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WHY SO MUCH DELAY IN ANNOUNCEMENT OF CENTRAL DA HIKE FROM JANUARY, 2015.
Since the implementation of the recommendations of the 4th central pay commission in 1986, the announcement of approval and the order for granting Dearness Allowance to government employees were issued in March and September itself until it was violated once under UPA regime. In 2013, the approval for granting DA hike due from January 2013 was delayed inordinately. All the central government employees had waited patiently up to 31st March 2013. Even 1st and 2nd week of April 2013, there was no signs announcing the DA hike by the Central government. Then, the federations like AIRF and Confederation of central government employees and workers have raised objection over the inordinate delay of announcing DA. And they wrote letters to the Central Government to declare the Dearness Allowance immediately to avoid the confrontation.
While briefing the situation, the Confederation of central government employees and workers has mentioned in the editorial of their blog on 17th April 2013 that ‘This naturally is quiet disturbing, especially in the time of galloping price line. The employees have, in the past, fought bitterly for grant of DA and the 3rd CPC gave a definite formula for DA in the aftermath of the one day strike on 19th September 1968. We cannot allow the hard won DA to be tampered with.’
The next day, ie on 18th April 2013 the union cabinet approved the DA hike which is due from January 2013.
This time the NDA Government started repeating the same story in its first year itself. As we mentioned earlier the DA hike from July 2014 has been announced un expectedly on 4th September 2014. So there was huge expectation this time that the present government would not make any delay in announcing the Payment dearness allowance from January 2015. But it seems that the government finds no time to take any decision over the issue of 50 Lakh Central government employees and Pensioners. Whether the central government expects the federations to plead for announcing DA hike? Or it really has no time to decide on this issue?
However, yesterday the Ministry of Finance
issued a clarification dated 1st April 2015, in which it has been clarified that a fake order for payment of Dearness Allowance was being circulated in Government Departments/offices and all Ministries/Departments and Central Government offices were advised not to take cognisance of these fake instructions being circulated in Government offices.
To avoid confusion and frustration among central government employees, it is expected that the central government should announce its approval for Payment of Dearness Allowance from January 2015.
ENROLMENT FOR AADHAAR NUMBER AND ITS SEEDING IN PENSION RECORDS OF ALL PENSIONERS.
Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare has issued the following order simplifying the procedure for submission of life certificate.
No. 1/19/2014-P&PW (E)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare
3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan,
Khan Market, New Delhi,
31st March, 2015
Office Memorandum
Sub: Enrolment for Aadhaar number and its seeding in pension records of all pensioners and family pensioners – regarding.
In November, 2014, the Prime Minister has launched an Aadhaar-based biometric verification system “Jeevan Pramaan” to enable pensioners to submit a digital Life Certificate on-line. This is an important step in realising the vision of Digital India. This facility has been provided in addition to the other existing methods of submitting Life Certificate.
2. “Jeevan Pramaan” aims at sparing the pensioners and family pensioners the trouble of visiting bank or any other pension disbursing agency for submission of Life Certificates. It is possible to submit the Life Certificate from personal computers and laptops or by visiting a conveniently located Common Service Centre. Further, banks by linking Aadhaar number with bank accounts and PPO numbers will ensure authenticity of pension and other payments.
3. All the pensioners/family pensioners are, therefore, advised to get themselves and their family members registered for Aadhaar and furnish this information to the Pension Disbursing Authority. This exercise may be completed at an early date so as to avoid inconvenience at the time of submission of Life Certificate in November, 2015.
(Vandana Sharma)
Joint Secretary to the Government of India.
BSNL TO INVEST Rs.7000 CRORE FOR SETTING UP WIFI HOTSPOTS.
Shri. Anupam Shrivastava, CMD, BSNL has said that BSNL will invest Rs.7000 crore in setting up Wifi hotspots integrated with eg, 4G network across the country. Wifi is an obvious choice for BSNL going forward but it alone cannot be successful. It has to be integrated with eg,4G network so that customer can be seamlessly transferred to Wifi. The company has already rolled out Wifi service in Varanasi and will be extending it to other tourist spots by the end of this year, said the CMD while speaking at Tele Analysis event in New Delhi on 2nd April, 2015.
(source:The Economic Times)
AFTER INDEPENDENCE 56 MINISTERS OF COMMUNICATIONS.
56 Ministers in Communications during the 68 years after Independence.
There are 56 Communications Ministers since Independence of the country ( 1947) till now. These include Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, Rajiv Gandhi, V.P.Singh, Chandra Sekhar, A.B.Vajpayee and Dr.Manmohan Singh, all for brief periods.
