Thursday, December 31, 2015
Monthly Organ 'Pensioners Post' released in a simple function at Chennai on 29th December, 2015
POSTAL PENSIONERS - MONTHLY ORGAN OF AIPRPA RELEASED
29.12.2015 - Park Town HPO
It was a simple function but quite a memorable one with a large number of leaders and members of both Pensioners' Organisations and CG Employees & Postal Employees trade union Organisations enthusiastically participating at a very short notice! Comrade K.Ragavendran Editor Pensioners Post & GS AIPRPA welcomed all to the function.
Com.M.Kannaiyan TN State President presided the function. Comrade M.Duraipandian General Secretary of TN State Committee of Confederation of CG employees released the "Pensioners Post" and the first copy was accepted by Comrade N.L.Sridharan President of Tamilnadu State COC of Central, State Government and Public Sector Pensioners organisations. Plethora of leaders A.G.Pasupathy (Patron); KVS (CHQ Advisor); C.K.Narasimhan (Circle Secretary AI BDPA); S.Sundaramurthy (President ITEF Tamilnadu); Ilamaran (Vice President TNGPA);P.Mohan (Circle president P3 NFPE); G.Kannan (Secretary NFPE Circle COC); P.Kumar (Secretary FNPO Circle COC); K.Ramesh (R3 NFPE C/S); and B.Paranthaman (R4 NFPE C/S) as well as quite a number of AIPRPA State Office Bearers, NFPE Circle office bearers and comrades graced the function.
The function was well organised with the full cooperation and assistance with the Postal Leaders and comrades of Chennai City North Division. Comrade P.Mohan Circle President NFPE P3; Comrade S.Vedagiri P4 Divisional Secretary; Leelaram Divisional Secretary GDS (NFPE); Chandramohanakrishnan (Designer of banners with his artistic touch) were in the forefront for the success of the function. AIPRPA CHQ thanks all these leaders for their full cooperation.
The Pensioners Post journal has been despatched to all annual subscribers who had contributed to it as well as to all CHQ Office Bearers and State General Secretaries today.(30.12.2015) - All are requested to distribute among their members and enroll maximum Annual Subscribers to the journal. All are also requested to go through the contents of the journal and interact with your considered opinions.
K.Ragavendran
General Secretary AIPRPA
NJCA is on the right path!!
7TH PAY COMMISSION – GOVERNMENT IS READY TO NEGOTIATE ON SALARY INCREASE: ARUN JAITLEY
When the whole nation at the call of the NJCA has started to mobilize the entirety of CG Employees behind the demands of modifications to be made in the 7th CPC recommendations, the Honourable Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has stated that he is prepared to discuss with the Trade Unions for improving the recommendations of 7th CPC!
This utterance from the Finance Minister is welcome as that is what the CG Movement too has demanded. The NJCA has demanded discussion with the Government and for that purpose the Government shall come forward to constitute a ‘GoM’ (Group of Ministers) as was done in some other occasions including 5th CPC time. The GoM can take necessary decisions to modify the recommendations. The Finance Minister who has spoken in favour of discussion with the trade unions shall go ahead and ensure that Modi Government constitutes a Group of Ministers arrangement to discuss the issues in a meaningful way. If the Government comes forward with this formation then we can understand that the Union Finance Minister means what he has stated in the meeting of Bharat Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) as reported by the Media.
At the same time we cannot close our eyes to some realities of what the Honourable Minister of Finance had stated in his speech in the BMS meeting. He has repeated that more one lakh crore of rupee will be the expenditure for implementing the 7th CPC, which is highly questionable and misleading. He while say that on the face of universal economic crisis, India could maintain its GDP growth around 7.5%, require additional 1-1.5% GDP growth to meet out the expenditure out of 7thCPC. This calculation is unacceptable as it is overestimated. The 7th CPC seems to have been misled by its economic experts in the Pay Commission as his figures and the figures of the Finance Minister as made out in the Parliament vary largely. The Government placing its own constraints before any dialogue is understandable but it should come forward with open mind for the negotiating table.
