TALKS FAILED-STRIKE WILL CONTINUE

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013

TALKS FAILED-STRIKE WILL CONTINUE

TH E PROPOSED STRIKE FROM 20TH FEBRUARY WILL CONTINUE.THE TALKS WITH CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS BY GROUP OF MINISTERS ON 18TH EVENING FAILED.GOVERNMENT DID NOT COME FORWARD TO CONCEDE THE DEMANDS.MAKE THE STRIKE CENT PERCENT SUCCESS FOR SURVIVAL.

GENERAL SECRETARY

Income Tax : ‘Increase the taxable income exemption limit to Rs 4 lakh from the current Rs 2 lakh’ – Congress

In a pre-budget meeting with Finance Minister P Chidambaram here on Thursday, Congress leaders have asked the UPA government to increase the taxable income exemption limit to Rs 4 lakh from the current Rs 2 lakh, while suggesting a pro-people budget with sops for the middle class and farmers keeping the upcoming elections in mind.

The meeting was held at the Congress party headquarters. With the rise in fuel prices impacting the ‘aam aadmi’, the meeting saw suggestions for varied pricing of petrol, diesel and cooking gas for people living below poverty line and low income group.

Senior party leader Oscar Fernandes suggested there was a need to bring down the dependence on petroleum import and more focus on having alternative sources of energy like ethanol, sources said. Fernandes also wanted the government to reduce tax on bidis, noting that employment levels were coming down in the labour-intensive sector due to current tax slab.

Congress leader Jagdish Tytler suggested that the budget should be formulated in a way that helps the party to connect with people as elections were ahead, sources said.

AICC Secretary P Sudhakar Reddy mooted raising the tax exemption limit of Rs 2 lakh to Rs 4 lakh, which was endorsed by many other office bearers. He also advised linking Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme with agriculture to help meet the shortage of farm labour in the sector, besides offering three-year interest-free loans to small farmers for their children’s education.

Suggestions were also made by party leaders for gender budgeting. Reddy advised the Finance Minister that female assessees could be given higher tax exemption limit.

There were also demands by many leaders for bringing more clarity on the service tax as it was being interpreted differently in various states.

Minority Department Chairman Imran Kidwai demanded increase in outlay of the Minority Affairs Ministry and allocation of more funds to minority institutions. He also advised formulation of special scheme for Most Backward Classes for their financial inclusion.

Senior party leader Ajit Jogi complained that central funds were being diverted in many non-congress ruled states by the respective governments, suggesting some mechanism should be developed to check this, “The finance minister told us what are the difficulties and how the Indian economy was kept at a balance despite the tough global economic scenario. Thirty-two of the 46 office bearers present spoke on various issues related to farmers, weavers, education, health and income tax,” party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters after the meeting.

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AITUC rejects PM’s appeal to call off stir

New Delhi: AITUC general secretary Gurudas Dasgupta today rejected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s appeal to call off the two-day nationwide strike of central trade unions from February 20 saying there could be no consideration without settlement of our demands by the government.

Dasgupta at the same time made it clear that the trade unions have no reservation to the offer of talks made by the Prime Minister in order to arrive at some course of action that is acceptable both to the Trade Unions and the Government.

“There is no question of calling off the strike. Our position is very clear that there cannot be any consideration without settlement of our demands by the government. We want a settlement from Government, not an assurance,” Dasgupta told PTI.

His remarks came soon after the Prime Minister made a formal appeal to the protesting central Trade Unions to withdraw their strike saying it would lead loss to the country’s economy and cause inconvenience to people.

While issuing the appeal to the Unions to withdraw their strike call, the Prime Minister also said that he has requested his senior Cabinet colleagues A K Antony, Sharad Pawar, P Chidambaram and Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge to hold discussions with them.

Dasgupta questioned why the Prime Minister did it so late. “Definitely we will talk to the government tomorrow, but before that we will have our own meeting where all the Unions will give their point of views. We know that the Prime Minister has asked his Ministers to meet us but we want to know why has he done it so late? The only thing I want to say in response to the PM’s appeal is that the strike is on and there is no question of calling it off,” the AITUC general secretary said.

source : www.deccanchronicle.com

NOTICE OF TWO DAYS STRIKE ON 20^th & 21^stFEBRUARY, 2013.

LETTER FROM THE DEPARTMENT

No.8-4/2013/SR

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan , Sansad Marg ,

New Delhi-110001

Dated 13.02.2013

To

            Sh. M. Krishnan,

            Secretary General, NFPE

            Sh. D. Theagarajan,

            Secretary General, FNPO

Subject:        Notice of two days strike on 20^th & 21^st February, 2013.

Sir,

            With reference to letter No. JCA 2013 dated 22^nd January, 2013 from Postal Joint Council of Action stating that all the Postal/RMS/MMS/Administrative and Postal Accounts Employees and all the Gramin Dak Sevaks will go on two days strike on 20^th & 21^st Feb, 2013 in support of Charter of Demands enclosed with the letter referred to above. Part-I of The Charter of Demands relates to the entire Government of India and perhaps will be examined by Department of Personnel and Training. Part-II of the Charter of Demands relating to the Department of Posts is being examined by us. The progress in respect of these demands will be intimated to you shortly.

