STAFF PORTAL- CGE NEWS PORTAL

Meeting of Empowered Committee of Secretaries (E-CoS) with Office bearers of Staff Side of Standing Committee of National Council (JCM) on recommendations of the 7th Central Pay – Postponement F.No.1-2/2016-IC Government of India Ministry Of Finance Department of Expenditure Implementation Cell Dated: 25th February 2016 To Shri Shiva Gopal Mishra Secretary National council (Staff Side) 13-C, Ferozshah Road New Delhi – 110 001 Fax- 23363167) Subject: Meeting of Empowered Committee of Secretaries (E-CoS) with Office bearers of Staff Side of Standing Committee of National Council (JCM) on recommendations of the 7th Central Pay – Postponement – reg. Sir, In partial Supersession of this office letter of even number dated 24.02.2016 it is intimated the meeting of the office bearers of the staff side of Standing Committee of National Council (JCM) with the Empowered Committee of Secretaries (E-CoS) will now be held on 01.03.2016 at 6.45 PM in the Committee Room

Central Civil Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988 — Fulfillment of procedural requirements No. 31011/3/2015-Estt (A.IV) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Personnel and Training Establishment A-IV Desk North Block, New Delhi-110 001 Dated: February 18, 2016 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject:- Central Civil Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988 — Fulfillment of procedural requirements. This Department is in receipt of a number of references regarding the procedural difficulties faced by the Government employees in application and settlement of the LTC claims. Sometimes, the Government servants claim that failure to follow the correct procedure was on account of a lack of knowledge of the rules/instructions. It is alleged that in some cases, processing of LTC claims takes unduly long time, particularly when the employee and the sanctioning authorities are located at different stations. 2. To remove

Proforma for Self-Certification by the Government employee I Sh./Smt./Kr. ……………………………………………………………………… (Name of the Govt. servant) wish to confirm that I am availing………………………………………………… (Home Town/ Any Place in India) LTC in respect of self/ family member(s) for the block year……………………. to visit………………………………. (Place of visit) during……………………………….. (dates of journey). It is stated that I or the family member for whom I wish to avail LTC has/have not availed of the same before in the present block. 2. The Particulars of members of family in respect of whom the Leave Travel Concession is being claimed are as under: SI. No. Name(s) Age Relationship with the Govt. servant 3. It is certified that the above facts are true and any false statement shall make me liable for appropriate action under Rule 16 of CCS(LTC) Rules, 1988 and the relevant disciplinary rules. * N.B.: The Government employee may share interesting insights and pictures,

Guidelines 1. Please ensure that you have applied for leave and submitted the self-certification form to your Administration before the LTC journey is undertaken. 2. Please check your eligibility before applying for LTC. LTC to Home Town can be availed once in a block of two years and LTC to Any Place in India may be availed once in a four year block. If not availed during these blocks, the LTC may also be availed in the first year of the following block. 3. Please note that the current two year block is 2016-17 and the current four year block is 2014-17. 4. In case of fresh recruits, LTC to Home Town is allowed on three occasions in a block of four years and to any place in India on the fourth occasion. This facility is available to the fresh recruits only for the first two blocks of four years applicable after joining the Government service for the first time. (For details, please refer to DoPT's O.M. No. 31011/7/2013 -E stt. (A-IV) dated 26.09.2014 available on

New Delhi: Trade unions and central government employees associations are up in arms over the Seventh Pay Commission’s proposal on minimum pay of central government employees. The trade unions, including all central government employees associations, are planning to protest strongly against the proposals before the government. The unions and associations have disagreed with the Seventh Pay Commission overall recommendation of minimum pay and should be increased from Rs 18,000 per month to Rs 26,000, they demanded. In the Seventh Pay Commission report, the Pay Commission recommended fixing the minimum pay Rs 18,000 per month from current Rs 7,000. The trade unions and associations argued that the proposed rise was inadequate. They contended that minimum pay to increase of Rs 10,250 , which would bring the minimum pay to 26,000, was “reasonable and proportionate”. Now A lowest paid central government employee, who was appointed in the Grade Pay of Rs 1800. He gest m

