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Sunday, 20 September 2020
Saturday, 19 October 2019
south central railway
07:39
Pension Adalat on 16.12.2019-South Central Railway
Pension Adalat on 16.12.2019-South Central Railway
750/2019-20
18-10-2019
Secunderabad
SCR to Hold Pension Adalat
South Central Railway is holding Pension Adalat in all its Divisional Offices viz., Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Guntur, Guntakal and Nanded Divisions on 16thDecember, 2019 to redress the grievances of Railway Pensioners. The notification of the Adalat is placed on South Central Railway web page ‘scr.indianrailways.gov.in’.
The Grievances may be furnished in the prescribed proforma.Applications are to be made only to the Sr. Divisional Personnel Officer of Division in which the pensioner has last worked. Last date for receipt of grievances is 15th November, 2019.
Source:South Central Railway
Saturday, 20 July 2019
Pensioners
08:01
Call Centre for Central Government Pensioner
Call Centre for Central Government Pensioner
Sunday, 8 April 2018
Monday, 2 April 2018
Government Documents
17:36
Digital Signatures are not a Scanned Handwritten Signatures
Digital Signatures are not a Scanned Handwritten Signatures
Digital Signatures
A digital signature is an electronic signature that can be used to authenticate the identity of the sender of a message or the signer of a document, and to ensure that the original content of the message or document that has been sent is unchanged. Digital signatures are easily transportable, cannot be imitated by someone else, and can be automatically time-stamped. A digital signature can be used with any kind of message, whether it is encrypted or plaintext. Thus Digital Signatures provide the following three features:-
Authentication- Digital signatures are used to authenticate the source of messages. The ownership of a digital signature key is bound to a specific user and thus a valid signature shows that the message was sent by that user.
Integrity - In many scenarios, the sender and receiver of a message need assurance that the message has not been altered during transmission. Digital Signatures provide this feature by using cryptographic message digest functions (discussed in detail in section 4.4).
Non Repudiation – Digital signatures ensure that the sender who has signed the information cannot at a later time deny having signed it.
4.2 Digital Signature Versus Handwritten Signatures
A handwritten signature scanned and digitally attached with a document does not qualify as a Digital Signature.
A Digital Signature is a combination of 0 & 1s created using crypto algorithms.
An ink signature can be easily replicated from one document to another by copying the image manually or electronically. Digital Signatures cryptographically bind an electronic identity to an electronic document and the digital signature cannot be copied to another document. Further, paper contracts often have the ink signature block on the last page, allowing previous pages to be replaced after the contract has been signed. Digital signatures on the other hand compute the hash or digest of the complete document and a change of even one bit in the previous pages of the document will make the digital signature verification fail. As can be seen in the underlying figure, a Digital Signature is a string of bits appended to a document. The size of a digital signature depends on the Hash function like SHA 1 / SHA2 etc used to create the message digest and the signing key. It is usually a few bytes.
Monday, 1 January 2018
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Pensioners
07:30
Dr.Jitendra Singh to Inaugurate 'Pension Adalat', Mobile App for Pensioners
Dr.Jitendra Singh to Inaugurate 'Pension Adalat', Mobile App for Pensioners
Dr Jitendra Singh to inaugurate first ‘Pension Adalat’ tomorrow
Pensioners for outstanding contribution towards ‘Anubhav’ to be awarded
Mobile App to avail the services of Pensioners’ Portal also to be launched
The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh will inaugurate the first ‘Pension Adalat’ here tomorrow. He will also award the Pensioners for their outstanding contribution towards ‘Anubhav’ – a platform for retiring employees for sharing their experience of working with Government. Moving ahead from e-governance to m-governance, a Mobile App has been created to avail the services of Pensioners’ Portal which will also be launched by Dr Jitendra Singh tomorrow. As a measure of welfare to the pensioners of Government of India, a workshop on Pre-Retirement Counseling (PRC) of 300 retiring Central Government employees is also scheduled to be held. The event is being organized by Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India.
