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Enhancement to Child adoption Leave from 135 days to 180 days and extension of the facility of Paternity Leave to adoptive fathers.

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No.11019/27/2008-AIS-11I
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
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New Delhi, the 20th August, 2009

Subject: – Enhancement to Child adoption Leave from 135 days to 180 days and extension of the facility of Paternity Leave to adoptive fathers.

Sir/Madam,

I am directed to enclose herewith copies of the instructions of the Government of India regarding enhancement of Child Adoption Leave from 135 days to 180 days and extension of the facility of Paternity Leave to adoptive fathers in respect of Central Government Employees and to state that the instructions contained in this Department’s Office Memorandum No. 13018/1/2009-Estt(L) dated 22nd July, 2009 and 13018/4/2004-Estt(L) dated 31st March, 2006 will be applicable mutatis-mutandis to members of the All India Services.

Yours faithfully,
(Harjot Kaur)
Director (Services)

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Implementation of Swavalamban Schemes in New Pension Scheme

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F,No, 13/10/2006-PR
Ministry of Finance
Government of India
Department or financial Services
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Jeevan Vihar Building, Parliament Street,
New Delhi, Dated the 18th June, 2010.

To
The Chairman,
Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority,
Ist Floor, ICADR Building,
Plot No. 6, Vacant Kunj, Institutional Area, Phase-II,
New Deplhi –110070

Subject: Implementation of Swavalamban Schemes – approval of Operational Guidelines,

Sir,

In pursuance to the announcement of Swavalamban Scheme in the Union Budget 2010-11, a roadmap has been drawn for implementation of the Scheme to achieve the intended objectives PFRDA had finalized draft Operational Guidelines in this regard. These Operational Guidelines have been approved by the Government. A copy of the approved guidelines is enclosed.

2. PFRDA was in process of finalising guidelines for appointment of Aggregator/Contribution Collection Agents. A copy of the draft guidelines for appointment of Aggregator/Contribution Collection Agents, as finalised by PFRDA, may kindly be provided to this Office at the earliest,

3. Vide this Office letter dated 100 June. 2010, PFRDA was requested to indicate the preparedness of PFRDA for launch of the Scheme on 1 August, 2010. You are requested to kindly indicate your views in this regard to this Office at the earliest.

Yours faithfully,

(D.D. Maheshwari)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

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Swavalamban Scheme: Operational Guidelines

The Scheme and its applicability

1. The scheme will be called Swavaiamban Yojana. it will be applicable to all citizens in the unorganised sector who join the New Pension System (NPS) administered by the Interim Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA),

Benefits under the Scheme

2. Under the scheme, Government will contribute Rs. 1000 per year to each NPS account opened in the year 2010-11 for the next three years, that is, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14. The benefit will be available only to persons who join the NPS with a minimum contribution of 1,000 end maximum contribution of Re.12,000 per annum.

Definitions:

3. Unorganised sector For the purpose of this scheme, a person will be deemed to belong to the unorganised sector if that person:

  • is not in regular employment of the Central or a state government, or an autonomous body / public sector undertaking of the Central or state government having employer assisted retirement benefit scheme, or
  • is not covered by a social security scheme under any of the following laws:

 

  • Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
  • The Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act,1948
  • The Seamen’s Provident fund Act, 1966
  • The Assam Tea Plantations Provident Fund and Pension Fund Scheme Act, 1955
  • The Jammu and Kashmir Employees’ Provident Fund Act 1961

4. All other definitions as given in the NPS offer document will apply to he terms used in this scheme,

Eligibility:

5. The Scheme will be applicable to all persons in the unorganised sector subject to the condition that the benefit ff Central Government contribution will he available only to those persons whose contribution to NPS is minimum Rs. 1,000 and maximum Rs 12,000 per annum, for both Tier I and II taken together, provided that the person makes a minimum contribution of Rs. 1000 per annum to his Tier I NPS account

6. As a special case and in recognition of their faith in the NPS, all NPS accounts opened in 2009-10 will be entitled to the benefit of Government contribution under this scheme as if they were opened as new accounts in 2010-11 subject to the condition that they fulfill all the eligibility criteria prescribed under these guidelines.

Funding

7, The scheme will be funded by grants from Government of India. The grants would be given such that monthly payment in the subscriber accounts would be possible.