NJCA NATIONAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION, 4, STATE ENTRY ROAD, NEW DELHI-110055 No.NJCA/2016 Dated: 19.02.2016 Dear Comrades, Sub: Brief of the NJCA meeting held on 19.02.2016 with the Convener, Implementation Cell, Ministry of Finance (Government of India), reg. 7th CPC recommendations and Charter of Demands of the NJCA A meeting of the NJCA held today with the Convener, Implementation Cell, Ministry of Finance, Shri R.K. Chaturvedi, wherein we discussed and emphasized on all the 26-point Charter of Demands of the NJCA send to the Cabinet Secretary on 10.12.2015. We agitated the issues of NPS, Minimum Wage, Multiplying Factor, deduction of HRA and all other important issues. The Convener, Implementation Cell, Shri Chaturvedi, after hearing everybody, said that, he would put-up the issues to the Cabinet Secretary, and hopefully a meeting of the JCA would be held with the Cabinet Secretary and the Empowered Committee shortly within 15 days. Let us not leav

नई दिल्ली: सातवें वेतन आयोग की सिफारिशें केंद्र सरकार जल्द लागू कर सकती है। एक रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक केंद्रीय कर्मचारियों का वेतन उनकी बेसिक सैलरी यानी मूल वेतन का दोगुना हो सकता है। सूत्रों के मुताबिक केंद्रीय कर्मचारियों के वेतन में उनके बेसिक वेतन का लगभग 30 फीसदी तक इजाफा हो सकता है। हालांकि नवंबर 2015 में सातवें वेतन की आयोग की अनुशंसा के मुताबिक यह (30 फीसदी) 23.55 फीसदी से ज्यादा है। केंद्रीय कर्मचारी संगठन इस बात का विरोध कर रहे हैं कि सातवें वेतन आयोग की सिफारिशों के तहत उनके (कर्मचारियों के) वेतन में सिर्फ 14.27 फीसदी का ही इजाफा हो रहा है जो कि पिछले 70 साल में सबसे कम है। केंद्रीय कर्मचारियों ने इस मसले को लेकर 11 अप्रैल से बेमियादी हड़ताल पर भी जाने की धमकी दी है। गौर हो कि केंद्र सरकार से सातवें वेतन आयोग ने सौंपी गई अपनी रिपोर्ट में कर्मचारियों के वेतन और भत्ते 23.55 फीसदी बढ़ाने की सिफारिश की थी और सैनिकों की तर्ज पर असैन्य कर्मचारियों के लिए भी ‘वन रैंक - वन पेंशन’ की व्यवस्था लागू करने की सिफारिश की थी। केंद्रीय वित्त मंत्री अरुण जेटली को सौंपी गई वेतन आयोग की

Instructions/Guidelines relating to filling up the Integrity Column of Annual Performance Assessment Reports No.21011/27/2015-Estt. (A-II) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, P. G. and Pensions Department of Personnel & Training North Block, New Delhi-110001 Dated: 11th February, 2016 Office Memorandum Subject: Instructions/Guidelines relating to filling up the Integrity Column of Annual Performance Assessment Reports-regarding. The undersigned is directed to refer the existing instructions/ guidelines of this Department on filling up the column relating to integrity in ACRs (now APARs). It has been brought to the notice that many a time Reporting Officers do not make clear and categorical mention about the integrity of the officer reported upon. Further, it has also been seen that in case of doubt of integrity of the officer reported upon, the procedures prescribed for filling up the integrity column in APARs are not being followed appropriately. 2

New Delhi:The Sen Times has learned, the secretary-level committee screening the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations is likely to recommend to double the percentage of pay hikes what the pay commission recommended with examining the all previous pay commissions’ reports. The Seventh Pay Commission submitted its report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in November, recommending 14.27 per cent increase in basic pay of Central government employees, which is the lowest in 70 years.  The pay commission recommended fixing the highest basic salary at Rs 250,000 and the lowest at Rs 18,000and its increased the pay gap between the minimum and maximum from existing 1:12 to 1: 13.8.  Every pay commissions reduced the ratio of pay between lowest earning employees and top bureaucrats from 1:41 in 1947 to about 1:12 in 2006.  The minimum basic salary of central government employees is now Rs 7730 while maximum salary at the level of Secretary is Rs 80,000.  Accordingly, the

New Delhi: The government will announce the Seventh Pay Commission award in the this budget to facilitate central government employees salaries with regard to inflation, Finance Ministry official said Friday. Addressing the Consultative Committee attached to the Finance Ministry, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Friday, “During the financial year 2016-17, the central government has to make provision for about Rs 1.10 lakh crore in order to meet the liabilities on account of implementation of Seventh Pay Commission recommendations and One Rank One Pension (OROP) Scheme,” He made clear that there would be no doubt for implementation of Seventh Pay Commission award and One Rank One Pension (OROP) soon after Budget. The Finance Ministry officials said the central government knows that the employees are not happy with the pay commission recommendations. Since adjusting salary, allowance and other financial benefits to market price is a complex issue, hence the government

