Details of Liaison Officers for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes appointed in the Ministries/ Department
F. No. 43011/1 0/2018-Estt.(Res.)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
Establishment (Reservation-I) Section
North Block, New Delhi-110001
Dated January 14, 2019
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject – Details of Liaison Officers for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes appointed in the Ministries/ Departments – regarding
The undersigned is directed to state that the Hon’ble National Commission for Scheduled Tribes have directed this Department to provide the list of Liaisons Officers appointed in the various Ministries/ Departments.
2. It is, therefore, requested to please provide the name, designation and contact details of the Liaison Officer for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes in the Ministry/Department by 16.01.2019 [Wednesday] by fax (no. 23092110) and email.
Appointment of Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission
F. NO. 4/16/2018-IR
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
(Department of Personnel and Training)
North Block,, New Delhi
Dated: 4th January, 2019
Subject: Appointment of Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission.
Under the Right to Information Act 2005, the Government of India has constituted the Central Information Commission which is located in New Delhi. The powers and functions of the Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission are as per the RTI Act, 2005.
2. It is proposed to appoint four Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission.
3. The Act provides that the Information Commissioner: –
(i) shall be a person of eminence in public life with wide knowledge and experience in law, science and technology, social service, management, journalism, -mass-media or administration and governance.
(ii) shall not be a Member of Parliament or Member of the Legislature of any State or Union Territory, as the case may be, or hold any other office of profit or connected with any political party or carrying on any business or pursuing any profession. It is clarified that cessation/termination of holding of office of profit, pursuing any profession or carrying any business is a condition precedent to the appointment of a person as Information Commissioner.
4. Persons who have attained the age of 65 years shall not be eligible for appointment.
5. The salary, allowances and other terms and conditions of service of the Information Commissioner shall be as may be specified at the time of appointment of the selected candidate.
6. Persons fulfilling the criteria and interested for appointment to the post of Information Commissioner may send their particulars in the enclosed proforma only, by post, to Under Secretary (RTI), Department of Personnel and Training, North Block, New Delhi or through e-mail to [email protected] so as to reach latest upto 25th January, 2019. Persons, who are serving under the State/Central Government or any other Organization, should send their particulars through proper channel (administrative Ministry/Department/State/UTs) only before the due date.
Kerala Financial Code – Amendment to Article 326 (a)
GOVERNMENT OF KERALA
Abstract
Finance Department – Kerala Financial Code, Volume I – Amendment to Article 326 (a) – Orders issued.
FINANCE (RULES – B) DEPARTMENT
G.O.(P)No. 201/2018/Fin.
Dated, Thiruvananthapuram, 28/12/2018
Read : G.O.(P) No. 31/2018/RD dated 05.06.2018
ORDER
Pursuant to the Government Order read above, Government hereby make the following amendment to Kerala Financial Code, Volume I. The amendment shall be deemed to have come into force on the 5th day of June 2018.
Amendment C.S. No: 4/2018
In the Kerala Financial Code, Volume I, Article 326 (a) will be substituted as follows :
326 (a) The transfer of Government lands with improvements thereon, from one Government Department to another shall be ordered by the District Collectors and Government as shown below:-
i. District Collectors:- Up to a limit of 50 (fifty) cents within the Grama Panchayat area; up to a limit of 25 (twenty five) cents within the Municipal area and up to a limit of 10 (ten) cents within the Corporation area.
Note :- In all cases where the Government land to be transferred is not under the possession of Revenue Department, but within the limit under (i) above; the District Collector shall take No Objection Certificate from the District Level Officer of that Department before issue of orders.
ii. In all cases not covered by the above limits under (i) above or where there are no District Level Officers for the Department whose land is proposed to be transferred or where the District Level Officer of the Department whose land is proposed to be transferred refuses to issue NOG, if the District Collector is convinced that there is no other land suitable for transfer to the other Department, the proposal should be submitted to Government for orders.
Note It will not be necessary to consult Finance Department in such cases.
iii. Transfer of land to Constitutional bodies, Statutory bodies, Autonomous institutions and bodies, Public Sector Undertakings, Societies, Local Self Government Institutions, Boards, Corporations, Grant-in-aid institutions etc shall be considered under the relevant provisions of the Kerala Land Assignment Act, 1960.
By Order of the Governor
MANOJ JOSHI
Principal Secretary (Finance)
Pursuant to the Government Orders read above, Government hereby make the following amendments to Kerala Financial Code, Volume I. The amendments shall be deemed to have come into force on the 18th day of January 2017
Amendment
C.S. No: 3/2018
Article 245 A – Marriage Advance :
Under the sub heading ‘Eligibility for the Advance’, the words ‘All class IV employees’ shall be substituted by the words ‘All class IV and Part time contingent employees’ and the words ‘both husband and wife are employed as Class IV employees’ shall be substituted by the words ‘both husband and wife are employed as Class IV / Part time contingent employees’.
