Saturday 30 April 2016
Thursday 28 April 2016
Reservation in promotion
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
28-April-2016 15:08 IST
Extant instructions of DoPT provide that reservation in promotion by
non-selection method is available to SCs and STs in all Groups i.e.
Group A, B, C & D. In case of promotion by selection method,
reservation is available to SCs and STs upto lowest rung of Group A.
There is no reservation in promotion by selection within Group A.
Reservation in posts by promotion under the existing scheme is
applicable in which the element of direct recruitment, if any, does not
exceed 75%.
In accordance with Supreme Court judgment dated 15.07.2014, results of
Limited Departmental Competitive Examination 1996 for Section Officer
grade were revised by UPSC. Appellants, who were declared successful in
the modified results of SO LDCE 1996, were included in SOSL 1996 by this
Department. Later the benefit was extended to similarly placed SC/ST
officers who were declared qualified in the modified results of SO LDCE
1996. On their inclusion in SOSL 1996, these officers have become
eligible for consideration for promotion to the next grade (Under
Secretary) on completion of eight years of approved service in SO grade
i.e. they become eligible for consideration in USSL 2004 onwards subject
to the size of the zone. A proposal for review of USSLs 2004 and 2005
has been forwarded to UPSC in which these officers have been included in
the zone.
This was stated by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for
Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public
Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a
written reply to a question by Shri Ronald Sapa Tlau in the Rajya Sabha
today.
Tuesday 26 April 2016
Saturday 23 April 2016
Friday 22 April 2016
Thursday 21 April 2016
Tuesday 19 April 2016
Govt Devising Way To Implement 7th Pay Commission Award
New Delhi: The Implementation Cell in the Finance Ministry which works
as the Secretariat of the Empowered Committee of Secretaries for
processing the report of the Seventh Pay Commission before cabinet nod,
is now working on an effective mechanism for implementation of the 7th
Pay Commission award by resolving the issues that arose over minimum pay
and pay gap.
A proposal for raising minimum salary of the central government
employees to Rs 20,000 from the Seventh pay commission recommendation Rs
18,000 also under study, officials close to the implementation cell
told us.
However, central government employees unions demanded minimum pay Rs
26,000. “we think it should not be touched to Rs 26,ooo,” the
implementation cell official said.
Once the minimum pay is hiked, salaries of 48 lakh central government
employees will automatic automatically increase, depending on their
length and post of service than the seventh Pay Commission
recommendations and it’s the solution for resolving the pay gap.
But the final decision on the row over minimum pay and pay gap is expected to come from Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
People, familiar with the development, told the us for that reason the
Implementation Cell was yet to send the file to the Empowered Committee
of Secretaries.
“The final proposal on the 7th Pay Commission is yet to reach us from
the Empowered Committee of Secretaries,” the PMO officials also told us.
On receipt of the proposal from the Empowered Committee of Secretaries
it would be placed before the cabinet for its nod through Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley, they added.
Under the prevailing circumstances, the central government employees are
likely to draw salaries under the 7th Pay Commission for the month of
July, as promised earlier by the Finance Minister.
Officials, however, said whenever the 7th Pay Commission would come into
effect, the government servants would get their enhanced benefits of
salaries with effect from the month of January, 2016.
The 7th Pay Commission award will be implemented in phases. In the first
phase, the central government employee will get the basic pay as well
as its arrears and in the second phase, they will get allowances but
without arrears.
The current budget has an allocation of Rs 70,000 crore for
implementation of the 7th Pay Commission award for 48 lakh central
government employees and 52 lakh pensioners including dependents.
The complexity over implementation of the 7th Pay Commission award
cropped up soon after the recommendation made by Justice A K Mathur’s
pay panel.
The 7th Pay Commission recommended 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, while all pay
commissions made up pay gap between employees and officers from second
Pay Commission 1:41 ratio to Sixth pay commission 1:12.
The Central government employees’ associations said, “not at all happy”
with the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission and, in fact, “no
section of the Gruop B and C employees is satisfied”, as the Commission
has recommended a minimal pay increase as compared to the previous Pay
Commissions., they added.
When the Finance Ministry was contacted to know about their latest 7th
Pay Commission award, officials said, “We’re ready to send the final
proposal to the Empowered Committee of Secretaries.”
But he refused to say when the final proposal would be sent to the Empowered Committee of Secretaries.
However, a number of sources at the Finance Ministry said the PMO would
take the decision on minimum pay and pay gap, after recommendation of
the Empowered Committee of Secretaries led by the cabinet secretary P K
Sinha was formed to review it.
The 7th Pay Commission handed over its recommendations to the Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley on November 19 in 2015, while a secretary-level
Empowered Committee was formed in January to review the proposals.
Source:TST
Monday 18 April 2016
Centre Considers Including Cruise Tours Under Leave Travel Concession Scheme
Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma today said presently only 0.40 per cent
of the tourists in India opt for cruise tours, while India's share in
the global cruise tourism market is 0.68 per cent. (File Photo)
MUMBAI: Aiming to increase cruise tourism, the Centre is mulling to
include vacations on luxury ships under the Leave Travel Concession
(LTC) scheme where government employees get their travel costs
reimbursed.
