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Meeting Minutes Held on 25.02.2013

Monthly Meeting with SSPOs Jalandhar Division held on 29.01.2013 in the chamber of SSPOs Jalandhar Division. Following members were present from admin side:
Sh.Bishan Singh, SSPOs Jalandhar Division
Sh.K.P.Meena, ASP (HQ) Jalandhar Division

Following members were present from staff side
Sh.Dharam Pal Singh, Divisional Secretary
Sh.Chandan Kalra, P.A Jalandhar City HO
Sh. Saurabh Mittal, O.A Jalandhar Division

Following items were discussed during the meeting

Provision of water dispensars in post offices
SSPOs Jalandhar Division has replied that water dispensars were supplied in 15 post offices in the year 2011. Union may furnish the list of suc post offices where water dispensars are required so that the same can be supplied to those offices.
SPMs of such post offices where water dispensars are not available and are required are requested to intimate  us and also write to D.O for the requirement.

Pending MACP Cases
SSPOs Jalandhar Division has replied that all the usual formalities have been completed and the date of DPC meeting will be finalized soon to recommend the MACP promotions.

Recognition of Patel Hospital Jalandhar as super speciality Hospital for the treatment of employees of Jalandhar Division.
SSPOs Jalandhar Division has replied that the matter will be take up with the Regional Office Chandigarh for the recognition.

 Installation of CCTV cameras in post offices for security purpose.
SSPOs Jalandhar Division has replied that the proposal will be forward to Regional Office for approval.

Local Road Mileage Allowance to System Managers/M.Es / PRIs
SSPOs Jalandhar Division has replied that the it is under process and will be sort out shortly.

TWO DAYS STRIKE EXHIBITED THE TOTAL UNITY AND PROTEST OF

 POSTAL & RMS EMPLOYEES

Entire Postal and RMS services came to a standstill

We (NFPE & FNPO) once again extend our warm greetings and congratulations to all Postal and RMS employees who made the two days nationwide strike a thundering success. About 1,50,000 Postal and RMS offices including Branch Post offices remained closed for two days. About more than five lakhs employees including GDS struck work.Though the strike will be over tonight, the struggle against the anti-worker policies will continue. Let us keep this unity and fighting spirit intact.

Unity for Struggle, and struggle for unity

Thank you, Thank you all

M. Krishnan                                                   D. Theagarajan

Secretary General                                           Secretary General

NFPE                                                             FNPO. 

POSTAL JCA COMPRISING OF FNPO AND NFPE AND GDS UNIONS PARTICPATED IN THE NATIONWIDE STRIKE IN JALANDHAR DIVISION IN LARGE STRENGTH. POSTAL AND RMS EMPLOYEES IN LARGE NUMBER PARTICPATED IN STRIKE DUE TO WHICH THE POSTAL SERVICES EFFECTED BADLY IN THE WHOLE JALANDHAR DIVISION. TOTAL SHUT DOWN OF POST OFFICES IN THE NAWANSHAHR AND BANGA AREA UNDER JALANDHAR DIVISION EFFECT THE POSTAL SERVICES AND MAIL REMAINED UNDELIVERED. ALL UNION LEADERS SH.HAZARA RAM DIVISIONAL SECRETARY ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEE UNION, SH.JOGINDER RAM DIVISIONAL SECRETARY ALL INDIA POSTMAN UNION, SH.KARANJEET SINGH ,DIVISIONAL SECRETARY ALL INDIA GDS UNION, SH.KASTURI LAL, DIVISIONAL SECRETARY NATIONAL UNION RMS-III AND SH.BALWINDER KUMAR DIVISIONAL SECRETARY ALL INDIA RMS UNION-III CONGRATULATE AND THANKS TO ALL THE EMPLOYEES FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN TWO DAYS STRIKE AGAINST GOVERNMENTS ANTI LABOUR POILICIES.

DHARAM PAL SINGH

DIVISIONAL SECRETARY

NAPE C JALANDHAR DIVISION

STRIKE TOTAL IN POSTAL AND RMS OFFICES

JCA (NFPE & FNPO) congratulates all the Postal and RMS employees including Gramin Dak Sevaks who participated in the two days strike commenced on 20th Feb and made it an All TIME HISTORIC SUCCESS. This the first time ever such a large strike going in in Jalandhar Division. All post offices of Nawanshahr and Banga are are totaly closed. Please keep up this tempo till 21st evening and ensure centpercentsuccess

DharamPalSingh 
DivisionalSecretary 
NAPE C Jalandhar Division

STRIKE WILL CONTINUE.....GO AHEAD

TALKS FAILED-STRIKE WILL CONTINUE

THE PROPOSED STRIKE FROM 20TH FEBRUARY WILL CONTINUE.THE TALKS WITH CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS BY GROUP OF MINISTERS ON 18TH EVENING FAILED. GOVERNMENT DID NOT COME FORWARD TO CONCEDE THE DEMANDS. MAKE THE STRIKE CENT PERCENT SUCCESS FOR SURVIVAL.

