Revised allowances for Central Government Employees likely to be announced after April 12

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Judgement on MACP – VERY IMPORTANT JUDGEMENT FROM HON’BLE HIGH COURT OF MADRAS

Judgement on MACP – VERY IMPORTANT JUDGEMENT FROM HON’BLE HIGH COURT OF MADRAS

Judgement on MACP – Central Administrative Tribunal, Madras Bench, Chennai

VERY IMPORTANT JUDGEMENT FROM HON’BLE HIGH COURT OF MADRAS

IMPLEMENTATION OF MACP RETROSPECTIVELY W.E.F. 01-09-2008 AND DENYING PROMOTIONAL HIERARCHY UNDER ACP FOR THOSE WHO HAVE COMPLETED REQUIRED SERVICE DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN 01-09-2008 TO 19-05-2009 HELD NOT LEGAL

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Highlights of the Judgement

“The applicants having completed 24 years of service, between January and April 2009, they were hoping to be bestowed with the benefit of financial upgradation under the ACP Scheme, which was more advantageous to them, since the fixation is done in the next hierarchy of promotion and not in the next higher Grade Pay, as contemplated under the MACP scheme.”

“According to the applicants, on the day when they completed 24 years of service, MACP scheme was not introduced, and as the same was introduced only by Office Memorandum dated 19.05.2009, their claim would fall within the four corners of the benefits available under the erstwhile ACP scheme, and an accrued right which was otherwise available to the applicants under the erstwhile ACP scheme cannot be curtailed or altered or taken away by retrospective implementation of the MACP scheme, with effect from 01.09.2008.”

“it is ordered to grant the above benefits, the benefits of financial upgradation under MACP Scheme, if extended would have to be withdrawn.”

Narendra Modi-powered panel proposes India Post revamp to boost e-commerce; Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal set for windfall

India Post boasts of more than 1.5 lakh post offices across the nation, with 90% of them located in rural areas—a reach, if encashed properly, can be a potent weapon in revolutionalising e-commerce in the country. (PTI)

A panel of key secretaries, set up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has proposed a major “revamp” of India Post to help expand the reach of e-commerce to every corner of the country, official sources told FE. Any such step will not just boost operations of players such as Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal that are struggling to supply to remote areas due to high logistics costs but also help reverse the sliding fortune of India Post, which was once the lifeline of communications in India.

At present, areas covered by close to a half of the PIN (Postal Index Number) codes in the country are beyond the reach of e-commerce players. While there is no regulatory hurdle for post offices to handle consignments of e-commerce companies now, India Post has to liaise with such players more aggressively, rationalise staff in remote areas and deliver items even faster (at reasonable rates) to be able to grab more orders from them, a senior government official said. “India Post has to firm up a long-term strategy fast and make suitable changes internally to tap e-commerce. It has started taking orders from e-commerce players, but miles to go,” said the official.

The limited reach of e-commerce reflects the serious bottlenecks in providing last-mile deliveries to customers in rural areas, obstructing the growth of the otherwise booming e-commerce sector, the panel has observed in its report submitted with the Prime Minister.

The panel includes secretaries of the departments of commerce, industrial policy and promotion, external affairs, steel, labour, textile, MSME and tourism, and the chairman of the central board of excise and customs. Commerce secretary Rita Teaotia was the rapporteur of the panel, a source said.

In fact, the postal department’s revenues due to cash-on-delivery consignments from e-commerce players jumped to Rs 1,300 crore in 2015-16 from Rs 500 crore in 2014-15 and just Rs 100 crore in 2013-14, according to official data. It has also tied up with all major e-commerce players in the country. Still, there is a huge scope for India Post to tap the e-commerce boom and improve its revenues, the official added.

