5th CPC Dearness Relief from Jan 2022 to CPF beneficiaries in receipt of basic ex-gratia payment: DOPPW Order
5th CPC Dearness Relief from Jan 2022 DOPPW ORDER
No. 42/07/2022-P&PW (D) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare
3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan, Khan Market, New Delhi – 110003 Dated 11th May, 2022
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Sub:- Grant of Dearness Relief in the 5th CPC series effective from 01.01.2022 to CPF beneficiaries in receipt of basic ex-gratia payment-reg
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s OM of even no. dated 23.11.2021 and to say that the President is pleased to decide that the Dearness Relief admissible to the CPF beneficiaries in receipt of basic ex-gratia payment in the 5th CPC series shall be enhanced w.e.f 01.01.2022 in the following manner :-
(i) The surviving CPF beneficiaries who have retired from service between the period 18.11.1960 and 31.12.1985, and are entitled to basic ex-gratia @ Rs.3000, Rs.1000, Rs.750 & Rs.650 for Group A, B, C & D respectively w.e.f 4th June,2013 vide OM No. 1/10/2012-P&PW(E) dtd. 27th June, 2013 shall now be entitled to enhanced Dearness Relief from 368% of the basic ex-gratia to 381% of the basic ex-gratia w.e.f 01.01.2022.
(ii) The following categories of CPF beneficiaries shall be entitled to enhanced Dearness Relief from 360% of the basic ex-gratia to 373% of the basic ex-gratia w.e.f 01.01.2022:-
(a) The widows and eligible children of the deceased CPF beneficiary who had retired from service prior to 01.01.1986 or who had died while in service prior to 01.01.1986 and are entitled to revised ex-gratia @ Rs.645/-p.m w.e.f 04 June, 2013 vide OM No 1/10/2012-P&PW(E) dated 27th June,2013.
(b) Central Government employees who had retired on CPF benefits before 18.11.1960 and are in receipt of Ex-gratia payment of Rs. 654/-, Rs.659/-, Rs.703/- and Rs.965/-.
2. Payment of DR involving a fraction of a rupee shall be rounded off to the next higher rupee.
3, It will be the responsibility of the pension disbursing authorities, including the nationalized banks, etc. to calculate the quantum of DR payable in each individual case.
4. In so far as the persons serving in Indian Audit and Accounts Department are concerned, these orders are issued in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, as mandated under Article 148(5) of the Constitution of India.
5. This issues in pursuance of Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure’s OM No. 1/3(2)/2008-E.II(B) dated 7th April, 2022.
6. Hindi version will follow.
Sd/- (Charanjit Taneja) Under Secretary to the Government of India
Payment of TRCA on Sunday/Holidays to the GDS working against vacancies in Postman/ Mail Guard/MTS Cadre
No. 23-01/2019-GDS Government of India Ministry of Communications Department of Posts (GDS Section)
Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi-110001 Dated: 04/06.05.2022
To
All Chief Postmaster General/Postmasters General
Subject: Payment of TRCA on Sunday/Holidays to the GDS working against vacancies in Postman/ Mail Guard/MTS Cadre.
It has come to notice that payment of TRCA to persons working substitute of regular GDS for National Holidays are being paid, whereas para 1 and para 4(ii) of Directorate OM No. No. 23-01/2019-GDS dated 23.10.2019 stipulates’that no extra payment on account of National Holiday will be made to persons working substitute of GDS in view of fact that payment of remuneration to GDS is made on monthly basis”. Resultantly, this has been objected by C&AG Audit and recovery of overpayment of wages to substitutes for Gramin Dak Sevaks raised.
2. In this context, however, it is clarified that, the persons working substitute of GDS may be paid TRCA for Sunday, if he/she continuously works for 6 days. But, no extra payment on account of National Holidays will be made to persons working substitute of GDS in view of fact that payment of remuneration to GDS is made on monthly basis.