10 Crores workers will participate in the strike.

13 lakhs Central Government employees including 5.5 lakhs Postal employees joining historic two days strike. Entire Postal and RMS offices including Branch Post offices will be completely closed for two days. Ensure cent per cent success.

GENERAL SECRETARY

HOUSE BUILDING ADVANCE..RATE OF INTEREST FOR CENTRAL GOVT EMPLOYEES FOR PURCHASE OF PLOT OR CONSTRUCTION

No.1-17011/2(6)/2013-H.III
Ministry of Urban Development
(Housing-III Section)

*******

 Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi.

 Dated:- the 17th January, 2013

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

 Subject:- Rates of interest on advances and loans to Govt. employees, for construction/purchase of houses/flats.

 The undersigned is directed to enclose herewith a copy of Ministry of Finance, Deptt. of Expenditure's O.M. No. 5(3)-B(PD)/2012 dated the 3rd January 2013 intimating the rates of interest on advances and loans given to Government employees for construction/purchase of houses/flats during 2012-13 i.e. 1st April, 2012 to 31St March, 2013 and until further orders, for information and compliance.


 Sd/-
 (S.K.Ram)
 Dy. Financial Adviser



No.5(3)-B(PD)/2012
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Economic Affairs
(Budget Division)

 Room No. 263-B, North Block,
 New Delhi dated the 3rd January, 2013.


Office Memorandum

        The undersigned is directed to state that the rates of interest on advances and loans given to Government employees for construction/purchase of houses/flats during 2012-13 i.e. 1st April, 2012 to 31st March, 2013 and until further orders will be as under:-

Slab                                       Interest Rate  percent per annum

 Advance upto Rs. 50,000/-        6.00

 Advance uto Rs. 1,50,000/-       7.50

 Advance upto  Rs. 500,000/-      9.00

 Advance upto  Rs. 7,50,000/-     9.50

          Ministry of Urban Development is requested to issue separate O.M. at their level on the above issue.

 This issues with the approval of Flon'bie Finance Minister.


 Sd/-
 (A.K. Bhatnagar)
 Under Secretary (Budget)

FLASH NEWS.

14\02\2013

STRIKE DISCUSSION FAILED

Cabinet Minister for Labour &Minster of States for Labour held discussion with Central leaders on 13-02-2013. On the charter of demands. Discussion failed as Central Government is not ready to concede the demands. All the Trade Union Leaders unanimously decided to go ahead with the two days strike.

Charter of DEMANDS

PART – I

1. Take Concrete measures to contain price rise.

2. Take Concrete measures for linkage of employment protection with the concession/incentive package offered to the entrepreneurs,

3. Ensure Strict enforcement of all basic labour laws without any exception or exemption and stringent punitive measures for violation of labour laws,

4. Universal social security cover for the unorganized sector workers without any restriction and creation of a National Social Security Fund with adequate resources in line with the recommendation of NCEUS and Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.

5. Stoppage of disinvestment in central and state PSUs.

6. No Contractorisation of work of permanent/perennial nature and payment of wages and benefits to the contract workers at the same rate as available to the regular workers of the industry/ establishment

7. Amendment of Minimum Wages Act to ensure universal coverage irrespective of the schedules and fixation of statutory minimum wage at not less than Rs 10,000/-.

8.   Remove all ceilings on payment and eligibility of Bonus, Provident Fund; Increase the quantum of gratuity.

9.   Assured statutory Pension for all

10. Ensure Compulsory registration of trade unions within a period of 45 days and immediate ratification of the ILO Conventions nos 87 and 98

PART – II

1.  Appoint Seventh Central Pay Commission for revision of wages of Central Government Employees including Gramin Dak Sewaks. Grant merger of 50% of DA with pay for all purposes, including GDS.

2. Stop abolition of posts and restore all abolished posts with immediate effect.

3. Grant Civil Servant status to Gramin Dak Sewaks and extend all benefits of regular employees to GDS also. Enhance GDS Bonus ceiling from 2500/- to 3500/- . End discrimination in wages and other service conditions.

 4. Revise the wages of Casual, Part-time & contingent employees with effect from 1.1.2006 at par with the minimum pay scale implemented as per 6th CPC recommendations. Regularisation of the services of casual labourers.

 5. Drop the proposal for privatization of Postal Sector and retrograde clauses of the National Postal Policy 2012.

6. Revision of OTA rates as per the Arbitration award.

7. Complete the cadre restructuring and honour the assurance given to staff side.

8. Remove arbitrary restrictions imposed on compassionate appointments.

7th CPC NEWS

7th Pay Commission Projected Pay Scale


People may think that the babus again started to make voice over pay revision and next pay commission or 7th Pay commission. There is a saying that “The crying baby gets the milk”. The need makes the man to act.
One should try to understand the fact that being a government servant one can witness a considerable pay hike at least twice or thrice of his/her entire service period. Because, other than promotion, only the pay commission recommendation will give them considerable pay hike. But it takes place once in ten years. Now a days a government employee can render service 20 or 30 years only due to non availability of employment opportunity in government service below the age of 25. So there is no need to be get annoyed by hearing the voice for seventh pay commission from central government employees. Because constituting next pay commission is for nothing but to review the salary of the govt. servants with the current economical condition of the country.

