No.25/1/2013-Dir. (C)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
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Lok Nayak Bhawan, New Delhi
Dated: 10th July, 2015
Office Memorandum
Subject:- Training programme for Managerial Category and Cook Category Canteen employees of Non-Statutory Departmental Canteens- Nominations from Ministries/Department’s – regarding.
The undersigned is directed to say that, with a view to impart professional skill to the employees working in Departmental Canteens functioning from Central Government Offices, it has been decided in consultation with the Ministry of Tourism to hold training programme for Managerial category and Cook category working in the Departmental Canteens. These training programme are mandatory and will be organized in the Institute of Hotel Management/FCIs located across the country.
2. The duration of the training programme would be 6 days. The scheduled dates of training programmes would be intimated in due course. TA/DA for trainees as admissible will be borne by the respective Ministry/Department.
3. The Ministries/Department’s are requested to forward nomination of one or two Canteen employees for each batch in the enclosed proforma (I &II) to the Department of personnel & Training by 14th August, 2015.
MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS (Department of Personnel And Training) NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 3rd July, 2015
G.S.R. 536(E) – In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1), clause (k) and clause (1) of sub-section (2) of section 59 read with section 44 and section 45 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 (1 of 2014), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Rules, 2014, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Second Amendment Rules, 2015.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Rules, 2014 in rule 3, sub-rule (2), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely :-
“Provided further that the public servants who have filed declarations, information and annual returns of property under the provisions of the rules applicable to such public servants, shall file the revised declarations, information or as the case may be, annual returns as on the 31st day of March, 2015, to the competent authority on or before the 15th day of October, 2015.”
[F. No. 407/12/2014-AVD-IV(B)]
JISHNU BARUA, Jt. Secy.
Note.- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide notification number G.S.R. 501(E), dated the 14th July, 2014 and amended vide notification numbers G.S.R. 638(E), dated 8th September, 2014, G.S.R. 918(E), dated 26th December, 2014 and G.S.R. 322(E), dated 27th April, 2015.
No.4/2/20 15-P&PW(Coord)/ Admn.I
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions
Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
3rd floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan, New Delhi-110003.
Dated 9th July, 2015
CIRCULAR
Subject: – Engagement of one Consultant in the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare
The Department of Pension & Pensioners ‘ Welfare intends to engage one Consultant in this Department. The interested persons who possess the following eligibility criteria are eligible to be considered for the aforesaid engagement:-
(i) The person should possess degree from a recognized University.
(ii) Retired Central Government Deputy SecretarylUnder Secretary or equivalent with 5 years experience in pension related matters.
2 The engagement shall be initially for a period of six months, which may be extended subject to the approval of competent authority on the following terms and conditions:-
a) Salary will be last Pay drawn – Pension + DA on the day of engagement.
b) Working hours would be normally from 9.00 am to 5.30 pm during working days including half an hour lunch break in between. However during exigencies of work, he may be required to sit late and even he may be called on holidays for which no extra payment will be made.
c) Consultant shall be eligible for six days leave in a calendar year on pro rata basis. However, unavailed leave in a year cannot be carried forward to the next year.
d) The Consultant so appointed may also be required to undertake tour for which he/she will be paid TA/DA as per extant guidelines/rules issued by the Government on the subject.
e) The Consultant would report to Director/DS.
f) Any other duty assigned by the senior officers.
3 The engagement may be terminated at any time by the Government without assigning any reason. The application received after 20th July,20 15 shall be summarily rejected. The shortlisted candidates will be interviewed on 22nd July, 2015 at 3 pm. .
4 The persons who fulfill the eligibility criteria and are willing to offer their services for the aforesaid job may submit the applications in the prescribed proforma (enclosed herewith) to the undersigned, Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, Ministry of Personnel P.G. and Pensions, Lok Nayak Bhawan, (3rdFloor), Khan Market, New Delhi latest by 20th July, 2015.
(Charanjit Taneja)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Feedback may be given by re-employed pensioners on visiting banks regarding problems being faced relating to the stoppage of Dearness Relief on Pension on re-employment and for restoration of the same when the re-employment ceases. Feedback in the following format may be furnished by 17.07.2015.
Format
1. Name of pensioner:- 2. PPO No. :- 3. Pension Disbursing Bank:- 4. Where re-employed :- 5. Specific problems being faced in max 100 words :-
Note:- Please send the information by E-mail- [email protected] or by Post to
Sh. Charanjit Taneja,
Under Secretary,
Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare,
3rd floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan,
New Delhi-110003.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE
CENTRAL PENSION ACCOUNTING OFFICE
TRIKOOT-II. BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE,
NEW DELHI-110066
CPAO/Tech/e-PPO/2015-16/440 to 511
03.07.2015
Office Memorandum
Subject:- Roll out of e-PPO project for revision authorities.
