FEDERAL EXECUTIVE OF NFPE

PS GROUP ‘B’ EXAMINATION RE-SCHEDULED

THE EXAMINATION SCHEDULED TO BE HELD ON 27.05.2012

AS NOW BEEN RE-SCHEDULED TO 03.06.2012

(DG (P) No. A34012/01/2012-DE dated 09.03.2012)

ADVANCES TO GOVERNMENT SERVANTS - RATE OF INTEREST FOR PURCHASE OF CONVEYANCES

F.No.5(2)-B(PD)/2011

Government of India

Ministry of Finance

Department of Economics Affairs

New Delhi, the 19th March, 2012

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject : Advances to Government Servants - Rate of interest for purchase of conveyances during 2011-2012.

The undersigned is directed to state that the rates of interest for advances sanctioned to the Government servants for purchase of conveyances during 2011-2012 i.e. from 1st April, 2011 to 31st March, 2012 are revised as under :-

Rate of interest per annum

(i) Advance for purchase of conveyance other than motor car (viz., motor cycle, scooter etc.) 9%

(ii) Advance for purchase of motor car 11.5%

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(A.K.Bhatnagar)

Under Secretary (Budget)

INTEREST RATES ON GENERAL PROVIDENT FUND (GPF) HAS BEEN REVISED TO 8.6% (EIGHT POINT SIX PERCENT) WITH EFFECT FROM 1.12.2011...

Resolution - accumulations at the credit of subscribers to the GPF and other similar funds - 2011-2012(89 KB) (Dated 19th March, 2012)

(PUBLISHED IN PART I SECTION 1 OF GAZETTE OF INDIA)

F.NO. 5(1)-B(PD)/2011

Government of India

Ministry of Finance

(Department of Economic Affairs)

New Delhi, the 19th March, 2012

RESOLUTION

It is announced for general information that during the year 2011-2012, accumulations at the credit of subscribers to the General Provident Fund and other similar funds shall carry interest at the rate of 8% (Eight per cent) for the period from 1.4.2011 to 30.11.2011 and 8.6% (eight point six percent) with effect from 1.12.2011.

The funds concerned are:—1. The General Provident Fund (Central Services).
2. The Contributory Provident Fund (India).
3. The All India Services Provident Fund.
4. The State Railway Provident Fund.
5. The General Provident Fund (Defence Services).
6. The Indian Ordnance Department Provident Fund.
7. The Indian Ordnance Factories Workmen’s Provident Fund.
8. The Indian Naval Dockyard Workmen’s Provident Fund.
9. The Defence Services Officers Provident Fund.
10. The Armed Forces Personnel Provident Fund.
2. Ordered that the Resolution be published in Gazette of India.
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(Brajendra Navnit)

Deputy Secretary (Budget)

MINISTRY OF FINANCE ISSUED ORDERS ON ANOMALY OVER INCREMENT BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND JUNE 2006

MINISTRY OF FINANCE ISSUED ORDERS GRANTING ONE TIME MEASURE INCREMENT ON 1.1.2006 FOR  ALL OFFICIALS WHOSE INCREMENT FELL DUE BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND JUNE 2006

 

 

JCM STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING HAD EARLIER DECIDED TO CONSIDER GRANT OF THE ABOVE INCREMENT AND ACCORDINGLY THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOW ISSUED ORDERS

 

ALL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AS ON DUTY ON 1.1.2006 AND WHOSE DATE OF INCREMENT WAS BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND JUNE WOULD BE NOW GIVEN AN INCREMENT IN THE PRE-REVISED SCALE OF PAY AS 'ONE TIME MEASURE' AND THEN AGAIN ANOTHER INCREMENT ON 1.7.2006.

 

ALL SUCH OFFICIALS WHOSE PAY WILL BE REFIXED W.E.F. 1.1.2006 SHOULD GET ARREARS AND OFFICIALS WHO RETIRED AFTER 1.1.2006 WILL GET THEIR PENSION UPWARDLY REVISED WITH ALL CONSEQUENTIAL RETIREMENT BENEFITS.

 

THE ORDERS OF THE MOF IS AVAILABLE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE WEBSITE OR YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THIS BY CLICKING ON THE LINK BELOW:

 

http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/notification/misc/DateofIncrement_RevPayRules2008.pdf
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MMS COMMITTEE-MINUTES

 MINUTES OF COMMITTEE OF CADRE RESTRUCTURING OF MMS STAFF HELD IN THE CHAMBERS OF PMG (BD, MKTG&TECH O/o CPMG AP CIRCLE HYDERABAD ON 12th & 13th MARCH-2012.