However, boosting the reach of e-commerce through India Post will require a massive rationalisation of costs by the state-run communication behemoth. For instance, while the average cost of a delivery by speed post cost it almost Rs 67 in 2015-16, the revenue earned was just Rs 39, showed the data by the postal department. Importantly, while the average cost rose Rs 8 from Rs 59 in 2014-15, the revenue increased by only Rs 2. This means India Post was unable to pass on the rise in costs to customers, partly due to the fact that private players in cities and semi-urban areas are giving it a tough competition. Similarly, while the average cost of a parcel for India Post was Rs 68 in 2015-16, the revenue earned was just Rs 44.

However, the sources said in rural areas, where the penetration of other logistics providers is very low, India Post can be the prime driver of e-commerce.

India Post boasts of more than 1.5 lakh post offices across the nation, with 90% of them located in rural areas—a reach, if encashed properly, can be a potent weapon in revolutionalising e-commerce in the country. On an average, a post office serves an area of 21.23 Sq Km and a population of 8,086 people.

The e-commerce market in India is growing at a brisk pace. Last year, a report by industry body CII and consultancy firm Deloitte forecast that the Indian e-commerce (B2C) market could grow to almost $102 billion by 2020 from just $16 billion in 2015, riding factors such as government initiatives like Digital India, increase in internet penetration, growth in the adoption of smartphones and evolution of new payment solutions, among others. The number of online shopper could rise to 220 million by 2020 from just 39 million in 2015, the report said.

7th Pay Commission: Lavasa panel might give report to FM tomorrow

A panel headed by former finance secretary Ashok Lavasa, tasked with examining the 7th Pay Commission (7th CPC) recommendations on allowances, might have its final meeting on Tuesday, followed by its report going to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Business Standard has learnt.

The matter will then go to the Union Cabinet, on revised allowances for 4.7 million employees.

Officials said most of the work on the report was complete. "The panel's work is in its final stages," said a senior officer.

If the minister accepts the report, it will only be a matter of days before the Cabinet takes up the matter. It is understood the Centre wants to give the revised allowances from early 2017-18.

In late June last year, after implementing the CPC proposals on salary and pension, Jaitley had announced the Lavasa panel would examine the suggestions on allowances. It had time till October but the report got delayed -- the CPC wanted a number of the allowances to be abolished or subsumed, while employee unions were opposed.

Some of the allowances the CPC had suggested be done away or subsumed were an acting allowance, assisting cashier allowance, cycle allowance, condiment allowance, entertainment allowances for the cabinet secretary, flying squad allowance, haircutting allowance, rajbhasha allowance, rajdhani allowance, robe allowance, secret allowance, shoe allowance, shorthand allowance, soap toilet allowance, spectacle allowance, Sunderban allowance, uniform allowance, vigilance allowance and washing allowance.

Of 196 allowances, the CPC report had recommended abolition of 52 and subsuming of another 36 into larger existing ones. A deferment on revising of allowances meant that as opposed to a burden of Rs 1.02 lakh crore as envisaged by the CPC, the government had provisioned for Rs 84,933 crore in 2016-17 for pay and pension, including Rs 12,000 crore in arrears.

There are other recommendations on allowances the panel is examining. These include a change in the present system of accounting, wherein pay and allowances are clubbed. The CPC recommended a separate object head for budgeting and accounting be used to record the expenditure.

Source:- Business standard

RESTORATION OF OLD PENSION SYSTEM IN PLACE OF CONTRIBUTORY PENSION SYSTEM

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES

RAJYA SABHA

UN STARRED QUESTION NO. 2130

TO BE ANSWERED ON MARCH 21, 2017/PHALGUNA 30, 1938 (SAKA)

RESTORATION OF OLD PENSION SYSTEM IN PLACE OF CONTRIBUTORY PENSION SYSTEM

2130. Shri T. G. Venkatesh

Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state:

(a) whether it is a fact that the newly introduced Contributory Pension System is not beneficial to the employees and so the employees unions are requesting Government to re-introduce the old pension system in its place, if so, the details thereof; and

(b) whether any representation has been received in this regard by Government, if so, the details thereof and the stand of Government in this regard?

