Central Government Employees News :: Seventh Pay Commission

The all-India consumer price index for industrial workers (CPI-IW) rose by 2 points to 228 for the month of May 2013. This was an increase of 0.88 per cent from the previous month. The increment was 0.49 per cent between the same two months an year-ago period.  The Dearness Alowance ... Read more ...

After having been given deep thought to the present state of affairs in respect of important, genuine and long pending demands of the Railwaymen and seriously considering the overall situation, the Government of India and Ministry of Railway’s reluctant attitude towards resolving these issues, most of which are enlisted in the Resolution passed by the 88th AGM of AIRF held at Visakhapatnam from 18th to 20th December, 2012, it has been unanimously decided in the meeting of the Standing Committee of ... Read more...

The Indemnity Bond prescribed for missing pensioners has been suitably modified to include the name and relationship of the next eligible family member as well as the deceased employee/pensioner and the missing family pensioner(s) .... Red more...

Grant of Ex-gratia to those pre-1986 Contributory Provident Fund (CPF) employees who retired otherwise than on superannuation after 20 years of service ... Re a d more...

Ex-servicemen of Lucknow have approached defence minister AK Antony with their demand to rectify anomalies in their pension policies. Retired soldiers of the army, navy and air force, under the pan India banner ... Read more...

PCDA has clarified that while disbursing the payments of Rank Pay Arrears I-Tax(TDS) ... Read more...

Filling up backlog for SC/ST/OBCs Read the order...

The Union urban development ministry is going ahead with the proposal for redevelopment of six government colonies in the capital to multi-storey complexes. Built in the 1950s and 60s to house central government employees ... Read more...

Excessive and unexpected rainfall resulting in furious floods has battered beyond measure, the Himalayan hill state of Uttarakhand. Whole villages, stretches of roads and communication links have been affected. More than 1000 persons met with tragic death. Thousands, including those from other parts of the country ... Read more...

The Confederation of Central Govt. Employees & Workers has announced that the mass dharna conducted on 20th June at all major centres demanding 7th pat commission, DA merger etc. was a great success ... read more...

A Core Committee has been constituted to facilitate the implementation of the Cadre Restructuring in the Income-tax Department .... Read more...

Fixed Medical Allowance enhanced from 1200/- to 2000/- for EPFO employees Read the order

India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance programme that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, ... Read more...

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s O.M. of even number dated 19th December, 2012 whereby cadre units were permitted to continue the ad-hoc appointments in the UD Grade of CSCS up to 30th June, 2013 and to say that the continuation of the ad-hoc appointments in the U.D grade made by the cadre units has been reviewed in this Department. Since availability of regularUDC ... Read more...

Continuance of ad-hoc appointment shall not confer on the appointees any right to continue in Assistant Grade indefinitely or for inclusion in the Select List of Assistants of CSS or to claim ... Read more...

Bonus on PLI Policies for 2010-11 declared under Dte PLI letter dated 17 Jun 2013 1 Whole life assurance Rs.85 per thousand sum assured 2 Endowment Assurance Rs.65 per thousand sum assured Read more...

A joint meeting of the leaders of Railway (AIRF), Defence (AIDEF) and Confederation of Central Government Employees & workers òn setting up of the seventh pay commission will be held ... Read more...

Soon you will be relieved of sending the ITR V form by post to Bangalore. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the administrative authority of the income-tax department is proposing to introduce electronic verification of the returns ... Read more...

Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance has criticised the UCO Bank, Jhajjar Branch on delay payment of pensionary benefits to the Ex-Servicemen.  The Ministry has taken this matter seriously and instructed to bank to not repeat such action in future ... Read more...

It has been clarified that the Centre is at present not considering any move to increase the retirement age of the employees from the existing 60.A senior official in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, which acts as nodal department for personnel matters, said there was no such proposal to increase the age for superannuation of government employees.There were lot of media r .... read more...

Antony seeks opinion of the Attorney General on the SC order on Rank Pay Faced with differing interpretations of a Supreme Court order on correct fixation of “rank pay” of armed forces officers, Defence Minister AK Antony today decided to seek opinion of the Attorney General (AG). #rankpay  . Read More...

The Rail Mazdoor Union (RMU) of South Central Railway has said that the Sixth Pay Commission has flawed in constituting the Dearness Allowance component in the pay packet ... Read more...

PCDA published Examples of Pay Revision & Arrears as per SC Judgment Read the Examples

The Sixth Central Pay Commission has recommended a minimum wage of Rs 6600/- per month against the demand of Rs 10,000/- per month as worked out by Staff side of JCM, Today the minimum need based wage works out to Rs 15,000/ per month+ HRA+ allowances. hence there is three times increase in actual prices ... Read more...

