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Pay anomaly in the Supervisory Cadre of Accounts Department – NCJCM Letter

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No.NC/JCM/2020(7th CPC Ano.) Dated: June 26, 2020

The Secretary,
Department of Personnel & Training
New Delhi
Dear Sir,

Sub: Pay anomaly in the Supervisory Cadre of Accounts Department, Ministry of Railways and pay disparity with other Supervisory Cadres of the Central Government Services

Your kind attention is invited towards our earlier letter dated 19th August, 2016, followed by reminders dated 24th May, 2017, January 14, 2019, 22nd August, 2019 and February 10, 2020, wherein it was requested that the benefit of Grade Pay Rs.5400 should be extended to the Supervisory Cadre in Accounts Department of the Ministry of Railways(who are the only left in this case) on completion of four years service in GP Rs.4800. It is worthwhile to mention here that the Supervisory Cadre of Accounts Department of the Railways is also entrusted with responsibilities of presenting Railway Accounts on widely accepted of accrual based Accounting in addition to presenting the Government Accounts as per requirements laid down in the Constitution of India. It would not be out of context to mention here that, Accounts Cadre is performing their duties under extreme pressure owing to huge number of vacancies and adopting modernization in technology.

Here it is worth-mentioning that, this issue is also an item of the Standing Committee of the NC/JCM, wherein it was told to us that, a committee has been formed and the matter would be resolved shortly. Regrettably, despite regularly pursuing the matter for the last around four years, nothing more has been heard in this regard from your good offices, while an Unrecognized Association has been replied by the DoP&T, vide letter No.19/2/2020-Estt.(Pay-I) dated 29th May, 2020, that this issue will be resolved within a few days. This practice is not fair as all such informations should be routed through the NC/JCM(Staff Side), that too to the Recognised Unions/ Associations.

As the matter has already been delayed badly, resulting in serious resentment amongst the affected staff, it would be in all appropriateness that the benefit of granting GP Rs.5400 should be extended to the Supervisory Cadre in Accounts Department of Ministry of Railways(who are the only left in this case) on completion of four years service in GP Rs.4800. This will help end pay disparity between the Organized Accounts Cadres of the Government of India. We do hope that, correspondence in future should be dealt with according to the established practice, i.e. through the Staff Side(JCM).

We earnestly hope an early action in the matter.

Yours faithfully

(Shiva Gopal Mishra)
Secretary

Source : http://ncjcmstaffside.com/

Risk and Hardship Allowance to the Fire-fighting staff working under various Defence Establishments

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No. 02(01)/2017/D(Civ-II)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Defence

B-Wing, Sena Bhavan, New Delhi
Dated, the 29th June, 2020

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Risk and Hardship Allowance to the Fire-fighting staff working under various Defence Establishments – Clarification regarding Risk and Hardship Allowance to the Fire-fighting staff working under various Defence Establishments – Clarification regarding

The undersigned is directed to say that the matter regarding admissibility of Risk and Hardship Allowance to the Fire-Fighting Staff during leave/training has been under considered by this Ministry in consultation with Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Home Affairs.

2. As per the comments/advice received from the above Ministries, it is clarified that any leave stretching to more than 30 days would make the personnel ineligible for Risk and Hardship Allowance.

(Vimala Vikram)
Under Secretary to the Govt of India

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Dept of Posts SB Order : Relaxation guidelines in Small Savings Schemes

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SB Order 25/2020

e.F. No 113-03/2017-SB(Pt.1)
Govt. of India
Ministry of Communications
Department of Posts
(FS Division)

Dak Bhawan, New Delhi-110001
Dated: 03.07.2020

To,

All Head of Circles/Regions

Subject : Relaxation guidelines in small savings schemes – reg.

Madam/Sir,

The undersigned is directed to inform that, vide O.M. no. 14/6/2020-NS dated 01.07.2020 the MoF (DEA) has taken decision to further extend the various relaxations and has relaxed some regulatory provisions up to 31.07.2020 in the statutory provisions of the small savings schemes in view of ongoing COVID-1 9 pandemic situation in the country.