3. This issues with the approval of the Competent Authority.
Yours faithfully
(D.K. Tripathi) Assistant Director General (GDS/PCC) Phone: 011-23096626 Email: [email protected]
Copy to
(1) OG Audit (F/C) Civil Lines New Delhi-110054 : For information.
(2) Director, Internal Audit, Internal Audit Division, Dak Bhawan New Delhi 110001: For information.
Non-disbursement of Pension to Armed Forces Personnel for April 2022
Clarification in respect of non-disbursement of pension to Armed Forces personnel for April 2022
There have been concerns raised in sections of media and social media regarding the non-disbursement of pension to defence pensioners for the month of April 2022. The following clarification is being hereby issued for kind information of all concerned.
All pensioners must complete annual identification in order to continue receipt of monthly pension, which is usually done in the month of November 2021 by all banks acting as Pension Disbursing Agencies. Due to the COVID situation, Government had extended the window for annual identification due on November 30, 2021 upto March 31, 2022.
Accordingly, SPARSH has been successfully disbursing monthly pension to over five lakh pensioners, including 4.47 lakh pensioners migrated from legacy system to SPARSH (post 01.01.2016 retirees) upto March 31, 2022.
However, during the processing of pension for the month of April 2022, it came to light that annual identification of around 3.3 lakh pensioners was not updated. A list was shared with all Pension Disbursing Banks to share updated identification data, if any, and as a result identification status of more than 2.65 lakh pensioners was updated on SPARSH by April 25, 2022 leading to successful processing of pension for all these pensioners.
However, banks (the previous Pension Disbursing Agency) could not confirm identification for 58,275 pensioners and neither was their identification received directly on SPARSH by the time of monthly closing. Hence, these pensioners were not paid their April pension by April 30, 2022.
In order to avoid hardship to such pensioners, a one-time special waiver has been accorded to these 58,275 pensioners to get their identification done by May 25, 2022.
The pension for the month of April 2022 has now been processed and pension is due to be credited by end-of-day on May 04, 2022. All such pensioners are being informed about pending annual identification through SMS and email.
For performing identification pensioners are requested to approach nearest CSC (https://findmycsc.nic.in/) and get their annual identification updated through Jeevan Pramaan using SPARSH PPO number and selecting PDA as SPARSH PCDA (P).
The Ministry of Defence, including the Defence Accounts Department, is undergoing a major transformation with an aim to bring transparency and efficiency in various processes and procedures. With the broader agenda of digitisation and modernisation of legacy systems, the System for Pension Administration (Raksha) (SPARSH) as an initiative of Ministry of Defence was envisaged to provide comprehensive solution to the administration of pension to the defence pensioners in line with the Government’s vision of Digital India, Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) and Minimum Government, Maximum Governance.
India Post GDS Recruitment 2022: The Postal Department invited applications from the eligible candidates for the engagement of 38,926 Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) as BPM/ABPM/ Dak Sevak. Applications are to be submitted online. Applications submitted through any other mode will not be considered and rejected.
