FLASH NEWS FROM CONFEDERATION – INDEFINITE STRIKE WILL COMMENCE FROM 11.7.2016

FLASH NEWS FROM CONFEDERATION – INDEFINITE STRIKE WILL COMMENCE FROM 11.7.2016

NJCA MEETING HELD TODAY EVENING
DECIDED TO SERVE STRIKE NOTICE ON 09th JUNE 2016.
INDEFINITE STRIKE WILL COMMENCE FROM 11th JULY 2016.

DETAILS WILL FOLLOW:

(M. KRISHNAN)
SECRETARY GENERAL
CONFEDERATION

Source: Confederation

Interest Rate for General Provident Fund – Finmin Orders

Interest Rate for General Provident Fund – Finmin Orders

Resolution – accumulations at the credit of subscribers to the GPF and other similar funds – 2016

(PUBLISHED IN PART I SECTION OF GAZETTE OF INDIA)

F.No.5(1)-B(PD)/2016
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Economic Affairs
(Budget Division)

New Delhi, Dated the 2nd June, 2016

RESOLUTION

It is announced for general information that during the year 2016-2017, accumulations at the credit of subscribers to the General Provident Fund and other similar funds shall carry interest at the rate of 8.1% (Eight point one per cent) w.e.f. 1st April, 2016 to 30th June, 2016. This rate will be in force w.e.f. 1st April, 2016. The funds concerned are:-

1. The General Provident Fund (Central Services)
2. The Contributory Provident Fund (India)
3. The All India Services Provident Fund
4. The State Railway Provident Fund
5. The General Provident Fund (Defence Services)
6. The Indian Ordnance Department Provident Fund
7. The Indian Ordnance Factories Workmen’s Provident Fund.
8. The Indian Naval Dockyard Workmen’s Provident Fund
9. The Defence Services Officers Provident Fund
10. The Armed Forces Personnel Provident Fund.

2. Ordered that the Resolution be published in Gazette of India.

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(H.K. Srivastav)
Director (Budget)

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Authority: www.finmin.nic.in

Pakistan-based group uses 7th Pay Commission to target Indian govt officials: FireEye

Pakistan-based group uses 7th Pay Commission to target Indian govt officials: FireEye

 The emails were allegedly sent to government officials from timesofindiaa.in, a fake news domain registered by the attackers.

Days after Kaspersky claimed Indian government sites were compromised by a cyberespionage group, cybersecurity firm FireEye, Inc has claimed that a fake news website was used to sent spear phishing emails to Indian government officials as part of cyber attacks by a suspected Pakistan-based group.

“On May 18, 2016 the group registered a fake news website and sent spear phishing emails to Indian government officials. The emails referenced the Indian Government’s 7th Central Pay Commission, a topic of interest among officials,”a blog posted by the company claimed.

“There’s no silver bullet to fend off advanced cyber attacks. It’s critical for Indian organisations to bring together the technology, expertise and threat intelligence necessary to quickly detect and respond to these attacks,” said Bryce Boland, Chief Technology Officer for Asia Pacific at FireEye.

The company claimed the emails were sent to government officials from timesofindiaa.in, a fake news domain registered by the attackers. The emails has a malicious Microsoft Word document attached, requesting the recipient to open it.

FireEye said the attachment was designed to create a backdoor called the Breach Remote Administration Tool (BreachRAT)” and said it has not observed this malicious tool being used by these threat actors before. “It allows the attacks to download and run new programs, upload files from the victims’ systems to the attackers’ servers, and a variety of other functions.

The suspected Pakistan-based threat group has been active for several years, conducting suspected intelligence collection operations against South Asian political and military targets, claimed FireEye. “The group is the same that FireEye revealed in March 2016 to have conducted cyber attacks against Indian targets and Pakistani dissidents since 2013. They were observed using malicious documents hosted on websites about the Indian Army, instead of sending these documents directly as an email attachment,”the post claimed, adding that infrastructure used by the group is the same in both attacks.

