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Sunday, 27 December 2015

World Bank might support India Post's payments bank

Karan Choudhury  |  New Delhi 

17 other financial bodies eye tie-up with proposed bank

The World Bank has shown interest to financially support the proposed India Post Payment Bank, having approached the department of posts (DoP), say sources.

The Reserve Bank of India  (RBI) had in October approved the proposals of 11 applicants, including the DoP, to start a payments bank.

These entities may offer most of the services offered by commercial banks, except for loans and credit card products.

“The World Bank wants to part-finance the project. We are having discussions at the inter-departmental and ministry level and would come out with a final decision early next year,” said a senior official in the department to Business Standard.  

In October, the Bank had said the decision on the 11 new payments banks should expand penetration of banking in the rural areas, helping transform the rural remittances market.

The Bank is still seeking some clarity on the DoP issue, said its spokesperson. “There has been only one exploratory meeting with the postal service,” the person added.

According to officials in the ministry of communications, which oversees DoP, the latter is weighing options on the partners to choose for the project. It is also in the process of finalising a consultant for the project, the tender for which would be opened on January 6. And, waiting for Public Investment Board clearance from the finance ministry, expected next month.

“It’s only after the consultants do their research that we'd decide whom we want to partner with,” said a senior DoP official.

The department has 155,000 branches in the country. In the first phase, it plans to start payment banking services across 500 post offices.

The ministry has said as many as 17 banks and financial institutions — including Deutsche Bank, IDBI, Barclays, YES Bank, ICICI Prudential, and HDFC — are seeking an alliance with the proposed India Post Payment Bank.

“They want to use the postal network by entering into tie-ups for delivery of services such as loans, monthly instalments, collections, insurance, mutual funds and premiums, among other things,” added the official.

Recently, Hitachi had also said it was keen to partner DoP for payments bank solutions. In a meeting with communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad this month, Yutaka Saito, president of Hitachi, had discussed the possibility.
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Thursday, 24 December 2015

Lok Sabha approved hike of wage ceiling for bonus to Rs 21,000 per month from Rs 10,000 and monthly bonus calculation ceiling to Rs 7,000 per month from Rs 3,500

The Lok Sabha has approved amendments to the Payment of Bonus Act that seeks to make more workers eligible for bonus by raising the pay eligibility limit of employees to Rs 21,000 per month from Rs 10,000. 
The bill, tabled in the house earlier this month, also seeks to enhance the monthly bonus calculation ceiling to Rs 7,000 per month from Rs 3,500, thus substantially increasing the amount of bonus. 
Both the proposed changes are in line with the demands of 10 central trade unions, which had observed a day-long strike on September 22. 
The bill will now be tabled in Rajya Sabha. Once approved, it will be made effective from April 1, 2015. 
"I thank all parties for supporting the historic decision of this government," Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said after the discussion in Lok Sabha. 
The Payment of Bonus Act 1965 is applicable to every factory and other establishment in which 20 or more people are employed on any day during an accounting year. 
The bill also provides for a new proviso in Section 12, which empowers the central government to vary the basis of computing the bonus. 
As it stands today, Section 12 says that where the salary or wage of an employee exceeds Rs 3,500 per month, the minimum or maximum bonus payable to the employee shall be calculated as if his salary or wage was Rs 3,500 per month. 
The last amendment to both the eligibility limit and the calculation ceilings under the Act was carried out in 2007 and made effective from April 1, 2006. 
This amendment in the Act to increase wage ceiling and bonus calculation ceiling was one of assurances given by the Centre after 10 central trade unions went on a day-long strike on September 2. 
Source:-The Economic Times
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Changes in seventh pay commission recommendations likely

New Delhi: The central government may bring changes in the pay package proposed by Justice A K Mathur-led the Seventh Pay Commission which recommended a 23.55% hike in the pay and allowances of central government employees.