By Order of the Governor
MANOJ JOSHI
Principal Secretary (Finance)
Kerala Financial Code – Article 245 A – Marriage Advance
GOVERNMENT OF KERALA
Abstract
Finance Department – Kerala Financial Code, Volume I – Amendment to Article 245 A – Orders issued.
FINANCE (RULES – B) DEPARTMENT
G.O.(P)No.l99/2018/Fin.
Dated, Thiruvananthapuram, 27/12/2018
Read : G.O(P) No. 83/2017/Fin dated 22.06.2017
ORDER
Pursuant to the Government Order read above, Government hereby make the following amendments to Kerala Financial Code, Volume I. The amendments shall be deemed to have come into force on the 22nd day of June 2017
Amendment C.S. No: 2/2018
Article 245 A – Marriage Advance :
1. The first sentence in Article 245 A shall be substituted by the following :
An advance amount equal to 15 times of the basic pay subject to a maximum of Rs.1,50,000/- and Rs. 1,00,000/- shall be sanctioned respectively to Class IV employees and Part time contingent employees to meet the marriage expenses of their female children.
2. The figure ‘8%’ occurring below the sub-heading ‘Interest’ in Article 245 A shall be substituted by the figure ‘6%’.
By Order of the Governor
MANOJ JOSHI
Principal Secretary (Finance)
Retention of Railway quarters at the previous place of posting by Railway employees posted to Northeast Frontier Railway
RBE No. 04/2019
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA)
(RAILWAY BOARD)
No. E(G) 2008 QR – 1 – 9
New Delhi, dated 09.01.2019
The General Manager/Director General
All Indian Railways/Production Units/RDSO-Lucknow
(As per Standard mailing list)
Sub : Retention of Railway quarters at the previous place of posting by Railway employees posted to Northeast Frontier Railway.
Ref: Board’s letter No. E(G) 2005 QR 1-3 dated 12.09.05, E(G) 2008 QR-1-9 dated 01.10.08, 11.08.09, 20.09.11, 30.12.14 and 18.11.15
Instructions governing retention of Railway accommodation in favour of Railway employees transferred and posted to Northeast Frontier Railway have been issued from time to time. The existing orders on the subject were valid up to 30.06.2018. The question of further extension of these orders beyond 30.06.2018 has been considered and it has now been decided with the approval of Competent Authority to extend these orders for a further period of three years i.e. up to 30.06.2021 or till revised orders on the subject are issued, whichever is earlier.
2. Since the retention of quarter at the previous place of posting in favour of officers/staff who have been transferred and posted to Northeast Frontier Railway is allowed for bona fide use of the dependent family of transferred Railway servant, he/she will furnish certificate on 1st July and 1st January of every year, stating that his/her dependent family members are actually residing in the Railway quarter at the last station of his/her posting. Such a certificate will also have to be furnished at the time of seeking retention.
3. In case no such certificate is received by 31st January and 31st July every year, the quarter controlling authority will be constrained to cancel the allotment of the quarter in question.
4. The request for retention of entitled type of accommodation should be received within a period of one month from the date of relinquishing the charge at the last station of posting, so that further necessary action will be initiated by the quarter controlling authority in time.
5. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
6. Please acknowledge receipt.
(Anita Gautam)
Director Establishment (Gent.)
Railway Board
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)
No. E(P&A)I-2017/AL-2
PC – VII No. 126
RBE No. 05/2019
New Delhi, dated 09.01.2019.
The General Managers and Principal Financial Advisers,
All Indian Railways & Production Units.
Sub : Implementation of recommendations of Seventh Central Pay Commission accepted by the Government – Annual Allowance.
Consequent upon the decisions taken by the government on the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission relating to revision of allowances & issued vide MoH&FW OM No. A 45012/03/2017-CHS.V dated 30.08.2017, officers of the Indian Railway Medical Service(GDMOs) will be granted Annual Allowance as detailed below:
Annual Allowance
S.No
Category
Revised Rates
1
Railway doctors having Post Graduate qualification recognised under Indian Medical Council Act, 1956.
Rs.2250/- p.m.
2
General Duty Doctors who do not possess any P G qualification or who possess unrecognised P G qualification.
Rs.1350/- p.m.
These revised rates of Annual Allowance will be subject to the following condition:
‘At the end of financial year, each Specialist/General Duty Medical Officer will be required to furnish a certificate to the effect that the amount of Annual Allowance has been utilized for the purpose it was drawn. In the case of retirement/resignation before the end of the financial year, such a certificate will be furnished at the time of such retirement/resignation.
2. The rates of this allowance will further rise by 25 percent each time DA payable on revised pay scales rises by 50 percent. The revised rates of the allowances shall be admissible with effect from the 1st July, 2017.
3. The terms & conditions as contained in para 1426 of IREC Vol.II (Sixth Edition — 1987, Second Reprint Edition — 2005, will remain unchanged.
4. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
Revision of Financial powers to Heads of circles in the Department of Posts
No. 6-1/2016-FC (Posts)
Ministry of Communications
Department of Posts
(Integrated Finance Wing)
Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,
New Delhi-110 001
Dated: 8th January 2019
Sub: Revision of Financial powers to Heads of circles in the Department of Posts.
A reference is invited to this Department OM No.6-1/2005-FC (Posts) dated 31st August 2016, on the subject cited above.
2. In this regard, Chief Postmaster General, Punjab Circle, Chandigarh has sought for clarification with reference to OM No.6-1/2005-FC (Posts) dated 31st August 2016 regarding financial powers of Head of Circle in respect of Serial No. 14(b)(i) of Schedule-II whether this is applicable for a financial year or in each case.
3. The matter has been examined in this Directorate. It is clarified that the line, “In other cases the power should only be Rs. 20000/-” appearing against SI 14(b) (i) of Schedule-II, as communicated vide this Directorate letter dated 31.08.2016, is correct and should not be interpreted as being in each case.
IDA from Jan 2019 for CPSE Pay Scale 1987 and 1992 basis
F.No.W-02/0003/2014-DPE(WC)-GL-IV/19
Government of India
Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Department of Public Enterprises
Public Enterprises Bhawan
Block 14, CGO Complex,
Lodi Road, New Delhi-110003
Dated: 03rd January, 2019
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject :- Payment of DA to Board level/below Board level executives and non-unionized supervisors following IDA scales of pay in Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) on 1987 and 1992 basis.
The undersigned is directed to refer to para No. 4 of this Department’s O.M. No. 2(50)/86-DPE (WC) dated 19.07.1995 wherein the rates of DA payable to the executives holding Board level post have been indicated. In accordance with the DA scheme spelt out in Annexure-III of the said O.M, the instalments of DA become payable from 1st January, 1st April, 1st July, 1st October, every year based on the price increase above quarterly Index average of 1099 (1960=100).
2. In continuation of this Department’s O.M. of even No. dated 03.10.2018, the rates of DA payable to the executives of CPSEs holding Board level post, below Board level post and Non-Unionized Supervisors following IDA pattern of 1992 pay scales may be modified as follows:-
(a) Date from which payable: 01.01.2019
(b) AICPI (Linked to 1960=100) for the quarter Sep.’2018 — Nov.’ 2018
Sep, 2018 6872
Oct, 2018 6892
Nov, 2018 6892
Average of the quarter 6885
(c) Increase over link point : 5786 (6885-1099)
(d) % increase over link point: 526.5% (5786/1099*100)
DA Rates for various Pay Ranges
Basic Pay per Month
DA Rates
Upto Rs. 3500
526.5% of pay subject to minimum of Rs. 11572/-
Above Rs 3500 and upto Rs. 6500
394.9% of pay subject to minimum of Rs. 18428/-
Above Rs 6500 and upto Rs.9500
315.9% of pay subject to minimum of Rs. 25669/-
Above Rs 9500
263.2% of pay subject to minimum of Rs. 30011/-
3. The payment on account of dearness allowance involving fractions of 50 paise and above may be rounded off to the next higher rupee and the fractions of less than 50 paise may be ignored.
4. The quantum of IDA payable from 01.01.2019 at the old system of neutralization @ Rs.2.00 per point shift for increase of 90 points, may be Rs. 180/- and at AICPI 6885 DA payable may be Rs. 12359.75 to the executives holding Board level post, below Board level post and non-unionised supervisors following IDA pattern in the CPSEs of 1987 pay scales.
5. All administrative Ministries/Department of Government of India are requested to bring the foregoing to the notice of the CPSEs under their administrative control for necessary action at their end.
IDA from Jan 2019 for 1997 Pay Scale CPSE – DPE ORDER
F. No. W-02/0004/2014-DPE (WC)-GL-111/19
Government of India
Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Department of Public Enterprises
Public Enterprises hawan
Block 14, CGO Complex,
Lodi Road, New Delhi-110003
Dated: 03rd January, 2019
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject :- Board level posts and below Board level posts including Non-unionised supervisors in Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs)- Revision of scales of pay w.e.f. 01.01.1997 – Payment of IDA at revised rates regarding.
In modification of this Department’s O.M. of even No. dated 03.10.2018, the rate of DA payable to the executives of CPSEs (1997 pay revision) is as follows:
a) Date from which payable: 01.01.2019
b) Average AICPI (1960=100) for the quarter Sep. ‘2018 – Nov’ 2018
Sep, 2018 6872
Oct, 2018 6892
Nov, 2018 6892
Average of the quarter 6885
c) Link Point 1708 (as on 01 01.1997)
d) Increase over link point: 5177 (6885-1708)
e) Revised DA Rate w.e.f. 01.01.2019: 303 1% [(5177-1708) x 100]
2. These rates are applicable in the case of IDA employees, whose pay have been revised with effect from 01.01.1997 as per DPE O.M. dated 25.06.1999.
3. All Administrative Ministries/Departments of the Government of India are requested to bring the foregoings to the notice of the CPSEs under their administrative control for necessary action at their end.
