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No Proposal regarding raising the retirement age before the Government Following is the text of the Press Statement issued by the Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions today, to clarify that there is no proposal before the Government regarding raising the retirement age of Central Government employees from 60 years to 62 years :- “Attention of the Government has been drawn to reports appearing in some sections of the media regarding raising the retirement age of Central Government employees from 60 to 62 years. In order to put at rest all such speculations, it is clarified that there is no such proposal before the Government.”

Income Tax Exemption Limit Raised by Rs.50,000 – Does it meet the Central Government employees’ expectations? Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the Income Tax exemption limit for individual taxpayers, below the age of 60 years has been raised from Rs. 2 lakhs to Rs. 2.5 lakhs. The General Budget 2014-15 presented by the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley on 10th this month, most Central Government employees were hoping that the Income Tax exemption limit for salaried pupil would be raised to atleast Rs 3 lakhs this time. But the Finance Minister delivered a shock and disappointment to everyone with an increase of a mere Rs. 50,000.

DRAFT MEMORANDUM TO BE SUBMITTED TO 7TH CPC - TKR PILLAI SECRETARY ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF (NON GAZETTED) SUGGESTIONS MAY BE SENT TO THIS ASSOCIATION BY 15TH OF THIS MONTH DRAFT MEMORANDUM TO BE SUBMITTED TO 7TH CPC   Dear members, The draft memorandum to be submitted to the 7th Pay Commission on the side of our Association, incorporating the issues of Administrative Staff, including LDC & UDC, Stenographers, Official language Staff and other common cadre have been prepared and placed below: Since this memorandum has been prepared by me single hand, there may be mistake. I request you to please discuss each and every suggestion of this memorandum in our units and inform me the change wherever needed by 15th of this month so that this Memorandum may be sent to the 7th CPC by 16th of this month.  

Recommendations of the Cadre Restructuring Committee on Central Secretariat Service (CSS) The gist of recommendations of the Cadre Restructuring Committee on Central Secretariat Service (CSS) i. Increase in the number of posts in the grades of Section Officer (SO), Under Secretary (US) and Deputy Secretary (DS) Grade Addl. Posts recommended SO 463 U S232 DS 75* * 75 posts each in Central Secretariat Service and Central Staffing Scheme has been recommended. ii. Re-introduction of Direct Recruitment in the grade of Lower Division Clerk (LDC) Recommended in a limited manner restricted to an annual intake of 250 till a sustainable number of 2000 LDCs is reached over a period of years. iii. Direct Recruitment (DR) element in Assistant Grade Recommended to change the recruitment ratio in the Assistant grade from the existing 75 : 15 : 10 (DR : Seniority Quota(SQ): Limited Departmental Competitive Examination(LDCE) to 60 : 20 : 20 (DR: SQ: Examination). iv. Creat...

Narendra Modi likes to communicate his Independence Day speech directly to Central & State Govt Employees by mail and messages… Narendra Modi to reach out to govt employees’ on Independence Day Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked for an exhaustive Central database of all Central and state government employees. The creation of the database, which will have the phone numbers and email addresses of all employees, is already underway, and will be first used on Independence Day when Modi’s speech is directly sent to the employees by mail and messages.

1000 Crore Fund allocation for implementing One Rank One Pension DEFENCE ALLOCATION RAISED TO RS 2,29,000 CRORE CAPITAL OUTLAY FOR DEFENCE MODERNIZATION INCREASED BY RS 5,000 CRORE Allocation for defence in this year’s General Budget has been raised to Rs 2,29,000 crore. Presenting the Union Budget in Lok Sabha today, the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley also proposed a further sum of Rs 1,000 crore to address the pension disparities while implementing the policy of “one rank one pension” for soldiers.

Personal Income Tax Exemption Limit and 80C limit also raised by Rs. 50,000 Personal Tax Exemption Limit Raised by Rs. 50,000/- ; No Change in the Rate of Surcharge; 15% Investment Allowance to Manufacturing Companies, to Incentivize Small Entrepreneurs and Income from Foreign Portfolio Investors to be Treated as Capital Gains. Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 10-July-2014 14:40 IST Personal Tax Exemption Limit Raised by Rs. 50,000/- ; No Change in the Rate of Surcharge; 15% Investment Allowance to Manufacturing Companies, to Incentivize Small Entrepreneurs and Income from Foreign Portfolio Investors to be Treated as Capital Gains. The General Budget 2014-15 presented by the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has raised the personal income-tax exemption limit by Rs. 50,000/- that is, from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs. 2.5 lakh in the case of individual taxpayers, below the age of 60 years. Exemption limit raised from Rs. 2.5 lakh to Rs. 3 lakh in the ca...