The objective of this workshop is to create awareness about the post-retirement entitlements as well as an advance planning for life after retirement. There will be four interactive sessions which will cover inter-alia, the road map to retirement, medical facilities for pensioners, re-engagement of retired people for voluntary social activities under ‘Sankalp’. There will be another session on Income Tax and other benefits for senior citizens as well as investment and financial planning for retired people and the Importance of writing a Will.
The Pension Department in this programme will launch the first of a series of Pension Adalats which is being convened with the objective of bringing on a common table the aggrieved pensioner, the concerned department, the bank or CGHS representative, wherever relevant, so that such cases can be settled across the table within the framework of extant rules.
The Mobile App to be launched tomorrow will be extending all the services meant for the pensioner, which are currently available on the Pensioners’ Portal of the department, to the mobile handset. With this App, a superannuating Central Government official will be able to monitor the progress of his pension settlement, and retired officials will be able to self-assess their pension through the pension calculator and will also be able to register their grievances, if any, and get updates on orders issued by the Department.
The ANUBHAV AWARDS 2017 will be presented to 17 pensioners for their contribution towards creating institutional memory for the departments. Anubhav scheme had been instituted on the call of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to encourage retiring/retired employees to submit their experiences while working in the government with the objective to create an institutional wealth for the government for future governance as well as to enthuse and inspire the future generations of government officials in their respective assignments.
Source:PIBNEWS
Thursday, 4 May 2017
seventh pay commission
07:38
7th Pay Commission :Cabinet Approves Modification on Pay and Pensionary Benefits
7th Pay Commission :Cabinet Approves Modification on Pay and Pensionary Benefits
Cabinet approves modifications in the 7th CPC recommendations on pay and pensionary benefits
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi approved important proposals relating to modifications in the 7th CPC (Central Pay Commission) recommendations on pay and pensionary benefits in the course of their implementation. Earlier, in June, 2016, the Cabinet had approved implementation of the recommendations with an additional financial outgo of Rs 84,933 crore for 2016-17 (including arrears for 2 months of 2015-16).
The benefit of the proposed modifications will be available with effect from 1st January, 2016, i.e., the date of implementation of 7th CPC recommendations. With the increase approved by the Cabinet, the annual pension bill alone of the Central Government is likely to be Rs.1,76,071 crore. Some of the important decisions of the Cabinet are mentioned below:
1.Revision of pension of pre – 2016 pensioners and family pensioners
The Cabinet approved modifications in the recommendations of the 7th CPC relating to the method of revision of pension of pre-2016 pensioners and family pensioners based on suggestions made by the Committee chaired by Secretary (Pensions) constituted with the approval of the Cabinet. The modified formulation of pension revision approved by the Cabinet will entail an additional benefit to the pensioners and an additional expenditure of approximately Rs.5031 crore for 2016-17 over and above the expenditure already incurred in revision of pension as per the second formulation based on fitment factor. It will benefit over 55 lakh pre-2016 civil and defence pensioners and family pensioners.
While approving the implementation of the 7th CPC recommendations on 29th June, 2016, the Cabinet had approved the changed method of pension revision recommended by the 7th CPC for pre-2016 pensioners, comprising of two alternative formulations, subject to the feasibility of the first formulation which was to be examined by the Committee.
In terms of the Cabinet decision, pensions of pre-2016 pensioners were revised as per the second formulation multiplying existing pension by a fitment factor of 2.57, though the pensioners were to be given the option of choosing the more beneficial of the two formulations as per the 7th CPC recommendations.
In order to provide the more beneficial option to the pensioners, Cabinet has accepted the recommendations of the Committee, which has suggested revision of pension based on information contained in the Pension Payment Order (PPO) issued to every pensioner. The revised procedure of fixation of notional pay is more scientific, rational and implementable in all the cases. The Committee reached its findings based on an analysis of hundreds of live pension cases. The modified formulation will be beneficial to more pensioners than the first formulation recommended by the 7th CPC, which was not found to be feasible to implement on account of non-availability of records in a large number of cases and was also found to be prone to several anomalies.
