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Wednesday 22 February 2017
Employment news latest by 22-Feb-2017
7th Pay Commission revised allowances are expected to be effective from April 1: Zee News
Seventh Pay Commission panel that reviews allowances, headed by Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa, is likely to submit its revised report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley by next month, a report said.
Apart from Holi mood, giving one more reason to central government employees, the Centre is expected to make official announcement on the allowances soon after the State assembly elections get over. The last day of state polls is March 11, as reported by Hindu Business Line.
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Hence, the revised allowances are expected to be effective from April 1.
As per the report, the panel has recommended that the rate of house rent allowance to be revised and allow higher allowance in order to balance higher cost of living.
Moreover, NDTV report had said that the 7th Pay commission had recommended that HRA be revised to 27%, 18% and 9% respectively when Dearness Allowance (DA) crosses 50%. While the rates should be revised to 30%, 20% and 10% when DA crosses 100%.
Quoting a senior official, The Hindu report added that the impact of revised and higher allowances has already been added in the the Union Budget 2017-18. This has increased the allocation for allowances by 7%.
Reportedly, the 7th Pay Commission had examined 196 existing allowances. It had recommended abolition of 51 allowances and subsuming of 37 allowances.
Last year in June, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had approved the much-awaited 7th Pay Commission recommendations.
7th Pay Commission: Committee on Allowances to submit report today and allowance hike from April 1, says NJCA chief
7th Pay Commission: Committee on Allowances to submit report today and allowance hike from April 1, says NJCA chief
NJCA chief Shiv Gopal Mishra confirmed that the allowances report would be submitted on Wednesday.
New Delhi, Feb 21: Committee on allowances, headed by Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa, will submit its report tomorrow, claims National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) convenor Shiv Gopal Mishra. Central government employees were expecting the report to be tabled by Monday. However, the committee delayed the submission due to unspecified reasons. The report would pave the way for the implementation of hiked allowances as per the revised 7th Pay Commission recommendations.
“Government has made no announcement yet. But the report by Committee on allowances would be tabled tomorrow,” Shiv Gopal Mishra said, while speaking exclusively to India.com. On being asked whether the government would make an announcement in relation to the arrears on allowances, he replied, “Let us see what comes out of the report. We are expecting the hike in allowances, as per our demands. We have to wait and see whether the government makes an announcement on arrears as well.”
The committee on allowances was formed in July 2016, after central government employees raised several anomalies related to the 7th Pay Commission report submitted by Justice (retd) AK Mathur. The 7CPC report had recommended the abolition of 51 existing allowances, and subsumption of 37 others of the total 191 allowances.
The major point of grievance was the reduction in Housing Rent Allowance (HRA) offered to central government employees. As per the 6th Pay Commission report, the HRAs provided were 30 per cent, 20 per cent, 10 per cent for employees living in ‘X’, ‘Y’, ‘Z’ category towns/cities. However, the 7th Pay Commission report decreased the allowances to 24, 16 and 8 per cent of the basic pay.
Reduction in HRA has irked a major section of central government employees, who reside in rented accommodations. A section of the aggrieved employees have blamed the top bureaucracy for the delay in HRA hike. “Naturally, the common central government employees are more affected by the delay in allowance hike. The top bureacrats don’t take higher allowances, therefore, they are not interested in the hike,” Mishra said.
Apart from the hike in allowances, central government employees have also demanded Centre to provide arrears on the allowances. Since the date of implementation of 7th Pay Commission was fixed as January 1, 2016, employees have demanded the release of arrears on allowances as well.
Although the government provided arrears on basic pay while hiking the salaries on July 1, indications have been made that no arrears would be released on allowances. NJCA has confirmed that the employee unions would launch protest across the nation if the allowances are hiked, without the arrears. “Arrears are unlikely, but protests would be launched if they fail to release (the arrears),” Mishra said.
The date of allowances hike is reported to be April 1. NJCA claims, through its sources, that the government would be implementing the allowance hike from April 1. “It is most likely that the government announces the hike by April 1,” Mishra confirmed.
Read at: India.com
Tuesday 21 February 2017
Apply for passports at select post offices from next month
Apply for passports at select post offices from next month
The External Affairs Ministry is making all required arrangements for roll-out of the scheme in some of the select cities in first half of March.
From next month, people in select cities will be able to apply for passports in post offices under an ambitious initiative of the External Affairs Ministry. This is aimed at making the passport issuance process hassle-free and ease burden on passport offices across the country which are grappling with large volume of applications. In the first phase of the project, passport services will be made available in select post offices in Rajasthan, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Jharkhand and some other states.
The External Affairs Ministry, which issues passports, is making all required arrangements for roll-out of the scheme in some of the select cities in first half of March. Currently, 89 Passport Seva Kendras (PSK) are operating across the country as extended arms of the 38 Passport Offices. According to the MEA, the government rendered 1.15 crore passport and other related services during 2016.
In Rajasthan, passport services will be available in Kota, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Jhunjhunu and Jhalawar while in West Bengal it will be in Asansol, Nadia, North Dinajpur North Kolkata. In Jharkhand, services will be offered in Deoghar, Jamshedpur and Dhandbad. “It is our effort that Post Office Passport Sewa Kendras announced in the first phase should start functioning before 31.3.2017,” External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted.
In Tamil Nadu, passport services in post office will be rolled out in Salem and Vellore while in Karnataka, it will be in Belgaum, Davangere, Hassan, Gulbarga and Mysuru. According to MEA, the objective of the government has been to cater to the demand for passports and to reach out to the people located far away from the passport offices. The MEA had recently liberalised norms for certain categories of citizens as part of efforts to streamline the passport issuance process.
Employment news dated 20-Feb-2017
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