Saturday, February 25, 2017
Friday, February 24, 2017
CS Met CPMG, TS Circle on 24.02.2017
Today Sri. Y. Venkateswarlu Circle Secretary met the CPMG, Telangana Circle along with Sri. B. Suresh Kumar, Vice President, Sri. H. Sarath Kumar, Treasurer and Sri. B. Srinivasu, AGS and discussed the following issues and CPMG Sir responded very positively and given assurance for settlement of issues at early.
1. Conduction of DPC for promotion in the cadre of ASP
2. Timely conduction of MACP in the cadre of IP/ASP
3. Relief arrangments of IP/ASP who got transfers to AP Circle from TS Circle and vice versa
CWC MEETING UPDATE.......
The venue of proposed CWC meeting to be held on 26.02.2017 has been changed.
Now the Venue is ::
HOTEL A I R A SMART STAY, BENJ CIRCLE VIJAYAWADA
Now the Venue is ::
HOTEL A I R A SMART STAY, BENJ CIRCLE VIJAYAWADA
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
NJCA chief Shiv Gopal Mishra confirmed that the allowances report would be submitted on Wednesday.
Committee on allowances, headed by Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa, will submit its report tomorrow, claims National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) convenor Shiv Gopal Mishra. Central government employees were expecting the report to be tabled by Monday. However, the committee delayed the submission due to unspecified reasons. The report would pave the way for the implementation of hiked allowances as per the revised 7th Pay Commission recommendations. (Update: Committee on Allowances to submit report today, hike in HRA expected)
“Government has made no announcement yet. But the report by Committee on allowances would be tabled tomorrow,” Shiv Gopal Mishra said, while speaking exclusively to India.com. On being asked whether the government would make an announcement in relation to the arrears on allowances, he replied, “Let us see what comes out of the report. We are expecting the hike in allowances, as per our demands. We have to wait and see whether the government makes an announcement on arrears as well.”
The committee on allowances was formed in July 2016, after central government employees raised several anomalies related to the 7th Pay Commission report submitted by Justice (retd) AK Mathur. The 7CPC report had recommended the abolition of 51 existing allowances, and subsumption of 37 others of the total 191 allowances.
The major point of grievance was the reduction in Housing Rent Allowance (HRA) offered to central government employees. As per the 6th Pay Commission report, the HRAs provided were 30 per cent, 20 per cent, 10 per cent for employees living in ‘X’, ‘Y’, ‘Z’ category towns/cities. However, the 7th Pay Commission report decreased the allowances to 24, 16 and 8 per cent of the basic pay.
Reduction in HRA has irked a major section of central government employees, who reside in rented accommodations. A section of the aggrieved employees have blamed the top bureaucracy for the delay in HRA hike. “Naturally, the common central government employees are more affected by the delay in allowance hike. The top bureacrats don’t take higher allowances, therefore, they are not interested in the hike,” Mishra said.
Apart from the hike in allowances, central government employees have also demanded Centre to provide arrears on the allowances. Since the date of implementation of 7th Pay Commission was fixed as January 1, 2016, employees have demanded the release of arrears on allowances as well.
Although the government provided arrears on basic pay while hiking the salaries on July 1, indications have been made that no arrears would be released on allowances. NJCA has confirmed that the employee unions would launch protest across the nation if the allowances are hiked, without the arrears. “Arrears are unlikely, but protests would be launched if they fail to release (the arrears),” Mishra said.
The date of allowances hike is reported to be April 1. NJCA claims, through its sources, that the government would be implementing the allowance hike from April 1. “It is most likely that the government announces the hike by April 1,” Mishra confirmed.
source: India.com
Monday, February 20, 2017
GS visit to Directorate
GS and CHQ Treasurer visited Directorate on 16-2-2017 and 17-2-2017 and met with senior officers and discussed the following cases with them.