The pay is likely to increase 16%, allowances 63% and pensions about 24%. This is less than the overall hike of the Sixth Central Pay Commission.
The Implementation cell of the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations in Finance Ministry, headed by Joint Secretary R K Chaturvedi, is likely to retain such allowances and advances, which has been recommended for abolition by the Seventh Pay Commission.
The Mathur commission recommended for abolition allowances and advances like risk allowance, small family allowance, festival advance, motor cycle advance.
However, central government employees raised objection to recommendation for abolition of such type allowances and advances and demanded to retain its.
If retained such allowances and advances in the new pay scale to be effective from next January, the employees of lower grades may be more benefitted.
Sources in the Implementation cell said, the cell is also positively mulling the demand of central government employees for hiking the minimum pay, which was recommended very low by the Seventh pay commission.
The Mathur commission recommended the minimum basic pay of central government employees is Rs 18,000 per month while the maximum is Rs 2.25 lakh per month, its increased the pay gap between the minimum and maximum from existing 1:12 to 1: 13.8.
“All pay commissions made up pay gap between employees and higher officers from second Pay Commission 1:41 ratio to Sixth pay commission 1:12, except it,” said sources.
Sources also said the cell wants to make up pay gap between employees and higher officers and to recommend to hike Basic salary at least Rs 20,000 from Rs 18,000 recommended by the Seventh pay commission.
The central government employees’ associations termed the Seventh Pay Commission report as a width pay gap discrimination between employees and higher officers because in its report, the Pay Commission has recommended to increase the pay gap between the minimum and maximum from existing 1:12 to 1: 13.8
“We hope the Implementation cell’s new pay scale, which will be effective from January, will do justice to all,” sources confirmed.
Source :  http://www.tkbsen.in/2015/12/changes-in-seventh-pay-commission-recommendations-likely/
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Wednesday, 23 December 2015

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Circle Union writes to the Chief PMG, Odisha for declaring holiday on 24.12.2015 due to Id-e-Milad

N F P E
ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION GROUP-C
ODISHA CIRCLE BRANCH,BHUBANESWAR-751007
Trilochan Parida                                                                              R. C. Mishra
 President                                                                                  Circle Secretary
                                                                 Vice-President CHQ & Leader RJCM
                                                                    E-mail Ip3orissa@rediffmail.com 
No. UN/AIPEU, Gr-C/Odisha/12-2015                                                     Dated-22-12-2015 
To,                                                                                              
           Sri Tilak De, IPoS
           The Chief Post Master General
           Odisha Circle, Bhubaneswar-751001 
Sub-   Declaration of Holiday for Id-E-Milad (Birth day of Prophet Mohammed) on 24-12-2014 by CGE Welfare Co-ordination Committee, Odisha Circle in light of holiday decision taken by State Govt. of Odisha for  the State, just yesterday night. 
Respected Sir,
         We want to draw the kind attention to the above holiday Id-E-Milad (Birthday of Prophet Mohammed), which has been declared to fall twice in year 2015 (Ref- the holiday list of 2015). The holiday for the same has been shown as 04-01-2015 and has already been availed by staff. The Id-E-Milad is again falling on 24th December 2015 and Odisha State Govt. already declared holiday on the very date and has been published in all local dailies.  According to Rules under any change in dates of Muslim Holidays depending on sighting of the Moon, action for notifying holiday will be done by:- 
i)                 The Ministry of personnel and Training, for officers in Delhi/New Delhi; and 
ii)                the CGE Welfare Co-ordination Committees or the Heads of Offices (where such Committees are not functioning) based on the decision of the concerned State Government/Union territories. 
 It has been collected that holiday for the same has been declared in the States like New-Delhi, Tamilnadu and in other Circles. 
       As State Government has declared holiday on the occasion for 24-12-2015, the matter may kindly be moved to the CGE Welfare Co-ordination Committee immediately for declaration of holiday to Central Government Employees of Odisha State on 24-12-2015 to avoid holiday deprivation and for correct implementation of Rules in letter & spirit.  
IMMEDIATE RESPOSNE IN MATTER IS AWAITED.  
WITH REGARDS. 
Yours faithfully,
 (R.C.Mishra)
                                                                                                                   Circle Secretary
 
