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Govt. Plans to retire Babu's at 58 instead of 60

In a move that would help curb the relentless increase in the Centre’s non-Plan spending and ease the way for infusion of more young blood and professionalism into the country’s largely moribund bureaucracy, the Narendra Modi government is planning to reduce the retirement age of central government employees from the present 60 to 58.

The move that comes at a time when the Seventh Pay Commission is mulling another sharp boost to the pay structure of the Centre’s 5-million-strong workforce is also aimed at creating the requisite space for lateral entry of technically qualified professionals into the government, official sources told FE.

The retirement age was last revised in 1998, when the then NDA government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee raised it from 58 to 60 years. The last UPA government had reportedly considered enhancing the retirement age further to 62 just before the general elections, but dropped the move.The superannuation age was increased from 55 to 58 way back in 1962.

The total wage and salaries bill of the central government, excluding PSUs but including the railways, rose sharply between 2008 and 2010 due to the revised pay scales (along with payment of arrears) implemented as per the Sixth Pay Commission’s proposals.

The wage bill rose from Rs 1.09 lakh crore in 2007-08 to Rs 1.4 lakh crore in 2008-09, and further to Rs 1.7 lakh crore in 2009-10, before the growth moderated to Rs 1.84 lakh crore in 2010-11. The government spent Rs 2.54 lakh crore in wages and salaries in 2013-14. The railways (with 1.4 million employees), defence (civil), home affairs, India Post and revenue account for more than 80% of the total spending of the Centre on pays and allowances.

Thanks to successive pay commissions, the salaries and other emoluments of government employees have, on average, more than doubled in every decade since independence even though lack of sufficient performance incentives is still considered to be a drawback.

A merger of 50% of the dearness allowance with the basic salary, likely to be part of the Seventh Pay Commission’s award, which is to implemented from 2016, is expected to hike the Centre’s wage bill by a third and strain its fiscal situation. In February this year, the government hiked DA to 100%, from 90%, benefiting both its employees and 3 million pensioners.

The Centre’s expenditure on pension stood at Rs 74,076 crore in 2013-14 and the estimate for the current fiscal is Rs 81,983 crore. However, growth in the outgo on pension is expected to moderate due to the National Pension System based on the concept of defined contribution, launched in January 2004. The NPS has been accepted by large sections of central government employees and most state governments have shifted their employees to the new system.

According to Madan Sabnavis, chief economist at CARE Ratings, reducing the retirement age will give the government an opportunity to outsource more jobs, including by bringing in people as temporary consultants, who will then have to be paid only a fixed salary but not pension or provident fund. Their salary component will then show up as administrative costs, rather than as wage bill.

The finance ministry is weighing the pros and cons of the proposal to cut the retirement age. The move, sources said, is also in line with the BJP’s manifesto, which had promised to rationalise and converge ministries, departments and other arms of the government, open up government to draw expertise from industry, academia and society and tap the services of the youth in particular to contribute to governance.

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Whether 7th Pay Commission proposes to submit Interim Report?

Is Interim Relief Likely for Central Government Employees?

Is it really possible for Central Government employees to get an interim relief this time? Let us look at it in detail.

‘Interim Relief’ may be defined as the temporary relief given to employees before the new Pay Commission’s recommendations are implemented. ‘Interim relief will be treated sui generis’, most of the Finance Ministry orders included the sentence when sanctioning interim relief.

If one looks at the interim relief granted in 1983 and 1993, it can also be inferred that interim relief is granted in order to correct the errors in salary revision once every ten years. One gets the feeling as if an entire Pay Commission was lost simply for the sake of a small hike.

During the previous Pay Commission, particularly in 5th CPC, since 50% DA Merger was granted, there was no interim relief.