Operation

8. A person will have the option to join the NPS as an individual as per the existing scheme or through the CRA Lite approved by PFRDA.

9. At the time of joining the NPS the subscriber will have to declare whether he/she falls within the definition of unorganised sector as defined in para 3 above and would also declare that his contribution would range between Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 12,000 per annum, If subsequent to opening the NPS account it is found that the subscriber has made a false declaration about his eligibility for the benefits under this scheme or has been wrongly given the benefit of government contribution under this scheme for whatsoever reason, the entire government contribution will be deducted along with penal interest as may be specified from time to time

if the status of the subscriber changes to Ineligible after joining the NPS, he/ she should immediately declare so and the benefit of government contribution will not accrue to the subscriber’s account after the date on which the subscriber becomes ineligible.

10 At the end of each financial year the CRA wlii, by 7th April of the following year, send to the PFRDA details of the NPS accounts opened during the year, showing separately the number of eligible NPS accounts in which the subscriber’s contribution has been between Rs, 1,000 and Rs. 12,000. CRA will also send these details with individual PRAN to the Trustee Bank.

Exit from NPS

11. The exit from the Swavalamban Scheme would be on the same terms and conditions on which exit from Tier-1 account of NPS is permitted, that is, exit at age 60 with 40% minimum annuilisation of pension wealth and exit before age 60 with 80% annuilisation of pension wealth. This exit would be subject to the condition that the minimum pension out of his accumulated pension wealth would be Rs, 1,000 per month, which may be revised from time to time

Miscellaneous

12, PFRDA may permit members of an existing pension scheme to migrate to NPS under such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Government

Removal of doubts

13. In case of any doubts on the eligibility, operation of the scheme or any other issue the Central Government will decide the matter in consultation with PFROA and the decision of the Central Government will be final.

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New Pay Scales for Employees of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) at Par with PSBs

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Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has asked the Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) to bring their Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) below 5% by this year itself. Finance Minister also announced the wage revision of the pay-scale and allowances of the employees of the RRBs corresponding to those of Nationalised Banks as per 9th Bipartite Settlement. The additional cost burden of the arrears on this account would be about Rs. 791 crores. He was addressing the annual review meeting of Chairmen of RRBs and General Managers of Sponsor Banks, here today. Shri Mukherjee asked the RRBs to speed up their activities to expand their branches on platform of Core Banking Solutions. The Finance Minister emphasized upon use of new technology including Business Correspondents, mobile banking vans, tele-banking etc. to provide banking services to entire population of the country, especially in the rural areas.

Secretary Financial Services, Shri R. Gopalan, Deputy Governor RBI, Dr. K.C. Chakravarty, Chairman NABARD, Shri U.C.Sarangi and Additional Secretary, Financial Services, Shri Rakesh Singh were also present on this occasion among others.

Following is full text of the speech delivered by the Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee on this occasion:

“I am happy to be here in the annual review meeting of Chairmen of RRBs and General Managers of Sponsor Banks. Such meetings are being organized regularly since January 2007 and have helped in preparing a realistic action plan for strengthening the RRBs on a sustainable growth trajectory. I hope that this meeting will help us in further consolidating the efforts being made by the RRBs, Sponsor Banks, Govt Of India, NABARD and the Reserve Bank of India.

As you are aware, the first batch of RRBs were established on 2 October 1975 and their number gradually increased to 196 in 1986. The RRBs were designed as unique financial institutions with exclusive focus on development of rural areas. It was expected that these institutions would provide efficient financial services at affordable cost to the disadvantaged sections of the rural population.

Government of India had initiated a series of measures in the recent years to strengthen the RRBs to emerge as strong financial institutions for meeting the financial needs of the rural population. In the wake of the announcement in the Union Budget 2007-08, 27 RRBs which had negative networth as on 31 March 2007 have been recapitalized. A conducive policy environment has been created for expanding the branch network of RRBs. The branch licencing norms have been made flexible. RRBs have responded to these measures and have opened 716 branches during the last 02 years.