India Post GDS Recruitment 2022 State-wise Job Openings
S.No
Circle
Language Name
UR
EWS
OBC
SC
ST
PWD-A
PWD-B
PWD-C
PWD-DE
Total
1
Andhra Pradesh
Telugu
755
224
333
220
123
6
25
27
3
1716
2
Assam
Assamese/Asomiya
413
95
257
83
81
10
2
5
5
951
3
Assam
Bengali/Bangla
63
12
35
8
22
0
1
2
0
143
4
Assam
Bodo
8
0
5
1
32
0
1
0
0
47
5
Assam
Hindi/English
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
6
Bihar
Hindi
464
83
247
144
31
5
2
10
4
990
7
Chattisgarh
Hindi
477
133
45
176
373
14
11
13
11
1253
8
Delhi
Hindi
25
4
10
10
8
2
1
0
0
60
9
Gujarat
Gujarati
802
234
466
78
271
10
18
19
3
1901
10
Haryana
Hindi
404
80
244
164
0
8
9
7
5
921
11
Himachal Pradesh
Hindi
424
99
191
229
47
4
5
7
1
1007
12
Jammukashmir
Hindi/Urdu
115
26
65
22
27
6
3
1
0
265
13
Jharkhand
Hindi
273
41
68
68
149
7
2
2
0
610
14
Karnataka
Kannada
1017
269
594
323
153
12
18
19
5
2410
15
Kerala
Malayalam
1220
246
462
179
32
7
30
26
1
2203
16
Madhya Pradesh
Hindi
1589
442
457
638
803
37
41
42
25
4074
17
Maharashtra
Konkani/Marathi
24
4
8
0
6
0
0
0
0
42
18
Maharashtra
Marathi
1300
298
746
287
264
12
20
47
10
2984
19
North Eastern
Bengali
86
4
8
32
36
0
0
0
0
166
20
North Eastern
Hindi/English
117
15
6
0
87
2
3
2
4
236
21
North Eastern
Manipuri/English
13
0
8
1
34
0
0
0
0
56
22
North Eastern
Mizo
34
9
5
0
41
4
0
0
0
93
23
Odisha
Oriya
1278
299
314
459
638
25
19
28
6
3066
24
Punjab
Hindi/English
10
1
6
3
0
1
0
0
0
21
25
Punjab
Punjabi
414
63
188
264
0
0
0
19
0
948
26
Rajasthan
Hindi
1127
289
231
371
305
20
20
19
8
2390
27
Tamilnadu
Tamil
2014
398
1018
719
30
25
46
49
11
4310
28
Telangana
Telugu
509
123
266
200
88
6
10
19
5
1226
29
Uttar Pradesh
Hindi
1189
191
632
421
52
16
12
4
2
2519
30
Uttarakhand
Hindi
195
39
42
55
12
2
3
4
1
353
31
West Bengal
Bengali
781
135
386
411
88
13
23
11
2
1850
32
West Bengal
Hindi/English
28
4
12
0
3
0
0
1
0
48
33
West Bengal
Nepali
10
1
8
3
3
0
1
0
0
26
34
West Bengal
Nepali/Bengali
4
3
3
3
0
0
0
0
0
13
35
West Bengal
Nepali/English
15
3
3
1
3
1
0
0
0
26
Total
17198
3867
7369
5573
3843
255
326
383
112
38926
India Post GDS Recruitment 2022 Educational Qualification
Secondary School Examination pass certificate of 10th standard having passed in Mathematics and English (having been studied as compulsory or elective subjects) conducted by any recognized Board of School Education by the Government of India/State Governments/ Union Territories in India shall be a mandatory educational qualification for all approved categories of GDS.
Compulsory knowledge of Local Language
The candidate should have studied the local language i.e. (Name of Local language) at least up to 10th standard [as compulsory or elective subjects].
India Post GDS Recruitment 2022 Salary Details
Emoluments in the form of Time Related Continuity Allowance(TRCA) is paid to GDS.The following minimum TRCA shall be payable to different categories of GDS after engagement:
Age will be determined as on the last date of submission of application as per notification.
Permissible relaxations in the Upper age limit for different categories are as under:
Sl.No
Category
Permissible age relaxation
1
Schedule Cast/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST)
5 years
2
Other Backward Classes (OBC)
3 years
3
Economically Weaker Sections (EWS)
No relaxation*
4
Persons with Disabilities (PwD)*
10 years*
5
Persons with Disabilities (PwD)* + OBC
13 years*
6
Persons with Disabilities (PwD)* + SC/ST
15 years*
Note:-1* There will be no relaxation in upper age limit to EWS candidates. However, the persons belonging to EWS who are not covered under the scheme of reservation for SC, ST and OBC shall get 10% reservation in engagement to the GDS posts.
India Post GDS Recruitment 2022 Important Dates
Application Submission Start Date
02 May 2022
Application Submission End Date
05 June 2022
How to Apply for India Post GDS Recruitment 2022?