1. Issue of final combined seniority list of Inspector Posts cadre for the year 2001 and 2002 and remaining years.
Directorate vide memo No. 7-1/2015-SPB-II dated 17/5/2016 has circulated draft All India combined seniority list of Inspector Posts for the year 2001 and 2002 and requested to intimate discrepancies noticed therein. Thereafter Directorate vide Memo No. 7-1/2015-SPB-II dated 09th June 2016 has again circulated revised seniority list to all HOCs with a direction to circulate among all the candidates for inviting comments/grievances. In response to above letters huge number of representations are said to have been received at Directorate and most of them are examined at SPB Division in the light of DoPT OM No. 28011/6/76-Estt (D) dated 24.6.1978 and 20011/8/2012-Estt (D) dated 04-03-2014. Now, file is under preparation for seeking clarification from DoPT. After receipt of clarification from DoPT, final seniority list will be circulated and thereafter on the same line, remaining years seniority lists will be prepared.
2. Holding of supplementary DPC for promotion to the cadre of PS Gr. B for the year 2016-17.
Directorate vide Memo No. 9-14/2016-SPG dated 09-12-2016 has appointed 105 Inspector Line Officers on regular basis in PS Gr. B cadre, but few circles have yet not implemented orders. Further few circles have not submitted the report on joining as well declination by the promote officers to SPG section of Directorate. Till date only 5 declinations are said to be received from officers. Directorate is going to remind all HoCs soon to submit clear report on joining / declination of officers and thereafter supplementary DPC will be convened.
3. Issue of revised Recruitment Rules for the post of Assistant Manager in MMS and filling up of vacant post of Dy. Manager MMS.
RRs are said to finalised. Two posts of Dy. Manager MMS are vacant and it will be filed up soon.
4. Inter Circle Rule 38 transfer cases of Inspector Posts cadre.
Most of the cases settled. Due to non availability of vacancies in few circles, the requests of the candidates are pending and these will be considered when vacancy occurs. The individual candidate/s may take up issue through proper channel to Directorate. Their cases will be considered on availability of vacancies in the circle.
5. Holding of periodical meeting with Hon’ble Secretary (Posts).
Agenda already submitted by Association. Reports from DDG (P) and Sr. DDG (Vig) awaited. Asked to write reminder.
6. Clerical Assistance to Sub Divisional Head.
SPG Division has called for report from Establishment Division. The matter is under examination at Establishment Division.
7. Declaration of result of Inspector Posts examination for the vacancy year 2015-16.
LDCE for promotion to the cadre of Inspector Posts (66.66%) departmental quota for the year 2015-16 was held on 22 and 23-10-2016 for 189 vacancies (OC-155, SC-26 and ST-8). The provisional key of the question papers was already published by the Department on India Post website and representation thereon if any was called for from candidates till 6-1-2017. Huge quantity of representations are said to be received from candidates. Department have already formed committee to examine all the representations received from candidates. The report from committee is yet to receive at Directorate. FINAL KEY will be expected thereafter. To clear all these exercise, minimum one month’s time is required.
8. Declaration of result of PS Gr. ‘B’ examination for the vacancy year 2012-13 to 2015-16.
Many representations are received thereon and all these are under examination. To examine the representations received from candidates, department is going to form a committee who will examine the representations and give final report to Department. Thereafter FINAL KEY will be published on department’s website. It is told that there are many CAT cases registered at various benches and they stayed declaration of results till outcome. In one case stay is said to be granted till April 2017.
9. DPC for holding of JTS Gr. A promotion for the year 2016-17 and repatriation thereof.
UPSC has raised query and same is being replied soon by the department. Earlier it was told that there were 11 vacancies but now there is chance to increase. The officers who have completed two years of service will only get repatriation to his/her parent circle. Spouse category cases are also said to be considered this time.
Many other pending cases related to cadre are discussed with the concerned officers. The case of cadre restructuring is also discussed at length and the officers have shown positive to our proposed proposal. The proposal is being submitted soon.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Ernakulam CAT case : Reply filed by Association to the counter reply to Ministry of Finance
BEFORE THE HONOURABLE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ERNAKULAM BENCH
C.P./180/00137/ 2016
IN
O.A./180/00289/2013
All India Association of Inspector of Posts &
Assistant Superintendent of Posts and others : Petitioners/Applicants
Vs.
