PERDA News : Revised Master Circular on Product Design and Exit from National Pension System(NPS) issued on 22nd January 2013
Posted by: AIPEU-GDS (NFPE) Odisha Circle.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 - Submission of declaration of assets and liabilities by the public servants for each year and placing the same in public domain on the websites of the Ministries/Departments.
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Posted by: AIPEU-GDS (NFPE) Odisha Cirvle.
Monday, March 10, 2014
leaders who still advocate isolationism. This time our GDS employees will not be held back from common movement to cater the views of some obscurantist leaders and their leadership"
AIPEU GDS (NFPE) – AN ORGANIZATION BORN WITH THE IDEALS OF TRADE UNION DEMOCRACY, UNITY & UNITED STRUGGLES FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF GDS.
With reference to the letter by G/S AIGDSU, the Directorate addressed to the Secretary General of NFPE & FNPO now clearly shown the way of the so called recognized GDS union, the methodology to delink the GDS from the Department.
At the time of 6th CPC also, this type of write-ups cause much damage to solve the GDS issues and lead to an unbearable circumstances; still members did not digested. The same analogy is now being in practice at this time of 7thCPC also. This is very unfair and do never good to GDS members.
Except recognition (for some time), nothing will remain with that so called recognized union with this type of attitude being avoidance of taking up the GDS issues by the motherly organizations ie., Federations.
Agonized leadership of that so called recognized union lost its balance to convince GDS after the failure of strike with their unilateral and impulsive agreement became tangle to their neck. In the name of their so called recogniztion (only with dept.) taking advantage to lead their way in to dark and trying to pull & push all the GDS cadre with sheer confusion to defend their undetermined activities.
“Give a fool rope enough and he will hang himself”
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CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES & WORKERS
1st Floor, North Avenue PO Building, New Delhi – 110001
Website: www.confederationhq.blogspot.com
Circular No. 14 Dated: 07-03-2014
To
1) All National Secretariat Members/Women’s Committee Members
2) Chief Executives of all Affiliated Organisations
3) General Secretaries of all state and District C-O-Cs.
NATIONAL CONVENTION OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES
2014 APRIL 4 (FRIDAY) AT NAGPUR
COM: A.K. PADMANABHAN, NATIONAL PRESIDENT, CITU, WILL INAUGU RATE. LEADERS OF OTHER TUs/CONFEDERATION WILL ADDRESS.
VENUE: CONVENTION : JWAHAR VIDHYARTHI GRUH, CIVIL LINES, NAGPUR
ACCOMMODATION : MLA HOSTEL, CIVIL LINES, NAGPUR
DELEGATE FEE : RS.300/- PER HEAD (Rs. THREE HUNDRED ONLY)
ACCOMMODATION FROM 03-04-2014 TO 04-04-2014, 9 A.M. AND FOOD FOR ONE DAY ON 04-04-2014 WILL BE PROVIDED
(See Note Below)
Reception Committee Contact Numbers:
Com. Nilesh Nasare : 09850354898
Com. P.K.Das : 09423635211
Com. B.N.Chikate : 07588630274
Com. Gurprit Singh : 09422440266
Com. G. S. Pawade : 09423111152
Com. Sanjay Sathe : 09970244366
Com. Khadse : 09421779684
Com. Tupkar : 09422803948
NB: Taking into consideration that majority of the other states delegates will be arriving Nagpur on 3rd April, accommodation is arranged from 3rd April 9 A.M. to 4th April 9 A.M. Only limited accommodation is arranged for 4th after 9 A.M. Delegates who want to stay more days than above, may contact the Reception Committee in advance and make arrangement on payment basis. This restriction is made to reduce the expenditure of Reception Committee. There is no other source of income for the C-O-C Nagpur, except Delegate fee. Delegates are requested to cooperate.
