Department of Posts scouts for payments bank CEO, COO

The Department of Posts has written to chiefs of several public sector banks asking them to nominate officials to fill the posts of chief executive officer and chief operating officer at the department’s payments bank, which is to be unveiled soon.

“We have written to select public sector banks like Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India (and) Union Bank to recommend their board-level officers or senior executives who may be interested in managing our payments bank as CEO on one-year deputation basis,” Department of Posts Secretary, S.K. Sinha, said.

The Secretary clarified that a similar request was not sent to State Bank of India to avoid conflict of interest as country’s largest lender has partnered with Reliance Industries, which has been granted a payments bank licence by the Reserve Bank of India.

March deadline

Since the government has set a March 2017 deadline for launching the payments bank's operations, the department wants to bring in top management quickly. The formal process of appointing a full-time CEO and COO will be initiated simultaneously, for securing approvals from competent authorities, including the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

Mr Sinha said: “We expect the board of IPPB to be in place within 30 to 45 days. If we get the name of the CEO, then we can have the board running.”

The India Posts Payment Bank (IPPB) will have 650 branches across the country.

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அரசுடன் பேச்சுவார்த்தையில் நடந்தது என்ன ?

Minimum wage for central govt employees may be hiked 

New Delhi:     Under pressure from the unions, the government has indicated that it may increase the minimum monthly pay of central government employees beyond the Rs.18,000 suggested by the Seventh Pay Commission, seeking to defuse a strike threat.The assurance has divided several government unions on whether to go ahead with the indefinite strike starting 11 July.

Three cabinet ministers—finance minister Arun Jaitley, home minister Rajnath Singh and railway minister Suresh Prabhu—met representatives of several government staff unions late on Thursday for almost two hours and assured them that their demand would be looked into.
The unions have been demanding Rs.26,000, higher than the Rs.18,000 approved by the cabinet on Wednesday on the Seventh Pay Commission’s report. The government said it was more than doubling minimum pay from Rs.7,000 after accepting the recommendations of the commission, which would put an extra Rs.1.02 trillion in the hands of 10 million government employees and pensioners.
“Three top ministers called us and we met at Rajnath Singh’s house for two hours till 11pm last night. We have been assured that the minimum wage issue is going to be referred to one of two committees that the government is setting up to rectify any anomalies in the pay commission recommendations’ implementation,” said Shiva Gopal Mishra, general secretary of the National Joint Council of Action (NJCA), a confederation of several government staff unions.
The council claims a membership of 3.3 million, including workers of Indian Railways, the country’s largest employer.
Mishra said Jaitley accepted their concern. “He said the government will try to rectify some of our demands, including minimum wage,” the NJCA general secretary said.
Union leaders claimed that the pay commission’s recommendation and the government’s announcement raising minimum pay from Rs.7,000 to Rs.18,000 had glossed over the fine print.
“Now, base pay plus dearness allowance (DA) makes the minimum wage Rs.15,700. They have increased it to Rs.18,000,” said K.K.N. Kutty, national president of the Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers.
“When you are doing away with DA in the new system, the hike cannot be just Rs.2,000,” said C. Srikumar, general secretary of the All India Defence Employees Federation, a union of civilian workers in factories and establishments under the ministry of defence.
Mishra said the home minister assured them that “their interaction with us has the blessings of PM Narendra Modi”.
“On minimum wage, we are for a negotiated settlement and it seems there is some consideration at the highest level,” he added.
An office-bearer at an employees’ union said the government’s offer had posed a dilemma to union leaders, noting that it wasn’t a written assurance, “without which it will be tough to accept that the government is indeed serious in reworking the minimum wage”.
The offer had ended up dividing the unions on whether to proceed with the strike, this person said on condition of anonymity. “And we could not reach a conclusion on Friday on our next course of action,” he said, adding that the railway workers’ union was hesitant about going on strike.
Mishra, who is also the general secretary of All India Railwaymen’s Federation, sounded a conciliatory note.
“We are fighting for the welfare of our own workers...a strike is an option if government does not listen to us. There seems to be a political willingness to solve what we are demanding and that’s what was indicated last night,” Mishra told reporters in New Delhi.
On Friday, NJCA wrote to all unions that “government has proposed to refer the issue of minimum wage and fitment formula (for calculation of salary) to a committee for reconsideration. The NJCA will await communication in this regard from the government”.
It said that it will meet on 6 July again to decide on the proposed strike.
What is interesting is that increasing the minimum pay will change the salary fitment calculations. If the minimum wage is hiked from Rs.18,000 to even Rs.20,000, the fitment rate will be higher than the 2.57 times approved by the government based on the pay commission recommendations.
“If the 2.57 fitment formula is tinkered with, then salary and pension in general for all segments of employees will go up, putting further stress on the exchequer. So the government has to walk a fine balance and a lot of homework is required,” said a government official, who declined to be named.
The acceptance of the pay commission recommendations is a potential boost to the consumer economy.
A further hike could lift consumption further, but it will be tough on government finances, the official said.
Rating agency India Ratings and Research Pvt. Ltd said the gross impact of pay hike on the economy is likely to be Rs.94,775 crore.
“The central government will receive income tax on this payout and collect excise duty on consumption, after sharing the increase in income tax and excise duty with states. Thus the net impact on the central government finances is estimated to be Rs.80,641 crore,” said D.K. Pant, chief economist of India Ratings and Research.

