Grant of Transport Allowance @ 7000 p.m+DA thereon to officers drawing Grade Pay of Rs.10000, Rs.12000 on Non-functional basis-clarification reg.

Grant of Transport Allowance @ 7000 p.m+DA thereon to officers drawing Grade Pay of Rs.10000, Rs.12000 on Non-functional basis-clarification reg.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No.PC-VI/345

RBE No. 100 /2014
No PC-V/2010/A/TA/1

New Delhi, dated 12 09.2014

The General Managers/CAO(R)
All Zonal Railways & PUs
(As per mailing list)

Sub:-Grant of Transport Allowance @ 7000 p.m+DA thereon to officers drawing Grade Pay of Rs.10000, Rs.12000 on Non-functional basis-clarification reg.

Attention is invited to Board’s letter of even number dt. 07.07.2014 (RBE No.68/2014) on the above subject whereby it was clarified that those officers who are upgraded to Grade Pay of Rs.10000/PB-4 scale on the basis of Dynamic ACP or due to non-functional in-situ upgradation shall not be eligible for grant of Transport Allowance @7000 p.m+DA thereon. On receipt of representations from IRMS Association this matter was further reviewed by the Board in the light of earlier instructions contained in Boards letter No.PC-V/2008/ACP/2, dt. 07.07.2010 and Board have decided that the IRMS Officers having Grade Pay of Rs.10000/- on promotion through DACP Scheme are toga treated at par with SAG Officers for payment of Transport Allowance @7000 p.fn plus DA thereon. However, officers of other organized services who get similar grade on non-functional upgradatlon basis shall not be eligible for the same.

2. Necessary action as per above decision may please be taken.

3. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Dte. of Railway Board.

4. Hindi version is enclosed.

Sd/-
(N. .Singh)
Dy.Director, Pay Commission – V
Railway Board

www.airfindia.com
[http://www.airfindia.com/Orders%202014/Grant-of-Transport-Allowance_RBE%20100_2014.pdf]

Productivity Linked Bonus payment should be paid in cash – NFIR

NFIR writes to Railway Board about the PL Bonus payment should be announced earlier and paid in cash to all eiligible employees – NFIR

National Federation of Indian Railwaymen
3, Chelmsford Road, New Delhi – 110 055

No. 1/10/Pt. IV

Date: 23rd Sept 2014

The Member Staff,
Railway Board,
New Delhi
The Financial Commissioner (Rlys)
Railway Board,
New Delhi

Dear Sir,

Sub:- Productivity Linked Bonus payment – reg.

Pressure mounted from railway employees of different zones that the PL Bonus should be announced and paid in cash to enable them to make purchases for celebrating Dussehra. It is needless to mention that Puja days (Navratra) will commence from 25th Sept 2014 onwards hence there is need to arrange payment in cash.

NFIR, therefore, requests to kindly arrange to issue suitable instructions for payment of P.L. Bonus in cash as a special case.

Yours faithfuly,
sd/-
(M.Raghavaiah)
General Secretary

Source: NFIR

Guidelines for allotment of alternate general pool residential accommodation in the Automated System

Guidelines for allotment of alternate general pool residential accommodation in the Automated System of Allotment on declaration of a house unsafe/dangerous or re-development of government colonies or GPRA required for any other public purpose.

No. 12035/18/2014-Pol.II
Government of India
Ministry of Urban Development
Directorate of Estates

Nirman Bhavan,
New Delhi -110 108.
Dated the 15th September, 2014

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Sub: Guidelines for allotment of alternate general pool residential accommodation in the Automated System of Allotment on declaration of a house unsafe/dangerous or re-development of government colonies or GPRA required for any other public purpose.

The undersigned is directed to refer the subject mentioned above and to say that henceforth allotments of alternate general pool residential accommodation to allottees on declaration of a house unsafe/dangerous or re-development of government colonies or GPRA required for any other public purpose shall be done through Automated System of Allotment [ASA] with effect from 16.9.2014.

