The Union Health Minister, while launching the self-printing of the E-CGHS card, stated that this will provide ease and access to all those beneficiaries such as the pensioners who may find it difficult to go to the CGHS centres for renewal, and in the event of loss/misplacement of the card. As this can be printed from any location once the process of application based on authentic documents has been approved, this enables easy reprinting by the beneficiary himself/herself. The beneficiary can access this facility by visiting the CGHS portal at cghs.nic.in where simple steps for this have been enumerated.

Have you ever wondered how much money do the top leaders of some of the world’s leading nations earn annually? Here’s a list of the most recent official data (converted into US dollars at the current rate) of the yearly earnings of these world leaders.    

                                                                                  Sources: CNN, CNBC, Paywizard

1. RobertMugabe ,President, Zimbabwe                                          $18000

2.Xi Jinping, President, China                                                             $22000

3.Pranab Mukherjee,President,India                                          $29363

4.Narendra Modi, Prime Minister,India                                     $30300

5.Nicolas Maduro,President, Venezuela                                        $46893

6.Pedro Passos Coelho,Prime Minister,Portugal                          $77597

7.Mariano Rajoy Brey, Prime Minister, Spain                                $88140

8.Dilma Rousseff, President, Brazil                                                 $1,20,000

9.Mattco Renzil, Prime Minister, Italy                                             $1,24,600,

10.Vladimir Putin, President,Russia                                                $1,36,000

11.Enrique Pena Nieto,President,Mexico                                      $1,59,681

12.Francois Hollande, President, France                                       $1,94,300

13.Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President, Turkey                                $1,97,439

14.Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister, Japan                                            $2,02,700

15.David Cameron, Prime Minister, UK                                         $2,14,800

16.Jacob Zuma, President, South Africa                                        $2,23,500

17.Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General, United Nations                  $2,27,253

18.Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Germany                                      $2,34,400

19.Stephen Harper, Prime Minister, Canada                              $2,60,000

20.Christina Fernandez De Kerchener,President,Argentina    $3,15,091

21.Jean Claude Juncker,President,European Union                  $3,46,519

22.Barack Obama, President, USA                   $4,00,000

23.Tony Abbott, Prime Minister, Australia                                  $4.03,712

23.Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister, Singapore                   $17,00,000

( If you want to convert it to Indian Ruppee,multiple the amount with 65)

A convention was held at Bolpur Karmachari Bhavan on 20.3.16 with a view to forming the sub divisional committee of Jt Platform of the movement of the Pensioners’ organisations. A presidium consisting of Coms Ashis Mukherjee, Partha Mondal and Nirmal Chatterjee controlled the proceedings. Com. Ajit Nandan ACS WB inaugurated the convention. Other speakers were Tarapada Patra (Postal), Sandip Hazra (SGPA), Manik Ghosh (CGPA), Madan Sutradhar (Panchayet), Tapan Biswas (AIBDPA) and Suman Ghosh (ABTA). Coms.Tapan Biswas and Amrita Mondal were elected as Jt Conveners and Com. Sandip Hazra as Treasurer. Com Ajit Bose (AIBDPA) was elected as one of the eight council members.

Mahakuma (Sub Division) Committee of Jt Platform of the movement of Pensioners’ Organisations, Rampurhat (Dist.- Birbhum)

A convention was held at Rampurhat Railway Pensioners’ Association Hall on 20.3.16 for formation of Sub Divisional Committee of Jt Platform of the movement of the Pensioners’ organisations. A presidium consisting of Coms Debnath Chakraborty, Benode Behari Majumder and Anwar Hossain presided over the convention. Com. Sibsankar Roy Jt Convener of WB State Committee of the Platform inaugurated the convention. Over hundred delegates from Railway Pensioners’ Association, SGPA, CGPA, AIBDPA, Panchayet, ABTA, ABPTA etc were present. Among other speakers Com Madan Mohan Ghosh District Secretary AIBDPA took part in the deliberation. The convention called upon the members to defeat the communal, corrupt and undemocratic forces like Trinamool and BJP and to rise to the occasion to form an alternative left, democratic and secular Government in the State.

Coms. Mahadev Banerjee and Vivekananda Chatterjee were elected as Jt Convener and Com Ashok Mondal as Treasurer.

A special General Body meeting was convened to reconstitute the branch on 21.3.16 at Salt Lake QA Bhavan. Com. Pijush Chakraborty ACS WB garlanded the portrait of Com KG Bose. The leaders and the members paid homage to the martyrs and one minute silence was observed thereafter. Com H Naskar presided over the meeting.

At the inaugural session Coms Ajit Nandan District Secretary, Pijush Chakraborty ACS WB and Uttam Gope DS BSNLEU QA delivered speech. Com PK Nandi spoke at the subject committee session.

The meeting decided to resort to DHARNA to protest against the apathetic attitude of the Circle authority for reimbursement of medical bills of the retirees and the doldrums condition of the Kolkata QA office if the attempt to bring the situation in order is not noticed from the part of the administration within 15th April 2016.

Coms Pijush Chakraborty, PK Ghosh and B Saha were unanimously elected as the President, Branch Secretary and Treasurer respectively.

Union Cabinet has decided on 23-03-2016 to release 6% DA to the central government employees and pensioners with effect from 01-01-2016. Now the total DA will be 125%. Orders in this regard is expected shortly.

Actually the 7th Pay Commission had regulated 125% DA in the new pay scales which is to be implemented from 01-01-2016. The declaration of DA indicates further delay in implementing the pay commission recommendations with suitable modifications demanded by the NJCA and NCCPA.