Here are some of the reasons why interim relief is normally granted :
* It has been granted a number of times before, in the past.
* DA Merger hasn’t been sanctioned this time
* Prices have touched the skies
* Some errors in the formulation of once-in-a-decade Pay Commission…etc.,

Reasons cited for the Government’s refusal to sanction DA Merger/interim relief:
* 7th Pay Commission was constituted at the justify time.
* There was no recommendation for DA Merger in the 6th Pay Commission
* There was a recommendation against DA merger in the 6th Pay Commission (the Commission is, therefore, not recommending merger of dearness allowance with basic pay at any stage).
* In the event that the Price Index is taken as 115.76 instead of 306.33 for the DA calculations.

All the Central Government Employees Unions and Federations are functioning with the intention of getting the DA merged with the basic pay. If that doesn’t happen, these federations are hoping that interim relief will be offered through the 7th Pay Commission’s interim report.

This is very much possible if Modi Government is willing to accept the demand.

And one more updation on this issue, Member of Parliament Shri.Shantaram Naik asked some questions about the 7th Pay Commission including submission of interim report as follows…

RAJYA SABHA

7th Pay Commission
230. SHRI SHANTARAM NAIK: Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state:

(a) the details of meetings, the 7th Pay Commission has taken so far and the items/ issues discussed till date;

(b) the States, visited, by the Commission if any till date and the States which the Commission proposes to visit;

(c) whether the Commission proposes to take the views of the State Governments as regards their pay-scales since invariably, most of the States adopt the Central Pay Commission reports;

(d) whether Commission proposes to submit any interim report;

(e) whether the Commission proposes to make any recommendations to bring in financial transparency; and

(f) if so, the details thereof?

The written answers of above said questions will be available on or after 25th November 2014.

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1.Amount Invested doubles in 100 months ( 8 years & 4 months)

2.Available in denominations of Rs 1,000, 5000, 10,000 and Rs 50,000.

3.Minimum deposit Rs 1000/- and no maximum limit.

4.Certificate can be purchased by an adult for himself or on behalf of a minor or by two adults.

5.KVP can be purchased from any Departmental Post office. This facility will also be extended shortly to the designated branches of commercial Banks.

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8.Certificate can be en-cashed after 2 & 1/2 years from the date of issue.

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Period	Amount Payable
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3  years but less than 3 and half years	1246
3 and half years but less than 4 years	1293
4  years but less than 4 and half years	1341
4 and half years but less than 5 years	1391
5  years but less than 5 and half years	1443
5 and half years but less than 6 years	1497
6  years but less than 6 and half years	1553
6 and half years but less than 7 years	1611
7  years but less than 7 and half years	1671
7 and half years but less than 8 years	1733
8 years but before maturity of the Certificate	1798
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Minutes of the meeting held on 29.10.2014 at 18.00 hrs.  between the SSRM, Air Mail Sorting Division and Union representatives of NFPE  R-III, AMSD, Mumbai-400099.

The following were present :

Administration Side :-

Shri.  R. K. Rakate, SSRM

Union Side : -

Shri. U. M. Mhaskar, Divisional Secretary   

Shri. Y. B. Dambal

Shri S K Sawant

No any fresh Agenda was received.

Old items :

APSO (FGN) Branch:-

Item 1 : Grant of C/off to officials against overtime performed by them beyond prescribed hours of work in the interest of service as per orders on the subject.

Reply : HRO, AMSD will supply fresh list of C /off pending in detail with calculations made (Action : HRO, AMSD, Mumbai- 400099)

APSO (Inl), Mumbai Branch:-

Item. 2 : Supply of Sorting  Chairs to APSO (Inland).

Reply : Supdt.,  APSO (Inland) will send his report on additional requirement of stg. chairs for stg work on stg. cases. (Action : Supdt.,  APSO (Inland)

Item 3 : Supply of fans / Tube Light to APTMO (Inward)

Reply : Two ceiling fans are provided. Tube light will be supplied shortly.