The application can be submitted online only at https://indiapostgdsonline.gov.in. Applications received through any other mode shall not be entertained.
The candidate who desires to apply online will have to register himself/herself in the portal through https://indiapostgdsonline.gov.in with the following basic details to obtain the Registration Number
i) Name (In capital letter as per X class certificate Marks Memo including spaces) ii) Father’s Name / Mother’s Name iii) Mobile Number iv) Email ID v) Date of Birth vi) Gender vii) Community viii) PwD – Type of Disability – (HH/OH/VH)- Percentage of disability ix) State in which Xth class passed x) Language studied in Xth class xi) Year of Passing Xth class xii) Scanned Passport Photograph xiii) Scanned Signature
Only one Registration is allowed for one candidate for schedule 1 & 2 in a calendar Year
The same registration number should be used for submission of applications.
Once registered the same mobile number will not be allowed for further Registrations of any other candidate.
In case any duplicate Registration is found by altering the basic details, the candidature relating to all such Registrations will be removed for consideration of selection.
Any candidate who forgot the registration number can retrieve the registration number through option ‘Forgot registration’.
The candidates must have own active email id and mobile number.
Application Fee
A fee of Rs.100/-/-(Rupees one hundred only) is to be paid by the applicants for all posts notified in the chosen Division. However, payment of fee is exempted for all female candidates, SC/ST candidates, PwD candidates and Transwomen candidates
DA for Bank Employees from May 2022 to July 2022, IBA Order
Indian Banks’ Association
HR & Industrial Relations
HR&IR/MBR/76/D/2022-23/11183 April 30, 2022
All Members of the Association (Designated Officers)
Dear Sir/ Madam,
Dearness Allowance for Workmen and Officer Employees in banks for the months of May, June and July 2022 under XI BPS/ Joint Note dated 11.11.2020
The confirmed All India Average Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers (Base 1960=100) for the quarter ended March 2022 are as follows:-
January 2022
8223.90
February 2022
8217.32
March 2022
8283.06
The average CPI of the above is 8241.42 and accordingly the number of DA slabs are 472 (8241 — 6352= 1889/4= 472 Slabs). The last quarterly Payment of DA was at 471 Slabs. Hence, there is an increase in DA slabs of ‘1’ i.e. 472 Slabs for payment of DA for the quarter May, June and July 2022.
In terms of clause 7 of the 11th Bipartite Settlement dated 11.11.2020 and clause 3 of the Joint Note dated 11.11.2020, the rate of Dearness Allowance payable to Workmen and Officer employees for the months of May, June and July 2022 shall be 33.04% of ‘pay’. While arriving at dearness allowance payable, decimals from third place may please be ignored.
AICPIN for March 2022: Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT LABOUR BUREAU
`CLEREMONT’, SHIMLA-171004 DATED: 29 April, 2022
F.No. 5/1/2021-CPI
Press Release
AICPIN for March 2022
Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (2016=100) — March, 2022
The Labour Bureau, an attached office of the M/o Labour & Employment, has been compiling Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers every month on the basis of retail prices collected from 317 markets spread over 88 industrially important centres in the country. The index is compiled for 88 centres and All-India and is released on the last working day of succeeding month. The index for the month of March, 2022 is being released in this press release.
The All-India CPI-IW for March, 2022 increased by 1.0 point and stood at 126.0 (one hundred twenty six). On 1-month percentage change, it increased by 0.80 per cent with respect to previous month compared to an increase of 0.50 per cent recorded between corresponding months a year ago.
