Extension of retirement age of Doctors – Travel Entitlements
Government of India
Ministry of Railways
(Railway/Board)
RBE No. 184/2018
New Delhi, dated 30.11.2018
No. F(E)I/2018/AL-28/72
The General Managers,
All Indian Railways etc.
(As per Standard Mailing List)
Sub : Extension of retirement age of Doctors – Travel Entitlements reg.
In terms of Board’s letter No. E(P&A)1-2016/RT-16, dated 20/09/2018 & 17/10/2018, doctors belonging to IRMS and Dental Doctors-under the Ministry of Railways has been provided opportunity to serve the Government upto 65 years under certain conditions on their exercising the option of posting to a clinical post.
In this connection, it has been decided that those doctors belonging to IRMS and Dental Doctors under the Ministry of Railways who transferred to clinical duties on attaining the age of 62 years will carry their travel entitlements in the same manner as it was prior to such extension.
Sd/-
(Jitendra Kumar)
Dy. Director Finance (Estt.)
Railway Board.
11th Bipartite Talks : Bank Strike 26.12.2018 – BEFI
BANK EMPLOYEES FEDERATION OF INDIA
1.12.2018
Circular No. 36/2018
To All Affiliates/Office Bearers/CC/GC Members
Dear Comrades,
BP TALKS
Another round of BP talks was held on 30.11.2018 in Mumbai which was attended by Com.C. J. Nanda Kumar, President.
During the talks IBA revised its offer from 6% increase to 8%, of course however, reiterating its earlier conditions to link additional wage with profitability, return on assets and performance. IBA also mentioned that there is no change in their position not to negotiate on wages with the officers’associations from Scale – IV and above.
UFBU stated that this increase combined with conditions is not acceptable and demanded of IBA to review their stand on wage hike and mandate issue. Thus there was no progress in the matter of wage talks. Subsequently, UFBU met on the same day to pursue the wage revision and mandate issue with IBA.
AGAINST
GOVERNMENT’S MOVE FOR MERGER OF 3 BANKS
ALL INDIA BANK STRIKE ON 26.12.2018
CLARION CALL OF UFBU
Government has taken the path of merger of Bank of Baroda, Dena & Vijaya and as per media report the merged bank will be a new entity. The game plan behind the merger is to divert the attention of the common people from the huge compromises that are being made through the process of IBC and NCLT. Fancy name of ‘hair cut’ has been given to such compromise that ranges up to 80% of the amount to be paid by the corporate borrowers to the lending banks.
Against this menacing situation we have already organised country-wide demonstrations on three occasions. This time UFBU from its meeting from 30th November 2018 decided to observe country wide Bank strike on 26th December 2018 against this merger move of the Central Government.
In the backdrop of our decision to join the All India General Strike on 8th and 9th January 2019 at the call of Central Trade Unions and National Federations including ours, there is going to be 3-days’ strike in industry in close proximity.
For success of the strike on 26th December, 2018 we have to take all out organisational preparations and not to be complacent as it is the UFBU call.
Programme preparatory to strike will be released by UFBU very soon and will be communicated to you at the earliest.
AIBOC serves Bank Strike Notice for 21st December 2018
ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS’ CONFEDERATION (A.I.B.O.C.)
NAMES OF ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES
1 Shri. Sunil Kumar, Chairman, AIBOC
2 Shri. Debasis Ghosh, President, AIBOC
3 Shri. Soumya Datta, General Secretary, AIBOC
Dated the 4th December, 2018
To
The Chairman
Indian Banks’ Association
World Trade Centre
Cuffe Parade, Mumbai
Sir,
In accordance with the provisions contained in sub-section (1) of Section 22 of the Industrial Dispute Act 1947, we hereby give you notice that the members of All India Bank Officers’ Confederation propose to go on 24 hours CONTINUOUS STRIKE from Midnight of 20th December, 2018 to Midnight of 21st December, 2018 on the following issues:
DEMANDING:
Full and Complete Mandate for officers (Scale I to VII) wage revision in 11th Bi-partite settlement
Salary revision as per charter of demands only.