Item No. 8 : Booking of 2 Gr-C at Inward SP TMO inside the Airport to avoid frequent deployment of staff from SPCC since there is heavy receipt of mails from different sectors in the night. Further mails are also not received on due time from IPC Cargo and heavy despatches of Sectors like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi & Kolkatta needs to be attended. Further mails received from all sectors is received mixed with ordinary mails which needs to be again segregated. All these work cannot be attended by single Gr-C staff and hence 2 Gr-C should be booked at Inward SP TMO in Set/3.

Reply : Merger of APTMO and SPTMO is not finalized yet. Issue will be examine after that.

Next meeting will be held on 29.11.2014  at 11.00  hrs. Agenda, if any should be  submitted to this office on or before 19.11.2014 in soft copy also i. e. in e-mail / pendrive. E-mail ID is ssrmamsdmum@gmail.com.

-sd- 

( R. K. Rakate )

Sr. Superintendent of RMS,    

Air Mail Sorting Division,

Mumbai  400 099.

No : D-2/Union/NFPE-III/Minutes-Meet-Oct-29/2014          Dated :  15.11.2014

Copy to :

Shri U. M. Mhaskar, Divisional Secretary, NFPE-R-III, Air Mail Sorting Division, Mumbai 400099.

Concerned Supdt. / Manager, AMSD, Mumbai-400099.

HRO, AMSD, Mumbai-400099 

Minutes of the meeting held on 29.09.2014 at 10.00 hrs.  between the SSRM, Air Mail Sorting Division and Union representatives of NFPE  R-III, AMSD, Mumbai-400099.

The following were present :

Administration Side :-

Shri.  R. K. Rakate, SSRM

Union Side : -

        

         Shri. U. M. Mhaskar, Divisional Secretary   

Shri Y. B. Dambal

Shri  V. T. Sadye

Shri S. K. Shukla

Following items were discussed :

D.O/HRO & Allied Units:-

Old item :  Item No, 2 of the Agenda dated 12.08.2014.

Uniform tenure & deputation policy for all units of AMSD, Mumbai-400099 ensuing the spirit of rotational transfer policy guidelines circulated by Postal Directorate.

Union brief: There are many officials in AMSD, Mumbai who are deployed on deputation basis for years together. The officials who are on tenure are regulated by the tenure posting guidelines but the officials who are deployed on deputation in DO/HRO/Superintendent offices & allied sections/SPCC Enquiry Section, etc  are not regulated by any guidelines and hence should be brought under the purview of rotational transfer guidelines to enable uniformity between tenure and deputation in AMSD. This union therefore demands call of fresh willingness from officials of AMSD for filling up all such deputations and reversion of all officials to mail offices who have completed the tenure of deputation of 4 years.  

Reply : Henceforth staff on deputation will be taken as per their willingness. However Union may not take personal item of particular staff.

APSO (FGN) Branch:-

1.  Grant of C/off to officials against overtime performed by them beyond prescribed hours of work in the interest of service as per orders on the subject.

Reply : The officials who are not entitled for OTA payment are claiming OTA. HRO is preparing OTA statement and calculating Compensatory off for every 8 hours by consolidating extension hours / OTA hours on different dates. There is no provision for granting compensatory offs. However compensatory off is granted to the officials who performs duty on Sunday & PO holiday for 8 hrs. Thus the O. T. order produced by the Union is not relevant to this case.

..

SPCC, Mumbai Branch:-

1.  Accommodation problem at SP TMO to stack segregated bags/cage trolleys. The union demands shifting of Inland Outward TMO to A-Zone premises and allot the said accommodation to Speed TMO in addition to existing space for stacking segregated bags/cage trolleys since the outward TMO is very much adjacent to SP TMO.

Reply : After civil work at NSH, Mumbai is completed, the problem will be solved.