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Tuesday, 22 December 2015


National JCA Circular

NATIONAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION
4, State Entry Road, New Delhi – 110055
No.NJCA/2015                                                             Dated: December 21, 2015
 
All the Constituent Organizations
            &
NJCA Members,

Dear Comrades,
I am confident, by this time you must have studied the 26-point Charter of Demands, submitted by the NJCA to the Cabinet Secretary on 10th December, 2015, circulated vide NJCA’s Circular No.NJCA/2015/7th CPC dated  11th December, 2015. 

As per decision of the NJCA, the following programmes have to be successfully observed by all your affiliates all over the country.

(i)                   30.12.2015:             Holding demonstrations and hand over copy of the NJCA’s letter dated           10.12.2015 to the Head of the Office for onward transmission to the Cabinet   Secretary, demanding for immediate settlement of the issues.
(ii)                 19-21.01.2016:          3-day dharna in all the State capitals and industrial centers/    establishments for educating and mobilizing the employees.
           
In view of the NJCA’s decision for an “Indefinite Strike”, on the above cited 26-point Charter of Demands, commencing in the 1st week of March, it will be essential that, AIRF, NFIR, AIDEF, INDWF and Confederation of the Central Government employees should conduct strike ballot.  It will be quite appropriate that strike ballot is taken by the 2nd week of February, 2016.

The NJCA will meet and decide about the date of issue of the Strike Notice and also about the date of commencement of the Indefinite Strike. In the meantime, all out efforts may be made to build up pressure on the government, so that a negotiated settlement can be reached on our demands.  

I shall keep you informed about the further developments.

With fraternal greetings & best wishes for a Happy& Prosperous New Year!
 
           comradely


                 Convener

       
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SSPOs, Bhubaneswar proposes to open a Post Shoppe in Bhubaneswar GPO for sale of handicraft items prepared by students of KISS

Shri N R Giri, SSPOs, Bhubaneswar Division visited Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) Bhubaneswar accompanied with Sri Khageswar Mallick ASPOs(OD) and Sri Samrendra Sethi, IP, Bhubaneswar South Sub Division.  Being inspired by the activities of 25000 tribal students of KISS who are making   fine painting,  applique,  phenyl, car-wash, pickle etc. as a part of their craft class, the SSPOs has submitted a proposal to the Chief PMG, Odisha Circle for opening of a Post Shoppe in Bhubaneswar GPO to sell the above products. Action for conducting a stamp exhibition for the tribal children is also underway. If the Department agrees to the above proposal for Post Shoppe,  it has been tentatively planned to design it in tribal style with bamboo, palm leaves etc.  

This division badly miss  Sri.N R Giri SSPO for his quality of administration and vision. a red salute to Giri sir.
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Service chiefs write to Parrikar, express concern about 7th Pay Commission’s recommendations