2. The relaxation guidelines are as under: –

a. The subscribers of RD account may deposit the installments of March, April, May and June, 2020 in their RD account till 31.07.2020 and no revival fee shall be charged.

b. If the account is to be continued as per paragraph 7(2) of RD Scheme, 1981 or paragraph 6(2) of RD scheme, 2019 the same shall be done by the depositor till 31.07.2020 by submitting the pending monthly installments in such case, no default fee shall be charged for the period of March, April, May and June 2020.

c. The subscribers of RD account who could not deposit the advance installments to get the benefit of rebate during the lockdown period may deposit the same up to 31.07.2020. The rebate admissible as per the scheme provision will be available at the time of deposit of advance installments.

Also Read : Small Savings Schemes Interest Rates from 1st July 2020 to 30th September 2020

d. The subscribers of PPF and SCSS accounts may submit the prescribed form for extension, whose deadline for submitting the extension form is due in lockdown with one year grace period after maturity, through registered email id by 31.07.2020 and original copy of the same shall be submitted to the concerned operating agency once the lock down is completely lifted.

e. No transfer fee shall be charged in case of transfer of account from one account office to another till 31.07.2020 for the purpose of maturity of account.

f. Sukanya Samriddhi Account may be opened in the name of girl child on or before 31.07.2020 who have attained the age of 10 years during the period of lock down i.e. 25.03.2020 to 30.06.2020.

g. PPF/SSA subscribers may make a single deposit each in account(s) as the case may be for FY 2019-20 till 31.07.2020 subject to the condition of maximum deposit ceiling prescribed in the PPF/SSA scheme provisions and other conditions as mentioned in MOFs letter no. 14/6/2020-NS dated 11.04.2020/SB Order 16/2020 dated 11.04.2020.

3. Accordingly necessary amendments are being made in Finacle. Non-CBS Post Offices should also take necessary action accordingly.

4. It is requested to circulate it to all concerned for information and necessary action. The same may also be placed on the notice boards of the Post Offices in public area.

This issues with the approval of Competent Authority.

Yours Faithfully,
(R C Phogat )
Assistant Director (SB)

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Relaxation provisions in Small Savings Schemes

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Small Saving Scheme

F.No.14/6/2020-NS
Ministry of Finance
Department of Economic Affairs
(Budget Division)

North Block, New Delhi
Dated: 01st July, 2020

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject : Relaxation provisions in Small Savings Schemes -reg.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s OM no. 14/6/2020-NS dated 30.3.2020 & 11.04.2020 and 14/1/2020-NS dated 11.5.2020 regarding above cited subject and to say that it has been decided to further extend the various relaxations up to 31.07.2020 in the statutory provisions of the Small Savings Schemes in view of the ongoing pandemic situation.

2. The details of the relaxed provisions in the Small Savings Schemes are given hereunder:

i. The subscribers of RD account may deposit the instalment of March, April, May and June, 2020 in their RD account till 31.07.2020 and no revival fee shall be charged.

ii. If the account is to be continued as per paragraph 7(2) of RD Scheme, 1981 or paragraph 6(2) of RD Scheme, 2019, the same shall be done by the depositor till 31.07.2020 by submitting the pending monthly installments. In such case, no default fee shall be charged for the period of March, April, May and June, 2020.

iii. The subscribers of RD account who could not deposited the advance instalments to get the benefit of rebate during the lock down period may deposit the same upto 31.07.2020. The rebate admissible as per the scheme provisions will be available at the time of deposit of advance instalments.

Also Read : Small Savings Schemes Interest Rates from 1st July 2020 to 30th September 2020

iv. The subscribes of PPF and SCSS accounts may submit the prescribed form for extension, whose deadline for submitting the extension form is due in lockdown with one year grace period after maturity, through registered e-mail id by 31.07.2020 and original copy of the same shall be submitted to the concerned operating agency once the lock down is completely lifted.

v, No transfer fee shall be charged in case of transfer of account from one account office to another till 31.07.2020 for the purpose of maturity of account.

vi. Sukanya Samriddhi Account may be opened in the name of girl child on or before 31.07.2020 who have attained the age of 10 years during the period of lockdown i.e. 25.03.2020 to 30.06.2020.

vii. PPF/SSA subscribers may make a single deposit each in account(s) opened in his own name and/or account(s) opened in the name of minor(s), as the case may be for FY 2019-20 till 31.7.2020 subject to the condition of maximum deposit ceilings prescribed in the PPF/SSA scheme provisions and other conditions as mentioned in MoF’s letter no. 14/6/2020-NS dated 11.4.2020