For further improving the financial health of RRBs, the Government of India started the process of structural consolidation of RRBs by amalgamating RRBs sponsored by the same Sponsor Banks within the State. The process of amalgamation is almost complete. As on date, there are 82 RRBs (46 amalgamated and 36 stand alone) with a branch network of 15,475 branches covering 619 districts, 26 States and 01 Union Territory (Puducherry).

RRBs are expected to play a vital role in promoting financial inclusion in the country. To achieve this objective, RRBs are being supported out of the Financial Inclusion Fund and Financial Inclusion Technology Fund set up in NABARD. NABARD had launched a pilot project for facilitating Financial Inclusion with ICT in 15 RRBs. The pilot project is expected to cover 150 villages in 30 districts of 14 States. All RRBs need to draw up individual plans for financial inclusion in their areas of operation at the earliest and also adopt the BC / BF model.

I am happy to note that RRBs have shown improved performance in many areas. The total loan outstanding of RRBs as on 31 March 2010 was Rs.83,562 crore whereas the deposits amounted to Rs.1,42,814 crore. The ground level credit flow of RRBs has improved from Rs.43,367 crore to Rs.56,268 crore thereby recording an appreciable growth rate of about 30%. A significant part of their performance is substantial lending to the priority sector. RRBs are mandated to lend 60% of their loans to the priority sector. During the last three years, RRBs have not only achieved the target fixed for the purpose but have maintained priority sector loans above 80%. I am also happy to note that RRBs have maintained their focus on agriculture as over 61% of the priority sector loans are for agriculture sector. The RRBs have also improved the health of their credit portfolio as the net NPA has now reduced to 1.62%. Only three RRBs are now making losses.

There is no doubt that the enabling environment created by Government of India, RBI and NABARD has helped the RRBs in improving their performance. Still, there are many areas of concern. 30 RRBs had accumulated losses to the tune of Rs.1,808 crore. All weak RRBs need to chalk out a time bound action plan to wipe out the accumulated losses and simultaneously achieve all the prudential norms.

In the last review meeting held in August 2009, I had expressed concern that a very large number of RRBs continued to have low CRAR. It was also observed during the review that some of the RRBs presently having reasonable CRAR would also be not able to maintain it on account of certain expenditure they might have to incur in the coming years for payment of enhanced wages and installation of CBS. To address this situation, a Committee was set up under the Chairmanship of Dr. K C Chakravarty, Deputy Governor, RBI to analyse the financials of RRBs and suggest measures so that each RRB has atleast 9% CRAR by 2012. The Committee has already submitted their report. The report is now under examination in consultation with NABARD and RBI. I am sure the implementation of the feasible recommendations of the Committee would help the RRBs to emerge as stronger financial institutions.

It is imperative that all RRBs embrace the latest technology for providing services to their customers. I have been constantly laying emphasis that all RRBs in a time bound matter should have all their branches under Core Banking Solution. I understand that 21 RRBs have now covered their entire bank branch network under CBS. 10 more RRBs are on the way to achieve full coverage of their branches under CBS. However, it is a matter of concern that CBS is yet to take roots in 51 RRBs. I would urge upon all the RRBs and their sponsor banks to attach utmost priority to CBS and in today’s meeting a time bound programme should be fixed for CBS implementation for each of the RRBs.

The sponsor banks also need to closely monitor the performance of their sponsored RRBs and provide timely guidance to them wherever necessary. It has been brought to my notice that some of the sponsor banks have withdrawn the Chairmen of RRBs before the completion of their tenure. Though the premature withdrawal must be for valid reasons, this could affect the performance of the RRBs in an adverse way, besides impacting the morale of the staff of RRBs. I suggest that the sponsor banks take all precautions at the time of selection of Officers for the post of Chairman of RRB so as to ensure that they continue to guide the RRBs for a period of at least three years.

I understand that of the 46 amalgamated RRBs, 39 are now scheduled by Reserve Bank of India. In case of 7 other RRBs, NABARD is required to undertake their inspection with reference to their annual accounts as on 31 March 2010. I would impress that this process of scheduling the remaining banks should be completed at the earliest.

I have noted that RRBs (officers and employees) Service Regulations 2010 have since been issued by GOI and the process has been initiated by the RRBs for adoption of these regulations. The new Appointment and Promotion (officers and employees) Rules have already been issued on 13.7.2010 for publication in the Gazette of India. These measures should help in improving productivity and business of the RRBs.

