Night Free Calling Facility extended to serving employees, due to continuous efforts of BSNLEU.

When Night Free Calling Facility was introduced to the subscribers, BSNLEU was the only union which demanded it’s extension to the employees and retirees. BSNLEU discussed it with the CMD BSNL and wrote letters several times. However, Management introduced the facility only to the retirees. Again BSNLEU continuously pressurised the CMD BSNL and other officers, for extension of the facility to the serving employees. The issue was raised in the 35^th meeting of the National Council, held on 11.05.2017. After continuous persuasion, Corporate Office has issued letter today, extending the Night Free Calling Facility to the serving employees. << View letter>>

(courtesy: BSNLEU website0

NCCPA Circular

NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE

OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS..

Website: nccpahq.blogspot.in.

E mail: nccpahq@gmail.com.

13.c Feroze Shah Road,

 New Delhi. 110 001

PRESIDENT:       COM.SHIV GOPAL MISHRA.(97176 47594)

SECy. GENERAL:          COM.K.K.N.KUTTY. (98110 483030)

Dated 28^th August, 2017

Dear Comrades,

We write this in continuation of our circular letter dated 26^th August, 2017.  We have been in consultation with the members of the Sectt in finalising the quota for the 25^th October, programme.  We have taken note of the relative strength of the organisations in  respect of their membership as also their capacity to mobilise them to take part in the programme.  We have tried to keep a balance of the ground reality in finalising the quota.  But still there may be aberrations.  We would request you to kindly bear with us and co-operate so that the programme slated for 25^thOctober, 2017 must ultimately be a resounding success.  Please therefore, ensure that the quota is exceeded so that our precept and practice would be in complete sync. (please see annexure for the quota)  To compel the present Government to retrace their steps(howsoever erratic and wrong it was), we are aware is quite difficult, as their political mobilisation is not based on the common perception of welfare of the downtrodden. We must realise that the lessons from the history is that the ultimate victory is of vox populi.  We are beginning our struggle on Wednesday, 25^th October, 2017.confident of its final outcome howsoever prolonged it may be. 

We have prepared the charter of demands on the basis of the deliberations we had at the National Executive Committee meeting.  It has covered almost all the points that figures in the discussion.  Together it covers the aspiration, hope and anxiety of all pensioners.  We are confident that the movement will gather momentum over the years and those who still hope against hope that benevolence will usher in will realise the folly to give the requisite acceleration, for we believe in all earnestness that wider the platform, earlier the event of victory. 

Appealing to all of you once again for your utmost efforts and strenuous endeavour to make the programme on 25^th the most memorable and successful, and thanking you with greetings,

Yours fraternally,

Sd/-

K.KN. Kutty

Secretary General.

CHARTER OF DEMANDS.

1. Implement Option No. 1. Recommended by the 7^th CPC .
2. Revise the pension of all BSNL Pensioners on IDA pay scale with 15% fixation benefit.
3. Revise the pension of all pensioners of the Central Autonomous bodies.
4. (a) Notional fixation of pay under Option No. 3. Must be based on the pay scales/Pay levels of the cadre or grade from which an employee retired.

(b) Implement the judgements of the Courts in the case of all pre-2006 pensioners, whose notional pay for the purpose of pension must be on the basis of the pay level/Grade Pay or pay scale of the grade/cadre from which he/she has retired.

5. (a) Extend the benefit of the CCS(MA) Rules to all pensioners who are not covered by the CGHS (b) Do not discriminate the pensioners of the Union Territory; bring all pensioners  under the coverage of CGHS.
6. Increase the FMA  to Rs. 2000/- as has been granted to the PF pensioners w.e.f 1.1.2016
7. Raise the minimum pension to Rs. 12,000/- (2/3^rd of the minimum wage) and make pension net of income tax.
8. Restore the commutation loss of pension after 10 years
9. Provide increased rates of pension on attainment of the age of 70 years
10. Restore the Defined benefit  pension scheme as was in vogue prior to 1.1.2004 in respect of all Central Government employees by scrapping the Defined contributory pension scheme

Annexure:

All India Postal and RMS Pensioners Associations:                             400

All India BSNL DOT Pensioners Assn.       300

Income tax Pensioners Federation                                                          150

All India Audit and AccountsPensioners Association.                          50

All Central autonomous Pensioenrs Association                                 100

State Units:

Kerala-                                                                   10

AP-                                                                          25

Karnataka:                                                            20

W.Bengal:                                                             60

NE Region:                                                            05

Rajastan:                                                             40

MP –                                                                     10

UP –                                                                      10

Nagpur                                                                                 10

Mumbai                                                               20

Punjab –                                                              10

Bihar                                                                      05

Tamilnadu                                                           10

Gujarath                                                              10

North West Region:                                        10

Delhi.                                                                    15

The States for which separate quota is fixed will not include in their contingent, comrade pensioners of Postal, BSNL,  Incometax, Audit and Account and Autonomous organisations.

