Government declared 14 April 2017 As Holiday For The Birthday Of Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

Government declared 14 April 2017 As Holiday For The Birthday Of Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

F.No.12/6/2016-JCA-2

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

(Department of Personnel & Training)

Establishment (JCA-2) Section

North Block, New Delhi

Dated the 5th April, 2017

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Declaration of Holiday on 14th April, 2017 – Birthday of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.

It has been decided to declare Friday, the 14th April 2017, as a Closed Holiday on account of the birthday of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, for all Central Government Offices including Industrial Establishments throughout India.

2. The above holiday is also being notified in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881).

3. All Ministries/Departments of Government of India may bring the above decision to the notice of all concerned.

(D.K.Sengupta)

Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of India

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Employment On Compassionate Ground In Railways

Employment on Compassionate Ground

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 5289

ANSWERED ON: 05.04.2017

Employment on Compassionate Ground

railways-Compassionate-Ground

SUNIL KUMAR SINGH

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:-

(a) whether the Railways proposes to bring amendment in the provision in which employment on compassionate ground is given to any one dependent family member of the rail accident victim;

(b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor; and

(c) the total number of dependents to whom employment has been given during each of the last three years and the current year, zone-wise including Jharkhand?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

(SHRI RAJEN GOHAIN)
(a) to (c) : A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (c) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5289 BY SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH TO BE ANSWERED IN LOK SABHA ON 05.04.2017 REGARDING EMPLOYMENT ON COMPASSIONATE GROUND

(a) & (b) Extant rules do not permit for providing employment to family members/legal heirs of those dying in train accidents or untoward incidents connected with the Railways. However, in the past, pursuant to announcement made by Hon’ble Minister of Railways, employment has been provided, in exception to rules and purely as a humanitarian gesture in certain cases. No change in the same is contemplated.

(c) Information is being collected and will be laid on the Table of the House.

Loksabha Q&A

Railways Issued New Catering Policy On February 2017

New Catering Policy -2017 in Railways

To improve the standard of food being provided to passengers in trains, new Catering Policy has been issued on 27th February 2017 wherein inter-alia IRCTC has been mandated to carry out the unbundling by creating a distinction primarily between food preparation and food distribution. In order to upgrade quality of food preparation, IRCTC is to set up new kitchens and upgrade existing ones. The salient features of the new Catering Policy 2017 are as under :-

(i) IRCTC to manage catering service on all mobile units. Pantry car contracts awarded by zonal railway to be reassigned to IRCTC.

(ii) Meals for all mobile units to be picked up from the nominated kitchens owned, operated and managed by IRCTC.

(iii) IRCTC not to outrightly outsource or issue licenses for provision of catering services to private licensees. IRCTC to retain the ownership and be fully accountable for all the issues pertaining to setting up and operation of the Base Kitchens and quality of food.

(iv) IRCTC to engage service providers from hospitality industry for service of food in trains.

(v) All four Base Kitchens under departmental operation of Zonal Railways (Nagpur, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CSTM) , Mumbai Central (BCT) and Balharshah) and all kitchen units i.e. Refreshment Rooms at A1 and A category stations, Jan Ahaar, Cell Kitchens are to be handed over to IRCTC on 'as is where is basis'. IRCTC to set up its own Kitchens at additional stations, if required.

(vi) Kitchen structures/land/space to be handed over by zonal Railways to IRCTC, for a period of 10 years extendable for another period of 5 years, on a token license fee.

(vii) IRCTC to be responsible for management of Food Plaza, Food Courts, Fast food units within the ambit of this policy.

(viii) The setting up/ development / refurbishment of new or existing Base Kitchens/Kitchen units to be undertaken by IRCTC. These kitchens are to be owned, operated and managed by IRCTC.

(ix) IRCTC to develop different types of kitchens keeping in view supply of food and usage assessed.

(x) IRCTC to develop the Business model for the kitchens so that they can expand and enhance the service. IRCTC to prepare a detailed concession agreement for setting up/development of the kitchens.

(xi) Zonal railway to manage static unit (catering stall /milk stalls/ trolleys etc.) except base kitchens and kitchen units to be handed over to IRCTC .

(xii) For the purpose of allotment, a Refreshment Room (at B and below category stations) or a stall or a trolley to be deemed as one unit. As such, a single unit is to be awarded through a single license.

(xiii) Provision of perpetual renewal has been done away with. Now it has been envisaged that tenure of all static units (except kitchen units and Food Plaza) shall be 5 years only. Tenure of Food Plaza shall be for a period of 9 years.