Keeping in view the expectations from the RRBs, the training and capacity building of RRB Officers and Staff need to be given utmost priority. A Committee set up for the purpose has identified a number of areas for capacity building of RRBs. All the RRBs should prepare a comprehensive plan for meeting the training needs of its staff members. A mechanism should be created for providing funding support to RRBs for conducting these training programme duly involving NABARD, sponsor banks and the RRB itself.

In the light of the ninth bipartite settlement between the Indian Banks Association representing the managements of the Public Sector Banks and the United Forum of Bank Union representing the associations/unions of all PSBs, the wage revision of the pay and allowances of the RRBs has also been taken up. The additional cost burden of the arrears is likely to be Rs 791 crores , which will bring down the total profits of the RRBs from Rs 2374 crores , as on 31st March, 2010 to Rs 1615 crores , adjusting for the additional cost burden of arrears on the RRBs. This is likely to lead to more RRBs going into losses against only three loss making RRBs at present. Yet the Government is committed towards fulfilling its obligation of giving equal pay scales corresponding to those of nationalized banks to the RRB employees. I am happy to announce that we are fulfilling the Government commitment of giving equal pay scales corresponding to those of nationalized banks to the RRB employees, as per Ninth Bipartite Settlement.

I look forward to our deliberations today and am sure that the gathering will have fruitful discussions and come out with pragmatic and innovative suggestions for further improving the performance of RRBs.”

Source : PIB

CGEGIS – CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES GROUP INSURANCE SCHEME – Overview

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CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES GROUP INSURANCE SCHEME

Eligibility
(i) The scheme is compulsory for all regular employees including canteen employees.

(ii) Employee joining service from Ist January of a year will be a member of the Scheme from the date of joining.

(iii) Employee joining service on any other date will be entitled for insurance cover alone from the actual date of joining till the end of that year and will become full fledged member from the 1st January of the next year.

(iv) Re-employed defence personnel shall not be admitted to this scheme until the expiry of extended insurance cover under the Group Insurance Scheme for Armed Forces.

Subscription and Insurance Cover

(i) Under the scheme monthly subscriptions are to be made by each group of employees to get the appropriate insurance cover as follows

  • (a) For members as on 31.1.1989, who opted for the old scheme :
Group of
Employees		 Subscription per
month (Rs.)		 Amount of Insurance
cover (Rs.)
A 80 80,000
B 40 40,000
C 20 20,000
D 10 10,000
  • (b) For members as on 31.1.1989 who opted for the new scheme and those joining on or after 1.2.1989 :
Group of
Employees		 Subscription per
month (Rs.)		 Amount of Insurance
cover (Rs.)
From date of joining to
succeeding Is January		 From succeeding Ist January
A 40 120 1,20,000
B 20 60 60,000
C 10 30 30,000
D 5 15 15,000

(ii) If an employee is promoted to a higher grade in between a calendar year, his subscription will be raised w.e.f. the following 1st January.

(iii) If an employee is reverted to a lower grade, his subscription and insurance will not be changed. It will remain as applicable to the higher grade to which he belonged before reversion.

(iv) Subscription for a month shall be recovered from the employee’s salary for that month.

(v) Subscription shall be recovered even for the month in which the employee ceases to be in service on account of retirement, death, resignation, removal etc. from service, or is on leave or suspension.

(vi) If subscription is not paid during any period of extraordinary leave, the arrears will be recovered with interest due under the Scheme, in maximum 3 instalments, from the month following the month in which employee returns for duty. If an employee dies while on extraordinary leave , the arrears will be recovered with compound interest @ 12% p.a. from the amount payable to the family under the scheme.

(vii) If subscription is delayed due to delayed payment of salary, no interest will be charged.

(viii) In exceptional circumstances, when employee cannot subscribe to CGEGIS, he can make non-refundable withdrawal from his PF account and pay the subscription.

(ix) 30% of the subscription will go to Insurance Fund and the balance 70% will go to Savings Funds.

Fifth Pay Commission has recommended to revise the proportion to 25% and 75% provisionally and review the same based on mortality rates.

Interest on Savings Fund

Interest will be paid on the balance in the Savings Fund at prescribed rates, compounded quarterly.