2. These issues with the approval of competent authority.

[Rajesh Panwar]
Deputy Director

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Microsoft Teams platform to connect with over 15000 Railway Employees

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Microsoft Teams Railway Employees

File No.A-17014/1/2020-RBCC
Government of India
Ministry of Railways (Railway Board)

New Delhi, Dated 19.06.2020

The General Managers – All Indian Railways/Production Units
The DGs, NAIR/RDSO
The DGs/Directors, CTIs

Sub: Implementation of ‘Microsoft Teams’ over Indian Railways

Board (MT & CRB) has approved the adoption of ‘Microsoft Teams’ with Office 365, for 15000 users over Indian Railways, on the free trial offer of Microsoft India for 6 months (15.6.2020 to 14.12.2020). This is to support the various Indian Railway offices – Board, Zonal Rly, Divisions and Other Railway Units, for social distancing, avoid travelling & facilitating work-from-home in the present COVID-19 outbreak, through this IT application for collaboration and communication.

The key features of ‘Teams’ application are – organizing discussions and file sharing in groups, A/V conferencing, presentations on VCs, working online together on documents (Word, Excel & Power Point) etc. The users of entire IR will be, in an unified domain and further divided into sub-domain as per ZRs & PUs to facilitate collaborative working and seamless communication across the whole Organization.

For this application, unique user IDs are being created using first part of @[email protected] email ID of IR officials, i.e [email protected]. The same would be intimated through email, at their respective @gov.in/@nic.in email ID of IR officials. To fast track and streamline the implementation, approx 8000 users are being created centrally using SPARROW database & Railway Board Tele Directory, for officers of JAG and above. For Railway Board Office, IDs for other e-office users are also being created. Further, other users will be created based on demand from various railway units. Apart from the handholding support being provided through Microsoft, a Quick Start guide for Railway Working is also being formulated. It would be circulated in welcome mail and be made available on-line on cent-railsailnet.gov.in, REIS & Railway Board website. The created user data of RB, ZRs & PUs-wise would be available only on cert-rail.railnet.gov.in.

Also Read : Railway Orders 2020

Nodal officers are being entrusted to administer the roll-out, viz. RBCC for Railway Board. Similarly, DGM(G)s in ZRs and designated admin related officers in other field units. A change in nodal officers may be sought with the approval of the respective head of the field unit. RBCC officials will act as the global admin. All field units are required to nominate minimum two Admins each for (1) password (2) user creation & (3) helpdesk within a week time. Requirement for further user creation & modification can be sent through the nodal officers. All queries & requests may be emailed to “teams helpdesk.gov.in”.

This issues with the approval of Board (MT).

(Rajnesh Singh)
Director, ME(C&IS)

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Training Institutes of Central and State Governments will function from 15th July 2020 – DOPT SOP

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No.19011/1/2020-TFA
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training

Old JNU Campus New Delhi
Dated the 3rd July, 2020

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Sub: Containment of Covid-19 – Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for functioning of Training Institutes of the Central and State/UT Governments w.e.f. 15th July, 2020 – reg.

The undersigned is directed to refer to Ministry of Home Affairs’ Order No.40-3/2020-DM-1(A) dated 29th June, 2020 vide which guidelines for Phased Reopening (Unlock 2), outside Containment Zones, as part of measures for containment of Covid¬19 have been issued. As per these guidelines, Training Institutes of Central and State Governments will be allowed to function w.e.f. 15th July, 2020 in accordance with the SOP to be issued by DoP&T.

2. Accordingly, the SOP finalized in consultation with the Central Training Institutes is at Annexure.

Encl: As above.

sd/-
(A.N. Narayanan)
Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of India

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Payment of Night Duty Allowance at revised rates to Civilian Employees – MoD

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IMPORTANT CIRCULAR

PRINCIPAL CONTROLLER OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS
(WESTERN COMMAND)CHANDIGARH
FAX No-0172-2741611-14

No. Pay/II/Tech/94

Dated: 30.06.2020

To
1. The AAO(Pay) WC
Delhi Cantt, Pathankot, Jalandhar
2. All AOGEs Under PCDA WC
3. All Pay Groups (Local)
4. All LAO’s Under PCDA WC

Sub: Payment of Night Duty Allowance at revised rates to Civilian Employees working in the establishments under the MoD.