2.  Providing of justified Coolies for loading and unloading of bags at SP TMO point.

Reply : As reported by the Supdt., NSH, as and when needed extra manpower as per workload is being provided to SPTMO Outward. Supdt., NSH will carryout review of workload & manpower at SPTMO (Outward) (Action : Supdt., NSH)

3.  Supply of Sorting Case Chairs at SPCC, Mumbai as there is shortage of chairs.

Reply : It is reported by the Supdt., NSH that sufficient sorting cased and chairs are available in NSH Mumbai. No such requirement has been reported by any H.S.A. or ASP.

4.  Repairing of Fans/Tube Lights in Inward SP TMO located inside the Airport. This is an old item but not attended yet.

Reply : Supdt (M & TM) is directed to provide and report compliance.  (Action   Supdt (M & TM)

5.  Provision of Shuttle Service for conveyance of bags from SP TMO to A-Zone within the APSO Complex from 2.00 hrs to 6.00 hrs in the early morning. Non-Provision of which is leading to conveyance of mails in Cage Trolleys from SP TMO to A-Zone causing accidents and injury to the staff/coolies.

Reply : The Supdt , APSO (Inland) and Supdt, NSH are directed to intimate which bags are received from A-zone to APTMO (Outward) & NSH & vice versa to enable this office to provide touch to respective MMS schedules. If not agreed by the C. O. then shuttle service will be rearranged unless statistical figures available. Action may not be possible immediately.  ( Action : Supdt., NSH Mumbai / Supdt , APSO (Inland)

6.  Provision of MMS Schedule in Set/1 & Set/2 at SP TMO for despatch of offloaded bags to CST TMO & Mumbai Central.

Reply : Off loaded bags are being sent to CST TMO & Mumbai Central TMO through available MMS schedules BT-7 (03.40), AT-2 (13.50), BT-5 (16.30), BT-9 (02.30), to CST and Pune-2 (02.55), , B-4 (08.55) to MCT. And  special MMS Trip are being engaged.

7.  Providing of MMS Shuttle Service from Inward SP TMO at following intervals i.e. 21.00 hrs, 23.00 hrs, 1.00 hrs, 4.00 hrs for forwarding of received bags to SPCC, Mumbai.

Reply : Supdt. (M & TM) will examine and submit the report before 17.10.2014.  (Action : Supdt. (M & TM)

8.  Booking of 2 Gr-C at Inward SP TMO inside the Airport to avoid frequent deployment of staff from SPCC since there is heavy receipt of mails from different sectors in the night. Further mails are also not received on due time from IPC Cargo and heavy despatches of Sectors like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi & Kolkatta needs to be attended. Further mails received from all sectors is received mixed with ordinary mails which needs to be again segregated. All these work cannot be attended by single Gr-C staff and hence 2 Gr-C should be booked at Inward SP TMO in Set/3.

Reply : After merger of APTMO (Inw) and SPTMO (Inw) the issue will be examined by Supdt (M & TM). ( Action : Supdt., (M & TM).  

General :-

1.  Leave Cases, representations and appeals should be disposed off within the time frame prescribed by C.O., Mumbai.

Reply : Leave cases , representations and appeals are attended on time. Necessary instructions are given to all Leave Sanctioning Authority / Disciplinary Authority to expedite the disposal of such cases promptly. ( Action : All Supdt / Managers, HRO, AMSD, Mumbai-99)

Next meeting will be held on 29.10.2014  at 11.00  hrs. Agenda, if any should be  submitted to this office on or before 20.102014 in soft copy also i. e. in e-mail / pendrive. E-mail ID is ssrmamsdmum@gmail.com.

 -sd-

( R. K. Rakate )

Sr. Superintendent of RMS,    

Air Mail Sorting Division,

Mumbai  400 099.

No : D-2/Union/NFPE-III/Minutes-Meet-Sept-29/2014          Dated :  08.10.2014

Shri U. M. Mhaskar, Divisional Secretary, NFPE-R-III, Air Mail Sorting Division, Mumbai 400099.

All concerned Supdt. / Manager, AMSD, Mumbai-400099.

HRO, AMSD, Mumbai-400099

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