Benefits under the Scheme

(i) On Resignation/Retirement :- Amount of subscription credited to the Savings Fund alongwith interest thereon will be paid to the employee.

(ii) On Death : Amount of insurance cover of the group to which he belongs on the date of death and the accumulation in Savings Fund will be paid to his nominee/heirs.

(iii) If an employee dies before he was enrolled as a member (i.e. between the date of his joining service and the following Ist January), only the insurance amount will be paid to the nominee/heirs.

(iv) Assignment of Insurance Cover and Savings Fund for obtaining loans : An employee can assign the insurance cover and accumulation in the savings fund to a recognised financial institution, for obtaining housing loans. However, no loans/advance or withdrawals are permitted from Insurance Fund/Savings Fund.

(v) The amount of subscription is eligible for Income Tax Rebate u/s 88 of IT Act.

Mode of Payment

(i) The payment under the scheme shall be made to the employee in case of retirement, or quitting service otherwise.

(ii) In case of employee’s death, the amount shall be paid to :

  • (a) if there is a valid nomination, to the nominee(s) in the manner prescribed.
  • (b) if there is no valid nomination, as per valid nomination for GPF.
  • (c) if there is no valid nomination for PF also, then in equal shares to widow(s)/minor sons and unmarried daughters. When none of these are alive, then to other members of the family in equal shares.
  • (d) if neither any valid nomination is there, nor any member of the family is alive then to legal heirs on furnishing the succession certificate.

(iii) When the whereabouts of an employee are not known :

  • (a) Savings Fund accumulation will be paid to the nominees/members of the family/legal heirs after one year following the month of disappearance on furnishing a police report that employee is not traceable in spite of all efforts and an Indemnity Bond.
  • (b) The insurance amount will be paid after 7 years of the disappearance on production of decree of presumed death of the employee.

(c) Full subscription for the first year and reduced subscription for the insurance premium alone for the next 6 years will be recovered from the amount payable.

Other Conditions :

(a) The amount due to the minor can be paid to mother as natural guardian without any certificate in the case of non-Muslims and with guardianship certificate in the case of Muslims.

(b) If any person eligible for share of benefits is charged with murder or abetting murder of the employee, his claim will be suspended. If he is convicted he will be debarred from receiving any share, if he is acquitted his share will be paid without any interest.

(c) Any dues to the government cannot be recovered from amount payable under the scheme.

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES’ GROUP INSURANCE SCHEME

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES’ GROUP INSURANCE SCHEME

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CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES’ GROUP INSURANCE SCHEME, 1980.

The Scheme, Central Government Employees’ Group Insurance Scheme (CGEGIS) came into force from 1st January,1982. This scheme provides for the Central Govt. employees the two fold benefit viz. (1) insurance cover to help their families and (2) lump sum payment to augment their resources on retirement.

The scheme has two funds namely (1) Insurance Fund and (2) Savings Fund. A portion of the subscription is credited to Insurance Fund and the other portion to the Savings Fund in the ratio of 3:7. The Savings Fund will earn interest at the prescribed rate to be compounded quarterly.

All these employees’ who had entered Central Government Service after 1st November,1980 will be compulsorily covered under the scheme from the date it came into force i.e. from 1st January,1982. The employees will be enrolled as members of the scheme only from 1st January every year. If an employee enters service on or after 2nd January in any year, he will be enrolled as a member only from 1st January of the next year. However, he will be entitled to insurance cover from the actual date of entry of service till the end of that calender year by paying monthly subscription of Rs. 5/- p.m. as premium for every Rs. 15,000/ – of the insurance cover.

Similarly, on regular promotion of a member of a lower Group to a higher Group after 1st January in a year, his subscription will be raised from the 1st January of the next year.

Note :- If an employee once admitted to a higher Group is subsequently reverted to the lower Group for one reason or the other, he will continue to subscribe at the same rate as that of higher Group.

Contract employees, persons on deputation from State Government Public Sector Undertakings, or other autonomous organisations locally recruited staff in the Missions abroad, casual labourer, part-time and ad-hoc employees will not be covered by the scheme. It will also not apply to persons recruited in the Central Government after attaining the age of 50 years.

