29-01-2015
1. Agenda Item for the meeting to be held on 05/02/2015 

F.No.08-07/2014-SR

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

(SR Division)

Dak Bhavan, Sansad Marg

New Delhi, dated the 28^th January, 2015

To

Secretary General

NFPE

Secretary General

FNPO

Subject:  Discussions on the remaining items of Charter of Demands of PJCA on 05/02/2015 at 1100 hrs. in Dak Bhavan, under the Chairpersonship of Secretary (Posts). 

Sir,

              In continuation of SR Division’s letter of even number dated 08/01/2015, kindly find enclosed agenda items  for the above meeting.

  The meeting will be followed by lunch.

Yours faithfully, 

(Arun Malik)

Director (SR & Legal)

Agenda Item for the meeting to be held on 05/02/2015 at 1100 hrs. with Postal Joint Council of Action (PJCA) comprising of NFPE and FNPO under the

 Chairpersonship of Secretary (Posts)

Sl. No.	Item No. of the Charter of Demands	Charter of Demands
1.	1.	Discussion on the recommendations of Task Force
2.	6.	Remove 5% condition for compassionate appointment and grant appointment in all deserving cases as in the case of railways. Remove the minimum 50 points condition for GDS compassionate appointment.
3.	12.	Grant of cash handling allowance to Treasures in Post Offices at par with cashiers in RMS & Administrative offices.
4.	13.	Counting of Special Allowance granted to PO & RMS Accountants for pay fixation on promotions as the promotional post involves higher responsibilities.
5.	19.	Notify canteen employees New Recruitment Rules and fill up all vacant posts in Departmental Canteens/Tiffin Rooms exempting the posts from the purview of downsizing order and reviewing the posts abolished/kept vacant.
6.	20.	Introduce Medical Reimbursement Scheme to GDS.
7.	29.	Make substitute arrangement in all vacant Postmen and MTS Posts. Wherever GDS are not available, outsiders should be allowed to work as substitutes.
8.	37.	Creation of appropriate number of posts of Multi Tasking Staff (MTS) in RMS after assessing the total work hours of the vacant GDSMM posts to mitigate the problems of the staff and RMS services.
9.	38.	Immediate notification of HSG-I Recruitment Rules and transferring of all IP line HSG-I posts to General line as already agreed in the JCM Departmental Council meeting.
10.	39.	Revise Postmen / Mail Guard / MTS Recruitment Rules.  Stop open market recruitment.  Restore seniority quote promotion:- This item was earlier discussed in the JCM(DC) and  it is assured by Secretary (Posts) that the Recruitment Rules will be reviewed after one or two Recruitment / Promotional exam are over, as DOP&T may not approve immediate revision of Recruitment Rules already approved by it.  Now more than two Postmen/MG/ MTS recruitment / examination is over and hence it is requested to take action to revise the Recruitment Rules and stop open quota recruitment.  Entire vacancies may be earmarked for GDS and Casual Labourers as existed in the pre-revised Recruitment Rules.
11.	25.	Stop ordering officials to work on Sundays and holidays in some Circles and also stop harassment of staff by Circle/Regional/Divisional Heads. Eg. 1) Karnataka Circle 2) Delhi Circle.
12.	32.	Open more L1 offices as recommended by CPMsG. Eg.- Guntakal RMS in A.P. Circle.
13.	35.	Stop vindictive actions of GM (Finance) Postal Accounts Chennai. More than hundred Postal Accounts employees are charge sheeted. GM (Finance) even refused to heed the instructions of DDG (PAF).
14.	21.	Ensure time bound and speedy disposal of all Rule-9 cases and Review/Revision petition cases pending at Directorate level.
15.	34.	Prompt supply of good quality uniform and kit items and change of old specification.

2. Travel by Premium Trains on LTC- Clarification reg.

No. 31011/ 2/ 2015-Estt.(A-IV)

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

Department of Personnel and Training

North Block, New Delhi-110 001

Dated: 27th January, 2015

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Travel by Premium Trains on LTC- Clarification reg.

The undersigned is directed to say that several references are received by this Department from various Ministry/ Departments seeking clarification regarding admissibility of travel by Premium Trains run by Indian Railways while availing of LTC.

2. The matter has been examined in consultation with Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance and it has been decided that travel by Premium Trains is not permissible on LTC. Hence, the fare charged by the Indian Railways for the journey(s) performed by Premium trains shall not be reimbursable for the purpose of LTC. Cases where LTC travel in such Premium Trains has already been undertaken by the Central Government Employees, the train fare may be reimbursed restricting it to the admissible normal fare for the entitled class of train travel or the actual fare paid, whichever is less.