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7th pay commission worst pay hike in country’s history, says Congress

7th pay commission worst pay hike in country’s history, says Congress

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Latest Update – NJCA has issued a statement on 01.07.2016

வதந்திகளை நம்பாதீர்  தோழர்களே 

 போராட்ட களம் நம்மை நோக்கி !

இன்று இல்லையேல்  இனி  என்றும் இல்லை ! 

Dear Comrades! We are to inform you that the NJCA had a discussion with Government of India, i.e. 30.06.2016 over cetain demands contained in our Charter of Demands. In the meeting following Ministers were present:- Shri Rajnath Singh, Hon’ble Home Minister
Shri Arun Jaitley, Hon’ble Finance Minsiter
Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Hon’ble Railway Minister
Shri Manoj Sinha, Hon’ble MoSR
On behalf of the NJCA the following participated in the discussion:-
Shri Shiva Gopal Mishra, Convener NJCA Shri M. Raghavaiah, Chairman NJCA Shri K.K.N. Kutty, Member NJCA Shri C.Srikumar, Member NJCA
The government has proposed to refer the issue of Minimum Wage and Fitment Formula to a committee for reconsideration.
The NJCA will await communication in this regard from the Government.
The NJCA will again meet on 6th July at 11:00 hrs, in JCM office, 13-C, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi, for taking appropriate decision.
With Fraternal Greetings !

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Don’t believe rumors & media news.

“Forward ever, backward never: onwards with Breaking Through”
 Don’t believe rumors & media news.  

NJCA confirmed Strike schedule (JULY-11/07/2016) as stated earlier after press conference today. NJCA will meet on 06/07/2016 at JCM office. . Circle/Divisional /Branch Secretaries are requested to conduct the gate meetings daily from today
1)7th CPC Recommendation on CGEGIS is not accepted by Govt and the old scheme and rates continues:The 7th Pay Commission has recommended the following rates for Central government Employees Group Insurance Scheme (CGEGIS) . The subscription amount has been increased considerably to increase the Insurance amount .
Level of Employee     Monthly Deduction (₹)     Insurance Amount (₹)
10 and above     5000     50,00,000
6 to 9     2500     25,00,000
1 to 5     1500     15,00,000

