7th CPC Recommendations on Encashment and Accumulation of Earned Leave “The recommendations in relation to pay of both the civilian and defence forces personnel will also lead to a significant increase in the pay drawn and therefore in the total amount of leave encashment available for an employee. Therefore raising the present ceiling of 300 days is not recommended by the Commission”. Earned Leave : Presently 30 days EL per annum is granted to Civilian employees and 60 days to Defence personnel. EL can be accumulated up to 300 days in addition to the number of days for which encashment has been allowed along with LTC. Suggestions have been made to increase the accumulation to 450 days, allow encashment of 50 percent of the accumulated EL after 20 years of service and delink encashment of leave from LTC. A novel concept of “gifting” has been put forward, wherein employee should be allowed to ‘gift’ certain number of days of leave to one’s spouse or one’s colleague. “Vacational” staff like teachers, principals, etc. have demanded restoration of 10 days EL, which was changed to 20 days Half Pay Leave by VI CPC. Leave Encashment permitted at the time of retirement: CPC - Earned Leave IV CPC - 240 days V CPC - 300 days VI CPC - 300 days # # excludes 60 days EL encashment during LTC Half Pay Leave (HPL) : Presently, government employees are entitled to 20 days of Half Pay Leave for each completed year of service, credited @10 days on the 1st of January and 1st of July every year. There are representations that encashment of HPL should be allowed at the time of superannuation. Analysis and Recommendations : The demands lack merit. Elsewhere in the report it has been recommended that 20 days HPL granted to “Vacational” staff be converted into 10 days EL. Hence, HPL will henceforth not be available to them. No change other than this is recommended Analysis and Recommendations : In many organizations, employees are encouraged to take leave on the premise that it revitalizes them and is beneficial for the organization in the long run. Such a system is not prevalent in the government sector in India, but substituting leave with cash is also not desirable. Hence, no change in encashment guidelines is recommended. The Commission recognizes that Earned Leave is, as the name suggests, earned by an employee through the services rendered. Hence, it is personal to the employee and the concept of “gifting” cannot be considered. The demand of “Vacational” staff can, however, be agreed to. Hence, it is recommended that “Vacational” staff be granted 10 days EL in place of 20 days Half Pay Leave. Other than this no other change is recommended. Courtesy : http://90paisa.blogspot.in/

7th CPC Recommendations on Encashment and Accumulation of Earned Leave

“The recommendations in relation to pay of both the civilian and defence forces personnel will also lead to a significant increase in the pay drawn and therefore in the total amount of leave encashment available for an employee. Therefore raising the present ceiling of 300 days is not recommended by the Commission”.

Earned Leave : Presently 30 days EL per annum is granted to Civilian employees and 60 days to Defence personnel.

EL can be accumulated up to 300 days in addition to the number of days for which encashment has been allowed along with LTC.

Suggestions have been made to increase the accumulation to 450 days, allow encashment of 50 percent of the accumulated EL after 20 years of service and delink encashment of leave from LTC. A novel concept of “gifting” has been put forward, wherein employee should be allowed to ‘gift’ certain number of days of leave to one’s spouse or one’s colleague. “Vacational” staff like teachers, principals, etc. have demanded restoration of 10 days EL, which was changed to 20 days Half Pay Leave by VI CPC.

Leave Encashment permitted at the time of retirement:

CPC - Earned Leave

IV CPC - 240 days

V CPC - 300 days

VI CPC - 300 days

# # excludes 60 days EL encashment during LTC

Half Pay Leave (HPL) : Presently, government employees are entitled to 20 days of Half Pay Leave for each completed year of service, credited @10 days on the 1st of January and 1st of July every year. There are representations that encashment of HPL should be allowed at the time of superannuation.

Analysis and Recommendations : The demands lack merit. Elsewhere in the report it has been recommended that 20 days HPL granted to “Vacational” staff be converted into 10 days EL. Hence, HPL will henceforth not be available to them. No change other than this is recommended

Analysis and Recommendations : In many organizations, employees are encouraged to take leave on the premise that it revitalizes them and is beneficial for the organization in the long run. Such a system is not prevalent in the government sector in India, but substituting leave with cash is also not desirable. Hence, no change in encashment guidelines is recommended.

