7th PAY COMMISSION NEWS - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS

18019/7/2013-Estt. (L) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, PG and Pensions (Department of Personnel & training) Old JNU Campus, New Delhi Dated the 23 October, 2013. OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject: Simplification of procedure for verification of service — adherence to the revised format - regarding. The undersigned is directed to invite attention to the provisions of the Supplementary Rules which relate to maintaining records of service of a Government employee. The provisions of SR- 199 and 202 require that "Every step in a Government servant's official life must be recorded in his Service Book and each entry must be attested by the Head of his Office...." (SR199) and that "It shall be the duty of every Head of Office to initiate action to show the Service Books to the Government servants under his administrative control every year.....The Government servants shall inter alia ensure......    that their services have been duly verified and certified as such...

Dopt issued guidelines to register home town address for new entrants of Central Government Employees to avail the benefits of Leave Travel Concession in Government Service… Declaration of Home Town under LTC Rules Every new entrants in Government service is required to declare his / her home town to avail the benefits of Leave Travel Concession. 2. The term “Home” was defined for the first time in MHA’s O.M.No.43/1/55-Estt (A) Part-II dated 11th October, 1956. This was further clarified vide O.M.No.43/5/57 dated 11th February, 1958, wherein, it was stated that An Officer who is his own Controlling Officer for purposes of travelling allowance should make the initial or any subsequent declaration of his town to his next superior administrative authority for acceptance. This procedure should also be followed in cases where declaration have already been sent direct to the Account Officers concerned by officers who are their own controlling officers. The Comptroller & Auditor Gene...

APAR SYSTEM FOR CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES SYSTEM TO BE REVISED The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has finally kicked in a process to change the Performance Appraisal (PAR) system for bureaucrats, asking for the views of other ministries on an improved system which borrows heavily from the model followed in Singapore. As per a DoPT note circulated to other ministries, the new system will make the annual appraisal process more objective in nature than the numerical rating system followed at present. Also, any superior giving an “outstanding” ranking to a junior will have to cite a “specific achievement” to justify the ranking, as per the note. The new system will also follow the model of the Singapore Civil Service that links the pace of promotions to an estimation of the highest level of work an offence can competently handle before his retirement and considers the official’s intellectual qualities, result orientation and leadership qualities for appraisal. DoPT will...