The maximum upward pressure in current index came from Food & Beverages group contributing 0.59 percentage points to the total change. At item level, Buffalo-Milk, Cow-Milk, Poultry/chicken, Sunflower oil, Soyabean oil, Palm oil, Apple, Ragi, Peas, Radish, Chili green, Lemon, Potato, Mango, Foreign liquor, Coriander, Cuminikera, Tea Leaf, Saree Cotton, Cooking Gas, Petrol, Telephone/ Mobile Charges etc. are responsible for the rise in index. However, this increase was largely checked by Onion, Tomato, Kundru, Brinjal, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Gourd, Egg-Hen, Water melon, Grapes, Beat root, etc. putting downward pressure on the index.
At centre level, Sangrur recorded a maximum increase of 6.3 points followed by Labac-Silchar and Angul-Talchar with 5.8 and 5.4 points respectively. Among others, 2 centres recorded increase between 4 to 4.9 points, 4 centres between 3 to 3.9 points, 8 centres between 2 to 2.9 points, 20 centres between 1 to 1.9 points and 39 centres between 0.1 to 0.9 points. On the contrary, Salem recorded a maximum decrease of 1.1 points. Among others, 11 centres recorded decrease between 0.1 to 0.9 points.
Year-on-year inflation for the month stood at 5.35 per cent compared to 5.04 per cent for the previous month and 5.64 per cent during the corresponding month a year before. Similarly, Food inflation stood at 6.27 per cent against 5.09 per cent of the previous month and 5.36 per cent during the corresponding month a year ago.
The next issue of CPI-IW for the month of April, 2022 will be released on Tuesday, 31st May, 2022. The same will also be available on the office website www.labourbureaunew.gov.in.
Provision for extending benefits under CCS (Pension) Rules or CCS (EOP) Rules to family of missing Central Government employees covered under National Pension System
No. 57/03/2020-P&PW (B) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
Lok Nayak Bhavan, Khan Market New Delhi, Dated the 28th April, 2022
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject:- Provision for extending benefits under CCS (Pension) Rules or CCS (EOP) Rules to family of missing Central Government employees covered under National Pension System (NPS)-reg.
The undersigned is directed to say that the New Pension Scheme (now called as National Pension System) (NPS) was introduced vide Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs’ notification No. 5/7/2003-ECB&PR dated 22.12.2003. It was provided that NPS would be mandatory for all new recruits to the Central Government service from 1st of January 2004 except the Armed Forces. Simultaneously, the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 and the Central Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules were amended to provide that those rules would be applicable to the Government servants appointed on or before 31.12.2003.
2. However, considering the hardship being faced by the Government servants appointed on or after 01.01.2004, benefits of CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 or CCS(Extraordinary Pension) Rules, as the case may be, were extended on provisional basis, in the event of death of Government servant covered by NPS or his discharge from service on invalidation / disablement, vide this Department’s OM No. 38/41/06/P&PW(A) dated 05.05.2009.
3. Further, the Central Civil Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021 have been notified on 31.03.2021 inter-alia providing Government servants covered under these rules for exercise of options during their service for availing benefits of CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 or CCS(Extraordinary Pension) Rules, as the case may be, or benefits from their Accumulated Pension Corpus under National Pension System, in the event of death of the Government servant covered under NPS or his discharge from service on account of invalidation or disablement.
4. If a Government servant covered by the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 goes missing, the benefits of arrears of salary, family pension, retirement gratuity, leave encashment, etc. are paid to the families of the missing employees in accordance with the instructions issued vide this Department’s OM No. 1/17/2011-P&PW(E) dated 25.06.2013. References have been received from Ministries / Departments for extending the provisions of the OM dated 25.06.2013 to Government servants covered under NPS, who go missing during service and whose whereabouts arc not known.