Source : indianexpress.com

7th Central Pay Commission recommendations- Submission to the empowered Committee Secretaries – BPS

7th Central Pay Commission recommendations- Submission to the empowered Committee Secretaries – BPS

BHARAT PENSIONERS’ SAMAJ

No SG/BPS/CPC/16/11

Dated 02.06.2016

To
Shri Pradeep Kumar Sinha,
Cabinet Secretary,
Government of India,
Rashtrapathi Bhawan Annexe,
New Delhi-110001.

Respected Sir,

Sub: VII Central Pay Commission recommendations- Submission to the empowered Committee Secretaries- reg.

1. Bharat Pensioners Samaj (BPS) Federation of pensioners’ associations, a conglomerate of over 628 pensioners’ organizations as an accredited Federation under the Government of India, had appealed to the Secretary, Ministry of personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, on 16.2.2016 during the meeting on Aadhar seeding to hold a meeting of Pensioners Associations to discuss 7th CPS pension related recommendations, though he had agreed to hold such a meeting but it did not materialize.

2. Now BPS has come to know through NJCA News letter dated 27.5.2016 issued after their meeting with you on 26.5.2016that the Department of Pension is opposed to the first option recommended by the 7th CPC to bring about the parity with the past pensioners, as they consider it to be infeasible and impracticable (due to the non-availability of the requisite records)

3. It is hard to believe, how a department meant for the welfare of pensioners which helped pensioners to get better deal in earlier pay commissions could arrive at such a damaging and misleading decision without even consulting the stake holders.

4. Sir, Service record is a permanent one and if it to be destroyed, proper permission from the Competent Authority is to be obtained. In any case, service record of pensioners can always be reconstructed taking the details from various sources available with the department and the material collected from the Pensioner. This has been done in the past while implementing parity enunciated by fifth CPC and even while implementing modified parity of 6th CPC. It is also being done now implementing OROP. In this regard Your kind attention is also drawn to recent Bombay High court Nagpur judgement dated 09.03.2015 in case of Smt. Saija v. General Manager, Central Railway O.A.No. 2131 of 2011 (Bombay Bench at Nagpur)
Undersigned in the capacity of Secy. Genl ‘Bharat Pensioners Samaj’ request you to takean independent decision in view of submission in Para 4 above to save pensioners/family pensioners from unprecedented permanent damage by a department meant for their welfare.

Thanking you in anticipation

With regards
Yours faithfully,

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S.C.Maheshwari
Secy General Bharat Pensioners Samaj
Mob: 9868488199

Source : http://scm-bps.blogspot.in

7th Pay Commission: Central government employees to get salary hike from next month

7th Pay Commission: Central government employees to get salary hike from next month

New Delhi: The long wait for implementation of 7th Pay Commission recommendation will soon come to an end.

As per media reports, the new increased pay scale for all central government employees will be given from next month.

Meanwhile, the group of secretaries headed by Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha is all set to meet on June 11 to give final shape to the changes on 7th Pay Commission recommendation.

Government in January set up a high-powered panel headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha to process the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission which will have bearing on the remuneration of 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners.

The Empowered Committee of Secretaries will function as a Screening Committee to process the recommendations with regard to all relevant factors of the Commission in an expeditious detailed and holistic fashion.

The government had earlier stated that implementation of new pay scales recommended by the 7th Pay Commission is estimated to put an additional burden of Rs 1.02 lakh crore, or 0.7 percent of GDP, on the exchequer in 2016-17.

Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1964 – Guidelines regarding prevention of sexual harassment of women at the workplace- regarding

Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1964 – Guidelines regarding prevention of sexual harassment of women at the workplace- regarding

F. No. 11012/0S/2016-Estt.A-III
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
Establishment Division

North Block, New Delhi -110001
Dated June 2, 2016

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1964 – Guidelines regarding prevention of sexual harassment of women at the workplace- regarding

The undersigned is directed to say that a need for providing for an appeal to the complainant in allegation of sexual harassment in accordance with the Section 18(1) of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace [Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal] Rules, 2013 has been examined. The draft instructions are attached. Before the instructions in the Draft O.M.are finalized, all stakeholders, Ministries / Departments are  requested to offer their comments / views, if any, in this regard latest by 21st June, 2016 at the e-mail address mp.ramarao@nic.in.

