7th PAY COMMISSION NEWS - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS

Finance Ministry issued orders on guidelines on Air Travel on Official Tours/Leave Travel Concession (LTC) No. 19024/1/2012-E.IV Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure North Block. New Delhi Dated the 9th July, 2013 Office Memorandum Subject: Guidelines on Air Travel on Official Tours/Leave Travel Concession (LTC) - reg. Reference is invited to instructions issued by the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance from time-to-time regarding the procedure for booking of air tickets on Government account. As per existing procedure Government officials/offices can book the air tickets directly from Airlines (at Booking counters / Website of Airlines) and if needed, by utilizing the services of authorized agents. viz. M/s Balmer Lawrie & Company Limited (BLCL) and M/s Ashok Travels & Tours (ATT) [Department of Expenditure OM No.19024/1/2009-E.IV dated 16/09/2010 refers]. Air tickets for travel on LTC, to a limited extent, can also be get booked t...

INDWF writes to OF Board regarding restructuring of Ordnance employees (Artisan staff) INDWF General Secretary Shri.R.Srinivasan writes a letter to DGOF and Chairman of Ordnance Factory Board on 5th July, 2013 regarding the implementation of four grade structure in Ordnance factories to the employees of Industrial cadre. The General Secretary insists to give clear clarification  and instructions on exemption for promotions while implementation of 4 Grade structure to all factories immediately. The letter is reproduced and given below for your ready reference… RESTRUCTURING OF ARTISAN STAFF EXEMPTION REQUEST INTUC INDIAN NATIONAL DEFECNCE WORDERS FEDERATION NIDWF/Artisan Staff/2013 Dated 5th July, 2013 To DGOF and Chairman Ordnance Factory Board, Ayudh Bhavan, 10A, S.K.Bose Road, Kolkatta 700 001. Sub : Restructuring of Artisan Staff. Ref : OFB Letter No.01/CR/Vol II/A/1/658(Pt.) dt. 14.6.2013 Sir, OF Board vide their letter quoted under reference addressed to all Sr.GMs/G...

Government of India Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Department of Health & Family Welfare Nirman Bhawan, Maulana Azad Road New Delhi 110 108 No. 4-2/2006-C&P/CGHS (P) Dated the 9th July, 2013 NOTIFICATION Sub: Merger of 19 Postal Dispensaries presently functioning in 12 CGHS covered cities with CGHS. In pursuance of the decision taken by the Government on recommendations of Sixth Pay Commission, the following 19 (nineteen) Postal Dispensaries presently functioning in 12 (twelve) CGHS covered cities. i.e., Ahmadabad (3), Bhopal (1), Bhubaneswar (1), Dehradun (1), Guwahati (2), Jaipur (2), Jammu (1), Jabalpur(1), Lucknow (3), Pune (2), Ranchi (1) and Shillong (1) are hereby merged with the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS). 2. All serving employees and pensioners of Department of Posts (DoP) and Department of Telecom (DoT) who are residing/settled in the above 12 cities and are beneficiaries of the 19 Postal Dispensaries shall now be covered under CGHS and the...

No.K-11022/67/2012-AR Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances Sardar Patel Bhavan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi-110001, Dated the 10th May, 2013 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject : Self-certification   The Second Administrative Reforms Commission in its 12th Report titled "Citizen Centric Administration - The Heart of Governance", has recommended, adoption of self-certification provision for simplifying procedures. ( www.darpg.gov.in ) 2. Taking a cue from this some Ministries / State Governments have adopted the provision of self-certification of documents like marksheet, birth certificate etc. by the applicants / stakeholders instead of asking for an attested copy of the documents by a Gazetted Officer or filing of affidavits. Under the self attestation method, the original documents are required to be produced at the final stage. 3. You will appreciate that the above method is citizen fr...

10% Dearness allowance and 3% Increment from July 2013…   Central Government employees will get ten percent Dearness allowance from July 2013 and also will get three percent annual increment from the same date.   Expected DA from July 2013 : AICPIN for the month of May 2013 Expected Dearness Allowance and Dearness Relief from July 2013 : Central Government employees and Pensioners will get one more installment of additional DA and DR from July 2013 will be 10%, as per the release of AICPIN for the month of May 2013. Though the requirement of one more month of AICPIN for June to finalise the enhancement of Dearness allowance, there is possible to get 90% Dearness allowance and Dearness Relief from July 2013. The calculation table describes the steps as under... Month / Year B.Y. 2001 =100 Total of 12 Months 12 Months Average % Increase over 115.763 App. DA DA % Dec-12 219 2512 209.33 93.57 80.83 80 Jan-13 221 2535 211.25 95.49 82.49 82 Feb-1...

Shortage of staff in Postal Department - Minister replied in Lok Sabha On 8th May 2013, there was a unstarred question in Lok Sabha, regarding the details of abolition of posts in Postal Department during the period from 2005 to 2008. The Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Dr.Killi Kruparani replied as follows... The details of abolition of posts are placed at Annexure-I. The reasons for abolition of posts were in accordance with Department of Personnel & Training OM No. 2/8/2001-PIC dated 16.5.2001 vide which the Scheme of Optimization for Annual Direct Recruitment Plan was launched. As per this Scheme, the direct recruitment was to be limited to 1/3rd of the direct recruitment vacancies arising in a year subject to a further ceiling that it does not exceed 1% of the total sanctioned strength of the Department. The remaining direct recruitment posts were required to be abolished. Manpower requirement and regular recruitment is an on going process i...

Central government employees’ retirement age to be extended by 2 years to 62 - Financial Express “An In-Principle decision has been taken to increase the retirement age by two years within this year itself…” The government is planning to extend the retirement age of all central government employees by two years — from the current 60 to 62 years. Sources said that an in-principle decision has been taken in this regard and the department of personnel and training (DoPT) has begun the work to implement the same. A formal announcement to this effect is expected this year itself. The last time the government extended the retirement age of central government employees was in 1998. It was also a two-year extension from 58. This was preceded by the implementation of the 5th Pay Commission, which had put severe strain on government’s finances. Subsequently, all state governments followed the Centre’s policy by extending the retirement age by two years. Public sector undertakings followed sui...