Filling of vacancies under Sports quota – Department of Posts Central Government Jobs

Filling of vacancies under Sports quota – Department of Posts

Central Government Jobs

No. 17-07/2017 -SPN-I
Ministry of Communication
Department of Posts
Personnel Division

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg
New Delhi, Dated 28.09.2020

To,

1. All Chief Postmasters General / Postmasters General
2. Chief General Manager, BD Directorate / Parcel Directorate / PLI Directorate
3. Director, RAKNPA / GM, CEPT / Directors of all PTCs
4. Addl, Director General, Army Postal Service, New Delhi
5. All General Managers (Finance) / Directors Postal Accounts / DDAP

Subject: Filling of vacancies under Sports quota- regarding.

Madam / Sir,

I am directed to refer to Directorate’s letters of even number dated 15.05.2019, 05.07.2019, 12.09.2019 and 11.10.2019 regarding filling up of the vacancies earmarked for sports quota in accordance with the instructions issued by the Department of Personnel & Training (DOP&T).

2. Vide aforesaid letter dated 15.05.2019, following was communicated: –

‘while making recruitment under sports quota, Circles are required to notify such vacancies without restricting them to a specific sport/ discipline or to specific gender. The notification shall invite all meritorious sports persons belonging to approved disciplines and recruitment to these vacancies shall thereafter be made based on criteria stipulated in DOP&T O.M. No. 14034/01/ 2013-Estt. (D) dated 03.10.2013.”

Also check: Relative Merit Points and procedure for compassionate appointments in the Department of Posts

3. Despite these instructions, references were received from various circles conveying that recruitment of meritorious sport persons in all the approved disciplines included in the instructions of DOPT will hinder development of teams at national level in any particular discipline. Thus, Circles were seeking clarification in this regard.

4. The matter was examined in detail and It was decided by the Competent Authority to obtain the advice of DOP&T in the matter. DOPT has advised as under: –

“we may advise DoP that their pursuit of participating at major sporting events related to 13 identified sports disciplines has no bearing on appointment of meritorious sportsperson as per O.M. dated 03.10.2013, as the two are separate activities, DoP may participate In events relating to the proposed 13 sports disciplines by forming their own teams.  However, if any post is to be filled under the sports quota, meritorious sports persons relating to any of the 43 discipline are equally eligible to apply for such posts, in terms of O.M. dated 03.10.2013. Such appointment cannot be linked to development of a team to represent DoP at a national level.

6. With regard to O.M, dated 03.10.2013, it may be informed to the Administrative Department that the said instructions are issued to provide incentives to already meritorious sportsperson who have achieved in their respective sports in the form of recruitment, promotion, increment etc. No such provision of recruiting sportsperson for formation of team in particular sports discipline is available in the said instructions. Therefore, restricting sports disciplines to 13 (in place of total 43 disciplines given in DoPT instructions) by the AD with the motive of developing team in a particular discipline appears to be denying right to sports persons of other disciplines to get the above mentioned incentives which is not considered to be in consonance with the above mentioned instructions issued by DoPT.”

5. In view of the above, Circles are requested to fill up the vacancies earmarked for sports quota in strict compliance with DOP&T O.M. No. 14034/01/2013 -Estt. (D) dated 03.10.2013, as amended from time to time. Further, Circles may note that DOP&T vide O.M. No. 140341/2013 (D)-Estt. dated 01.09.2020 (copy enclosed) has provided a list of 63 sports disciplines which have been identified for recruitment under sports quota.

6. The notification issued by the circles shall invite applications from meritorious sports persons belonging to all approved disciplines. If any circle has already notified sports quota vacancies for a limited number of sports disciplines and selection of candidates against such notification has not been finalized , such notification may be cancelled forthwith and a fresh notification accordance with the guidelines.

7. Further, as communicated vide letter of even number dated 15.05.2019, field trial shall not be conducted and selection of candidates will be done as per the criteria outlined in the guidelines issued by DOPT from time to time.

8. Circles may take note that no further reference on the issue of restricting the recruitment to a limited sports discipline and conducting field trial shall be entertained by the Directorate.