FM Arun Jaitley has also stated in that meeting the ideology of left has become unacceptable! Is it so? Actually it is the opposite that is being proved. It was the left that predicted clearly that liberalization is not a remedy to the ills of economy. It was the left that started to mobilize the people against the neo-liberal policies since 1990s. After practically seeing the devastation caused by the neo-liberal polices in India, all trade unions including the INTUC and BMS have come forward to join the left trade unions in opposing neo-liberalism. The Government in general and the Finance Minister in particular desires to divide the working class and that manifests in his speech in the BMS conference!
The call of the NJCA is the factor that brought out the averment of the Finance Minister about the readiness to negotiate. More stronger implementation of programme of action by the NJCA will surely force the Government to constitute a GOM for negotiating with the employees!
K.Ragvendran
General Secretary
वेतन आयोग की सिफारिशें लागू करने के लिये चाहिए अतिरिक्त वृद्धि 1.5 percent extra growth needed to grant wage hikes: Jaitley
वेतन आयोग की सिफारिशें लागू करने के लिये चाहिए अतिरिक्त वृद्धि
नयी दिल्ली, 30 दिसंबर, वित्त मंत्री अरुण जेटली ने आज कहा कि सातवें वेतन आयोग की सिफारिशों और वन रैंक वन पेंशन योजना को लागू करने के लिये देश की अर्थव्यवस्था को एक से डेढ़ प्रतिशत अतिरिक्त वृद्धि की जरूरत है और इसे वस्तु एवं सेवा कर (जीएसटी) से हासिल किया जा सकता है। श्री जेटली भारतीय मजदूर संघ (बीएमएस) द्वारा आयोजित अभिनंदन समारोह में बोल रहे थे। दत्तोपंत ठेंगड़ी भवन में श्री जेटली के अलावा बिजली मंत्री पीयूष गोयल और श्रम एवं रोजगार मंत्री बंदारू दत्तात्रेय का भी अभिनंदन किया गया। वित्त मंत्री ने कहा कि भारत 7.5% की वृद्धि दर से आगे बढ़ रहा है जबकि दुनिया में इस समय मंदी चल रही है। उन्होंने कहा कि सातवें वेतन आयोग की सिफारिशों को लागू करने से करीब एक लाख करोड़ रुपये का अतिरिक्त बोझ पड़ेगा। इसके अलावा पूर्व सैनिकों के लिये लागू की जाने वाली एक रैंक एक पेंशन का बोझ भी पड़ेगा।
1.5 percent extra growth needed to grant wage hikes: Jaitley
The government is ready to have a dialogue with the trade unions on wage increases, but the country needs to grow by an extra 1-1.5 percent so that it can sustain wage hike and other benefits given to workers and the poor, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday.
"Our GDP growth of 7.5 percent is at a time when the world is experiencing global slowdown. We need to increase our growth rate. We have to at least increase it by 1-1.5 percent," he said at a felicitation function organised by the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh.
"In the coming year, there would be a burden of Rs 1.02 lakh crore of Seventh Pay Commission, OROP (one rank, one pension) burden is also there. That burden can be sustained only when there is increase in economic activity. Because of increased economic activity, government revenue and resources will go up," the finance minister said.
Noting that wages or bonus can only be increased when the government and private sector have the required resources, Jaitley said the minimum wages of labour should, at the least, be respectable and allow for inflation.
He asked the BJP-affiliated BMS to support the growth-oriented policies of the government, which will, in turn, take care of all their reasonable demands.
Read at: Business Standard
Scenario
- A customer has changed the name in Gazette and wants to change the name in all the accounts.
- Invoke the menu CMRC and select the function MODIFY
- Change the required Last name, Preferred name and short name
- Click on Submit
- Verify the modified details using CMRC menu
- The Name change done in CIF will not get effected in Account level as this CIF has already been linked.
