F,No. 42/16/2016-P&PW(G)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G and Pensions
Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare
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3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan
Khan Market, New Delhi-110003
Date:- 06th Jan, 2017
To
All the Pensioners Associations included in the SCOVA
vide Resolution dated 25.08.2015
Subject:- 29th SCOVA meeting under the chairmanship of Hon’ble MOS(PP) – Intimation regarding Date, Time and Venue of the Meeting.
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s OM of even no. dated 26th Dec,2016. The date, time and venue of the 29th SCOVA meeting is as under:-
Date :- 12th January, 2017 (Thursday)
Time :- 11 am
Venue :- Committee Room-A
Vigyan Bhawan Annexe
Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi
2. It is requested that the name and telephone no. of the member nominated for the meeting may kindly be sent to the undersigned. It is further requested to bring copy of PPO and also duly Idled Mandate Form (copy enclosed) so that TA/DA reimbursement would be made through e-payment mode afterwards.
3. This Department looks forward to your participation in the meeting.
The PCDA(O), Pune
The PCDA(N), Mumbai
The CDA(AF), New Delhi
Subject: Payment of dearness Allowance to Armed Forces Personnel
MoD, D(Pay/Services) Letter No.1(2)/2004/D(Pay/Services) Dt. 23rd Nov, 2016 regarding payment of enhanced rate of dearness allowance to Armed Forces Personnel @ 132% with effect from 1st July, 2016 received through PS-3(A), AG’s Branch is forwarded herewith for your necessary action please.
2. It is requested that necessary action in regard to above cited MoD letter be taken urgently.
Enhancement of reimbursement ceiling on medical expenditure incurred by State ESI Schemes
HEADQUARTERS OFFICE
EMPLOYEES’ STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION
(ISO 9001-2008 CERTIFIED)
PANCHDEEP BHAWAN, C.I.G MARG, NEW DELHI – 110002.
E-mail : [email protected], Website : www.esic.nic.in
File no, Pt.V-13(14)38/09-Med.I(ESIC/SC)
Dated: 5.1.2017
To,
All SSMCs /SMCs/DMD / DMN/RDs / MSs, ESI Corporation
All Principal Secretary Labour/ Health (dealing State ESI scheme)
All DIMSs/AMOs, State ESI Scheme
Sub: Enhancement of reimbursement ceiling on medical expenditure incurred by State ESI Schemes.
Sir / Madam,
Under ESIC 2.0, ESIC, is expanding its medical services with improved quality and equipping its own as well State run. facilities to maximize the medical benefits for ESI beneficiaries. During the meetings held with the State Govts, it was opined that reimbursement ceiling on medical expenditure is insufficient to rollout the medical benefits under ESIC 2_0.
Accordingly, ESI Corporation in its 170th meeting held on 15th December, 2016 has approved the enhancement of ceiling on medical expenditure incurred by State ESI Schemes, as under:
a) Increase in per capita ceiling of sharing expenditure w ith State Governments u/s 58 (3) from Rs. 2150 to Rs. 3000 per IP with sub ceiling of Rs. 1250 for “Administration” and Rs, 1750 for “Others” for the year 2017-18.
b) From 2018-19 “Administrative” sub-ceiling will be increased in line with CPI within the overall ceiling of Rs. 3000/- per capita.
c). The ceiling of Rs. 3000/- will be fixed from 2017-2018 to 2019-20 and reviewed annually from 2020-21 on the basis of WPI and expenditure pattern of the States.
d). The State Govt. shall present Project Implementation Plan (PIP), in accordance with the guidelines issued by ESIC time to time, by 31st October every year for the next financial year for its inclusion of the Budget of the Corporation. The PIP should contain the proposal for next Financial year and the progress made during the first six months of the current year.
i. No scheme should be included which has not been duly approved by the ESIC,
ii. Should it be proposed, during the course of a financial year, to finance any scheme which has not been included into the estimates of that year, the sanction of the ESIC shall he obtained to the method for financing it.
iii. The funds shall not be appropriated for expenditure on any item which has not been approved,
iv. The PO ESIC, is authorised to re-appropriate funds from one primary unit of appropriation to another.
e) Funds for 2017-18, will be released as per current ceiling of Rs.2150/- for the first quarter. However, the PIPs for the year 2017-18 should be submitted by 31st January, 2017 to the ESIC for release of fund as per revised ceiling.
f) The plan submitted would be duly monitored by ESIC, for effective impiementation. The funds shall be released on quarter]y basis in accordance with the letter No. V-24/11/10/2001-Med-I issued on 19th April, 2016.(enclosed).
