LIC Wage Revision – Joint Session Reporting
As scheduled, the discussions on
Wage-revision were held today, i.e. on 16th October 2015 at Mumbai. The
management was represented by the Chairman Shri S K Roy, all the three
Managing Directors & the officials of Personnel department.
NOINO was represented by Shri Dattaraj
Prabhukhanolkar, All India GS, NOINO; Shri Y N Murthy, All India Joint
Secretary, NOINO; & Shri R Dhayalan, Zonal Secretary, NOINO SZ unit.
The Chief(Personnel) Shri Prakash Chand
took stock of the situation. He lauded the role of the Chairman &
our MD Smt Usha Sangwan in the wage-revision issue.
Thereafter, Smt Usha Sangwan, Managing
Director spoke. She stressed on the need of a better professional
approach; setting higher benchmarks in customer service etc.
Thereafter Shri V K Sharma, Managing
Director, spoke. He stressed on the importance of agency retention. He
also spoke on the issues of Market Share of LIC & the growth of New
Business.
Shri S B Mainak, Managing Director expressed concern over the reduction in accounting surplus.
Thereafter, the Chairman spoke. The Chairman in his speech covered the following points:-
We all have put our best efforts during these hard times & expressed confidence that this teamwork will help facing the future challenges
Only thing permanent is ‘Change’
Degrowth of 41% in policies & 10% in FPI as on 31.3.2015
Achievement to budget was only 55% on policies & 82% on FPI.
Total income crossed 4 lakh crore; Asset base crossed 20 lakh crores
Claim settlement 99.77% as on 31.3.2015.
Adoption & use of technology is the need of the hour
Transfer & Mobility policy & Biometric Authentication (for eFEAP) to be applicable from 1st April 2016.
Thereafter the ED(P) gave the wage-proposal. Following are the salient features of the proposal (for Class I Officers) :-
- Rise of 13.5% in Basic Pay after 100% Merger of DA in old Basic as on 1.8.2012.
- Rate of DA 0.10%(Old—0.15%)
- HRA—A Class cities—10% of Basic Pay. Maximum 5200; B Class—-8%. Maximum 4320; C Class—7%. Maximum 4200.
- CCA—A Class cities—3% of Basic Pay. Maximum 1275; B Class—-2.5%. Maximum 1210; C Class—2%. Maximum 930.
- Transport allowance—1300(Old 800).
- Cash Medical Benefit—upto Basic 60165—- 13000; above 60165—–19440.
- PG 1 Allowance—1120(Old 680)
- Audit allowance—1405(Old 850).
The Joint Session ended there.
The reporting of the Individual session with NOINO is being done separately.