To ensure proper work-life balance of the bank officers and immediate introduction of 5 day week
Settlement of retirees issues including family pension/ updating of pension
Focus on Core Business and NPA Recovery – Stop Mis-selling of Third Party Products
Scrapping of NPS and switching over to Defined Pension Payment Scheme as existing
Immediate resolution of HR issues in Catholic Syrian Bank and IDBI Bank
Parity in Pension and other benefits of RRBs with Public Sector Banks
Bank Strike Latest News 2018 – Another Bank Strike on 21st Dec 2018
ALL INDIA STATE BANK OFFICERS’ FEDERATION
CIRCULAR NO.143
DATE: 04.12.2018
TO ALL OUR AFFILIATES/MEMBERS:
XI BPS – Wage revision talks dated 30.11.2018
AIBOC Walks out of the meeting and Calls for a Strike on 21st December, 2018
We reproduce hereunder the text of AIBOC Circular No. 2018/87 dated 03RD December, 2018 contents of which are self-explicit
(RAMKUMAR SABAPATHY)
GENERAL SECRETARY
TEXT
QUOTE:
As we complete 13 months from the effective date for the XIth Bipartite settlement, the officers and workmen in the Indian Banking Industry are looking at each round of negotiations with great amount hope. But to our angst and dismay IBA had not been offering any solutions to our issues and the latest round of Bipartite negotiations held at Mumbai on 30th November 2018 was no exception in terms of what IBA had to offer.
02. The Executive Committee Meeting of the Confederation held at Kolkata during 27th & 28th November 2018 had extensively deliberated on this burning issues and it was unanimously decided that if the situation continue in the same vein in the meeting on 30th November, the negotiating team of AIBOC should take a principled stand and excuse themselves out of the meeting. This was because these meetings as it were, are defying the basic tenets of proper negotiations on two broad counts.
In spite of majority of the Banks submitting ‘unconditional mandate’, IBA refusing to start negotiations up to scale VII, thereby disrespecting those Bank Managements and trying to divide the officers on grades.
Any negotiations will happen on the basis of the charter of demand submitted by the respective associations. But IBA was continuing to turn a blind eye to our charter of demand wherein we have clearly stated that officer community would like to have its salary revised on the basis of the ‘minimum wage concept’.
As a responsible association, AIBOC could no longer be a party to such meaningless exercises which are summarily playing with the sentiments and aspirations of the officer community.
03. It was in this background that the negotiating team of AIBOC entered the last round of wage revision talks held at Mumbai at the office of IBA 30.11.2018, AIBOC representatives wanted clarity on the mandate issue from the IBA representatives as the issue remained unresolved. In every meeting AIBOC had been asserting that unless the mandate issue was not resolved and a full and clear mandate from Scale I to Scale VII was obtained, it was pointless to proceed to the talks. However, the IBA representatives could not come up with any satisfactory assurance as they stated it was the decision of the individual Banks. Incidentally, representatives from three Banks, which had not given a mandate, were members of the negotiating team viz., SBI, Union Bank and Bank of Baroda. Upon hearing the reply of the IBA representatives, the AIBOC representatives unequivocally communicated that they too were also carrying the mandate of the National Executive Committee, which had taken a unanimous view that AIBOC will excuse themselves from the proceedings. Accordingly, after registering protest for the regressive attitude of IBA on the issue of mandate, the undersigned and Comrade Dilip Saha excused themselves from the proceedings and as a consequence the meeting was adjourned.