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(B. Bandyopadhyay)

Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

To

All Ministries/ Departments of the Government of India.

Copy to:

1. Comptroller & Auditor General of India, New Delhi.

2. Union Public Service Commission, New Delhi.

3. Central Vigilance Commission, New Delhi.

4. Central Bureau of Investigations, New Delhi.

5. Parliament Library, New Delhi.

6. All Union Territory Administrations.

7. Lok Sabha/ Rajya Sabha Secretariat.

8. All Officers and Sections in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances &

Pensions

9. All Attached and Subordinate Offices of Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions.

10. NIC, DoP&T with the request to upload this O.M. on Department's web site

(OMs/Orders Establishment LTC Rules)


3. Submission of Appeal before DoP&T

No.105/4/2013-AVD.I (B)

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

Department of Personnel & Training

North Block, New Delhi.

Dated the 27th January, 2015

To

The Chief Secretaries of

All the State Government/

Union Territory Administrations

(As per standard List)

Subject:          Submission of Appeal before DoP&T against order passed by the State disciplinary authority under Rule 18 (3) & (4) of AIS (D&A) Rules, 1969-regarding

Sir,

I am directed to invite your kind attention to Rule 18 (3) of All India Services (Discipline Appeal) Rules, 1969 which stipulates as follows:

As per Rule 18 (3) of AIS (D&A) Rules, 1969 "every such appeal shall be submitted through the head of the office under whom the appellant is for the time being serving and through the Government from whose order the appeal is preferred". As per Rule 18 (4) of AIS (D&A) Rules, 1969, "the authority which made the order appealed against shall, on receipt of a copy of every appeal, which is not withheld under Rule 21, forward the same with its comments thereon together with the relevant records to the appellate authority without any avoidable delay and without waiting for any direction from the Central Government".

2.         It has been observed that the appeals against the orders of State Disciplinary authorities etc. are being preferred directly to the Government of India by the IAS officers without following the aforesaid rules. Consequently, the same are not being disposed of in a time bound manner due to non receipt of relevant records & comments of the State Governments/Other authorities under whom the officer is working. Contempt cases are also being attracted due to non disposal of such appeals timely.

3.         Accordingly, Competent Authority in this Department has decided that such appeals received directly in this Department without following the due procedure shall not be entertained. State Governments/Union Territories Administrations/Ministries/Departments of Central Ministries are requested to abide by the procedure provided in Rule 18 of AIS (D&A) Rules, 1969 to submit the appeals through the Head of Office and the Government whose order is being appealed against and inform all the IAS officers working under them for strict compliance.

Yours faithfully,

( u Sinha)

Director (V-I)

Tel.No.23092158

Copy to:

(1) All Ministries/Departments of Government of India (as per standard mailing list)

NIA DoPT- with-the-request that-the-above-circular inay be-placed On the-DoP&-

heading 'Vigilance' of OMs & Orders.

(S.P.R. Trip th )

Under Secretary to the Government of India

Tel.No.23092298

4. Training Programme on Public Procurement

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28/01/2015 

UNITED  Bank Unions fight to Preserve Public Sector Banks

We are educating the people, about the anti-national, anti-people and anti-developmental policies and pressurising the people representatives to oppose unjustifiable reforms, mass-movement of Bank employees through Dharnas, Rallies, Strike Actions; said; M V Murali Convenor of UFBU and the General Secretary of All India State Bank of India Staff Federation [AISBISF]

United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) the apex body of the banking industry trade unions in India representing over 1 Million members belonging to 9 trade unions whose membership is open to workmen and officer cadres both in Public and Private sector banks in India.  AISBISF represent over 160,000 members and one of the largest UNI affiliates from India.                           

Murali stressed; through our agitations we have managed to break the speed and steam with which Government wants to go ahead with reforms/changes; ignoring the people cantered developmental priorities at a Public Rally organized in Hyderabad, India.

Post-Nationalisation – Indian Public Sector Banks [PSB] extended banking facilities across the country through opening of more branches in nook and corner triggering the rural development and uplifting the quality of life of poor and marginalized population in India.

UFBU is fighting for decent wage increase for their members and negotiating the 10th bipartite wage settlement with Indian Bank’s Association (IBA).  Wage revision is overdue since 1st November 2012 said M V MUrali; 

 “Despite a lapse of more than 2 years in the ongoing 10th Bipartite negotiations, no significant improvement has been made in the negotiations except in agreeing to the date of effect of wage revision and the merger point of Dearness Allowance with Basic Pay for arriving at the Revised Pay”. 

