Sub:- Centralized online GPF Module roll out – regarding
Reference is invited to this office OM. No. ITD-CGA/07/11/GF-MIDS/Pt. FileNo1.2/163 dated 09 May 2017 regarding complete roll out of Centralized online GPF module. The module can be implemented in PAOs whose all DDOs are using Employees Information System (EIS) for generation of Salary Bills.
2. For migrating to the online GPF module on PFMS, PAOs have to complete some activities in “COMPACT” as per the annexure-I before exporting the GPF data from COMPACT to PFMS portal.
3. The merged DDOs of the PAOs are also required to upload the current year GPF data on the PFMS Portal. Merged DDOs have been provided with an offline utility within EIS to enter data for uploading.
4. In view of the above, all Pr. CCAs, CCAs, CAs (with independent charge) are requested to direct the PAOs under their control to complete the activities mentioned in Annexure-I in COMPACT at the earliest possible.
(Anupam Raj)
Asstt. Controller General of Accounts
Subject: Amendment in essential qualification for Recruitment of Primary Teachers in KVS
In reference to NCTE notification dated 28.06.2018 regarding minimum qualification of Primary teacher, the following amendment has been made in the essential qualification for the post of Primary Teacher:
Essential:
1. Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known)
OR
Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and 4-year Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.EI.Ed.)
OR
Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and 2-year Diploma in Education (Special Education)
OR
Graduation with atleast 50% marks and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.)*
* who has acquired the qualification of Bachelor of Education from any NCTE recognized institution shall be considered for appointment as a teacher in class I-V provided the person so appointed as a teacher shall mandatorily undergo a six month Bridge Course in Elementary Education recognized by the NCTE within two years of such appointment as Primary Teacher.
2. Qualified in the Central Teacher Eligibility Test conducted by the Govt. of India.
3. Proficiency to teach through Hindi & English media.
Grant of additional HRA to the Central Govt Civilian Employees in the States of NER, A&N Islands, Lakshadweep Islands and Ladakh
No. 28/1 /2017-E.II(B)
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
New Delhi, dated the 14th, August, 2018.
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject.- Grant of additional HRA to the civilian employees of the Central Government serving in the States of North Eastern Region, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep Islands and Ladakh.
Consequent upon revision of rates of House Rent Allowance (HRA)/additional HRA w.e.f.01.07.2017 vide this Department’s O.M. No. 2/5/2017-E.II(B) dated 07/07/2017 and O.M. of even number dated 19.07.2017 respectively, it has been decided to grant additional HRA at old duty station w.e.f. 01.07,2017 to all those Central Government civilian employees who have been transferred to North Eastern Region, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep Islands and Ladakh, prior to 01.07.2017 or after 01.07.2017 and continue to remain posted there after 01.07.2017, as under:-
(I) In case of civilian employees of Central Government transferred to and posted from a date prior to 01.07.2017 who leave their families behind at the old duty station, the HRA of the old duty station will be calculated on the revised pay drawn on 0107.2017 with the percentage rates of HRA effective on 01.07.2017 as per O.M. No. 2/5/2017-E.II(B) dated 07/07/2017
(ii) In case of civilian employees of Central Government transferred to and posted from a date on or after 01.07.2017 who leave their families behind at the old duty station, the HRA of the old duty station will be calculated on the revised pay drawn on the date of transfer with the percentage rates of HRA effective on the date of transfer.
2. This is issued with the approval of Secretary (Expenditure).
(Nirmala Dev)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
Closure of Office / Buildings surroundings R.P.Bhawan on the occasion of Independence Day Celebrations 2018
MOST IMMEDIATE
F. No. 12/10/2016-JCA2
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
JCA Section
North Block, New Delhi
Dated the 14th August, 2018
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Closure of Office/Buildings surroundings R.P. Bhawan in connection with AT HOME FUNCTION on the occasion of Independence Day Celebrations 2018. – regarding.
The Anti-Sabotage Checks are required to be done in the buildings (as per list enclosed), before AT HOME FUNCTION at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 15.08.2018 evening. These buildings will have to be vacated by 0900 hours on 15.08.2018, so that rooms are scaled after regular Anti-Sabotage checks are completed. It has therefore been decided that the Government Offices located in the buildings in the Annexure to this OM would be closed by 0900 hours on 15.08.2018 (Wednesday)
Hindi version will follow.
(Juglal Singh)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
F.No. 12/4/2018 – JCA2
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
JCA Section
North Block, New Delhi
Dated the 14th August, 2018
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject : Change of date of holiday on account of Id-u-Zuha (Bakrid) during 2018 for all Central Government administrative offices located at Delhi / New Delhi.