ANSWER

The Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance 

(Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar)

(a) & (b) National Pension System (NPS), which is a contributory pension system, has, inter alia, the following features which benefit the employees:

• NPS is a well designed pension system managed through an unbundled architecture involving intermediaries appointed by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) viz. Pension Funds, Custodian, Central Recordkeeping and Accounting Agency, National Pension System Trust, Trustee Bank, Points of Presence and Annuity Service Providers. It is prudently regulated by PFRDA which is a statutory regulatory body established to promote old age income security and to protect the interests of subscribers of NPS.
• Dual benefit of Low Cost and Power of Compounding– The pension wealth which accumulates over a period of time till retirement grows with a compounding effect. The all-in-costs of the institutional architecture of NPS are among the lowest in the world.
• Tax Benefits– Tax benefits are available to the NPS subscribers under various provisions of the Income- tax Act, 1961.
• Transparency and Portability is ensured through online access of the pension account by the NPS subscribers, across all geographical locations and portability of employments.
• Partial withdrawal– Subscribers can withdraw up to 25% of their own contributions towards their pension account, before attaining superannuation age for certain specified purposes subject to certain conditions.

Representations have been received from certain quarters regarding the implementation of NPS which, inter alia, include the demand that NPS may be scrapped and the Government may revert to old defined benefit pension system. However, there is no proposal to replace the NPS with old pension scheme in respect of Central Government employees recruited on or after 01.01.2004.

Source: RAJYA SABHA

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VERY IMPORTANT JUDGEMENT FROM HON'BLE HIGH COURT OF MADRAS - IMPLEMENTATION OF MACP

VERY IMPORTANT JUDGEMENT FROM HON'BLE HIGH COURT OF MADRAS - IMPLEMENTATION OF MACP RETROSPECTIVELY W.E.F. 01-09-2008 AND DENYING PROMOTIONAL HIERARCHY UNDER ACP FOR THOSE WHO HAVE COMPLE TED REQUIRED SERVICE DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN 01-09-2009 TO 19-05-2009 HELD NOT LEGAL

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ATM Transaction Charges Configured by DOP

Dear All,
We are directed by competent authority to convey the following.

It's been confirmed by Infosys Team that, charges are configured for ATM Issuer transactions(DOP Cards in other bank ATMs) from 22/03/17 onward.

Charges are applicable, if number of financial/non financial transactions put together exceeds above 3 in metro cities and 5 in non metro cities in a calendar month.

Please note that Rs 20 + Rs 3 will be deducted from customers POSB accounts exceeding the limit prescribed above. Transactions count will be considered from 1st of March 2017. Charges will be levied only for the transactions done on or after 22/03/2017 exceeding the prescribed limit.

There will not be any charges for the transactions done using POSB card in DOP ATMs.

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Now Trending: 7th Pay Commission Higher allowances to be proposed in this month

New Delhi: The Committee on Allowances will propose to increase allowances of central government employees, besides dearness allowance (DA) in this month.

DA is being paid to them with their pay packages.

The Committee on Allowances, under Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa, was formed in July 2016 following protests by government employees over recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission on allowances.

The 7th Pay Commission had recommended of abolishing 51 allowances and subsuming 37 others out of 196 allowances.

The committee was initially given four months time to submit the report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Later, the Finance Minister extended the deadline for report submission to February 22, 2017.

The Committee on Allowances is yet to submit its report, the Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal said in Lok Sabha on March 10.

However, he said that the deliberations of the committee are in the final stages.

Besides the basic salary, a large portion of a central government employee's salary is the house rent allowance (HRA); some changes are to be made in this category of the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission on allowances,The Committee on Allowances has decided against reducing the house rent allowance (HRA). The 7th Pay Commission suggested bringing down the HRA to 24 per cent, 16 per cent and 8 per cent respectively depending on type of cities," the Finance Ministry's officials said.

The officials also said that the Committee on Allowances would suggest, the HRA is to be kept as it was under the Sixth Pay Commission at 30 per cent, 20 per cent, and 10 per cent respectively.

The Committee on Allowances is likely to remain constant the Transport Allowance for central government employees as 6th Pay Commission recommendations including Dearness Allowance (DA), the sources added.

