CG EMPLOYEES FEDERATIONS OBSERVE 'NATIONAL PROTEST DAY' - DEMANDS INCLUDING DA MERGER, INTERIM RELIEF, MACP & BONUS...

CG EMPLOYEES FEDERATIONS OBSERVE 'NATIONAL PROTEST DAY' - DEMANDS INCLUDING DA MERGER, INTERIM RELIEF, MACP & BONUS...

Observation of 'National Protest Day' on 5.12.2014

Central Government Employees Federations to observe Protest Day on 5th December

Press Note

CGEC, NOCGE, INTUC

To observe “NATIONAL PROTEST DAY” ON 5th December, 2014

All Over India along with all Central Trade Unions in India

New Delhi, Nagpur, Mumbai, Ranchi, Bangalore, Cochin; 24/10/2014

Central Government Employees Confederation (CGEC); National Organisation of Central Government Employees (NOCGE) and INTUC have unanimously resolved to observe “NATIONAL PROTEST DAY” on 5th December, 2014 all over India along with all Central Trade Unions in India (Viz: INTUC, BMS, CITU, HMS, AITUC, TUCC, AIUTUC, AICCTU, UTUC, SEWA, LPF and all Federations of Banks, Railways (NFIR & AIRF), Defence (INDWF & AIDEF), Insurance, Central/State Govt. and other Service Establishments Employees).

Demands

1. Central Govt. should desist from its unilateral move to amend Labour Laws and consult and honour the views of Central Trade Unions.

2. Central Govt. should withdraw the retrograde move in allowing/hiking Foreign Direct Investment (F.D.I.) in Defence Sector, Railways, Insurance, PSUs and other Sectors.

3. Restore minimum wages of Rs.15,000/- to all the Unorganised/Contract Workers and Minimum Wages of Rs.26,000/- to the lower paid employees of Central Government.

4. Demands of Bank Officers and Bank Employees should be immediately accepted in respect of their Wage Revision and other privileges and social security measures, which are over due (Go through the Circulars dated 14/10/2014 & 16/10/2014 issued by the UFBU, AIBOBOA, INBOC, INBEC and INBEF etc.)

5. Strict implementation of existing Labour Laws concerning the Welfare of the Working Class all over India.

6.Benefits of Regular Workers should be given to all Contract Workers.

7. Compulsory Registration of Trade Unions within 45 days and all the ILO Conventions meant for the Workers should be ratified by the Govt. Of India.

8. 50% D.A. of Central Staff should be merged with Pay and Interim Relief should be paid to all employees, pending finalisation of the 7th Central Pay Commission.

9. Minimum 4 Promotions should be given to all Central Govt. Officials, without the hindrances of Departmental Examinations and DPC proceedings, on or before their respective date of retirements.

10. MACP/ACP benefits should be extended to all Central Government Employees, including the staff of Autonomous Body/Semi-Govt. Departments.

11. Bonus eligibility and Bonus Ceiling should be raised as per the present Price Index Cost of Living and Updated Model of Pay Structure.

12. Present quantum of Pension should be raised with adequate Medical facilities/Medical Allowance and the New Pension Scheme should be liberalised as Worker-Friendly.

Accordingly, all the Unions, Associations and their Federations are requested to observe “NATIONAL PROTEST DAY” on 5th December, 2014 by way of Mass Demonstrations and Mass Protest Meetiungs & Rallies all over India and give wide publicity through Newspapers, T.V. Channels and AIR/Doordarshan etc. Concerned Office-bearers are requested to send a report after observing the above programme of action to the undersigned on or before 15/12/2014.

Source: http://90paisa.blogspot.in/2014/10/cg-employees-federations-observe.html#more

Relaxation to travel by air to visit NER and A&N

No. 31011/3/2014-Estt.(A-IV)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training

North Block, New Delhi-110 001
Dated: 26th September, 2014

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Central Civil Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988 — Relaxation to travel by air to visit NER and A&N.