Ashok Lavasa : Respondent/Respondemt
AFFIDAVIT FILED BY THE PETITIONERS
I, Niranjan Kumar, S/o. Sri. Suresh Prasad Sah, aged 34 years, Assistant Superintendent of Post Offices, Kerala Circle (presently working on deputation as Deputy Manager, Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology, Mysore) residing at Quarter No. III/3, PTC Campus Staff Quarters, PTC Mysore, Karnataka-570 010 having come down to Ernakulam do hereby solemnly affirm and state as follows:
1. I am the 3rd petitioner in the above Contempt petition. I am conversant with the facts of the case. I am swearing this affidavit for and behalf of the petitioners 1 and 2 also. I am authorised to do so.
2. It is submitted that an affidavit has been filed by the respondent seeking to close the above Contempt Petition (Civil) stating that Annexure P-1 Order has been fully complied with. It is submitted that the above statement is one made knowingly to mislead this Hon'ble Tribunal. In Annexure P-1 Order this Hon'ble Tribunal had considered the legal and factual position relating to the need for reckoning the functional parity between the Inspector Posts and the analogous post under CBDT and CBEC and accordingly directed the respondent No.1 (respondent herein) to send Annexure A-19 Order along with the representation made by the 1st Applicant Association, the recommendations made by the Department of Posts thereon along with copies of the relevant portion of the 4th, 5th and 6th Central Pay Commission recommendations regarding the pay of Inspector (Posts) to the Member-Secretary of the 7th CPC requesting to making appropriate recommendations. It has been further directed that Respondent No.1 shall also submit an explanation before the 7th CPC as to why despite the Cabinet Resolution accepting the recommendations in paragraph 7.6.14 of the report of the 6th CPC, the officials in the Finance Ministry took a different view and also under what authority the said official made such notings in Annexure A-22 file Note. In the event the 7th Pay Commission has reached the final stage of its proceedings and is not in a position to include this matter in its report, then the Finance Secretary/ 1st respondent shall at his level consider the matter as directed by this Hon'ble Tribunal in OA No. 381/2010 keeping in view the detailed proposal with justification submitted by the Department of Posts, the detailed observations made by this Hon'ble Tribunal in the earlier O.A and also the above order and shall pass a detailed speaking order addressing all these points within 30 days from the date of receipt of a copy of the Order. Admittedly, the 7th Central Pay Commission was already finalised in October, 2015 before the implementation of Annexure P-1 Order. Therefore, the respondent herein is duty bound to consider the matter as directed by this Hon'ble Tribunal in OA No. 381/2010 keeping in view the detailed proposal with justification submitted by the Department of Posts, the detailed observations made by this Hon'ble Tribunal in the earlier O.A and also Annexure P-1 Order and to pass a detailed speaking order addressing all these points within 30 days from the date of receipt of a copy of the Order. The copy of Annexure P-1 Order was admittedly received by the respondent in May, 2016. However, no orders passed by the respondent till date. The acceptance of the recommendations of the 7th CPC by the Cabinet Committee for approval of the Government has nothing to do with the above direction and therefore, the deliberate action of the respondent herein in not passing speaking Order regarding the entitlement of the Grade Pay of Rs. 4600/- to the Inspector Posts with effect from 01-01-2006 is contumacious and is liable to be proceeded under the Contempt of Court Act.
3. All other averments made in the affidavit is devoid of any force or merit. The respondent herein did not comply with the positive directions contained in Annexure P-1 Order of this Honourable Tribunal and the attempt to defeat and defy the directions of this Honourable Tribunal and the conduct of the respondents in attempting to overreach the Orders of this Honourable Tribunal is an instance of defying the lawful authority of this Honourable Tribunal and is a clear interference with the course of justice. The respondents have rendered themselves liable to be proceeded under the Contempt of Court Act by employing subterfuge and attempting to get the CCC (P) closed by relying on the orders issued by the Government accepting the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission with effect from 01-01-2016, which has nothing to do with the entitlement of the Grade Pay of Rs. 4600/- to Inspector Posts with effect from 01-01-2006.