Re-employed Defence personnel availing of the extended insurance cover under the Group Insurance Scheme applicable to the members of Armed Forces shall not be eligible to become members of this Scheme until expiry of the extended insurance cover.

Subscription at the appropriate rate should be recovered by the DDO from each member every month irrespective of whether the member is on duty, leave or under suspension. In the case of absence on Extra Ordinary leave, subscription due should be recovered in arrears in not more than 3 instalments after the member rejoins duty, alongwith appropriate interest thereon. In the event of death of a member during Extra-ordinary leave, the DDO should recover arrears in subscription alongwith interest, from the payment to the nominee admissible under the scheme.

Note:- Subscription is payable till the end of service including the month in which an employee retires, dies or is removed from service. If an employee dies during a month before recovery of subscription for that month, his dues will be paid after deducting the subscription.

In the case of members proceeding on foreign service, the recovery of subscription would be watched by the PAO concerned in the same manner as recovery of leave salary and pension contributions is watched.

The Head of Office should obtain Nomination(s) in Form 7 or Form 8, as the case may be, from all members without delay, and after counter signature, have them pasted in their service books.

The Head of Office should ensure that Group-wise register of members is maintained in Form 9 and kept up-to-date. This register shall be sent to the DDO concerned once a year to verify whether appropriate subscription are being recovered from all employees who have joined the Insurance Fund or both the Insurance Fund and the Savings Fund under the Scheme and to record a certificate to this effect.

PROCEDURE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF GPF ACCOUNTS OF GROUP `D’ EMPLOYEES OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT Maintenance of GPF Accounts

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PROCEDURE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF GPF ACCOUNTS OF GROUP `D’ EMPLOYEES OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT Maintenance of GPF Accounts

The detailed procedure to be followed by the Heads of Office for the maintenance of the GPF Accounts of Group `D’ employees of the Central Government has been prescribed in the Ministry of Finance(Department of Expenditure) O.M.No. 52(2)-EV/60 dated the 27th June,1960 reproduced in Appendix 49 of Chowdhary’s Compilation of the CSR Vol.II(Part II), 12th Edition. Some important provisions of the said procedure are briefly stated in the ensuing paragraphs.

Allotment of GPF Account Number
All permanent employees and temporary employees in continuous service for more than one year should be admitted to the fund and assigned account numbers, which should be duly intimated to the subscribers.

GPF Ledger

A ledger account for each subscriber should be maintained in the prescribed form. These forms should be in bound volumes, which should be machine numbered.

Schedule of GPF recoveries

Each month the Drawing Officer should prepare a schedule of GPF deductions for posting in the ledger accounts. The schedule of GPF deductions should not be enclosed to the pay bill but, instead, a certificate in the prescribed form should be attached to the pay bills, indicating the total amount deducted as GPF subscriptions and as refund of advances.

Entries in GPF accounts of subscriber
The Head of Office should initial the entries in the P.F. Accounts monthly, as a token of check of the correct postings of the amount of subscriptions deducted, refund of advances and drawal of advances, part final and final payments.

Broadsheet of GPF
A broadsheet in the prescribed form should be maintained by each Head of Office. All deposits and withdrawals posted in the ledgers should also be posted in the broadsheet. The broadsheet should be posted direct from the ledgers and not from the schedules or vouchers. The broadsheet should be closed on or before the 5th of the following month and submitted to the Head of Office for review.

The Head of Office should ensure that the amount as booked in broadsheet agrees with the total of the certificate of deductions attached to the pay bills and the payments made during the month.

GPF nominations
Nominations in the prescribed form should be obtained/scrutinised in accordance with the GPF Rules and kept in the personal custody of the Head of Office. A note to this effect should also be kept in the ledger as well as in the General Index Ledger to be maintained in the prescribed form.

Transfer of Accounts
In the case of transfer of any employee from one office to another, his account should be transferred to the new Head of Office with a statement, showing the closing balance as on 31st March of the preceding financial year, which should include interest uptodate plus bonus if due, subscriptions and recovery of temporary advances monthwise drawal of advances/withdrawal if any, on or after 1st April, details of drawal of temporary advances/withdrawal and closing balance as on 31st March during the preceding three years. Two copies of the statement should also be furnished to the Head of the Department for noting and transmitting one copy to the concerned Pay and Accounts Officer.