2.         As you are aware the Department of Posts has a well established system to resolve the demands of the employees through discussions across the table. In the recent past, periodical meetings granted by Secretary (Posts),JCM Standing Committee Meeting and JCM Departmental Council Meetings were held where a number of issues have  been discussed  in detail and the minutes has been issued to all concerned for solving staff matters. It is felt that no fruitful purpose is served by agitation especially when the problems can be mutually discussed and resolved. Such disruptions also hamper our business and goodwill.

3.         In view of the above, it is requested that both the federations and its affiliated Unions may call off the strike so that the Postal Services are not hampered and public is not put to any avoidable inconvenience.

Yours faithfully,

                                                      Sd/-

(Anil Kumar)

Dy. Director General (Establishment)

Revision of Pension of pre-2006 Pensioners.

                                                           · F.No.38/37/08-P&PW(A)
                                                             Government of India
                                                   Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pensions
                                                Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare
                                                3rd Floor Lok Nayak Bhawan,
                                                 Khan Market, New Delhi-ll0 003.
                                                 Dated the 13th February, 2013.
                                                                                                                 OFFICE MEMORANDUM

The undersigned is directed to say that in pursuance of Government:' s decision on the recommendations of Sixth Central Pay Commission, orders were issued for revision of pension/family pension vide this Department's OM No.38/37/08- P&PW(A) dated 1.9.2008, as amended from time to time.

2. The pension/family pension of pre-2006 pensioners was stepped up to 50% of the sum of minimum of pay in the pay band and the grade pay corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale from which the pensioner had retired as arrived at with reference to the fitment tables annexed to the Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure OM No.l/l/2008-IC dated 30 th August, 2008 with effect from 24.9.12 vide this Department OM of even number dated 28 th January, 2013. 

3. In regard to disbursement of revised pension/family pension, while Head of Departments are responsible for sanctioning of pension/family pension, in cases where revision has already been done by PAOs consequent to 6 th CPC, the revision may be effected at the level of PAOs. A copy of the revised authority may be sent to HOD/DDO for record. In cases where no revision has been effected, Head of Offices

may follow normal procedure for revision of pension/family pension. Even in cases where there is no change in pension/family pension as a result of the issue of this OM, a revised authority for no change may be issued by the PAOs. The finalized authority will be sent to CPAO for further necessary action.

4. A suitable entry regarding the revised pension/family pension shall be recorded by the pension Disbursing Authority in both halves of the Pension Payment Order.

5. In c·ase the pension/family pension in respect of pre-2006 pensioners/family pensioners has not already been revised w.e.f. 1.1.2006, the same may also be revised for the period upto 23.9.2012 in terms of order  dated 1.9.2008 and subsequent orders thereto and for the period from 24.9.12 in terms of order of even number dated 28.1.2013.

6. CGNCP AOlMinistry of Defence/Ministry of Railways/Department of Posts/Department of Telecom will devise their own monitoring mechanism to ensure that enhanced pension and arrears are disbursed to all civil pensioners/family pensioners expeditiously. ~ ~

(Tripti P Ghosh)

Director

To: All MinistrieslDepartments of Government of India as per mailing listlCPAO/

C&AG.