This has been objected by NCJCM in its memorandum. The demanded to reduce the monthly deduction as it is much higher than the Premium rates available for Term life Insurance in Open Market. The Central Government accepted this demand and rejected this recommendation and asked Ministry of Finance to work out a customized group insurance scheme for Central Government Employees with low premium and high risk cover.
” The Cabinet also decided not to accept the steep hike in monthly contribution towards Central Government Employees Group Insurance Scheme (CGEGIS) recommended by the Commission. The existing rates of monthly contribution will continue. This will increase the take home salary of employees at lower levels by Rs. 1470. However, considering the need for social security of employees, the Cabinet has asked Ministry of Finance to work out a customized group insurance scheme for Central Government Employees with low premium and high risk cover.
2)Cabinet accepts both two options for fixation of 7th CPC Revised Pension
7th CPC Recommended following Two options for fixation of Revised Pension:1. Pay Scale on Retirement and Number of Increment Earned in the scale of Retiring Grade will be taken for fixation of PensionIn this method Pension will be fixed in the Pay Matrix on the basis of the Pay Band and Grade Pay at which they retired
2. Using Multiplication Factor 2.57Existing Basic Pension to be multiplied by 2.57
When the NJCA met the Cabinet Secretary, they observed that Govt is not going to accept second option due to non-availability of Records to verify their Pay Level at the retiring stage. Objections were raised by Pensioners Association to this move and they requested the government to retain both two options to avoid disparity between Pre 2016 and Post 2016 Pensioners.The Central government in principle accepted the two options recommended for fixation of Revised Pension. But to address the issues anticipated when implementation in process, govt decided to constitute a committee to examine the feasibility of using First Option for fixation of Pension. It said, if found feasible, it will be implemented. The Committee has been given four months’ time to submit its report.The govt decision on Pension related issues is given below“The general recommendations of the Commission on pension and related benefits have been approved by the Cabinet. Both the options recommended by the Commission as regards pension revision have been accepted subject to feasibility of their implementation. Revision of pension using the second option based on fitment factor of 2.57 shall be implemented immediately. A Committee is being constituted to address the implementation issues anticipated in the first formulation. The first formulation may be made applicable if its implementation is found feasible after examination by proposed Committee which is to submit its Report within 4 months.”
3)Cabinet decided to retain LTC advance and Medical Advance in 7th Pay Commission:7th Pay commission in its report, recommended that all the interest free advances should be abolishedWe have already raised concerns about abolishing the Advances for Medical Treatment and LTC
Since these advances are reimbursable in nature, the government has now considered to restore four advances out of 12 Interest free advances which 7th CPC recommended to abolish.After Cabinet Approval Advances for Medical Treatment, TA on tour/transfer, TA for family of deceased employees and LTC have been retained.
4)The Central Government decision on the Advances is given below:“The Cabinet also approved the recommendation of the Commission to enhance the ceiling of House Building Advance from Rs. 7.50 lakh to 25 lakh. In order to ensure that no hardship is caused to employees, four interest free advances namely Advances for Medical Treatment, TA on tour/transfer, TA for family of deceased employees and LTC have been retained. All other interest free advances have been abolished”Percentage of HRA in 7th pay commission after cabinet approvalThe Pay commission has recommended HRA should be rationalized by using the factor 0.8 which is used for rationalising the percentage based allowances. The 7th CPC recommended 24 percent, 16 percent and 8 percent of the Basic Pay for Class X, Y and Z cities respectively. The Commission also recommended that the rate of HRA will be revised to 27 percent, 18 percent and 9 percent when DA crosses 50 percent, and further revised to 30 percent, 20 percent and 10 percent when DA crosses 100 percent
5)The cabinet committee reviewed the recommendations on Allowances and they are not able to give a decision over the Allowances. Hence the Union Cabinet  decided to constitute a Committee headed by Finance Secretary for further examination of the recommendations of 7th CPC on Allowances. And it is said that the Committee will complete its work in a time bound manner and submit its reports within a period of 4 months.
In the press release issued by government said the following” The Commission examined a total of 196 existing Allowances and, by way of rationalization, recommended abolition of 51 Allowances and subsuming of 37 Allowances. Given the significant changes in the existing provisions for Allowances which may have wide ranging implications, the Cabinet decided to constitute a Committee headed by Finance Secretary for further examination of the recommendations of 7th CPC on Allowances. The Committee will complete its work in a time bound manner and submit its reports within a period of 4 months. Till a final decision, all existing Allowances will continue to be paid at the existing rates.”The above press release  concluded with a statement of ” Till a final decision, all existing Allowances will continue to be paid at the existing rates”Since the House Rent Allowance also listed among one of these 196 Allowances, the status HRA is not clear now. The existing rates of HRA is 30%, 20% and 10% for class X, Y and Z respectively. Whether these existing rates of HRA will be paid based on revised pay or pre revised pay..? It needs to be clarified when implementation of 7th pay commission is in process.”