(Mukesh Chaturvedi)
Director (E)
Tel: 23093176

To
AllMinistries/ Departments of the Government of India

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1964 — Guidelines regarding prevention of sexual harassment of women at the workplace— regarding 

Undersigned is directed to say that following enactment of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 [SHWW(PPR) Act] and notification of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Rules, 2013 [SHWW(PPR) Rules] on 09.12.2013, the Government notified the amendments to Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1964 and Classification, Control and Appeal Rules, 1965. The amendments and other salient features of the Act/ Rules was brought to the notice of all concerned vide Office Memorandum No. 11013/02/2014- Estt.A-III dated 27.11.2014.

2. Section 18 (1) of the SHWW(PPR) Act, 2013 provides that any person aggrieved with the recommendations made under sub-section (2) of section 13 or under clause (i) or clause (ii) of sub-section (3) of section 13 or sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 14 or section 17 or non-implementation of such recommendations may prefer an appeal to the court or tribunal in accordance with provisions of the service rules applicable to said person or where no such service rules exist then, without prejudice to the provisions contained in any other law for the time being in force, the person aggrieved may prefer an appeal in such manner as may be prescribed.

3. In accordance with Section 18(1) of the SHWW (PPR) Act, 2013, it has been decided that in all cases of allegations of sexual harassment, the following procedure may be adopted:

Where a Complaint Committee has not recommended any action against the Charged Officer in a case involving allegations of sexual harassment, the Disciplinary Authority shall supply a copy of the Report of the Complaints Committee to the complainant and shall consider her representation, if any submitted, before coming to a final conclusion. The representation shall be deemed to be an appeal under section 18(1) of the Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.

4. All Ministries/ Departments/Offices are requested to bring the above guidelines to the notice of all Disciplinary Authorities under their control. All cases, where final orders have not been issued may be processed as per these guidelines.

5. Hindi version will follow.

(Mukesh Chaturvedi)
Director (E)

To
The Secretaries of All Ministries/Departments (as per the standard list)

Government Circular

Dr Jitendra Singh directs targeted approach for Seeding of Aadhaar numbers in Pensioners Accounts

Dr Jitendra Singh directs targeted approach for Seeding of Aadhaar numbers in Pensioners’ Accounts

Special Aadhaar Seeding Camps being held from May 30-June 10, 2016

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS (IC) for Youth Affairs and Sports, MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh has directed that priority should be given to pensioners visiting the bank branches for seeding Aadhaar number in their bank account. Dr. Jitendra Singh said Pensioners can approach their paying branches with the PPO, Aadhaar card and bank pass book for trouble-free seeding.
Special AADHAAR Seeding Camps are being held from May 30, 2016 to June 10, 2016. These camps are being organised all over the country in Pension disbursing banks and their branches. Dr. Jitendra Singh said that it is hoped that a large number of Pensioners will be able to benefit from these camps. So as to reach the pensioners and family pensioners located in the remotest corners of the country, this event will be publicised through radio jingles, hand bills, local cable TV network etc., he added

Various steps are being taken by the Government and Pension Disbursing Banks to sensitize Pensioners and Bank Branches and to link up Aadhaar number, PPO number and Bank Account Number so that all Pensioners can avail of the “Jeevan Pramaan” facility.

Dr. Jitendra Singh said, in case the Pensioners do not have an Aadhaar number they can avail of the special facilities set up for this purpose in the bank premises.

“Jeevan Pramaan” is an initiative launched by the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, especially for the benefit of the aged and infirm Pensioners/Family Pensioners. Under the scheme Digital Life Certificates can be submitted by Pensioners from personal computers and laptops at home or by visiting a conveniently located Common Service Centre or the nearest branch of any Pension Disbursing Bank. Submission of Digital Life Certificate also ensures authenticity of Pension Payments. So far, more than 15 lakh Digital Life Certificates have been attempted.

