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Limited transfer facility to Gramin Dak Sevaks.

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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)

Combined Duty Allowance to Gramin Dak Sevaks employees

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igeadmin
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No.6-1/2009-PE-II
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & IT
Department of Posts
(Establishment Division)

Dak Bhawan, Parliament Street
New Delhi-110001
Dated 15-07-2010

The Chief Postmaster General
UP Circle
Lucknow—226001

Sub: Combined Duty Allowance to Gramin Dak Sevaks employees who perform the duties of Gramin Dak Sevaks Branch Postmasters in addition to their own duties.

Sir,

I am directed to refer to your letter no.Estt/M-377/34/GDS/Corr./2009/1 dated 24-06-2010, on the above mentioned subject.

2.The issue has been examined. DG Posts letter no.14-11/1988-PAP dated 16-07-1990 provided for payment of Rs.50 as combined duty allowance to GDS MD/MC who perform the work of EDBPM in addition to their normal charge of duties. It was also clarified that, GDS Mail Deliverer/Mail Carrier are not eligible for this Combined Duty Allowance if they perform duties other than that of GDS BPMs

3.As per the recommendations of One—man Committee and approved by the government, the GDS MD/MC attached with the addition duty of another Gramin Dak Sevak, revised rate of allowance will be at the rate of Rs.25 per day subject to a maximum of Rs.625 per month. Accordingly, the Mail Deliverer/Mail Carrier entrusted with the duties of BPMs in addition to their own work, are eligible for this additional remuneration as compensation. However, they will not be eligible for any Combined Duty Allowance which is now paid to Branch Postmasters towards delivery and conveyance work

To cite an illustration, if a Branch Post Office has one BPM and one GDS MD/MC on its establishment. In the event of GDS MD/MC performing the duties of Branch Postmasters in addition to his own, he will be eligible for a compensation of Rs.25 per day subject to a maximum of Rs.625 per month in addition to his normal Time Related Continuity Allowance. However, he will not be eligible for further Combined Duty Allowance paid to Branch Postmasters.

4.This issues with the approval of DDG(Establishment).

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

Grant of full pension to Government servants who retired on or after 01.01.2006 – recovery of excess payment of Retirement Gratuity from the employees who retired voluntarily after getting the benefit of adding years of service

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RBE No. 95/2010
PC-VI No. 212

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. F(E)III/2008/PN1/13

New Delhi, dated: 06.07.2010.

The GMs/FA&CAOs,
All Indian Railways & Production Units.
(As per Mailing List)

Subject: Grant of full pension to Government servants who retired on or after 01.01.2006 – recovery of excess payment of Retirement Gratuity from the employees who retired voluntarily after getting the benefit of adding years of service – Clarification reg.

The Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare (DOP&PW) vide their O.M. No.38/37/08-P&PW(A) dated 10.12:2009, circulated vide this Ministry’s letter of even number dated 15.12.2009, have dispensed with the provision relating to linkage of full pension with 33 years of qualifying service, with effect from 01.01.2006 instead of 02.09.2008. These instructions, inter-alia, provide that the benefit of adding years of qualifying service for the purpose of computation of pension and gratuity shall stand withdrawn w.e.f. 01.01.2006. Simultaneously, para 4 of the said O.M. also provides that the overall calculation, may take into account revised gratuity and revised pension, including arrears up to the date of revision based on these instructions and that no recoveries would be made in the cases already settled.

2. In this connection, clarification has been sought from this office as to whether in the .case of employees who retired voluntarily during the period from 01.01.2006 to 01.09.2008, after getting the benefit of adding years of service, the excess payment of gratuity ;is to be recovered or adjusted from the arrears of pension and commuted value of additional pension arising out of implementation of the instructions contained in DOP&PW’s O.M. dated 10.12.2009 ibid. The matter has, therefore, been examined by this Ministry in consultation with DOP&PW and it is clarified that the recovery of excess payment of gratuity on the above account, shall be regulated as under:

S.No Point Clarification
1 In cases where the employees , retired volu ntarily after 1.1.2006 with pro-rata pension calculated for the qualifying service Loss than 33 years, pension will under go upward revision and additional amount of pension will also be commutable Excess payment of gratuity on account of withdrawal of weightage w.e.f. 1.01.2006 will be adjusted against arrears of pension (and not commuted value of pension). However, this adjustment will be restricted to the amount of arrears of pension. If the recovery of gratuity is more than the amount of arrears of pension, no recovery in excess of arrears of pension will be made.
2 In cases where employees retired voluntarily after 1.1.2006 after getting the benefit of adding years of qualifying service and were granted pension @ 50% of emoluments/average emoluments, as the case may be, due to their qualifying service having reached 33 years, there will be no revision in the amount of pension but the amount of retirement gratuity will undergo a change due to exclusion of the benefit of adding years of service, already extended to them. Where there is no increase of pension, no recovery of gratuity will be made.