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NJCA DECIDED TO GO ON STRIKE

THE NJCA MET IN THE JCM STAFF SIDE OFFICE AND DISCUSSED THE STRIKE ISSUE,FNPO IS REPRESENTED BY THE, PRESIDENT FNPO, SG FNPO & DEPUTY SG FNPO. 
NJCA UNANIMOUSLY DECIDED TO  GO ON INDEFINITE STRIKE FROM 11TH JULY 2016.
THE PJCA CONSISTING OF NFPE& FNPO MET SEPARATELY AND ENDORCED THE DECISION OF NJCA.
TOMORROW THERE WILL BE PRESS CONFERENCE FROM NJCA.WAIT FOR THE FURTHER DETAILS

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Tamilnadu Postal JCA Circular

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No change in Small Savings Interest Rates.

SB Order 7/2016 : Revision in interest rates of small savings schemes

 

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Cabinet decisions on Implementation of the recommendations of Seventh Central Pay Commission

7th Pay Commission :

1. The present system of pay bands and grade pay has been dropped and a new pay matrix as recommended by the commission has been approved. Separate pay matrices have been drawn up for civilians, defence personnel and for military nursing service.

By doing away with the pay bands and grade pay, the new pay matrix ensures that there are no abrupt jumps in salaries upon promotion in different pay bands.

2. All existing levels have been absorbed in the new structure; no new levels have been introduced.

3. The minimum pay has been increased from Rs 7,000 to Rs 18, 000 per month. Starting salary of a newly recruited employee at lowest level will now be Rs 18,000 whereas for a freshly recruited Class I officer, it will be Rs 56,100.

4. For the purpose of revision of pay and pension, a fitment factor of 2.57 will be applied across all levels in the pay matrices. After taking into account the DA at prevailing rate, the salary/pension of all government employees/pensioners will be raised by at least 14.29 % as on January 1, 2016.

5. Rate of increment has been retained at 3%. This will benefit the employees in future on account of higher basic pay as the annual increments that they earn in future will be 2.57 times than at present.

6. The Cabinet approved further improvements in the defence pay matrix by enhancing Index of Rationalisation for Level 13A (Brigadier) and providing for additional stages in Level 12A (Lieutenant Colonel), 13 (Colonel) and 13A (Brigadier) in order to bring parity with Combined Armed Police Forces (CAPF) counterparts at the maximum of the respective Levels.

7. Some other decisions impacting the employees including defence and Combined Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel include:

*Gratuity ceiling enhanced from Rs 10 to 20 lakh. The ceiling on gratuity will increase by 25% whenever DA rises by 50 %.

*A common regime for payment of ex-gratia lump sum compensation for civil and defence forces personnel payable to next of kin with the existing rates enhanced from Rs 10-20 lakh to Rs 25-45 lakh for different categories.

*Rates of military service pay revised from Rs 1,000, Rs 2,000, Rs 4,200 and Rs 6,000 to Rs 3,600, Rs 5,200, Rs 10,800 and Rs 15,500 respectively for various categories of defence forces personnel.

*Terminal gratuity equivalent of 10.5 months of reckonable emoluments for Short Service Commissioned Officers who will be allowed to exit armed forces any time between seven and 10 years of service.

*Hospital leave, special disability leave and sick leave absorbed into a composite new leave named ‘Work Related Illness and Injury Leave’ (WRIIL). Full pay and allowances will be granted to all employees during the entire period of hospitalisation on account of WRIIL.

8. The Cabinet also approved the recommendation of the commission to enhance the ceiling of House Building Advance from Rs 7.50 lakh to Rs 25 lakh. In order to ensure that no hardship is caused to employees, four interest free advances namely advances for medical treatment, travel allowance on tour/transfer, TA for family of deceased employees and LTC have been retained. All other interest free advances have been abolished.

9. The Cabinet also decided not to accept the steep hike in monthly contribution towards Central Government Employees Group Insurance Scheme (CGEGIS) recommended by the commission. The existing rates of monthly contribution will continue. This will increase the take home salary of employees at lower levels by Rs 1,470. However, considering the need for social security of employees, the Cabinet has asked ministry of finance to work out a customised group insurance scheme for central government employees with low premium and high risk cover.