This is for your information and further necessary action.
Subject: Pilot run of e-Revision Utility of CPAO for 7th Central Pay Commission Revision of Pension.
Revision of about 9.5 lakhs Pre-2016 pension cases & 16000 post-2016 cases have become due as per recommendations of 7th CPC. As per instructions of DP&PW dated 4/08/2016, pension cases of Pre-2015 pensioners have been revised by the banks by applying the multiplication factor of 2.57.However, pension of post-2016 pensioners needs to be revised by concerned PADs. At present, these cases are being revised through COMPACT and physical authorities are sent to CPAO for authorization of pension. As COMPACT does not provide the facility of sending online Revision Authorities under the digital signatures of concerned PAOs to CPAO, CPAO has to wait for physical Revision Authorities for the validation of PAOs’ signature and special seal. Due to this, the process of pension revision becomes time consuming which ultimately slows down the whole process of revision. To overcome this problem, CPAO has developed online e-revision utility to take care of 7th CPC Pension Revision with the facility of sending digitally signed Revision Authority under the digital signatures of PAOs to CPAO.
2. It has been decided to start the pilot run of new utility in 8 PAOs i.e. PAO, CRPF, New Delhi, PAO, CISF, New Delhi and PAO, BSF New Delhi of MHA; PAO, NDZ and PAO, Food Zone of UD; PAO, CWC in Water Recourses; Pr. AO/PAO, New Delhi in External Affairs and ZAO, CBDT New Delhi in CBDT. These PAOs are first required to register their digital signatures in PFIVIS (if not already registered) in order to process and send the revised authority to CPAO. e-Revision utility may be accessed on CPAO’s website http://cpao.nic.in/wrap.php?p=html/E-Revision.html Step by Step process flow for processing of revision cases in the new utility may be downloaded from CPAOs website at http://cpao.nic.in/wrap.php?p=html/E-Revision.html
3. In view of the above, you are requested to instruct your PAOs selected for pilot run to use new utility of CPAO for revision of Post-2016 pension cases w.e.f. 1st January, 2017 and extend full support to make the trial/pilot successful. In case of any difficulty in use of this utility Sh. Davinder Kumar, Technical Director, NIC, CPAO may be contacted on Telephone No. 011-26715338 or through email — [email protected].
Confederation postponed the One Day Strike from Feb 15th to March 16th 2017
Due to election Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers has decided to postpone the proposed ONE DAY STRIKE on February 15th to MARCH 16th 2017 THURSDAY
MOST IMPORTANT
CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES & WORKERS 1st Floor, North Avenue PO Building, New Delhi- 110001
Dated : 05th January,2017
To
(1) All National Secretariat Members
(2) Chief Executives of all Affiliated Organisations
(3)General Secretaries of all C-O-Cs
Dear Comrades,
As Assembly elections to five States are scheduled to be held from February 4th to March 11th (including declaration of results) and as February 15th is also poll date in two states , the National Secretariat of Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers has decided to postpone the proposed ONE DAY STRIKE on February 15th to MARCH 16th 2017 THURSDAY.
As 13th March is holiday for Holi in North India and the celebrations are to continue on 14th also, the strike date is fixed as 16th March. There is no change in the 10th January Mass Dharna Programme.
All those Organisations who had served the strike notice as February 15th shall give a letter to their Head of the Departments intimating the postponement of the strike to 2017 March 16th , showing reasons as mentioned above , WITHOUT FAIL.
Those organisations who have not yet served the Strike Notice should serve the notice before 15th January 2017 WITHOUT FAIL.
Regarding already announced campaign programme of National Secretariat members , if necessary , dates may be rescheduled by the National Secretariat members in consultation with the concerned C-O-Cs.