Several references have been received from sub-offices regarding whether NDA will be calculated on the basis of Pay of 6th CPC or on 7th CPC. The matter has been referred to HQrs office.

In this context, please find enclosed a copy of HQrs office letter No. AT/Army-BR/A/Civ/2366/NDA/Vol-1 dated 19.05.2020 regarding payment of Night Duty Allowance at revised rates to Civilian Employees working in the establishments under the MoD for guidance and further necessary action in the matter.

Also Read : 7th CPC – Revision of the rates of Night Duty Allowance (NDA)

HQrs office cited under reference states that “in absence of revised order on the subject post-implementation of 7th CPC, it seems appropriate to admit NDA claims on the basis of extend orders on the subject until any revised orders received.”

Accordingly competent authority has decided that Night Duty Allowance claims should be admitted in audit on the basis of basic pay of the individual as per 6th CPC i.e pay of an individual as on 31.12.2015.

Further, it is requested to advice unit authorities to take up the matter with MoD through their administrative channel for obtaining clarification on this subject as instructed by the HQrs office.

ACDA (Pay)

CONTROLLER GENERAL Of DEFENCE ACCOUNTS
ULAN BATAR ROAD, PALAM, DELHI CANTT- 110010
PH. 011-25665722

File No.: AT/Army-BR/A/Civ/2366/NDA/Vol-I

Dated:19 May 2020

The PCDA (WC)
Chandigarh

Sub: Payment of Night Duty Allowance at revised rates to Civilian Employees working in the establishments under the MoD

Ref: PCDA (WC)’s letter No. Pay/Il/Tech/CG dated 17.03.2020

Night Duty Allowance was recommended vide para 8.17.71-77 of 7th CPC report and accepted by Govt. of India vide Resolution No. 11-1/2016-IC dated 6th July, 2017. However, no orders, that might have been issued by Ministry of Finance for implementation of the same, have been received through MoD till date in this regard.

In the absence of revised order on the subject post-implementation of 7th CPC, it seems appropriate to admit NDA claims on the basis of extant orders on the subject until any revised orders are received. Also, unit authorities can be advised to take up the matter with MoD through their administrative channel for obtaining clarification on this subject.

This issues with the approval of Jt. CGDA (Army/BR).

(Gita Nair)
Sr. AO (Army/BR)

Choice for NPS Subscribers to have physical or ePRAN card

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e-pran card

PENSION FUND REGULATORY
AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
B 14/A, Chhatrapat Shivaji Bhawan,
Qutub Jastitutional Area,
Katwaria Sarai, New Delti- 110016

PENSION FUND REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

Date: June 29, 2020

CIRCULAR

CIR No.: PFRDA/2020/25/SUP-CRA/11

To,
All Stake holders under NPS

Subject: Choice for NPS Subscribers to have physical or ePRAN card

NPS Subscribers have hitherto been provided with a physical PRAN ( Permanent Retirement Account Number) card along with the welcome kit. In order to give them a choice to optimize the cost i.e. the account opening charges payable to Central Record keeping Agencies (CRAs), it has now been decided that a subscriber may , either opt for physical PRAN card or e-PRAN (PRAN received through e-mail) along with the option to receive welcome kit as well, either physically or through email. The charges by different CRAs can be viewed at http://npstrust.org.in/content/charges-under-nps

Also Read : National Pension System Updation of AADHAR no. in PRAN of Subscribers

2. Accordingly, both the physical PRAN card as well as e-PRAN shall be considered at par whenever presented for identification, servicing, exit or any other NPS related processing. 3. Further, if a subscriber chooses e-PRAN while on-boarding, but wishes to have a physical PRAN card at a later stage, he/she can request for the same at applicable charges .

4. CRAs are being advised to develop system level functionality to capture various choices of subscribers with reference to PRAN card.

This circular is issued under Section 14 of PFRDA Act 2013 and is placed under Circulars in the CRA section of Intermediaries.

(K Mohan Gandhi)
General Manager

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NPS On-boarding through Online PRAN Generation Module (OPGM)

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PENSION FUND REGULATORY
AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
B 14/A, Chhatrapat Shivaji Bhawan,
Qutub Jastitutional Area,
Katwaria Sarai, New Delti- 110016

PENSION FUND REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

CIRCULAR

CIR No.: PFRDA/2020/29/SUP-CRA/12

Date: June 30, 2020

To,

CRAs, POPs, Nodal officers, NPST

Subject: NPS On-boarding through Online PRAN Generation Module (OPGM)

This has reference to clause no 2 (i) of Circular no. PFRDA/2020/9/SUP-CRA/2 dated 13.04.2020 and circular dt. 20th April 2020 on the captioned subject.