In a rare move, the three service chiefs — Army Chief General Dalbir Singh, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha and Navy Chief Admiral Robin Dhowan — have sent a joint memorandum to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar expressing concern about the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations. They have sought an expert committee, with representatives from the armed forces, to redress the grievances identified by the defence services.
Defence ministry sources said Parrikar has already had an informal interaction with the three service chiefs, and a detailed presentation on all the issues raised in the joint memorandum will be held this week.
The memorandum, sent last week, follows another complaint made by the armed forces to the defence ministry last month on military personnel who seek premature retirement being excluded from the ambit of One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme.
The pay commission cells of the three defence services have listed some common grievances after a detailed study of the 900-page report. Members of these cells said that prima facie, the report has used incorrect and irrelevant data, leading to wrong analysis and skewed interpretation.
They claimed that almost all proposals submitted to the pay commission through a joint services memorandum have been rejected without providing any justification, or without even mentioning them. They pointed out that the pay commission, on the other hand, has mentioned the proposals of all other categories of central government services, analysing and commenting on each of them in detail.
“The Seventh Pay Commission has glossed over the core anomalies of the Sixth Pay Commission, which had put military personnel at a disadvantage. Those have not been resolved, making the situation worse,” said a senior military official.
Wrong pay fixation of military officials, particularly in the ranks of Lt Colonel, Colonel and Brigadier, at a scale much lower than their civilian counterparts, has been identified as a major issue because a bulk of military officers serve in these three ranks for the longest part of their career. The services also believe there is a disparity in grant of allowances to military personnel vis-à-vis civilian officials.
The defence services feel that the pay commission has erred in comparing defence expenditure on salaries with expenditure on operation and maintenance by the armed forces. They feel that the pay commission did not undertake a similar exercise for the civil services and the central armed police forces.
“Had the pay commission done that, it would have been an eye-opener to the nation to know in how little amounts the armed forces which constitute 30 percent of the central government employees live, survive and function effectively by efficient management of resources as compared to their civilian counterparts,” the military official argued.
Wrong pay fixation of military officials, particularly in the ranks of Lt Colonel, Colonel and Brigadier, at a scale much lower than their civilian counterparts has been identified by the defence forces as a major issue because a bulk of military officers serve in these three ranks for the longest part of their career. The service headquarters also believe that there is a disparity in grant of a large number of allowances to military personnel vis-à-vis civilian officials. Even hardship and field area allowances extended to central armed police forces have not been offered to the armed forces, they say.
According to a senior military official, “the traditional parity with civilian employees, which had been under attack by successive pay commissions against the interest of armed forces, has been further accentuated by the Seventh Pay Commission, in contravention of its terms of reference. Its recommendations have brought the armed forces even below all other uniformed services of paramilitary forces”.
The armed forces believe that the grant of Non Functional Upgradation (NFU), where a government official gets his pay increments even if he is not promoted in rank, has been made applicable to the military personnel in a superficial manner. NFU was granted to all the civilian officials in the Sixth Pay Commission and the armed forces have been demanding it since.
“Take the issue of disability allowance. The civilian employees have been getting a percentage of the basic pay as disability allowance since 1996. It was extended to us in the Sixth Pay Commission. Now it has been taken back and military has been reverted to a slab-based thing,” a senior military official said.
Source :http://indianexpress.com/
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Industrial Dispute Act

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Labour & Employment21-December-2015 18:16 IST

Industrial Dispute Act
Ministry has taken steps for drafting the Labour Code on Industrial Relations, by simplifying, amalgamating and rationalizing the relevant provisions of the three Labour Laws:

(i) The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947,

(ii) The Trade Unions Act, 1926,

(iii) The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946.

The Government carried out the process of Tripartite Consultation for drafting the Labour Code on Industrial Relations, where the representatives from Central Trade Unions, Employers’ Association and Central Ministries/State Governments participated and gave their suggestions. Two such meetings for the tripartite consultation on this Labour Code were held on 06.05.2015 and 06.10.2015. Apart from this, the draft Labour Code on Industrial Relations was also put on Website of the Ministry on 26.04.2015 for one month time inviting comments/suggestions from public and stakeholders. Suggestions have been received from the stakeholders in these consultations. The provisions of the draft Labour Code on Industrial Relations are still under consideration.

This information was given by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, Minister of State (IC) for Ministry Labour and Employment, in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
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Minimum Pensions

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Labour & Employment21-December-2015 18:13 IST

Minimum Pensions
 
The minimum pension fixed for retired Central Government employees is Rs. 3,500/- per month with effect from 01.01.2006. For pensioners, including those retired from public sector corporations and other establishments, to whom the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS), 1995 framed under the Employees’ Provident Funds & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 applies, provision of a minimum pension of Rs. 1,000/- per month has made with effect from 01.09.2014.

