Andhra Pradesh Governement released Government order Dearness Allowance to the State Government Employees from 1st January, 2011
Important Points from the Government Order :
Revision of rate of Dearness Allowance sanctioned in the G.O. 19th read above to the State Government employees in the Andhra Pradesh Revised Pay Scales, 2010 from 24.824% of the basic pay to 29.96% of basic pay from 1st January, 2011.
Revision of rates of Dearness Allowance in respect of State Government employees drawing the Revised U.G.C Pay Scales, 2006, from 45% to 51% of the basic pay with effect from 1st January, 2011
Revision of rates of Dearness Allowance in respect of State Government employees drawing the Revised U.G.C Pay Scales, 1996, from 103% to 115% of the basic pay with effect from 1st January, 2011, as DA equivalent to 50% Basic Pay was already merged through G.O.Ms.No.9, Higher Education (U.E.I) Department, dated: 8-2-2006 and G.O.(P)No.173, Finance (PC.I) Department, dated:23.07.2007.
No. 38/80/2008-P&PW (A) (Part II)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan
Khan Market, New Delhi-110003
Dated: 8th June. 2011
To
The Manager,
Govt. of India Press,
Mayapuri, Ring Road,
New Delhi 110064
Subject: Amendment to CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 – Notification regarding.
Sir,
I am to forward herewith a copy of Notification in duplicate (English & Hindi version) on the above subject and to request that the same may be published in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section 3, sub-section (ii).
2. It is further requested that 100 spare copies of the Printed version of the
Notification may kindly be sent to this Department.
Encl: As above.
Yours faithfully
(Tripti P. Ghosh)
Director
[(TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB – SECTION (I)]
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, dated the 8th June.,2011
G.S.R 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 persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the President hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972, namely:
1. (1) These rules may be called the Central Civil Services (Pension) Amendment Rules, 2011.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972,
(1) in rule 8, in sub-rule (1), in the provisio, for the words “rupees three hundred and seventy five”, the words “rupees three thousand five hundred” shall be substituted;
(2) in rule 9, in sub-rule (1), in the second proviso for the words “rupees three hundred and seventy-five”, the words “rupees three thousand five hundred” shall be substituted;
(3) in rule 38, in sub-rule (2), in clause (a), for the words “two thousand and two hundred rupees”, the words “twenty one thousand rupees” shall be substituted;
(4) in rule 40, in sub-rule (3), for the words “rupees three hundred and seventy-five per mensem”, the words “rupees three thousand five hundred per mensem” shall be substituted;
(5) in rule 41, in sub-rule (2), for the words “rupees three hundred and seventy-five per mensem”, the words “rupees three thousand five hundred per mensem” shall be substituted;
(6) in rule 49,
(a) after sub – rule (1), the following shall be inserted, namely:-
“(1A) The dearness allowance admissible on the date of retirement shall also be treated as emoluments for the purpose of sub-rule(1).”;
(b) for sub-rule (2), the following shall be substituted, namely;-
“(2) In the case of a Government servant retiring in accordance with the provisions of these rules after completing the qualifying service of not less than ten years, the amount of pension shall be calculated at fifty per cent of emoluments or average emoluments, whichever is more beneficial to him, subject to a minimum of three thousand and five hundred rupees per mensem and a maximum of forty-five thousand rupees per mensem.
(2A) In addition to pension admissible in accordance with sub-rule (2), after completion of eighty years of age or above, additional pension shall be payable to the retired Government servant in the following manner:
Age of pensioner
Additional pension
From 80 years to less than 85 years
20% of basic pension.
From 85 years to less than 90 years
30% of basic pension.
From 90 years to less than 95 years
40% of basic pension.
From 95 years to less than 100 years
50% of basic pension.
100 years or more
100% of basic pension.” ;
(c) in sub-rule (4), the words, brackets and letters “clause (a) or clause (b) of’ shall be omitted;
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS RAILWAY BOARD
COMMERCIAL CIRCULAR NO.25 OF 2011
No. TCII/2010/09/Students/Policy
New Delhi, dated 30.5.2011
The General Managers,
All Indian Railways,
Sub : Free Monthly Season tickets to girls pursuing Professional / Vocational courses upto Graduation.
As per existing provisions contained inRule 242.2 of IRCA Coaching Tariff No. 26, Part-I (Vol.I), Girl Students upto graduation are eligible for Free Monthly Season tickets for travel between stations serving their school/college to residence.
2. As announced by Hon’ble MR during discussion on Railway Budget, it has been decided to extend the above mentioned concession to Girl students who are pursuing Professional/Vocational courses also upto the level of graducation.
3. There will be no change in other terms and conditions, including the eligibilty/entitlement of free MSTs to Boy students.
4.This concession will be admissible on MSTs purchased on and after 1st July 2011
5. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
6. Necessary instruction may be issued to all concerned immediatly and implementation ensured.
Lowering the age limit from 65 years to 60 years under Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme and increase in rate of pension to persons of 80 years and above
The Cabinet today approved lowering the age limit for the Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS) from 65 years to 60 years and increasing the rate of pension from Rs. 200 to Rs. 500 to persons of 80 years and above. The revised norms would be applicable with effect from 1st April, 2011.
It is estimated that lowering of the age limit would benefit about an additional 72.32 lakh persons in the age group of 60-64 years and living below the poverty line. It is estimated that 26.49 lakh persons above the age of 80 years and living below the poverty line, would become eligible to receive enhanced central assistance @ Rs. 500 per month. At present 169 lakh persons above the age of 65 years and living below poverty line are receiving central assistance under IGNOAPS.
The additional funds required will be Rs. 1,736 crore for providing old age pension @ Rs. 200 per month per beneficiary in the age group of 60-64 years and Rs. 953 crore for providing enhanced pension @ Rs. 500 per month per beneficiary of age 80 years and above. Thus the total additional requirement will be Rs. 2,770 crore including 3% administrative expenses.