- Now to correct the name in account details, invoke the menu HAALM from operator
- Select the function MODIFY
- Enter the account number wherein the name change has to be done
- Click on GO
- The old account details will be displayed
- Required name to be changed in A/c Name and A/c Short name fields
- An exception will be thrown, click on Accept
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- An exception error will be thrown. Click on Accept
- Name has been changed successfully in the account
NOTICE FOR THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE MEETING OF CONFEDERATION
No. CONF/NE/2016 Dated: 30-12-2015
MOST URGENT / IMPORTANT
NOTICE FOR THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE MEETING OF CONFEDERATION
An urgent meeting of the National Executive of the Confederation of Central Govt. Employees & Workers will be held at ITEF Head Quarters (Rajouri Garden), New Delhi on 12-02-2016 (12th February 2016 - Friday). The meeting shall commence at 10.30am and continue till close. National Secretariat members, Chief Executives of the affiliated Organizations, General Secretaries of all State level C-o-Cs and main Office bearers of the Women's Sub Committee are requested to attend the meeting.
The following shall be the agenda of the meeting:
AGENDA:
1. 7th CPC related issues and proposed indefinite strike by NJCA.
2. Two days All India Workshop of Confederation at Dehradun (Uttarakhand) – Finalisation of dates & Programme.
3. All India Conference of Confederation & All India Women Convention at Chennai (Tamilnadu) – Finalisation of dates.
4. Financial position of Confederation – Decision for improvement.
5. Issues relating to the affiliated Organizations.
6. Any other item with permission of the Chair.
(M. Krishnan)
Secretary General
To
1. All National Secretariat Members.
2. Chief Executives of all affiliated Organizations.
3. General Secretaries of State C-o-Cs.
4. Main office bearers of Women's Sub Committee (Not Committee members)
Babus on foreign jaunts need to spell out outcome of such tours
NEW DELHI: Government officials undertaking foreign trips will have to clearly spell out the outcome of such tours. All those who undertook official foreign visits since 2013-14 need to submit details of the outcome of such tours in the next few days.
The move comes against the backdrop of persistent feeling in many quarters that the trips, ostensibly for gaining experience and insights, often turn into pleasure jaunts. There have been cases of officials traveling abroad in numbers more than necessary, stretching the duration of stay and visiting and stopping at places irrelevant to the stated purpose of the trip.
In keeping with the new work culture, the NDA government has created a website under its Software Management Information System for uploading details of foreign tours and visits by officials. Ministries and departments have set a December-end deadline for its officials to upload details on this portal.
In keeping with the new work culture, the NDA government has created a website under its Software Management Information System for uploading details of foreign tours and visits by officials. Ministries and departments have set a December-end deadline for its officials to upload details on this portal.
Moreover, every ministry and department has been directed to prepare a "rolling plan" for future foreign visits to be undertaken by officials. "The idea behind the rolling plan is to submit the proposed trips of officials in the next quarter. This can be updated and amended. Government wants foreign trips by officials on government expenditure to be result-oriented," said a senior government official.
According to sources, cabinet secretary P K Sinha recently called a meeting to ensure that officials and departments comply with the decision.
"In certain cases, it's difficult to get the details of foreign visits by officials, who have already gone back to the states or are retired. But the message has gone to one and all to provide the outcomes of their visits since they must be keeping some details. We are also trying to get the records kept in departments so that some details can be uploaded," said a government source.
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Maoists murder postmaster in Bastar
RAIPUR, December 30, 2015
The Maoists killed a postmaster in the restive Bastar region of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. Sujit Modiymi, the postmaster of Fulfad village in Dantewada district, was found dead near his village.
He was abducted on December 25 on suspicion of being a “police informer.” The Maoists also left a handwritten note near the body of the postmaster.
In a separate incident, 23 alleged Maoist supporters surrendered before the police in Bastar.
