The State Government employees are in an upbeat mood as they would be getting 40 per cent interim relief with effect from January 1 this year. With the announcement of the new interim relief, the difference between the pay scales of the Central and State Government employees also came down considerably. Talking to The Assam Tribune, secretary general of the Sadau Asom Karmachari Parishad (SAKP), Bashab Kalita said that they were satisfied with the decision of the Government.
Kalita said that the State Government announced 15 percent interim relief with effect from April, 2008 and added 10 per cent more with effect from January 1 this year. However, because of the delay on the part of the State Pay Commission in submitting its report, the Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi announced the Government’s decision to add 15 per cent more to the interim relief with effect from January 1 this year and to pay the arrears before the ensuing Durga Puja festival.
The SAKP office bearer said that the differences between pay scales of the State and Central Governments would be reduced considerably after the state employees started receiving 40 per cent interim relief.
Kalita said that the State pay Commission was scheduled to submit its report by the end of May, but it was given three months’ extension despite strong opposition from the employees. He said that the Commission was given extension for another month up to the end of September, which forced the SAKP to announce an agitational programme. However, the agitational programme has been withdrawn following the decision of the State Government to increase the interim relief to 40 per cent. The Chief Minister also assured the SAKP that no further extension would be given to the Pay Commission to submit its report.
The SAKP has been demanding that the new pay scale should be given to the employees with effect from January, 2006 as was given to the Central Government employees. He also alleged that some of the teachers and other employees are yet to receive the arrears due to them for the period from January1, 1996 to July 31, 1998 and demanded that the Government should immediately look into the matter.
source:Assam Tribunal
payment of second installment of arrears (60%) to Quasi-Government organizations and autonomous organizations
The undersinged is dircted to refer to this department's orders issued under office Memorandum of even number dated 30th september 2008 and 7th october 2008 extending the revised pay structure for the central government employees on the basis of the recommendation of the 6th central pay commission to the employees of Autonous orgnizaton etc whose pattern allowance the house rent allowance and city compensatory allowance were identical to those of the central government employees.
As per this depratment's resoultion government had decided that the arrears on account of implementation of 6th CPC recommendation will be paid in cash in two installments first installment of 40% during the year 2008-09 and the remaining 60% in the financial year 2009-2010. Orders have since been issued by the govt for payment of remaining 60% arrears is hereby extended to the employees of the Autonous organiztions etc. However the payment of remining 60% of arrers will be subject to the conditon stipulated regarding budgetary support of additonal expenditure at the time of extending there revised pay structure for the central govt employees to the employees of Autonomous organizations etc.
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Clarifications regarding Fixation of pay on deputation after the replacement of pre revised s30 scale
Clarifications are issued regarding fixation of pay of central government employees on deputation consequent up on implementation of revised pay structure recommended by sixth pay commission.
The government has notified a new HAG scale 67000-79000 in replacement of pre revised s30 scale of 22400 to 24500. Conseqently the following clarifications regarding fixation of pay on deputation of on account of the replacment of the pre-revised s30 scale by the new HAG scale are issued.
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The under signed is directed to convey the sanction of the President to the grant of Non-Productivity Linked Bonus (Ad-hoc bonus ) equivalent to 30 days emoluments for the year 2008-2009 to the Central Government Employees in Group C and D and all non-gazetted employees in Group B, who are not covered by any Productivity Linked Bonus Scheme. The Calculation ceiling of Rs.3500/- remain unchanged. The payment will also be admissible to the Central Police and Para-military Personnel and Personnel of Armed Forces. The orders will be deemed to extended to the employees of Union Territory Administration which follow the other bonus or ex-gratia scheme.