"We are looking at including cruise tours under the LTC scheme.
Employees can go on cruise ships at government expense," Joint Secretary
in the Ministry of Tourism, Suman Billa said during a session on
tourism at the Maritime India Summit here today.
He said such a move will shore up the sagging numbers of tourists opting
for cruise tours and will be a huge boost for the sector.
Mr Billa said for the five years between FY10 and FY14, there has been a
14 per cent decline in the number of tourists opting for cruise tours
in the country, a trend the government wants to reverse.
In FY10, there were 55,000 domestic and 1.35 lakh foreign tourists who
boarded cruise ships, which dropped to 45,000 and 70,000, respectively,
in FY14, he said.
Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma today said presently only 0.40 per cent
of the tourists in India opt for cruise tours, while India's share in
the global cruise tourism market is 0.68 per cent.
The government is targeting to take this up to 1 per cent by 2020 and further to 2 per cent later.
Most Indians "have a craze" towards cruise tourism, he said, adding that
special emphasis has been laid on cruise tourism in the last 18 months.
Mr Billa said a task force set up in November 2015 to increase cruise
tourism is looking at various aspects, including developing
infrastructure, simplifying procedures, increasing marketing and
communication activities, and incentives and commissions.
The move to include holidays on cruise ships under the LTC is also one
of the proposals the task force, chaired by tourism secretary and
co-chaired by the shipping secretary, is looking into, he said.
Mr Billa said India is best placed to take advantage of cruise tourism
as it stands close to a busy route for cruise ships between the Middle
East and South East Asian countries.
Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to Review the Progress of India Post
NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) is likely to undertake a
review of India Post on April 14 regarding action taken by the
department for setting up its payments bank.
According to sources, PMO will also take stock of progress made by
Department of Post (DoP) to improve functioning through initiatives like
e-commerce and IT modernization.
The Public Investment Board (PIB) has already approved the Rs
800-crore proposal from India Post for setting up a payments bank and
after the PMO review, it will be sent to the Cabinet for final approval.
"Top officials of DoP will brief PMO about the progress made so far
by the department in improving efficiency and what is the latest update
regarding the payments bank," a source said.
The meeting with PMO is likely to take place on April 14, the source added.
The PMO is monitoring the progress made by DoP to improve its
functioning and utilizing the vast network of post offices across the
country for financial inclusion.
Earlier this year also, PMO had taken a review of DoP with special
focus on the implementation of proposals submitted by a task force on
leveraging the department's post office network.
India Post has selected Deloitte to advise it on setting up a payments bank.
The India Post payments bank will primarily target unbanked and
under-banked customers in rural, semi-rural and remote areas, with a
focus on providing simple deposit products and money remittance
services.
The pilot for the payments bank is set to start from January 2017 and the full-fledged operations may start by March.
As many as 40 international financial conglomerates including World
Bank and Barclays have shown interest to partner the postal department
for setting up the bank.
For strengthening the e-commerce infrastructure, DoP has set up 57
new state-of-the-art parcel centres across the country through which
more than 400 e-commerce companies are being serviced.
Thursday 14 April 2016
Wednesday 13 April 2016
Tuesday 12 April 2016
Monday 11 April 2016
Meghdoot post cards to woo voters
The Election Department of Puducherry is set to woo
reluctant voters to exercise their franchise at the time of polling with
an innovative initiative.
A number of new initiatives are being launched to take Voter turn out to new high in the UT.
Meghdoot
post cards containing customised print would be sent to First Time
voters, Low Voter turnout households and other targeted households in
Puducherry. Appreciative of the new initiative, Chief Election
Commissioner Nasim Zaidi said, “The State is well poised for a high
level of polling. The polling percentage was 86 in the last Assembly
polls. A number of initiatives are being taken to improve this voting
rate. One of the initiatives is post cards which will be sent to the all
domestic households.”
“Probably this will be a novel
idea. Meghdoot post cards will be sent to all households in the
territory as an invitation to voters to come out and cast their votes. ”
Will be sent to first time voters, low voter turnout households and other targetted ones
Source: The Hindu
Poor connectivity, staff shortage ail Panchkula post offices
Customers at post offices across Panchkula have been facing difficulties with regard to transactions as issues relating to server and connectivity have hit the system. With the problem persisting for almost three weeks, citizens have been queuing up at their respective post offices prior to their opening. There are three post offices in Panchkula--in Sectors 4, 8 and 15.
Officials at the Sector 8 circle of the department said the problem prevailed following the department’s migration to the core banking solution (CBS) system this year. As a result, other circles of the department in various states have also been hit.
India Post has a network-based system that is linked to a central server. Transactions made throughout the country are linked to this. Owing to the massive transactions due to the financial year-end, the bandwidth suffered heavy stress resulting in the crash of the server and the links to it, an official said.
