Monday 19 March 2018
Friday 16 March 2018
Salient features of the One Man Committee Report headed by Shri Kamlesh Chandra
The old system of payment of Time Related Continuity Allowance (TRCA) is dispensed with and replaced with a new wage payment system. Under the new wage payment system, 11 TRCA slabs are subsumed into 3 Wage Scales with two Levels each for BPMs and for other than BPMs. One wage scale would be common for both the categories of GDSs.
The minimum working hours of GDS Post Offices and GDSs are increased to 4 hours from 3 hours.
The new working hours for GDS Post Offices will be 4 hours and 5 hours only.
The Level 1 GDS Post Offices / GDSs will have 4 hours as working hours and Level – 2 will have 5 hours as working hours.
The Point System for assessment of workload of BPMs has been abolished.
The new wage payment system is linked to revenue generation of GDS Post Offices. Under the new system, there will be no increase in wages of BPMs from Level -1 to Level -2 on the basis of workload but the same will be increased based on achievement of prescribed revenue norms which is fixed at 100% for normal areas and 50% for special areas.
The GDS Post Offices not achieving the prescribed revenue norm within the given working hours will have to open GDS Post Offices for minimum of additional 30 minutes beyond the prescribed working hours.
The GDS BPMs will be paid Revenue Linked Allowance @10% beyond level-2 wage scale if they will be successful in achieving revenue beyond prescribed norms
The GDS Post Offices has been categorized into A, B; C and D categories based on the revenue generation norms. The GDS Post Office in A category will achieve 100% revenue norm. The Committee has recommended a set of actions for each category of GDS Post Offices.
The six approved categories of GDSs are subsumed into two categories only. One category will be Branch Post Master and all other 5 categories of GDSs are subsumed into one Multi Tasking Category.
The GDSs working in the GDS Post Offices will be known as Assistant Branch Post Master (ABPMs) and those working in the Departmental Post Offices will be known as Dak Sevak (DS).
The minimum wage has been increased to Rs. 10000/- per month and maximum pay to Rs. 35480/- per month.
The rate of annual increase is recommended as 3%.
A Composite Allowance comprising of support for hiring accommodation for GDS Post Offices as well as mandatory residence, office maintenance, mobile and electricity usage charges etc. has been introduced for the first time.
Children Education Allowance @Rs. 6000/- per child per annum has been introduced for GDSs.
Risk & Hardship Allowance @Rs. 500/- per month for GDS working in the special areas has also been introduced.
A Financial up-gradation has been introduced at 12 years, 24 years and 36 years of services in form of two advance additional annual increases.
The Ceiling of ex-gratia gratuity has been increased from Rs. 60,000 to Rs. 5,00,000
The GDS Contribution for Service Discharge Benefit Scheme (SDBS) should be enhanced maximum up to 10% and minimum up to 3% of the basic wage per month, whereas the Department should contribute a fixed contribution of 3% of the basic wage of the GDSs.
The coverage of GDS Group Insurance Scheme has been enhanced from Rs. 50000/- to Rs. 5,00,000/
The contribution of Department in Circle Welfare Fund (CWF) has been increased from Rs. 100/ per annum to Rs. 300/ per annum.
The scope of CWF is extended to cover immediate family members such as spouse; daughters, sons and dependent daughters in law in the scheme.
The Committee also recommended 10% hike in the prescribed limits of financial grants and assistances in the Circle Welfare Funds.
The Committee has recommended addition of Rs. 10,000/ for purchase of Tablet / Mobile from the Circle Welfare in the head “Financial Assistance of Fund by way of loans with lower rate of interest (5%)”.
Provision of 26 weeks of Maternity Leave for women GDS has been recommended.
The wages for the entire period of Maternity Leave is recommended to be paid from salary head from where wages of GDSs are paid.
The Committee has also recommended one week of paternity leave.
Leave accumulation and encashment facility up to 180 days has been introduced.
Online system of engagement has been recommended.
Alternate livelihood condition for engagement of GDSs has been relaxed.
Voluntary Discharge scheme has been recommended.
The Discharge age has been retained at 65 years.
The Limited Transfer Facility has been relaxed from 1 time to 3 times for male GDSs.
There will be no restriction on number of chances for transfer of women GDSs. The powers for transfer has been delegated to the concerned Divisional head.
The ex-gratia payment during put off period should be revised to 35% from 25% of the wage and DA drawn immediately before put off.
Modified and Updated User Manual CSI F&A dated 12.03.2018
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Wednesday 14 March 2018
TIME-LIMIT FOR SUBMISSION OF CLAIMS FOR TRAVELLING ALLOWANCES (Click the link below to view)
No.19030/1/2017-E.IV
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
New Delhi, the 13th March, 2018
Office Memorandum
Sub: Time-limit for submission of claims for Travelling Allowances – regarding.