The undersigned is directed to say that in relaxation to CCS (LTC) Rules, 1988, it has been decided by the Government to permit Government servants to travel by air to North East Region (NER) , Jammu and Kashmir and Andaman & Nicobar Islands (A&N) as per the following scheme

(i) All eligible Government servants may avail LTC to visit any place in NER/ A&N against the conversion of one block of their Home Town LTC. Fresh Recruits are also eligible for this benefit against conversion of one of the three Home Towns in a block of four years applicable to them.

(ii) Government servants entitled to travel by air can avail this LTC from their Headquarters in Economy class.

(iii) Government servants not entitled to travel by air may be permitted to travel by air in Economy class in the following sectors:

a. Between Kolkata/ Guwahati and any place in NER 
b. Between Kolkata/ Chennai/ Bhubaneswar and Port Blair. 
c. Between Delhi / Amritsar and any place in J&K

Journey for these non-entitled employees from their Headquarters up to Kolkata/ Guwahati/ Chennai/ Bhubaneswar / Delhi / Amritsar will have to be undertaken as per their entitlement.

(iv) Air travel is to be performed by Air India in Economy Class only and at LTC-80 fare or less.

(v) Air travel by non-entitled officers on the sectors mentioned in item (iii) above may be permitted while availing LTC to any place in India (4 year Block) also.

(vi) Air Tickets to be purchased directly from the airlines (Booking counters, website of airlines) or by utilizing the service of Authorized Travel Agents viz. ‘M/s Balmer Lawrie & Company’, ‘M/s Ashok Travels & Tours’ and ‘IRCTC’ (to the extent IRCTC is authorized as per DoPT’s O.M. No. 31011/6/2002-Estt.(A) dated 02.12.2009) while undertaking LTC journey. Booking of tickets through other agencies is not permitted.

2. These orders shall be in operation for a period of two years from the date of issue of this O.M.

3. All the Ministries/ Departments are advised to bring it to the notice of all their employees that any misuse of LTC will be viewed seriously and the employees will be liable for appropriate action under the rules. In order to keep a check on any kind of misuse of LTC, Ministries/ Departments are advised to randomly get some of the air tickets submitted by the officials verified from the Airlines concerned with regard to the actual cost of air travel vis-a-vis the cost indicated on the air tickets submitted by the officials.

4. In their application to the staff serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, these orders issue after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

sd/-
(B. Bandyopadhyay)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

Source: http://www.gservants.com/2014/09/27/ltc-relaxation-travel-air-visit-ner-jk-andaman-nicobar-islands/

Expected Dearness Allowance from January 2015

As all of us expected, 7% DA hike has been approved by Cabinet on 4th September 2014. Necessary order for payment of DA with effect from

expected DA from January 2015

1st July 2014 will be issued by Ministry of Finance soon. Here after our focus will be moving on to next instalment of dearness allowance which will be paid from 1st January 2015. We just analyse the trend of Consumer Price Index with the past seven months AICPCIN to arrive the expected DA from January 2015.

Since 2006, the AICPIN has witnessed second highest ever increase in July 2014. In 2009 the AICPIN increased by 7 points from 153 to 160 in the month of July. After that, an increase of 6 points over 246 points was declared in July 2014. It is the second highest monthly increase on AICPIN records from 2006. See the table below…

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	MaxIncrease
2006	119	119	119	120	121	123	124	124	125	127	127	127	2
2007	127	128	127	128	129	130	132	133	133	134	134	134	2
2008	134	135	137	138	139	140	143	145	146	148	148	147	3
2009	148	148	148	150	151	153	160	162	163	165	168	169	7
2010	172	170	170	170	172	174	178	178	179	181	182	185	3
2011	188	185	185	186	187	189	193	194	197	198	199	197	4
2012	198	199	201	205	206	208	212	214	215	217	218	219	4
2013	221	223	224	226	228	231	235	237	238	241	243	239	4
2014	237	238	239	242	244	246	252						6

What is the impact of this highest increase of AICPIN on expected Dearness Allowance from January 2015?