The Commission recognizes that Earned Leave is, as the name suggests, earned by an employee through the services rendered. Hence, it is personal to the employee and the concept of “gifting” cannot be considered.

The demand of “Vacational” staff can, however, be agreed to. Hence, it is recommended that “Vacational” staff be granted 10 days EL in place of 20 days Half Pay Leave. Other than this no other change is recommended.

Courtesy : http://90paisa.blogspot.in/

Quote of the Day January 28

New checks on booking of e-ticket/i-ticket through IRCTC

New checks on booking of e-ticket/i-ticket through IRCTC

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Railways28-January-2016 16:34 IST

Railway Ministry introduces new checks on booking of e-ticket/i-ticket through IRCTC website with a view to further prevent possible misuse Under the new provisions a maximum of 6 tickets can be booked online by an individual user in a month on IRCTC website 
This new provision will come into effect w.e.f. 15th February, 2015 
The move aims to deter touts and to facilitate genuine users  

In order to facilitate genuine users and prevent touting activities, various checks have already been put in place for the booking of e-ticket/i-ticket on IRCTC website including the following : - 

     1.      Individuals are allowed only 2 tickets per user-ID in a day (for ARP booking) from 08:00 hours to 10.00 hours.

     2.      Individuals are allowed only 2 tickets per user-ID in a day (for Tatkal booking) from 10:00 hours to 12:00 hours.

     3.      A maximum of 10 tickets can be booked online in a month by an individual.

     4.      Quick Book Option is disabled from 08:00 to 12:00 hours

     5.      All types of ticketing agents (YTSK, RTSA, IRCTC agents etc.) have been debarred from booking tickets during the first thirty minutes of opening of booking i.e. from 08:00 to 08:30 hours for general bookings, and from 10:00 to 10:30 hours and 11:00 to 11:30 hours for Tatkal booking in AC and non-AC classes respectively.

      6.      Booking is not allowed through e-wallet and cash cards from 08:00 to 12:00 hours.

     7.      There is only one booking in one user login session except for return/onward journey between 08:00 to 12:00 hours.  

To further prevent any possible misuse, Ministry of Railways has now decided that effective from 15^th February, 2016, a maximum of 6 tickets can be booked online by an individual user in a month on IRCTC website. This will replace the existing system under which a maximum of 10 tickets can be booked online through IRCTC website in a month by an individual. However, the existing condition will continue wherein these booking will be subject to a limit of booking 2 opening Tatkal tickets in 10:00- 12:00 hours period in a day and 2 opening Advance Reservation Period (ARP) tickets in 08:00-10:00 hours period in a day. 

This has been done keeping in view the analysis of usage of quota of 10 tickets which indicated that 90% of users are booking upto 6 tickets in a given month and only 10% are making more than 6 tickets. It is suspected that the 10% users might be involved in touting activities. Therefore to deter such touts and to facilitate genuine users, it has been decided that a maximum of 6 tickets can be booked by an individual user in a month.  

Use of “one-page" form or format to apply for jobs, issue of birth and death certificates and availing of various Government schemes

Use of “one-page" form or format to apply for jobs, issue of birth and death certificates and availing of various Government schemes

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions28-January-2016 18:36 IST

Dr Jitendra Singh appeals for use of 'one-page' form 

The Union 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 has appealed to various ministries in the Central Government as well as the State Governments to cooperate in carrying forward the Department of Personnel & Training(DoPT)’s innovative reform to switch over to the use of “one-page" form or format to apply for jobs, issue of birth and death certificates and availing of various Government schemes.

Dr Jitendra Singh said that the service delivery mechanism needs to be not only citizen-centric, but essentially youth-centric because it is the youth who comprise more than 65% of India’s population today. It is, therefore, the need of the hour, he said, to revisit and re-look the existing practice wherein an individual applying for a job, a loan or a Central scheme has to go through the process of filling up lengthy, often complicated and even repetitive information.

