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Grant of Dearness Relief to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners – Revised rate effective from 1.1.2010.

F. No. 42/18/2010-P&PW(G)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare

3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan,
Khan Market, New Delhi – 110003
Date: 31st March 2010

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject : Grant of Dearness Relief to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners – Revised rate effective from 1.1.2010.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s OM No. 42/12/2009-P&PW(G) dated 23.9.2009 on the subject mentioned above and to state that the President is pleased to decide that the Dearness Relief payable to Central Government pensioners shall be enhanced from the existing rate of 27% to 35% w.e.f. 1st January, 2010.

2. These orders apply to (i) All Civilian Central Government Pensioners/Family Pensioners (ii) The Armed Forces Pensioners, Civilian Pensioners paid out of the Defence Service Estimates, (iii) All India Service Pensioners (iv) Railway Pensioners and (v) The Burma Civilian pensioners/family pensioners and pensioners/families of displaced Government pensioners from Pakistan, who are Indian Nationals but receiving pension on behalf of Government of Pakistan, who are in receipt of ad-hoc ex-gratia allowance of Rs. 3500/- p.m. in terms of this Department’s OM No. 23/1/97-P&PW(B) dated 23.2.1998 read with this Department’s OM No. 23/3/2008-P&PW(B) dated 15.9.2008.

3. Central Government Employees who had drawn lumpsum amount on absorption in a PSU/Autonomous body and have become eligible to restoration of 1/3`d commuted portion of pension as well as revision of the restored amount in terms of this Department’s OM No. 4/59/97-P&PW (D) dated 14.07.1998 will also be entitled to the payment of DR @ 35% w.e.f. 1.1.2010 on full pension i.e. the revised pension which the absorbed employee would have received on the date of restoration had he not drawn lumpsum payment on absorption and Dearness Pension subject to fulfillment of the conditions laid down in para 5 of the O.M. dated 14.07.98. In this connection, instructions contained in this Department’s OM No.4/29/99-P&PW (D) dated. 12.7.2000 refers.

4. Payment of DR involving a fraction of a rupee shall be rounded off to the next higher rupee.

5. Other provisions governing grant of DR in respect of employed family pensioners and re-employed Central Government Pensioners will be regulated in accordance with the provisions contained in this Department’s OM No. 45/73/97-P&PW (G) dated 2.7.1999 as amended vide this Department’s OM No. F. No. 38/88/2008-P&PW(G) dated 9th July, 2009.The provisions relating to regulation of DR where pensioner is in receipt of more than one pension will remain unchanged.

6. In the case of retired Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, necessary orders will be issued by the Department of Justice separately.

7. It will be the responsibility of the pension disbursing authorities, including the nationalized banks, etc. to calculate the quantum of DR payable in each individual case.

8. The offices of Accountant General and Authorised Public Sector Banks are requested to arrange payment of relief to pensioners etc. on the basis of above instructions without waiting for any further instructions from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the Reserve Bank of India in view of letter No. 528-TA, I1/34-80-II dated 23/04/1981 of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India addressed to all Accountant Generals and Reserve Bank of India Circular No. GANB No. 2958/GA-64

(ii) (CGL)/81 dated the 21St May, 1981 addressed to State Bank of India and its subsidiaries and all Nationalised Banks.

9. In their application to the pensioners/family pensioners belonging to Indian Audit and Accounts Department, these orders issue in consultation with the C&AG.

10. This issues with the concurrence of Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure vide their OM No. 1(4)/EV/2004 dated 31.3.2010.

( V. K. Wadhwa)

Under Secretary to the Government of India

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Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) – Recruitment of specialist officers

Oriental Bank of India (OBC) is a leading public sector bank invites application from Indian citizens for the following posts of Specialist Officers. The candidates have to apply online only after ensuring that they are eligible in all respects.

