Revision of provisional pension sanctioned under Rule 69 of the CCS(Pension) Rules, 1972
No.250141/06/2016.AIS.II
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
****
North Block, New Delhi—110001
Dated the 4th January, 2017
To
The Chief Secretaries of all the
State Governments and UTs.
Subject: Revision of provisional pension sanctioned under Rule 69 of the CCS(Pension) Rules, 1972.
Sir,
I am directed to refer to the Department of Pension and Pensioner Welfare’s OM No.38/49/2016.P&PW(A) dated 30th November, 2016 (copy enclosed) regarding “Revision of provisional pension”.
2. The applicability of the provisions of the aforesaid OM regarding grant of Provisional Pension sanctioned under Rule 69 of the CCS(Pension) Rules, 1972 has been considered by this Department and it has been decided to make the provisions of the aforesaid Office Memorandum of Department of Pension and Pensioner Welfare regarding “Revision of provisional pension’ applicable, mutatis-mutandis, to the All India Service Pensioners to whom provisional pension as sanctioned under Rule 6 of All India Service(Death-Cum-Retirement-Benefits), Rules, 1958.
Yours faithfully,
(Rajesh Kumar Yadav)
Under Secretary to Government of India
The Finance Act, 2016 amended the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) to provide that 40% of the amount payable to the employee subscriber of NPS on his closure of account or his opting out of the scheme, shall be exempt from tax.
Further, Finance Bill, 2017 has proposed to amend the Act to provide exemption from tax at the time of partial withdrawal by an employee from National Pension System Trust in accordance with conditions specified under Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 2013 and regulations made there under, to the extent it does not exceed twenty five per cent of the contributions made by him.
There was no proposal for tax relaxation from Securities and Exchange Board of India in the agenda of 16th Financial Stability Development Council meeting held on 5thJanuary 2017.
This was stated by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
Grant of paid holiday to employees on the day of poll
F.No.12/3/2016-JCA-2
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
(Department of Personnel & Training)
Establishment (JCA-2) Section
North Block, New Delhi
Dated 1st February, 2017
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: General Election to the Legislative Assemblies of Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, 2017 – Grant of paid holiday to employees on the day of poll – regarding
The undersigned is directed to say that in connection with the General Elections to the Legislative Assemblies of the States of Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, to be held during the months, of February and March, 2017, the guidelines, issued by this Department vide OM No. 12/ 14/99-JCA dated 10.10.2001, may be followed for closing of the Central Government Offices, including Industrial establishments in the above mentioned States the relevant portion of the OM as referred to above are reproduced here.
(i) The relevant organizations shall remain closed in the notified areas where general elections to the State Legislative Assembly are concerned scheduled to be conducted;
(ii)In connection with bye-election to Lok Sabha/ State Assembly, only such of the employees who are bona-fide voters in the relevant constituency should be granted special casual leave on the day of polling. Special Casual leave may also be granted to an employee who is ordinarily a resident of a constituency and registered as a voter but employed in any Central Government Organization/ Industrial Establishment located outside the constituency having a general/ bye-election.
2. The employees detailed on election duty may also be permitted to remain away from their normal duties on polling day(s) as also on the days required for performing journeys which might be undertaken in order to perform such election duty
3. The above instructions may be brought to the notice of all concerned.
D.K.Sengupta
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
National Pension System Updation of AADHAR no. in PRAN of Subscribers
PENSION FUND REGULATORY
AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
B-14/A, Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhawan,
Qutab Institutional Area,
Katwaria Sarai,
New Delhi-110016.
Ph : 011-26517501
Fax : 011-26517507
Website : www.pfrda.org.in
File no: PFRDA/19/CG/1/43
31st January, 2017
To,
PrAOs, PAOs, CDDOs & other CG Nodal offices;
DTAs, DTOs, & other SG Nodal offices,
Autonomous Bodies under CG & SG.
Dear Sir/Madam,
National Pension System (NPS) Service Fortnight (February 1 — February 15, 2017) : Updation of AADHAR no. in PRAN of Subscribers.