2. It has been decided with the approval of the competent authority that in case of complete government colonies declared unsafe/dangerous, the allottees of such colonies shall be placed enbloc over the unified (change/initial) waiting list for same type of accommodation and the allottees may make preferences of houses in the ASA for allotment.

3. In cases where individual houses in Government colony are declared as unsafe/dangerous the alternate allotment of accommodation to be made on priority on the following basis:

a) Vacancies in the same locality or nearby locality to be identified for priority allotment where such occupants would be given priority in the same type of accommodation over unified (change/initial) waiting list.

b) The allottee of ground floor accommodation may apply for ground floor and above and the allottee of first floor above may apply for fist floor and above and allotment will be made accordingly.

c) Equal number of identified vacancies will be placed for allotment in ASA in relation to number of such unsafe/dangerous houses.

4. The request of allottee, whose residential accommodation declared as unsafe/dangerous by the concerned maintenance agency shall be entered into ‘Unsafe Accommodation Register’ of ASA by the concerned Allotment Section.


5. It has been further decided that where a house declared as unsafe/dangerous for living, the declaration will be by an officer not below the rank of an Executive Engineer, CPWD and he should satisfy himself before issue of certificate of declaration. The unsafe/dangerous house(s) may be reported to NIC, Directorate of Estates online by CPWD on such declaration.

6. It has also been decided that where an entire government residential colony is declared unsafe/dangerous for living by CPWD or required to be vacated for re-development, a certificate of declaration from DG, CPWD will only be accepted along with the work plan to make the colony habitable within a period of 3 years in consultation with Works Division of Ministry of Urban Development.

7. This OM supersedes the instructions of the Directorate of Estates O.M.No.12035(1)/91-Pol.II dated 21.2.1991 and O.M.No.12035/16/2005-Pol.IIdated 5.9.2005.

(Roop Lal)
Deputy Director of Estates

Source: www.estates.nic.in
[http://estates.nic.in/WriteReadData/dlcirculars/Circulars20350.pdf]

FAQs on How to Mark your Attendance (BAS)

FAQs on How to Mark your Attendance (BAS)

How to mark Attendance using the common biometric attendance system on wall mounted terminals
To get your Attendance ID, register online at attendance.gov.in. The Attendance ID will be generated from you Aadhaar number, the 6 digit number will be generated based on the last 6 or first 6 digits of your Aadhaar number. The attendance ID will only be active to mark attendance only when your Aadhaar information is verified by UIDAI and activated by you Nodal officer.

• Attendance ID has been sent by SMS to your registered Mobile Number.
• Enter your 6-digit Attendance ID on Screen
• A Red light will start to glow on Finger Print Scanner
• Now put any one of your fingers on the Finger Print Scanner
• DO NOT move your finger on scanner otherwise finger prints will not be properly scanned
• DO NOT Press very hard on Finger Print Scanner
• Once the screen shows “Authenticating, Please Wait”. Remove your finger from the scanner
• A pop-up screen will show your Photo and Attendance Type as “Opening” for the first time you mark the attendance for that day
• If Attendance Type is “Closing” then it will be counted as OUT Time. However, OUT time would be the LAST “Closing” time marked by you. Any “Closing” time in-between “Opening” time and Last “Closing” time would be ignored
• If, you see a CROSS instead of your photo, then some ERROR has occurred while marking attendance.
• You will be able to mark your attendance in any bio-metric terminal installed in various Central Government buildings
• You can also mark your attendance in any of finger print devices, which have been connected on Windows 7 or Windows OS. Presently client attendance software is not available for MAC OS
• If you are having difficulty in marking attendance-using fingerprints scanning devices, please try marking your attendance through Iris Device, which may be available with NIC In-charge in your organization

Source : www.attendance.gov.in

Honorarium to Guest faculty payable to Serving Officers/Non-Serving Officers/Experts/Eminent persons

Honorarium payable to Serving Officers/Non-Serving Officers/Experts/Eminent persons coming as guest faculty to the Central Training Establishments

No 13024/01/2009-Trg.( Trg. Ref)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel,Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
Training Division

Block-IV, Old JNU Campus.
New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi – 110067