Yours faithfully,

(Satya Narayana Dash)
Director (SPN)

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Family pension is payable to the unmarried/ widowed/ divorced daughter until she gets married or remarried or until she starts earning

Family pension is payable to the unmarried/ widowed/ divorced daughter until she gets married or remarried or until she starts earning

DEPARTMENT OF PENSION AND PENSIONERS’ WELFARE

Government Of India

Family Pension for Daughter under CCS (Pension) Rules

1. The family pension is payable to the unmarried/ widowed/ divorced daughter until she gets married or remarried or until she starts earning her livelihood, whichever is earlier.

Also check: Family Pension Table in 7th Pay Commission

2. The family pension is payable to unmarried/ widowed/ divorced daughter above the age of 25, after all unmarried children have attained the 25 years of age or have started . earning their livelihood, whichever is earlier.

3. If the deceased government servant/ pensioner has survived by any disabled child, the widow/ divorced/ unmarried daughter will be eligible to receive family pension only after the turn of disabled child.

Also check: Revision of Pension/ Family Pensioners of Pre 01.01.2016 and Post 01.01.2016 retired employees

4. Divorced daughter is eligible for family pension where the divorce proceedings had been filed in a competent Court during the lifetime of the employee/ pensioner or his/her spouse but divorce took place after their death. In such cases, the family pension will commence from the date of divorce.

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Relative Merit Points and procedure for compassionate appointments in the Department of Posts Central Government Employees News

Relative Merit Points and procedure for compassionate appointments in the Department of Posts

Central Government Employees News

No.17-4/2018-SPG.II
Government of India
Ministry of Communications
Department of Posts

Dak Bhavan, Parliament Street
New Delhi-110001
Dated the 28th Sep 2020

To

1. All Chief Postmasters General / Postmasters General
2. Chief General Manager, BD Directorate / Parcel Directorate / PLI Directorate
3. Director, RAKNPA / GM, CEPT / Directors of all PTCs
4. Addl. Director General, Army Postal Service, New Delhi
5. All General Managers (Finance) / Directors Postal Accounts /DDAP

Sub: Scheme for compassionate appointment – Relative Merit Points and Procedure for selection.

Madam / Sir,

I am directed to refer to Department of Posts letter No.37-36/2004- SPB-1/C dated 20.1.2010 on the above subject providing for Relative Merit Points and procedure for compassionate appointments in the Department of Posts. The matter has been reviewed keeping in view the instructions issued by Department of Personnel and Training, the changes in various factors for calculating Relative Merit Points and the changes in financial status of the family of the deceased employees consequent upon increase in the terminal benefits.

2. The Relative Merit Points (RMP) for assigning weightage to various attributes of the applicants for compassionate appointment have been reviewed. The revised RMP is based on 100 points of 10 variables with provision of additional 15 maximum bonus points for the applicant if she is the widow of the deceased employee/wife of an employee who has retired on medical grounds. The revised RMP to be applied are as laid down in Annexure 1.

3. Periodicity of CRC meeting: In respect of all applications for compassionate appointments received from January to December of a calendar year, the CRC meeting will be held by all circles once in a year, between January to March of the next calendar year.

4. Cut-Off Date: Date of death or date of retirement on medical grounds will be considered as cut off date for the purpose of assessing the indigent condition of the applicant under RMPS for compassionate appointment.

5. Circle specific vacancy: The vacancies to be utilised by a Circle for compassionate appointment in a year should not be more than 5% of the vacancies in Direct Recruitment Quota in Group C Posts in a year.

6. Place of Posting: As far as administratively feasible, applicant appointed on compassionate grounds will be posted at a place as per preference indicated or near his /her home town or in same division in which the applicant is residing, subject to availability of vacancies.

Also check: Request for relaxation in compassionate appointment – Deaths due to COVID-19 – FNPO

8. Date of effect of these guidelines: These revised guidelines will come into effect from 1st October 2020. Cases recommended by previous CRC to be considered by subsequent CRC will be considered based on these revised point system. All cases closed so far will not be reopened.

9, Instructions issued by DoPT from time to time related to compassionate appointment will continue to be guiding factor while deciding the cases.

