18/08/2016
Setting up of Anomaly Committee to
settle the Anomalies arising out of the implementation of the Seventh Pay
Commission’s recommendations.
No.11/2/2016-JCA
Government
of India
Ministry
of Personnel, Public Grievances and pensions
Department
of Personnel & Training
JCA
Section
North
Block, New Delhi
Dated the
16th August, 2016
OFFICE
MEMORANDUM
Subject: Setting up of Anomaly Committee
to settle the Anomalies arising out of the implementation of the Seventh Pay
Commission’s recommendations.
The undersigned is directed to say
that it has been decided that Anomaly Committees should be set up, consisting
of representatives of the Officials Side and the Staff Side to settle the
anomalies arising out of the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission’s
recommendations, subject to the following conditions, namely:
(1) Definition of Anomaly
Anomaly will include the following
cases:
(a) where the Official Side and the
Staff Side are of the opinion that any recommendation is in contravention of
the principle or the policy enunciated by the Seventh Central Pay Commission
itself without the Commission assigning any reason; and
(b) where the maximum of the Level
in the Pay Matrix corresponding to the applicable Grade Pay in the Pay Band
under the pre-revised structure, as notified vide CCS (RP) Rules 2016, is less
than the amount an employee is entitled to be fixed at, as per the formula for
fixation of pay contained in the said Rules”.
(2) Composition:
There will be two levels of Anomaly
Committees, National and Departmental, consisting of representatives of the
Official Side and the Staff Side of the National Council and the Departmental
Council respectively.
(3) The Departmental Anomaly
Committee may be chaired by the Additional Secretary (Admn.) or the Joint
Secretary (Admn.), if there is no post of Additional Secretary (Admn.).
Financial Adviser of the Ministry / Department shall be one of the Member of
the Departmental Anomaly Committee.
(4) The National Anomaly Committee
will deal with anomalies common to two or more Departments and in respect of
common categories of employees. The Departmental Anomaly Committee will deal
with anomalies pertaining exclusively to the Department concerned and having no
repercussions on the employees of another Ministry / Department in the opinion
of the Financial Adviser.
(5) The Anomaly Committee shall
receive anomalies through Secretary, Staff Side of respective Council upto six
months from the date of its constitution and it will finally dispose of all the
anomalies within a period of one year from the date of its constitution. Any
recommendations of the Anomaly Committee to resolve the anomaly shall be
subject to the approval of the Government.
(6) Cases where there is a dispute
about the definition of “anomaly” and those where there is a disagreement
between the Staff Side and the Official Side on the anomaly will be referred to
and “Arbitrator” to be appointed out of a panel of names proposed by the two
sides. However, this arbitration will not be a part of the JCM Scheme.
(7) The Arbitrator so appointed
shall consider the disputed cases arising in the Anomaly Committees at the National
as well as Department level.
(8) Orders regarding appointment of
the Arbitrator and constitution of Anomaly Committee at National Level will be
issued separately. All Ministries / Departments are accordingly requested to
take urgent action to set up the Anomaly Committees for settlement of anomalies
arising out of implementation of the 7th Pay Commission’s recommendations, as
stipulated above.
(G.
Srinivasan)
Deputy
Secretary (JCA)
India Post Payments Bank gets RoC nod
The India Post Payments Bank has received the Certificate of
Incorporation from the Registrar of Companies, Ministry of Corporate
Affairs, making it the first public sector unit under the Department of
Posts (DoP).
With the incorporation, the board of the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) is likely to be constituted soon, the DoP said.
“The incorporation of IPPB Ltd is a significant step forward as this
also paves the way for it to begin hiring professionals to set up the
bank and start its operations in 2017,” it said.
The Department is expected to complete the roll-out of its branches
throughout the country by September 2017. This could be the fastest
roll-out of a bank anywhere in the world, it said.
The Cabinet, on June 1, had cleared the proposal to set up the India
Post Payments Bank with a corpus of ₹800 crore and 650 branches.
The ₹800 crore will be made available in the form of ₹400 crore of equity and ₹400 crore grant.
The bank will be run by a chief executive officer and will be
professionally managed. It will have representations from various other
government departments, including the Department of Posts, Department of
Expenditure, and Department of Economic Services, among others.
At present, core banking network of post offices, at 22,137, is more than State Bank of India’s 1,666 core banking branches.
Coupled with the physical presence across 1.55 lakh post offices (of
which around 1.39 lakh are in rural areas), India Post Payments Bank
aims to become a powerful and effective vehicle of real financial
inclusion in the country.
(This article was published on August 18, 2016)