3. All Zonal Railways etc., are, therefore, advised to settle the cases of the employees who retired voluntarily after 01.01.2006 but before 02.09.2008, in accordance with the above clarification.

(Sunil Bhardwaj)
Deputy Director Finance (Estt.)III,
Railway Board.

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PFRDA Introduces NPS-Lite Scheme for Economically Disadvantage Sections of Society and to Promote Small Savings among them

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Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), the apex body established by Government of India to regulate and develop the pension sector, has introduced NPS-Lite which specifically targets the economically disadvantages sections of society and promotes small savings during their productive life. It aims at building up a corpus sufficient enough to buy an annuity for their old age. Earlier PFRDA had extended New Pension System (NPS) to all citizens of India with effect from 1st May, 2009.

“Swavalamban Scheme” of Govt. of India, which grants an incentive of Rs.1000 to all eligible NPS accounts shall be available to all NPS-Lite account holders as well, if they meet the prescribed criteria.

“NPS-Lite Model” has been designed to ensure ultra-low administrative and transactional costs for making such small investments viable. NPS-Lite works on a “group” model and shall be available through “Aggregators” appointed by PFRDA. It also aims at harnessing the outreach and capacity of the Government operated schemes, NGOs, MFIs, NBFCs etc. in targeting and servicing the old age savings needs of low income workers.

“Andhra Pradesh Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board” has already been appointed as an aggregator under NPS-Lite for making NPS available to its more than a million potential member base.

Other details of NPS-Lite are available at PFRDA website www.pfrda.org.in.

Source : PIB

Recharge Coupons for Mobile Phones to be Made Available at Railway Stations

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In yet another passenger friendly initiative, the Ministry of Railways has decided that the rechargeable coupons for mobile phones would be made available for the benefit of the passengers at the STD/PCO booths at Railway Stations. As per the decision, all Zonal Railways are being permitted to allow sale of recharge coupons from the existing STD/PCO booths at the Railway stations which opt for selling the recharge coupons on payment of the following additional license fee as per the category of the station.

Category of Station Additional License Fee per month
A-1 and  A Rs. 500/-
B and C Rs. 300/-
D, E and F Rs. 200/-

The STD/PCO booths opting for the scheme will be required to display a sign indicating that “recharge coupons for mobile phone are available” and will not be allowed to display the name of service provider companies.

The above approval is being initially granted for a period of one year only i.e. upto 30th June 2011. Thereafter, the scheme will be reviewed by the Railway Board on the basis of detailed information regarding number of booths opting for the scheme, additional license fee realized etc. to be received from all Zonal Railways.

CBSE – 26 CBSE Schools to Offer “Hospitality and Tourism” as a Vocational Course from the Academic Session 2010-11 Under a Pilot Project

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26 CBSE schools have opted for “Hospitality and Tourism” as a vocational course from the current academic session 2010-11 under a pilot project. An MoU to offer Hotel Management and Catering Technology courses for XI and XII class students in Central Board of Secondary Education schools, was signed between National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology (NCHMCT), New Delhi and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Delhi on Tuesday, 20TH July 2010. Following is the list of CBSE schools offering “Hospitality and Tourism” as a vocational course.

Kendriya Vidyalayas

Sl. No. Name of the Schools
1 KV No. 1, Gwalior
2 KV Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas

Sl. No. Name of the Schools
1 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Ratibad, PO Suraj Nagar, Distt. Bhopal M.P 462002
2 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dhanansu, Distt. Ludhiana Punjab 141112
3 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Theog, Shimla (HP)
4 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kherli PO Bhandarej Distt. DausaRajasthan 303501
5 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Pipersand, PO Sarojini Nagar,Distt. Lucknow 226005
6 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Gargarkote, Suyalbari DisttNainital 263135
7 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kolara Kalan Distt Agra UP 282003
8 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Gajokhar, PO Parasara Distt. Varanasi 221206
9 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Satari, Valpoi Distt. North Goa, Goa 403506
10 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Cuttack, Orissa
11 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Hamirpur (HP)
12 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Anantnag (J&K)
13 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Ambala Haryana
14 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Rohtak Haryana
15 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Panipat, Haryana
16 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Saraikela, Jharkhand
17 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Nalbari (Assam)
18 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, South Sikkim, Sikkim
19 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Bishnupur (Manipur)