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE DECISIONS – MASSIVE DHARNA IN DELHI

NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE

OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS..

Website: nccpahq.blogspot.in.

E mail: nccpahq@gmail.com.

13.c Feroze Shah Road,

New Delhi. 110 001

PRESIDENT:       COM.SHIV GOPAL MISHRA.(97176 47594)

SECy. GENERAL:          COM.K.K.N.KUTTY. (98110 483030)

Dated 26^th August, 2017

Dear Comrades,

National Executive Committee

meeting and decisions.

The National Executive Meeting of NCCPA was held at Nagpur on 19.08.2017 under the Chairmanship of Comrade Shiv Gopal Mishra.. Excellent arrangements were made by the Reception Committee headed by Comrades Dhaktod and Petekar.

Comrade Shiv Gopal Mishra elaborately dealt with the attitude of the Government and the official side on 7^th CPC related issues of both employees and pensioners. He also narrated that Option Number 1  has been taken up as an anomaly in the NAC for discussion. Several other issues including the NJCA meeting scheduled in September and the impending indefinite strike by the Central TUS and Federations of Central, State Government and PSUs were covered by him during his speech.

The subject session that commenced thereafter was chaired by Com. S.S.Roy, working president, NCCPA. The discussion on the items of agenda was initiated by the Deputy Secretary General Comrade Pavitra Ranjan Chakraborti ably supplemented by the other Deputy Secretary General Comrade K.Ragavendran. The Secretary General Comrade KKN Kutty could not attend the meeting due to his sudden illness. More than 90% of the Office Bearers and National Executive Members attended the meeting despite the situation of flood and torrential rains in different parts of the country. A lively discussion on the agenda items followed.  The following decisions were taken at the meeting Com. K. Raghavendran moved the resolution which contained the crux of discussions at the meeting and on the future course of NCCPA functioning.

Decisions and Resolution:

1. Option 3  being the belated acceptance of the demand of parity by pensioners is welcome. However, fixing the notional pay of Pre-2016 Pensioners in the replacement scales instead of actual pay scale provided for to the serving employees by successive pay commissions is an irritant and requires to be removed.
2. Option 1 as recommended by the 7^th CPC  being feasible to be implemented ought to have been retained as it would provide better pension for those who stagnated in the part for no fault of theirs. Rejection of option.1 as infeasible is not only unprecedented, untenable but unethical too especially viewed from the angle that the top bureaucracy had a personal axe to grind in its rejection. The meeting endorsed the correct stand taken by the Staff Side JCM National Council to treat the same as another option for pensioners. 
3. The continued adamancy of the Government in refusing to grant the benefit of fixing pension to Pre-2006 Pensioners from 1.1.2006 based on the pay scales implemented to the post or cadre in which the Pensioner had retired or dead is unjustified. The rejection by Department of Expenditure even after several courts decision in favour of higher pay scales instead of replacement scales and the acceptance and implementation of the judgment in the case of the litigants shows the double standard of the Government. This benefit should be granted to all Pre-2006 Pensioners.
4. While welcoming the orders for admission of P&T Pensioners in CGHS Scheme without any conditions by withdrawing the retrograde orders of the Health Ministry, it is found that the decision  that the beneficiaries must make the one time lump sum  payment @ post 7^th CPC rate is unjustified. The late admission in to CGHS belatedly after two decades delay should not result in penalizing the past Pensioners. The rate of subscription at the time of retirement should alone be the charges.
5. The discrimination against some other departmental pensioners who are continue to be denied entry into CGHS must be ended.
6. While ending discrimination to P&T Pensioners, the Directorate General of CGHS has issued another discriminating order to preclude the CG Employees and CG Pensioners in Union Territories from joining CGHS. This order also aims to send out those employees and pensioners wrongly admitted in to CGHS. This stand of the Government is totally unjust and should be withdrawn.
7. Many important positive recommendations of the 7^th CPC on health related issues like (1) Merger of existing Postal Dispensaries with CGHS; (2) Issue of Medi-insurance Cards to employees and pensioners to facilitate cashless medical treatment; (3) Merger of all existing different medical systems into one single large umbrella medical system for CG Employees and CG Pensioners; (4) Extending the benefit under CS MA Rules 1944 to Pensioners also to end the disparity between the employees and pensioners needs to be expedited for positive implementation.
8. While the doubling of the existing rate of Fixed Medical Allowance from 500/- to 1000/- is welcome, the fixing of FMA @ 1000/- after 7^th CPC while the employees of PF Department are being paid @ 2000/- per month even during 6^th CPC period is very less in comparison to the mounting medical costs. The FMA must be enhanced to 2000/- per month.
9. Many orders are not being implemented in a time-bound manner. Due to this the aging pensioners cannot get the benefits in time. The GO on extending full pension to Pre-2006 Pensioners who had retired without putting 33 years of qualifying service; the GO on fixation of pension on the basis of ‘pay in the pay band’ instead of ‘minimum of pay band’ w.e.f. 1.1.2006 for all Pre-2006 Pensioners;  the issue of revised PPOs to all Pre-2006 Pensioners etc were either inordinately delayed or still being delayed. The main reason for such non-implementation or slow implementation is due to staff shortage in accounting offices. Under such circumstances the recent 12^th May, 2017 orders also is likely to be delayed in many departments. Therefore drawing of the services of qualified retired officials to function as ‘implementation cells’ to speed up the work under the supervision of serving Accounts Officers in all accounting offices may be considered to facilitate completion of work of Refixation of pension to all Pre-2016 Pensioners before 30.09.2017.
10. The Pay Commission and also the Government have not come forward to consider the issues of rationalizing the additional pension and reducing the period of commutation of pension. The additional pension system should be improved and the period of commutation should be reduced to 10 years.
11. The grant of additional pension should be given on attaining the age of 80, 85,90,95,100 instead of waiting for the completion of the above ages as per the verdict of Bengaluru CAT.
12. The recovery of income-tax from Pensioners is most unjustified. The Government should immediately consider payment of pension net taxes. 
13. The National Executive has resolved to authorize the National Secretariat to chalk out appropriate Programme of Action on the above demands.