Highlights of Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare during 2015
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions30-December-2015 11:22 IST
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions30-December-2015 11:22 IST
Year End Review: Highlights of Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare during 2015
Following are the highlights of the achievements of Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare during the year 2015:Anubhav
‘Anubhav’ is a platform for retiring government employees to share their experience of working the Government and for showcasing commendable work done during service. It is envisaged that this would provide satisfaction to the retiring employees and also act as motivator for serving employees. Over time this will build up a wealth of useful suggestions. This would also provide an excellent opportunity to harness the resource of retiring employees for voluntary contribution to nation building post retirement.
The retiring employees may, voluntary, submit write-up along with the pension application form. Necessary amendments have been made to the checklist attached to Form 5 under Rule 59 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972. A webpage has been created which can be accessed from the website of the Department of Pension (persmin.nic.in/pension.asp).
The software application was demonstrated on 23.02.2015 and tested on the first lot of retirees during the pre-retirement counselling workshop (PRC) organized by the Department on 26.2.2015. To sensitize the Ministries /Departments, Awareness Workshops on ‘Anubhav’ have been organized by this Department on 24th March, 2015 and on 24th April, 2015 in New Delhi.
Bhavishya
Bhavishya is an online tracking system for pension sanction and payment. By keeping track of the progress of each pension case, it introduces transparency and accountability into the system thereby plugging delays. This benefits the retiring employees, pensioners and the administration equally.
The system allows online filing of application of pension by the retiring employees, encapsulates the Pension Rules required for processing pension cases and generates all forms and reports necessary for finalizing pension cases as well as needed for monitoring by the Departments.
Bhavishya is being implemented in main secretariat of 83 Ministries/Departments and 22 attached offices involving 792 Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDO) till December 30, 2015, which are in various stages of processing pension cases of 4759 retiring employees. This is being scaled up to cover all 9000 DDOs spread across the country.
In order to spread awareness of Bhavishya application the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare conducted an Awareness Workshop on ‘Bhavishya’ under the auspices of Hon’ble MOS (PP) on 26th November, 2015 in Plenary Hall, Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. The workshop was designed for Heads of Office/Drawing and Disbursing Officers of all ministries/departments including those of attached and subordinate offices located in Delhi. Around 1200 participant attended the Workshop.
Pensioners’ Portal
Pensioners’ Portal is the one stop solution for all information needs of the pensioners. The Portal also provides for registration of pensioners' grievances through the Centralized Pension Grievance Registration and Monitoring System (CPENGRAMS). During the year (upto 15.12.2015) 16683 grievances were received and 14354 were disposed, leaving a balance of 2329.
Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA)
A Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) functions under the Chairmanship of MOS (PP) to provide feedback on the implementation of policies/ programmes of this Department besides mobilizing voluntary effort to supplement the Government action. SCOVA meeting was held in October, 2015 which was attended by representatives of various Pensioners' Associations and the Ministries/Departments.
PENSIONERS POST RELEASED!
PENSIONERS POST ( PENSIONERS MONTHLY JOURNALS) RELEASED!
It is a simple function but quite memorable one with a large number of leaders and members of both Pensioners' Organisations and CG Employees & Postal Employees trade union Organisations enthusiastically participating at a very short notice! Comrade K.Ragavendran Editor Pensioners Post & GS AIPRPA welcomed all to the function.
Com.M.Kannaiyan TN State President is presiding the function. Comrade M.Duraipandian General Secretary of TN State Committee of Confederation if CG employees released the "Pensioners Post" and the first copy is accepted by Comrade N.L.Sridharan President of Tamilnadu State COC of Central, State Government and Public Sector Pensioners organisations. Plethora of leaders A.G.Pasupathy (Patron); KVS (CHQ Advisor); C.K.Narasimhan (Circle Secretary AI BDPA); S.Sundaramurthy?. (President ITEF Tamilnadu); Ilamaran (Vice President TNGPA);P.Mohan (Circle president P3 NFPE); G.Kannan (Secretary NFPE Circle COC); P.Kumar (Secretary FNPO Circle COC); K.Ramesh (R3 NFPE C/S); and B.Paranthaman (R4 NFPE C/S) as well as quite a number of AIPRPA State Office Bearers, NFPE Circle office bearers and comrades graced the function.,
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| Comrade N.L.Sridharan President TN Central, State Govt and Public Sector Pensioners Organisations COC after receiving first issue of "Pensioners Post" addressing the function: |
Payment of Bonus Act & PLB to Railway Employees – A Brief Note By KV Ramesh
THE PAYMENT OF BONUS ACT, 1965 & PLB TO RAILWAYMEN
BY: K.V.RAMESH, Sr.JGS/IRTSA
PAYMENT OF BONUS ACT, 1965 & AMENDMENTS THEREOF
Minimum bonus 8.33% of the salary/wage of an employee.