10. This issues with the approval of Secretary (Posts).

Yours faithfully,

(G. Rajeev)
Director (Staff)
Tel. No. 23096103

Also read: Reservation in Appointment on Compassionate Ground Group ‘C’ posts

Annexure 1

New Relative Merit Point System (RMPS) for consideration of cases for Compassionate appointments

100 Point Criterion with 10 variables

(i) Basic family pension/ pension/ monthly amount received under NPS (Max 20 Points)

SN	Slabs	Points
01	Up to 9000/-	20
02	9001/- to 12000/-	18
03	12001/- to 15000/-	16
04	15001/- to 18000/-	14
05	18001/- to 21000	12
06	21001/- to 24000/-	10
07	24001/- to 27000/-	08
08	27001/- to 30000/-	06
09	30001/- to 33000/-	04
10	33001/- to 36000/-	02
11	Above 36000/-	00

Note: To be verified from service records and certified by the Divisional/ Regional/ Circle Authorities.

(ii) Lump sum amount received by the family on death/ retirement on medical grounds of the Government servant (DCRG, CGEGIS, GPF/Lump sum amount received under NPS & Leave Encashment) – (Max 10 Points)

SN	Slabs	Points
01	Up to 300000/-	10
02	300001/- to 400000/-	09
03	400001/- to 500000/-	08
04	500001/- to 600000/-	07
05	600001/- to 700000/-	06
06	700001/- to 800000/-	05
07	800001/- to 900000/-	04
08	900001 to 1000000	03
09	1000001/- to 1100000/-	02
10	1100001/- to 1200000/-	01
11	Above 1200000/-	00

Note: To be verified from service records and certified by the Divisional/ Regional/ Circle Authorities.

(iii) Monthly income of earning member of family and income from property (Max 05 Points)

SN	Slabs	Points
01	No income	05
02	7500/- or less	04
03	7501/- to 10500/-	03
04	10501/- to 13500/-	02
05	13501/- to 16500/-	01
06	16501/- and above	00

Note: To be verified from the documents (like, bank statement, ITR, certificate from Revenue Authorities) and affidavit produced by the applicant and verified by the Divisional/ Regional/ Circle Authorities.

(iv) Immovable/ Movable Property including fixed deposit/ bank deposits /investments etc but excluding the Lump sum amount as mentioned in (ii) above – (Max 05 Points)

SN	Slabs	Points
01	Nil/-	05
02	Up to 500000/-	04
03	500001/- to 1000000/-	03
04	1000001/- to 2000000/-	02
05	2000001/- to 3000000/-	01
06	Above 3000000/-	00

Note: To be verified from the documents/ affidavit/ certificate from Revenue/ Municipal Authorities/ concerned departments etc produced by the applicant and verified by the Divisional/ Regional/ Circle Authorities.

(v) No. of dependents (Max 08 Points)

SN	No. of Dependents	Points
01	2 and above	08
02	01	04
03	00	00

Note: To be verified from service records and certified by the Divisional/ Regional/ Circle Authorities .

(vi) No. of Unmarried Daughters (Max 08 Points)

SN	No. of unmarried daughters	Point
01	2 and above	08
02	01	04
03	00	00

Note: To be verified from the documents/affidavit/certificate issued by Revenue/ Municipal Authorities produced by the applicant and verified by the Divisional/ Regional/ Circle Authorities.

(vii) No. of Minor Children (Max 08 Points)

SN	No. of minor children	Point
01	2 and above	08
02	01	04
03	00	00

Note: To be verified from service records and certified by the Divisional/ Regional/ Circle Authorities.

(viii) Left over Service (Max 14 Points)

SN	Left over service	Points
01	Over 25 Years	14
02	Over 20 years & up to 25 Years	12
03	Over 15 years & up to 20 years	10
04	Over 10 years & up to 15 years	08
05	Over 05 years & up to 10 years	06
06	over 02 years & up to 05 years	04
07	Less than 02 years	02

Note: To be verified from service records and certified by the Divisional/ Regional/ Circle Authorities.

(ix) Points for immediate relief (Max 12 Points)

SN	Age of cases	Points
01	less than 03 years old	12
02	03 years to less than 06 years	08
03	06 years to less than 09 years	06
04	09 years to less than 12 years	04
05	12 years to less than 15 years	02
06	15 years and above	00

Note: To be verified from service records and certified by the Divisional/ Regional/ Circle Authorities. Age of the case will be worked out from the date of death of employee/ retirement on medical grounds. In case a minor applies for compassionate appointment after becoming major, the period of the case will be counted from the date on which he became a major.