So, the employees now get all allowances except dearness allowance, according to the 6th Pay Commission recommendations until issuing of higher allowances notification.

The higher allowances most probably to implement from the month of April and the cabinet may give its nod in this month, the sources confirmed.

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Haryanvis know better Tamil than natives? Whiff of postal exam scam

By Kaushik Kannan  |  Express News Service  |   Published: 17th March 2017 02:22 AM  |  

Last Updated: 17th March 2017 04:49 AM  |   A+A A-   |  

MADURAI: Remember the Class XII boards scam in Bihar last year wherein the toppers hardly had any clue about their subjects? Something similar happened at the India Post recruitment examination for TN Postal Circle, if the version of some local aspirants is anything to go by.

They smelt a rat as several students from Haryana got high scores in the exams, shockingly, also in the Tamil language paper. Express managed to obtain the marksheets of two students, Dinesh and Rahul Kumar, both from Haryana who scored a jaw-dropping 24 and 22 in the Tamil paper respectively out of 25. When Express tried reaching both of them, their phones were switched off. Suspecting forgery, more than 40 candidates submitted a petition to the district administration officials at the Madurai Collectorate on Thursday.

“The results for the exam for recruitment of Postman and Mail Guard were published on Tuesday. I saw my result and started to check the marks of candidates next to my number. I saw that several students from Haryana had scored high marks in Tamil paper, mostly above 20 out of 25. I was shocked and alerted my friends,” said one of the candidates on condition of anonymity. “The Tamil paper was tough even for us whose mother tongue is Tamil and who studied it in school. I wonder how candidates from Haryana managed to get such high scores.”

Another student claimed he tried calling one of the toppers from Haryana, on the mobile number given in the mark sheet. “I went to the website, typed his registration ID and got his phone number. I tried talking in English, but he couldn’t converse. Then I asked him if he knows Tamil, he responded in Hindi, saying mujhe Tamil malloom hai (I know Tamil).” Senior officials in the postal department said they were unaware of the matter

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TOTALSTRIKE

 TOTAL STRIKE:- ASSAM, KERALA,KARNATAKA, MAHARSHTARA, ORISSA, M.P. AND TELENGANA.

  MORETHAN 90%:- BIHAR, CHHATISGARH, , PUNJAB, TAMILNADU, WEST BENGAL  AND GUJARAT, 

100% IN AHMEDABAD MMS  & in MMS Dn. Delhi.
MORE THAN 80%:- Delhi,   

MORE THAN 70%:- A.P., Jharkhand, and U.P., Total in Allahabad, Kanpur RMS, Kanpur MMS, Varanasi RMS & Varanasi MMS 

 
MORE THAN 50%:- Haryana.

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Central govt employees to strike work on Thursday

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Central govt employees to strike work on Thursday

Updated: March 15, 2017 15:05 IST | Our Bureau

    

Central government employees in departments such as postal, income-tax, Survey of India, Census, Central Groundwater Board, and atomic power, will strike work on Thursday to protest the ‘betrayal’ by the Centre with regard to the ‘low’ wage hike recommended by the 7th Pay Commission and other long-pending demands.

The country-wide strike call, given by the Confederation of Central Government Employees, will include Gramin Dak Sevaks, casual, contract and part-time workers, according to a statement by M Krishnan, Secretary General of the confederation.The confederation, which had given a strike call on February 16, had postponed it to March 16 following the announcement of Assembly polls in five States.

Accusing the Narendra Modi government of ‘letting down’ 33 lakh Central government employees and 34 lakh pensioners, the striking workers are demanding that the National Pension Scheme be withdrawn immediately, the basic pay of Central government employees be revised to Rs 25,000, revision of minimum wage and fitment formula, house rent allowance, regularisation of casual, contract, contingent and daily rated workers, among others.

The confederation said it had submitted their demand charter on June 30 last year, which was referred to a Group of Ministers and were assured them that necessary amendments will be made within four months.