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 Posted - 02/03/2009 : 05:20:01
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Govt. partially agrees to armed forces' demand on salaries
New Delhi (PTI): Partially accepting demands of the armed forces for parity in salaries with their civilian counterparts, the government has issued orders for placing officers of the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and equivalents in the pay band-4 (PB-4).
The government's orders in the regard were received by the Serviceson Monday, Defence Ministry sources said. But the issues of Lt Cols getting grade pay equal to their IAS counterparts, and command and control are yet to be resolved.
As per the new orders, Lt Cols will now be in upgraded pay bracket of Rs 37,400-67,000 (PB-4) with a grade pay of Rs 8,000 from the earlier scale of Rs 15,600-39,100 (PB-3) with grade pay of Rs 7,600. The Services were demanding a grade pay of Rs 8,700 for this pay band created after the 6th Pay Commission recommendations.
With upgraded pay-scales, Lt Cols and their equivalents in the other two services will now be senior to deputy secretaries in central government, directors in state governments and senior superintendents of police, commandants (junior grade) in the Coast Guard and the non-functional selective grade in central engineering services, they said.
As per the letter issued by a senior Defence Ministry official, PB-4 would now be applicable to tenure postings with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Director General (Quality Assurance) and National Cadet Corps as these organisations fall within the purview of the ministry and the pay allowances are paid from the its budget.
Officers on deputation and training on foreign assignments would also be in PB-4.
Officers posted with organisations such as Assam Rifles, National Security Guards and Border Road Organisation (BRO) will also benefit from the government's move.
Only a handful of Lt Col level officers would now be left in the PB-3. "Officers on deputation to organisations such as National Highway Authority, Railways, Pawan Hans and state governments, where the nature of duty is not in line with normal combat profile of service personnel, would draw PB-3 scales," a source said.
It said the number of such officers in the three services would be less than 50.
Officers are expected to get the revised salaries from next month, sources said.
Last month, in a letter to the Defence Ministry, tri-services' Principal Personnel Officers Committee chairman Vice-Admiral D K Dewan had last month said the armed forces wanted all Lt Cols to be placed under the Pay B and 4 including those on deputation to paramilitary and other services.
The armed forces had told Defence Ministry that it did not favour another PMO proposal to not to send Lt Cols on deputation to other services.
It said the services and the rules governing them did not make any distinction and that all of the officers were performing combat/ready-to-combat jobs.
Dewan had written the letter replying to a verbal query from the Defence Ministry on a December 31 PMO note that the government proposed to place only those Lt Cols serving in "combat/ready-to-combat" roles in Army, Navy and Air Force the Pay Band-4 benefits.
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Posted - 02/11/2009 : 17:59:34
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LDH : Railway pensioners waiting for arrears
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Ludhiana/Railway_pensioners_waiting_for_arrea\rs/articleshow/4107937.cms
10 Feb 2009, 2210 hrs IST
LUDHIANA: Railway pensioners are still waiting for benefits of the sixth pay commission, as they have not received their revised pension scale with effect from January 1, 2006. While the pay commission scales have been implemented from September 1, 2008, pensioners are yet to get their arrears while they wait for their pension pay orders.
Without pension pay orders, they could not get their arrears from the banks. In this period, around 2,000 railway employees retired from their jobs and there still is no fixing of their revised pensions.
Manmohan Sharma, one of the members of All India Railway Pensioners Federation, said they were waiting for implementation of the sixth payscale, but it has not been paid to them till now.
He asserted that when it comes to employees who retired before December 31,
1995, not even a single pensioner has received his revised pension.
Sharma said he retired as a head clerk in the loco department and had earlier been getting Rs 5,200 as his pension, but according to the revised payscale, he should get Rs 8,145 along with 16% dearness allowance, but no such thing has mhappened yet.
SS Karkhal, senior divisional personnel officer, said they have forwarded around 1,000 cases to the accounts department but it would take more than one-and-a-half months for the procedure to be completed as the department is yet to complete the formalities.
He said apart from this, pending cases would come under consideration as soon as possible.
He asserted that first of all, they would prepare the pension pay orders of the retired employees and then the procedure for release of the arrears would be distributed among the pensioners.
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Posted - 02/14/2009 : 02:13:20
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Pay panel award to cost Rlys Rs 13,600 cr
New Delhi, Feb. 13 The Sixth Pay Commission award to 14 lakh employees and 11 lakh pensioners will cost the Indian Railways Rs 13,600 crore during 2008-09 and over Rs 14,000 crore in the coming fiscal.
The 2008-09 Rail Budget had originally provided for an ad-hoc allocation of Rs 5,000 crore to meet the incremental commitments arising from the Pay Commission award, including Rs 4,000 crore towards salaries and Rs 1,000 crore on account of pensions.
But, according to the revised estimates presented on Friday, the outgo would be much higher at Rs 13,596 crore – Rs 9,000 crore for salaries and the remaining towards pension.
Worse, for the coming fiscal, the total provision is Rs 14,614 crore (Rs 9,952 crore on salaries and Rs 4,662 crore on pension).
“If there was no Pay Commission award, staff costs would have constituted 44 per cent of our ordinary working expenses. But now, this would go up to 50 per cent this fiscal and a budgeted 52 per cent for 2009-10,” the Financial Commissioner of Indian Railways, Ms Sowmya Raghavan, told Business Line.
Arrears burden
But, according to her, much of this extra burden is due to arrears that are in the nature of a one-time payment liability.
“The arrears component works out to Rs 15,700 crore (Rs 11,000 crore salaries and Rs 4,700 crore pension) payable over two years. The situation will hopefully revert to normal by 2010-11,” she added.
In his Interim Budget speech, the Railway Minister, Mr Lalu Prasad, sought to underplay the Pay Commission impact, claiming that the organisation will implement its recommendations “with relative ease” because of its “strong financial position”.
Unlike the experience during the Fifth Pay Commission, when the Railways ended up deferring payment of dividend to the tune of Rs 2,800 crore in 2001 and 2002, no default will take place this time, he said.
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Posted - 04/01/2009 : 23:07:25
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Setting up of Anomalies Committee to settle the anomalies arising out of the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission's recommendations. 16.02.2009
52/2009 PC-VI/2008/I/7/2/1 89 Corrigendum
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/PC/PC6/DAC_160209.pdf
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Posted - 04/09/2009 : 22:46:46
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64/2009 PC-VI/2008/I/RSRP/1/Pt.3 97 Date of next increment in cases where Railway Servants are not able to join posts in a particular grade pay on promotion/appointment on Ist of January of a year due to Sunday or Gazetted Holiday-Clarification regarding
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Posted - 04/15/2009 : 19:58:55
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http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/15/stories/2009041560140300.htm
VISAKHAPATNAM: The General Secretary of Railway Pensioners’ Federation, Visakhapatnam, has advised pre-2006 pensioners and family pensioners to submit applications on or before April 30, for revision of pension and family pension.
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