2. The benefit will be admissible subject to the following terms and conditions:- (i) Only those employees who were in service on 31.3.2009 and have rendered at least six months of continuous service during the year 2008-2009 will be eligible for payment under these orders. Pro-rata payment will be admissible to the eligible employees for period of continuous service during the year from six months to a full year, the eligibility period being taken in terms of number of months service (rounded off to the nearest number of months)
(ii)The quantum of Non-PLB (Ad-hoc bonus) will be worked out on the basis of average emoluments/calculation ceiling which ever is lower.To calculate Non-PLB(Ad-hoc bonus)for one day ,the average emoluments in a year will be divided by 30.4(average number of days in a month)This will there after be multiplied by the number of days bonus granted. To illustrate, taking the calculation ceiling of Rs. 3500/-(where actual average emoluments exceed Rs. 3500X30/30.4=Rs. 3453.95 (rounded off to Rs.3454/-)
(iii)The casual labour who have worked in offices following a 6 days week for at least 240 days for 3 years or more (206 days in each year for 3 years or more in the case of offices observing 5 days week ) be eligible for this Non-PLB (Ad-hoc bonus) payment. The amount of Non-PLB (Ad-hoc bonus) payable will be Rs.1200x30/30.4 i.e.Rs.1184.21 (rounded off to Rs.1184/-) Incases where the actual emoluments fall below Rs.1200/-p.m.,the amount will be calculated on actual monthly emoluments.
(iv) All payments under these orders will be rounded off to the nearest rupee.
(v)The clarificatory orders issued vide this Ministry’s OM No.F.14(10)-ECooRD/88 dated 4.10.1988, as amended from time to time, would hold good.
3. The expenditure on this account will be debitable to the respective Heads to which the pay and allowances of these employees are debited.
4. The expenditure on account of Non-PLB (Ad-hoc bonus) is to be met from with in the sanctioned budget provision of concerned Ministries /Departments for the current year.
5.In so for as the persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department are concerned , these orders are issued in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
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Employees of National Aviation Co. of India Ltd (Nacil) ended their hunger strike on Thursday evening, but announced that they will continue to protest by not working extra hours between Friday and Sunday, and then forming human chains and holding luncheon protests.
A senior Air India official who did not want to be identified said the airline had already issued orders that “overtime expense has to be controlled and accounted for”, implying that the protest was irrelevant because the airline was anyway not keen on having employees work extra hours.
On Wednesday, a majority of Nacil employees rejected a proposal to cut 50% of their productivity-linked incentives (PLI), making it harder for the embattled carrier to argue its case for an equity infusion and soft loans from the government. “Now Air India is left with no option (but) to act tough. We cannot go ahead with this unsustainable PLIs,” said a senior official with the civil aviation ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Last Friday, the debt-ridden, state-owned carrier announced a 50% cut in PLIs, that accounts for 30-50% of the salary of Air India employees, hoping to save around Rs700 crore. These incentives cost Air India Rs1,400 crore in 2008-09, a year in which the airline suffered losses of at least Rs5,000 crore.
Following a request from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a committee of secretaries (CoS) had suggested that Air India prepare a cost-reduction proposal, including an alternative to its current incentive scheme, before the government could offer any help.
With accumulated losses of Rs7,200 crore and debt of Rs15,241 crore as of June, cash-strapped Nacil had asked for a loan and equity infusion of around Rs15,000 crore from the government. Its current equity capital is a mere Rs145 crore.
source:livemint
Inexercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the All India Services Act, 19.51 (61 of 1951), the Central Govemment after consultation with the Govemments of the States concerned, hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 2007, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Indian Police Service (Pay) Fourth Amendment Rules, 2009.
(2) They shall be deemed to have come in force on the 1st day of 'January,'
2. In rule 3 of the Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 2007 (hereinafter referred to
as the said rules), in clause (i) of Part D of the sub-rule (1), for the words and figures "Pay Band-4: Rs.37400-67000; plus Grade Pay Rs.12000;" the words and figures
HAGScale: 67000 - (annual increment @ 3%) - 79000 shall be substituted.
