Wednesday 29 June 2016

NEWS ROM CHQ

CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE LOWEST IN 70 YEARS
Zee News says that Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley has congratulated the central govt officers, employees and pensioners for the ‘historic rise’ in pay and pension !!!!
For what ??
The lowest increase in70 years!!!!
29/06

NOTHING TO CHEER

Cabinet has given approval to the Seventh CPC recommendations, media says. But, what exactly is the improvement made by Cabinet? Not known. There was a calculated propaganda in the media about the 'BONANZA" to be given to government employees. Now, after the decision is taken the media talks about GDP, Overall expenditure, total expenditure, impact on economy etc. etc. See the report by SEN TIMES, the so-called newspaper of bureaucrats.

The decision to this effect was taken in a meeting which was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sources said.
The pay panel, in November last year, had recommended a 14.27 per cent hike in basic pay at junior levels — the lowest in 70 years. The previous 6th Pay Commission had recommended a 20 per cent hike, which the government doubled while implementing it in 2008.
The government in January had set up a high-powered panel under the Cabinet Secretary to process the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission that will have a bearing on remuneration of nearly 50 lakh central government employees and 58 lakh pensioners.
The Commission had recommended a 23.55 per cent overall hike in salaries, allowances and pension involving an additional burden of Rs 1.02 lakh crore, or nearly 0.7 per cent of GDP.
The entry-level pay has been recommended to be raised to Rs 18,000 per month, from the current Rs 7,000, while the maximum pay, drawn by the Cabinet Secretary, has been fixed at Rs 2.5 lakh per month from the current Rs 90,000.
While the Budget for 2016-17 did not provide an explicit provision for implementation of the 7th Pay Commission, the government had said the once-in-a-decade pay hike for government employees has been built in as interim allocation for different ministries.

28/06

SCOVA MEETING AND OUR ISSUES

Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies met on 28-6-2016.The Minister for Personnel and Pension Dr Jitendra Singh attended it for few minutes only. Com. K B Krishna Rao of Karnataka P&T Pensioners Association and Com. D Balasubramanian of Chennai based Federation of Central Pensioners raised our cases in the said meeting:
78.2%: Secretary, Pension informed that a favourable Cabinet Note is submitted to Cabinet on 78.2% case for BSNL retirees.
Pension Anomaly: DoT representative assured that this case would be settled within one month. It was pointed out that several times such assurances were given but not kept up. Then DoT Representative assured again that this time it would be definitely done.
CPC REPORT AND RUMOURS
The media is simply spreading rumours. Nothing has been revealed officially to anyone. Even Staff Side leaders were not told anything. If the media reports are to be believed, the Cabinet meeting scheduled for 29th June 2016 may take up the matter. Something will come out officially on 30th. Let us wait for that.
28/06
28-6-2016 1130 AM: Madurai SSA branch is holding its general body meeting now at Madurai, Tamilnadu.
Com. Natarajan, GS is attending the same

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