In continuation of our earlier communication dated 07.01.2016, we have decided to include ‘updation of Aadhar number’ also as one of the activities for NPS service fortnight. Therefore, Nodal offices of Central & State Governments are advised to guide and encourage the subscribers for updation of their AADHAR no., in addition to mobile app download and other activities during the fortnight.
2. In this regard, subscribers may be advised for login in the CRA website www.cra- nsdl.com through their login id & password and further update AADHAR no. under the ‘update details’ tab. The request for updating AADHAR no. will have to be authorized by the associated nodal office. PFRDA has already advised NSDL/CRA for providing all necessary assistance to the Nodal Offices and subscribers. Based on numbers of such updation, PFRDA will recognize various State governments and Central Ministries in the same way it has announced for Mobile App download.
3. In case of any assistance/clarification required, nodal offices may contact Shri Sachin Joneja, Manager, PFRDA at [email protected] or Sh. Bibhas Dutta, NSDL at 022-24994558 / [email protected] or Sh. Abhishek Dhuri, NSDL at 022- 24004266/[email protected].
Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW)-December, 2016
The All-India CPI-IW for December, 2016 by 2 points and stood 275 (two hundred and seventy five). On 1-month percentage change, it decreased by (-) 0.72 per cent November and December, 2016 when compared with the decease of (-) 0.37 per cent between the same two months a year ago.
The maximum downward pressure to the change in current index came from Food group conuibuting (-) 2.74 percentage points to the total change. At item level, Arhar Dal, Gram Dal, Masur Dal, Urd Dal, Groundnut Oil, Muslard Oil, Chillies Green, Ginzer, Brinjal, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, French Beans, Gourd, Green Coriander Leaves, Methi, Palak, Peas, Potato, Radish, Tomato, Banana, Lemon, etc. are responsible for the decrease in index. However, this decrease checked by Rice, Wheal, Wheat Alta, Coconut OiL Fish Fresh, Goat Meat, Milk Snack Saltish, Cooking Gas, ESI Premium Contribution, Petrol, Flowe/Flower Garlands, Toilet Soap, etc., putting upward on the index.
The year-on-year inflation measured by monthly CPI-IW stood at 2.23 per cent for December, 2016 as compared to 2.59 per cent for the pervious month and 6.32 per cent during the corresponding month of the previous year. Similarly, the Food inflation stood at 0.67 per cent against 1.66 per cent of the previous month and 7.94 per cent during the corresponding month or the previous year.
At centre level, Rourkela reported the maximum decrease or 10 points followed by Vadodara (9 points), Nagpur and Lucknow (8 points each) and Amritsar, Varanasi and Monger Jamalpur (6 points each). Among others, 5 points decrease was observed in 7 centres, 4 points in 12 centres, 3 points in 9 centres, 2 points in 15 centres and 1 point in 10 centres. On the contrary, Quilon recorded maximum increase of 6 points followed by Ernakulam and Mundakkayam (3 points each). Among others, 2 points increase was observed in 4 centres and 1 point in 4 centres. Rest or the 7 centres indices remained stationary.
The indices or centres are above All-India Index and other 43 centres indices are below national average. The index or Vishakhapathnam centre remained at par with All-India Index. The next or CPI-IW fer the month of January, 2017 will be released on Tuesday, 28th February, 2017. The same will also be available on the office website www.labourbureaunew.gov.in
Aadhar enabled Biometric Attendance System for marking attendance
Principal Controller of Defence Account; (Central Command), Carriapa Road, Lucknow Cantt, Pin-226002
Circular
No.AN/1A/1004/Misc/2017
Dated:27/01/2017
To
The CDA, RTC Lucknow
All Sub Offices
(under the organisation including IFAs)
All sections in main office
Sub:– Aadhar enabled Biometric Attendance System for marking attendance.
The Department of Personnel & Trair ing vide letter No. 11013/9/2014-Estt(A-III) dated 21st November 2014 (circulated vide Hqrs Office letter No. AN/lll/3012/Misc/BAS dated 20.02.2015) has decided to use an AADHAR based Bio-metric Attendance System (AEBAS) in all offices of the Central Government, including attached/sub-ordinate offices in India.