2. Based on requests received from several Points of Presence (POPs) and considering the prevailing situation, the advisory issued vide Circular dated 20th April, 2020 to CRAs for not opening NPS Accounts through OPGM without photo and signature shall now be made effective from 1st October 2020.

Also Read : PFRDA : Permission of Partial withdrawals under NPS for treatment of specified illnesses

3. This circular is issued under section 14 of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 2013 and is placed under Circulars in the CRA section of intermediaries and under Circulars in the Regulatory Framework at PFRDA website.

(K. Mohan Gandhi)
General Manager

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Extension of time limits under the Income-tax Act, 1961 and related Acts – ​Notification 35/2020

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MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
(CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 24th June, 2020

TAXATION AND OTHER LAWS

S.O. 2033(E).– In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation of Certain Provisions) Ordinance, 2020 (2 of 2020) (hereinafter referred to as the Ordinance), the Central Government hereby specifies , for the purposes of the said sub-section (1),-

(i) the 31st day of December, 2020 shall be the end date of the period during which the time limit specified in, or prescribed or notified under, the specified Act falls for the completion or compliance of such action as specified under the said sub-section; and

(ii) the 31st day of March, 2021 shall be the end date to which the time limit for completion or compliance of such action shall stand extended:

Provided that where the specified Act is the Income-tax Act, 1961 and the compliance relates to-

(i) furnishing of return under section 139 thereof, for the assessment year commencing on the –

(a) 1st day of April, 2019, the end date shall be extended to the 31st day of July, 2020;

(b) 1st day of April, 2020, the end date shall be extended to the 30th day of November, 2020;

(ii) delivering of statement of deduction of tax at source under sub-section (2A) of section 200 or statement of collection of tax at source under sub-section (3A) of section 206C thereof for the month of February or March, 2020, or for the quarter ending on the 31st day of March, 2020, as the case may be, the end date shall be extended to the 15th day of July, 2020;

(iii) delivering of statement of deduction of tax at source under sub-section (3) of section 200 or statement of collection of tax at source under proviso to sub-section (3) of section 206C thereof for the month of February or March, 2020, or for the quarter ending on the 31st day of March, 2020, as the case may be, the end date shall be extended to the 31st day of July, 2020;

(iv) furnishing of certificate under section 203 thereof in respect of deduction or payment of tax under section 192 of that Act for the financial year 2019-20, the end date shall be extended to the 15th day of August, 2020;

(v) section 54 or 54GB referred to in item (I) of sub-clause (i) of clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Ordinance or sub-clause (ii) of the said clause, the end date in respect of the time limit for the completion or compliance and the end date for making the said completion or compliance, shall be the 29th day of September, 2020 and the 30th day of September, 2020 respectively;

(vi) any provisions of Chapter VI-A under the heading “B.- Deductions in respect of certain payments” thereof, referred to in item (I) of sub-clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Ordinance, the end date in respect of the time limit for the completion or compliance and the end date for making the said completion or compliance, shall be the 30th day of July, 2020 and the 31st day of July, 2020 respectively; and

(vii) furnishing of report of audit under any provision thereof for the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 2020, the end date shall be extended to the 31st day of October, 2020:

Provided further that the extension of the date as referred to in sub-clause (b) of clause (i) of the first proviso shall not apply to Explanation 1 to section 234A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 in cases where the amount of tax on the total income as reduced by the clauses (i) to (vi) of sub-section (1) of the said section exceeds one lakh rupees :

Provided also that where the specified Act is the Direct Tax Vivad se Vishwas Act, 2020, the 30th day of December, 2020 shall be the end date of the period during which the time limit specified in, or prescribed or notified thereunder falls for the completion or compliance of the action and the 31st day of December, 2020 shall be the end date to which the time limit for completion or compliance of such action shall stand extended.

2. This notification shall come into force from the 30th day of June, 2020.

[Notification No.35 /2020/ F. No. 370142/23/2020-TPL]
NEHA SAHAY, Under Secy. (Tax Policy and Legislation Division)

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