7th Pay Commission: Rajya Sabha questions regarding Expected date of report & implementation and representative of security forces

Seventh Pay Commission: Questions asked in Rajya Sabha regarding Expected date of report & implementation and representative of security forces

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF  FINANCE

RAJYA SABHA

QUESTION NO  1380

ANSWERED ON  10.03.2015

Seventh Pay Commission

1380 Shri Narendra Kumar Kashyap
Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to satate :-

(a) Whether Government has announced the Seventh Pay Commission for the Central Government employees;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) by when the Commission is likely to submit its report and the date from which it will be implemented;

(d) whether the representatives of the security forces have also been included in this Commission; and

(e) if so, the details thereof?

ANSWER

 
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(SHRI JAYANT SINHA)

(a) & (b) : The Government of India has appointed the Seventh Central Pay Commission comprising of the following vide Resolution dated 28th February, 2014:

(i) Shri Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur - Chairman
(ii) Shri Vivek Rae - Member (Full time)
(iii) Dr. Rathin Roy - Member (Part time)
(iv) Smt. Meena Agarwal, - Secretary

(c): In terms of the aforesaid Resolution dated 28.2.2014, the Commission is required to make its recommendations within 18 months from the date of its constitution.

(d) & (e). No Sir.

भारत सरकार

वित्त मंत्रालय

व्य्य विभाग

राज्य सभा

अतारांकित प्रश्न  संख्या: – 1380 

 मंगलवार, 10 मार्च, 2015/19 फाल्गुन, 1936 (शक)

सातवां वेतन आयोग 

1380. श्री नरेन्द्र  कुमार कश्य प: 
क्याा वित्त मंत्री यह बताने की कृपा करेंगे कि:
(क) क्या सरकार ने केन्द्र सरकार के कर्मचारियों के लिए सातवें वेतन आयोग की घोषणा की है; 
(ख) यदि हां, तो तत्संबंधी ब्यौरा क्या है; 
(ग) आयोग द्वारा कब तक अपनी रिपोर्ट सौंपने की संभावना है और इसके किस तिथि से लागू होने की संभावना है; 
(घ) क्या इस आयोग में सुरक्षा बलों के प्रतिनिधियों को भी शामिल किया गया है; और 
(ङ) यदि हां, तो तत्संबंधी ब्यौरा क्या  है?

उत्तर

वित्त मंत्रालय में राज्य मंत्री (श्री जयंत सिन्हा)

(क) और (ख): भारत सरकार ने 28 फरवरी, 2014 के संकल्प के तहत सातवें केन्द्रीय वेतन आयोग का गठन कर दिया है जिसमें निम्नलिखित शामिल हैं:

(i)   न्यायमूर्ति श्री अशोक कुमार माथुर - अध्यक्ष
(ii) श्री विवेक राय - सदस्य (पूर्णकालिक)
(iii) डॉ. रथिन रॉय - सदस्य (अंशकालिक)
(iv) श्रीमती मीना अग्रवाल - सचिव

(ग): 28 फरवरी, 2014 के उपर्युक्त संकल्प के अनुसार, आयोग को अपने गठन की तारीख से 18 माह के अन्दर अपनी सिफारिशें देनी हैं। 
(घ) और (ङ): जी, नहीं। 

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Demand of allowance at par with Defence Service/Technical Personnel by Defence Civilian Employees is not feasible

Demand of allowance at par with Defence Service/Technical Personnel by Defence Civilian Employees is not feasible

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Defence

13-March-2015 13:33 IST

Recruitment of Soldiers

From time to time Defence Civilian employees have been raising the demands that they should be granted Field Area allowance and Modified Field Area allowance as applicable to the service Personnel and for providing other allowances like Aeronautical Technical Allowance, Airworthiness Certificate Allowance, Flight Charge Certificate Allowance etc. at par with technical defence personnel. It has not been found feasible to accept these demands as the job requirements and service conditions of Service Personnel and Defence Civilian employees are totally different.


Complaints relating to alleged irregularities / malpractices in recruitment of soldiers have been received from time to time. In cases of complaints of involvement of touts, FIRs, where applicable, have been lodged. During the last three years (2012 to till date), three cases of involvement of Service Personnel were found. Court of Inquiry has been instituted in one case; preliminary investigation has been ordered in another case and in third, the CBI has registered a case.

Proactive measures have been taken on a continuous basis to streamline the recruitment process. These include deployment of vigilance teams, involving police and Government intelligence sources, introducing additional checks and balances in documentation procedure, online verification of documents where feasible, conducting awareness campaigns against falling prey to touts, in-house printing of Question Papers to obviate leakage.

This information was given by Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Shri P Karunakaran in Lok Sabha today.

