7th PAY COMMISSION NEWS - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS

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...