Maximum bonus including productivity linked bonus shall not exceed 20% of the salary/wage of an employee.
Previous amendment of 2007 was notified on 13 December 2007 and made effective from 1st April, 2006.
Minimum bonus of 8.33% of (Rs. 3500/- X 12= Rs. 42,000/-) is approximately Rs. 3500/-.
20% of above referred Rs. 42,000/- is Rs. 8,400/-. However, the limit is given as Rs. 8,300/-.
Details of amendments to the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965:
PRODUCTIVITY LINKED BONUS FOR RAILWAY EMPLOYEE
SALIENT FEATURES OF THE PLB SCHEME ARE AS UNDER: –
a) The output for a year is reckoned by the equated net tonne kilometres by adding together:-
i) Total goods revenue net tonne kilometres.
ii) Non-suburban passenger kilometres converted by a factor of 0.076.
iii) Suburban passenger kilometres converted by a factor of 0.053.
b) The input is taken as the non-gazetted staff strength (excluding RPF/RPSF personnel), increased by the incremental increase/decrease in capital (over average of last three years) during the year.
C) Highest PLB amount of 78 days’ wages was paid for the financial years 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15.
d) The wage calculation ceiling prescribed for payment of PLB to the eligible non-gazetted railway employees is 3500/- p.m. The maximum amount payable per eligible railway employee is Rs. 8975 for 78 days.
- Amount paid as bonus never shown meaningful increase over last 15 years.
- Only between 2006-07 and 2007-08 there was a visible increase in bonus amount.
- If bonus is linked with inflation at the rate of average 12% per year from 2001-02, it should have become Rs.24000 now, even without considering any productivity improvement.
- Bill passed in Lokshaba is a very late action taken by the Government.
- Railways should not try to put any rider on this very late action.
After enactment of the present bonus bill,wage calculation ceiling prescribed for payment of PLB to non-gazetted railway employees will be increased to 7000/- p.m.
The maximum amount payable per eligible railway employee can also go upto Rs.21,000. But, Railway Board is having proposals to revise the calculation formula for PLB which may reduce the expected benefit.
Source: IRTSA
3,40,000 Bank Employees Go on a Strike on January 8
Around 340,000 bank employees across the country would strike work on January 8 to protest the violation of bilateral settlement by the five associate banks of the State Bank of India (SBI), a top leader of All India Bank Employees’ Association (AIBEA) said.
3,40,000 Bank Employees Go on a Strike on January 8 – The five associate banks of the SBI are State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Hyderabad and State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur.
Chennai – Around 340,000 bank employees across the country would strike work on January 8 to protest the violation of bilateral settlement by the five associate banks of the State Bank of India (SBI), a top leader of All India Bank Employees’ Association (AIBEA) said here.
The five associate banks of the SBI are State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Hyderabad and State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur.
“Nearly 340,000 bankers would strike work on January 8. The strike is to protest against the violation of bilateral settlement by the five associate banks of SBI and their attempt to force unilateral service conditions on employees,” CH Venkatachalam, AIBEA general secretary, told IANS here on Monday.
According to him, it is the AIBEA that has given the strike call.
Explaining the rationale behind the strike call, Venkatachalam said the service conditions in the SBI are different and based on the agreement between the SBI management and the employees’ union.