04. Incidentally, IBA in the said meeting was represented by Shri Rajkiran Rai, MD and CEO of Union Bank of India, Chairman, Negotiating Committee superannuated along with the other members of Team – Shri P.S.Jayakumar, MD and CEO, Bank of Baroda, Shri Shyam Srinivasan, MD and CEO, Federal Bank, Shri Prashant Kumar, DMD, State Bank of India, Shri Mukesh Kumar Jain, MD and CEO, OBC, Shri V.G.Kannan, CEO, IBA, Shri G.Rajkumar, Deputy CEO, IBA, Shri S.K.Kakkar, Sr.Vice President, HR & IR, Shri K.S.Chauhan, Advisor, HR & IR besides officials of HR Department. The representatives of nine constituents of UFBU participated in the Negotiation.
05. Chairman, Negotiating Committee of IBA at the outset had proposed an increase in the offer from 6% to 8% on payslip components. He had also stated that variable pay component of 8.2% would also be made available as mentioned in their earlier presentation, which would depend upon Return on Assets [ROA] and Gross Operating Profit of the respective Banks.
06. Your attention is also invited to the fact that IBA is harping on the paying capacity of the Banks as a precondition to salary negotiations. This is nothing but singing a tune composed by the ‘private sector’. Banking, being a service industry where the common man comes for his daily banking needs was never a profit oriented industry. We all know what we earn as profits in return for carrying forward all the Government Schemes and Programs? Historically, it is the public sector banks who have wholeheartedly carried forward the implementation part of all the financial schemes of various governments. We have always looked upon it as doing our humble part in ‘Nation Building’. Can anyone compare the levels to which the New Generation Private Sector Banks, where the so called ‘performance linked pay’ is the prevailing norm, have carried forward the Government Schemes and Programs?
07. It is only AIBOC’s voice that is resonating in the Banking space asking many pertinent questions:-
The employees who are going to be benefitted out of this salary revision are not the creators of the humongous NPA menace that the Banking industry faces. It is not the employees who ordered to convert all the infrastructure lending institutions as commercial banks which ultimately led to huge ALM mismatches in the industry and eventually added huge amounts of NPAs into commercial Bank’s kitty. It is not the employees we who decided to apply huge provisioning norms in our country even stricter than the countries from where these norms originated. These norms converted all the operating profits into net losses. How can these ‘manufactured net losses’ be a criterion for determining the salaries of the employees and how can any officer / workmen be responsible for this huge fiasco?
There are similar issues that the officer community is directly affected and it is the bounden duty of AIBOC to take up these issues and bring it to a logical conclusion.
08. Subsequently to the meeting with IBA, in the meeting of UFBU constituents, our stand of walking out of the proceedings was questioned. We made it abundantly clear that it is not only our commitment but also our principled stand that Officers’ community shall not and must not be divided on the terms of grades and a full and clear mandate was the top priority to proceed further with the talks. We also made clear that unless the mandate issue was resolved AIBOC would not be taking part in any further talks. We further unambiguously affirmed that we shall not compromise on our principled stand on the issue of mandate under any circumstances.
We, against the backdrop, also announced that in view of the unrelenting attitude of IBA, will call for a nationwide strike on the issue of mandate and other related issues on 21st December, 2018 under the aegis of AIBOC and urged other constituents to join the call. During the course of discussions, we assured our participation in the UFBU strike call on 26th December, 2018 on the issue of merger of the three Banks viz. Vijaya Bank, Bank of Baroda and Dena Bank.
09. Comrades, being the largest Association of Supervisory cadre, we have the colossal responsibility of not only ensuring a decent, acceptable wage revision as per the Charter of Demands, but also to protect the public sector character and nature of PSBs and its welfare. We call upon our members to remain alert and also to be in the highest stage of readiness for ensuring the total success of the strike call and to participate wholeheartedly in all organisational and agitational programs culminating in the strike call of 21st December, 2018 and 26th December, 2018.