IBA has proposed a meagre increase of 12.5% on Pay Slip Components which is far less than the increase offered on total wage bill expenses in the previous bipartite wage settlement. Operational profits in the last few years have substantially gone up reflecting the contribution of employees in PSB’s.  Therefore all the bank employees are eligible for their due share in the growth and profits of their respective banks as they have contributed their level best in ensuring higher profits year after year at the rally which was endorsed by the members with a rousing applause at the Rally.

UNI Finance supports and promotes plurality in the global financial systems, PSB’s are playing a catalyst role in stimulating the real economy in developing countries such as India; said Jayasri Priyalal Regional Director of UNI Apro Singapore, assuring solidarity support to UNI Finance treasured affiliates just struggle in India; speaking at the Rally.

Milind Nadkarni, General Secretary of   All India Bank of Baroda Employees Federation, Subhash   Sawant General Secretary of Indian National Bank Employees Federation spoke at the rally calling the membership to rally around UFBU in Hyderabad.

27-01-2015
Remuneration payable to Full Time / Part Time Casual Labour / Workers engaged on contingency basis:

Base Year Revision of Consumer Price Index (CPI)

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) releases Consumer Price Indices (CPI) for Rural, Urban and Combined, at State/UTs and all India level, w.e.f. January 2011. The Base Year of this series of CPI is 2010=100 and weighting diagrams are based on the results of Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) 2004-05.

2. Now the CSO is in the process of revising the Base Year from 2010=100 to 2012=100. The weighting diagrams have been prepared on the basis of the results of CES (2011-12). With this revision, the gap between Price Reference Year (Base Year) and the Weight Reference Year has been minimized. Apart from this, a number of methodological improvements have been introduced in the revised series, which are as follows:

• Weighting diagrams have been prepared using the Modified Mixed Reference Period (MMRP) data of CES (2011-12), to make consistent with the international practice of shorter reference period for most of the food items and larger reference period for the item of infrequent consumption/purchased. In the old series (Base Year 2010=100), Uniform Reference Period (URP) data were used.
• In the existing series of CPI, COICOP (Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose), an international standard classification, is being followed broadly, whereas in the revised series, it would be completely followed, except a few deviations which are necessary for Indian context.
• The Geometric Mean, instead of Arithmetic Mean being used in the old series, of the price relatives with respect to base prices would be used to compile elementary/item indices.
• In case of PDS items, prices of Antyodaya Anna Yojanna (AAY) have also been included in addition to Above Poverty Line (APL) & Below Poverty Line (BPL) prices being taken in the existing series.

3. Due to change in the consumption pattern from 2004-05 to 2011-12, the weighting diagrams (Share of expenditure to total expenditure) have changed. A comparison of weighting diagrams of the existing and revised series is given in the table below:

Table: Comparison of weighting diagrams of the existing and revised series of CPI

4. In the CES (2011-12), some of the items of CES (2004-05) were dropped from the schedule and a few new items were added. Market survey was conducted to identify shops, fix specifications and collect prices of the new items. Based on the availability of prices, a few new items have been included in the revised series. At the same time, some of items of the existing series have been dropped, in respect of which, prices have not been reported for quite a long period of time. Accordingly, the number of priced items has changed from 437 to 448 in rural and from 450 to 460 in urban at all India level. The number of priced items varies from State to State. If a particular item has occurred in any State, that item has been considered in the All India item basket. In the revised series, 11 new priced items have been added, without dropping any item, in rural sector at all India level. In case of Urban, 7 priced items have been dropped and 17 new priced items have been added.

5. Adopting the aforementioned improvements in methodologies, the first series (revised) would be compiled for the month of January 2015 and released on 12th February 2015. In order to estimate the old series of CPI, using the revised series, a linking factor would be provided. The year on year inflation rates for each month of 2015 would be compiled and released, with the respective press release, using the Linking Factor. From January 2016 onwards, the inflation rates would be compiled using the actual CPI of the revised series, as the indices for a given month of the year 2015 and 2016.

source file-BaseYearRevision22jan15


 Notes of Ministry of Defence on pre-pages seeking clarification regarding use of own/ hired taxi on LTC on account of physically handicap.

Department of Personnel & Training

Estt.A-IV Desk

F.No. G-26033/1/Cash-13 (Pt. File)

Ref. notes of Ministry of Defence on pre-pages seeking clarification regarding use of own/ hired taxi on LTC on account of physically handicap.