All the above facts are true to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.
Dated this the 29th day of January, 2016
DEPONENT
Solemnly affirmed and signed before me by the deponent on this the 29th day of January, 2016 in my office at Ernakulam.
ADVOCATE
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Friday, February 17, 2017
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Govt allocates Rs500 crore to India Post Payments Bank
New Delhi: The government has allocated Rs500 crore to India Post Payments Bank for the financial year 2017-18 as it gears up to set up 650 branches across country by September 2017.
The government has allocated Rs125 crore as “capital infusion into corporate entity for India Post Payments Bank” and Rs375 crore as “grant in aid to India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)”, as per Output-Outcome Framework for Schemes 2017-18 for the department of posts (DoP) released on Monday.
India Posts is the second entity to roll out payments bank—though on a pilot basis—in Raipur and Ranchi, after Airtel that has earmarked Rs3,000 crore as initial investment for pan-India operations with an interest rate of 7.25% on deposits. Besides, Airtel is offering free money transfer from Airtel to Airtel numbers within Airtel Bank, money transfer to any bank account in the country.
The IPPB will offer an interest rate of 4.5% on deposits up to Rs25,000; 5% on deposits of Rs25,000-50,000 and 5.5% on Rs50,000-1,00,000. The total paid up equity of the new bank IPPB is Rs 800 crore, of which the government has already infused Rs275 crore.
Payments banks can accept deposits up to Rs1 lakh per account from individuals and small businesses. The new model of banking allows mobile firms, super market chains and others to cater to banking requirements of individuals and small businesses. The allocation to IPPB is part of Rs1,034.13 crore earmarked for the department of posts. The second big chunk of the total allocation, Rs279.6 crore, has been allocated for providing IT hardware and software in identified rural areas for improved access to services and customer satisfaction, resulting in increase in customer transactions, traffic and revenue.
The DoP has been allocated Rs110.83 crore for establishing e-commerce, parcel booking, international business centres, Rs73.5 crore for estates management, Rs32 crore for mail operations and Rs17.7 crore for equipments and IT infrastructure in rural post offices. The government has allocated Rs3.8 crore for setting up 246 offices and 200 outlets for providing better access to communication and financial services.
Source : livemint.comMonday, February 13, 2017
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Hydpex 2017 at Hyderabad from 10.02.2017 to 11.02.2017
District Level Philately Exhibition Hydpex - 2017 Started on 10.02.2017 for Two Days. For this Exhibition Brig. B. Chandrasekhar, Chief Postmaster General, Telangana Circle attended as chief Guest, Brig. P. K. Sharma, Commandant, AOC Centre attended as Guest of Honor. To this Exhibition Dr. P. V. S. Reddy, Postmaster General, Hyderabad Head Quarters Region, Dr. Vennam Uppender, Director of Postal Services, Hyderabad Region and some other officers were attended
Thursday, February 09, 2017
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Tuesday, February 07, 2017
Central Government Employees expect 2% DA for January 2017
New Delhi: Central government employees expect a 2 percent dearness allowance in the salary from January 2017.
As per a blog of central government employees, "In case All India Consumer Price Index(AICPIN) is less than 277 for Nov and Dec 2016, then Dearness Allowance from January 2017 will be 2 percent. The employees feel that due to the impact of demonetisation, AICPIN Value may be volatile in the coming months.
The AICPIN for December 2016 was released by the Labour Department on January 31 at 275.
Though this is not the final figure because the Union are protesting against the DA %, added the blog.
The move is likely to bring relief to around 50 lakh employees working with the central government as well as 58 lakh more pensioners.
Provision of dearness allowance and dearness relief is made to the employees and pensioners so as to neutralise the effect of price rise on their salary and saving.