As per list of holidays circulated vide this Ministry’s O.M.No.12/3/2017-JCA-2 dated the 14th June, 2017, the holiday on account of Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) falls on Wednesday the 22nd August, 2018. It has been brought to notice of this Ministry that in Delhi Id-ul-Zuha will be celebrated on 23rd August, 2018. Accordingly, it has been decided to shift the holiday to 23rd August, 2018 in place of 22nd August, 2018 as notified earlier, for all Central Government administrative offices at Delhi / New Delhi.
2. For Offices outside Delhi / New Delhi the Employees Coordination Committees or Head of Offices (where such Committees are not functi ning) can decide the date depending upon the decision of the concerned State Government.
Hindi version will follow.
(Juglal Singh)
Deputy Secretary Government of India
Doctors Age of superannuation – Gazette Notification G.S.R. 767(E)
MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
(Department of Personnel and Training)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 11th August, 2018
G.S.R. 767(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 of the Constitution, the President hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Fundamental Rules, 1922, namely :—
1. Short title and commencement.—(1)These rules may be called the Fundamental (Second 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 56, for clause (bb), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
“(bb) (i) The age of superannuation in respect of the doctors belonging to–
(i) Central Health Service;
(ii) Indian Railways Medical Service;
(iii) AYUSH and working under the Ministry of AYUSH;
(iv) Civilian doctors under the Directorate General of Armed Forces Medical Service;
(v) Medical Officers of the Indian Ordnance Factories Health Service;
(vi) Dental Doctors under the Department of Health and Family Welfare;
(vii) Dental doctors under the Ministry of Railways; and
(viii) General Duty Medical Officers, Specialist Grade doctors and Teaching Medical Faculty working in Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre,
shall be sixty-two years unless they exercise the option of posting to Teaching, Clinical, Patient Care,Implementation of Health programmes, Public Health programmes and functions including advisory and consultancy depending on their expertise and experience, as decided by the competent authority in the concerned Ministry or Department from time to time, in case they desire to continue in their service upto the age of sixty-five years:
Provided that the age of superannuation in respect of the doctors belonging to the General Duty Medical Officers sub-cadre of Central Armed Police Forces and Assam Rifles and Specialist Medical officers of Central Armed Police Forces and Assam Rifles shall be sixty-five years.
(ii) The serving doctors belonging to the services referred to in sub-clause (i) who have either already attained the age of sixty-two years or attaining the age of sixty-two years within six months from the date of publication of these amendment rules in the Official Gazette, may exercise their option in regard to their posting to Teaching, Clinical, Patient Care, Implementation of Health programmes, Public Health programmes and functions including advisory and consultancy as specified in sub-clause (i), within a period of thirty days from the date of the commencement of the Fundamental (Second Amendment) Rules, 2018.
(iii) The serving doctors who fail to exercise the option in regard to their posting to Teaching, Clinical, Patient Care, Implementation of Health programmes, Public Health programmes and functions including advisory and consultancy as specified in sub-clause (i), within the period specified in sub clause (ii), shall be superannuated form their service on attaining the age of sixty-two years or on expiry of a period of thirty days from the date of the commencement of the Fundamental (Second Amendment) Rules, 2018, whichever is later. ”.
[F. No. 25012/4/2016-Estt.(A-IV)]
GYANENDRA DEV TRIPATHI, Jt. Secy.
Note : The Fundamental Rules were published in the Gazette of India on the 1st day of January, 1922 and were last amended vide notification number G.S.R. 27(E), dated the 5th January, 2018.
7th CPC Fitment Factor – No changes in the fitment factor [Rajya Sabha QA]
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
RAJYA SABHA
QUESTION NO 2273
ANSWERED ON 07.08.2018
Increase of fitment factor under 7th CPC
2273 Shri Ravi Prakash Verma
Shri Neeraj Shekhar
Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state :-
(a) whether Government is contemplating to increase fitment factor from 2.57 to 3.68 under 7th CPC to all pay levels, as demanded by employees associations;
(b) if so, the details thereof and by when it would be announced; and
(c) if not, the reasons for betrayal from assurances given by Home Minister and Railway Minister etc. to employees associations in 2016?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE (SHRI P. RADHAKRISHNAN)
(a) to (c): The Minimum Pay of Rs. 18,000 p.m. and Fitment Factor of 2.57 are based on the specific recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission in the light of the relevant factors taken into account by it. Therefore, no change therein is at present under consideration.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 3975
TO BE ANSWERED ON FRIDAY, THE 10TH AUGUST, 2018
19, SHRAVANA, 1940 (SAKA)
TAX RELAXATION ON NPS MATURITY VALUE
3975. SHRI KONAKALLA NARAYANA RAO:
Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state:
(a) whether the Government is contemplating to give tax rebate on the maturity value of the amount deposited under National Pension Scheme (NPS) like Public Provident Fund and if so, the details thereof;
(b) whether the Securities and Exchange Board of India has also recommended to this tax relaxation in the recently held Financial Stability and Development Council meeting and if so, the details thereof; and
(c) the stand of the Government in this regard?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(SHRI SHIV PRATAP SHUKLA)
(a) No Madam. Currently, Government is not contemplating to give any tax rebate on the maturity value of the amount deposited under National Pension Scheme (NPS) like Public Provident Fund. In this context, it may be noted that under the existing provisions of the Income tax Act, 1961 the following payments from the National Pension System Trust are exempt:
(i) up to 40% of the total amount payable to an assessee on closure of his account or on his
opting out of a Pension Scheme; and
(ii) partial withdrawal by an employee from NPS up to 25% of own contribution.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 4011
ANSWERED ON: 10.08.2018
PFRDA Act
P. KARUNAKARAN
Will the Minister of
FINANCE be pleased to state:-
(a) whether the Government received a large number of representations with regard to the dismissal of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) Act;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) whether the Government proposes to change the Act as opposed by all the trade Unions; and
(d) if so, the details thereof?