NFIR: Retirement benefits for railway employees

NFIR: Retirement benefits of railway employees

Counting of services paid from contingencies with regular service for retirement benefits of raiiway employees who have put in such service – reg.

NFIR
Natiohal Federationf Indian Railwaymen

3, CHELMSFORD ROAD,
NEW DELHI – 1 10 055

Affiliated to :
Indian NationalTrade Union Congress (INTUC)
International Transport Workers’ Federation (lTF)

No. Il/35/pt.11

Dated: 09/03/2015

Thc Secretary (E),
Railway Board,
New Delhi

Dear Sir,

Sub: Counting of services paid from contingencies with regular service for retirement benefits of raiiway employees who have put in such service – reg.

Ref:
(i) NFIR’s PNM Item No.27/2011 & 3/2013.

(ii) Ministry of Railway’s OM No.E(NG)II/2014/CL/14 dated 25/11/2014 to the Secretary, Dop&T, North Block, NewDelhi.
(iii) NFIR’s letter No.II/35/Part.11 dated 07/01/2015.

(iv) Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & pensions, Dop&T oM No. Misc- 14017/6/2015 – Estt(RR), Dy. No. 1066914/15/CR dated 26/02/2015 addressed to Secretary, Railway Board, New Delhi & copy endorsed to the General Secretary, NFIR

The Secretary, DoP&T, North Block, New Delhi while enclosing copy of NFIR,s lefter No. II/35/Part. 11 dated 07/01/2015, has addressed letter to the secretary, Railway Board (OM dated 26/02/2015), wherein the Railway Ministry has been advised to send the proposal in accordance with the procedure laid down in Dop&T OM No. 2034/2/2010 – Estt. (D) dated 13th August, 2010.

Federation also desires to state that the issue was discussed in the NFIR’s PNM meeting held with the Railway Board on 19th/20th December, 2014 wherein the official Side while discussing PNM Itern No. 27/2011 & 3/2013 had stated that the subject matter has been referred to the DoP&T vide dated 25/11/2014 whose response was awaited. However the Dop&T’s OM dated 26/02/2015 reveals that the Railway Ministry has not sent proposal in the prescribed format. For ready reference copy of DoP&T OM dated 26/02/2015 is enclosed.

NFIR, therefore, requests the Railway Board to kindly see that proper proposal is sent to the DoPT duly endorsing copy to the Federation. The matter may be treated as important in view of the fact that the PNM item is pending since four years.

DA/As above

Yours faithfully,
(Dr. M. Raghavaiah)
General Secretary

Source: http://www.nfirindia.org/

Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners; More Than One Crore Pensioners May be Benefitted by the Scheme

Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners; More Than One Crore Pensioners May be Benefitted by the Scheme

Under the ‘Digital India Mission’, Government has launched ‘Jeevan Pramaan – an Aadhaar based Digital Life Certificate’ for pensioners on 10.11.2014. This facility provides an option to the pensioners to submit their life certificate digitally by authenticating biometrically using UIDAI Database. The pension disbursing agencies integrated with the Jeevan Pramaan Portal will get access to digital life certificate. The pensioners need not go to the pension disbursing agency in person.

Aadhaar numbers is used for bio-metric authentication of pensioners. All pensioners having Aadhaar number may avail this facility. More than one crore pensioners may be benefitted by the scheme.

Government has taken a number of steps to bring awareness among the pensioners regarding the digital life certificate scheme such as publicity through leading newspapers, organization of camps for pensioners, regular meetings with pension disbursing agencies etc.

This was stated by Shri Jayant Sinha, Minister of State in Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.

One Rank One Pension for the Armed Forces

One Rank One Pension Scheme

Press Information Bureau Government of India
 

Ministry of Defence

13-March, 2015

The principle of One Rank One Pension for the Armed Forces has been accepted by the Government. The modalities for implementation have been discussed with various stakeholders and are presently under consideration of the Government. Financial implication could be calculated, once the modalities are finalized and approved by the Government.

Possible amendments to the pension policies are being examined with a view to reduce litigation for removing disparities in pension of various ex-servicemen.

This information was given by Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Shri Mullappally Ramachandran and others in Lok Sabha today.

DM/NAMPI/HH/RAJ

- PIB

Ordnance Factories: Ministry of Defence

Ordnance Factories

Press Information Bureau Government of India
 

Ministry of Defence

13-March, 2015

Kelkar Committee had recommended that “Ordnance Factories should be corporatized into a single corporation under leadership of a competitive management. This corporation should be accorded the status of Navratna”.