The Sixth Central Pay Commission had recommended pension of Rs. 3,330/- per month in respect of employees retired from the Central Government. The minimum pension of Rs. 1,000/- per month under the EPS, 1995 implemented by the Central Government was one of the recommendations of the Expert Committee constituted by the Government. Apart from this, the Committee on Petitions of the Rajya Sabha under the chairmanship of Shri Bhagat Singh Koshiyari in its 147th Report had recommended to increase Government share of contribution under EPS, 1995 from 1.16 per cent to 8.33 per cent to support the minimum pension level of Rs. 3000/- per month. However, it was not found feasible for implementation.

No complaints regarding anomalies in minimum pension in respect of Central Government employees have been received by the Government.

However, representations, grievances and complaints have been received from various quarters that the monthly pension to pensioners under EPS, 1995 have not increased to Rs. 1,000/- per month even after the notification in respect of pensioners who had taken short service pension, commutations or return of capital. Some grievances also relate to the fact that pension has not increased for those drawing more than Rs. 1,000/- per month.

Consequent upon implementation of the minimum pension to pensioners under EPS, 1995 vide notification number GSR 593(E) dated 19.08.2014, the pension of all member/widow(er)/disabled/ nominee/dependent parent pensioners whose original pension was less than Rs. 1,000/- per month had been fixed at the minimum of Rs. 1,000/- per month. In cases where members had preferred option for Commutation, Return of Capital and Short Service Pension and have already availed these benefits as per choice exercised by them at the time of making pension claim, the deductions on account of these options would continue to apply on the minimum pension of Rs. 1,000/- per month that has now been fixed. In such cases, the pension amount would be less than Rs. 1,000/- per month even after implementation of the said notification.

This information was given by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, Minister of State (IC) for Ministry Labour and Employment, in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
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CONSTITUTION OF A GDS COMMITTEE - ORDER DATED 21.12.2015 CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
 
Scheme for engagement of a dependent of deceased GDS on compassionate grounds - review of existing point based system of assessing indigence - order dated 17.12.2015.(Click the link  below for details)
http://www.indiapost.gov.in/dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=1738
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Scheme for engagement of a dependent of deceased casual labourer engaged on or before 01.09.1993 on compassionate grounds to Gramin Dak Sevak Post. (Click the link  below for details)
 http://www.indiapost.gov.in/dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=1739
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Review of existing provisions for filling up of vacant GDS posts [Other than GDS BPM] - order date 17.12.2015. (Click the link  below for details)
http://www.indiapost.gov.in/dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=1740
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Strengthening establishment of Single Handed Branch Post Offices - order date 17.12.2015. (Click the link  below for details)

http://www.indiapost.gov.in/dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=1741
 

Procedure for grant of permission to the pensioner for commercial employment after retirement - revision of Form 25. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
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Installation of ATMs at Identified Post offices - Operational Hand Book on ATM CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

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Issue of Pensioners Identity Card to pensioners. (Click the link below for details) http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D3/D03ppw/PPWD_181215.pdf

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Thursday, 17 December 2015

CBS GO LIVE OF BASUDEVPUR COLLEGE POST OFFICE UNDER BHADRAK DIVISION ON 17.12.2015

 INAUGURATION BY SHRI RABI NARAYAN SENAPATI, PRINCIPAL, ATAL BIHARI COLLEGE, BASUDEVPUR IN THE PRESENCE OF SHRI BIPIN BIHARI MOHANTY, SPOs, BHADRAK DIVISION.
 
 
 
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Status and Progress of Central Govt. Pensioners

Courtesy : The Samaj,  17.12.2015

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Wednesday, 16 December 2015


Dopt Minister Clarifies on Retirement Age 58 or 33 Years of Service

In Lok Sabha today, the Dopt Minister Shri Jitendra Singh said that there is no proposal to reduce the retirement age to 58 years of age or 33 years of service for Central Government employees.


In a written reply for the question regarding the retirement age of Central Government employees in Parliament today, the concerend Minster of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said that the there is no such proposal to reduce the retirement age with the connection of 33 years of service.

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