A committee comprising of following members constituted by Secretary Post vide Directorate letter No. 01/01/2011 –SR dated 20.01.2012 on the Cadre Restructuring of MMS Staff met on 12.03.2012 and 13.03.2012 in the office of the Chief Post Master General, A.P. Circle, Hyderabad.

1. Ms. K. Sandhya Rani, PMG (BD) - Chairperson

2. Director (MV) -Member-Official Side

3. Sri Giri Raj Singh - Member Staff Side

4. Sri D. Theagarajan -Member –Staff Side

1. Chairperson welcomed the Committee members. It was agreed to conduct the Committees proceedings/discussions keeping in perspective the VI CPC framework and address the genuine concern/grievances of different MMS cadre to the best and reasonably possible extent.

2. The Committee Co-opted Shri L. Arshad Khan, Manager MMS, Hyderabad as member of the Committee. A presentation on the current MMS organizing structure of different cadres and related Recruitment Rules and existing promotional avenues of each cadre was made by him. Staff Side committee members placed their views on the above cadres to the Committee.

3. The Committee was apprised of brief history and the functioning of MMS, MMS Units are having the following categories of staff.

I Technical Staff- Artisans and MTS(Cleaners,

Semi Skilled Artisans.

II Non Technical Staff.

(i)Traffic Staff – Drivers

(ii)Administrative Staff-Postal Assistants &

MTS(Peon, Gatemen, Pumpmen, Duftry,

Safai Karmachary, Caretaker,Chowkidar,

Wiremen,Orderly,Store peon).

III Supervisors:

(i)Non Technical: Assistant Manager, Store Officers

(ii)Technical Supervisors.

(IV) Officers- Deputy Manager(Group ‘B’)

(V) Head of the Division-Managers (Technical Group A)

4. The Committee members discussed the promotional avenues of different MMS Staff cadres and possible ways for restructuring so as to improve the functioning of MMS efficiency and to motivate the staff.

5. The Committee discussed and agreed that there is a need to intake qualified Artisans and Drivers. In view of up-gradation of Technology in the Automobile field, it has become mandatory to the Artisans /Drivers to have the knowledge of computer and operation of Electronic gadgets to be used to diagnose the defects of the vehicles and to repair them. In view of the above the Committee feels that existing Essential Qualifications for different cadres need revised and enhanced.

6. The Committee discussed in detail cadre issues relating to the following cadres:

1. Multi Tasking Staff (Group-C)

(2) Drivers/Dispatch Riders

(3) Artisans (4) Charge hand

7. It was agreed to discuss issues relating to other cadres in the next meeting of the Committee to be held from 3^rd April to 4^th April 2012 at 11.00 a.m.

8. The meeting ended with vote of thanks.

GIRI RAJ SINGH

GENERAL SECRETARY R-III

MINISTRY OF FINANCE ISSUED ORDERS ON ANOMALY OVER INCREMENT BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND JUNE 2006

MINISTRY OF FINANCE ISSUED ORDERS ON ANOMALY OVER INCREMENT BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND JUNE 2006

MINISTRY OF FINANCE ISSUED ORDERS GRANTING ONE TIME MEASURE INCREMENT ON 1.1.2006 FOR  ALL OFFICIALS WHOSE INCREMENT FELL DUE BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND JUNE 2006

 

 

JCM STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING HAD EARLIER DECIDED TO CONSIDER GRANT OF THE ABOVE INCREMENT AND ACCORDINGLY THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOW ISSUED ORDERS

 

ALL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AS ON DUTY ON 1.1.2006 AND WHOSE DATE OF INCREMENT WAS BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND JUNE WOULD BE NOW GIVEN AN INCREMENT IN THE PRE-REVISED SCALE OF PAY AS 'ONE TIME MEASURE' AND THEN AGAIN ANOTHER INCREMENT ON 1.7.2006.

 

ALL SUCH OFFICIALS WHOSE PAY WILL BE REFIXED W.E.F. 1.1.2006 SHOULD GET ARREARS AND OFFICIALS WHO RETIRED AFTER 1.1.2006 WILL GET THEIR PENSION UPWARDLY REVISED WITH ALL CONSEQUENTIAL RETIREMENT BENEFITS.