5. The matter has been examined in consultation with Department of Personnel and Training, Department of Financial Services and Department of Expenditure. Considering the hardship faced by the family of such Government servants, it has been decided to extend the benefits of this Department’s OM No. 1/17/2011-P&PW(E:) dated 25.06.2013 to the families of Government servants covered by NPS who go missing during service. Accordingly, in all cases where a Government servant covered by NPS goes missing during service, the benefits of family pension may be paid to the family if the missing Government servant had exercised option for benefits under CCS (Pension) Rules on death or discharge from service on disability/invalidation or the benefits under CCS (Pension) Rules is the default option under the Central Civil Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021. The benefit of arrears of salary, retirement gratuity and leave cncashment shall be paid to the family in all cases where a Government employee covered under NPS goes missing during service, irrespective whether the employee had exercised option for benefits under CCS (Pension) Rules or under the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (Exits and Withdrawals under National Pension System) Regulations, 2015. Payment of the benefits to the family of the missing Government servant would, however, be subject to the conditions and procedural requirements, as mentioned in this Department’s OM dated 25.06.2013.
6. In the case of a Government servant covered under NPS goes missing during service and his family is given family pension under CCS(Pension) Rules or CCS(EOP) Rules, the Permanent Retirement Account under National Pension System would remain suspended till the Government servant re-appears or till he is declared dead in accordance with the law. In the event of re-appearance of Government servant, the NPS account would be re-activated and the same account under NPS will become operative. Recoveries of payments made to the family of missing NPS employee would be made from the indemner as provided under this Department’s OM dated 25.06.2013. However, in the event of Government servant being declared dead at any time or after seven years, Government contribution and returns thereon from the accumulated pension corpus under NPS would be transferred to the Government account and remaining corpus comprising of employees’ contribution and returns thereon would be paid to the nominee or legal heir as the case may be in accordance with CCS(Implementation of NPS) Rules, 2021 and family will keep getting benefits as per CCS (Pension) Rules or CCS(EOP) Rules, as the case may be.
7. The claim by the Government servant or the family for getting benefits under CCS (Pension) Rules, or CCS(EOP) Rules, as the case may be, would be submitted in the same manner as prescribed under the relevant rules and DoPPW OM dated 25.06.2013. The process for grant of benefits under CCS(Pension) Rules, or CCS(EOP) Rules would be initiated in accordance with the option exercised by the Government servant or default option prescribed under CCS (Implementation of NPS) Rules, 2021. Necessary action for freezing of account under NPS would be started simultaneously and the process of grant of benefits under CCS(Pension) Rules or CCS(EOP ) Rules, as the case may be, should not be deferred till the process of freezing of account under NPS is completed.
8. These orders shall take effect from 01.01.2004. Interest on delayed payment of retirement gratuity, as provided under the CCS(Pension) Rules, would be paid at the rates and manner applicable for Public Provident Funds deposits from time to time. However, no interest would be paid for any amount due before issue of these instructions.
9. In all those cases where on re-appearing of Government servant whose whereabouts were not known, and where benefits under DoPPW OM dated 25.06.2013 have been paid, the quantum of family pension awarded exceeds the recoverable emoluments, the matter needs to be settled in consultation with Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare and Department of Expenditure.
10 All Ministries / Departments are requested to bring the contents of these orders to the notice of Controller of Accounts / Pay and Accounts Officers and Attached / Subordinate Offices under them.
11. This issues in consultation with of Ministry of Finance, Deptt. of Expenditure vide ID Note No. 1(11)/EV/2021 dated 29.03.2022 and in consultation with Controller General of Accounts vide their I.D. Note No. TA-3-104/5/2019-TA-III/CS-557/235 dated 15.03.2021.
12. In so far as the persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department are concerned, these orders are issued in consultation with Comptroller and Auditor General of India, as mandated under Article 148(5) of the Constitution of India.
13. Hindi version will follow.
(S. Chakrabarti) Under Secretary to the Government of India
Non-disbursal of pension for the month of March 2022 on account of life certificate
Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure Central Pension Accounting Office Trikoot-II, Bhikaji Cama Place New Delhi-110066
CPAO/IT&Tech/Bank Performance/37 Vol. III A/15
19.04.2022
Office Memorandum
Subject: Non-disbursal of pension for the month of March 2022 on account of life certificate – reg.