On the other hand, the service conditions of the five SBI associate banks are common with those of other banks.
“In May 2015, a common settlement was signed between Indian Banks’ Association (IBA-management body) and All India Bank Employees’ Association (AIBEA) which defined the duties and remuneration of the employees for undertaking various jobs in the banks,” Venkatachalam said.
He said the five SBI associate banks are parties to the settlement and hence governed by the settlement terms.
“But the managements of the five associate banks are implementing the service conditions of the SBI, which is illegal and violation of the settlement,” he said.
Asked why the strike has been called early in the year, he said the union had deferred the strike call given for December 1 and 2, 2015, on the intervention of deputy chief labour commissioner, Delhi.
“The bank management is forcing its rules without any discussion with the unions from the New Year onwards and hence we are forced to respond,” Venkatachalam said.
Source: Profit NDTV
Government to Increase Maternity Leave from 12 to 26 weeks
The Ministry of Labour is expected to amend the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, which presently entitles women to 12 weeks of maternity benefit whereby employers are liable to pay full wages for the period of leave.
Government to Increase Maternity Leave from 12 to 26 weeks – The International Labour Organisation recommends a minimum standard maternity leave of 14 weeks or more.
The union government is set to increase the maternity leave for women employed in private firms from the existing 12 weeks to 26 weeks.
Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi Monday said the Ministry of Labour has agreed to increase maternity leave to six-and-a-half months. “We had written to the Labour Ministry asking that the maternity leave be extended taking into account the six months of breastfeeding that is required post childbirth. The Labour Ministry has agreed to increase it to six-and-a-half months,” said Maneka.
The Ministry of Labour is expected to amend the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, which presently entitles women to 12 weeks of maternity benefit whereby employers are liable to pay full wages for the period of leave.
Officials of the WCD Ministry said they will push for extending the leave to eight months, or 32 weeks, for women employed in both private and government sectors.
But WCD officials said the Labour Ministry has expressed reservations about increasing the maternity leave any further as they perceive that doing so will adversely affect the employability of women.
“The Labour Ministry has decided on six-and-a-half months following meetings with various stakeholders. We, however, feel that eight months of maternity leave — for women in government as well as private sectors — is required. We will move a note to the Cabinet Secretariat in this regard. Six months of exclusive breastfeeding is very important to combat malnutrition, diarrhoea and other diseases in infants and to lower infant mortality rate,” said a WCD official.
The International Labour Organisation recommends a minimum standard maternity leave of 14 weeks or more, though it encourages member states to increase it to at least 18 weeks. At 26 weeks, India is set to join the league of 42 countries where maternity leave exceeds 18 weeks. It, however, falls behind several East European, Central Asian and Scandinavian countries, which have the most generous national legislation for paid maternity leave.
Women employed in government jobs in India get a six-month maternity leave as per the Central Civil Service (Leave) Rules 1972. The last circular in this regard was issued in 2008, when it was increased from four-and-a-half months. If the WCD Ministry’s recommendations to the Cabinet Secretariat are accepted, the Department of Personal & Training will have to issue orders to enhance it to eight months.
Moreover, women government employees are allowed to take childcare leave of up to two years in phases at any point till their child turns 18 years old. The Seventh Pay Commission recently recommended that only the first 365 days of leave should be granted with full pay, while the remaining 365 can be availed at 80 per cent of the salary. But Maneka recently petitioned Finance Minister Arun Jaitley against the proposal, terming it a regressive step at a time when women are trying to become more economically independent.
“Women in India need longer maternity leave in absence of any support in parenting from men. It should not be seen as a deduction in labour hours but as a long-term investment from the future economic point of view. This is in addition to the fact that women need long maternity leave to recuperate and invest in child care,” said Ranjana Kumari, director of the Centre for Social Research.
She added that a recent analysis of the Maternity Benefit Act by CSR for the National Commission of Women showed that discrimination against pregnant women was widely prevalent in the corporate sector in the country.
Source: gconnect.in
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