up on payment of revised pension by the banks is necessary to take the benefits to the pensioners in a timely manner. Therefore, a special drive may be launched in the EDP centres to reconcile the debit scrolls with the revised PPOs to ascertain the number of cases where payment of revised pension has not yet been initiated by the banks despite issue of revised PPOs. The matter may be taken up with defaulting Banks and a report sent at jda@rb.railent.gov.in in the following format by 30th June,2018 for Board's information:

Position of Revision of Pension cases by Banks

Name of bank	Total No. of revised PPOs issued	Total No. of cases in which payment of revised pension has commenced	Reference made to the Bank for expediting payment to the pensioners as per revised PPOs
-	-	-	-

S/d,
(Anjali Goyal)
Pr.Executive Director/Accounts
Railway Board

Source: irtsa

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Online allotment of Railway: Officers Rest Houses, Holiday Homes, Community centers/Halls

Online allotment of Railway: Officers Rest Houses, Holiday Homes, Community centers/Halls

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
RAILWAY BOARD

No.2017/Trans/01/Policy

New Delhi,dated: 31-05-2018

Managing director
CRIS
New Delhi

Sub: Online allotment of Railway: Officers Rest Houses, Holiday Homes, Community centers/Halls

A Director's committee was constituted by the Board on the above subject. Keeping in view the recommendations of the committee, Board (MS, FC & CRB) have approved the following the implementation on IR:

1.0 CRIS will develop an online booking system with automated allotment facility for a specified percentage of rooms for the following categories:-
(i) Staff/Supervisors rest rooms
(ii) Holiday Homes (Officers/Staff)
(iii) Community Centers/Halls
(iv) Officers Rest House
2.0 The automated online allotment system may inter alia consider the following.

2.1 Master Data at the backend

2.1.1 Personal information of the staff/officers : Name, Designation, Grade Pay, Grade, Mobile number/CUG, E-mail Id etc. be linked to IPAS by CRIS. This will generate a password and username. Ideally AADHAR Number may be used. For retired Employees ARPAN may be used and for employees on deputation, the lien Railway may be asked to verify and generate username and password.
The software to be developed by CRIS may have the provision for feeding and storage of above details, to be fed by the users.

2.1.2 Rest house detail and its inventory : Location of rest house (Zone, Division, state, District or place, Address) type of facility (ORH,Staff/Supervisor rest house, Holiday Home, Community Hall) type of rooms (Double Bed, Multiple Beds, Dormitory, Suite with AC or Non AC Classification), location on Google map with photographs may be provided.
The Software to be developed by CRIS should have the provision for feeding and storage of above details, to be fed by the Railways.

2.1.3 Structure of 'Admin' for the allotment and monitoring : There will be a Super Admin at Board level and 'Admin' at Divisional level for allotment, operation and monitoring DRM office will have control on allotment for rest houses in open line, CAO/C office for rest house in construction Organization and GM office for production units.

3.0 Policy/Procedural issues

3.1 Advance Booking Period: At present there is no uniform policy in practice across IR. Advance Booking period of one month for Rest House facilities and two months for Holiday Home and Community Halls may be provided for in the software by CRIS.

3.2 There shall be an Automatic allotment (Software generated) of rooms/beds upto 70% of the total numbers, truncated to lower integer. For example in case rooms are 7, then 70% would be 4.9, this would be truncated to 4 for automatic and 3 for manual allotment called emergency allotment. Rooms against emergency allotment are to be allotted only after rooms against automatic allotment are booked.

3.3 Online payment facility and uniform room rent policy : Following room rents have been approved for uniform implementation across IR, depending upon the city and type of the room. The payment for the rest house shall be made online for all rooms with automatic allotment. The manual facility may also be continued for some time. For 70% auto allotment, advance online payment may be made compulsory. Payment Gateway may be provided by CRIS for this purpose.

The Room rents per day for officer Rent Houses/Holiday Homes are as under:-

Category of Stations / Cites	ON DUTY		ON Private Account		For Guests
	AC Room	Non AC Room	AC Room	Non AC Room	AC Room	Non AC Room
A	Nil	Nil	300	240	930	400
B	Nil	Nil	200	160	600	240
C	Nil	Nil	100	80	480	160

* Dormitory on private account - Rs.50/Bed

3.4 Online check-in and Check-out facility : This will improve the rest house availability as room will be instantaneously available after checkout. check in and checkout may be done by the official himself or the supervisor/Caretaker of the facility.

3.5 Multiple ORH at big place : Many facilities are available at big cities and booked by different agencies like GM office, DRM office, and construction organization etc. also one rest house is booked by multiple agencies like Rail Nivas, New Delhi. In partial modification of the existing instructions, it has been decided that the DRM office of the station will be single point office, for allotment of all facilities except construction ORH, which will have the 'Admin' in construction organization.
In case of more than one DRM office at one place like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata Nagpur each one will control it in specific divisional area, this will be clearly indicated on the website.

3.6 Maximum rooms to be allotted : Not more than five days in lean season and three days in peak season will be the duration of the allotment.

3.7 Maximum duration for allotment : Not more than five days in lean season and three days in peak season will be the duration of the allotment.

3.8 Prevention of Multiple Bookings: In case of multiple rest houses in a city, the system shall be able to allot the rooms as per the maximum allotment permissible at the station among all the facilities of the city.

3.9 Cancellation and Modification: Officials will be allowed to modify the request and also to cancel the request. The online amount paid for booking will not be refunded for the facilities except Community centers/halls. The system will also have waiting list and in case of cancellation, the allotment will be as per the facilities except community centers/halls. The system will also have waiting list and in case of cancellation, the allotment will be as per the waiting list.
An official may be allowed to cancel the booking of holiday homes only three times in a year After this a no consideration period of six months for auto allotment of that facility may be imposed on the official. But the official may be permitted to get booking done on manual allotment basis.
In case of administrative requirement, 'Admin' may cancel the booking. In Case of special occasion like marriage, special booking through ‘Admin’ may be made.

3.10 Feedback and Rating:
Feedback as a one click system (star rating 0 at the time of checking out, may be made. It will also have provision for remarks, visible to all users.
4.0 CRIS may consider the above and develop the application software and put it on trial for two months for obtaining feed back and making corrective action if any in consultation with Transformation cell.

This issues with the concurrence of Associate Finance of Transformation Cell Railway Board.
Kindly acknowledge the receipt and ensure compliance.

(T.K.Pandey)
Executive Director, Transformation

Source: irtsa

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