Schools of Central Tibetan School Administration

Sl. No. Name of the Schools
1 Central School for Tibetan, Darjeeling, West Bengal, Darjeeling
2 Central School for Tibetans, Chotta Shimla, Dist. Shimla 171002

Schools of Delhi Government

Sl. No Name of the Schools
1 19860291 Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya, Delhi Cantt. New Delhi
2 1411008 Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, FU Block, Pitampura, Delhi
3 1413010 SCSD Govt. Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, Sec IX, Rohini, Delhi

Messing facilities in respect of Group’C’ & ‘D’ staff undergoing training in Railway Training Centres

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Government of India
Ministry of Railways
(Railway Board)

RBENo. 94/2010

No. E(MPP)2009/3/6

New Delhi, dated 01.07.2010

The General Managers,
All Indian Railways including Production Units

Sub: – Messing facilities in respect of Group’C’ & ‘D’ staff undergoing training in Railway Training Centres – DC/JCM Item No,07/2007

Ref: – Board’s letter No. (i) E(Trg)73(32)/1 dated 24-5-76
(ii) E(Trg)80/35/4 dated 26-6-84 and
(iii) E(G)/91 AL6-1 dated 16-8-85

As per the extant instructions, Railway employees nominated to undergo training, other than training in initial course in Railway Training Centres, are provided free messing, where it is compulsory. The messing rates for employees undergoing training are to be fixed on a uniform basis by the General Managers in consultation with their FA&CAOs.These rates correspond to roughly 80% of the daily allowance being spent on messing, so that wholesome food could be supplied. These instructions also provide for 20% of the rate of Daily Allowance being paid to the trainees for incidental expenses.

The question of revising instructions on messing facilities in respect of railway employees undergoing training in the Railway Training Centres has been under consideration of the Ministry of Railways. The matter was raised in the DC/JCM(Railways) meeting and after due deliberations with the Federations, it has been decided that:

(i) All the trainees availing the messing facilities should pay the messing charges directly to the training centres before being relieved from the training courses. In the case of in service staff, 100% Daily Allowance claim may be allowed, once messing charges have been fully paid by such staff and if they are otherwise eligible.

(ii) The messing facilities should be gradually outsourced. Once outsourcing has been given effect to, the messing rates for employees undergoing training should be deducted from the trainees on the basis of actuals. Until the change to outsourcing takes place, messing rates should be fixed by the General Managers in consultation with their FA&CAOs.There would be no concept of free messing after issue of these instructions.

(iii) The plant & machinery and equipments wherever required by the mess in the Training Centres can be provided by the Administration. While petty repairs and contingencies costing up to Rs. 500/- per item should be met from the mess fund, expenditure on repairs and contingencies costing above RS.500/- on each occasion per item provided by the Railway Administrations should be undertaken by the Administration· themselves. No departmental staff such as Cooks, Bearers, Cleaners etc. should be made available for providing messing facilities, after outsourcing the same. The departmental staff wherever engaged in the mess in the Training Centres should be suitably redeployed.

(iv) No charges towards water, cess, rent and overheads should be recovered. These may be considered as part of the infrastructure.

(v) The nominated Training Manager of the Department concerned should supervise the function of mess in consultation with Principal/In charge of the training centres through a mess committee consisting of
representatives of the trainees and Faculty of the training centres. The management of the mess should be the responsibility of the Mess Committee and the modalities of forming the Mess Committee may be decided by the Railway Administration themselves.

(vi) Guest charges, if any, should be fixed by the Training Centres on cost plus basis.

(vii) A Six-monthly Audit of the mess accounts should be ensured through Associate Finance of the Training Centres concerned and suitable honorarium paid. The rates of the honorarium should be worked out by the Training Centres in consultation with their Associate Finance.

(viii) The mess should function on no-profit-no loss basis taken on annual basis and profits, if any, left over should be utilized for enhancing the sports and library activities of the training institution concerned.