PM Modi Bats for Central Staff NEW DELHI: In relief to Central government employees and pensioners, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked a Committee of Secretaries to accept the 7th Pay Commission’s recommendations without diluting them to provide maximum benefits to over 47 lakh government employees and 52 lakh pensioners. The empowered committee, which was headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha and comprised of 12 Secretaries, was set up on January 27 to process the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission. A top official in the government told Express that the Committee has been asked to speed up the review so that the Cabinet can take a decision and the 7th Pay Commission award can be released at the earliest to the employees and pensioners. “The government feels that recommendations to introduce a health insurance scheme for staff and pensioners and double gratuity should not be diluted. The committee has been told to address the genuine concerns ra

JAMMU, Feb 4: Jammu and Kashmir Co-ordination Committee of Trade Unions held its meeting, presided by Mohamad Maqbool, State president, which was attended by large number of departmental representatives and State level office bearers, today. The meeting expressed its serious concern over the retrograde and anti-employees recommendation of seventh Pay Commission which cannot be accepted neither by Central Government nor the State Government employees. The Pay Commission recommendations have been framed as per the guide lines of World Bank and in pursuance of neo-liberal agenda of Central Government. The Commission had recommended to pursue the policy of contract and causal system more vigorously, further job cut by 30% of the vacant posts besides abolishing of most of the allowances. They discussed that there is only 14.2% wage increase which is almost equal to one and half installment of DA. In this current situation where Central and State Governments have miserably failed t

F.No. 5(2)-B(PD)/2015 Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Economic Affairs New Delhi, the 3rd February, 2016 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject : Advances to Government servants — Rate of interest for purchase of conveyances during 2015-2016. The undersigned is directed to state that the rates of interest for advances sanctioned to the Government servants for purchase of conveyances during 2015-2016 i.e. from 1st April, 2015 to 31st March, 2016 are as under: Rate of interest per annum (i) Advance for purchase of conveyance other than motor car (viz. motor cycle, scooter etc.) 9% (ii) Advance for purchase of motor car 11.5% The rates remain unchanged from those applicable for the financial year 2014-15. (A.K. Bhatnagar) Under Secretary (Budget) Source:- finmin.nic.in [http://finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_eco_affairs/budget/OMAdvGovtSerROI03022016.pdf]

No.03/1/2016-Dir(C) Government of India Ministry of Personnel PG & Pensions Department of Personnel & Training Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market New Delhi, dated 3rd February, 2016 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject:- Discontinuation of interview for direct recruitment to various Group B & C posts in non-statutory departmental canteen located in Central Government Offices. The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s DO No.39020/01/2013- Estt(B) dated 4.9.2015 (copy enclosed) drawing attention to Horfble Prime Minister’s address to the nation on occasion of Independence Day wherein it was announced that Government should discontinue holding interviews for recruitment of junior level post in order to improve objectivity, transparency and enable level playing opportunity to candidates from all Sections of Society. 2. The issue relating to discontinuation of interviews for various junior level posts in the Government of India was considered by the Commi

A meeting of all the Nodal Officers of various Ministries/Departments, who have been appointed to interact with the Implementation Cell in connection with the processing of the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission, was held on 02.02.2016. Joint Secretary (IC), Department of Expenditure, presided over the meeting. 2. While explaining the background and the context in which the meeting of Nodal Officers was held, it was brought out in the meeting that after the receipt of the report of the 7th Central Pay Commission on 19.11.2015, Ministry of Finance initiated a proposal to setup an appropriate mechanism to process the recommendations of the Commission. With the approval of the Cabinet, an Empowered Committee of Secretaries (E-CoS) headed by the Cabinet Secretary has been set up on 27.1.2016 to screen the recommendations and to firm up the conclusions for approval of the Cabinet. An Implementation Cell (IC), as a dedicated and focused wing in the Department of Expendit

Pay and pension revision recommendations are scheduled to take effect from January 1 Member of the Seventh Central Pay Commission Rathin Roy has suggested that to meet its fiscal deficit target the Government should merge the basic pay and dearness allowance (DA) of central government employees in the current year and defer implementing any real increases in pay and pensions. This, the member has said, could be done by compensating those who would have to bear the burden of the deferred effect by giving them a “more generous award distributed over several years”. “I am saying that the increment need not all be given at one go... It can be staggered and made more generous… So this could be done for pay and for pension,” Dr. Roy told The Hindu in an exclusive interview. “Now I am not competent to say whether this is politically feasible or not,” he, however, added. Last month, the Union Cabinet set up an empowered committee of secretaries under the Cabinet Secretary for pro

