Wage hike in 7th Pay Commission and Trade Union Action

Wage hike in 7th Pay Commission and Trade Union Action Wage hike and trade union action Comrades , The 7th CPC has cheated the 35 lakhs Central Government Employees and 50 lakhs pensioners, by announcing meagre 14.29% wage hike, in actual term of increase for serving employees after deduction of Income tax, enhanced subscription of CGEIS, licence fee, CGHS etc the net increase is actually...

Interesting Statistics from the 7th Pay Commission Report – Part 2

Interesting Statistics from the 7th Pay Commission Report – Part 2 According to the 7th Central Pay Commission Report, close to 29% of the employees are in the age group of 50 to 60 years. More than 44% of the employees are in the age group of 20 to 40 years. The average per capita expenditure on pay & allowances of a central government employee is 3.92 lakh rupees for the financial year...

Interesting Statistics from the 7th Pay Commission Report – Part 1

Interesting Statistics from the 7th Pay Commission Report – Part 1 The 7th Central Pay Commission submitted its report recently, recommending a slew of measures including fixing the minimum pay of a central government employee at Rs 18000. In a two part series, we look at some of the interesting statistics from this report. The 7th Central Pay Commission(CPC) submitted its report recently....

Reservation in promotion – Minister replied in Rajya Sabha

Reservation in promotion – Minister replied in Rajya Sabha The DoPT Minister replied in Parliament, while answering a question about the stand of Central Government on reservation in promotion cases involving Central Government employees as follows… “The reservation in promotion is provided to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) at the rate of 15% and 7.5% respectively in posts...

Abolishment of the practice of interview for Group B and C posts

Abolishment of the practice of interview for Group B and C posts The Central Government has decided to dispense with the interview for all Group ‘C’ and non-gazetted Group ‘B’ category in Central Government by 31.12.2015. If a Department considers interview absolutely necessary for any specific posts, then clearance of Department of Personnel & Training is necessary. Further, the State...

Instruction regarding simplified procedure for claiming Children Education Allowance: Revised Procedure: JCOS/ OR – PCDA(CC) Instruction

Instruction regarding simplified procedure for claiming Children Education Allowance: Revised Procedure: JCOS/ OR – PCDA(CC) Instruction Office of the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Central Command) Cariappa Road, Cantt., Lucknow, Pin Code – 226002 No.ORs Cell/07/PAO Cir Dated: 07/12/2015 To, The Officer – Incharge All LAOs/ RAOs Sub: Instruction regarding simplified procedure...

Analysis and Recommendations of 7th Pay Commission on House Rent Allowance

Allowances related to Housing  : House Rent Allowance (HRA) : Presently, HRA is payable at the following rates: There are a large number of demands for paying HRA as a percentage of (Basic Pay + DA), instead of as a percentage of Basic Pay alone, as at present. Representations have also been received regarding enhancement of percentage rates and having only two classifications of...

7th CPC recommendations for Assistant Research Officers

7th CPC recommendations for Assistant Research Officers Department of Higher Education : Assistant Research Officers, Central Hindi Directorate With a cadre strength of 68 employees, the cadre of Research officers in the Central Hindi Directorate (CHD) is responsible for preparing the corpus for lexicographical assignments and curriculum for correspondence courses. Their...

7th Pay Commission in favor of Technical Operator(Drilling): Central Ground Water Board (CGWB)

7th Pay Commission in favor of Technical Operator(Drilling)  Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) Drilling Staff : The association has demanded that considering the nature of duties and responsibilities attached to the post of Technical Operators, it may be placed in GP 1900 at par with Technical Operators of Geological Survey of India (GSI). Further to this, the...