The following steps have been taken by the Government on research and development initiative for innovation and import substitution in last one year:

• To avoid the delay in processing of R&D projects at Ordnance Factory Board Headquarters (OFBHQ), financial powers have been delegated to all levels.
• Factories have been given target to increase the expenditure on R&D activities to 3% of their turnover by the year 2018-19 in a phased manner.
• Factories are being encouraged to associate themselves with reputed Academic Institutes for Research Assistance.
• Core technologies have been identified for 12 Ordnance Factories to put in more focused efforts to cope up with Technology denial regime.
• Joint working on some of the large projects with Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) from the inception stage and to render manufacturing assistance, wherever required by DRDO is being encouraged.

This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh in a written reply to Shri Gaurav Gogoi and others in Lok Sabha today.

DM/NAMPI/HH/RAJ

- PIB

Modernization of Armed Forces

Modernization of Armed Forces 

Ministry of Defence

13-March, 2015

Budget allocation for modernization of armed forces under the Revised Estimates has been fully used during the last three years.  Details for the same including for the current year are as follows:-

(` in crore)

Year	BE	RE	Actual Expenditure	%age utilization w.r.t. RE
2011-12	56510.49	53292.30	56281.88	105.61
2012-13	66032.24	57395.46	58768.86	102.39
2013-14	73444.59	66406.41	66850.30	100.67
2014-15	75148.03	66151.73	56776.47	85.83

Note:- Actual expenditure for 2014-15 is upto February, 2015.

Utilization of Defence budget is monitored by means of the financial compilation prepared by Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) which captures the details of defence expenditure incurred all over the country. The progress of expenditure is reviewed periodically at various levels in the Ministry and Service Headquarters to identify any areas where expenditure may be lagging.   This helps to identify and resolve any problems in implementation of planned activities.

The desired capability defines the equipment to be procured. Towards this end, a number of proposals for increasing the combat capacity and mobility of Infantry are listed in the Long Term Integrated Perspective Plan.

The expenditure being incurred on modernisation is as an outcome of implementation of the Long Term Integrated Perspective Plan (LTIPP), which is sub-divided into five-year Services Capital Acquisition Plans (SCAP), which in turn form the basis of the Annual Acquisition Plans.

This information was given by Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Shri Ram Kumar Sharma and others in Lok Sabha today.

DM/NAMPI/HH/RAJ

PIB

POSTAL DEPARTMENT REFERRED THE GDS CASE TO FINANCE MINISTRY FOR INCLUSION IN 7th CPC

POSTAL  DEPARTMENT REFERRED THE GDS CASE TO FINANCE MINISTRY FOR INCLUSION IN 7th CPC

Meeting with with PJCA

To
The Chairman / Secretary
Postal Joint Council of Action

Subject:   Meeting held with PJCA on 05/02/2015 under the Chairpersonship of Secretary (Posts)

Dear Sir,
       As decided vide Point 2 of the minutes of  above meeting, this is to inform you that the proposal of GDS for their inclusion within the terms of reference of 7th CPC has been endorsed to the Department of Expenditure for re-consideration.

Sd/-
(Arun Malik)
Director (SR & Legal)

Cadre Management in the CSS

Cadre Management in the CSS

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

12-March-2015 16:10 IST

Cadre Management in the CSS

The Department of Personnel & Training has taken various measures to fill up the total vacancies of 2633 in Assistants’ Grade and 478 in Section Officers’ Grade in all the participating Ministries and Departments of Central Secretariat Service, existing as on 1st January, 2015.

Around 1250 of the 2633 vacancies in the Assistants’ Grade have been filled up on an adhoc basis in February, 2015 after successful conclusion of the litigation concerning seniority list of Upper Division Clerks in the High Court of Delhi on 21st January, 2015.

To fill up the vacancies in the Section Officers’ Grade (seniority quota), zones for promotion have been issued for Select Lists upto 2014. Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for Section Officers’ Grade for the year 2014 has also been held for which 333 vacancies have been reported to Union Public Service Commission.

The shortfall in the Assistants’ Grade occurred as the Combined Graduate Level Examination (CGLE) 2013 had to be re-conducted by Staff Selection Commission (SSC) on the directions of Hon’ble Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi. 1267 direct recruitment quota vacancies for the year 2013 and 756 (tentative) vacancies for the year 2014 have been reported to SSC for filling up through CGLEs. Final results of CGLEs 2013 and 2014 have not yet been declared.

This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in Prime Minister’s office Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Dr. K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao in the Rajya Sabha today

No proposal to issue smart card to government employees

No proposal to issue smart card to government employees

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 445
ANSWERED ON 25.02.2015

SMART CARD FOR EMPLOYEES

445 . Chinnaraj Shri Gopalakrishnan
Senthilnathan Shri PR.

Will the Minister of PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS be pleased to state:-

(a) whether the Government is considering to issue smart card to all Government employees across the country;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) the time by which the proposal will be implemented; and

(d) target fixed to issue this card?


ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office. (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

(a) to (d): There is no proposal to issue smart card to government employees by Department of Personnel & Training.