The Government has appointed an ‘Implementation Cell’, headed by a Joint Secretary level officer in the Department of Expenditure for a period of one year w.e.f. 20th November 2015. The cell is entrusted with the task of processing and implementing the accepted recommendations of the VII CPC. (Source: Business Line 26-11-2015)
Today, 26th November, 2015 Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, Advisor met Ms.Annie Moreas, Member (Finance),DOT and urged early forwarding of the revised cabinet note to Department of Expenditure. The Member (Finance) stated that she has already sent the file to Establishment Section for necessary further action. Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri thereafter wanted to meet the Member (services) to ascertain the progress but he could not meet him as he was in a meeting. However enquiries made in section has revealed that the Establishment section sent the file to the pension section and after that it is now sent to the PSU section in DOT.
Indian bureaucracy is proving to be the worst for its red tapeism and non-accountability and we may have to think about further agitational program to make them move.
On the sidelines of the CEC meeting of BSNLEU, a seminar on the ‘Revival of BSNL’ was organised by BSNLEU at New Delhi on 25th November,2015 in the CTO conference hall, eastern court, Com Balbir Singh, President, presided, Com Swapan Chakraborty welcomed all. Com P.Abhimanyu, GS delivered the key note address. Shri Anupam Shrivastava, CMD BSNL, Shri N. K.Gupta, Director (CFA), Ms Sujata Ray, Director (HR) addressed the seminar from the Management. Both from the Union and Management side, confidence was expressed on the revival of BSNL. Apart from the CE members, district secretaries from Haryana, UP(West), UP(East), Rajasthan, Punjab, and NTR Circles participated in the seminar.
The Book ” Great Leaders of P and T T 
U Movement” authored by Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, Patron BSNLEU and Advisor, AIBDPA was released to day in the Central Executive Committee of BSNL Employees Union being held at Delhi, by presenting copies of the book to BSNLEU President Com. Balbir Singh and General Secretary Com. P.Abhimanyu. Today, 24th November 2015, is the 61st birth anniversary of the great National Federation of P and T Employees (NFPTE) which led the P&T workers for a long period and organised the historic struggles of 1960, 1969, 1974 etc.
The book contains the life sketch of Babu Tarapada, Henry Barton, V.G.Dalvi, B.N.Ghosh, K.G.Bose, N.J.Iyer, K.Adinarayana, O.P.Gupta and Moni Bose, 9 great leaders of the P&T Trade Union movement.
The Commission recommends the following pension formulation for civil employees including CAPF personnel, who have retired before 01.01.2016:
i) All the civilian personnel including CAPF who retired prior to 01.01.2016 (expected date of implementation of the Seventh CPC recommendations) shall first be fixed in the Pay Matrix being recommended by this Commission, on the basis of the Pay Band and Grade Pay at which they retired, at the minimum of the corresponding level in the matrix. This amount shall be raised, to arrive at the notional pay of the retiree, by adding the number of increments he/she had earned in that level while in service, at the rate of three percent. Fifty percent of the total amount so arrived at shall be the revised pension.
ii) The second calculation to be carried out is as follows. The pension, as had been fixed at the time of implementation of the VI CPC recommendations, shall be multiplied by 2.57 to arrive at an alternate value for the revised pension.
iii) Pensioners may be given the option of choosing whichever formulation is beneficial to them.
It is recognised that the fixation of pension as per formulation in
(i) above may take a little time since the records of each pensioner will have to be checked to ascertain the number of increments earned in the retiring level. It is therefore recommended that in the first instance the revised pension may be calculated as at
(ii) above and the same may be paid as an interim measure. In the event calculation as per (i) above yields a higher amount the difference may be paid subsequently.
Illustration on fixation of pension based on recommendations of the Seventh CPC.
Case I
Pensioner ‘A’ retired at last pay drawn of ₹79,000 on 30 May, 2015 under the VI CPC regime, having drawn three increments in the scale ₹67,000 to 79,000:
Case II Pensioner ‘B’ retired at last pay drawn of ₹4,000 on 31 January, 1989 under the IV CPC regime, having drawn 9 increments in the pay scale of ₹3000-100-3500-125-4500:
Public Sector workers are on strike today the 20th of November in Italy. Dozens of solidarity messages received by the USB Italy from fraternal unions. USB demonstrations rally with mass participation of public servants while TUI Public Services banners were also lifted by the unions
The Committee of Experts constituted for review of service and pension matters including potential disputes, minimizing litigation and strengthening institutional mechanisms related to redressal of grievances submitted its Report to the Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar here today. The five members Committee was constituted on the directions of the Defence Minister.
The Committee thanked the Minister for taking a historic step for the first time to minimize litigation and grievances in the Ministry of Defence so that the focus could remain on the core issues of governance and administration. It also thanked Shri Parrikar for ensuring that there was no interference in the Committee’s functioning and for encouraging the panel to come up with honest, dispassionate and objective observations without fear or favour.
The Committee’s approach remained to identify practical on-ground solutions to reduce litigation, especially appeals, and steps towards reduction of heartburn, maintenance of harmony between employees and the establishment and balancing of rights of both parties which could lead to an increase in productivity and enable the Government to focus upon its basic responsibilities. The Committee has postulated practical, workable, reformatory and gradual solutions in its 509 page report encompassing 75 recommendations in areas concerning service and pension matters, discipline and vigilance issues, matters concerning promotions and confidential reports, military justice, issues related to civilian employees and other potential areas of disputes.
Showing utmost sincerity and seriousness towards such issues, it was the first time after independence that a step was taken in the Ministry of Defence personally by the Defence Minister for constitution of a panel of experts who went into great detail of all such issues.
The Members of the Committee were former Adjutant General Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal, former Military Secretary Lt Gen Richard Khare, former Judge Advocate General Maj Gen T Parshad, Advocate and expert in service jurisprudence and Member of International Society of Military Law Maj Navdeep Singh and Maj DP Singh.
It is reported in the press that Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), is proposing to invest the NPS funds in the private equity and mutual funds. This proposal is being forwarded to the Finance Ministry for approval. Now, the NPS funds, the Pension Fund contributions from those central government employees who are recruited after 01-01-2004, are with the government only.
The proposal to hand over a part of these funds to private investors/equity is dangerous and may result it being completely wiped out in the turbulent market. The proposal is against the interest of the workers and is to be dropped. There should be strong protest from concerned stake holders.
It is almost incredible. The 19 Public Sector Banks in the country are having Non-Performing Assets (NPA) of Rs. 2.6 lakhs as in September 2015. NPA means bad loans which are not repaid so far. The NPA in March 2015 was Rs. 2.3 lakhs.
These bad loans are mainly given to corporates and big business. The name of almost every big corporate house and big business concern are in the list of defaulters. They are given hundreds of crores of rupees as loan and these are not repaid. While, the banks take strong action to recover amount from the common man who takes loan, no such action is taken against the big sharks.
On the one side the banks are crying about NPA, but again more and more such loans are given, obviously on political interventions, resulting in the increase of the NPA.
The decision of the TRAI to impose penalty for call-drops has been effective