10. The general recommendations of the commission on pension and related benefits have been approved by the Cabinet. Both the options recommended by the commission as regards pension revision have been accepted subject to feasibility of their implementation. Revision of pension using the second option based on fitment factor of 2.57 shall be implemented immediately. A committee is being constituted to address the implementation issues anticipated in the first formulation. The first formulation may be made applicable if its implementation is found feasible after examination by proposed committee which is to submit its report within four months.

11. The commission examined a total of 196 existing allowances and, by way of rationalisation, recommended abolition of 51 allowances and subsuming of 37 allowances. Given the significant changes in the existing provisions for allowances, which may have wide ranging implications, the cabinet decided to constitute a committee headed by the finance secretary for further examination of the recommendations of the pay panel on allowances. The committee will submit its reports within four months. Till a final decision, all existing allowances will continue to be paid at the existing rates.

12. The cabinet also decided to constitute two separate committees: (i) to suggest measures for streamlining the implementation of National Pension System (NPS) and (ii) to look into anomalies likely to arise out of implementation of the commission’s report.

13. Apart from the pay, pension and other recommendations approved by the cabinet, it was decided that the concerned ministries may examine the issues that are administrative in nature, individual post/ cadre specific and issues in which the commission has not been able to arrive at a consensus.

14. As estimated by the pay panel, the additional financial impact on account of implementation of all its recommendations in 2016-17 will be Rs 1,02,100 crore. There will be an additional implication of Rs 12,133 crore on account of payments of arrears of pay and pension for two months of 2015-16.

15. Finance minister Arun Jaitley said the National Democratic Alliance government has taken the decision to implement the report of the 7th Pay Commission much faster than in the past.

Source : The Hindustan Times

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Percentage of HRA in 7th pay commission after cabinet approval.

Percentage of HRA in 7th pay commission after cabinet approval

The Pay commission has recommended HRA should be rationalized by using the factor 0.8 which is used for rationalising the percentage based allowances. The 7th CPC recommended 24 percent, 16 percent and 8 percent of the Basic Pay for Class X, Y and Z cities respectively. The Commission also recommended that the rate of HRA will be revised to 27 percent, 18 percent and 9 percent when DA crosses 50 percent, and further revised to 30 percent, 20 percent and 10 percent when DA crosses 100 percent.

The cabinet committee reviewed the recommendations on Allowances and they are not able to give a decision over the Allowances. Hence the Union Cabinet  decided to constitute a Committee headed by Finance Secretary for further examination of the recommendations of 7th CPC on Allowances. And it is said that the Committee will complete its work in a time bound manner and submit its reports within a period of 4 months.

In the press release issued by government said the following

” The Commission examined a total of 196 existing Allowances and, by way of rationalization, recommended abolition of 51 Allowances and subsuming of 37 Allowances. Given the significant changes in the existing provisions for Allowances which may have wide ranging implications, the Cabinet decided to constitute a Committee headed by Finance Secretary for further examination of the recommendations of 7th CPC on Allowances. The Committee will complete its work in a time bound manner and submit its reports within a period of 4 months. Till a final decision, all existing Allowances will continue to be paid at the existing rates.”

The above press release  concluded with a statement of ” Till a final decision, all existing Allowances will continue to be paid at the existing rates”

Since the House Rent Allowance also listed among one of these 196 Allowances, the status HRA is not clear now. The existing rates of HRA is 30%, 20% and 10% for class X, Y and Z respectively. Whether these existing rates of HRA will be paid based on revised pay or pre revised pay..? It needs to be clarified when implementation of 7th pay commission is in process.

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Cadre restructuring latest.

RMS,Circleoffice & SBCO  cadre restructuring  has been processed on the line of Postal Group-C . Now file is with JS&FA for further approval.

MMS Cadre restructuring file is with JS &FA for approval.

FNPO Thank our Secretary Posts for his sincere efforts and keeping his promise.