2. Disability Pension for Defence Pensioners
The Cabinet also approved the retention of percentage-based regime of disability pension implemented post 6th CPC, which the 7th CPC had recommended to be replaced by a slab-based system.
The issue of disability pension was referred to the National Anomaly Committee by the Ministry of Defence on account of the representation received from the Defence Forces to retain the slab-based system, as it would have resulted in reduction in the amount of disability pension for existing pensioners and a reduction in the amount of disability pension for future retirees when compared to percentage-based disability pension.
The decision which will benefit existing and future Defence pensioners would entail an additional expenditure of approximately Rs. 130 crore per annum.
Source:PIBNEWS
Source:PIBNEWS
Sunday, 19 March 2017
seventh pay commission
11:10
Seventh Central Pay Commission:Disability Pension of Military Personnel
Seventh Central Pay Commission:Disability Pension of Military Personnel
Disability
Pension of Military Personnel
The
7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) recommended the following on
disability pension:-
The
Commission is of the considered view that the regime implemented post 6th CPC
needs to be discontinued, and recommended a return to
the slab based system. The slab rates for disability element for
100 percent disability would be as
follows:
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Ranks
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Levels
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Rate per month (INR)
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Service Officers
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10 and above
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27,000
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Honorary Commissioned Officers
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||
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Subedar Majors / Equivalents
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6 to 9
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17,000
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Subedar / Equivalents
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||
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Naib Subedar / Equivalents
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||
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Havildar / Equivalents
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5 and below
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12,000
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Naik / Equivalents
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||
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Sepoy / Equivalents
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The above recommendation has been accepted
and Resolution dated 30.09.2016 issued
accordingly.
The 6th CPC dispensation
of the calculation of disability element on percentage basis, however,
continues for civil side which has resulted in an anomalous situation.
The issue has accordingly been referred to the Anomaly Committee.
However, the disability element which was being paid as on 31.12.2015 to the
eligible defence service pensioners will continue to be paid till decision on
the recommendations of Anomaly Committee is taken by the Government.
This
information was given by Minister of State for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre in a
written reply to Shri Dr. Kirit P. Solanki and Shri Rajan Vichare in
Lok Sabha on 17.03.2017.
Source:PIBNEWS
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
Provident Fund
08:34
Prime Minister Narendra Modi :Provident Fund claims in cases of death set to be settled in a week
Provident Fund claims in cases of death set to be settled in a week
The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has decided to settle PF money claimed after death of an employee within seven days from 20 days at present, in the wake of concerns raised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week about delays in settlement of EPF claims, especially in death cases.
“All death case claims submitted by spouse or nominee or legal heirs of EPF members be invariably settled within a period of seven days from date of submission of claim form in concerned field office where the deceased members accounts are being maintained,” Central PF Commissioner VP Joy said in a circular dated October 28.
Additionally, one officer will be trained in facilitation centre and deputed to specifically look after death case claims “with proper display in this regard made on the seat or counter “Please contact for death cases” in Hindi, regional language and English.”
Top priority
The circular said that all the death case claims will be given top priority and officers-in-charge at all EPF offices will personally monitor the death cases on day-to-day basis.
At present, it takes 20 days to settle all transfers and withdrawals by employees from Employees Provident Fund, Employees’ Pension Scheme and Employees’ Deposit Linked Insurance (EDLI) schemes governed by EPFO.
“However, it is often found that documents attached with the claim form is incomplete due to which the case is referred back to the claimant and it leads to delays,” Mr. Joy told The Hindu. “But we will try to settle the claims in case of death cases even in two-three days,” he said.
