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Posted - 07/03/2008 : 19:55:08
New Delhi: India’s payout to government employees just got bigger with a committee of bureaucrats set up to review the recommendations made earlier this year by the Sixth Pay Commission suggesting a Rs12,000 crore increase in a move that will likely buy the government some goodwill.
Pay commissions are set up to revise the salaries of Central government employees and the Sixth Pay Commission had asked for a payout of Rs30,621 crore this year (2008-09) including a raise of Rs12,561 crore—this will translate into an average salary hike of 40% for the 3.3 million employees of the Central government —and payment of arrears since January 2006. The new salaries came into effect from June.
The committee’s suggestion, shared with Mint by a government official familiar with the development who did not wish to be identified, translates into almost a 40% increase over the Rs30,621 crore. Of the additional Rs12,000 crore, half will go towards salary hikes and the rest towards arrears, and the biggest beneficiary of this proposed additional payment will be the Armed Forces that had expressed their disappointment with the initial recommendations of the pay commission which were submitted to the finance minister on 24 March.
The cabinet is expected to approve this raise in the next few weeks. The group that suggested the increase included representatives of the finance ministry and discussed the issue of salaries with employee organizations across government departments that had expressed their unhappiness with the initial recommendations. A government official, who asked not to be identified, said that the demands made by the Armed Forces, such as higher transportation allowances and improvement in the military service pay, have been addressed.
An officer in the railway ministry, who also did not wish to be identified, said his ministry had sought “relaxation of a norm which stipulated that matriculation would be a must for any government service”.
In India, matriculation refers to high-school education, and the railway ministry official said the department had told the group reviewing the pay commission’s recommendations that “there were many areas of work (artisans, carpenters and manual labourers)...where it would be difficult to find matriculates”. “We hope that the committee will take a favourable view,” added this officer. “The cabinet should take a decision on this (pay commission’s recommendation) very soon,” said another government official familiar with the developments who too did not wish to be identified.#8202;
The pay commission’s recommendation and the subsequent review are expected to earn the government the goodwill of government employees ahead of crucial polls to several states this year and to the Lok Sabha in 2009. The government has just implemented a Rs71,680 crore farm loan waiver that benefits around 43 million small and marginal farmers across rural India.
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| S.ravi |
Posted - 02/19/2010 : 18:41:42
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/DEPTTS/PC/PC6/rbe_29.pdf
Grant of Overtime Allowance to Railway employees consequent upon revision of pay scales and allowances 17.02.201 |
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Posted - 02/19/2010 : 18:29:38
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/DEPTTS/PC/PC6/rbe_28_2010.pdf
Applicability of minimum pay/stepping up of pay-clarification reg. 17.02.2010 |
| S.ravi |
Posted - 12/25/2009 : 08:47:38
mplementation of Government's decision on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission regarding revision of pension of pensioners/family pensioners etc. Grant of full pension to Governmen
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/DEPTTS/finance/Fin-estb-cir/rbe_222.pdf |
| S.ravi |
Posted - 12/25/2009 : 08:42:57
Grant of the revised pay structure of grade pay of Rs. 4600 in the pay band PB-2 to posts that existed in the pre-revised scale of Rs. 6500-10500 as on 01.01.2006 and which were granted the normal replacement pay structure of grade pay of Rs. 4200 in the pay band PB-2
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/PC/PC6/rbe_226.pdf |
| S.ravi |
Posted - 12/16/2009 : 18:34:05
Grant of the pay structure of grade pay of Rs.4600 in the pay band PB-2 to Assistants of Railway Board Secretariat Service (RBSS) and Steno Grade 'C' (Personal Assistants) of Railway Board Secretariat Stenographers' Service (RBSSS)
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/PC/PC6/RBE_220_09.pdf
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| S.ravi |
Posted - 11/11/2009 : 09:05:32
mplementation of Government's decision on the recommendations of the VIth CPC- revision of the Railway Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1993-Constant Atendant Allowance
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/DEPTTS/finance/Fin-estb-cir/rbe_223.pdf |
| S.ravi |
Posted - 11/08/2009 : 08:13:47
Retired Central govt employees not getting revised pension
TNN 7http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/Retired-Central-govt-employees-not-getting-revised-pension/articleshow/5207546.cms November 2009, 09:42pm IST
ALLAHABAD: Resentment is prevailing among the retired railway employees as they are not getting the revised pension as per the recommendations of
Sixth Pay Commission, asserted SK Singh, president of United Forum of Pensioners Association while addressing a meeting on Saturday.
He also said that retired employees of many Central government departments are not getting the revised pension due to the callous attitude of the authorities concerned.
He said that though the retired employees have been given the revised pension payment order (PPO) but the pensions have not been revised. The railway authorities have given assurance that all the works relating to the revision of pension would be completed by August but two months have passed and nothing has been done in this regard.
Another leader of the association Mobin Khan said that some of the retired employees have fixed the date of the marriage of their daughters, hoping that revised pension would come in handy. The retired employees have been forced to grapple with financial problems.
RBS Yadav, joint secretary of BSNL retired employees association asserted that resentment is brewing among the BSNL employees as they have not been paid industrial dearness allowance (IDA). Jordan H, district secretary of of the organisation said that the demand for merger of 50 per cent dearness allowance with the basic salary has not been implemented for the persons retired between October 2000 to December 2006.