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நன்றி நன்றி நன்றி

              கடந்த 16.05.2016 சட்டமன்ற பொது தேர்தல் அன்று Postman Officiating பணி பார்த்த GDS தோழர்களுக்கு ஒருநாள் சம்பளம் வழங்கபடாமையை எடுத்து கூறி அன்று தேர்தல் கமிசன் உத்திரவு படி ஒருநாள் சம்பளம்  வழங்கிட கோரிய நமது கோரிக்கையை ஏற்று உடனடியாக ஒருநாள் சம்பளம்  வழங்கிட நடவடிக்கை எடுத்த  SSPOs Shri.V.P.Chandra Sekar, மற்றும் ASPOs Shri.Veerapathiran அவர்களுக்கு நன்றி நன்றி நன்றி

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We should go ahead with our preparations

As all of you are aware that the Union Cabinet has accepted the report of the VII CPC today.

It has been noticed that there is no improvement in Minimum Wage and Multiplying Factor as well, which was our hard pressed demand. Instead, wages, as recommended by the VII CPC have been accepted as it is, which is highly disappointing. Only two committees have been formed, one to take care of the allowances and another for National Pension Scheme, which will submit their reports within four months time.(ஏற்கனவே அறிவித்த Cabinet Secretary's Empowered Committee கதை தெரியாதா நமக்கு ? )

It is quite unfortunate that, our demand for improvement in the report of the VII CPC has not been considered by the government.

Therefore, it would be quite appropriate that, we should go ahead with our preparations for “Indefinite Strike”, slated to be commended from 06:00 hrs. on 11th July, 2016 (இனியும் ஏமாற தயாரில்லை).

You are also advised -to intensify the mass mobilization.

With fraternal greetings!

Yours faithfully

sd/-
(Shiva Gopal Mishra)

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Cabinet approves Implementation of the recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the implementation of the recommendations of 7^th Central Pay Commission (CPC) on pay and pensionary benefits.   It will come into effect from 01.01.2016.I

The Cabinet has also decided that arrears of pay and pensionary benefits will be paid during the current financial year (2016-17) itself, unlike in the past when parts of arrears were paid in the next financial year. 

The recommendations will benefit over 1 crore employees. This includes over 47 lakh central government employees and 53 lakh pensioners, of which 14 lakh employees and 18 lakh pensioners are from the defence forces.

Highlights:

1.            The present system of Pay Bands and Grade Pay has been dispensed with and a new Pay Matrix as recommended by the Commission has been approved. The status of the employee, hitherto determined by grade pay, will now be determined by the level in the Pay Matrix. Separate Pay Matrices have been drawn up for Civilians, Defence Personnel and for Military Nursing Service. The principle and rationale behind these matrices are the same.

2.            All existing levels have been subsumed in the new structure; no new levels have been introduced nor has any level been dispensed with. Index of Rationalisation has been approved for arriving at minimum pay in each Level of the Pay Matrix depending upon the increasing role, responsibility and accountability at each step in the hierarchy.

3.            The minimum pay has been increased from Rs.  7000 to 18000 p.m.  Starting salary of a newly recruited employee at lowest level will now beRs.  18000 whereas for a freshly recruited Class I officer, it will be Rs. 56100.  This reflects a compression ratio of 1:3.12 signifying that pay of a Class I officer on direct recruitment will be three times the pay of an entrant at lowest level.

4.            For the purpose of revision of pay and pension, a fitment factor of 2.57 will be applied across all Levels in the Pay Matrices.

5.            Rate of increment has been retained at 3 %. This will benefit the employees in future on account of higher basic pay as the annual increments that they earn in future will be 2.57 times than at present.

6.            The Cabinet approved further improvements in the Defence Pay Matrix by enhancing Index of Rationalisation for Level 13A (Brigadier) and providing for additional stages in Level 12A (Lieutenant Colonel), 13 (Colonel) and 13A (Brigadier) in order to bring parity with Combined Armed Police Forces (CAPF) counterparts at the maximum of the respective Levels.

7.            Some other decisions impacting the employees including Defence & Combined Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel include :

·               Gratuity ceiling enhanced from Rs.  10 to 20 lakh. The ceiling on gratuity will increase by 25 % whenever DA rises by 50 %.