As a result of change in the eligibility criteria for receiving old age pension, eligibility criteria for widow pension under IGNWPS and disability pension under IGNDPS will get revised from 40-64 years to 40-59 years and from 18-64 years to 18-59 years respectively.
As announced in the Railway Budget 2011-12, the Ministry of Railways has decided to extend the Rail Yatri Sevaks with modern trolleys to six more stations. These six stations are New Delhi (Platform No. 1 and 16), Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram.
Modern Luggage Trolleys with brakes, similar to those provided at airports (standard dimensions) will be provided for round the clock service. These trolleys should be provided by service providers who will be engaged for each station through a separate open-tender process to be followed by the zonal Railways. The contractual period shall be for one year.
These trolleys will be provided by service providers with no initial or recurring investment by the Railways. The service provider providing these trolleys will have to pay annual license fees to the Railways based on the highest financial bid in the open tender.
The number of trolleys to be provided at a station will be decided by the Zonal Railways based on the requirement and taking into account the congestion at the platforms of the Railway station. The number of trolleys, however, will not exceed 50 on a station.
Service provider shall be allowed to advertise on these trolleys in accordance with the guidelines stipulated for advertisement on Railway premises with respect to aesthetics, public morale etc. The space for advertisement will be fixed by the Zonal Railways and will be notified while inviting the tender. The advertising material will have to be approved from the Railway authority before display. There will be no advertising which may affect the business of the Railways negatively like advertising of airlines etc. Railways will specify this area of advertisement as additional space in cases where the bulk advertisement rights for commercial publicity are awarded. The space used for advertisements on trolleys will not be included in the bulk advertisement rights.
The Zonal Railways will notify the specific telephone number on which senior citizens and ladies can book the luggage trolley in advance. The “Rail Yatri Sevaks” will hold a placard with number to help the passengers in identification of the assigned trolley. The passenger booking the service will furnish the PNR to the “Rail Yatri Sevak” for the purpose of verification.
It will be clarified by the Zonal Railways that “Rail Yatri Sevaks” are deployed by the service provider. Their deployment is purely contractual in nature and no facilities viz. absorption in railway service, regularization of service, bonus, railway pass facilities etc. will accrue to the service provider or “Rail Yatri Sevaks”.
DA Season Started, most of the central government employees started searching in search engines with keyword “Expected Dearness allowance from July 2011”. Already we know DA Percentage Calculation is based on AICPIN Value, currently Ministry of Labour & Employment Department released only four month AICPIN value (till April 2011), so we need another two month AICPIN value to get the exact DA percentage.
Hope this time all of us will get some reasonable DA percentage, last time we have received only 6% DA, however government increased certain allowance by 25%.
Lets hope for the best for reasonable DA from July 2011.
The Arunachal Pradesh government has decided to release an additional 6 per cent Dearness Allowance (DA) for its employees and pensioners with effect from January this year.”Keeping in view the rising costs of daily living and the consequent hardships experienced by the employees, the government has decided to increase the DA to 51 per cent from the existing 45 per cent which, will cost the state exchequer a total of Rs 84.10 crore,” state Finance Minister Kalikho Pul said in a statement today.While holding that the financial position of the state can improve only when all categories of government officers and officials sustain efforts in enhancing the revenue, howsoever negligible the amount may be, he said that no government can manage the finances effectively only by spending.”Rather we have to steadily achieve self-reliance in finance by increasing our own revenue,” Pul pointed out.Pul also informed that the government is considering sorting out stipend problems of the students by creating a separate head of expenditure and separate allocation so that monthly payment of stipends can be made to ensure smooth procurement of ration.”Numerous poor students who are unable to pay their hostel dues will stand benefited under the new system and education as a whole will get boost in the state,” he said.The government is also actively considering providing stipends to students of class one to five of upgraded fourth standard to upper primary schools who are deprived of the facility after upgrading.
As part of the 150 years’ celebrations of the Institution of the CA&G of India, a national level on-line essay competition for the graduate and post graduate students in all the disciplines has been organized from today. The subject is “Role of CAG in Meeting Challenges of Good Governance.” The competition is open only for Indian citizens who are not more than 25 years of age.
The length of essay is 3000 words. The essay can be emailed to CAG’s Office from 1st June to 30th June 2011 till 5:00 Pm. Only one entry from one student is allowed. The essays can be sent either in Hindi or in English. There will be three prizes in both the languages. The award money for the first prize is Rs. 50,000, for the second prize Rs. 40,000 and for the third prize Rs.30,000. There will also be 10 consolation prizes in both the languages amounting to Rs. 10,000 each.
A 12 member panel has been constituted for selecting the winners.
The details regarding the competition rules and details are available at the websites: www.Saiindia.in/www.cag.gov.in.
The Union Cabinet today approved the inclusion of the names of some castes and communities in the Central List of OBCs.
The National Commission for Backward Classes advised the Central Government for amendment in the Central list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) for the States of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and Union Territories(UTs) of Andaman & Nicobar Islands & Puducherry.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment will make amendments in the Central lists of OBCs in respect of these States and UTs. Inclusion of these castes/communities in the Central list of OBCs would enable them to avail the benefits of reservation in Central Government services and posts as well as in the Central education institutions, thus contributing to the goal of equity and inclusiveness.
Shri Sunil Mitra, an IAS officer of the 1975 batch (West Bengal Cadre) has been appointed as the Finance Secretary and Secretary, Department of Revenue upon retirement of Smt. Sushama Nath, Finance Secretary and Secretary, Department of Expenditure on 31stMay, 2011. Presently, Shri Mitra is the Secretary, Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance.