It is observed in last few days that series of references are being received from pensioners/family pensioners that they have not received payment of pension for the month of March, 2022 due to non-submission of life-certificate.
However, the pensioners/family pensioners informed that they have submitted their life certificates in their respective bank branches. It is noticed that bank branches are not updating their respective CPPCs regarding the status of life certificates. This is purely an internal matter of the bank. It is a matter of grave concern that the pensioners/family pensioners are suffering because of the lack of internal coordination of bank branches and CPPC.
Therefore, you are requested to look into the matter and provide the following information-
Number and name of pensioners whose pension for March, 2022 was not credited by bank.
The reason of non-disbursal of pensions for the month of March, 2022.
Number of cases where family pensioner has submitted life certificate to bank branch but pension not credited.
Number of pensioners/family pensioners who have submitted life certificate and number of pensioners/family pensioners who have not submitted the life certificate.
The above information may be submitted positively by 1300 hours tomorrow, i.e. 20th April, 2022 (Wednesday). Your early reply is highly appreciated.
This issues with the approval of the Chief Controller (Pension).
(Dr. N. Shravan Kumar) (Controller of Accounts)
To
Heads of CPPCs of all Authorised Banks
Heads of Government Business Division/Unit of all Authorised Banks
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh announces setting up of Single Window Portal for benefit of pensioners and superannuated elder citizens
Portal will enable constant contact with pensioners and their associations across the country and will also regularly receive their inputs, suggestions as well as grievances for prompt response: Dr Jitendra Singh
The Minister Chairs the 32nd Meeting of Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) for Review and Rationalisation of Pension Rules i.e (CCS) (Pension) Rules, 2021
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today announced setting up of Single Window Portal for benefit of pensioners and superannuated elder citizens. The Portal, he said, will not only enable constant contact with pensioners and their associations across the country but will also regularly receive their inputs, suggestions as well as grievances for prompt response.
Addressing the 32nd Meeting of Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) for Review and Rationalisation of Pension Rules i.e (CCS) (Pension) Rules, 2021, Dr Jitendra Singh said under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several revolutionary changes were brought in since 2014 in Pension Rules for bringing “Ease of Living” to the common man.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, the objective of Common Pension Portal is to create a single window digital mechanism for pensioners to raise their grievances and get the same resolved without approaching different authorities in person. He said, all Ministries responsible to process, sanction or disburse pension dues, are interlinked to this system and grievances are forwarded after assessment to the concerned Ministry/Department for resolution. Pensioners as well as Nodal officer can view the status of the grievance online till disposal in the system.
SCOVA is a useful platform for holding consultation with the stakeholders i.e. the pensioners through their Associations and concerned Ministries/Departments. It provides the Associations an opportunity for raising their issues concerning pensioners’ welfare etc. directly before the concerned Ministries/Departments. Pensioner Associations from Jammu, Jaipur, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Chandigarh and other parts of the country participated in the meeting.
In today’s meeting, discussions were held on the issues relating to shortage of doctors in CGHS wellness centres, periodical health check-up of pensioners, various issues related to CGHS wellness centre at Jammu, Nomination of Pensioners for life time arrears, Pension Adalat and Sanction of Grand-in-Aid and Laptop to Identified Pensioners’ Associations.
Dr. Jitendra Singh said we need to emphasise making good use of the knowledge, experience and efforts of the retired employees which can help in value addition to the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare.
