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Monday, April 3, 2017
DEPARTMENT OF POSTS ISSUED DA ORDERS
Grant of DA to CG Employees – Enhanced from 2% to 4%
No.1/3/2017-E-II(B)
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
North Block, New Delhi
Dated the 30th March, 2017
Office Memorandum
Subject: Grant of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees – Revised Rates effective from 1/1/2017
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Ministry’s Office
Memorandum No.1/2/2016-E-II(B) dated 4th November, 2016 on the subject
mentioned above and to say that the President is pleased to decide that
the Dearness Allowance payable to Central Government employees shall be
enhanced from the existing rate of 2% to 4% of the basic pay with effect
from 1st January, 2017.
2. The term ‘basic pay’ in the revised pay structure means the pay drawn
in the prescribed Level in the Pay Matrix as per 7th CPC
recommendations accepted by the Government, but does not include any
other type of pay like special pay, etc.
3. The Dearness Allowance will continue to be a distinct element of
remuneration and will not be treated as pay within the ambit of FR
9(21).
4.The payment on account of Dearness Allowance involving fractions of 50
paise and above may be rounded to the next higher rupee and the
fractions of less than 50 paise may be ignored.
5. The payment of arrears of Dearness Allowance shall not be made before the date of disbursement of salary of March, 2017.
6. These orders shall also apply to the civilian employees paid from the
Defence Services Estimates and the expenditure will be chargeable to
the relevant head of the Defence Services Estimates. In respect of Armed
Forces personnel and Railway employees, separate orders will be issued
by the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Railways, respectively.
7.In so far as the employees working in the Indian Audit and Accounts
Department are concerned, these orders are issued with the concurrence
of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
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(Nirmala Dev)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
India Post Payments Bank targets 1.55 Lakh outlets by September 2017
In a written response to questions in Parliament by Members of
Parliament Pashupati Nath Singh and Ninong Ering, Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha
said that the India Post Payments Bank, as of the end of January 2017, was
operational only with 8 access points in total, in Raipur (Chhatisgarh) and Ranchi
(Jharkhand). The Payments Bank intends to set up access points in post offices
in up to 650 districts with linkages to all post offices (around 1.55 lakh of
them) across India, by September 2017, “subject to feasibility and fulfillment
of regulatory requirements.”
Remember
that AP Singh, interim managing director and CEO of the India Posts Payments
Bank had said that it intends to allow sending money from one Aadhaar number to
another, and Aadhaar will be made a payment address which can work with or without
a bank account linked to it. However, the payments bank does offer bank
accounts of three types: Safal, which is a regular account, with a maintenance
fee of Rs 100 from the second year, and Sugam and Saral which are basic savings
deposit accounts. Sugam accounts have a maximum balance of Rs 1 lakh. Saral
account has a maximum balance of Rs 50,000.
According to the filing, the India Post Payments Bank has issued
1619 Debit Cards so far: around 832 in Jharkhand and 787 in Chhatisgarh. While
the Payments Bank hasn’t installed any ATMs, the Department of Posts has around
976 ATMs in rural India. The Minister stated that the Payments Bank has had
“preliminary discussions” for collaboration with the International Finance
Corporation (World Bank), but “no formal proposal to this effect has been
received.”
Other companies have approached the India Post Payments Bank for
collaboration, including “domestic and international financial entities in the
field of banking, insurance, international money transfer, mutual funds etc.
The Minister shared a list of 98 companies that he said are “keen to partner”
with the India Post Payments Bank, which, surprisingly, included Obopay, which
we didn’t know was still around, after its disastrous history; I just checked
and its investor Elephant Capital’s August 2016 report says that the company
“has no value”.
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Hartal can never be unconstitutional: Supreme Court
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court refused on Friday to entertain a PIL that alleged that political organisations were resorting to hartals to hoodwink repeated judicial pronouncements banning strike and bandh calls, which paralysed normal life.
A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and
Justice D Y Chandrachud said, "Hartals can never be unconstitutional.
Right to protest is a valuable constitutional right. How can we say
hartals are unconstitutional."
Having failed to convince the bench to entertain the PIL, the petitioner decided to withdraw the plea.
Courts
have ruled on strike, bandh and hartal calls given by political outfits
for two decades now. The Kerala high court in Bharat Kumar case in 1997
had said, "When properly understood, the calling of a bandh entails the
restriction of free movement of the citizen and his right to carry on
his avocation and if the legislature does not make any law either
prohibiting it or curtailing it or regulating it, we think that it is the duty of the court to step in to protect the rights of the citizen so as to ensure that the freedom." An SC bench headed by then Chief Justice J S Verma had upheld this order.
APPLICATION FOR LEAVE FOR GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS
1 Name
2 Designation
3 Nature and period of leave required (Paid Leave / Leave without Allowances)
4 Date from which leave is required
5 Ground on which leave applied (Personal affairs. Medical Ground / to Officiate in Departmental Post)
6 Full Address while on leave
7 Name, age and Address of the substitute
8 Specimen Signature of the substitute
I hereby propose Sh/Smt/Kum…………………………………………………………………whose particulars
are given above to work as my substitute during my leave on my
responsibility according to the form of the security bond executed by
me.
I am aware of the provisions of Rule 7 of the Department of Posts Gramin
Dak Sevaks (Conduct and Employment) Rules, 2001 and I will abide by
them.
A charge report signed by my nominee and myself will be submitted as prescribed in Rule 50 of Rules for Branch Offices.
Necessary approval may kindly be accorded to this arrangement.
Station :
Date :
Signature of the Gramin Dak Sevak
JUSTICE FINALLY WON : - SUPREME COURT VERDICT IMPLEMENTED - PROMOTION THROUGH COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION SHOULD NOT BE COUNTED AS MACP
Justice
finally won:
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After having failed in CAT, Madras
High court and Supreme Court, the Government finally ordered to implement the
judgement in favour of Sri D.Sivakumar, Retd SPM, MMC PO, Chennai city north
division who moved the court pleading that promotion through competitive
examination should not be counted as MACP.
The order of CAT accepting his
prayer was challenged by the Government in Madras High court and subsequently
in Supreme Court. Its attempt to deny the justice was defeated by the
Judiciary.
On the direction of the
Directorate, the SSPOs, Chennai City north division has now issued order
granting MACP lll from 1.9.2008 to the official.
The official was promoted
to PA cadre from 12.11.1977 through competitive examination. He was granted
TBOP on 15.11.1993( now MACP l) and granted BCR ( now MACP ll) on 1.1.2004.
MACP
lll from 1.9.2008 has been granted now.
A great victory indeed
after prolonged legal battle. He may be the first to put an end to the
deliberate injustice of the Government.
Now from now on, we must
try to extend the benefit to all the victims of injustice in MACP case.
Copy of order granting
MACP III to the LGO promoted official in Chennai City North Division followed
by Historic Judgement of Hon'ble Supreme Court of India is enclosed now.
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