General Secretaries of C-O-Cs are also requested to contact IMMEDIATELY, the concerned National Secretariat members and finalise the date of campaign programme. Intensive campaign should be conducted by all C-O-Cs and Affiliated Organisations in all States, especially in those states where elections are declared, so that employees and general public will become aware of the totally negative attitude of the Central Government towards the legitimate demands of the Central Government Employees and Pensioners.
The betrayal of the Group of Cabinet Ministers of NDA Govt by not fulfilling their assurance given to NJCA leaders on 30th June 2016, should be exposed.
M.Krishnan,
Secretary General ,
Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers.
Revision of interest rates for Small Savings Schemes from Jan to March 2017
F.No.1/04/2016-NS.II
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Economic Affairs
(Budget Division)
North Block, New Delhi
Dated: December 30, 2016
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Revision of interest rates for Small Savings Schemes.
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s OM of even number dated 16th February,2016, vide which the various decisions taken by the Government regarding interest fixation for small savings schemes were communicated to all concerned.
2. On the basis of the decision of the Government interest rates for small savings schemes are to be notified on quarterly basis. Accordingly, the rates of interest on various small savings schemes for the fourth quarter of financial year 2016-17 starting on 1st January, 2017 and ending on 31st March 2017 on the basis of the interest compounding/payment built-in the schemes, shall be as under:
Instrument
Rate of interest w.e.f. 01.10.2016 to 31.12.2016
Rate of interest w.e.f. 01.01.2017 to 31.03.2017
Compounding frequency*
Savings Deposit
4
4
Annually
1 Year Time Deposit
7
7
Quarterly
2 Year Time Deposit
7.1
7.1
Quarterly
3 Year Time Deposit
7.3
7.3
Quarterly
5 Year Time Deposit
7.8
7.8
Quarterly
5 Year Recurring Deposit
7.3
7.3
Quarterly
5 Year Senior Citizens Savings Scheme
8.5
8.5
Quarterly and paid
5 Year Monthly Income Account Scheme
7.7
7.7
Monthly and Paid
5 Year National Savings Certificate
8
8
Annually
Public Provident Fund Scheme
8
8
Annually
Kisan Vikas Patra
7.7 (will mature in 112 months)
7.7 (will mature in 112 months)
Annually
Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme
8.5
8.5
Annually
*No Change
3. This has the approval of Finance Minister.
(Vyasan R)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
Revision of Hourly Rates of Incentive Bonus and Bonus Factor of Workshops and Production Units
AIRF
All India Railwaymen’s Federation
The Member Rolling Stock,
Railway Board,
New Delhi
Dear Sir,
Sub: Revision of Hourly Rates of Incentive Bonus and Bonus Factor of Workshops and Production Units
Hourly Rates of Incentive Bonus and Bonus Factor of Workshops and Production Units Staff were last revised vide Railway Board’s letter No.2008/M(W)/814/38 dated 27.07.2010 after implementation of recommendations of the VII CPC and revision of pay scales etc. based on that.
Since recommendations of the VII CPC have already been accepted by the government, and most of them have been implemented by the Ministry of Railways as well, resulting in revision of various pay scales etc., it would be quite appropriate that, Hourly Rates of Incentive Bonus and Bonus Factor be revised for Workshops and Production Units Staff w.e.f. 01.01.2016, i.e. date of implementation of recommendations of the VII CPC at an early date.
An early action in the matter shall be highly appreciated.
Staff Side demands 7th CPC Allowances Meeting with the Committee
Staff side requested to fix-up a meeting of the Committee on Allowances, at an earliest to resolve the issues placed in the memorandum of the Staff Side(JCM) on various allowances
Shiva Gopal Mishra
Secretary
National Council (Staff Side)
Joint Consulative Machinery
for Central Government Employees
No.NC-JCM-2016(Allowances)
The Secretary (Expenditure),
Ministry of Finance,
(Government of India),
North Block,
New Delhi
Dated: December 29, 2016
Dear Sir,
Sub: Meeting with the Committee on Allowances
The Staff Side, National Council(JCM) had a meeting with the Committee on Allowances on 1st September, 2016, wherein it was advised us to send the committee a detailed note. Subsequently, on 16th September, 2016 we sent a detailed note on the allowances to your goodself with the hope that the Committee on Allowances would consider the same, and in case of reservations, they would at least hold a meeting on the detailed memorandum submitted by the Staff Side(JCM).