QUOTA OF NUMBER OF DELEGATES FOR EACH ORGANISATION AND C-O-C (already notified earlier)
1. NFPE - 100 12. Defence Accounts - 6
2. ITEF - 35 13. AICGHSEA - 5
3. NFAEEA - 10 14. Customs Gr. D Officers Fedn. - 6
4. Audit & Accounts 15. Customs Mini - 6
Association - 15 16. C.E. Mini Exe. Officers - 4
5. National Fedn. 17. C.E. Inspectors - 6
of Civil Accts - 20 18. Canteen Employees Fedn. - 6
6. Ground Water 19. Census - 2
Board - 15 20. N.S.S.O. - 4
7. I.S.R.O. - 6 21. CPWD JE - 2
8. IBM - 10 22. Pondichery State Govt. Empl. - 10
9. GSI - 5 each Fedn.(each affiliate five)
10. Survey of India 23. All other Affiliates - 3 (Delegates
(All Unions) - 20 Each)
11. DMIEA - 10
C-O-Cs
1. West Bengal 11. Gujarat - 3
(including 12. Rajasthan - 3
Kolkata based 13. Chandigarh (Punjab,
affiliates) - 15 Hariyana) & JK - 3
2. RCC, NE - 5 14. Himachal Pradesh - 3
3. Bihar - 5 15. Andhra Pradesh - 10
4. Odisha - 3 16. Karnataka - 10
5. Chattisgarh - 3 17. Tamil Nadu & Pondicherry - 10
6. Jharkhand - 3 18. Kerala - 10
7. Madhya Pradesh - 5 19. Delhi - 10
8. U.P. - 10 (including Delhi based affiliates)
9. Vidarbha - 70 20. Dehradun (Uttarakhand) - 2
10. Maharashtra 21. Other C-O-Cs including
(HQ Mumbai) - 10 Maharashtra State - 2 each
ALL AFFILIATED ORGANISATIONS AND C-O-Cs ARE REQUESTED TO ENSURE PARTICIPATION OF DELEGATES AS PER QUOTA FIXED. THIS IS COMPULSORY.
Fraternally yours,
(M. KRISHNAN)
Secretary General
Friday, March 7, 2014
VOTE OUT NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALISATION POLICIES.
VOTE FOR ALTERNATIVE PRO-PEOPLE, PRO-WORKING CLASS POLICIES
Once again our country is going for a general election. India is the biggest democratic country in the world and general election is an opportunity to every citizen to express their opinion about the future Government and also future of our country.
We, the Central Government employees including Postal employees are well aware of the fact that future of the CentralGovernment Employees and various Central Government departments depends upon the policy of the Central Government. As we are working directly under the Central Government, the policies are first experimented on us. Upto 1991, the policy of the Government was to strengthen and expand the Central services and Public sector. Based on this policy more and more offices were opened and employees are recruited and appointed to fill up vacant posts and also newly created posts. The total number of Central Government employees went upto 40 lakhs.
From 1991 onwards, the policy of the Government changed and started implementing the neo-liberal globalisation policies. Ban on filling up of vacant posts and creation of new posts was imposed. The process of converting Government departments into corporation started with the hidden agenda of ultimate privatization. Attack came on the Telecom department first, and it is converted into three Corporations. Expenditure reforms committee under the former Finance Secretary Geetha Krishnan was constituted and it recommended sweeping changes in all Central Government departments in tune with the liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation (LPG) policies of the Government. Government started large scale outsourcing of the Government functions and many small departments were closed and many are in the verge of closure. Downsizing has reached its peak and thousands of posts are abolished. Casual and Contract worker employment has become the order of the day and in some departments the number of casual/contract workers exceeded the number of regular employees.
When the NDA government came to power defeating the Congress government, employees were under the impression that the above policies of earlier government will be changed. But to their dismay, the new government also persued the same policies. A separate portfolio for disinvestment was created and a Cabinet Minister is appointed as incharge of the Disinvestment Ministry. Downsizing, outsourcing, contractorisation and privatisation continued unabated. Attack on the Central Government departments and employees continued. Finally New Pension Scheme called Contributory Pension Scheme was also introduced.