Source : http://zeenews.india.com/
Monday, February 06, 2017
Friday, February 03, 2017
After Budget, Govt To Announce Higher Allowances In March
New Delhi: The government is expected to announce higher allowances for 4.8 million central government employees and 5.2 million pensioners in March with a view to give a boost to its employees.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is expected to announce the higher allowances in mid-March.
After Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday in his Budget speech announced the reduction of the existing rate of taxation for salaried class with income ranging between Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to 5% instead of 10%.
the Finance Minister also said in his budget that there would be zero tax liability for people getting income up to Rs 3 lakhs p.a. and the income tax liability will only be Rs 2,500 for people with income between Rs 3 and Rs 3.5 lakhs.
The Finance Ministry is hopeful for the announcement of higher allowances in March after the completion of five states assemblies’ poll process as the model code of conduct has come into effect from January 4, the sources in the Ministry told us on condition of anonymity.
They also said higher allowances under the 7th Pay Commission recommendations should implement which would give them some financial comfort, a step they had hoped might be taken to implement in April in new financial year.
The implementation is to come in April after nine to ten months of getting basic pay hike of the central government employees.
Sources, however, said the government had no plan to give allowances in arrears from August for the central government employees.
“There’s no arrears on allowances will be given to employees,” they confirmed.
The pay commission had recommended abolition of 51 allowances and subsuming 37 others out of 196 allowances.
So the government hiked the basic pay and referred hike in allowances other than dearness allowance to the ‘Committee on Allowances’ headed by the Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa for examination.
The ‘Committee on Allowances’ has finalized the report on the allowances in October, however the government gave extension the committee till February 22, 2017 to submit its report for getting normalized the cash crunch period.
After getting the report on the allowances, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is expected to announce the higher allowances in mid-March.
source : The Sen times
7th Pay Commission: Centre to hike allowances of Central Govt employees from April 1, says NJCA convenor
New Delhi, February 2: A day after Budget 2017 was tabled in the Parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the Central Government employees were upset as the Union Minister nowhere mentioned any increase in the hike of allowances in the 7th Pay Commission. But the members of National Joint Action Committee (NJCA) are an optimist about the implementation of 7CPC and believe that the government will come up with some positive news on April 1. The NJCA also believe that the Union Government will be implementing the 7CPC latest by April 1, after the end of financial year.
On Wednesday, the central government employees were gripped with pessimism after Arun Jaitley made no reference to the anomalies related to 7CPC in his Budget speech. “All of us were eagerly waiting for Finance Minister to make some announcement on minimum wages. But after Mr Jaitley’s speech ended without mentioning a single word about the increase in the minimum wage, most of us were upset,” Shiv Gopal Mishra, NJCA chief said to India.com.
He further added, “The government may implement the 7CPC by April 1 and their demand to increase the minimum wage will also be implemented. If the government fails to increase minimum wages from Rs 18,000 to Rs 25,000 then we will launch a massive protest against the government”.
The NJCA has been actively involved with the Centre where they are seeking a revision of minimum salary from Rs 18,000 to Rs 26,000. The NJCA members and its conveyor had also met Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, a day after the implementation of 7CPC and had kept their demands in front of senior leaders.
Shiv Gopal Mishra is quite optimist about the hike in allowances of government employees but he is not sure that their demands of raising the minimum wage would be fulfilled by the government.
On Wednesday, most of the senior central government employees were eagerly waiting for the Budget speech as most of them expected the Finance Minister to speak on the 7CPC.
On July 1, 2016, the 7th Pay Commission was approved by the Union Cabinet. The date of implementation was fixed by the high-powered committee as for January 1, 2016. From the month of July, the central government employees were provided with the hiked salaries, along with the arrears of six months. But the hike was only related to the basic component of their pay. The increase in allowances was upheld, due to the anomalies raised by employees unions.
The implementation of 7th Pay Commission will directly benefit around 47 lakh central government employees, along with 53 lakh pensioners. In the 7th Pay Commission, the minimum wage has been revised from Rs 7,000 to Rs 18,000. While the maximum salary has been capped at Rs 2.5 lakh.
Source : http://www.india.com
Wednesday, February 01, 2017
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