Reconciliation of Accounts
Each Drawing Officer should send every month to his Head of Department the totals of debits and credits in the prescribed form to enable the latter to arrive at the total credits and debits in respect of all the drawing officers in a month and to communicate the same to the concerned PAO for reconciliation.

Annual Calculation of interest on GPF deposits
Interest for each year should be calculated and entered in the ledger accounts as well as in the broadsheet. The statement of interest thus credited should be forwarded to the Head of the Department to enable him to work out the consolidated figure in respect of all the DDOs under him and send a consolidated statement to the Accounts Officer for incorporation in the accounts.

Incentive Bonus
Incentive bonus, wherever admissible, should be credited to the subscriber’s account. The balance on which bonus shall be calculated would be the balance inclusive of the interest credited for the year.

Pass Books
Instead of preparing and issuing annual statements of GPF balances to the subscribers, the Head of the Office should prepare and issue a Pass Book to each subscriber in the prescribed format. At the end of each year the Head of Office should collect the Pass Books of all the Group `D’ employees for completion and return. In the case of transfer of any employee during the course of the year, his Pass Book should be completed and returned indicating the No. and date of the letter under which his GPF account has been transferred to the new office.

GPF final Payment
In case of retirement, or death, or quitting of service, when the final payment of GPF money becomes payable, the Head of Office should obtain application in the prescribed form. The final payment of GPF money should be made after the account has been thoroughly checked. The Heads of Offices are authorised to make final payment of GPF money without reference to the Accounts Officer concerned.

Payment under DLI Scheme
In the case of death in harness, the Head of Office should ensure that final payment made includes the amount admissible under Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme under Rule 33A of GPF (C.S.)Rules.

Issue of revised PPOs for pre-2006 pensioners.

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE
CENTRAL PENSION ACCOUNTING OFFICE
TRIKOOT II, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE.
NEW DELHI-110066
PHONES : 26174596. 26174456, 26174438

CPAO/Tech/Nodal Officer/Vol-II/2010/552

Dated: 13.07.2010

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Issue of revised PPOs for pre-2006 pensioners.

A meeting with representatives of bank under the Chairmanship of Secretary (Pension, AR & PG) was held on 15th June. 2010 at 3rd Floor, Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare, Lok Nayak Bhawan, regarding issuance of revised PPOs for pre-2006 pensioners.

Unanimously it was decided that:

Every bank would appoint Nodal Officer for monitoring the work of issuance of revision authority for pre-2006 retirees who in turn would collect the information from all branches and manually send Annexure-III to the concerned PAOs with a copy to CPAO It would be the responsiblity of the banks to ensure that the data sent to PAOs are complete and correct. Further the time frame for completion of this work was fixed as 31st July. 2010 to which also all the representatives of all the banks agreed

Kindly ensure that necessary action is undertaken by your bank in respect of above requirements/ action at the earliest.

(P.Sarada)
Sr.Accounts Officer(Tech)

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Implementation of Modified Assured Carrier Progression Scheme (MACPS) in CPWD. (Constitution for Screening Committee)

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No. 55/4/2006-S&D/ACP

Dated : 16 JUL 2010

Subject: Implementation of Modified Assured Carrier Progression Scheme (MACPS) in CPWD. (Constitution for Screening Committee)

Reference is invited to this Directorate of OM No. 12/19/2009-EC-IV(SC) dated 20.10.2009 vide which orders for the constitution of the screening committee for Group B, C & D employees to process the MACPS cases were issued.

This Directorate has been receiving several references from different units of CPWD regarding applicability of above orders of composition of screening committee in case of Group B & C employees who are to be granted MACPS in PB3 / PB4 scales in Grade Pays of Rs. 5400, 6600, 7600 etc.

In this regard, it is stated that screening committee for Group A (except officers of Organized Group A Service), B & C employees including adhoc Executive Engineers, who are to be granted MACPS in PB3 / PB4 scales in the Grade Pays of Rs.5400, 6600, 7600 etc. shall be as per following composition.

1. Director General, CPWD -Chairman
2. Addl. DG (S&P) – Member
3. Director (W) MoUD – Member

As per the above referred MACPS orders dated 19.5.2009 of DoPT, the recommendations of screening committee shall be placed before the competent authority for approval.