UPA Government led by Congress which again came to power continued the same policy more vigourously. The Pension Privatisation bill called PFRDA Bill was introduced in the Parliament with the help of main opposition party, BJP and again when the bill was passed both the NDA and UPA voted in favour of the bill. Only left parties opposed the bill. Regarding the main demands of the Central Government employees also the attitude of both the Governments was negative. Only due to the continuous struggle conducted by Confederation and NFPE some improvements could be achieved. In Postal, entire employees went on 14 days strike in 2000 but the then NDA Government constituted a cabinet committee of group of ministers under the then Home Minister and rejected all the demands. Now also the UPA government rejected all our main demands.
Both the governments tried to privatise postal sector by amending Indian Post Office Act for granting licence to private courier services. The move to close down 9797 post offices and 300 RMS offices were defeated only because of the united resistance of the Postal employees. The attitude of both the Government towards departmentalisation of Gramin Dak Sevak was totally negative. Even after the pronouncement of Supreme Court that GDS are Civil Servants the government is not ready to grant Civil Servant status to GDS.
From the above we can understand that future of the Central Government employees including Postal employees depends upon the policies of the Government. Without changing the policy, we cannot except any positive action from Government. Hence the coming general election is very crucial to us. From our past experience we should recognise our friends and foes. We have to defeat the anti -people, anti-worker neo liberal policies at any cost. NFPE calls upon the entire Postal employees to vote out the Neo Liberal Globalisation Policies and to vote for an alternative pro-people, pro-working class policies.
Posted by: AIPEU-GDS (NFPE) Odisha Circle.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Member, National Council JCM raised strong objections against the ToR of 7th Pay Commission
Com. Shiva Gopal Mishra, General Secretary, AIRF, Member,Standing Committee, National Council JCM raised strong objections against the ToR of 7th Pay Commission
NATIONAL COUNCIL (Staff Side)
Joint Consultative Machinery
for Central Government Employees
13-C, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi-110001
No.NC-JCM/2014/VII CPC
Dated: March 3, 2014
The Secretary,
Department of Personnel & Training,
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions,
North Block, New Delhi.
Dear Sir,
Sub: Terms of Reference of the 7th Central Pay Commission.
It is reported that, the Union Cabinet in its meeting, held on 28th February, 2014, has approved the Terms of Reference of the 7th Central Pay Commission. We have gone through the same. We find that the Terms of Reference finalized by the Government is at variance in many respects to the Draft Terms of Reference the Staff Side had submitted to you on 25.10.2014 after holding in-house discussion on 24.10.2013.
At the conclusion of the meeting held on 24.10.2013, it was agreed that the Government would consider our suggestions in the matter and will convene another meeting with the presence of the Secretary (Expenditure) to iron out the differences, if any, and explore the possibilities of an agreement in the matter.
We regret to inform you that no such meeting was convened and no attempt was made by the Official Side to arrive at an agreed Terms of Reference. We find that the Government has rejected our suggestions for either taking a decision in the matter of Interim Relief, Merger of D.A., representation of labour nominee in the Commission itself,inclusion of the Grameen Dak Sewaks within the purview of the 7th CPC, bringing parity in pension between the past and present pensioners, covering the employees appointed on or after 01.01.2004 within the ambit of the Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, date of effect, settlement of the pending items in the National Anomaly Committee etc. or referring those issues to the Commission itself for an Interim Report.
During discussions on 24th October, 2013, the Staff Side had also pointed out that the proposals sent by various ministries, seeking approval for rectification in VI CPC anomalies, are pending with the Ministry of Finance, and requested that approval may be given to all such proposals before finalization of VII CPC Terms of Reference.
It seems, no action has been taken on those proposals.
Besides, we are to state that the existing Productivity Linked Bonus(PLB) Scheme, being a bilateral agreement, cannot be subjected to scrutiny and examination by the 7th CPC.