Presently, under Pilot run of e-PPO Project, CPAO is successfully sending digitally signed revision authorities alongwith hard copies of the same to the three banks i.e. State Bank of India, Chandni Chowk, Canara Bank and Bank of Baroda. Now it has been decided to roll out this project in the CPPCs of remaining banks w.e.f. 01.08.2015.
In the meanwhile, all the remaining CPPCs are advised to complete their preparatory work and other formalities by the end of July, 2015. For this purpose they have to provide:-
i) Server finger print for SFTP
ii) User name for SFTP
iii) password for SFTP by 15th of July 2015.
CPAO will send both paper authorities and digitally signed PDF and XML files on the SFTP login provided by bank w.e.f. 1st August 2015.
In this regard necessary instructions may be downloaded from CPAO website-www.cpao.nic.in. If needed Sr. TD /T D (NIC), CPAO may be contacted on telephone number 011-26175099.
F. No. W-02/0017/2014-DPE-(WC) – GL- IX/15
Government of India
Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Department of Public Enterprises
Public Enterprises Bhawan
Block No.l4, CGO Complex, Lodi Road
New Delhi, 24th June, 2015
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject:- Clarifications regarding Introduction of Pension Scheme and Post Superannuation Medical Benefits in CPSEs.
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department OM of even number dated 21.05.2014 on the above subject and to state that para (xix) in the said OM may be read as under:
“In case of Pension Scheme, ideally there should be no provision of ‘commutation’ since the provision of pension in 2007 pay revision guidelines was introduced so that employees have social security and get substantial monthly pension after superannuation”.
OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTROLLER OF ACCOUNTS (FYS)
10-AI S.K. BOSE ROAD, KOLKATA – 700 001.
No.T/1/72/Circular-28
Date: 06/07/2015
To. The Secretary, OFB, 10-A, S.K. Bose Rd., Kol – 700 001
2. All Sr. General Managers / All General Managers Ordnance / Equipments Factories
3. All Group Controllers & Br. SAO/AOs.
Sub: Clarification on definition of Hometown LTC
Attention is invited to HQr office CGDA, New Delhi letter No. AN/XIV/14162/TA/DA/LTC/Vol-II dated 04/03/2014 in regard to above mentioned subject wherein it is clarified that “areas falling within Urban Agglomeration of a city but within different districts may be termed as same station for the purposes of LTC Rules”.
It is, therefore, once again impressed upon all concerned to comply the aforesaid guidelines while availing home town conversion in LTC.
Kindly ensure maximum/wide publicity of the above points within your jurisdiction for effecting compliances.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
RAILWAY BOARD
No. E(G)2015/LE 1-1
Rail Bhawan, New Delhi,
dated 30-06-2015
The General Manager(s)
East Coast Railway, Bhubaneswar.
Northern Railway, Baroda House, New Delhi.
Sub: Grant of special leave to the Railway staff who remained absent from duty to Hudhud Cyclone that affected badly coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha States (EcoR) and the flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir State.
The matter regarding grant of Special Casual Leave to Railway employees who could not attend duty due to hudhud cyclone which badly affected the coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha States in the 2nd week of October, 2014, and the flash floods in the State of Jammu and Kashmir, was taken up by All India Railwaymen’s Federation(AIRF).
The issue has been carefully considered by the Board and it has been decided that Special Casual Leave upto a maximum of three days may be granted to the affected employees who stay at places far away from their Headquarters, as a result of which they have to commute a long distance to their office, and due to dislocation of traffic arising out of the aforesaid natural calamities they were not able to undertake the journey and report to the Headquarters for duty.
This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Dte. of Ministry of Railways.
1. Whether the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 has come into force?
Yes, vide Gazette Notification No. S.O. 119(E) dated 16-01-2014, the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 (1 of 2014 has come into force from the said date. However, the institution of Lokpal is yet to become functional, since the Act needs some amendments, inter alia, so as to resolve certain issues relating to appointment of Chairperson and Members of Lokpal, etc. in the absence of a Leader of Opposition recognized as such in the Lok Sabha. For this purpose, a Bill has been introduced in Parliament and is currently under consideration of the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances and Law and Justice.
2. What are the Rules and Orders notified under the provisions of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013?