·               A common regime for payment of Ex-gratia lump sum compensation for civil and defence forces personnel payable to Next of Kin with the existing rates enhanced from Rs. 10-20 lakh to 25-45 lakh for different categories.

·               Rates of Military Service Pay revised from Rs.  1000, 2000, 4200 & 6000 to 3600, 5200, 10800 & 15500 respectively for various categories of Defence Forces personnel.

·               Terminal gratuity equivalent of 10.5 months of reckonable emoluments for Short Service Commissioned Officers who will be allowed to exit Armed Forces any time between 7 and 10 years of service.

·               Hospital Leave, Special Disability Leave and Sick Leave subsumed into a composite new Leave named ‘Work Related Illness and Injury Leave’ (WRIIL). Full pay and allowances will be granted to all employees during the entire period of hospitalization on account of WRIIL.

8.            The Cabinet also approved the recommendation of the Commission to enhance the ceiling of House Building Advance from Rs.  7.50 lakh to 25 lakh. In order to ensure that no hardship is caused to employees, four interest free advances namely Advances for Medical Treatment, TA on tour/transfer, TA for family of deceased employees and LTC have been retained. All other interest free advances have been abolished.

9.            The Cabinet also decided not to accept the steep hike in monthly contribution towards Central Government Employees Group Insurance Scheme (CGEGIS) recommended by the Commission. The existing rates of monthly contribution will continue. This will increase the take home salary of employees at lower levels by Rs. 1470. However, considering the need for social security of employees, the Cabinet has asked Ministry of Finance to work out a customized group insurance scheme for Central Government Employees with low premium and high risk cover.

10.        The general recommendations of the Commission on pension and related benefits have been approved by the Cabinet. Both the options recommended by the Commission as regards pension revision have been accepted subject to feasibility of their implementation. Revision of pension using the second option based on fitment factor of 2.57 shall be implemented immediately. A Committee is being constituted to address the implementation issues anticipated in the first formulation. The first formulation may be made applicable if its implementation is found feasible after examination by proposed Committee which is to submit its Report within 4 months.

11.        The Commission examined a total of 196 existing Allowances and, by way of rationalization, recommended abolition of 51 Allowances and subsuming of 37 Allowances. Given the significant changes in the existing provisions for Allowances which may have wide ranging implications, the Cabinet decided to constitute a Committee headed by Finance Secretary for further examination of the recommendations of 7th CPC on Allowances.  The Committee will complete its work in a time bound manner and submit its reports within a period of 4 months. Till a final decision, all existing Allowances will continue to be paid at the existing rates.

12.        The Cabinet also decided to constitute two separate Committees (i) to suggest measures for streamlining the implementation of National Pension System (NPS) and (ii) to look into anomalies likely to arise out of implementation of the Commission’s Report.

13.        Apart from the pay, pension and other recommendations approved by the Cabinet, it was decided that the concerned Ministries may examine the issues that are administrative in nature, individual post/ cadre specific and issues in which the Commission has not been able to arrive at a consensus.

14.        As estimated by the 7th CPC, the additional financial impact on account of implementation of all its recommendations in 2016-17 will be Rs. 1,02,100 crore. There will be an additional implication of Rs. 12,133 crore on account of payments of arrears of pay and pension for two months of 2015-16.

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Calling APARs OF HSG I Officials for Non Functional Posts.

CALLING OF APARs OF HSG I OFFICIALS WHO HAVE COMPLETED MINIUM 2YRS IN HSG I FOR FILLING UP OF HSG I NFG POSTS

நெல்லை கோட்டத்தில் 3 பேருக்கு வாய்ப்பு.

 

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Railway employees will go on strike from 6:00 AM of 11th July 2016 - NFIR

National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR)’s General Secretary expressed serious disappointment and unhappiness over the Government’s decision on minimum wage.

 NFIR Press Note : Expressed serious disappointment over the Government’s decision on 7th Pay Commission minimum wage

The National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR)’s General Secretary expressed serious disappointment and unhappiness over the Government’s decision on minimum wage. Although there is justification of upward revision of minimum wage, the Government has not done justice to the employees. Similarly, the multiplier factor has not adequately been revised, Dr. Raghavaiah General Secretary NFIR said.