Consequent upon the issuance of General Financial Rule (GFR)-2017, vide Rule 290 of GFR-2017, time-limit for submission of claim for Travelling Allowance (TA) has been changed from one year to sixty days succeeding the date of completion of the journey. Accordingly, in supersession of this Department’s O.M. No.F.5(16)-E.IV(B)/67 dated 13.06.1967 & OM No.19038/1/75-E.IV (B) dated 18.02.1976, it has been decided with the approval of competent Authority that the claim of a Govt. servant to Travelling Allowance/Daily Allowance on Tour/Transfer/Training/Journey on Retirement, is forfeited or deemed to have been relinquished if the claim for it is not preferred within sixty days succeeding the date of completion of the journey.
2. ln respect of claim for Travelling Allowance for journey performed separately by the officer and members of his family, the dates should be reckoned separately for each journey and the claim shall be submitted within sixty days succeeding the date of completion of each individuai journey. Similarly, TA claims in r/o transportation of personal effects and conveyance shall be submitted within sixty days succeeding the date on which these are actually delivered to the Govt. servant at the new station.
3. The date of submission of the claims shall be determined as indicated below :-
(i) In the case of Officers who are their own Controlling Officer
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The date of presentation of the claim at the Treasury-Cash Section.
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(ii) In the case of Officers who are not their own Controlling Officer
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The date of submission of the claim to the Head of Office-Controlling Officer.
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4. In the case of claims falling under category 3(ii), which are presented to the Treasury after a period of sixty days succeeding the date of completion of journey, the date of submission of the claim
will be counted from the date when it was submitted by the Govt. servant to the Head of office/Controlling Officer within prescribed time-limit of sixty days.
5. A claim for Travelling Allowance of a Govt, servant which has been allowed to remain in abeyance for a period exceeding one year should be investigated by the Head of the Department concerned, lf the Head of Department is satisfied about the genuineness of the claim on the basis of the supportive documents and there are valid reasons for the delay in preferring the claims, the claims should be paid by the Drawing and Disbursing Officer or Accounts Officer, as the case may be, after usual checks.
6. These orders are not applicable in r/o Leave Travel Concession (LTC) claims which are governed by separate set of rules of DoPT.
7. These orders shall be effective from the date of issue of this O.M.
8. ln so far as the persons serving in the Indian Audit & Accounts Department are concerned, this order issues in consultation with the Comptroller & Auditor General of lndia.
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(Nirmala Dev)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of lndia
Authority: www.doe.gov.in
Saturday 10 March 2018
CABINET APPROVES TWO PERCENT DEARNESS ALLOWANCE TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Cabinet
07-March-2018 19:21 IST
CABINET APPROVES TWO PERCENT DEARNESS ALLOWANCE TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval to release an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners w.e.f. 01.01.2018 representing an increase of 2% over the existing rate of 5% of the Basic Pay/Pension, to compensate for price rise.
This will benefit about 48.41 lakh Central Government employees and 61.17 lakh pensioners.
The combined impact on the exchequer on account of both Dearness Allowance and Dearness Relief would be Rs.6077.72 crore per annum and Rs.7090.68 crore in the financial year 2018-19 (for a period of 14 months from January, 2018 to February, 2019).
This increase is in accordance with the accepted formula, which is based on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission.
IPPB WORK SHOP WITH SERVICE UNION REPRESENETATIVES OF POSTAL FEDERATIONS BY THE OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENT & IPPB ON 07-03-2018
“SANYOJAN” – Implementation of IPPB
Venue : Civil Services Officer’s Institute, New Delhi – 17
Administration side :
Shri A.N.Nanda, Secretary, Department of Posts
Shri Suresh Sethi, CEO & MD, IPPB
Shri A.P.Singh : Sr.DDG (PBI), CEO, IPPB
Ms.Madhumitha, DDG (PBI-I)
Shri T.Q.Mohammad, DDG (PBI-II)
Shri Sachin Kishore, DDG (FS)
Members of Postal Services Board
Officers of the Department
Staffside :
Postal Federations :
NFPE : Represented by Com. R.N.Parashar, Secretary General & 7 others
FNPO : Represented by Shri D.Theyagarajan, Secretary General & 7 others
BPEF : Represented by Shri Santhosh Kumar Singh, Secretary General & 7 others
GDS Unions : AIPEU GDS, G/S, P.Pandurangarao
NUGDS, G/S, P.UMuralidharan
AIDGSU, G/S & 7 others
BPEDA, G/S Sugandhi Kant Mishra
Introduction of the session : Shri T.Q.Mohammad, DDG (PBI-II)
Welcome Address by : Shri A.P. Singh, Sr.DDG (PBI)
Opening Remarks by Shri A.N.Nanda, Secretary, Department of Posts.