1. Assistant General Manager (SMGS-V) – 07 posts (Forex-1, Economist-1, IT-1, Risk Management-1, Corporate Credit-2)
Pay Scale : Rs.24140-26620/-
Age Limit : 45 years

2. Chief Manager (SMGS-IV) – 09 posts (Forex-3, Economics-1, SSI-3, Credit-1, Domestic and Forex Treasury-2)
Pay Scale : Rs.20480-24140/-
Age Limit : 40 years

3. Deputy Chief Manager (MMGS-III) – 29 posts (FA-19, Forex-5, Architect/ Civil Engineer-2, Technical-1, Equity and Debt-2)
Pay Scale : Rs.18240-22280/-
Age Limit : 35 years

4. Manager (MMGS-II) – 75 posts (FA-20, Forex-7, SSI-2, Law-14, Security-12, Public Relations and Publicity-1, Company Secretary-1, Technical-3, IT-15)
Pay Scale : Rs.13820-19920/-
Age Limit : 35 years

5. Financial Analyst (JMGS-I) – 14 posts
Pay Scale : Rs.10000-18240/-
Age Limit : 30 years

6. SSI (JMGS-I) – 01 post
Pay Scale : Rs.10000-18240/-
Age Limit : 30 years

7. HRD Officer (JMGS-I) – 12 posts
Pay Scale : Rs.10000-18240/-
Age Limit : 30 years

8. Hindi Officer (JMGS-I) – 05 posts
Pay Scale : Rs.10000-18240/-
Age Limit : 30 years

9. Officer (Information Technology) (JMGS-I) – 19 posts
Pay Scale : Rs.10000-18240/-
Age Limit : 30 year

Last date for on line registration : 17.04.2010


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Order to revise house rent rule

A husb- and and a wife who are government employees are both entitled to house rent allowance if one of them is posted a “reasonable distance” away from the other, Calcutta High Court has said.

The government now offers the allowance to either the husband or the wife if the distance between their workplaces is less than 250km.

But the court today ask- ed the government to redraw the house rent allowance policy using a “reasonable dis- tance” instead of 250km as the cut-off.

The matter came up during the hearing of a case moved by a Murshidabad teacher whose husband works for the railways in Calcutta.

Since Shukla Das’s hus-band stays 225km from her school in Kandi, she is not entitled to her house rent allowance, according to the rule that came into effect following a circular issued in October 2007. “She stays in a rented house at Purandarpur but she doesn’t get any rent allowance as her husband is already getting it,” said her lawyer Kaushik Chanda.

Das welcomed the order. “I had repeatedly told the authorities that I deserved the allowance but nothing happened. So, I moved court earlier this month.”

Opposing the petition, government lawyer Kamalesh Jha had said: “Fixing the house rent allowance for government employees is an administrative decision and the court should not interfere in the matter.”

However, Justice Biswanath Somadder said: “As the transport system and infrastructure in our country are not so developed that an employee can travel 450km a day to attend his/her place of work and return home, the government should fix a reasonable distance from home to the workplace if it wants to give house rent to only one of them.”

Before the 2007 circular, all state government employees were entitled to house rent allowance.

“When the government realised that working couples were drawing double house rent but sharing the same accommodation, it adopted the existing policy. But the 250km norm was impractical,” said Chanda.

Source : The Telegraph India

DOPT | Guidelines for fixation of pay

No.1213/2009-Pay-I
Government of India
Department of Personnel & Training
Estt (Pay-I) Section.

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New Delhi dated the 30Th March, 2010

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Guidelines for fixation of pay of candidates working in Public
Sector Undertakings etc., recommended for appointment by the Commission by the method of recruitment by selection – regarding.

Reference is invited to this Department’s OMs No. 1211/88-Pay-I dated 7.8.89 and 1211196-Pay-I dated 10.7.98, whereby guidelines for fixation of pay of candidates working in Public Sector Undertakings etc., recommended for appointment by the Commission by the method of recruitment by selection through interview only, were issued.

2. Subsequent to the implementation of the recommendations of
the 6th CPC and the issue of CCS(RP) Rules 2008, the system of Running Pay
Bands and Grade Pays has been introduced. Accordingly, in partial
modification of this Department’s OM dated 7.8.89 and 10.7.98 referred to
above, the method of pay fixation in respect of those appointed on or after
1.1.2006 will be as under:

“In case of candidates working in Public Sector Undertakings, Universities, Semi-Government Institutions or Autonomous Bodies, who are appointed as direct recruits on or after 1.1.2006 on selection through interview by a properly constituted agency including Departmental Authorities making recruitment directly, their initial pay may be fixed by granting them the Grade Pay attached to the post. Further, their pay in the Pay Band may be fixed at a stage so that the pay in the Pay Band +Grade Pay and DA as admissible in the government, protects the pay +DA already being drawn by them in their parent organisations. The pay in the Pay Band fixed under this formulation will not be fixed at a stage lower than Entry Pay in the Revised Pay Structure (corresponding to the Grade Pay applicable to the post) for direct recruits on or after 1.1.2006 as notified vide Section II, Part A of First Schedule to CCS(RP) Rules, 2008. The pay in the Pay Band fixed under this formulation will not exceed Rs. 67000, the maximum of the Pay Band PB-4.”