AIBOC has a history of keeping the interests of the officer community at the forefront and we have been clear in our stand and objective. When people are deliberately ignoring the legitimate demands, we will have to wake them up and make them listen and act. We are sure that the cadre of AIBOC has the power to wake the ‘powers that be’. Let us assemble under the banner of AIBOC and march ahead. The ultimate victory shall be ours.
With revolutionary greetings,
Right from the day the Government of India announced their decision on 17th September, 2018 to amalgamate Bank of Baroda, Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank, we have been holding protest demonstrations opposing this unwarranted move. In a country like India, where the Government itself is talking of reaching all people under banking system, what we need is expansion of banking sector and not amalgamation and consolidation. Banking density in India is one of the lowest in the world. There is so much of space for banks to expand and reach all sections of the people. Hence merger of Banks or amalgamation of banks with a view to consolidate the Banking sector is unnecessary and illogical.
There is no evidence so far that consolidation of Banks would result in any benefit. Even the mega merger of 6 Banks with State Bank of India undertaken last year has not resulted in any benefit to SBI. On the other hand, SBI is having compulsions of branch closures and restructuring of their operations. SBI is also facing enhanced stress of bad loans. It had slipped into losses after the merger. We are also witnessing shrinkage in employment potential in SBI because merger has resulted in surplus staff.
Even in the case of Bank of Baroda, Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank, the only major problem faced by these Banks is their high level of bad loans. Merger or amalgamation is no solution to recover these bad loans. In fact, under the merged entity, the recovery is bound to go haywire.
Unfortunately, the Government is bent on implementing their policy of privatization and consolidation of Banks. Despite our strong protests, these three Banks are appearing to go ahead with the merger. Hence in order to register our protest and to draw public and political attention, UFBU has decided to give the call for observing one day strike on 26th December, 2018.
PROGRAMMES
10/12/2018
Letter to Finance Minister
10/12/2018
UFBU to serve Strike Notice on IBA on 10-12-2018
12/12/2018
Display of poster before all bank branches/offices
13-12-2018
Demonstrations before all branches
18-12-2018
Badge Wearing
24-12-2018
Centralised Demonstrations
26-12-2018
All India Strike
All our unions and members are requested to implement the programmes successfully.
Cadre Restructuring of Group ‘C’ employees in Department of Posts
No.25-04/2012-PE-I (Vol.III)
Government of India
Ministry of Communications
Department of Posts
(PE-I Section)
Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,
New Delhi – 110001
Dated: 05th December, 2018
To,
All Chief Postmasters General/Postmasters General.
Subject: Cadre Restructuring of Group ‘C’ employees in Department of Posts – Clarification – reg.
Sir/Madam,
Kindly refer to this office letter of even number dated 25-04/2012-PE-I dated 27.05.2016, on the subject mentioned above, wherein it was instructed that “these instructions will be effective from the date of issue of the orders. The actual benefit would, however, be admissible to the eligible officials from the date of actual promotion “.
2. However, vide this office letter of even number dated 10.11.2017, in para 4.5, it was clarified that “the promotion will be ffictive from the date of issue of the original order dated 27.05.2016 as per existinginstructions onthe subject. Itwill be applicable to all eligible fficials including those who were in service but now retired”.
3. In this regard, this is to clarify further that these LSG, HSG-II, HSG-I and HSG-I (NFG) posts will be deemed to have been upgraded to these grades only w.e.f. the dates they are filled up, i.e. from the date the promoted official assumes the charge. Otherwise, the post will remain in the lower grade.
4. Hence, the instruction issued vide para 4.5 of letter dated 10.11.2017 stands modified accordingly.
5. Further, clarification issued vide this office letter of even number dated 16.03.2018, w.r.t. the issue raised by J & K Circle at para 4(b) and by N E Circle at para 8 stands modified as per para 3 above.