Union Budget 2014-15 : Income Tax exemption limit raised to Rs.2.5 lakh and also raised to Rs 1.5 lakh under Section 80C Income Tax exemption limit raised to Rs.2.5 lakh and also raised to Rs 1.5 lakh under Section 80C Some relief to individual and salary tax payers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presenting Union Budget 2014-15 today in Parliament, raised individual tax exemption limit to Rs.2.5.lakh from current Rs.2 lakh.

Preliminary meeting with 7th CPC on 23.7.2014 - BPS The below information is published as breaking new in the official blog of Bharat Pensioners Samaj... Breaking news-meeting with 7th CPC I wish to share with all friends, supporters & well wishers that I have been invited by 7th CPC for a preliminary meeting on 23rd July 2014 from 11.00-11.45 AM. Regards S.C.Maheshwari Secy. Genl. Bharat Pensioners Samaj Source: www.scm-bps.blogspot.in [http://scm-bps.blogspot.in/2014/07/breaking-news-meeting-with-7th-cpc.html]

6 Day Week for Central Govt Employees issue - Dopt rejects 6-day week schedule amid protests from women Department of personnel and training rejects 6-day week schedule amid protests from women NEW DELHI: The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) will soon inform Parliament that the government is not going back to a six-day week for its employees, even as a senior representative of the central government employees said that women employees were biggest opponents of any such change by the new government. A senior DoPT official told ET on Tuesday that all individual ministries would be advised that before they ask employees to come to work on Saturdays, they were expected to first consult the Joint Consultative Machinery set up in each ministry which has representatives from the staff side before implementing the same. There was confusion among government ranks last week after the road ministry issued an order asking employees to report to work on all Saturdays except the second...

Centre made a discretionary decision on 7th CPC Terms of Reference – National Council JCM In its foreword of the 7th CPC Memorandum prepared by the National Council JCM Staff Side, the National Council has said that the Centre has made a discretionary decision regarding the 7th CPC Terms of Reference. The writeup also adds that the Centre did not consult with them prior to formulating the Terms of Reference for the 7th Pay Commission. The Prime Minister has given his approval to the composition of the 7th CPC on 4th February 2014 and the Union Cabinet gave its approval to the 7th CPC Terms of Reference on 28.02.2014. On 01.01.2011, when the Dearness Allowance touched 50%, the Central Government employees started to strengthen their demand to add it to the Basic Pay. Some of them demanded setting up of the 7th CPC on the plea that the residency period of any wage structure must not exceed 5 years, especially in the background that the pay revision in most of the PSUs takes place at th...

Additional DA from July 2014 : Dearness Allowance rises to 107% from July 1, 2014 onwards..! The Dearness Allowance for Central Government employees and pensioners may increase to 107% from July 1, 2014 onwards. Following the increase in the CPI(I-W) BY 2001 = 100 price index, the twice-every-year Dearness Allowance that is issued to the Central Government employees, the second additional Dearness allowance may possible to  increase to 107% from 01.07.2014 onwards.

Filling up of vacancies of Sr.SO(A/cs) Sr.ISA and Sr.TIA Grade Rs.9300-34800/ Grade Pay Rs.4800/-through direct recruitment.   Government of India Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) No.2008/AC-II/20/5 GeneraI Secretary, AIRF 3, Chelmsford Road New Delhi General Secretary NFIR 4, State Entry Road New Delhi   Sub:- Filling up of vacancies of Sr.SO(A/cs) Sr.ISA and Sr.TIA Grade Rs.9300-34800 / Grade Pay Rs.4800/-through direct recruitment.   There are large number of vacancies of supervisory staff (Sr.SO/A/cs, Sr.TIA and Sr.ISA), of Accounts department on Railways. Shortage of the supervisory staff has resulted in accumulation of arrears, internal checks in Accounts Offices, Stations and Stores depots which is hampering the mandatory internai check mechanism and efficiency of Accounts department.

NO MERGER OF DA – FINANCE MINISTRY REPLY TO NATIONAL COUNCIL SECRETARY The All India Audit & Accounts Association has published a letter from Finance Ministry to National Council Secretary Shri Shiva Gopal Mishra on 17.6.2014, regarding the main demand of merger of dearness allowance with basic pay. Finance Ministry said in the letter, 6th Central Pay Commission did not recommend merger of dearness allowance with basic pay at any stage and the recommendations has accepted by the Central Government vide resolution dated 29.8.2008. The content of the letter is reproduced and given below for your information…