The Rules and Orders notified under the Act so far, are as follows:-
(a) The Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Rules, 2014 [notified vide Gazette. Notification No. G.S.R. 501(E) dated 14-07-2014 amended vide Notification No. GSR No. 638(E) dated 08-09-2014]
(b) The Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Second Amendment Rules, 2014. [notified vide Gazette Notification No. G.S.R. 9I8(E) dated 26-12-2014]
(c) Search Committee (Constitution, Terms and Conditions of appointment of members and the manner of selection of Panel of Names for appointment of Chairperson and Members of Lokpal) Rules, 2014. [notified vide Gazette Notification No. G.S.R. 31(E) dated 17-01-2014].
(d) Search Committee (Constitution, Terms and Conditions of appointment of members and the manner of selection of Panel of Names for appointment of Chairperson and Members of Lokpal) Amendment Rules, 2014. [notified vide Gazette Notification No. G.S.R. 620(E) dated 27-08- 2014]
(e) The Lokpal and Lokayuktas (Removal of Difficulties) Order, 2014 [notified vide Gazette Notification No. S.O. 409(E) dated 15-02-2014 with subsequent amendments having been made vide Notifications No. S.O. 1840(E) dated 14-07-2014, No. S.O. 2256(E) dated 08-09-2014 and No. S.O. 3272(E) dated 26-12-2014]
The rules and orders as referred to above can be accessed by clicking on the links above.
3. What is the jurisdiction of Lokpal in respect of Inquiry?
Please see Section 14 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 (I of 2014).
4. Whether the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 is applicable to the employees of State Governments?
In terms of provisions of section 14 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 the employees of the State Government are not covered unless they have served in connection with the affairs of the Union. The jurisdiction of the Lokpal will extend on the following categories of employees only after obtaining the consent of the concerned State Government. [proviso under section 14(1)(f) refers] inter alia, over the following categories of public servants referred to in section 14(1)(d) & (e):
“(d) any Group ‘A’ or Group ‘B’ officer or equivalent or above, from amongst the public servants defined in subclauses (i) and (ii) of clause (c) of section 2 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 when serving or who has served, in connection with the affairs of the Union;
(e) any Group ‘C’ or Group ‘D’ official or equivalent, from amongst the public servants defined in sub-clauses (i) and (ii) of clause (c) of section 2 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 when serving or who has served in connection with the affairs of the Union subject to the provision of sub-section (1) of section 20;”.
Thus, it may be seen that the employees of the State Governments are not under the jurisdiction of the Lokpal. Further, under section 63 of the Act, the States are under an obligation to establish an institution of Lokayukta, by a law enacted by the State Legislature, if not already done so, within a period of one year from the coming into force of the Act. Employees of the State Government are, inter alia, to be covered under the jurisdiction of the respective Lokayuktas.
The Department of Pension and Pensioner’s Welfare will hold five Aadhaar Seeding and Regularisation for pensioners in Delhi NCR in collaboration with Punjab National Bank from 13th to 17th July, 2015. These camps will be held at Rajendra Place, Civil Lines, Scope Tower – Lakshmi Nagar in Delhi and Noida Sector 1 and Neelam Chowk, Faridabad respectively.
Pensioners residing in the Delhi NCR may visit an Aadhaar Camp on any one of the days with original PPO, Aadhaar Card, and bank pass book along with photocopies of these documents.
Pensioners who do not have Aadhaar number yet may in addition carry a photo id like Voters Card. Jeevan Pramaan is in addition to the other existing facilities for submission of Life Certificate. All the Nationalised banks, as also UIDAI will participate in these camps which are proposed to be held later in other parts of the country.
S. No.
Place
Date
Complete address
1
Rajendra Place
13th July, 2015
Opp Hospital B L kapur, near Rajendra Nagar Metro Station
2
Civil Lines
14th July, 2015
Punjab National bank Central staff College, Underhill Road, near Metro Station Civil Lines
3
Scope Tower, Luxmi Nagar
15th July, 2015
Auditorium Hall, Scope Tower, Luxmi Nagar, Delhi.
4
Noida Sec-1
16th July, 2015
Punjab National Bank, C-13 Sector 1 NOIDA. Near Sec 15 Metro Station
5
NIT, Faridabad
17th July, 2015
Punjab National Bank, Neelam Chowk, NIT Faridabad, Haryana.
For implementation of Jeevan Pramaan- an Aadhaar based life certification system – all pensioners are requested to furnish their Aadhaar Numbers to their bank, if not already done. The pensioners who do not have “Aadhaar” are requested to obtain Aadhaar number.