KC Gupta, general secretary of United Forum of Pensioners Association said that the retired employees are united to fight for their problems. He informed that Pensioners Day would be observed on December 17 and urged the members to participate in the programme.
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| S.ravi |
Posted - 10/08/2009 : 18:57:41
LUDHIANA: Irked over the policies of the railway authorities and the alleged injustice being meted out to them, members of the All-India Loco Running Staff Association sat on a 24-hour hunger strike here on Thursday.
The members protested against the fixation of grade pay of assistant train drivers in the 6th Pay Commission. They also demanded that in order to save money, the authorities were not recruiting new drivers in the railway department, due to which existing drivers had to work for more than 14 hours. The members said such things were a threat to the safety of commuters because it was the responsibility of drivers to provide safe journey to commuters. "If drivers get fatigued out due to extra working hours, it would definitely affect their health and the safety of people," they added.
"There is need of 100 loco pilots at the city loco shed to move trains so authorities need to increase the number of drivers as well as fix the working hours up to 8 hours,' the members said.
Meanwhile, the members also demanded that the authorities need to review their decisions because they had fixed the basic grade pay of assistant drivers on the basis of class IV employees, but assistant drivers were more qualified than class IV staff.
"The authorities should fix Rs 2,800 but they are only getting Rs 1,900. The authorities are also not giving justified travelling allowance to drivers," they rued. Talking to the TOI, Paramjeet Singh divisional secretary All India Loco Running Staff Association said, "Drivers and assistant drivers went for a hunger strike. Those on duty have also lent support to the cause." He demanded that the authorities should consider their demands and for that they are ready to conduct a meeting to find a possible solution to their demands. Singh said they would also stage a dharna in front of the Parliament on November 24 if the authorities don't address their problems. |
| S.ravi |
Posted - 09/05/2009 : 13:23:10
UP govt to implement 6th Pay Commission report
PTI 5 September 2009, 07:20pm IST
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday decided to revise the pay scale of staff of all state-owned enterprises and corporations and to provide other benfits as per the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission with effect from January 1, 2006.
The decision will benefit about 98,000 employees and officers of public sector enterprises and corporations except energy sector undertakings, a government spokesman said here.
It will entail an additional burden of Rs 305 crore annually which will be borne by the enterprises and corporations.
However, the benefits of revised pay scale and other benefits will be subject to the economic capability of corporations and certain conditions, he said.
"No government assistance will be provided," the spokesman said.
The government also decided to relax rules regarding payment of dearness allowance to the staff of enterprises and corporations and merge 50% of the DA with the salary.
As per the decision, DA could be paid after assessiong the financial condition on the basis of audited balance sheet.
To simplify the process, it has been decided to set up an empowered committee at the level of public enterprises department, the official spoeksman said. |
| S.ravi |
Posted - 08/30/2009 : 08:03:34
151/2009 PC-VI/2008/I/RSRP/1 136 Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules,2008-amendment
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/PC/PC6/RBE_152_09.pdf
PC-VI/2008/I/RSRP/1 137 Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules,2008-Schedules for Revised Scales of Pay 26.08.2009
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/PC/PC6/rbe_151.pdf
Implementation of Government's decision on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission- Revision of pension of pro-2006 pensioners/family pensioners etc.
27.08.2009
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/DEPTTS/finance/index_cir_2009_files/rbe_154.pdf
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| S.ravi |
Posted - 08/25/2009 : 09:44:50
Second instalment arrears
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/PC/PC6/RBE_150_09.pdf
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| S.ravi |
Posted - 06/18/2009 : 20:44:19
NH allowance
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/DEPTTS/finance/index_cir_2009_files/RBE_109_09.pdf
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| S.ravi |
Posted - 06/16/2009 : 01:58:03
Recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission- Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACPS) for Railway Employees
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/PC/PC6/rbe_101.pdf
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| S.ravi |
Posted - 06/15/2009 : 09:52:44
Encashment of Leave on Average Pay (LAP)
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/DEPTTS/finance/index_cir_2009_files/rbe_104.pdf
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| S.ravi |
Posted - 06/13/2009 : 08:32:55
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Encashment of earned leave along with Leave Travel Concession while in service.
No.14028/4/2009-Esst.(L)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel & Training
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New Delhi, the 3rd June, 2009.
Office Memorandum
Subject: Encashment of earned leave along with Leave Travel Concession while in service.
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The undersinged is directed to refer to Rule 38-A of CCS (Leave Rules, 1972 regarding encashment of earned leave alongwith LTC while in service which says that Government servants are permitted to encash earned leave upto 10 days at the time of availing Leave Travel Concession subject to the condition that earned leave of at least an equivalent duration is also availed of by the Government servant simultaneously. This Department has been receiving a number of references from various faced by them as the facility of LTC is also admissible while availing Casual Leave.
2. The matter has been examined in this Department in consultation with the Ministry of Finance and it has now been decided to permit Government servants encashment of earned leave upto 10 days at the time of availing LTC without any linkage to the number of days and the nature of leave availed while proceeding on LTC.
3. These orders shall take effect from the date of issue.
4. Formal amendment to the provisions of CCS(Leave) Rules, 1972 are being issued separately.
5. Hindi version will follow.
(Simmi R.Nakra)
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