2. It is not clear from the notes as to whether the clarification sought for is in respect of civilian Government employees in the Defence services or Defence personnel. In case, the clarification sought is in respect of Defence Personnel, then it is clarified that CCS (LTC) Rules, 1938 are not applicable to them. In case of civilian Government servant the clarification is provided as under:

S.No.	Points of Doubts raised by PcsDA/ CsDA	Remarks/view of DoPT
1.	Whether a physically disabled officer who travels by air/ train on Temporary Duty can make use of own/ hired taxi on LTC?	As per DoPT’s O.M. No. 31011/3/2009-Estt.(A) dated 28th October, 2009, such relaxation to travel by own car/ hired taxi is available to only those Govt. servants who on account of physical handicap of self or dependant family members is unable to perform the LTC journey by the authorized modes of transport and are compelled to undertake the journey by own car/ private taxi. It is believed that a Govt. employee who is able to travel by air/ train on Temporary Duty, is capable of undertaking the journey by the same on LTC also.
2.	Whether the amount should be restricted to Rail fare by shortest route or the physically challenged officer using own/ hired taxi on LTC who is otherwise entitled to travel by air (i.e. drandng grade pay of Rs.5400/- and above).	The amount admissible to the physically disabled Govt. servant shall not be more than admissible if the journey is performed by the entitled class of rail/air (as per his entitled mode) by the shortest route or the actual taxi fare whichever is less, provided that the source station and destination station are connected by these modes of transport.
3.	Whether it would be appropriate to admit air fare on notional basis for non-existing air routes or shortest routes, like Pune-Mumbai, Delhi-Faridabad, Delhi-Mathura etc. for Physically challenged officer using own/ hired taxi on LTC?	No. Air fare cannot be admitted on notional that too for the non-existing air route. Where the source station and Destination station are not connected by train or air transport, the claim shall be regulated in terms of the Department of Expenditure’s O.M. No. 19030/3/2008-E.IV dated 23rd September, 2008 as per the mileage allowance for journeys performed by road in own car/taxi.

This clarification was enclosed with the MoD’s letter given below

Government of India

Ministry of Defence (Fin/QA)

Room No. 412-C. ‘B’ Wing,

Sena Bhawan New Delhi

Subject : Views/remarks regarding use of own/hired taxi on LTC on account of physically handicapped employees.

Reference: Jt.CGDA (AT Coord) U.O. No. AT/IV/4462/LTC Claim dt.07.07.2014

Attention of Jt.CGDA (AT-III) is drawn to his above referred U.O. seeking views/remarks regarding use of own/hired taxi on LTC on account of physical handicap.

2- The subject file was referred to DoPT for their comments. DoPT stated that if the clarification sought is in respect of Defence Personnel, then it is clarified that CCS (LTC) Rules, 1988 are not applicable to them.  In case of civilian Government servants, the clarification provided by DoPT is enclosed for information.

3.  O/o the CGDA is advised to strictly follow the advice rendered by DoPT in the matter and decide the LTC cases in respect of physically handicapped employees, accordingly.

(Lajpat Rai)

AFA (QA)

CGDA’s forwarding letter:-

Office of the Controller General of Defence Accounts,

Ulan Batar Road, Palam, Delhi Cantt-110010

Circular

No. AT/IV/4462/LTC Claim

Dated: 13th Jan 2015

To
All PCsDA/ CsDA
PCoA (F‘ys) Kolkata

Sub: Regulation of journeys on use of own / hired taxi on account of disability of the Govt. Servant on LTC.

Reference is invited to GoI, DoPT OM F No. 31011/3/2009-Estt.(A) dated: 28th Oct’2009.

2. The HQ office has been in receipt of references from Controllers regarding issues pertaining to the subject mentioned above. In this context it is stated that the matter was taken up with MoD (Fin) for clarification.

3. In this connection please find enclosed a copy of DoPT letter F.No. G-26033/I/Cash-13 (Pt.Fi1e) dated: 25.09.2014 received under MoD (Fin) ID No. 10(I)/2014/Fin QA dated: 14.10.2014 clarifying the point of doubts for information and further necessary action please.

4. The applicability of this clarification in r/o of Armed Forces personnel has separately been taken up with MOD D Mov. Further communication on this issue will follow on receipt of clarification from MoD D Mov.

Addl.CGDA has seen,

Sr. Accounts Officer (AT-IV)

Download DOPT Clarification F.No. G-26033/1/Cash-13 dated 25.09.2014 and CGDA letter No. AT/IV/4462/LTC Claim dated 13.01.2015

 

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