6. This issues with the approval of the Competent Authority.
Yours faithfully,
(Tarun Mittal)
Asstt. Director General (Pen.)/LO-PE-I
Fixation of Pay on Promotion – Amendment in FR 22(I)(a)(1)
MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
(Department of Personnel and Training)
New Delhi, the 19th November, 2018
G.S.R.370.— In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 and clause (5) of article 148 of the Constitution and after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in relation to the persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the President hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Fundamental Rules. 1922, namely:-
(1) These rules maybe called the Fundamental (Amendment) Rules, 2018.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Fundamental Rules. 1922, in rule 22. in sub-rule (1), in clause (a). for sub-clause (I). the following subclause shall be substituted, namely:-
“(1) where a Government servant holding a post, other than a tenure post, in a substantive or temporary or officiating capacity is promoted or appointed in a substantive. temporary or officiating capacity, as the case may be, subject to the fulfillment of the eligibility conditions as prescribed in the relevant Recruitment Rules, to another post carrying duties and responsibilities of greater importance than those attaching to the post held by him, his initial pay in the time-scale shall be fixed by giving one increment in the level from which the Government servant is promoted and he or she shall be placed at a cell equal to the figure so arrived at in the level of the post to which promoted or appointed and if no such cell is available in the level to which promoted or appointed, he shall be placed at the next higher cell in that level.
Save in cases of appointment on deputation to an ex cadre post. or to a post on ad hoc basis or on direct recruitment basis, the Government servant shall have the option, to be exercised within one month from the date of promotion or appointment, as the case may be, to have the pay fixed under this rule from the date of such promotion or appointment or to have the pay fixed initially at the next higher cell in the level of the post to which he or she is promoted on regular basis and subsequently, on the date of accrual of next increment in the level of the post from which Government Servant is promoted, his pay shall be re-fixed and two increments (one accrued on account of annual Increment and the second accrued on account of promotion) shall be granted in the level from which the Government Servant is promoted and he or she shall be placed. at a cell equal to the figure so arrived, in the level of the post to which he or she is promoted; and if no such cell is available in the level to which he or she is promoted, he or she shall be placed at the next higher cell in that level.
In cases where an ad hoc promotion is followed by regular appointment without break, the option is admissible from the date of initial appointment or promotion. to he exercised within one month from the date of such regular appointment.
In cases where an officer has retired as ad hoc before being regularised to that post and later on has been assessed during the process of regularisation and found fit by the competent authority along with his or her juniors, who are still in service and are eligible to avail of the option facility from a date on which the retired employee was still in service, the same option facility shall also be extended to the retired employee, to be exercised within three months from the date when his or her junior became eligible to avail of option facility and in cases where such retired employee was himself the junior most, he or she may exercise the option facility within three months from the date when his or her immediate senior became eligible to avail of option facility:
Provided that where a Government servant is. immediately before his promotion or appointment on regular basis to a higher post, drawing pay at the maximum of the level of the lower post, his initial pay in the level of the higher post shall be fixed at the cell equal to the figure so arrived at in the level of the post to which promoted or appointed by increasing his pay in respect of the lower post held by him on regular basis by an amount equal to the last increment in the level of the lower post and if no such cell is available in the level to which he is promoted or appointed, he shall be placed at the next higher cell in that level.”
[F.No. 13/1/20 17-Estt.(Pay-t)J
RAJEEV BAHREE, Under Secy.
Work to Rule from 11th December, 2018 – AIRF Charter of Demands
No.AIRF/24(C)
Dated : December 3, 2018
The Chairman,
Railway Board,
New Delhi
Dear Sir,
Sub: “Work to Rule” from 11th December, 2018
Ref.: AIRF’s letters No.AIRF/89 dated 30.09.2018 and AIRF/03(179) dated 05.11.2018
In the Working Committee Meeting of AIRF, held on 22-23 September, 2018 in New Delhi and subsequently in the 94th Annual Conference of All India Railwaymen’s Federation(AIRF), held in Kota(West Central Railway) from 1-3 November, 2018, it was unanimously decided to go with “Work to Rule” from 11th December, 2018, if Railway Board(Ministry of Railways) do not consider and redress favourably; the following “Charter of Demands of the Railwaymen”, urging upon them to fulfill these major demands of the Railwaymen within 45 days, failing which Railwaymen would be forced for working strictly as per the rules.