(x) Physically/ Mentally Challenged and chronic disease Cases (Max 10 Points)

SN	Description	Points
01	If the applicant is a Person with Disability	10
02	f the dependent family member (other than the applicant) of the deceased’s PWD	06
03	If the dependent family member of the deceased is suffering from AIDS, Cancer, Kidney failure, heart attack, liver cirrhosis, Organ transplantation of liver/ heart/ kidney , Alzheimer	03

Note: The disability as defined by DoP&T for reservation for persons with D1sabilites from time to time for appointment in Central Government will be ensured. Related certificates to be obtained accordingly.

(B) Bonus Points

 Bonus Points to Widow/Wife: In addition to the points allotted under RMP, 15 Bonus points will be allotted to applicant if she is the widow of the deceased employee/ wife of an employee who has retired on medical grounds.

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Provision of Invalid Pension to Armed Forces Personnel before completion of 10 years of qualifying service

Provision of Invalid Pension to Armed Forces Personnel before completion of 10 years of qualifying service

PCDA

OFFICE OF THE PR. CONTROLLER OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS (PENSIONS)
DRAUPADI GHAT, ALLAHABAD- 211014

Circular No. 640

Dated: 18.09.2020

To

The O/C
Records/PAO (ORs)

Subject:- Provision of Invalid Pension to Armed Forces Personnel before completion of 10 years of qualifying service – reg.

Government of India, Ministry of Defence, D(Pension/Policy) vide their letter no. 12(6)/2019/D(Pen/Pol) dated 16.07.2020 has issued order on the above subject. Copy of the same is forwarded herewith for information and further necessary action.

2. The provision of this circular shall apply to those Armed Forces Personnel who were/are in service on or after 04.01.2019. The cases in respect of personnel who were invalided out from service before 04.01.2019 will not be re-opened.

3. This circular has been uploaded on this office website www.pcdapension.nic.in for disseminating across the all concerned.

4. Hindi version will follow.

5. Please acknowledge receipt.

Sd/-
Sushil Kumar Singh
Addl. CDA(P)

Source: PCDA

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Submission of Life Certificate/ Declaration of marital status - RBI Pension Regulations, 1990

Submission of Life Certificate/ Declaration of marital status - RBI Pension Regulations, 1990

Central Government Employees News

RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
www.rbi.org.in

CO.HRMD.No.2002 /21.01.00/2020-21

Dated: September 25, 2020

The Regional Director /
Principal Chief General Manager/
Chief General Manager-in-Charge/
Chief General Manager/ General Manager-in-Charge/
Principal (Training Establishments)
Reserve Bank of India

Dear Sir / Madam,

RBI Pension Regulations, 1990 – Submission of Life Certificate/ Declaration of marital status – Extension of time thereof

Please refer to paras 6.8 to 6.11 of the Master Circular on pension, wherein every pensioner, family pensioner and ex-gratia recipient has to submit life certificate /declaration of marital status in the month of November each year. In case of non-receipt of life certificate/ declaration by November end, monthly payment of pensions stopped from the month of December and pension payment restarts only after receipt of the life certificate from the pensioners.

Also check: PCDA – Submission of pension claim during lock-down in respect of Defence civilian

2. Taking into account the pandemic situation, it has been decided to allow pensioners, family pensioners, ex-gratia recipients to submit scanned copy of signed life certificates /declaration of marital status in the prescribed format through email to the respective Pension Cells from where pension is being drawn. Further, it is has been decided to extend the time-limit for submitting the same upto December 31, 2020. The extension of time limit as above is applicable only for this year due to the prevailing pandemic situation. The existing system of accepting life certificates/ declaration of marital status through post/ personally/ Jeevan Pramaan continues to remain unchanged.