Dr Jitendra Singh disclosed that DoPT has already introduced one-page form for Central Pensioners. Similarly, the death and birth certificates could also be simplified immediately, he said. The “National Centre for Good Governance” will be holding workshops under its initiative “Saral Avedan, Sugam Prakriya, Swachh Prashasan” with different Government departments to discuss how best to carry forward this initiative, he said.

Dr Jitendra Singh pointed out that there are a number of forms which run into several pages and the information asked for is repetitive which can be easily avoided. For example, he said, some of the forms ask for the parentage or marital status more than once, even though this may not be essentially required for the purpose for which the application is being filled. Citing an instance, he said, when a form is filled for pension, the most relevant information required is age, date of superannuation, last pay scale and bank account number.

According to Dr Jitendra Singh the purpose of the entire exercise is that any given form should be made as simple as possible, preferably a single A4 size page, the contents of the form should be easy to understand and brief to fill-in. Similarly, the documents to be attached with the form should also be easy and absolutely essential, he added. He also informed that the State Governments will be persuaded to initiate this exercise at the earliest.

E-tender must from April 1 for govt purchases above Rs 2 lakh

E-tender must from April 1 for govt purchases above Rs 2 lakh

Come April 1, all central ministries and public sector units will have to float e-tenders for procuring goods and services exceeding Rs 2 lakh, a move aimed at bringing transparency in government purchases. 

At present, e-procurement is mandatory for purchases of Rs 5 lakh or more. Government procures goods, services and work contracts. 

In January, the Expenditure Department had decided the tender value limit of Rs 10 lakh spent in respect of e-procurement would be brought down to Rs 5 lakh from April 1, 2015 and further down to Rs 2 lakh from April 1, 2016. 

As per its instructions it is mandatory for all central ministries, departments and Central Public Sector Enterprises, and autonomous/statutory bodies to publish their tenders on the Central Procurement Portal ( CPP) after a certain threshold limit. 

In 2014-15, about 3.81 lakh e-tenders were floated worth Rs 2.12 lakh crore. 

As per the latest data, in 2015-16 so far, 471,826 e-tenders have been floated entailing an amount about Rs 3.49 lakh crore. 

Bulk of the tenders are floated by Railways followed by Central Public Works Department (PWD) and defence PSUs. 

In the current fiscal so far, 3.56 lakh tenders were floated for goods, about 93,000 for work contracts and 22,342 for services. 

Source:-The Economic Times

India Post is going to announce about 20000 vacancies soon

India Post is going to announce about 20000 vacancies soon

Great news for all the government jobs aspirants as Dept of Posts is going to announce one of the biggest employment notifications very soon. The recruitment will be organized for selection of eligible staff for Postal Assistant and Sorting Assistant posts on its official site www.indiapost.gov.in. Now all those qualified candidates are invited for 20000 upcoming job opening whose link will be soon available at their official site. This notification will bring good news for those entire aspirants who were looking for government jobs, 10th pass government jobs, 12th pass government jobs, post office jobs etc.

According to report, India post is going to hire candidates for Postal Assistant and Sorting Assistant posts, Stenographers, Postman and Mail Guard, MTSetc. Aspirant must have completed their Matriculation or Intermediate from recognized board and diploma/ graduation/ bachelors or its equivalent in required discipline from recognized university or institute. The online application process will start from February 2016 and will going to end on March 2016.

PADMA Awards 2016

PADMA Awards 2016

 The President of India has approved conferment of Padma Awards-2016 to 112 persons as per the list below. The list comprises of 10 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 83 Padma Shri Awardees.  19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs (include one posthumous) and 4 Posthumous awardees.

PADMA VIBHUSHAN

Sl. No	Name	Field	State
1.	Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthi	Art- Classical dance	Delhi
2.	Shri Rajinikanth	Art-Cinema	Tamil Nadu
3.	Smt. Girija Devi	Art-Classical Vocal	West Bengal
4.	Shri Ramoji Rao	Literature & Education-Journalism	Andhra Pradesh
5.	Dr. Viswanathan Shanta	Medicine- Oncology	Tamil Nadu
6.	Shri Shri Ravi Shankar	Others-Spiritualism	Karnataka
7.	Shri Jagmohan	Public Affairs	Delhi
8.	Dr.Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
9.	Shri Avinash Dixit (Foreigner)	Literature & Education	USA
10.	Late Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani (Posthumous)	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra

Padma Bhushan

Sl. No.	Name	Field	State
11.	Shri Anupam Kher	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
12.	Shri Udit Narayan Jha	Art-Playback Singing	Maharashtra
13.	Shri Ram V.  Sutar	Art-Sculpture	Uttar Pradesh
14.	Shri Heisnam Kanhailal	Art-Theatre	Manipur
15.	Shri Vinod Rai	Civil Service	Kerala
16.	Dr. Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
17.	Prof. N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
18.	Dr. Barjinder Singh Hamdard	Literature & Education - Journalism	Punjab
19.	Prof. D. Nageshwar Reddy	Medicine-Gastroenterology	Telangana
20.	Swami Tejomayananda	Other-Spiritualism	Maharashtra
21.	Shri Hafeez Contractor	Others-Architecture	Maharashtra
22.	Shri  Ravindra Chandra Bhargava	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
23.	Dr.Venkata Rama Rao Alla	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
24.	Ms. Saina Nehwal	Sports-Badminton	Telangana
25.	Ms. Sania Mirza	Sports-Tennis	Telangana
26.	Ms. Indu Jain	Trade & Industry	Delhi
27.	Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (Posthumous)	Others-Spiritualism	Uttarakhand
28.	Shri Robert Blackwill (Foreigner)	Public Affairs	USA
29.	Shri Pallonji Shapoorji  Mistry (NRI/PIO)	Trade & Industry	Ireland

           