 

THE ORDERS OF THE MOF IS AVAILABLE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE WEBSITE OR YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THIS BY CLICKING ON THE LINK BELOW:

 

http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/notification/misc/DateofIncrement_RevPayRules2008.pdf

BUDGET- 2012

DOWNWARD SLIDE IN THE SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT

            An opportunity has been forsaken to strengthen our economic fundamentals while improving the lives of the people, increasing the divide between India Shining and India Suffering.

            While the people were hoping for relief in the current budget, the Finance Minister was faced with the task of reversing the slowing growth rate and raging inflation. He had a choice in this budget. He, however, chose a path that is going to worsen the situation both for the economy and for the people. In the process, he also chose the wrong quotation for his speech from “immortal Shakespeare's Hamlet.”

            The appropriate quote for him in this situation would have been the well-known “To be, or not to be – that is the question;/ Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/ And by opposing end them?”

Illusory assumptions

            He chose not to end the people's growing economic burdens by continuing to embrace the neo-liberal philosophy that treats concessions to India Inc. and the rich as being incentives for growth and subsidies for the poor as a burden on the economy.

            Apart from giving direct tax concessions of Rs.4,500 crore, the Finance Minister, in his speech, said: “I propose certain measures to allow corporates to access lower cost funds and to promote higher level of investments in several sectors.” This neo-liberal prescription is based on illusory assumptions: more availability of cheaper funds will lead to higher levels of investment and therefore, to higher growth rates. Missing in this logic is the vital link between higher investment and higher growth — the capacity to consume what is produced by these higher investments, i.e., the purchasing power of the people. It is precisely this link that is seriously eroded further by these budget proposals. If the purchasing power of the people does not grow, then the periodic “bubbles” created by this trajectory will continue bursting at regular intervals. The world is familiar with this continuing four-year long global recession.

            However, in order to achieve the former, the budget reduces the withholding tax on interest payments on external commercial borrowings from 20 to five per cent for three years for several important sectors. The security transaction tax has been reduced. Restrictions on Venture Capital Funds have been removed, tax on Indian companies repatriating dividends from foreign subsidiaries has been halved and the cascading effect of the dividend distribution tax has been removed.

            Likewise, many other measures like enhancement of investment linked deduction of capital expenditure etc. have been introduced. All this is being done with the urge to boost investor confidence and attract higher foreign financial flows. This trajectory has been adopted despite the World Bank's recent warning that the “rich countries had little monetary or fiscal ammunition available to stem any vicious circle of continuing recession”. The Finance Minister's strategy is thus bound to fail and in the process, it is the people who will have to bear further burdens.

Social sector

            The Finance Minister, however, has made many bombastic claims of increasing expenditures in the social sector. Many of these sound hollow given the fact that the revised estimates show a substantial reduction in the spending of actual allocations made in last year's budget. Even flagship programmes such as the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act has seen a huge shortfall in spending, of over Rs.9,000 crore. Similarly, the claims of raising the allocations for SC/ST Sub-Plans conceal the actual fact that they do not meet the required allocations of 16.5 and 8.2 per cent of the plan expenditure respectively. The current amounts are only seven and four per cent respectively.

            Simultaneously, in an effort to contain the burgeoning fiscal deficit, indirect taxes have been hiked across the board by a whopping Rs.45,940 crore. Direct tax concessions benefit the rich while indirect taxes burden the working people. The aam admi is subjected to a double whammy as indirect taxes hikes also contribute to the inflationary spiral directly. Thus, when people were looking for some relief, they are now to be subjected to further burdens. There are also direct attacks on the livelihoods of working people. The Employees Provident Fund interest rate has been reduced from 9.5 to 8.25 per cent. For crores of employees, this fund is their only fallback economic security option.

            Along with reduction in subsidies (nearly Rs.25,000 crore on fuel and Rs.6,000 crore on fertilizers) and massive disinvestment of the public sector (Rs.30,000 crore), these are all being justified in the name of fiscal consolidation. True, fiscal profligacy must be checked. But how? Look at the numbers.

            The total fiscal deficit now stands at Rs.5,21,980 crore or 5.9 per cent of GDP. The budget documents show that in the same year, the total tax revenue foregone (i.e., voluntarily not collected by the government) amounts to Rs.5,29,432 crore. If these legitimate amounts were, instead, collected, then there would be no fiscal deficit at all!

            Internationally, a three per cent fiscal deficit is considered healthy. This works out to over Rs.2.5 lakh crore, given our current GDP. If legitimate taxes were collected instead of doling out concessions to India Inc. and the rich, and this amount spent through public investments for building our much needed infrastructure, we could have generated huge additional employment and the consequent growth of domestic demand would have put India on the course of a sustainable healthy inclusive growth pattern.