Dr Jitendra Singh informed that since the launch of Doorstep Service for submission of Digital Life Certificate (DLC) through Postman in November 2020, more than 3,08,625 Life Certificates through India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) have been done. The facility to submit life certificate online through Jeevan PramaanPortal was launched by the Prime Minister in November, 2014 with the objective to provide a convenient and transparent facility to pensioners for submission of Life Certificate. He also added that Doorstep banking for collection of Life Certificates is in place in 100 cities by Public Sector Banks and the number of Life Certificates done through Banking Agents is 4253.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that Face Authentication Technique through Android phone for submission of life certificate digitally has been launched on 29.11.2021 and till date, more than 20,500 Life Certificates through face authentication have been done. Similarly, he informed that as on date total number of DLCs submitted by the Central Government Pensioners is around 1,07,75,980 /- since 2014. In 2021 total DLCs submitted till date is 19,80,977.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that the ‘Bhavishya’ platform, an integrated online pension processing system is at present being successfully implemented in the main Secretariat of 96 Ministries/ Departments including 813 Attached Offices. As on date, more than 1,50,000 cases have been processedie. PPOs issued which includes more than 80,000 e-PPOs. The Minister also informed that Bhavishya 8.0released in August, 2020 with a new feature to PUSH the ePPO in Digilocker. Bhavishya’ is the first application to use the Digilocker Id based PUSH Technology of Digilocker.
The Minister said that the Department had started in 2017 the unique experiment of holding Pension Adalats to resolve chronic grievances of Central Government Pensioners, falling within the four walls of extant policy and the First Pension Adalat was held on 20.09.2017. So far, the Department has conducted a total of 6 Pension Adalats. The next Pension Adalat is scheduled to be held on 05.05.2022.
Dr Jitendra Singh directed the officials to create widespread awareness of the initiatives for the welfare of pensioners through official and social media channels.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, the earlier Pension Rules were notified 50 years ago in 1972. Since then, a large number of amendments to the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 have taken place. He said, in the light of such changes and several office memoranda clarifying different provisions of these Rules, the Department has brought out a revised and updated version of the Rules i.e. Civil Services (CCS) (Pension) Rules, 2021.
Dr Jitendra Singh clarified that the revised Rules do not make any changes in regard to entitlement of amount of pension, family pension or gratuity. However, the new Rules bring about several new policy and procedural improvements over the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972. Also, some provisions in the old rules, which have become redundant over a period of time, have been omitted from the new Rules, the Minister added.
Secretary, Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, Shri V Srinivas also spoke about the recent reforms and initiatives of the Department.
GPF Interest Rate from April to June 2022 – Tamil Nadu G.O
Government of Tamil Nadu,2022 FINANCE [Allowances] DEPARTMENT G.O.Ms.No.109, Dated 19th April, 2022. (Subakiruthu, Chithirai-6, Thiruvalluvar Aandu 2053)
ABSTRACT
Provident Fund – General Provident Fund (Tamil Nadu) – Rate of interest for the Financial year 2022-2023 – With effect from 01.04.2022 to 30.06.2022 – Orders – Issued.
From the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs (Budget Division), New Delhi, Resolution No.F.No.5(4)-B(PD)/2022, dated: 01.04.2022.
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ORDER:
In the Government Order first, second, third and fourth read above, orders were issued fixing the rate of interest on the accumulation at the credit of the subscribers of G.P.F (TN) during the Financial year 2021 – 2022 as detailed below:
Sl. No.
Quarter
Period
Rate of Interest
1
I
01-04-2021 to 30-06-2021
7.10%
2
II
01-07-2021 to 30-09-2021
7.10%
3
III
01-10-2021 to 31-12-2021
7.10%
4
IV
01.01.2022 to 31.03.2022
7.10%
The Government of India, in its resolution fifth read above, announced that during the Financial year 2022-2023, accumulations at the credit of subscribers to the General Provident Fund and other similar funds shall carry interest at the rate of 7.1% (Seven point one percent) with effect from 1st April -2022 to 30th June -2022(Q1).
The Government now directs that the rate of interest on the accumulation at the credit of the subscribers to General Provident Fund (Tamil Nadu) shall carry interest at the rate of 7.1% (Seven point one percent) with effect from 1st April -2022 to 30th June -2022(Q1).
The rate of interest on belated final payment of Provident Fund accumulation remaining unpaid for more than three months of its becoming payable shall be at the same rates as ordered in para-3 above.
(BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR)
N. MURUGANANDAM ADDITIONAL CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.