It is observed that when it was 7 points increase in July 2009, it influenced very much on increasing the rate of DA to be paid from 1st January 2010 and 1st July 2010. The rate of Dearness Allowance had been enhanced by 8% from 25% to 35% with effect from 1.1.2010 and 10% increase from 35% to 45% was declared with effect from 1.7.2010. Though there was no considerable increase after those 7 points in that particular 12 months from July 2009 to June 2010, the rate of DA had been reached 8% and 10% increase level for  successive two instalments.

From this point of view, it is quite obvious that this one month increase on AICPIN is enough to play a vital role to have a considerable hike in rate of Dearness Allowance for forth coming two instalments. So this 6 points increase of AICPIN in July 2014, we can expect, will have a profound impact on increasing the rate of Dearness allowance to be paid, not only from 1st January 2015, but also from July 2015.

Let us see the three probabilities of  AICPIN trend, through which we can figure out approximately the expected DA from January 2015 

Probabilities (with AICPIN-IW points)	Expected DA from Jan 2015
Average increase of 3 points for remaining 5 months	9%
Average increase of 2 points for remaining 5 months	8%
If same points (252)continues for remaining  5 months	6%

source:  http://www.gservants.com/2014/09/07/expected-dearness-allowance-from-january-2015/

AICPIN for August 2014 – DA from January 2015

AICPIN for the month of September, 2014 will be released on Friday. 31 October. 2014

It is estimated in our previous article about “Expected Dearness Allowance from January 2015“ that DA hike from January 2015 will range from 6% to 9% . It was estimated by assuming different pattern of increase in AICPIN for remaining five months. But this month AICPIN point shows that the expected DA from January 2015 will range from 6% to 7% .  

Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) – August, 2014

No. 5/1/2014- CPI
GOVERNMINT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF LABOUR & FMPLOYMFNT
LABOUR BUREAU

‘CLEREMONT’, SHIMLA-171004
DATED: the 30th September, 2014

Press Release

Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) – August, 2014

The All-India CPI-IW for August, 2014 increased by 1 point and pegged at 253 (two hundred and fifty three) . On 1-month percentage change,it increased by 0.40 per cent between July, 2014 and August, 2014 when compared with the rise of 0.85 per cent between the same two months a year ago.

The largest upward pressure to the change in current index carne from Food group contributing 1.03 percentage points to the total change. At item level, Wheat. Pulses, Milk, Chillies-green, Potato, Tomato, Green vegetables & fruits, Tea (Readymade), Snack Saltish, Bidi. Chewing tobacco, Pan finished, Fire wood. Doctor’s fee, Cable charges. Auto rickshaw & Bus Fare, Flower/Flower garlands, Toiletries, Tailoring charges, etc. are responsible for the increase in index. However, this increase was restricted to some extent by Eggs (lien). Fish Fresh. Poultry (Chicken), Ginger, Sugar. Electricity Charges, Medicine (Allopathie), Petrol, etc., putting downward pressure on the index.

The year-on-year inflation measured by monthly CPI-1W stood at 6.75 per cent for August, 2014 as compared to 7.23 per cent for the previous month and 10.75 per cent during the corresponding month of the previous year. Similarly, the Food inflation stood at 7.63 per cent against 8.11 per cent of the previous month and 13.91 per cent during the corresponding month of the previous year.

At Centre level Nasik and Vadodara recorded the maximum increase of 8 points each followed by Chhindwara (7 points) and SuraL (6 points). Among others, 5 points rise was observed iii 4 centres. 4 points in 5 centres, 3 points in 7 centres. 2 points in 15 centres and 1 point in 16 centres. On the contrary, Goa reported a decrease of 8 points followed by Mysore (4 points). Among others, 3 points fall was observed in 3 centres, 2 points in 5 centres and 1 point in 6 centres. Rest of the 11 centres’ indices remained stationary.

The indices of 39 centres are above and other 39 centres are below national average.

The next index of CPI-IW for the month of September, 2014 will be released on Friday. 31 October. 2014. The same will also be available on the office website www.Iabourbureau.gov.in.

Sd/-
S.S.NEGI
DIR ECTOR

source:http://www.gservants.com/2014/09/30/aicpin-august-2014-da-january-2015/