One Rank One Pension to the Defence Forces Personnel- OROP Table No 12(1)/2014/D (Pen/Policy)-Part-H  Government of India  Ministry of Defence  Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare New Delhi, Dated: 03 February, 2016 To The Chief of Army Staff The Chief of Navy Staff The Chief of Air Staff Subject: One Rank One Pension to the Defence Forces personnel. ***** Sir, The undersigned is directed to refer this Ministry’s letter No 12(1)/2014/D (Pen/Policy)¬Part- II dated 7th November, 2015 notifying One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for Defence Forces personnel. Salient features of the scheme have been mentioned at Para 3 & 4 of above said letter with the provision that the benefit of the scheme shall be implemented from 1.7.2014 to all pre-1.7.2014 pensioners. Para 6 of the letter provides that detailed instructions relating to implementation of OROP along with tables indicating revised pension for each rank and each category, shall be issued separately for updation of p

Gramin Dak Sevak Committee Department of Posts Ministry of Communications & IT Government of India Kamlesh chandra Chairman D.O.No.6/GDS-KCC/2015 Dated the 3rd February,2016 Dear Shri The Department of Posts has constituted a one committee to look into the existing conditions of service and wage structure etc. of the Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS), vide its resolution on. 17.13/2013-GDS dated 19.11.2015 2. The terms of reference of the Committee, inter alia, includes the following;- (a) To examine the system of Branch post Offices, engagement conditions and the existing structure of wage and emoluments paid to the Gramin Dak Sevaks and recommend necessary changes; (b) To review the existing service Discharge Benefit scheme/other social security benefits for the Gramin Dak Sevaks and suggest necessary changes. (c) To review the existing facilities/welfare measures provided to the Gramin Dak Sevaks and suggest necessary changes. (d) To examine and suggest an

One Rank One Pension (OROP) implementation tables issued Press Information Bureau  Government of India Ministry of Defence 03-February-2016 18:45 IST One Rank One Pension (OROP) implementation tables issued  The Government of India had taken the historic decision to implement OROP in November, 2015. This fulfilled the long standing demand of the Defence Forces personnel after 42 years and benefited over 18 lakh ex-servicemen and war widows.  In pursuance of the order issued on 07/11/2015, detailed instructions alongwith OROP Tables have been issued today.  • The annual recurring financial implication on account of implementation of OROP at the current rate will be approximately Rs. 7500 crore.  • The arrears from 01/07/2014 to 31/12/2015 would be approximately Rs. 10,900 crore.  • 86 percent of the total expenditure on account of OROP will benefit the JCOs/ORs.  • Payment of arrears and revision of pension under OROP is to be made by the Pension Disbursi

No. 38/7/2015 - P & PW (A) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pension Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare 3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan Khan Market, New Delhi Dated the 22nd January, 2016 To, Shri S Y Savur ----------------- Sub: Information under RTI Act, 2005 Sir, I am to refer to your online RTI application Reg No. DP&PW/R/2016/50029 dated 12.1.2016.  2. In regard to information sought by you, it is informed that the relevant file has been sent to Ministry of Law (Department of Legal Affairs). However, a copy of your RTI application is being forwarded to CPIO, CBEC for providing a copy of order regarding implementation of court order in the case of M.O. Inasu. It may be however mentioned that no general order has been issued in respect of all pre-2006 pensioners, as already informed.  3. -------------------------- 4. If you are not satisfied--------------------- Sd/-------------------- S K Makkar 22/1/16 CP

Dearness Relief payable to surviving pre 1.1.1986 retirees of banks (b) surviving spouses of pre 1.1.86 Retirees who are in receipt of Ex-gratia for the period February to July, 2016 Indian Banks’ Association HR & INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS No.CIR/HR&IR/D/G2/2015-16/2022 January 30, 2016 Designated Officers of all Nationalised Banks and Associate Banks of State Bank of India Dear Sirs, Dearness Relief payable for the period February to July, 2016 to surviving pre 1.1.1986 retirees of banks (b) surviving spouses of pre 1.1.86 Retirees who are in receipt of Ex-gratia As per the directive contained in the Government of India, Ministry of Finance Department of Economic Affairs (Banking Division) letter F.No.11/2/2012-IR dated 17.12.2013, the Dearness Relief payable to surviving pre 1.1.1986 retirees of banks for the period February to July, 2016_ on Ex-gratia will be as under : Applicable CPI Average Amount of Ex-gratia per month Rate of Dear