Almost four months have passed without any outcome. All the Central Government Employees’ are quite agitated as well as are having mental agony because allowances of the VII CPC, have not been implemented.
You are, therefore, requested to fix-up a meeting of the Committee on Allowances, at an earliest to resolve the issues placed in the memorandum of the Staff Side(JCM) on various allowances.
Here it is worth-mentioning that, the issues related to DoP&T were discussed by the Secretary(DoP&T) with the Staff Side on 25th October, 2016. The Staff Side is of firm opinion that, there should be resolution to the demands, and these Allowances should be implemented with effect from 01.01.2016, i.e. the date from which VII CPC has been implemented.
Staff Side (JCM) demands 7th CPC Meeting to discuss the Pay Revision
Meeting with the Staff Side(JCM) on the recommendations of the 7th CPC and their implementation
Shiva Gopal Mishra
Secretary
National Council (Staff Side)
Joint Consulative Machinery
for Central Government Employees
No.NC/JCM/2016
Dated: December 29, 2016
The Addl. Secretary(Exp.),
Department of Expenditure,
Ministry of Finance,
North Block,
New Delhi
Dear Sir,
Sub : Meeting with the Staff Side (JCM) on the recommendations of the 7th CPC and their implementation.
We had our last meeting on 24th October, 2016, wherein, while concluding, it was assured that, you would consult the Secretary(Expenditure) and would hold next meeting shortly. It is quite unfortunate that, so far much time have passed and nothing has been heard from your end.
Inordinate delay in Revision of Minimum Wage and Fitment Formula is creating lots of problems, and the Central Government Employees are agitated because this issue had been agitating their minds since implementation of 7th CPC Report
You are, therefore, requested to call a meeting with the Staff Side(JCM) to discuss and resolve these issues at the earliest.
Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) — November, 2016
The All-India CPI-IW for November, 2016 decreased by 1 point and stood at 277(two hundred and seventy seven). On 1-month percentage change, it decreased by (-) 0.36 per cent between October and November, 2016 when compared with the increase 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 contributing (-) 1.33 percentage points to the total change. At item level, Rice, Arhar Dal, Moong Dal, Urd Dal, Groundnut Oil, Chillies Green, Banana, Brinjal, Cabbage, Cauliflower, French Beans, Gourd, Green Coriander Leaves, Lady’s Finger, Methi, Palak, Potato, Radish, Tomato, etc. are responsible for the decrease in index. However, this decrease was checked by Wheat, Wheat Atta, Gram Dal, Goat Meat, Tea (Readymade), Cooking Gas, Electricity Charges, Petrol, Toilet Soap, etc., putting upward pressure on the index.
The year-on-year inflation measured by monthly CPI-IW stood at 2.59 per cent for November, 2016 as compared to 3.35 per cent for the previous month and 6.72 per cent during the corresponding month of the previous year. Similarly, the Food inflation stood at 1.66 per cent against 2.99 per cent of the previous month and 7.86 per cent during the corresponding month of the previous year.
At centre level, Salem reported the maximum decrease of 10 points followed by Bokaro (9 points), Raniganj and Kolkata (6 points each) and Ahmedabad (5 points). Among others, 4 points decrease was observed in 2 centres, 3 points in 8 centres, 2 points in 8 centres and 1 point in 15 centres. On the contrary, Jaipur recorded a maximum increase of 6 points followed by Rourkela and Srinagar (3 points each). Among others, 2 points increase was observed in 5 centres and 1 point in 7 centres. Rest of the 25 centres’ indices remained stationary.
The indices of 35 centres are above All-India Index and other 40 centres’ indices are below national average. The index of Jabalpur, Vishakhapathnam and Ludhiana centres remained at par with All-India Index.
The next issue of CPI-IW for the month of December, 2016 will be released on Tuesday, 31st January, 2017. The same will also be available on the office website www..labourbureaunew.gov.in.