Source:The Hindu
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Pension
18:51
No proposal to introduce any new pension scheme for retired Central Government employees
No proposal to introduce any new pension scheme for retired Central Government employees
Schemes for Retired Employees
The pension of Central Civil Government servants appointed on or before 31.12.2003 is governed by the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules 1972 or the corresponding Pension Rules of other Services/Departments such as All India Services and Railways.
The Central Civil Government Servants appointed on or after 01.01.2004 are governed by the Defined Contribution-based Pension Scheme under the National Pension System.
The personnel belonging to the Defence Services continue to be eligible for pension under Defined Benefit Pension Rules applicable to defence personnel.
There is no proposal to introduce any new pension scheme for retired Central Government employees.
This was stated by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Smt. Rekha Verma in the Lok Sabha.
Source:PIBNEWS
Sunday, 5 June 2016
seventh pay commission
20:26
Parity In Pension Between Old & New Pensioner In 7th CPC: NCCPA Circular
Parity In Pension Between Old & New Pensioner In 7th CPC: NCCPA Circular
NCCPA CIRCULAR
NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE
OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.
13/c Feroze shah Road,
New Delhi. 110 001
Dated: 30.5.2016
Dear Comrades,
We send herewith a copy of the NJCA Circular letter dated 27th May, 2016. The same is self-explanatory. You could see there-from that the Government might not positively react to the demands placed by the NJCA over the recommendations of the 7th CPC. Simply raising the minimum wage by a few rupees without any consequential change in the fitment formula or pay matrix will not bring about any tangible benefit. The revision of the minimum wage along would benefit only those who are likely to be recruited to the cadre of MTS in future. As you are aware, the 7th CPC had not accepted any demand of the employees. It is beset with dissenting notes in many chapters. The fight between the personnel in the organized Group A Services and all India Services had triggered such dissenting note on the part of the Member who retired from the IAS. A significant section of the Secretaries to various Departments, we were told, were against any revision over the recommendations of the 7th CPC. In any case, we are to await the outcome of the discussions at the NJCA meeting scheduled to be held on 3rd June, at New Delhi.
Coming to the issues pertaining to the Pensioners, we must recall that the 7th CPC had rejected almost all the demands unanimously placed before them by the Pensioners organizations. While tendering oral evidence the Staff Side had inter alia pressed for the parity for the past pensioners before the Commission, especially in the background of the granting of one rank one pension to the Defence Personnel. It is ironic to note that the Defence Ministry which had piloted the demand of the Ex-service men for one rank one pension i.e.parity between the past and present pensioners has now taken a stand against such parity for civil servants. No personnel either in the organized Group A services or All India Services would stand benefited by the present recommendation of the 7th CPC except a few as most of them were in receipt of almost time bound promotion in their career. The modified parity one must recall has only benefited the upper echelons in the bureaucracy. One can understand that the Govt. refusing to make improvements over the suggestion made by a Commission. But it must be most intolerable when the Govt. refuses to implement a recommendation which was the outcome of a persistent presentation jointly by almost all the beneficiaries. The plea advanced for non acceptance of the recommendation is the alleged impracticability due to the non availability of the relevant records. Should the pensioner suffer for the reason that the concerned department of the Government has not kept the records properly? It is the most callous approach and must be resisted with all the force that we can command. We cannot afford to have this situation to develop. We are certain that most of the individual pensioners would be able to provide the requisite information needed to consider the first option in the pension fixation to the concerned department and most of the Departments would be able to verify the same with the available documents with them. We must however await the decision of the NJCA in the matter.In the meantime, all affiliates will take such action needed to mobilize the pensioners and undertake a serious educational campaign.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
KKN.Kutty.
Secretary General.
Source:Sapost
Friday, 13 May 2016
Digital Life Certificate For Pensioners
Digital Life Certificate For Pensioners
Jeevan Pramaan is a biometric enabled digital service for pensioners. Pensioners of Central Government, State Government or any other Government organization can take benefit of this facility.