(xiv) Allotments of General Minor Units at all category stations to be done through open, competitive, two-packet tendering system from the eligible bidders by divisions.

(xv) For the first time, it has been envisaged that allotment of Special Minor units (reserved category) at all category stations will be done by divisions through open tendering system within the similar reserved category. The technical eligibility criteria has been simplified.

This Press Release is based on the information given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Rajen Gohain in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on 05.04.2017 (Wednesday).

PIB

Filling Up Of The Post Of Consultant (Vigilance) In The Kendriya Bhandar

Filling up of vacancy of Consultant(Vigilance) in the Kendriya Bhandar.

 F No. 21/1/2017-CS-1 (P)

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

Department of Personnel & Training

2nd Floor, A Wing, Lok Nayak Bhgawan,

Khan Market, New Delhi

Dated 5th April, 2017

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Filling up of vacancy of Consultant(Vigiiance) in the Kendriya Bhandar.

A copy of vacancy circular received from Kendriya Bhandar vide their Circular No. KB/1/Secy/Cons(Vigi)2017 dated 28th March, 2017 on the above mentioned along with its enclosures is circulated for information of all CSS officers.

2. Retired Officers at the level of Section Officer/Under Secretary/equivalent and served under government and having sufficient experience of handling vigilance cases are eligible for appointment.

(Chandra Shekhar)

Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

To

All Ministries/Departments (through website of DoP&T)

KENDRIYA BHANDAR

No. KB/1/Secy/Cons(Vig)12017

Pushpa Bhawan, Madangir Road,

New Delhi, the 28th March,2017

VACANCY CIRCULAR

Sub.: Filling up of the post of Consultant (Vigilance) - reg

Kendriya Bhandar, a Multi State Society registered under Multi State Cooperative Societies Act,2002 (MSCS Act,2002), with Government of India's share capital approx. 70% and functioning under Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pension, requires the service of a qualified and experienced Consultant having experience in the field of Vigilance matters.

2. Retired officers at the level of Section Officer/Under Secretary/equivalent and served under government and having sufficient experience of handling vigilance cases are eligible for appointment.

3. Details regarding qualification, experience and scope of work etc. for the post is at Annexure-I.

4. Eligible and interested persons may send their applications (as per annexure-II) along with their one passport size photograph latest by 15.4.2017

Annexure-I

Details of eligibility qualification/experience and scope of work etc. for the post of Consultant (Vigilance) in Kendriya Bhandar.

Government committed to full and easy implementation of RTI

Factual position on proposed Amendments to RTI Rules

No change in fee structure or word limit in RTI queries

Government committed to full and easy implementation of RTI

A factually incorrect and misleading news report appeared in a section of the media that a new set of RTI Rules have been formulated which creates difficulties and hurdles in the right of the citizens to get information from the Government. It has been alleged that the size of the RTI has been restricted to 500 words and a provision of fees has been unfairly introduced in the Rules.

The facts are totally to the contrary. On 31st July, 2012, the Central Government notified the RTI Rules under Section 27 of the Right to Information Act, 2005. A copy of existing rules is available on the official website of DOPT. The Rules provided that an RTI application will ordinarily be not more than 500 words (subject to exception) with a nominal fee being charged from each applicant. These Rules were framed and notified in 2012.

However, legality of the CIC (Management) regulations of 2007 was challenged before the Delhi High Court and these were quashed. The matter has been pending before the Supreme Court. The Government therefore decided, in consultation with the CIC, that a comprehensive set of rules be notified by consolidating the key provisions of CIC (Management) Regulations and also the Rules of 2012. Same has been put up in public domain for comments.

The key provisions of the RTI Rules, 2012 have been identically incorporated verbatim. No change has been made in the RTI fee structure. The Government is committed to ensuring a full and easy implementation of the Right to Information.

The factual position on the proposed Rules is as follows:

• The existing RTI Rules 2012 notified on 31st July, 2012 specifically provide in section 3 that an application shall ordinarily not contain more than 500 words excluding annexure. It further provides that no application shall be rejected only on the grounds that it contains more than 500 words. There is no change proposed in these provisions in the new rules.
• The provision with respect to charging rates is identical to that contained in existing RTI Rules 2012 which provides for charging rates as per price fixed for a publication or Rs.2 per page of photocopy for extracts from the publication. There is a further provision in rule 5 that no fee under rule 3 and rule 4 shall be charged from any person who is below poverty line. This provision has been retained as such in the new proposed rules. Therefore, there is no change in fee and the existing rules have been proposed to be continued.
• There is no change in the postal charges for sending the information.
• The proposed rules do not limit the filing of either complaint or appeal "online" only. Both rule 8 and rule 13 dealing with filing of appeals and complaints especially provide for filing offline as well as online.
• The provision for withdrawal of appeal, which was earlier included in the Central Information Commission (Management) Regulations 2007 has been included in the new rules. Similarly, the provision for abatement of appeals/complaints on the death of the applicant/ complainant, which was earlier included in the Central Information Commission (Management) Regulations 2007, has also been included.
• With regards to the provision of officials being allowed to file documents to counter claims of false information, it is clarified that at present, as per the procedure of CIC, once appeal is taken cognizance of, the CPIOs are given a notice to furnish their submission before the appeal is decided. This was also part of the Central Information Commission (Management) Regulations 2007 which are now being incorporated in the rules. Therefore, the existing standard operating procedure has been proposed to be incorporated in the rules.

As can be seen from above, the allegation that there is a move to dilute the provisions of RTI is unfounded. The proposed amendments to the rules are in public domain for comments by April 15, 2017 and will be finalised keeping in view the public feedback received in the matter. The comments can be sent both online and in hard copy to the Department.

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Revision of rates of honorarium for Guest Faculty for training activities in Defence Accounts Department

CENTRE FOR TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT (CENTRAD)

CONTROLLER GENERAL OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS

OPPOSITE ARMY BASE HOSPITAL,

 BRAR SQUARE, 

DELHI CANTT.- 110010

Ph: 011-25694268, 25694298 

Fax: 011-25694308 

Email: trgdiv-brar.cgda@nic.in

No.TD/3332/Circular/17

Dated: 29.03.2017

Circular No.2 (z)

To
All RTCs/NADFM Pune/DPTI & OTI Gurgaon
All PCsDA/CsDA

Subject: Revision of rates of honorarium for Guest Faculty for training activities in Defence Accounts Department.

Min of Defence (Fin), DAD (Coord) vide their letter No.F.26 (1)/C/2009 dated 07.03.2017 has conveyed the sanction for revising the rates of honorarium for Guest Faculty for taking lectures in the training institutes of our department. The revised rates of honorarium are as under:

SI.NO	Training Establishment	Rate of Honorarium(Rs.)
1	Serving Faculty	750/-
2	Non- Serving Faculty	1500/-
3	Experts/Eminent Resources Persons	4000/-
4	In addition, honorarium of Rs.5000/- may be granted by the CGDA as per conditions of DoP&T OM No.13024/2008-Trg.I dated 03.03.2009

2. Selection of the faculty shall be strictly on merits and reasons shall be recorded for the same. It is also requested to ensure adherence to the ceilings as prescribed in DoP&T OM No. 13024/2/2008-Trg.I dated 03.03.2009.

3. It is requested to take action accordingly.

(T Kabilan)

Dy. CGDA (HRD)

Original Order

7th CPC Pay for Casual Labourers – Level 1 of Pay Matrix Pay Rs.18000

7th CPC Pay for Casual Labourers – Level 1 of Pay Matrix Pay Rs.18000

“DoPT has clarified that the minimum pay for Calculation of pay of Casual Labourers ( without temporary status) may be considered as the minimum Pay of Level 1 of the Pay Matrix as per the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission i.e.Rs.18000/-.”

No.7-10/2016-PCC

Government Of India

Ministry Of Communications

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi – 110 001

Date: 31.03.2017

Office Memorandum

The undersigned is directed to refer this Directorate OM No.2-53/2011-PCC dated 22.01.2015 vide which rate of remuneration payable to Full Time Casual Labour (Other than Temporary Status) Part time Casual Labour/Workers engaged on contingency basis w.e.f 01.01.2006 was issued. The para No.s 1 (i) & (ii) of ibid OM have been exmined for revision of remuneration payable to these casual labourers w.e.f 01.01.2016 in consultation with DoP&T and the DoP&T has clarified that:-

“Minimum pay for Calculation of pay of Casual Labourers ( without temporary status) may be considered as the minimum Pay of Level 1 of the Pay Matrix as per the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission i.e.Rs.18000/-“.

2. It may be ensured that the concerned casual Labourers are engaged in strict adherence to the DoP&T OM No.49019/1/95-Estt-(C) dated 14.06.2016 (Copy attached).

This may be brought to the notice of all concerned.

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(R.L.Patel)

Asstt. Director General (GDS/PCC)

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7th CPC Allowance Committee : Silence Prevails after NC JCM Report

7th CPC Allowance Committee : Silence Prevails after NC JCM Report

Speculations about the Committee on 7th CPC Allowances have stopped following the assurance from the Cabinet Secretary”

NJCA Secretary Shiva Gopal Mishra’s meeting, on March 28, 2017, with the Cabinet Secretary has seemingly put an end to the generation of constant rumours and baseless speculations regarding the Report of Allowance Committee.