A series of power point presentation made on the following subjects by the respective authorities :
Overview and business opportunities for IPPB by Shri Suresh Sethi, CEO & MD, IPPB
Benefits to POSB through IPPB (DoP – IPPB integration) – Shri Sachin Kishore, DDG (FS)
Opportunities for DoP employees and GDS in IPPB – Shri TQ Mohammad, DDG (PBI-II)
DoP - IPPB Operations - Ms. Madhumita Das, DDG (PBI-I)
During the second session, Remarks/opinions of the Staff side Representatives presented by respective Secretaries General of Postal Federations.
On behalf of NFPE, the Secretary General submitted a note on expressing the views of NFPE and its unions to the Secretary, Department of Posts. (copy of the note published below).
There is an interaction session between Staffside Representatives & Administration on the implementation of IPPB. Various questions on various subjects regarding staff strength, net work problems, basic infrastructure, Work Hours, future of DoP, GDS issues raised by the Union Representatives; an elaborated discussion took place in the session and the officers of the Department replied in such a way to convince both sides.
Officers assured to hold such interaction meetings at Circle level also with the participation of staff representatives.
Meeting concluded with the vote of thanks presented by Shri T.Q.Mohammad, DDG (PBI-II) at 05.00pm.
GDS Issues :
During the session all Federation Secretaries General & Union’s Representatives raised many issues regarding GDS and claimed that the IPPB work should taken into the account of work load of the GDS. On behalf of all Federations & GDS Unions, a request note has been submitted to the Secretary, Posts.
THE VIEWS AND SUBMISSIONS OF NFPE PRESENTED ON THE EVE OF WORKSHOP ON IPPB AT NEW DELHI ON 7TH MARCH -2018
Sir,
At the outset, we want to place it on record that all the unions federated under NFPE are not in favour of corporate Post Bank set up but at the same time we desire to keep the IPPB as the wholly preserving and protecting thePostal Bank by the Postal Department without any private or public share of 49% and controlled by a separate body other than the Head of the Postal Department.
I wish to point out despite our strong protest against the IPPB Corporate bank limited which was resolved in the NFPE Federal Executive on11/02/2018 held at New Delhi and also in the CWC meeting of Postal Group ‘C’ Union on 26th& 27th February 2018 at Patna (Bihar), I am attending this workshop with the determination and the intention to request to reconsider your decision and revert back the IPPB as the Government oriented Postal Bank of India wholly maintained and preserved by the Department of Posts. If need be it shares can be made open to its employees to expand the service in the paucity of required funds. It must be a bank owned and operated by the Postal Department with the share of its employees and their full participation.
Notwithstanding with our position not to corporate IPPB, the Service Unions desire to place on record to have 100% of the postal staff must be utilized to serve for the Postal bank and there should be no other recruitment other than from the Postal Staff.It is most pertinent to mention that no nationalized or private banks are doing the small savings work and being the Social oriented state, the Post office is alone doing the SB work which is the main revenue for the Postal Service at this juncture. If all these small savings accounts are transferred to IPPB at a later stage or today, what will be the remaining work for the PO counters? We are feeling that the Department by introduction of IPPB, blinds the existing Postal Department with its own figures. We are pleading for reconsideration, if not,we are having the apprehension that the postal savings bank work at present is the major work of the postal department shall be transferred to IPPB in the later stage. Therefore, the IPPB shall be managed only with the Postal staff and not recruited separately
Further after the introduction of CBS, in many places, the POs are suffering with worn out and old peripherals with low configuration, Poor network and mal -functioning of NSP- I & II and also due to poor user friendly configuration of the CSI software. Those have to be corrected first. Unless the requirements like adequate net work, bandwidth, working computers, are fulfilled, there should be no implementation of CSI. Similarly the recommendations of Kamalesh Chandra Committee providing compassionate appointment to the wards of GDS who could not work in RICT, on implementation of Rural ICT shall be implemented first and thereafter Rural ICT must be implemented if the Rural ICT and CSI shall be jointly implemented after providing necessary infrastructure and user friendly software. If it so, it will be a successful transformation of technology.
After the complete transformation, the IPPB not as corporation Ltd can be implemented for which our Federation will extend Fullest Cooperation.
Further I desire to mention that the Postal Department shall have a separate network Connectivity like Railways &Defencein order to ensure proper networking facility to the Post offices so that we could expand our services later even in the rural areas. The postal staff are very much committed only with their hard work and dedication only this much of transformation in the postal service was possible for that he had not paid any amount or compensation. The hard labour they exerted during these days should be utilized for the postal service alone and not to be transferred to the hands of corporates for that we will again register our protest in this meeting with the request to reconsider the decision. Thank you very much
R.N. Parashar
Secretary General
NFPE
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