CHARTER OF DEMANDS
Improve Minimum Wage and Pay Fixation Formula for all categories of the Railwaymen and all the Central Government Employees.
Scrap New Pension Scheme and pay Pension and Family Pension to all the Railwaymen, irrespective of their date of appointment.
Sanction additional posts for introduction of additional train services and additional workload without insisting on Matching Saving.
Ensure supply of spare parts and equipments to keep rolling stock and track in good fettle.
Stop outsourcing of regular nature of jobs.
Stop invocation of draconian Rule 14(ii) of D&AR.
Periodical Training of different categories and improvement in training method, specially for newly introduced rolling stock and other categories.
Supply of free food during training period.
Remove ceiling on PLB and restore original agreement of PLB arrived at in the year 1979.
Remove anomalies of the 6th and 7th CPCs.
Revision of rates of Running Allowance and other related allowances of Running Staff from 01.01.2016.
Revision of rates of Incentive Bonus for Workshop Staff from 01.01.2016.
Restore percentage of all the allowances.
Restore Hill Compensatory Allowance and other Allowances.
Put all Printing Presses in operation.
Restore LARSGESS with retrospective effect and provide employment to the wards of Railwaymen.
Provide employment to Quasi Administrative Staff.
Appoint all the Course Completed Act Apprentices as before.
Improve Rates of Risk and Hardship Duty Allowance and grant the same to all open line staff of Engineering, Mechanical, Operating, Electrical and S&T Departments and increase Special Allowance of Trackmen and Gatemen of the Indian Railways and sanction Special Allowance to Operating Gatemen.
Upgrade all Group ‘C’ Supervisors from G.P. Rs. 4600/- to GP Rs. 5400/-.
Reimburse medical bills fully within a period of one month.
Improve promotional prospect of all categories of staff.
Restructure all the left over categories.
Revise rates of Dress Allowance.
Improve standard of housing accommodation, its maintenance and ensure steady supply of water and electricity.
Ensure medical facilities to the staff working at the road side stations.
Provide Rest Rooms for relieving staff at the road side stations.
Ensure supply of potable water and electricity in quarters at the road side stations.
Provide fully equipped Mobile Medical Van in all Divisions.
Attach extra coach for Engineering Staff in all the Relief Trains.
Running Rooms should be provided with all facilities, so that, Running Staff can feel “Home away from Home” and extend the same facility to the Ticket Checking Staff in the Rest Rooms.
Abolish E.I. Classification and re-classify them ‘Continuous’ as per HOER.
Provide resting facilities to Train Escorting Staff in trains and in terminal stations.
Limit duty hours of Running Staff to 8 hours from ‘Signing on’ to ‘Signing off’.
Provide minimum two-room quarter.
Provide Rest Room for Patrolmen in midway.
Provide Pass and medical facilities to the parents.
Provide Dress Changing Room, Lavatory, Lunch Room, Common Room for lady workers.
Stop deputing lady workers in a place/station/cabin where separate lavatory and dress changing rooms are not provided.
Stop amendment in Labor Laws without due consultation with the organized labour.
Implement Cadre Restructuring of the Trackmen, duly issuing orders, in the ratio of 10:20:20:50.
In this connection, it is worth-mentioning that, AIRF vide its letters referred to above has already communicated to the Railway Board about the “Work To Rule” decision of the Federation(AIRF).
7th CPC Military Service Pay – Govt rejects demand of the armed forces
The government has rejected a long-standing demand of the armed forces for higher Military Service Pay (MSP) for over 1.12 lakh military personnel, including Junior Commissioned Officers, official sources said Tuesday
They told PTI that the Army headquarters was very upset over the decision of the Finance Ministry, and will seek its immediate review.