7 CPC

7th Pay Commission Projected Pay Scale People may think that the babus again started to make voice over pay revision and next pay commission or 7th Pay commission. There is a saying that “The crying baby gets the milk”. The need makes the man to act. One should try to understand the fact that being a government servant one can witness a considerable pay hike at least twice or thrice of his/her entire service period. Because, other than promotion, only the pay commission recommendation will give them considerable pay hike. But it takes place once in ten years. Now a days a government employee can render service 20 or 30 years only due to non availability of employment opportunity in government service below the age of 25. So there is no need to be get annoyed by hearing the voice for seventh pay commission from central government employees. Because constituting next pay commission is for nothing but to review the salary of the govt. servants with the current economical condition of the country. How the pay of a govt. employee had been fixed at the beginning of the Independence India. Till now there are six pay commission had been constituted to review and recommend pay structure of central government employees. All the six pay commissions have taken many aspects into consideration to prescribe the pay structure for government servants. In the first pay commission the concept of ‘living wage’ was adopted. In second pay commission it had been reiterated that the pay structure and working condition to be crafted in a way so as to ensure the effective functioning of government mechanism. The third pay commission adopted the concept of ‘need based wage’ The Fourth CPC had recommended the government to constitute permanent machinery to undertake periodical review of pay and allowances of Central Government employees, but which got never implemented. In Fifth pay commission all federations demanded that the pay scale should be at par with the public sector. But the pay commission didn’t accept this and told that the demand for parity with the Public Sector was however difficult to concede as it felt that the Job content and condition of service in the government and pulic sector not necessarily the same. There were essential differences between the two sectors. The Sixth Central Pay Commission, claimed that it had not only tried to evolve a proper pay package for the Government employees but also to make recommendations rationalizing the governmental structure with a view to improve the delivery mechanisms for providing better services to the common man What about seventh pay commission? Generally every pay commission, before recommending a pay structure, it used to analyze all the aspects including the economic situation of the country, financial resources of the government, comparison with the public sector, private sector and state government pay structure etc. So it is very much clear that Pay Determination is very complicated and sensitive task. Without any doubt every one accepts that this is very challenging task too. In order to determine the new pay structure the pay commission has to go through voluminous data consisting current economic condition, strength of the work force and working condition etc. In the meantime, if one tries to suggest or comment about 7thy pay commission pay scale or about what the seventh pay commission pay scale would be, it will not get much importance. But when we come across all the recommendations of six pay commissions, we observed an interesting factor which is common to all the pay commission recommendations, particularly in the matter of percentage of increase in the pay. Average 3 times increase in the pay was recommended by each pay commission and it was accepted by government and implemented. We have posted three articles about six pay commissions before this post. Click the link given below to see those articles and average increase was worked out in the table. First CPC to Third CPC Pay Scales Fourth CPC pay scale and Fifth Pay commission Short Description about Sixth Pay Commission Obviously it is simple thing, we can say it a mathematical coincidence that we have in common in all previous pay commission, but we cannot neglect this. Because it was there, every time it is noticed that the revised pay was approximately three times higher than its pre revised pay. Apart from all the factors which has been used to determine the pay revision, we can use this simple formula ‘common multiplying factor’ to know the 7th pay commission pay scale . If next pay commission prefer to continue the same running pay band and grade pay system for seventh pay commission also, the pay structure may be like the following projected figures given below, using common multiplying factor ‘3’. The Following is only the projected figure using common multiplying factor ‘3’...

SIXTH CPC PAY STRUCTURE				PROJECTED PAY STRUCTURE FOR NEXT (VII) PAY COMMISSION
Name of Pay Band/ Scale	Corresponding Pay Bands	Corresponding Grade Pay	Entry Grade +band pay	Projected entry level pay using uniform multiplying factor` 3’
				Band Pay	Grade Pay	Entry Pay
PB-1	5200-20200	1800	7000	15600-60600	5400	21000
PB-1	5200-20200	1900	7730	15600-60600	5700	23190
PB-1	5200-20200	2000	8460	15600-60600	6000	25380
PB-1	5200-20200	2400	9910	15600-60600	7200	29730
PB-1	5200-20200	2800	11360	15600-60600	8400	34080
PB-2	9300-34800	4200	13500	29900-104400	12600	40500
PB-2	9300-34800	4600	17140	29900-104400	13800	51420
PB-2	9300-34800	4800	18150	29900-104400	14400	54450
PB-3	15600-39100	5400	21000	29900-104400	16200	63000
PB-3	15600-39100	6600	25530	46800-117300	19800	76590
PB-3	15600-39100	7600	29500	46800-117300	22800	88500
PB-4	37400-67000	8700	46100	112200-20100	26100	138300
PB-4	37400-67000	8900	49100	112200-20100	26700	147300
PB-4	37400-67000	10000	53000	112200-20100	30000	159000
HAG	67000- (ann increment @ 3%) -79000	Nil				201000
HAG+ Scale	75500- (ann increment @ 3%) -80000	Nil				226500
Apex Scale	80000 (Fixed)	Nil				240000
Cab. Sec.	90000 (Fixed)	Nil				270000

Source: www.gservants.com
[http://www.gservants.com/2013/02/11/7th-pay-commission-projected-pay-scale/]

8% DA HIKE FOR CENTRAL GOVT STAFF In a major development, the Union Cabinet on Friday approved 8% hike in the Dearness Allowance (DA) for central government employees and pensioners. This decision is likely to bring some relief to nearly 50 lakh central government employees trying to cope up with spiraling inflation and price hike.

HOLIDAY HOME

Suspension of Booking of holiday home at Mysore for two more months (from 01.01.2013 to 28.02.2013) No.D-11016/16/87-Regions Government of India Ministry of Urban development Directorate of Estates Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi Dated 30.01.2013 Office Memorandum Subject: Suspension of Booking of holiday home at Mysore for two more months (from 01.01.2013 to 28.02.2013) regarding. The work of vertical extension of existing holiday home at Mysore has not completed till now and it will likely to take two more months. Due to construction activities, there is disturbance within the premises of holiday home at Mysore. Accordingly, booking of Holiday Home at Mysore is being suspended for two more months i.e. from 01.01.2013 to 28.02.2013. Application for booking for theaforesaid period will not be entertained by the booking authority. sd/- (N.S. Chauhan) Assistant Director of Estates (Regions) Source: www.holidayhomes.nic.in [http://holidayhomes.nic.in/WriteReadData/Circulars/19MysoreSuspension.PDF]