Dated 23rd September, 2014

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Sub: Honorarium for Guest Faculty

The undersigned is directed to refer to DoPT’s O.M. No.13024/2/2008-Trg,1 dated 3rd March 2009 wherein rates of honorarium to the Guest faculty payable to Serving Officers/Non-Serving Officers/Experts/Eminent persons coming as guest faculty to the Central Training Establishments (CTIs) have been mentioned
The same are reproduced below:

S.No.	Category	Existing rates
1	Serving officers	Rs. 500/- per session
2	Non-Serving Officers	Rs.1000/- per session
3	Experts/Eminent	Rs.4000/-per session (with reasons justifying such resource persons payment duly recorded by the Head of CTI)

2. The above rates were based on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission and accordingly the pattern followed by the D0PT and LBSNAA, Mussoorie for the purpose of grant of honorarium payable to Guest Faculty was made applicable to all CTIs for Group A Services,

3. A number of references have been received in DoP&t from various CTIs for revision of fees/honorarium. The matter was considered and it is hereby clarified that the Fees / honorarium for guest speakers can be decided by respective Ministries/Departments in consultation with their IFD and with approval of the Competent Authority.

4. There will be no change in the other conditions as mentioned in DoPT’s 0M. referred above.

sd/-
Rajesh Arya
Director( Trg)

Source : www.persmin.gov.in
[http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02trn/HonorariumforguestFaculty0001.pdf]

Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) – New attendance system for central government employees by month-end

Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) – New attendance system for central government employees by month-end

Aadhar-based biometric attendance for central government employees by month-end

NEW DELHI: Aadhaar-based biometric attendance systems for central government employees will be fully operational by the end of this month. “The biometric attendance system for central employees will be fully functional by the end of this month,” Information Technology Secretary Ram Sevak Sharma told PTI.

According to Sharma, the attendance of the employees can be tracked through a website, attendence.gov.in, which would be fully operational by the month-end. The website is expected to bring more transparency as it would provide and update information about central government employees on real-time basis.

The attendance web portal will use the information entered in the biometric devices and will act as a centralised management information system (MIS) for attendance. Under the new attendance system, the employees would be able to mark their attendance using biometric reading devices in various government offices.
It will facilitate employees mark their attendance at other central offices also which would help the government to track their movements. According to the information available on the attendance web portal, as many as 163 central government organisations have registered themselves for the same.
At present, as many as 1,816 biometric attendance devices are operational in various central government offices. There are around 43,000 registered users (employees), out of which 18,262 are Aadhaar verified.

Source: Economic Times

Central Government Employees Launch Countrywide Stir Demanding 7th Pay Commission Interim Relief

Central Government Employees Launch Countrywide Stir Demanding 7th Pay Commission Interim Relief

The Central Government employees are going to launch nationwide protests, stressing that their 11-point demands, including interim relief for the 7th Pay Commission, be granted.

Duraipandian, the General Secretary of Central Government Employees Federation, said, whenever the Pay Commission is constituted, interim reliefs are announced. But this time, when the 7th Pay Commission was announced, we weren’t given interim relief.

We want the new pension scheme to be revoked and old pension scheme to be reinstated. Outsourcing of Central Government jobs to private firms must stop. And, we want the more than 6 lakh vacancies in various central government agencies, like the Railways, Income Tax Departments, to be filled up.

We are going to launch nationwide Dharna protests (except Jammu and Kashmir), demanding that these 11 conditions be fulfilled.

Source: 7thpaycommissionnews

60 Days Bonus for Postal Employees – Orders issued by Department of Posts

60 Days Bonus for Postal Employees – Orders issued by Department of Posts 

F.No.26-04/2014-PAP
Government of India
Ministry of Communication & Information Technology
Department of Posts,
(Establishment Division)

No. 26-04/2014-PAP

Dak Bhawan, Sensed Marg,
New Delhi – 110001

Dated: 19th September, 2014

1. All Chief Postmasters General
1 All Postmasters General
3.Deputy Director General (PAP), Department of Posts
4.All General Managers (Finance)
5.Directors/Deputy Directors of Accounts (Postal)
6. Director, RAKNPA/Directors of All PTCs

SUB: Productivity Linked Bonus for the Accounting year 2013-14.

