7th PAY COMMISSION NEWS - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS

JCM National Council Secretary Stresses for Promotional Hierarchy under MACP Based on the letter from BPMS, the JCM National Council Secretary, Mr. Ram Gopal Mishra, has written a letter to the DOPT Secretary. It was explained in the letter that in the case of the judgement issued for Mr. Rajpal on 31st May 2011 by the Hon'ble Central Administrative Tribunal Chandigarh, the MACP financial upgradation was granted based on Promotional Hierarchy. The letter also adds that the judgement given in his case should not be treated as a specific case and has to be considered a general guideline that is applicable to all. There are a number of precedents where others had sought for remedies based on the relief granted to an individual.

Brief note on the discussions took place in the 30th meeting of the National Council, held on 23.04.2014 - BSNL Employees Union (1) Lesser standards of evaluation for the JAO and JTO exams. The Staff Side made a strong appeal to the Management, to review the JAO and JTO exams that had taken place, by adopting lesser standards of evaluation. The vehement, lengthy and detailed arguments of the Staff Side to grant grace marks, were however not accepted by the Management. As regards taking remedial measures in respect of question papers with discrepancies, it was agreed that the Recruitment Branch will issue a letter to all the CGMs, as has been done in the case of MP and AP circles, for taking necessary remedial action. (2) Regular promotion to officiating JTOs. Management replied that a provision is already made in the New Recruitment Rules for the absorption of all the 1500 officiating JTOs. The RR will soon go for the approval of the Management Committee. 

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDIAN RAILWAYMEN (NFIR) General Secretary Shri.M.Raghavaiah published some important issues discussed in the National Anomaly Committee Meeting held at Room No 72, North Block, New Delhi on 5th January, 2012 under the Chairmanship of Secretary, DOP&T. 1) PAY FIXATION IN THE CASE OF MERGER OF PRE-REVISED PAY SCALES (ITEM No. 1, 2, 3 &4) The Staff Side insisted that were the pre-revised Pay Scales are merged, the pay should be revised by applying 1.86 multiplying factor to the minimum of the pay of the higher pre-revised Pay Scales – Eg. Rs.5000-8000; Rs.5500-9000; Rs.6500-10,000; merged and allotted Rs.4600/- Grade Pay – in such cases the Pay Fixation should have been by multiplying 1.86 of Rs.6500/- in terms of Para 2.2.19(VII) to the 6th CPC report. After lengthy discussions, the Official Side stated that the issue will be further discussed in the next meeting. 2) QUALIFICATION PAY – RECTIFICATION OF ANOMALY [ITEM No.5(II)] The demand for stripping ...