Biometric Attendance System is only an enabling platform. There is no change in the instructions relating to office hours, late attendance etc. which will continue to apply. As per extant instructions, half-a-day’s Casual leave should be debited for each day of late attendance, but late attendance upto an hour, on not more than two occassions in a month, and for justiafiable reasons may be condoned by the competent authority. In addition to debiting Casual Leave(or Earned Leave, when no CL is available) disciplinary action may also be taken against government servants who are habitually late. Early leaving is also to be treatE d in the same manner as late coming.
Therefore, all the staff and officers will mark their attendance through AEBAS only. The manual attendance may be discontirwed immediately.
CITU strongly condemns the steps reportedly being taken by the government to gradually privatise the Indian railways.
CENTRE OF INDIAN TRADE UNIONS
K.HEMALATA
President
TAPAN SEN, M.P
General Secretary
30 January 2017
Press Statement
CITU strongly condemns the steps reportedly being taken by the government to gradually privatise the Indian railways. This measure is reportedly being started by handing over the running of the prestigious and heritage trains linking the hill stations.
Quoting railway officials, ‘Economic Times’ has reported that the routes linking Kalka and Shimla, Siliguri and Darjeeling and the Nilgiri mountains with the plains, Neral and Matheran and the Kangra valley railways would be among the first to be handed over to the private operators including foreign companies.
It has reported that the private companies, including the foreign corporates will not only run the trains but also maintain the lines and the stations and also own the station on these lines. They will reportedly be allowed to decide the fares after the approval of the Rail Development Authority of India that is going to be constituted.
Through this measure reported to `mark the beginning of corporate participation in running’ the rail network in India, the government is abdicating itself from its responsibility of providing affordable transport to the millions of poor and common passengers. The people will now be exposed to the market forces, not only in the matter of fares but also their safety.
Over 200 people have lost their lives in the three most recent train accidents in Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. Thousands of posts related to maintenance and safety in railways are kept vacant. Instead of taking urgent measures to improve the safety conditions in the railways the government and the ministry of railways have decided to privatise the railways on the pretext of losses and the cost of maintenance. Privatisation will further reduce accountability endangering the lives of millions of railway passengers. The total negligence of the private operator in the Eastern Coalfields leading to the ghastly accident killing around 20 workers is the latest example of utter callousness of the private companies towards safety of the workers and the people.
These reported measures to privatise the railways totally contradict the repeated assurances given by the Prime Minister and the railway minister that the government had no intent to privatise the railway. Those criticising the move to privatise railways were even accused of ‘spreading lies’.
CITU demands that the moves to hand over the railway lines connecting hill stations to private players should be immediately stopped.
CITU calls upon the entire working class including the railway employees to unitedly fight against privatisation of the railways in any form. CITU calls upon the patriotic people of this country to strongly resist any measures to hand over the railways, the national wealth and lifeline of our country to private companies including foreign companies in whatever form.
Clarification on purchase of Air Tickets from unauthorized agents
GOVERNMNET OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTROLLER OF ACCOUNTS (FYS)
No. T/1/72/Circular – 36
Dated : 05/01/2017
To
1. The Secretary, OFB, ID-A, S.K. Bose Rd, Kol-01
2. All Sr. General Managers/All General Managers Ordnance/ Equipments Factories.
3.All Group controllers & Branch AOs
Sub: Clarification on purchase of Air Tickets from unauthorized agents for non- entitled officials to travel by air
Kindly refer to DoP&T letter No.31011/3/2015-Estt(A.lV) dated 18/02/2016 wherein it is mentioned under points 14 & 15 that Govt employees not entitled to travel by air, may travel by any airline. However, reimbursement in such cases shall be restricted to the fare of their entitled class of train/transport or actual expense, whichever is less. In all cases whenever a Govt servant claims LTC by air, he/she is required to book the air tickets either directly through the airlines or through the approved travel agencies viz M/s Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd/ M/s Ashok Tours & Travels Ltd/ IRCTC. Booking of tickets through any other agency is not permissible.