Sir/Madam,

The undersigned is directed to convey the sanction of the President of India to the payment of Productivity Linked Bonus for the accounting year 2013-14 equivalent of emoluments of 60 (sixty) Days to the employees of Department of Posts in Group `D/MTS, Group ‘C’ and non-gazetted Group ‘B’. Ex-Gratia payment of bonus to Gramin Dak Sevaks who are regularly appointed after observing all appointment formalities, and Ad-hoc payment of bonus to Casual labourers who have been conferred Temporary Status are also to be paid equivalent to allowances / wages respectively for 60 (sixty) Days for the same period.

1.1 The calculation for the purpose of payment of bonus under each category will be done as indicated below.

2, REGULAR EMPLOYEES

2.1 Bonus will be calculated on the basis of the following formula: –

 Average emoluments X Number of days of bonus
———————————————————
30.4 (average no of days in a month)

Source : NFPE

Additional Benefits on death/disability of Government servant covered by NPS

PFRDA, FINANCE MINISTRY AND RAILWAY BOARD ORDERS ON ADDITIONAL BENEFITS ON DEATH / DISABILITY OF GOVERNMENT SERVANTS COVERED BY NATIONAL PENSION SYSTEM…

Additional benefit on death/disability of Government Servants covered by New Pension Scheme – Clarification regarding RBE 96/2014

RBE No.96/2014

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

No. 2012/F(E)III/1(1)/4

New Delhi, Dated 8.9.2014

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

Subject: Additional benefit on death/disability of Government servant covered by New Pension System- clarification regarding.

A copy each of the Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services O.M.No.11/23/2013-PR dated 21.05.2014 and the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA)’s letter No.PFRDA/24/FXIT/10 dated 22.08.2014 is enclosed for information and compliance. These instructions shall apply mutatis mutandis on the Railways also.

2. The Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare (DOP&PW)’s O.M. dated 05.05.2009 and the PFRDA’s circular No.PFRDA/2013/2/PDEX/2 dated 22.01.2013 mentioned in the Ministry of Finance’s O.M dated 21.05.2014 were circulated to the Zonal Railways vide Board’s letter No. 2008/AC-II/21/19 dated 29.05.2009 and letter No. 2010/AC-II/21/18 dated 02.07.2013 respectively.
3. Please acknowledge receipt.

(Amitabh Joshi)
Deputy Director Finance (Estt.)III,
Railway Board.

Finance Ministry Orders :

Additional benefits on death/ disability of Government servant covered by National Pension System (NPS) – Clarifciation –reg.

No.11/23/2013-PR
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Financial Services

Jeevan Deep Building, Parliament Street,
New Delhi, dated 21st May, 2014

Office Memorandum

Subject: Additional benefits on death/ disability of Government servant covered by National Pension System (NPS) – Clarifciation –reg.

The undersigned is directed to refer to Railway Board, Ministry of Railways OM No. 2012/F(E)III/1/4 dated 14th January 2013 on the subject above and to say that the comments of this Department on the Ministry of Railways’ reservations as under Para 3 of above OM, are as under:

“The PFRDA’s clarification that the benefits granted vide the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare (DPPW) O.M. dated 05.05.2009 are over and above the benefits admissible under National Pension System (NPS), needs to be modified to the extent that the employee or the legal heirs of the employees, who wish to opt for pension or family pension as per the DPPW order, can not avail of two pension related benefits under the NPS and CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 simultaneously.”

2. For any further clarification on the DPPW OM dated 05th May 2009, Ministry of Railways may kindly get in touch with the DPPW itself.