We, therefore, request you to kindly convene a meeting of the Standing Committee of National Council (JCM) to discuss the issue, so as to make amendments to the Terms of Reference finalized by the Government arbitrarily.
Yours faithfully,
sd/-
(Shiva Gopal Mishra)
Member
Standing Committee National Council – JCM
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
General Elections - 2014 Schedule of Elections
General Elections to Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim.
Posted by: AIPEU-GDS (NFPE) Odisha Circle.
India Post, IDFC likely to get new bank licences
India Post and IDFC have emerged as front runners to receive new banking licences on the back of their strong distribution networks and credible records.
The committee led by former Reserve Bank of India governor Bimal Jalan, which submitted its report to the central bank last week, is of the view that these two applicants are ready to foray into banking services, a source who did not wish to be identified said.
The report contains the names of all eligible applicants wishing to set up banks. The committee began assessing applications at its first meeting on November 1.
"While the report is yet to be looked into, there is a high chance of giving licences to India Post and IDFC due to their large existing network," the source said, without divulging details.
The central bank will hold a meeting with finance minister P Chidambaram in the next 10 days to discuss the issue. The final names are likely to be announced by month-end.
India Post, being a government body, technically needs Cabinet approval to set up a bank. The interim budgetunveiled by finance minister P Chidambaram recently did not earmark any funds for the postal department or mention the proposal in the budget. However, in case its name gets cleared, the formal proposal can be sent to the Cabinet for approval at a later stage or to a new government taking office afterelections expected in April-May.
A full budget expected to be presented by the new government in July-August is likely to contain a detailed provision to help India Post set up a bank.
India Post has a nationwide network of 155,000 post offices and already has experience in administering asavings bank scheme, selling tax-saving instruments and accepting PPF deposits.
IDFC has been involved in infrastructure funding, asset management (mutual fund) and private equity services, which are closely linked to banking.
"I am trying that Post Office should get a banking licence to serve the common man in rural areas. I will keep by struggle on for banking licence," communications minister Kapil Sibal had said recently.
The RBI received as many as 27 applications but Tata Sons Ltd and Videocon Group's Value Industries Ltd later withdrew themselves from the race.
Besides India Post and IDFC, IFCI, Anil Ambani's Reliance Group, Aditya Birla Group, L&T Finance Holdings and Muthoot Finance, are also in the race to set up new banks.
Revision of Interest Rates for Small Savings Schemes for the Financial Year 2014-15 Announced
Various decisions taken by the Government of India on the recommendations of the Shyamala Gopinath Committee for Comprehensive Review of National Small Savings Fund (NSSF), were communicated to all concerned by the Government through its Office Memorandum dated 11th November, 2011.
One of the decisions of the Government based on the recommendations of the Committee relates to revision of interest rates every financial year, to be notified before 1st April of that year. Accordingly with the approval of the Finance Minister, the rates of interest on various small savings schemes for the Financial Year 2014-15 effective from 01.04.2014, on the basis of the interest compounding/payment built-in in the schemes, shall be as under :
Scheme
|
Rate of interest
w.e.f.
01.04.2013
|
Rate of Interest
w.e.f. 01.04.2014
|
1.
|
2.
|
3.
|
Savings Deposit
|
4.0
|
4.0
|
1 Year Time Deposit
|
8.2
|
8.4
|
2 Year Time Deposit
|
8.2
|
8.4
|
3 Year Time Deposit
|
8.3
|
8.4
|
5 Year Time Deposit
|
8.4
|
8.5
|
5 Year Recurring
Deposit
|
8.3
|
8.4
|
5 Year SCSS
|
9.2
|
9.2
|
5 Year MIS
|
8.4
|
8.4
|
5 Year NSC
|
8.5
|
8.5
|
10 Year NSC
|
8.8
|
8.8
|
PPF
|
8.7
|
8.7
|
The necessary notifications will be notified separately in this regard in due course.
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