Almost every day, the media carried news about the granting of allowances based on the 7th CPC salaries. There is no denying the fact that most of these sensational headlines were based on the meetings in New Delhi or on the statements from the officials involved.

Speculations like “it will be announced today…”, “news is expected this week…”, “Announcement likely on this date…” were not uncommon. Such news not only generated immense excitement among the Central Government employees, but it also made them contact their respective trade unions for clarifications.

Caught in the midst of their own long list of problems, in addition to planning their future protests, these trade unions were also constantly maintaining pressure on the Central Government by writing letters to them. It was in this scenario that the NJCA Secretary, Shiva Gopal Mishra met the Cabinet Secretary on March 28, 2017.

During the meeting, he had clearly conveyed to the Cabinet Secretary that the long delay have led to the Central Government employees losing interest in this issue. The Cabinet Secretary, on his part, has accepted that decision on the 7th CPC Allowances is taking time, and assured that he would try his best to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. He also said that he will try to obtain the report from the Allowance Committee very soon and forward it to the cabinet for its approval.

Citing the local bodies election in Delhi as the reason for the delay, the Cabinet Secretary has also assured to seek the permission from the Election Commission, if required, to accelerate the process. This assurance has, to some extent, pacified the Central Government employees.

They don’t seem to mind the delay, in the desire that arrears for these allowances will be paid.

Source: http://www.govtenews.com/

Allowance Committee Meeting will be held on 6.4.2017 – AIRF

Allowance Committee Meeting will be held on 6.4.2017 – AIRF

No.AIRF/Committee on Allowance

Dated: April 3, 2017

The General Secretaries,
All Affiliated Unions,
Dear Comrades!

Sub: Meeting of the Committee on Allowances

It has been informed by the Secretary, Staff Side(JCM), Com. S.G.Mishra, that, meeting of the Committee on Allowances will be held on 06.04.2017.

Probably this may the conclusive meeting.

As all of you are aware that, after 28th March, 2018, lots of efforts have been made by the Secretary, Staff Side(JCM), to pursue the Government of India regarding resolution of long pending demands of the CGEs with the Cabinet Secretary, Hon’ble MR and various Secretaries of the Government of India, Members of various committees.

For General Secy/AIRF

Source: AIRF

Bunching of stages in the Revised pay structure in the grade of Assistant Section Officers

Bunching of stages in the Revised pay structure in the grade of Assistant Section Officers

F.No.7/1/2017-CS-I(A)(Pt.)

Government of India

Department of Personnel & Training

2nd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan

Khan Market, New Delhi – 3

Dated 27.02.17

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Bunching of stages in the Revised pay structure in the grade of Assistant Section Officers — Reg.

DoP&T has been receiving many references from various Ministries/ Departments seeking clarification on the issue of grant of bunching to Assistant Section Officers of Central Secretariat Service in terms of Department of Expenditure’s O.M. dated 07.09.16.

2. It has also been noticed that there have been divergent views on the matter that while some Ministries/ Departments have given the benefit on their own, some other Ministries/ Departments have sought clarifications on various issues they are facing while giving the benefit of bunching in terms of DoE’s O.M. dated 07.09.16.

3. The matter has been taken up for further clarifications with Establishment Division/ Department of Expenditure briefly on the following issues:

i. While the Seventh Pay Commission had not prescribed different modes of pay fixation for Direct Recruit (DR) and Promotee ASOs, there have been two different modes of pay fixation for DR and Promotees prior to implementation of Seventh pay Commission. Due to differential methods of pay fixation, required differential of 3% is not calculable based on seniority alone as the other relevant facts of being DR/Promotee comes into play here.

ii. The manner of different pay fixation for DR ASO and promotee Assistants has been challenged in various court cases (viz. OA No.2147/2015, OA No. 150/2016, OA No.1015/2013 and OA No.476/2015 etc.)

4. It has already been decided to consult Department of Expenditure through Establishment (PEW) in the matter and same is under examination. Therefore, to ensure uniform implementation of Department of Expenditure’s instruction, all the Ministries/ Departments are advised to wait for further instructions with regard to grant of bunching benefits to ASOs of CSS and also if orders have already been issued by any Ministry/ Department, the same may not be given effect till further instructions.

5. This issues with the approval of competent authority.

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(K.Srimvasan)

Under Secretary to the Government of India

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