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Provision of Minimum Pension of Rs.1000 per month the Pensioners under the Employees Pension Scheme 1995

Provision of Minimum Pension of Rs.1000 per month the Pensioners under the Employees Pension Scheme 1995 

Office Of the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Central Command)
Cariappa Road, Cantt., Lucknow, Pin code – 226002

No.PT/3088/CGDA/Vol-VI

Date: 19-05-2016

To,
1. The Area Accounts Office (CC) Allahabad
2. The Area Accounts Office (CC) Kanpur
3. The Officer in-Charge Pay-I/II/III & Store Audit (Local)

Sub: Provision of Minimum Pension of Rs.1000 per month the Pensioners under the Employees Pension Scheme 1995 – publicity of.

Ref: HQr Office letter No.AT/V/DAD/15001/EPS-1995 dated 10-05-2016.

Please find enclosed a copy of Ministry of Defence. D (Civ-II) Section ID No.20(1)/2016/D (civ-II) dated 01-04-2016 received from HQr office regarding the subject matter is forwarded herewith for your information and necessary action please.
Encl: As above

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ACDA(PT)

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Office of the Controller General Of Defence Accounts

Ulan Batar Road, Palam, Delhi Cantt. – 110010

No.AT/V/DAD/15001/EPS – 1995

Dated: 06-05-2016

To
All PCDAs/CDAs
PCDA(CC) Lucknow

Sub: Provision of Minimum Pension of Rs.1000 Per month the pensioners under the Employees pension Scheme 1995 – publicity of.

Please find enclosed a copy of Ministry of Defence, D (Civ-II) Section ID No.20(1)/2016/D (Civ-II) dated 01.04.2016 on the above mentioned subject is forwarded herewith for information and necessary action please.
Encls: As stated above.

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Rajesh Sharm
S.A.O. (AT/P)

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Ministry Of Defence
D(Civ-II) section

Subject: Provision of Minimum Pension of Rs.1000 Per month the Pensioners under the Employees Pension Scheme, 1995 – publicity of

The Employees Provident Funds & Misc Provision (EPF&MP) Act gives the framework for operating three important social security schemes for the workers of the country. These Schemes are (i) The Employees Provident Funds (EPF) Scheme 1952; (ii) The Employees Pension Scheme (EPS) 1995; and (iii) The Employees Deposit Linked Insurance (EDLI) Scheme, 1976. Under the provisions of the Employees pension scheme, 1995, pension security is provided for the employees who joined on or after 16.11.1995. In order to provide a bare minimum amount as pension which may help towards social security of EPS Pensioners, the Govt had started providing a minimum pension of Rs.1000/- p.m. to the pensioners under the scheme initially form 1.9.2014 for the year 2014-15.

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(Gurdeep Singh)
Under Secretary

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Ministry Of Defence (Finance)
DAD – Coord

Room No.24-A, south Block, New Delhi

Sub: Provision of Minimum Pension of Rs.1000 Per month the Pensioners under the Employees Pension Scheme, 1995 – publicity of.

A copy of Ministry of Defence D(Civ-II) Id bearing No.20(1)/2016/D(Civ-II) dated 01.04.2016 on the above mentioned subject is forwarded herewithfor information and necessary action please.

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(Rajesh Kalia)
SO (DAD Coord)

Source: http://pcdacc.gov.in/

Relaxation to travel by private airlines to visit Jammu & Kashmir – Extension orders issued by Dopt on 1.6.2016

Relaxation to travel by private airlines to visit Jammu & Kashmir – Extension orders issued by Dopt on 1.6.2016

Central Civil Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988 — Relaxation to travel by private airlines to visit Jammu & Kashmir – Extension reg.

No.31011/7/2014-Estt.(A-IV)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
Establishment A-IV Desk

North Block, New Delhi-110 001
Dated: June 1st, 2016

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Central Civil Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988 — Relaxation to travel by private airlines to visit Jammu & Kashmir – Extension reg.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Ministry’s O.M. No. 31011/3/2014- Estt.(A-1V) dated 26th September, 2014 where Government servants in relaxation to CCS(LTC) Rules, were allowed to travel by air to visit Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), North East Region (NER) and Andaman & Nicobar Islands (A&N) on LTC for a period of two years against conversion of one block of Home Town LTC. The relaxation was given subject to air travel by Air India only.

2. Later vide DoPT’s O.M. of even no. dated 28.11.2014, the Government decided to allow travel by private airlines to visit Jammu & Kashmir under this special dispensation scheme subject to certain conditions. The scheme was valid for a period of one year from the date of issue of the O.M. and expired on 27.11.2015.