3. The conditions for admissibility of pay protection shall be the same as
stipulated in this Department’s OMs dated 7.8.89 and 10.7.98 referred to
above.

4. In so far as persons serving in the India Audit and Accounts Department are concerned, these orders are issued with the concurrence of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

5. These orders will be applicable w.e.f. 1.1.2006

(Rita Mather)

Director (Pay)

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2,500 Nagpur ZP pensioners yet to get arrears

The sixth pay commission may have brought in enough good news for both current and former government employees, but paucity of funds seems to be holding the cheers back. Around 2,500 retired employees of the Nagpur Zilla Parishad (ZP) are yet to receive the first installment of their pension arrears, even as the second installment becomes due on March 31. As per the recommendations of the pay panel, the retired were to receive pension as per the revised scale from January 1, 2006.

However, the recommendations were made much later and hence the state government decided to pay the extra money in the form of arrears in five installments. The first of these installments was due in June last year, but have not been paid. Even as the second installment becomes due on Wednesday, the accounts department of the Zilla Parishad is claiming that it does not have enough funds to pay the arrears. Chief accounts and finance officer A D Hemke told TOI that the state government has sent funds that are even lesser than last year and also recalled any surplus funds that may have been available with the ZP accounts department. That coupled with the salary revision of some of the ZP employees has further increased the amount of money to be distributed.

“Last year, the state government had given Rs 31 crore to distribute as salary and pension. This year, even though we have to pay the arrears along with the regular salary payments, we have received only Rs 28 crore. We have just two options. Either we stop regular payments and pay arrears, or we stop arrears and continue the regular payments, including pension and salary,” Hemke said. “Nevertheless, we have already applied for an additional grant of the Rs 3 crore to be released by the state government. If it arrives by March 31, then we will be in a position to pay the arrears. Under the present circumstances, we are even lagging behind in paying people who subscribe to certain schemes,” he added.

The non-payment of these arrears is causing a lot of problems. Sources claimed that several elderly women, who are supposed to receive the arrears on behalf of their deceased husbands, are suffering because of this.

Source : Times of India

DOPT | Fake Instruction on Overtime Allowance

No.15011/01/2010-Estt.(AL)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
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New Delhi, dated 30th March, 2010

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject :- Fake Instruction on Overtime Allowance – regarding

It has come to the notice of this Department that fake orders on revised rate of Overtime Allowance are being circulated in Central Govt. offices. It has been confirmed from Ministry of Finance that the O.M. No.1 (4)/2010 E-II dt.27/3/2010 signed by Sh. S. Rajan Chandranaydu, Under Secretary to the Govt. of India purportedly issued by Ministry of Finance is fake.

It is clarified that no such instruction has been issued by this Department or Ministry of Finance. Ministries/Departments are advised not to take cognizance of the fake instructions being circulated in Central Govt. Offices .

(Simm R. Nakra)

Director

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DOPT | 14th April 2010 – Holiday for all Central Govt Offices

NO. 12/3/2010-JCA-2
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
(Department of Personnel &
Training)
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North Block, New Delhi
Dated the 29th March, 2010.
OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Declaration of Holiday on 14th April, 2010 – Birthday of Dr.
B.R. Ambedkar.

It has been decided to declare Wednesday, the 14th April 2010, as a
Closed Holiday on account of the birthday of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, for
all Central Government Offices including industrial establishments
throughout India.

2. The above holiday is also being notified in exercise of the
powers conferred by Section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act,
1881 (26 of 1881).