Padma Shri 

Sl. No	Name	Field	State
30.	Smt. Prathibha Prahlad	Art- Classical Dance	Delhi
31.	Shri Bhikhudan Gadhvi	Art- Folk Music	Gujarat
32.	Shri  Sribhas Chandra Supakar	Art- Textile Designing	Uttar Pradesh
33.	Shri Ajay Devgn	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
34.	Ms. Priyanka Chopra	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
35.	Pt. Tulsidas Borkar	Art-Classical Music	Goa
36.	Dr. Soma Ghosh	Art-Classical Vocal	Uttar Pradesh
37.	Shri  Nila Madhab Panda	Art-Film Direction and Production	Delhi
38.	Shri S.S. Rajamouli	Art-Film Direction and Production	Karnataka
39.	Shri Madhur Bhandarkar	Art-Film Direction and Production	Maharashtra
40.	Prof. M. Venkatesh Kumar	Art-Folk Artist	Karnataka
41.	Ms. Gulabi Sapera	Art-Folk Dance	Rajasthan
42.	Smt. Mamta Chandrakar	Art-Folk Music	Chhattisgarh
43.	Ms. Malini Awasthi	Art-Folk Music	Uttar Pradesh
44.	Shri Jai Prakash Lekhiwal	Art-Miniature Painting	Delhi
45.	Shri  K. Laxma Goud	Art-Painting	Telangana
46.	Shri Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe	Art-Photography	Madhya Pradesh
47.	Shri Naresh Chander Lal	Art-Theatre & Cinema	Andaman & Nicobar
48.	Shri Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah	Literature & Education	Assam
49.	Shri Prahlad Chandra Tasa	Literature & Education	Assam
50.	Dr.Ravindra Nagar	Literature & Education	Delhi
51.	Shri Dahyabhai Shastri	Literature & Education	Gujarat
52.	Dr.Santeshivara Bhyrappa	Literature & Education	Karnataka
53.	Shri  Haldar Nag	Literature & Education	Odisha
54.	Shri Kameshwaram Brahma	Literature & Education -Journalism	Assam
55.	Prof. Pushpesh Pant	Literature & Education-Journalism	Delhi
56.	Shri Jawaharlal Kaul	Literature & Education-Journalism	Jammu & Kashmir
57.	Shri Ashok Malik	Literature &Education	Delhi
58.	Dr.Mannam Gopi Chand	Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery	Telangana
59.	Prof. Ravi Kant	Medicine-Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
60.	Prof. Ram Harsh Singh	Medicine- Ayurveda	Uttar Pradesh
61.	Prof. Shiv Narain Kureel	Medicine- Paediatric Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
62.	Dr.Sabya Sachi Sarkar	Medicine –Radiology	Uttar Pradesh
63.	Dr. Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale	Medicine-Cardiac Surgery	Andhra Pradesh
64.	Prof. T.K. Lahiri	Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
65.	Dr. Praveen Chandra	Medicine-Cardiology	Delhi
66.	Prof. (Dr) Daljeet Singh Gambhir	Medicine-Cardiology	Uttar Pradesh
67.	Dr.Chandrasekar  Shesadri  Thoguluva	Medicine-Gastroenterology	Tamil Nadu
68.	Dr. (Mrs.) Anil Kumari Malhotra	Medicine-Homeopathy	Delhi
69.	Prof. M.V. Padma Srivastava	Medicine-Neurology	Delhi
70.	Dr. Sudhir V. Shah	Medicine-Neurology	Gujarat
71.	Dr. M. M. Joshi	Medicine-Ophthalmology	Karnataka
72.	Prof. (Dr) John Ebnezar	Medicine-Orthopaedic Surgery	Karnataka
73.	Dr. Nayudamma Yarlagadda	Medicine-Paediatric Surgery	Andhra Pradesh
74.	Shri  Simon Oraon	Other –Environment Conservation	Jharkhand
75.	Shri Imitiaz Qureshi	Other-Culinary	Delhi
76.	Shri Piyush Pandey	Others-Advertising & Communication	Maharashtra
77.	Shri Subhash Palekar	Others-Farming	Maharashtra
78.	Shri Ravinder Kumar Sinha	Others-Wildlife Conservation	Bihar
79.	Dr. H.R. Nagendra	Others-Yoga	Karnataka
80.	Shri M. C. Mehta	Public Affairs	Delhi
81.	Shri M. N. Krishna Mani	Public Affairs	Delhi
82.	Shri Ujjwal Nikam	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
83.	Shri Tokheho Sema	Public Affairs	Nagaland
84.	Dr. Satish Kumar	Science & Engineering	Delhi
85.	Dr.Mylswamy Annadurai	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
86.	Prof. Dipankar Chatterji	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
87.	Prof.(Dr.) Ganapati Dadasaheb  Yadav	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
88.	Smt. (Prof.) Veena Tandon	Science & Engineering	Meghalaya
89.	Shri Onkar Nath Srivastava	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
90.	Ms. Sunita Krishnan	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
91.	Shri Ajoy Kumar Dutta	Social Work	Assam
92.	Shri  M. Pandit  Dasa	Social Work	Karnataka
93.	Shri  P. P. Gopinathan Nair	Social Work	Kerala
94.	Smt. Madeleine Herman de Blic	Social Work	Puducherry
95.	Shri Srinivasan Damal Kandalai	Social work	Tamil Nadu
96.	Shri Sudhakar Olwe	Social Work	Maharashtra
97.	Dr. T.V. Narayana	Social Work	Telangana
98.	Shri Arunachalam Murugantham	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
99.	Ms. Deepika Kumari	Sports-Archery	Jharkhand
100.	Shri Sushil Doshi	Sports-commentary	Madhya Pradesh
101.	Shri Mahesh Sharma	Trade & Industry	Delhi
102.	Shri Saurabh Srivastava	Trade & Industry	Delhi
103.	Sh Dilip Sanghvi	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
104.	Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharda	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
105.	Late Shri Prakash Chand Surana  (Posthumous)	Art  -Classical Music	Rajasthan
106.	Late Shri  Saeed Jaffrey (NRI/PIO/Posthumous)	Art-Cinema	UK
107.	Shri  Michael Postel (Foreigner)	Art-Archaeology	France
108.	Shri  Salman  Amin Sal Khan (NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education	USA
109.	Smt. Hui Lan Zhang (Foreigner)	Others-Yoga	China
110.	Shri  Predrag K. Nikic (Foreigner)	Others-Yoga	Serbia
111.	Dr.Sundar Aditya Menon (NRI/PIO)	Social Work	UAE
112.	Shri  Ajaypal Singh  Banga(NRI/PIO)	Trade & Industry	USA

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