How the pay of a govt. employee had been fixed at the beginning of the Independence India.
Till now there are six pay commission had been constituted to review and recommend pay structure of central government employees.
All the six pay commissions have taken many aspects into consideration to prescribe the pay structure for government servants.
In the first pay commission the concept of ‘living wage’ was adopted.
In second pay commission it had been reiterated that the pay structure and working condition to be crafted in a way so as to ensure the effective functioning of government mechanism.
The third pay commission adopted the concept of ‘need based wage’
The Fourth CPC had recommended the government to constitute permanent machinery to undertake periodical review of pay and allowances of Central Government employees, but which got never implemented.
In Fifth pay commission all federations demanded that the pay scale should be at par with the public sector. But the pay commission didn’t accept this and told that the demand for parity with the Public Sector was however difficult to concede as it felt that the Job content and condition of service in the government and pulic sector not necessarily the same. There were essential differences between the two sectors.
The Sixth Central Pay Commission, claimed that it had not only tried to evolve a proper pay package for the Government employees but also to make recommendations rationalizing the governmental structure with a view to improve the delivery mechanisms for providing better services to the common man
What about seventh pay commission?
Generally every pay commission, before recommending a pay structure, it used to analyze all the aspects including the economic situation of the country, financial resources of the government, comparison with the public sector, private sector and state government pay structure etc. So it is very much clear that Pay Determination is very complicated and sensitive task. Without any doubt every one accepts that this is very challenging task too. In order to determine the new pay structure the pay commission has to go through voluminous data consisting current economic condition, strength of the work force and working condition etc. In the meantime, if one tries to suggest or comment about 7thy pay commission pay scale or about what the seventh pay commission pay scale would be, it will not get much importance.
But when we come across all the recommendations of six pay commissions, we observed an interesting factor which is common to all the pay commission recommendations, particularly in the matter of percentage of increase in the pay. Average 3 times increase in the pay was recommended by each pay commission and it was accepted by government and implemented. We have posted three articles about six pay commissions before this post.
Click the link given below to see those articles and average increase was worked out in the table.
First CPC to Third CPC Pay Scales
Fourth CPC pay scale and Fifth Pay commission
Short Description about Sixth Pay Commission
Obviously it is simple thing, we can say it a mathematical coincidence that we have in common in all previous pay commission, but we cannot neglect this. Because it was there, every time it is noticed that the revised pay was approximately three times higher than its pre revised pay. Apart from all the factors which has been used to determine the pay revision, we can use this simple formula ‘common multiplying factor’ to know the 7th pay commission pay scale . If next pay commission prefer to continue the same running pay band and grade pay system for seventh pay commission also, the pay structure may be like the following projected figures given below, using common multiplying factor ‘3’. The Following is only the projected figure using common multiplying factor ‘3’

SIXTH CPC PAY STRUCTURE				PROJECTED  PAY STRUCTURE  FOR NEXT  (VII)  PAY COMMISSION
Name of Pay Band/ Scale	Corresponding Pay Bands	Corresponding Grade Pay	Entry Grade +band pay	Projected entry level pay using uniform multiplying factor` 3’
				Band Pay	Grade Pay	Entry Pay
PB-1	5200-20200	1800	7000	15600-60600	5400	21000
PB-1	5200-20200	1900	7730	15600-60600	5700	23190
PB-1	5200-20200	2000	8460	15600-60600	6000	25380
PB-1	5200-20200	2400	9910	15600-60600	7200	29730
PB-1	5200-20200	2800	11360	15600-60600	8400	34080
PB-2	9300-34800	4200	13500	29900-104400	12600	40500
PB-2	9300-34800	4600	17140	29900-104400	13800	51420
PB-2	9300-34800	4800	18150	29900-104400	14400	54450
PB-3	15600-39100	5400	21000	29900-104400	16200	63000
PB-3	15600-39100	6600	25530	46800-117300	19800	76590
PB-3	15600-39100	7600	29500	46800-117300	22800	88500
PB-4	37400-67000	8700	46100	112200-20100	26100	138300
PB-4	37400-67000	8900	49100	112200-20100	26700	147300
PB-4	37400-67000	10000	53000	112200-20100	30000	159000
HAG	67000- (ann increment @ 3%) -79000	Nil				201000
HAG+ Scale	75500- (ann increment @ 3%) -80000	Nil				226500
Apex Scale	80000 (Fixed)	Nil				240000
Cab. Sec.	90000 (Fixed)	Nil				270000

Source: www.gservants.com

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8% DA HIKE FOR CENTRAL GOVT STAFF

8% DA HIKE FOR CENTRAL GOVT STAFF

In a major development, the Union Cabinet on Friday approved 8% hike in the Dearness Allowance (DA) for central government employees and pensioners. This decision is likely to bring some relief to nearly 50 lakh central government employees trying to cope up with spiraling inflation and price hike.