3. In rule 5 of the said rules, for sub-rule (6), the following sub-rules shall be substituted, namely:-
(6) The pay of a member of the Service in the Selection Grade, on appointment to the 1st Super Time Scale or in the 1st Super Time Scale, on appointment to the 2ndSuper Time Scale, shall be fixed in the manner provided in sub-rule (2) aIld the grade pay corresponding to the 1st, 2nd Super Time Scale, as the case may be, shall be granted in addition to this pay in the pay band;
(6A) The pay of a member of the Service in the 2nd Super Time Scale, on promotion to the HAGscale shall be fixed in the following manner:- Mter adding one increment equal to 3% of the sum of the pay in the pay band - 4 and the existing grade pay, computed and rounded off to the next multiple of 10, to the existing sum of pay in the pay band - 4 and the grade pay of the 2nd Super Time Scale, a sum of Rs 2000 shall be added to arrive at the new Basic Pay in HAG scale which will be subject to a minimum of 67000. The Basic Pay in HAGscale shall not exceed Rs.79000, the maximum
of scale.
(6B) The pay of a member of the Service in HAG Scale, on appointment to HAG+, shall be fIXedin the following manner, namely:- After adding one increment @ 3%, in the manner prescribed in sub-rule 2, to the basic pay in the HAGscale, the resultant figure will become the basic pay in HAG+, su bject to a minimum of Rs.75500. The Basic Pay in HAG+shall not exceed Rs. 80,000, the maximum of the scale."
(a) In II-A and II-C, for the words and figures "Pay Band-4: Rs.37400- 67000; plus Grade Pay Rs.12000", wherever they occur, the words and figures "Rs.67000 - (annual increment @ 3%) - 79000" shall be substituted.
(b) In II-D, in the TABLE,in column (2) regarding Scale of Pay, for the words and figures "Pay Band-4: Rs.37400-67000; and Grade Pay Rs.12000", the words and figures "Rs.67000 - (annual increment @ 3%) -79000" shall be substituted.
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Payment of second instalment of arrears on account of implementation of Sixth central Pay Commission's recommendations.
The Government had decided that the arrears on account of implementation of Sixth Central Pay Commission's recommendations will be paid in cash in two instalments - first instalment of 40% during the year 2008-09 and the remaining 60% in the financial year 2009-10. The first instalment bas already been paid in 2008-09. It has now been decided that the remaining 60% of arrears may now be paid to the concerned Government servants.
In the case of post-Ol.01.2004 entrants into the Central Government, the second instalment of arrears may be released only after individual application forms for registration to the New Pension Scheme have been obtained by the DDO/PAO from the concerned Government servant.
As in the case of the first instalment of arrears, Government servants will
be permitted to deposit their arrears in their GPF Accounts. Though not
mandated, Government servants are encouraged to deposit their arrears in their
GPF accounts.
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With faculty from across the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) calling off lectures and threatening dire consequences like mass resignation, the Centre has sat up and promised to revisit the pay structure it formulated for IIT teacher.
On Friday, HRD minister Kapil Sibal said his officials would take a look at the salary
offered to faculty and rework the pay structure if need be.
Sibal said the problem was that though at the entry level, IIT teachers get more salary, selection for the next promotion, unlike the UGC system where it is automatic, results in disparity. “We will look into it,” he said.
On their part, IIT professors continued their protest.
At IITMadras, faculty stayed away from classes on Friday and IIT-Bombay teachers refused to conduct lectures on Monday. The Union government recently announced pay scales for faculty at centrally-funded technical institutes but declared a salary structure lower than what was recommended by the Govardhan Mehta Committee, set up to decide pay scales for staff at central institutes.
While AGP for state university professors recommended by the UGC stands at Rs 10,000, the same is Rs 10,500 for those in IIT. “We are competing against American universities to attract talent. With such pay scales, we cannot expect any top rate teacher to join the IITs,” said S Bhat, president of the faculty forum.
The IITs had demanded that faculty members be given an incentive for research as well as for upgrading their professional skills, but the final announcement omitted all these recommendations.
source:economic times
It has been intimated by NSDL that large no of cases pretaining to post 01-01-2004 entrants to the government service, the individual application forms for registration to NPS have not been filled up and sent to them. It is there for adivsed that all employees covered under NPS may be asked to fill up the form and send to them in order for the release of 60% of sixth pay commission arears.
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The government on Thursday assured senior medical teachers that they would get revised wages in accordance with the UGC's recommendation for the Sixth Pay Commission.