ANSWER The Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
(a) to (d) The Government of India has implemented the New Pension System, now called “National Pension System” (NPS), with effect from 1st January, 2004 through a notification dated the 22nd December, 2003 for new entrants to Central Government service, except the Armed Forces. The Government constituted an interim regulator, the Interim Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) through a Government Resolution dated the 10th October, 2003 as a precursor to a statutory regulator to regulate the NPS. NPS is now administered and regulated by the statutory regulator called PFRDA under the PFRDA Act, 2013, which came into effect from 1st February, 2014
Representations have been received which inter alia also include the demand that the PFRDA Act may be dismissed. However, there is no proposal to change the PFRDA Act, 2013.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 4138
ANSWERED ON: 10.08.2018
Flexible Pension Contribution
RAJESHBHAI NARANBHAI CHUDASAMA
Will the Minister of
FINANCE be pleased to state:-
(a) whether the Government proposes for flexible pension contribution for the informal workers in the country and if so, the details of proposal therein;
(b) if not, the proposal of Government for the people with irregular incomes and particularly the women of the country who have no regular incomes; and
(c) the details of the report of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) and Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited (CRISIL) on the pension proposal towards elderly women empowerment?
ANSWER The Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
(a) &( b) The Atal Pension Yojana (APY) was launched in May, 2015 and is operational from 1st June, 2015. The APY is primarily focussed on all citizens in the unorganised sector, who are not covered by any pension scheme. All citizens of the country in the eligible category may join the scheme. As on 06.08.2018, the total number of subscribers under APY is 1,09,66,981, out of which, 43,87,993 subscribers are women. The salient features of the Atal Pension Yojana are as under:
Indian Citizens between the age group of 18 to 40 years eligible to join APY through their savings bank account or post office savings bank account.
APY is based on defined benefit for providing guaranteed minimum monthly pension of Rs. 1000 or Rs. 2000 or Rs. 3000 or Rs. 4000 or Rs. 5000 at the age of 60 years based on pension amount chosen.
The Central Government would also co-contribute 50% of the total contribution or Rs. 1000 per annum, whichever is lower, to each eligible subscriber, for a period of 5 years, i.e., from Financial Year 2015-16 to 2019-20, who have joined the APY before 31st March, 2016, and who are not members of any statutory social security scheme and who are not income tax payers.
In case of premature death of Subscriber (death before 60 years of age), spouse of the subscriber has been given an option to continue contributing to APY account of the subscriber, for the remaining vesting period, till the original subscriber would have attained the age 60 years.
In case of death of both subscriber and spouse, the entire pension corpus would be returned to the nominee.
If the accumulated corpus based on contributions earns a lower than estimated return on investment and is inadequate to provide the minimum guaranteed pension, the Central Government would fund such inadequacy. Alternatively, if the actual returns during the accumulation phase are higher than the assumed returns for minimum guaranteed pension, such excess will be passed on to the subscriber.
With a view to provide flexibility to the subscribers of APY with seasonal or irregular income, besides the monthly mode of payment, quarterly and half yearly mode of payment of contributions have been provided in the Scheme. Further in case of default in payment of contribution, a subscriber may regularize the account by paying the overdue amount along with a minimal charge to obtain the guaranteed pension.
(c) The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has informed that the report of PFRDA and CRISIL on ‘Financial security for India’s elderly’ has, inter-alia, mentioned designing of a pension policy exclusively for women where contributions could be from the women’s families. Some tax relief to the savings held in the form of pension has also been mentioned.