The LAN connectivity gets delinked for long periods, leaving employees helpless while logging on to the central server. Dealing with the present scenario has become a Herculean task for the staff.
A visit to the three post offices revealed that many customers, most of them senior citizens, were frustrated. They told HT that their repeated attempts at transactions proved futile, leaving them cynical about India Post’s abilities to tackle the issue.
A resident of Sector 8 said when locals argued, the staff kept assuring them that the system was buffering but even after hours of wait the transaction was incomplete.
DH Kalia, a 77-year-old retired official and a resident of Panchkula, said, “I have been standing in a queue for three hours and now the woman in charge says I should come on Monday. They are not equipped to carry out basic work.” Eighty-four-year-old DC Sharma, a resident of Dhakoli, Zirakpur, said senior citizens and women were made to wait in the regular queue though there should be separate queues for them.
Bhagat Prasad has been coming to the post office, Sector 8, for the past eight working days. “I am so frustrated and the staff is so rude and non-cooperative,” he said. Sushma Sethi, an associate professor at DAV College, Chandigarh, said, “Is it our problem if the server has been down? This is the fourth day I have been coming here and had to even miss a class because they delay things so much. There is no proper system.”
The situation at the Sector-4 post office is no different. Sushma, sub-postmaster, said, “The server problem existed till March and has now improved. Once we have taken the passbooks, we attend to all the customers even if it is beyond the prescribed timings.” The post office operates from 9am to 3pm on weekdays and 9am to 1pm on Saturdays.
The Sector-15 post office is the only one that provides some relief to citizens living there. Postmaster Anand said this was the only post office in Panchkula where the server hadn’t gone down in April. He, however, held staff shortage as a hindrance in attending to people.
According to officiating assistant postmaster Renuka Gupta at the Sector 8 post office, “The system has been updated since April. The problem persisted only till March 31. “We are trying to run things as smoothly as we can.”
Moreover, only two officials were seen attending to a crowd of over 60 people on Friday. Sub-postmaster, Sector 8 post office, Savita Singhal, said the staff shortage is a concern they had been trying to address. “My team comes early in the morning and leaves not before 7 in the evening so that customers get their work done,” said Singhal.
Despite repeated attempts, Ambala divisional officer was not available for comment.
Source:Hindustantimes
Sunday 10 April 2016
FAQs related to the New Pension Scheme (NPS)
| 1. | Whether a retiring Government servant is entitled for leave encashment after retirement under the NPS? |
| The benefit of encashment of leave salary is not a part of the retirement benefits admissible under Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972. It is payable in terms of CCS (Leave) Rules which will continue to be applicable to the government servants who join the government service on after 1-1-2004. Therefore, the benefit of encashment of leave salary payable to the governments/to their families on account of retirement/death will be admissible. | |
| 2. | Why is it mandatory to use 40% of pension wealth to purchase the annuity at the time of the exit (i.e. after the age of 60 years) from NPS? |
| This provision has been made in�the New Pension Scheme with an intention that the retired government servants should get regular monthly income during their retired life. | |
| 3. | Whether any minimum age or minimum service is required to quit from Tier-I? |
| Exit from Tier-I can only take place when an individual leaves Government service. | |
| 4. | Whether Dearness Pay is counted as basic pay for recovery of 10% for Tier-I? |
| As per the New Pension Scheme, the total Dearness Allowance is to be taken into account for working out the contributions to Tier-I. Subsequently, a part of the �Dearness Allowance� has been treated as Dearness Pay. Therefore, this should also be reckoned for the purpose of contributions. | |
| 5. | Whether contribution towards Tier-I from arrears of DA is to be deducted? |
| Yes. Since the contribution is to be worked out at 10% of (Pay+ DP+DA), it needs to be revised whenever there is any change in these elements | |
| 6. | Who will calculate the interest PAO or CPAO? |
| The PAO should calculate the interest. | |
| 7. | What happens if an employee gets transferred during the month? Which office will make deduction of Contribution? |
| As in the case of other recoveries, the recovery of contributions towards New Pension Scheme for the full month (both individual and government) will be made by the office who will draw salary for the maximum period. | |
| 8. | Whether NPA payable to medical officers will count towards �Pay� for the purpose of working out contributions to NPS? |
| Yes. Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has clarified vide their O.M. no. A45012/11/97-CHS.V dated 7-4-98 that the Non-Practising Allowance shall count as �pay� for all service benefits. Therefore, this will be taken into account for working out the contribution towards the New Pension Scheme. | |
| 9. | Whether a government servant who was already in service prior to 1.1.2004, if appointed in a different post under the Government of India, will be governed by the CCS (Pension) Rules or NPS? |
| In cases where Government servants apply for posts in the same or other departments and on selection they are asked to render technical resignation, the past services are counted towards pension under CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972. Since the Government servant had originally joined government service prior to 1-1-2004, he should be covered under the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972. | |
Source; http://pensionersportal.gov.in/faqs-nps-f.asp#a1 | |
Saturday 9 April 2016
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