About 250 medical teachers, belonging to the Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, took a mass casual leave on Thursday to protest against the non-implementation of the UGC recommendation. "We met finance minister Jayant Patil who assured us that our demands would be met at the earliest,'' said Dr Bharti Kodvilkar, spokesperson for the Maharashtra Medical Teachers Association. Though senior medical teachers kept away from work for the day, they were available for emergency duty. "Resident doctors took care of the rest of the work,'' she said.
A senior official of the department of medical education and research, however, said though the government was ready to grant the doctors' demands, it was trying to work out a joint plan for all teachers, especially those in other universities. "Once the common formula is worked out, we will make an announcement,'' said the official.
At JJ Hospital in Byculla, about 50 major surgeries were rescheduled because of the "strike'', said dean Dr S Inamdar. "The casual leave affected us to some extent but our medical officers and resident doctors managed the day,'' he added.
source:timesofindia
The Arunachal Pradesh government, in a bid to woo disgruntled 86,000 employees ahead of the Assembly elections, today announced the payment of 15 months’ arrears, amounting to nearly Rs 300 crore.
Water resource development minister Dabi said the government’s decision to pay the arrears was prompted by the employees’ long agitation in December last year.
The government, however, is yet to take a decision on giving the employees HRA and other allowances.
The cabinet also took other important policy decisions regarding the creation of Lower Siang and Longding districts.
The government will give Rs 15 crore to panchayati raj institutions to streamline their functions in the state.
The employees began an agitation in December last year in protest against the state government’s “apathy” to their demands. They were demanding the immediate implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission’s recommendations, fixation of the employees’ superannuation age at 60, regularisation of services of contingency and work-charged employees and a stop to the contract appointment of teachers and other employees.
The disgruntled employees, under the banner of the Confederation of Service Associations of Arunachal Pradesh, a conglomeration of 53 state government employees’ unions, took to the streets to get their rights fulfilled by the state government.
Later, the employees called off the agitation on February 28 after the state government decided to look into their demands and resumed duty on March 1.
Source: The telegraph
Around 150,000 workers of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will started a two-day strike from Wednesday demanding a higher wage revision.
The All India Graduate Telecom Officers Association (AIGETOA) of engineers went on an indefinite strike demanding that officers on deputation from the department of telecom be absorbed into the company so that they become more accountable.
The strike by the engineers would impact operations of the telecom firm as most of the striking engineers are head technical teams in different zonal offices. Customer services like collections and fault repairs would also be affected from tomorrow because of the participation of the non-technical staff, according to the unions.
From September 1 the state government has promised to implement the sixth pay commission for college and university professors.
This was stated by KS Shastri President of Gujarat State Federation of University and College Teachers' Association. Shastri said that the federation has met education minister Ramanlal Vora and finance minister Vajubhai Vala and it was decided that the sixth pay commission would be implemented from September 1. The resolution for the same will be out by August 15, said Shastri.
He said that the sixth pay commission was already in implementation for all other government employees except professors. He further said that about 10,000 employees would benefit. A professor who has put in 16 years of service will get an hike of about 65-70 per cent in salary while the average hike will be around 40 per cent, claimed Shastri.
source:Times of India
The government is actively considering raising the retirement age of all central government employees, including those in the armed forces, from the present 60 to 62 years.
Interestingly, the government conducted a similar exercise last year but shelved the idea, largely because of fears that a higher retirement age would adversely impact employment generation and create resentment in the bureaucracy because of blocked promotional avenues. At that time, it was the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) that was asked by the PMO to study the issue and prepare a report.
This year, the finance ministry has come into the picture because of the urgent need to create resources as the government prepares a contingency plan to tackle the fallout of the countrywide drought.
One of the strongest arguments in favour of raising the retirement age is immediate savings for the government in terms of gratuity and pension payments over the next two years. With some 1.5 lakh employees expected to retire in this period, the savings are estimated to be in the region of Rs15,000-20,000 crore.