The under-mentioned organisational decisions are also taken unanimously:

1. NCCPA organization should be strengthened by approaching new organizations for affiliation; strengthening the existing affiliates with more membership; forming State COC of NCCPA in all States.
2. The State units of affiliates will get in touch with other Pensioners Associations operating in the State and get them associated with NCCPA.
3. This National Executive Committee meeting of NCCPA calls upon all its affiliates to take all possible steps to join the agitational programmes chalked out by all organisations of serving employees and the Central trade Unions.
4. Extending total solidarity to NFPE sponsored strike on 23.08.2017 for getting the GDS Committee recommendations immediately implemented.
5. NCCPA units and affiliates will take all possible steps to take part in the mass Dharna programme stated for 9,10,11 Nov. 2017 at Delhi under the auspices of the joint platform of Central Trade Unions.
6. NCCPA will organize an independent programme to project the CG pensioner related issues and most  prominently against NPS

Massive Dharna at the National Capital: DELHI.

In deference to  the decision of the National Executive, consultations were held amongst the Secretariat members about the feasibly of organizing an independent programme by NCCPA. The consensus is that the NCCPA must organize a massive Dharna at Janter-Manter, New Delhi on 25.10.2017 from 11.00 AM to 3.00 PM eliciting participation of members of all affiliates and from all states. To make the programme successful, a serious campaign will be undertaken by the National Leadership consisting of President, Working President, Vice President Secretary General, two Deputy Secretary Generals. Detailed circular will be issued shortly. Affiliates and unites are requested to convey the issues/ demands to be included in the Charter immediately on receipt of this letter.

 The Office bearers and the National Executive Members especially the Chief Executives of affiliated organizations and the State CGPA organizations are requested to mobilize and ensure the participation of the largest number of pensioners in the Programme to highlight our issues before the Government. The Charter of Demands will be circulated shortly after causing consultation with the members of the National Sectt. 

With Greetings,

Comradely Yours,

Sd/-

KKN Kutty

Secretary General

Reserve Bank of India
Department of Communication
Central Office, S.B.S.Marg, Mumbai.400001

August 24, 2017

RBI Introduces ₹ 200 denomination banknote

The Reserve Bank of India will issue on August 25, 2017 ₹ 200 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series, bearing signature of Dr. Urjit R. Patel, Governor, Reserve Bank of India from select RBI offices, and some banks. The new denomination has Motif of Sanchi Stupa on the reverse, depicting the country’s cultural heritage. The base colour of the note is Bright Yellow. The note has other designs, geometric patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme, both at the obverse and reverse.