3. All Ministries/Departments of Government of India may bring the
above decision to the notice of all concerned.

Dinesh Kapila

Deputy Secretary to the Government of India


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Saraswat Bank – Recruitment 2010 | 200 CLERKS

Saraswat Bank, the largest Urban Co-operative Bank in India, has a network of 200 fully computerised branches on CBS platform located in six states i.e. Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Delhi. The total business of the Bank has crossed over Rs.22,000 crore as on today with zero percent net NPA. The Bank is now looking for energetic and dynamic candidates, residing in Mumbai and Pune only and fulfilling the following eligibility norms for recruitment as CLERKS – (MARKETING & OPERATIONS):

Post :

Clerk – (Marketing & Operations)  Vacancies – approx.200

Age : Between 18 years to 27 years as on 1st April, 2010.

Educational Qualification :

B.Com. (First Class) with minimum 60% marks from a recognised University.

Candidates appearing for final year B.Com exams and expecting first class with minimum 60% marks will be allowed to apply provisionally.

Proficiency in computer operations is a must.

The eligible candidates will have to qualify in the written test and group discussions/interview. The written test will comprise of Test of Reasoning, English Language, Numerical Ability and Clerical Aptitude.

Pay Scale : Six Months consolidated salary of Rs.9,500/- p.m. After confirmation, the post will carry gross emoluments of around Rs.1.43 lakhs per annum and other benefits, as admissible under the relevant grade.

Interested candidates fulfilling the above eligibility criteria may send their applications with complete details (in the formats available by clicking the option given below) in a sealed envelope superscribing“Application for the post of Clerk – (Marketing and Operations)” alongwith a demand draft of Rs.200/- in favour of “The Saraswat Co-op.Bank Ltd., Mumbai” as application fee within five days to Mrs. Pearl R. Varghese, Asst. General Manager (HRD), The Saraswat Co-operative Bank Ltd., (Scheduled Bank), “Madhushree” Plot No.85, Sector 17, District Business Centre, 2nd Floor, Vashi, Navi Mumbai 400 703.

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TN | Ad-hoc Increase from 01.01.2010

FINANCE (ALLOWANCES) DEPARTMENT
G.O. No.97, Dated 27th March, 2010

(Pan guni-13, Thiruvalluvar Aandu 2041)

Ad-hoc Increase – Employees on CONSOLIDATED PAY / FIXED PAY / HONORARIUM – Ad-hoc Increase from 01.01.2010 – Orders – Issued.

READ – the following papers:?

  1. G.O.Ms.No.471, Finance (Allowances) Department,dated 22.09.2009.
  2. G.O.Ms.No.96, Finance (Allowances) Department,dated 27.03.20 10.

ORDER:

In the Government Order first read above, the Government sanctioned an ad-hoc increase in the Consolidated Pay / Fixed Pay / Honorarium with effect from 01. 07.2009 at the rate of Rs.20/- per month in respect of those drawing revised Consolidated Pay / Fixed Pay Honorarium up to Rs.600/- per month and at the rate of Rs.40/- per month in respect of those drawing revised Consolidated Pay / Fixed Pay / Honorarium of above Rs.600/- per month.

2. In the Government Order second read above, orders were issued enhancing the Dearness Allowance payable to Government employees on regular time scale of pay with effect from 1.1.2010. Government has therefore, decided to grant ad-hoc increase to those drawing revised Consolidated Pay / Fixed Pay / Honorarium with effect from 01.01.2010. Accordingly, Government direct that employees drawing revised Consolidated Pay / Fixed Pay / Honorarium be allowed another ad-hoc increase with effect from 01.01.20 10 as detailed below:?

For those drawing revised Consolidated Pay / Fixed
Pay / Honorarium up to Rs.600/- per month from
1.1.2006                                                                                       -Rs.20/- per month
For those drawing revised Consolidated Pay / Fixed
Pay / Honorarium above Rs.600/- per month from
1.1.2006                                                                                      -Rs.40/- per month

3. The arrears of adhoc increase for the months of January and February 2010 shall be paid after the disbursement of Consolidated pay / Fixed pay / Honorarium of March, 2010

4. This order shall also apply to employees of Local Bodies, Over head tank operators and Sweepers working in Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department.

(BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR)

K. GNANADESIKAN

PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT

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Tamilnadu | Dearness Allowance (DA) GO

Tamil Nadu government hiked the Dearness Allowance for its employees by eight per cent, extending the benefits to pensioners also.The revised DA amount will be paid from January 1, 2010.

Today Tamilnadu Government, released GO copy for Dearness allowance – Enhanced Rate of DA from 1st January 2010.

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