The Sixth Pay Commission has hugely inflated the government's salary bill, including expenditure on pension. The allocation for pension in the 2009-10 Union budget alone is Rs34,980.35 crore, a 40% increase over last year.
The DoPT, which is the nodal ministry for all administrative decisions related to the bureaucracy, has not come into the picture yet since the move is still at a very preliminary stage. But it is believed to have unofficially conveyed its views about the likely negative impact on the morale of the bureaucracy.
f the decision is finally taken, it will only be the third time the government will have raised the retirement age. Jawaharlal Nehru was the first prime minister to have increased the age of superannuation from 55 to 58 following the 1962 war with China. The Atal Bihari Vajpayee government did it a second time in 1998.
Tax code proposes 10% tax on Rs 10 lakh income.
The government introduced a new direct tax code that seeks to simplify the tax regime in India. This was a much-awaited proposal as the government currently computes taxes based on the Income Tax Act 1961.
The main proposals of the new code are as follows:
1 Slash income tax rates
2 Most exemptions to go
3 Interest on savings to be taxed
4 Up to Rs 1.6 lakh: No tax
5 10 per cent tax for Rs 10 lakh income (Rs 1.2 lakh in hand)
6 20 per cent tax for Rs 25 lakh income (Rs 2.60 lakh more in hand)
7 30 per cent tax for income over Rs 25 lakh
8 To raise deduction limits for savings upto Rs 3,00,000
9 Corporate Tax: Down from 30 per cent to 25 per cent
10 Wealth tax to be levied for wealth above Rs 50 crore
Releasing the code that proposes to consolidate and amend the law relating to all direct taxes, Mr. Mukherjee expressed the hope that it would eventually pave the way for a single unified taxpayer reporting system and meet the aspirations of the young and professionally mobile population.
Income between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 25 lakh would be taxed at the rate of 20 per cent and earnings thereafter would attract a rate of 30 per cent, as per the draft of the new Direct Taxes Code which is aimed at radical direct tax reforms. At present, 20 per cent rate is imposed on income between Rs 3 lakh and Rs 5 lakh. Income beyond Rs 5 lakh attracts 30 per cent tax.
The new code was aimed at eliminating the scope of litigation as far as possible, Mukherjee said, adding that the government would have informed discussions with stakeholders on the tax code.
The two-day strike by the bank employees ended on Friday with the Indian Bank Association (IBA) reportedly agreeing to the demand of the agitating bank employees for 17.5% hike in their salaries.During a conciliatory meeting the union leaders had with the Indian Banks' Association in the presence of the Chief Labour Commissioner, it was decided that they would soon hold bilateral talks on wage hike.
Bank officials said they would ensure that customers get the best of the services. But since banks function for half-day only on Saturday, customers may have some problems when banks resume work. Officials said they had no intention to hit the customers but then it was the decision of the IBA to roll back the earlier agreed hike of 17.5% which forced them to go on a two-day strike. But, the issue has now been resolved, they added.
Reports from various parts of the country including Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai said there was a scurry for cash withdrawals from ATMs that had started running dry since yesterday.
The latest news on Sixth Pay Commission is for the IIT, IIM, NIT & School Staff Employees, i.e. the institutes which are funded by the government.
Now these staff members will be receiving the benefits of the Sixth pay Commission Panel Recommendations.
However, they are still no clarity about the exact numbers of the pay hike for these institutes like IIT, IIM, NIT, REC, and other government funded educational institutes.
source: samaylive.com
Around 22 lakh Maharashtra government employees, including secondary school and junior college teachers, will go on indefinite strike from August 4 demanding implementation of the 6th Pay Commission.
Over 30,000 university and college teachers have already been on indefinite 'cease work' strike since July 14 asking for implementation of 6th Pay Commission and solution for other demands in writing.
The government employees, including secondary school and junior college teachers, will be on strike under the banner of Maharashtriya Rajya Sarkari Madhyavarghi Sangatna (MRSMS), its convener R G Karnik said.
The Coordination committee of teachers organisations, Bombay (CCTOB) said the government attacked the teachers and other government employees by its regulation of May 13, 2009.
source:PTI