This issues with the approval of Director General, CPWD.

Original Copy

Railway Order – Implementation of Government’s decision on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission – Revision of pension of pre-2006 pensioners/family pensioners etc.

By
igeadmin
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PC-VI 213
RBE No. 97/2010

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA)
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. F(E)III/2008/PN1/12

New Delhi, Dated: 07.07.2010.

The GMs/FA&CAOs,
All Indian Rallways/Production Units.
(As per mailing list)

Subject: Implementation of Government’s decision on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission – Revision of pension of pre-2006 pensioners/family pensioners etc.

A copy of Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare (DOP&PW)’s O.M. No. 38/37/08-P&PW(A) dated 25th June, 2010 on the above subject is enclosed for information and strict compliance. Accounts Department of the Railways to whom the copies of documents relating to proof of age /date of birth have been forwarded by the pension disbursing banks for formal authorization of additional pension, and the Personnel Department of the Railways to whom such documents may have been forwarded by Accounts Departments for having the additional pension/family pension sanctioned from Head of Office/Head of Department, should take immediate action thereon so that the final authorization of additional pension/family pension could be issued at the earliest.

2.DOP&PW’s O.Ms dated 21.5,2009 and 11.08.2009, referred to in the enclosed O.M., were circulated on the Railways vide this office letters of even number dated 26.5.2009 and 19.08.2009 respectively.

3. Please acknowledge receipt.

(SUNIL BHARDWAJ)
Deputy Director Finance(Estt.)III
Railway Board.

O.M. No. 38/37/08-P&PW(A) dated 25th June, 2010

Limited transfer facility to Gramin Dak Sevaks.

By
igeadmin
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File no. 19-10/2004-GDS (part)
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & IT
Department of Posts
(Establishment Division)

Dak Bhawan, Parliament Street
New Delhi-110001
Dated 21-07-2010

All Chief Postmaster General
Postmaster General

Sub: Limited transfer facility to Gramin Dak Sevaks.

Sir/Madam,

I am directed to refer to this office letter no. of even dt 17-7-2006 on the above mentioned subject.

2. One-men Committee with Shri R.S. Nataraja Murti as Chairman, for examining Gramin Dak Sevaks system, studied the above issue and made recommendations in para 16.12.1 of the report.

3. The recommendations of the Committee were examined by the Department and after a careful consideration, the Competent Authority has ordered the following:

(i) All the five grounds stipulated for allowing the Transfer of Gramin Dak Sevak in para 2 of letter no. 19-10/2004-GDS dt. 17-7.2006 will be retained. The transfer facility can be availed by Gramin Dak Sevaks only once in whole career. However, an exception has been made for women Gramin Dak Sevaks, who availed the transfer facility on the ground of extreme hardship due to a disease and for medical attention/treatment before their marriage, can avail the facility for a second time in the event of their marriage/remarriage.

(ii) Past service of Gramin Dak Sevaks will be counted for the eligibility for appearing in the Departmental Examinations and for Ex-gratia gratuity and will rank junior in the seniority list of new unit.

(iii) However on transfer to a new post, the Gramin Dak Sevaks cannot have any claim for protection in their Time Related continuity Allowance drawn in the old Post. His/her Time Related Continuity Allowance will be fixed at the minimum of the Time Related Continuity Allowance slab of the transferred post, depending upon the work load of the aid post. In the case of Mail carrier/ Mail deliverer/packer, the work load has to be assessed on cycle beat. The transfer has to be approved only if the Gramin Dak Sevkas is willing for the new post, and an undertaking to the effect has be obtained and kept on record. This condition is provided to prevent the misuse of the limited transfer facility so that it can be availed only by those who genuinely need it.

4. All the other conditions laid down in letter no. 19-10/2004-GDS dt. 17.7.2006 will continue to apply.

5. The Heads of circle are requested to keep the above modifications in view while deciding the cases of transfer application of Gramin Dak Sevaks.

6. The contents may be communicated to all concerned for wide circulation amongst the Gramin Dak Sevaks in vernacular understanding.

7.This issues with the approval of Secretary (Posts)

Yours faithfully
(K. Rameswara Rao)
Assistant Director General (Estt)

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