More than One Crore families in India can be classified as pensioner families, where the pension disbursed by the various government bodies forms the basis for their income and sustainability. There are about Fifty Lakh pensioners of the Central Government and a similar number of the various State and UT Governments and various other government agencies. This includes pensioners from the various public sector enterprises. In addition to this Army and Defence Personnel drawing pension exceeds Twenty-five lakhs.
One of the major requisite for the pensioners post their retirement from service, is to provide life certificates to the authorized pension disbursing agencies like Banks,Post offices etc., following which their pension is credited to their account. In order to get this life certificate the individual drawing the pension is required to either personally present oneself before the Pension Disbursing Agency or have the Life Certificate issued by authority where they have served earlier and have it delivered to the disbursing agency.
This very requirement of personally being present in front of the disbursing agency or getting a life certificate often becomes a major hurdle in the process of seamless transfer of pension amount to the pensioner. It has been noted that it causes a lot of hardship and unnecessary inconvenience particularly for the aged and infirm pensioners who cannot always be in a position to present themselves in front of the particular authority to secure their life certificate. In addition to this a lot of government employees post their retirement choose to move to a different location either to be with their family or other reasons, hence causing a huge logistical issue when it comes to accessing their rightful pension amount.
Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners Scheme of the Government of India known as Jeevan Pramaan seeks to address this very problem by digitizing the whole process of securing the life certificate. It aims to streamline the process of getting this certificate and making it hassle free and much easier for the pensioners. With this initiative the pensioners requirement to physically present himself/herself in front of the disbursing agency or the certification authority will become a thing of the past benefiting the pensioners in a huge way and cutting down on unnecessary logistical hurdles.
Source:India.gov.in
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Pension
08:01
Bonus Ceiling - Payment Of Bonus Act Amendment
Bonus Ceiling - Payment Of Bonus Act Amendment
The ceiling of calculating
Bonus for factory workers and establishment with 20 or more workers under
section 12 of the Payment of Bonus Act has been increased from Rs.3500/- per
month to Rs.7000/- per month or the minimum wage for the scheduled employment,
as fixed by the appropriate Government, whichever is higher with effect from 1stday
of April 2014 through the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015, notified on 1st January,
2016.
The pension under the
Employees Pension Scheme, 1995 has been fixed at minimum of Rs.1,000/-per month
vide Government of India notification No.GSR 593 (E) dated 19.8.2014. The
number of pensioners benefited during the year 2014-15 was 17,65,307 after
issue of notification for minimum pension of Rs. 1000/- per month on 19.08.2014.
A statement showing the State-wise details of pensioners benefited from this
move is at enlisted
Minimum Pension of Rs.1000/- per month
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Sl. No.
|
State
|
No. of Pensioners
Benefited with Notification No. GSR 593(E) Dated 19.08.2014
|
|
1
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Andhra Pradesh
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78354
|
|
2
|
Bihar
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56831
|
|
3
|
Chhattisgarh
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15328
|
|
4
|
Delhi
|
27022
|
|
5
|
Goa
|
4778
|
|
6
|
Gujarat
|
98067
|
|
7
|
Himachal Pradesh
|
6828
|
|
8
|
Haryana
|
28613
|
|
9
|
Jharkhand
|
34206
|
|
10
|
Kerala
|
168384
|
|
11
|
Karnataka
|
143763
|
|
12
|
Maharashtra
|
279422
|
|
13
|
Madhya Pradesh
|
68778
|
|
14
|
NE Region
|
10774
|
|
15
|
Odisha
|
39649
|
|
16
|
Punjab
|
33146
|
|
17
|
Rajasthan
|
37672
|
|
18
|
Tamil Nadu
|
247913
|
|
19
|
Telangana State
|
95829
|
|
20
|
Uttarakhand
|
11406
|
|
21
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
120882
|
|
22
|
West Bengal
|
157662
|
|
|
TOTAL
|
17,65,307
|
This information given by
Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State (IC) for Labour and Employment,
in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
Source:PIBNEWS