The image and salient features of ₹ 200 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series are as under:

i. Image

ii. Salient Features
Obverse (Front)
1. See through register with denominational numeral 200
2. Latent image with denominational numeral 200
3. Denominational numeral २०० in Devnagari
4. Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the centre
5. Micro letters ‘RBI’, ‘भारत’, ‘India’ and ‘200’
6. Windowed security thread with inscriptions ‘भारत’ and RBI with colour shift. Colour of the thread changes from green to blue when the note is tilted
7. Guarantee Clause, Governor’s signature with Promise Clause and RBI emblem towards right of Mahatma Gandhi portrait
8. Denominational numeral with Rupee Symbol, ₹ 200 in colour changing ink (green to blue) on bottom right
9. Ashoka Pillar emblem on the right
10. Mahatma Gandhi portrait and electrotype (200) watermarks
11. Number panel with numerals growing from small to big on the top left side and bottom right side
12. For visually impaired
Intaglio or raised printing of Mahatma Gandhi portrait, Ashoka Pillar emblem, raised Identification mark H with micro-text ₹200, four angular bleed lines with two circles in between the lines both on the right and left sides

Reverse (Back)
13. Year of printing of the note on the left
14. Swachh Bharat logo with slogan
15. Language panel
16. Motif of Sanchi Stupa
17. Denominational numeral २०० in Devnagari Dimension
18. Dimension of the banknote will be 66 mm × 146 mm

Jose J. Kattoor
Chief General Manager

Press Release: 2017-2018/529

Tamil Nadu Circle Executive Committee Meeting has been held at the conference hall, Telephone Exchange, Pondicherry on 26-08-2017. The CEC started with the flags hoisting; National Flag by Com.Mathialagan, senior leader, Pondicherry and AIBDPA flag by Com. K.G.Jayaraj, General Secretary.

Com.P.Manickamurthy, Circle President controlled the proceedings. Coma.Sakthivel, District Secretary, Pondicherry on behalf of the Reception Committee and Com.N.Kuppusamy, Asst Circle Secretary for the Circle, welcomed all the participants.

Inaugurating the CEC, Com.K.G.Jayaraj spoke elaborately on the issues confronting the pensioners including the efforts being taken for pay revision as well as pension revision. The decisions of the National Executive of NCCPA held at Nagpur on 19–08-2017 were also reported. He congratulated the Tamil Nadu comrades for the sincere efforts being taken for strengthening AIBDPA and appealed to continue this important task with more vigour.

The Chief Guest, Shri.R.Marshal Antony Leo, General Manager, BSNL, Pondicherry appreciated the service of the Pensioners even after the retirement for the cause of BSNL. Coms.S.Mohandoss. CHQ Vice President, K.Kaliprasad, CHQ Org Secretary, A.Subramonian, Dist Secretary, BSNLEU, B.Mahalingam, Dist Secretary, TNTCWU addressed

The report on the activities since the last CEC was presented by Com.C.K.Narasimhan, Circle Secretary. All the District Secretaries and some of the Circle Office bearers participated in the discussion that followed

Resolutions were adopted on important issues.The Meeting concluded at 7 PM with vote of thanks by Com.D.Gnansekharan, Asst Circle Secretary.

A well attended Area Branch convention was held at Panchavadi hotel hall, MAVELIKARA on 24-08-2017. Com.K.P.Kesavan Nair, President presided over the meeting.

Com.K.G.Jayaraj, General Secretary inaugurated the convention explaining in detail the present position about the wage revision and pension revision in BSNL. He also briefed on the decisions of the National Convention of workers held at New Delhi on 08-08-2017 and the National Executive of NCCPA held at Nagpur on 19-08-2017.

Com.P.Sasidharan, Area Secretary welcomed and Com.R.Krishna Pillai, Treasurer proposed vote of thanks.

Government of India
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Office of the Additional Director Central Govt.Health Scheme
Nongrim Hills Shillong – 793 003

No. CGHS/ESTT/RECTG/62/114-68

Dated : Shillong, the 23 August, 2017.

NOTIFICATION

Sub: Opening of a Central Govt. Health Scheme, Wellness Centre (allopathic) at Imphal

This is for information to all eligible Central Govt. employees / pensioners and other stake holders that, a Central Govt. Health Scheme (CGHS) Wellness Centre sanctioned vide Govt. of India, Min. of Health & Family Welfare, CGHS (P) Division Order No.S.11045/1/2013/HEC, New Delhi dated 17th November 2014, will be functioning by 28th August 2017 at Ground Floor, MVHA building, Wangkhei, Ningthem, Pukhri, Mapan, Imphal – 795 001 to provide comprehensive medical facilities to the beneficiaries.

The scheme will cover the Imphal city and all eligible Central Govt. employees and their dependent family members, Central Govt. pensioners and their dependents and others eligible as per CGHS guideline residing in Imphal city.

The working hours of the CGHS Wellness Centre will be from 7:30 am to 02:00 pm in all working days except Sundays & holidays.

For further information / clarification, please contact Sr. Medical Officer, in-charge, CGHS WC Imphal at 0385-2442104 / 7678335406

Sd/-
Additional Director
CGHS, Shillong

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