The above guidelines are issued in supercession of all existing instructions on the subject.

This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

(K.Harikrishnan)
Director(MPP)
Railway Board.

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Dynamic ACP Scheme for the officers of the Indian Railway Medical Service

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igeadmin
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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(Railway Board)

S.No. PC-VI/214
No. PC-V/2008/ACP/2

RBE No.:96/2010
New Delhi, dated 7.7.2010

The General Manager/OSDs/CAO(R)
All Indian Railways & PUs.
(As per mailing list)

Sub: Dynamic ACP Scheme for the officers of the Indian Railway Medical Service

With reference to Board’s letter of even number dated 7.1.2009 on the above subject, and pursuant to several references received from IRMS officers seeking clarification regarding the admissibility of benefits associated with the higher grade allotted to them under the DACP Scheme, such as issue of Silver Pass, etc., the matter has been examined and it is clarified that since an upgradation earned by the IRMS officers under the Dynamic ACP Scheme has all the attributes of a regular promotion, all benefits (including Silver Pass) which are available to IRMS officers on regular promotion, may also be allowed to them on grant of higher Grade Payearned under the DACP Scheme.

2. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

(N.P.Singh)
Dy. Director/ Pay Commission-V
Railway Board

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Cadre Restructuring of Central Secretariat Services (CSS)

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No. 19/1/2008-CS.I(P)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel,P.G. & Pensions
(Department of Personnel & Training)
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2nd Floor, Loknayak Bhawan,
New Delhi, dated the 20th July, 2010.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Cadre Restructuring of Central Secretariat Services (CSS)-regd.

The Government had set up a Committee on Cadre Restructuring of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) in June, 2008. The Committee submitted its report in November, 2008. The Report of the Committee has been considered by the Government and, inter-alia, following decisions have been taken:

(i) CSS officers who are empanelled as Joint Secretaries, will be given in-situ promotion as Joint Secretaries in SAG grade at their current place of posting, till they are placed under Central Staffing Scheme, with such in-situ promotions restricted to 40 in number.

(ii) Fixing the combined strength of Joint Secretary (in-situ), Directors and Deputy Secretary of CSS at 600, with inter se flexibility subject to a ceiling of 40 posts for Joint Secretary (in-situ) and 220 posts at the Director level.

(iii) Net increase of 160 posts at DS/Director level in CSS will come from diversion of posts from the Central Staffing Scheme. Identification of posts so diverted to be done in such a manner that there is no concentration of posts in any Ministry;

(iv) Reduction of non-CSS posts by 160 at the DS/Director levels under the Central Staffing Scheme in various Ministries.

(v) Upgradation of 1467 posts of UDCs to Assistant’s Grade of CSS.

(vi) The next Cadre restructuring may be undertaken after 3 years from date of implementation of the above recommendations.

2. Necessary notification relating to amendments to the CSS rules will be issued separately.

(M.C.Luther)
Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of India

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LIC Pension Fund is No. 1 NPS fund

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LIC Pension Fund Ltd has emerged the number one from among the three entities managing Central Government New Pension Scheme (NPS) trust funds following the allocation of 35 per cent of the funds in 2010-11.”The allocation is done on the performance of the past year and ours was the highest due to which we have received the maximum allocation from the NPS trust,” LIC Pension Fund’s Chief Executive Officer, H Sadhak, said here today.

He added that in the last three-years since the NPS came into effect, his company’s allocation share has risen seven times from a mere 5 per cent in the first year to 35 per cent for FY 11.

SBI Pension Fund with 33 per cent allocation and UTI Retirement Solutions with 32 per cent, come second and third respectively, a release issued by LIC Pension Fund said here.

LIC’s return on its assets under management is understood to be a little over 10 per cent. Sadhak, however, declined to comment on this.

The Central Government introduced the NPS in 2004 and appointed the three funds to manage the Central Government NPS funds.

The PFRDA (Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority) has put a cap under which 55 per cent can be invested in Central and State Government securities, 40 per cent in corporate securities and bonds, 15 per cent in equity and equity mutual funds and five per cent in money market instruments.

Sadhak, however, refused to share details regarding the total assets under management and officials from the Central Government NPS trust were not immediately available for comment on the same.

Sadhak, who attributed the performance to scientific investing by the company, said it would benefit from the new allocation as State Government trusts also generally use the same ratios as the Central Government for allocations.

Source : Financial Express

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