3. It has now been decided to extend the scheme for a further period from the date of issue of this O.M., till the date of expiry of the of the special dispensation scheme of travel by air to J&K, NER and A&N, i.e. 25.09.2016. All other terms and conditions prescribed in this Department’s O.M. dated 28.11.2014 shall continue to apply.

(Mukesh Chaturvedi)
Director (Establishment)

Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training

North Block, New Delhi-110 001
Dated: 28th November, 2014

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Central Civil Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988 — Relaxation to travel by private airlines to visit J&K.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Ministry’s O.M. No. 31011/3/2014- Estt.(A-1V) dated 26th September, 2014. It has been decided that the Government servants while availing Leave Travel Concession (LTC) to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) under the special dispensation scheme allowed by the aforesaid O.M. may also travel by private airlines subject to the following conditions:-

(i) Officers entitled to travel by air may also travel by private airlines from their headquarters;
(ii) Officers not entitled to travel by air may be permitted to travel by private airlines between Delhi /Amritsar and any place in J&K.

2. Air travel by private airlines is to be performed in Economy Class only an at LTC-80 fare of Air India or less.

3. Air Tickets to be purchased directly from the airlines (Booking counters, website of airlines) or by utilizing the service of Authorized Travel Agents viz. ‘M/s Balmer Lawrie & Company’, ‘M/s Ashok Travels & Tours’ and ‘IRCTC’ (to the extent IRCTC is authorized as per DoPT’s O.M. No. 31011/6/2002-Estt.(A) dated 02.12.2009) while undertaking LTC journey. Booking of tickets through other agencies is not permitted.

4. All other conditions prescribed in this Ministry’s O.M. No. 31011/3/2014-Estt.(AIV) dated 26.09.2014 would continue to apply.

5. The order will remain in force for a period of one year from the date of issue of this order.

(B. Bandyopadhyay)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

Authority: www.persmin.gov.in
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Dr Jitendra Singh awards Certificates of Appreciation to the Ministries/Departments for their performance in CPGRAMS

Dr Jitendra Singh awards Certificates of Appreciation to the Ministries/Departments for their performance in CPGRAMS

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports, MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh awarded the Certificates of Appreciation to the Ministries/Departments based on their performance in the Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS), here today.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Jitendra Singh said that the number of grievances received have increased in the last two years. It is an indication of increasing faith of the citizens in the grievance redressal mechanism, he added. He also said that he himself and the senior officers of Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) have been personally calling the citizens whose grievances have been redressed. These calls are made at random to the citizens to take feedback from them and to ascertain their satisfaction level.

The following Ministries/ Departments have been awarded:

From each category one Ministry/Department is selected for issue of Certificate of Appreciation based on the parameters of percentage of disposal and quality of disposal. A three member Committee evaluates the performance for each quarter.

The CPGRAMS is an online web enabled application to facilitate speedy redress of public grievances as it allows for online lodging and status tracking of grievances by the citizens. The system is flexible enough to be extended to multiple levels as per the requirement of concerned Ministry/Department/ Govt. Organization for speedy forwarding and redress of grievance. There has been a five-fold jump in Public Grievances to 10 lakh complaints in 2015-16 over previous year. With continuous monitoring a record disposal of 95% has been achieved.

For greater motivation towards redress of public grievances and also for introducing a sense of competiveness among the nodal officers for public grievances belonging to different Ministries/Departments, a decision was taken to issue Certificate of Appreciation to the best Ministries/Departments based on their performance with reference to the percentage of disposal and the quality of disposal of public grievances in the defined three categories for each quarter.

The aim of the Government is to have minimum Government and maximum Governance with citizen centric approach. Accordingly, an attempt to put in place a mechanism to make all grievances count is by encouraging all Ministries/ Departments to view public grievances with utmost importance and give effective and speedy redress. Award Scheme is expected to bring a sense of competitiveness in Ministries/ Departments to address public grievances.

Shri C. Viswanath, Secretary, DARPG, Smt. Usha Sharma, Additional Secretary, DARPG and other senior officers of the Department were also present on the occasion.

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