This is for your information, guidance and necessary action please.
Typewriting Test Exemption – Implementation of instructions of DOP&T issued vide their letter dated 22.04.2015
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA/BHARAT SARKAR
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS/RAIL MANTRALAYA
(RAILWAY BOARD)
No.E(NG)I-2015/CFP/7
New Delhi, dated 16.01.2017
The General Managers (P)
All Zonal Railways & Production Umts.
(As per standard list)
Sub:- Exemption from passing the Typewriting Test – Implementation of instructions of DOP&T issued vide their letter dated 22.04.2015.
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Personnel & Training , in their O.M. No.14020/2/91-Estt(D) dated 29.09.1992 had issued certain instructions/guidelines regarding exemption from passing the Typewriting Test. The same has been reiterated vide their O.M. No.14020/1/2014-Estt.(D) dated 22.04.2015.
2. Both the Federations viz. AIRF and NFIR have also raised this demand in the PNM forum. Accordingly, matter has been deliberated in consultation with concerned directorates and it has been decided by the Board to adopt the stipulations made in DOP&T’s OMs ibid (copies enclosed) mutatis mutandis to persons appointed/promoted as Junior Clerks, Accounts Clerk against promotion quota, sports persons recruited against sports quota, those appointed on compassionate grounds, under Scouts & Guide and cultural quota, re-deployed medically unfit Railway servants on alternetive posts re-deployed surplus staff and also physically handicapped railway servants, as per prevailing rules. The procedure of conducting of the typing test whether it is on manual type writer or on Personal Computer as contained in Board’s letter No.E(NG)I-2004/CFP/8 dated 04.02.2011 will remain unaltered.
3. The above instructions will take effect from the date of issue of this letter. Cases already decided in the past need not be re-opened.
Please acknowledge receipt.
(MK Meena)
Deputy Director Estt. (N)
Railway Board
NFIR’s proposals for General Budget 2017-18 – Income Tax Slab, HRA, TA
No.IV/Budget/Part III
23.01.2017
Shri Arun Jaitley,
Hon’ble Minister of Finance,
North Block, New Delhi.
Dear Sir,
Sub: General Budget 2017-18 – NFIR’s proposals for consideration
The National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR) requests the Hon’ble Finance Minister to consider its proposals listed below for inclusion in the General Budget 2017-18 to be presented in Parliament in February, 2017.
1. The Income Tax exemption limit for Central Government Employees may be raised to atleast Rupees Six Lakhs
2. The Income Tax exemption limit for senior citizens may be raised to Rs.7.5 lakhs and for those Senior Citizens above 75 years age, the exemption be allowed up to Rs.10 lakhs.
3. Transport Allowance presently paid to the Central Government Employees may be exempted from the purview of Income Tax.
4. Fixed Medical Allowance to the retired Central Government Employees may be revised to not less than Rs.2,000/- Per month.
5. Grant House Rent Allowance at the rate of 30%, 20% & 10% of 7th CPC Pay to the Central Government Employees working at Cities/Towns classified as ‘X’ ‘Y’ &’Z’ respectively with back date.
6. Contract Labour performing jobs of perennial nature be granted wages at par with the regular employees performing similar jobs.
7. Child Care Leave for women employees be revised upwardly.
8. Pension parity be granted all those pre 1.1.2016 Pensioners of Central Government.
Proposals – Railway Specific
9. Additional funds be allocated for augmenting Railway Training Institutes and Railway Community Halls, Recreation Clubs etc’.
10. More funds may be provided for construction of new quarters in the Railways and for maintenance of Railway colonies.
11. Training Allowance for Trainers in Railways Training Institules may be enhanced to 30% of pay in lieu of the existing 15%.
12. Separate Rest Rooms for Women Railway Employees at different locations be sanctioned to enable them to stay when they visit on railway duties.
13. Additional Road Mobile Medical Vans may be approved for providing medical treatment to the railway employees and their families living at remote places and jungle stations.