            This was the choice that the Finance Minister had. He, however, could not escape Hamlet's dilemma. Not only has an opportunity been forsaken for strengthening our economic fundamentals while improving people's lives, the exact opposite has been done, which will only increase the hiatus between the two India’s — shining and suffering. The Finance Minister said India was on the “brink of resurgence.” In reality, it is heading for a downward slide.

(Sitaram Yechury is CPI (M) Polit Bureau member and Member, Rajya Sabha.)

The Hindu, Saturday 17^th March, 2012

CVC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ACTION AGAINST CORRUPT OFFICERS

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

            As per extant practice CVC is consulted at two stages, viz., for the first stage advice as to whether evidence collected during the preliminary inquiry merits either a major or a minor penalty in Disciplinary proceedings. After conclusion of the Inquiry, the case records are again referred to the CVC for the second stage advice on the basis of charges held to be partly or fully proved or not proved.

            Details of number of advices tendered by the Commission in respect of officials of Central Government etc. at the first stage during the last three years i.e. 2009, 2010 and 2011 is as under:-

Nature of advice (1st stage)>	2009	2010	2011
Criminal Proceedings	121	99	105
Major penalty proceedings	517	556	544
Minor penalty proceedings	321	309	220
Administrative Action	321	378	448

            Further, after completion of proceedings, the Commission tenders advice on the nature of penalties or otherwise on references received from the organizations. Such advices are termed as second stage advice. The nature of advice tendered/penalty advised by the Commission during the year 2009, 2010 and 2011 is as under:

Nature of advice (2nd stage)	2009	2010	2011
Major penalty	856	523	445
Minor penalty	239	269	208
Exoneration	214	259	287
Other action	126	129	87

          This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Shri V. Narayanasamy, in written reply to a question, in the Lok Sabha today.PIB

Action Against Corrupt Officers

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

Action against Corrupt Officers

                The CBI seeks sanction for prosecution of Government Servants in respect of Prevention of Corruption Act cases under section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. As on 31.10.2011, there are 189 number of requests for prosecution sanction pending with various Central Government Ministries/Departments/State Governments. Details of these cases are enclosed at Annexure ‘A’.

During the year 2011, CBI has filed charge-sheets against 782 public servants in Prevention of Corruption Act cases. According to information furnished by CBI, sanction for prosecution has been denied by different departments in respect of 85 numbers of public servants during the year 2011.

                There is no centralized data reflecting the reasons for denial of such sanctions. Such denial is generally based on merits of individual cases by the concerned Disciplinary authority.

Several steps have been taken by the Government to combat corruption and to improve the functioning of Government. These include:-

(i)    Issue of Whistle Blowers Resolution, 2004 and the introduction of the Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons making the Disclosure Bill, 2010 in the Parliament;

(ii)    Enactment of Right to Information Act, 2005;

(iii)    The pro-active involvement of Ministry/Department through Annual Action Plan on Vigilance as a preventive measure;

(iv)    Issue of comprehensive instructions on transparency in tendering and contracting process by the CVC;

(v)    Issue of instructions by the CVC asking the organizations to adopt Integrity Pact in major Government procurement activities; Similar instructions have been issued by the Central Government on 16th June 2009 advising the State Governments to adopt Integrity Pact in major procurements;

(vi)    Introduction of e-Governance and simplification of procedures and systems;

(vii)    Issue of Citizen Charters.

(viii)    Acceptance of the First Report of the Group of Ministers to consider measures that can be taken by the Government to tackle corruption.

(ix)    Introduction of the Lokpal Bill, 2011 in the Lok Sabha.

(x)    Ratification of United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC).

(xi)    Introduction of the Prevention of Bribery of Foreign Public Officials and Officials of Public International Organizations Bill, 2011 in the Lok Sabha.

(xii)    Introduction of the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010 in the Parliament.

(xiii)    Placing details of immovable property returns of Members of the All India Services and Group ‘A’ officers of the Central Government in the public domain.

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Shri V.Narayanasamy in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.PIB

STITCHING CHARGES FOR CANTEEN EMPLOYEES

REVISION OF STITCHING CHARGES OF UNIFORM/LIVERY ITEMS SUPPLIED TO THE CANTEEN EMPLOYEES WORKING IN NON-STATUTORY DEPARTMENTAL CANTEENS/TIFFIN ROOMS LOCATED IN CENTRAL GOVT. OFFICES

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