Yours faithfully
(Bipin Nair)
Deputy General Manger

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NPS to OPS Contract for Old Pension Scheme – Rajya Sabha

NPS to OPS

Contract for Old Pension Scheme – Rajya Sabha

National Pension System (NPS) was introduced for Central Government employees by a Notification of Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs) dated 22nd December, 2003. NPS is mandatory for all new recruits to the Central Government service from 1st January, 2004 (except the armed forces). However, in some specific court cases, like WP(C) No. 3834/2013 titled Permanand Yadav Vs. Union of India and WP(C) No. 2810/2016 viz.Rajendra Singh Vs. Union of India, where the selection of candidates had been made before 01.01.2004 but their actual appointment in the Government service could be made on or after 01.01.2004 due to various reasons, on the direction of the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi, the benefit of Old Pension Scheme was allowed to the petitioners.

After considering all the relevant aspects and to extend the benefit to similarly placed Government servants in order to reduce further litigation, the Government has decided, vide an Office Memorandum No. 57/04/2019-P&PW(B) dated 17th February, 2020 of the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, that in all cases where the results for recruitment were declared before 01.01.2004 against vacancies occurring on or before 31.12.2003, the candidates declared successful for recruitment shall be eligible for coverage under the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972. Accordingly, such Government servants who were declared successful for recruitment in the results declared on or before 31.12.2003 against vacancies occurring before 01.01.2004 and covered under the National Pension System on joining service on or after 01.01.2004, may be given a one – time option to be covered under the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972.

The advertisements issued before the introduction of the National Pension System may or may not have contained a clause regarding the pension scheme applicable to the selected candidates. In its order dated 27.03.2019 in W.P.(C) 10306/2016 – Union of India & others versus Dr. Narayan Rao Battu& another, Hon’ble High Court of Delhi observed that since the new pension scheme was in effect and a policy decision had already been taken to make the said scheme applicable to all incumbents joining government service on or after 01.01.2004, the Respondent, who was appointed on 25.02.2005, cannot claim the right to be covered by the old pension scheme, merely because the vacancy against which he was appointed was initially advertised at a time when the old pension scheme was in force. Hon’ble Court also observed that once the new pension scheme unambiguously and specifically provided that since all incoming office bearers, whose date of appointment is on or after 01.01.2004, would be governed by the new pension scheme, no reference can be made to either the date of vacancy, or the date of advertisement.

In view of the specific provisions of the Notification dated 22.12.2003, the date of advertisement for the vacancies or the date of examination for selection against those vacancies is not considered relevant for determining the eligibility for coverage under the Old Pension Scheme or the National Pension System. There is no proposal to revise the orders issued vide aforesaid Office Memorandum dated 17.02.2020.

This information was given by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

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Revision of 7th CPC Grade Pay Level of the category of Railway Ticket Collector apprentices and trainees on Railways – Railway Board

Revision of 7th CPC Grade Pay Level of the category of Railway Ticket Collector apprentices and trainees on Railways – Railway Board

7th CPC Grade Pay Level Ticket Collector

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA / भारत सरकार
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS / रेल मंत्रालय
(Railway Board)

RBE No 80/2020

S.No. PC-VII /157
No. PC-V. 2016 PST (Stipend)

New Delhi, dated 16-9-2020

The General Managers
All Indian Railways and Pls
(As per mailing list)

Sub: Revision of rates of stipend to apprentices and trainees on Railways.

Consequent upon revision of Grade Pay Pay Level of the category of Ticket Collector from GP 1900 to GP-2000 Pay Level-3 vide Railway Board’s letter dated 02-8-2016, one of the Federations (AIRF) raised the issue of revision of rates of stipend to Ticket Collector Ticket Examiner. The matter has been considered and it has been decided to revise the rates of stipend of the category of Ticket Collector at S.No. 41. of the Schedule of Board’s letters of even number dated 02.02.2017 and 1 1-9-2018 as under:

S. No.	Category	Training period	Grade Pay in VI CPC Pay Structure (Rs.)	Corresponding Revised Pay Level in the 7th CPC Pay Matrix	Revised rates of stipend in the corresponding Pay Level (Rs.)
41.	Ticket Collector (erstwhile Ticket Examiner)	26 days	2000	3	21700

Railway 7th CPC Pay Matrix

2. The above revised rate of stipend is applicable with effect from 01.08.2016.

Also check : 7th CPC DA Arrears Ready Reckoner Tables for Level-3

3. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

(Sudha A.Kujur)
Deputy Director/ Pay Commission
Railway Board

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