Around 1.12 lakh military personnel including 87,646 JCOs and 25,434 personnel of equivalent rank from the Navy and the Indian Air Force will be impacted by the decision
The proposal for higher MSP for JCOs and equivalent rank of the Navy and IAF has been rejected by the Finance Ministry, sources said
The three services, particularly the Army, was pressing for increasing the monthly MSP of JCOs from Rs 5,500 to Rs 10,000. The total annual financial outgo would have been Rs 610 crore if the government had accepted the demand, the sources said
The MSP for the military personnel was introduced in 2008, recognising their unique service conditions and hardships. At present, the MSP has two categories — one for officers and another for JCOs and jawans.
The seventh Pay Commission had fixed Rs 5,200 as MSP per month for JCOs and jawans while putting it at Rs 15,500 for officers between Lieutenant-rank and Brigadier-rank
The Army has been pressing for granting an MSP of Rs 10,000 for the JCOs, arguing that they are gazetted officers (Group B) and play a very vital role in command and control structure of the force
The Army headquarters is “very anguished” over the rejection of higher MSP to JCOs. The defence ministry is also miffed over it, the sources said.
“Since JCOs are Group B gazetted officers and also have considerable length of service, it is incorrect to grant them MSP on par with the jawans. It is very unfair,” said a military officer who wished not to be named
In 2016, the three service chiefs had taken up salary related issues including the “anomalies” in MSP with the 7th Pay Commission as well as with the top echelon of the government
Subsequently, the Army had taken up the issue strongly with the Defence Minister and the three services as well as the Defence Ministry were on the same page on the issue, the sources said
The MSP was first introduced by the 6th Pay Commission, accounting for compensation for intangible aspects of military service. It accounts for a range of “hardships and disadvantages” which cannot be evaluated while assessing pay comparability
Sources said the 7th Pay Commissions miserably failed to make a differentiation between the JCOs and the jawans, adding the JCOs must be given due importance in recognition of their key role and to keep their morale high
The concept of MSP for armed forces personnel is widely prevalent in European countries
The armed forces were pressing for a separate slab of MSP for JCOs and equivalent rank.
Payment of Employer’s full contribution 12% towards EPF and EPS both w.e.f 01.04.2018. for a period of three years to the new employees and existing beneficiaries for their remaining period of three years through EPFO-reg
Anuradha Prasad, IDAS Additional Secretary
MINISTRY OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
SHRAAM SHAKTI BHAWAN, RAFI MARG,
NEW DELHI-110119
D.O. No. DGE-U-13015/1/2016-MP(G)
Dated the October 23, 2018
Dear Sir/Madam,
As you are aware, the Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) was launched on 9th August, 2016 with the objective to incentivise employers for creation of new employment. Under the scheme, Government of India is paying Employer’s full contribution i.e. 12%, towards EPF and EPS both (as admissible from time to time) w.e.f. 01.04.2018 for a period of three years to the new employees and to the existing beneficiaries for their remaining period of three years through EPFO. The terminal date for registration of beneficiary through an establishment is 31st March, 2019. The scheme is targeted for new employees earning upto Rs. 15,000/- per month only.
2. Ministries/Departments/their organisations/PSUs are engaging contract agencies for various services. In this connection, it is requested to kindly ensure before releasing payments to the contractor that the employer’s contribution (12% EPS and EPF both) has been made/paid by the contractor himself and he has not availed the benefits under PMRPY scheme so that there is no double payment on the part of Government.
3. The nodal officer(s) in EPFO who can be contacted for any clarification in this regard are Dr. S.K. Thakur, Additional Central Provident Fund Commissioner (Phone: 011-26172677, e-mail: [email protected]) and Smt. Aprajita Jaggi, Regional P.F. Commissioner (Phone No. 011-26173877, e-mail: [email protected]).