These Communication Ministers include prominent leaders like Rafi Ahmad Kidwai (first Communications Minister), Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur, Jagjivan Ram, H.N.Bahuguna, Brahmananda Reddy, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma (who later became President of India), Prakash Singh Badal, George Fernandez (leader of the Railway Strike 1974), C.M.Stephen, V.N.Gadgil, Arjun Singh, K.P.Unnilkrishnan, Rajesh Pilot, Sushama Swaraj, Ram Vilas Paswan, Promod Mahajan, Kapil Sibal and the present Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
The government has always given prominence to the Communications Ministry. But some how in the last two decades, many of the ministers like Sukh Ram, Dayanidhi Maran, A.Raja etc. has been connected with scam and corruption cases.
Jagjivan Ram is the Communications Minister who served for the maximum period, 4 years 7 months and one of the most prominent leaders. None has served for full 5 years. In addition to the Prime Ministers, there are few other ministers who functioned as Communications Ministers for one or two months, or even a few days only.
NOFN- NOW IT IS BHARATNET.
The Central Government has renamed National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) as BharatNet. The decision was taken in the committee specially appointed to analyse the structure of NOFN. The BharatNet aims at providing broadband connections to villages at monthly rate Rs. 150 in poor villages and at Rs. 250 in other villages. The speed will range from 2Mbps to 20 Mbps.
Decisions have been taken by UPA and now NDA government. Name is changed. But when it will be implementd?
FAKE ORDER FOR DA FROM 01-01-2015-CLARIFICATION BY FINANCE MINISTRY.
Fake Order for Payment of Dearness Allowance is being circulated : Finmin Clarification
No.1/2/2014-E.II(B)
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
North Block, New Delhi.
Dated the 1st April 2015.
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject:- Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government Employees – Revised Rates effective from 01.01.2015 – Fake Order/Instructions – Clarification regarding.
It has come to the notice of the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance that Office Memorandum bearing F. No. 1/2/2015-E.II(B) dated 30th March, 2015 under the signature of Shri A. Bhattacharya, Under Secretary, Department of Expenditure, regarding Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees – Revised Rates effective from 01.01.2015, is being circulated amongst Government Departments/Offices.
2. It is clarified that the O.M. dated 30.03.2015, purportedly issued by the Ministry of Finance, is a fake and that no such instructions have been issued by the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance. Accordingly, all Ministries/Departments and Central Government offices are hereby advised not to take cognisance of these fake instructions being circulated in Government offices.
sd/-
(Subhash Chand)
Director
Source-http://finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/fake_DA
GREECE- SEMINAR ON WOMENS’ RIGHTS WITH PAKISTANI TRADE UNIONISTS.
A delegation of women trade unionists from Pakistan is visiting the Central Offices of Greece and are participating in a seminar of women workers rights since March 26th, 2015.
The seminar will be discussing the current rights of working women, the developments in world economy and the response of the class-oriented trade union movement in coordinating the struggle against exploitation and inequality.
MEXICO: FISE EXTENDS SOLIDARITY IN ANTI-PRIVATIZATION STRUGGLE.
Independent trade unions and organizations have proceeded in massive mobilizations in several cities in Mexico, reacting to the anti constitutional reform about the energy policy, that paves the way to the privatizations of the oil production units of the country, which was deposed last year, after the President’s Enrique Pena Neto proposal.
The workers and the teachers that participated in the rallies in Oaxaca, Chiapas and Michoacan states and elsewhere expressed their fear that the implementation of this reactionary cadre is going to lead to spending cuts in the public sector, resulting in employees’ dismissals in the energy sector, as well as to the deterioration of the energy infrastructure of the country.
The teachers’ action in Mexico to support the mobilizations against the privatizations is a great example for all the trade unions and indicates the need and the importance to struggle, to create workers’ fronts from different sectors against the common problems. Against the delivery of the resources and the means of production to the hands and the control of the multinational companies.
PENSIONERS MEETING HELD AT LUCKNOW- COM.V.A.N.NAMBOODIRI ADDRESSED.
A meeting of the active workers of AIBDPA was held at Lucknow on 01-04-2015. It was the opportunity effectively utilized, the visit of Com. V.A. N. Namboodiri to attend the Circle level convention of Forum of BSNL unions/Associations. Com.S. I. Ahamed, President presided and Com.G.R.Verma, Circle Secretary delivered the welcome address.
Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, Advisor, AIBDPA spoke in detail covering all the issues of the pensioners including the present position of 78.2% IDA merger to the BSNL Pensioners. He also emphasized the importance of two days strike by Forum on April 21-22, 2015.
The meeting decided to strengthen the organization by enrolling more members and forming units in all the remaining SSAs.