Dr. Raghavaiah further said that as already decided by the NJCA, Railway employees will go on strike from 6:00 AM of 11th July 2016.

Source : http://www.nfirindia.org/Index.aspx

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The upcoming launch of India Post Payments Bank-views of our Fedration.

The upcoming launch of India Post Payments Bank-views of our Fedration.

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Continue in full swing mobilization for indefinite strike from 11th July 2016.

If not now then when?             
NJCA தலைவர்களே  !

பொறுத்தது போதும் 

இன்றே! இப்பொழுதே  முடிவெடுங்கள் போராட்ட களம் கண்டிட....

09.06.2016 ல் முறையான அறிவிப்பு கொடுத்தும்,  20 நாட்களுக்கு மேலாகியும் பேச மறுக்கும் அரசுக்கு பாடம் புகட்டிடுவோம். 

7^th CPC – GOVERNMENT REJECTED ALL THE MODIFICATIONS SOUGHT BY THE NJCA

NO INCREASE IN MINIMUM PAY AND FITMENT FORMULA

HOLD PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS & RALLY IN FRONT OF ALL OFFICES 

NJCA will meet at 04:00 PM on 30^th June 2016 to decide future course of action. Continue in full swing mobilization for indefinite strike from 11^th July 2016.

-S.G.FNPO.

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Cabinet approved the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission

The Cabinet approved the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission on Wednesday

The recommendations will result in a hike in salaries of over one crore government employees and pensioners.

The pay panel had in November last year recommended 14.27 per cent hike in basic pay at junior levels. The entry level pay has been recommended to be raised to Rs 18,000 per month from current Rs 7,000 while the maximum pay, drawn by the Cabinet Secretary, has been fixed at Rs 2.5 lakh per month from current Rs 90,000.

Reports says that Minimum pay is Rs.18000/ and maximum pay Rs.is 2,50,000

The Pay commission recommended Minimum pay Rs.18,000 with increase of 14.29%. The same is approved without any change.

 Detail of the pay commission will be announced later in a press conference.

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DEMONSTRATION AND RALLIES FROM 4TH JULY TO 10TH JULY

If not now then when?
Our strike date is July11
NJCA appeal to all CG Employees to hold Demonstration and Rallies in front of all offices and at all .  Important centres from 4^TH JULY TO 10^TH JULY

Charter of Demands

(PART-A)

1.         Settle the issues raised by the NJCA on the recommendations of the 7 CPC             sent     to Cabinet secretary vide letter dated 10^th December 2015.

2.         Remove the injustice done in the assignment of pay scales to technical/safety         categories etc., IN Railways & Defence, different categories in other Central Govt.      establishments by the 7 CPC.

3          Scrap the PFRDA Act and NPS and grant Pension/family Pension to LL cg   employees under CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 & Railways Pension Rules, 1993.

4.         i) No Privatization/outsourcing /contractorisation of governmental functions.

            (ii)Treat GDS as Civil Servants and extend proportional benefit on pension and       allowances to the GDS.

5.         No FD in Railways & Defence: No Corporatization of Defence Production Units       and Postal Department.

6.         Fill up all vacant posts in the government departments lift the ban on creation         of         posts; regularize the casual/contract workers.

7.         Remove ceiling on compassionate ground appointments.

8.         Extend the benefit of Bonus Act 1985 amendment on enhancement of payment       ceiling to the adhoc Bonus/PLB of Central Government employees with  effect       from the Financial year 2014-15.

9.         Ensure five promotions in the service career of an employee.

10.       Do not amend Labour Laws in the  name of Labour Reforms which  will take            away   the  existing benefits to the  workers.

11.       Revive JCM functioning at all levels.

(Part-B)

1.         Implement Cadre Restructuring  in all  wings of Postal Department i.e. SA, Postmen, Mail Guard, Mailmen, MTS, MMS,PA SBCO,PA CO, Postal Accounts , Civil Wing and Postmasters Cadre etc.

2.         Filling up of all vacant posts in all cadres of Department of Post.

3.         Stop all types of harassment and victimization including Trade Union victimization in the name of implementation of CBS/CIS and other  matters.

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