3. This issues with approval of Joint Secretary, Department of Financial services, Ministry of Finance.

(Surinder Kaur)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

Orders issued by PFRDA :

PENSION FUND REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
1st Floor, ICADR Building, Plot No. 6,
Vasant Kunj Institutional Area,
Phase – II, New Delhi – 110070

VENKATESWARLU PERI
General Manager
PFRDA/24/EXIT/10

22nd Aug, 2014

Mr. Amitabh Joshi
Deputy Director Finance (Estt.)III,
Railway Board,
Ministry of Railways,
Rail Bhawan, New Delhi-01

Subject: Additional Benefits on death/disability of Government servant covered by NPS

Dear Sir,
This has reference letter No. 2012/F-E/ (III)/1/14 dt. 30th June, reference the OM No. 11.23/2013 dt. 21st May, 2013 with respect to Railway Board, Ministry of Railways OM No. 2012/F(E)III/1/4 dated 14th January 2013 on the subject cited above.

In this regard, we wish to inform you that we have included the same in our proposed Exit Regulations and which shall ensure that in case if the government or government authority or entity registered as government sector (as employer) under the NPS with the central record keeping agency (CRA) provides any additional relief or benefit to the family members of a deceased NPS subscriber/subscriber due to any ground like invalidation leading to loss of employment in lieu of the benefits available under National Pension System, the claimants to the accumulated pension wealth of the deceased subscriber/subscriber would be free to avail such benefits subject to the condition that they specifically agree and undertake to transfer the accumulated pension wealth to the Government dept unconditionally’.

We have already provided this information to Department of Financial Services (DFS), vide letter no. PFRDA/24/10/E-82, dt. 1st July 2014, copy of which is enclosed herewith for your information.

Yours faithfully,
sd/-
Venkateswarlu Peri

Source: NFIR

Recruitment to non-gazetted posts on the railways – Adherence to prescribed qualification in recruitment from open market regarding

Recruitment to non-gazetted posts on the railways – Adherence to prescribed qualification in recruitment from open market regarding

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

No. E (NG)-II/2005/RR-l/8.

New Delhi, dated: 28/08/2014

The General Manager (P),
All Zonal Railways/Production Units
Chairmen, Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs)/Railway Recruitment Cells (RRCs)

Sub: Recruitment to non-gazetted posts on the railways – Adherence to prescribed qualification in recruitment from open market regarding.

Attention is invited to instructions contained in Board’s letter of even number dated 29/6/2006 which debar acceptance of allied/related qualification in lieu of the qualification prescribed by this Ministry and stipulates that candidate in possession of the qualification possessed in line with the extant instructions may only be considered for employment on the railways.

The above instructions were issued to streamline the already perturbed system of open market recruitment, wherein, candidates with similar qualification were being treated differently by different recruiting agencies leading to the matter open for litigation.

However, over a period of time it has been observed that recruiting agencies are seeking clarification from this Ministry on following accounts

(i) recognition of institutions;
(ii) recognition of courses from regulatory bodies, if any, or other nodal bodies;
(iii) whether the course is offered through regular/part-time/distance learning/Membership of Association;
(iv) duration of course; and
(v) Equivalence.

Referring each and every issue to the nodal Departments/Ministries results in inordinate delay in finalizing candidature of candidates which further results in more complications viz. expiry of panels, candidates taking legal recourse etc.

Taking above things into consideration, instructions contained in letter dated 29/6/2006 ibid have been reviewed and it has been decided by the Board that empanelled candidates in possession of prescribed qualification from institutions run by Central Government/State Government/Bodies enacted by Act of Parliament or State Legislatures or recognized by Central Government/State GovernmentIBodies enacted by Act of Parliament or State Legislatures be allowed to join without further going into the issue of recognition. Validity or otherwise, of such recognition, if required, will be confirmed by the concerned recruiting agency, contacting directly to the BoardlUniversity or the Council as the case may be.

These guidelines do not affect in any way the instructions circulated vide letter No.E(NG)II12010IRR-l/17 dated 08/12/2011.

Cases decided otherwise in the past need not be re-opened.

Please acknowledge receipt.

(Hindi version will follow)

(Ravi Shekhar)
Deputy Director Estt. (N)-II
Railway Board.

Source: www.indianrailways.gov.in
[http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/establishment/ENG-II/2014/Recruitment_280814.pdf]