The news about the proposal to raise the retirement age of the central government employees from 60 to 62 years is still making rounds. It is understood that the Ministry of Personnel and Training has forwarded the proposal in this regard to the Prime Minister's office (PMO) for inclusion in the agenda of the Cabinet for consideration, with the consent of various ministries, sources said, claiming .... read more...

Taken by the huge volume of the grievances of government employees to the Prime Minister's Office, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has issued a warning to the officials, asking them to follow other channels for redressal of their complaints. The order issued by the DoPT clarifies that whenever a Government servant wishes to press a claim or to seek redress of a grievance, it is req .... read more...

Accordingly, the employees who had joined the post of Tracers on direct recruitment basis with matric as recruitment qualification for the post, have already earned two promotions by reaching Sr. Draftsman post (re-designated as JE-II), first promotion as Assistant Draftsman and 2nd promotion as ... Read more...

The order on 78.2% IDA merger has finally been issued today the 10-06-2013, by the DoT. BSNL will issue the order tomorrow. The DoT order states that the revised benefit will be paid with prospective effect only (that is from 10 June 2013) and no arrears ... Read more...

2014 holidays for  Central Government Employees and Offices 1. REPUBLIC DAY  2. INDEPENDENCE DAY  3. MAHATMA GANDHI’S BIRTHDAY  4. BUDHA PURNIMA  5. CHRISTMAS DAY  See Full List Read more...

The Central Information Commissioner Annapurna Dixit last month directed the railways to supply a copy of the service book of a ticket examiner (TE) to RTI activist Chetan Kothari, saying it was information that needed to be placed in the public domain. ... Read more...

National Mazdoor Conference today urged Prime Minister to appoint the 7th pay commission at the next cabinet meeting as employees and pensioners will be entitled for pay commission with effect from January 1, 2016. ... Read more...

Please find enclosed a copy of AGIF letter No. A/56271/R/AG/Ins(Coord), dated 30.05.2013 regarding change in the rates of subscription in respect of Officers/JC0s/ORs of Indian Army for information and necessary action. The enhanced rate of monthly subscription is to be recovered commencing from pay for Aug 2013 payable on 31.08.2013 ... Read more...

Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers  has been  demanding constitution of the 7th CPC, DA merger , and other 15 charter of common demands of the Central Government Employees apart from 48 common demands of the CG Employees which has been accepted by the Kolkatta conference ... Read more...

The issue of payment of Tribal Area Allowance to railway employees was examined recently in context of a parliament question and it was found that the position with regard to payment of Tribal Area allowance varies widely on different Zonal railways ... Read more...

Department of Personnel & Training DoPT Establishment ‘D’ Division Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Compassionate Appointment Under what provisions of Government, appointments on compassionate grounds are regulated? The appointments on compassionate grounds against a post in Central Government are regulated in terms of the ... Read more...

A Bill providing for setting up a regulator for the real estate sector and having provisions like a jail term of up to three years for developers who make offences like putting up misleading advertisements about projects repeatedly was approved by the government on Tuesday ... Read more...

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Staffcorner had earlier quoted media reports that the Union Government is seriously considering raising the retirement age to 62 for Central Government employees. The financial express is reporting that an in-principle decision has been taken in this regard and the department of personnel and training (DoPT) has begun the work to implement the same. We can expect the announcement this year itself. .... read more...

The undersigned is directed to refer to AIRF's letter No.AIRF /05(96), dt. 11-04-2013 on the above subject and to state that the matter has been examined in light of the provisions regarding recruitment/promotion of Accoun ... Read more...

In a recent meeting of the Standing Committee on Voluntary Agencies that handles pension issues of the Centre, V Narayanasamy, MoS for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, criticised the Railways for failing to revise its pension list as per Sixth Pay Commission of 2006, sources said.Shoddy handling of Railways' burgeoning pension rolls whose burden has touched Rs 22,000 crore has drawn flak .... read more...

The All-India CPI-IW for April, 2013 rose by 2 point and stood at 226. On 1-month percentage change, it increased by 0.89 per cent between March and April compared with 1.99 per cent between the same two months a year ago. The largest upward contribution to the change in current index came from Food group which increased by 2.08 per cent, contributing 2.07 percentage points to the total change. T .... read more...

I am directed to state that the Government has approved, as per decision taken in Cabinet Meeting held on 23"d May, 2013 (Minutes issued on 27th May, 2013), additional manpower for the Income Tax Department in various cadres as per Annex A of this communication. These posts are created in addition to the existing posts as per restructuring of the Department vide F.No.A-11013/3/98-Ad.VII dated 24th October, 2000 ... Read more...

Observations on Rank Pay cases a. Arrears are not directly proportional / same to either of the following: -  i. Rank Pay of the rank held on 01/01/1986. ii. Same seniority of batch mates. iii. Service completed after 01/01/1986 ... Read more...