7th STATE CONFERENCE

Venue: SCM House CSI Compound , 2^nd Cross Mission Road Bangalore (Near Subbiah circle )

On 21^st April 2011

OPEN SESSION: 10 AM

Speakers:

Com KKN.Kutty Secretary General

Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers New Delhi

Com M.S. Raja Secretary

Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers New Delhi

Greetings by Central Trade Union leaders.

All are welcome, Make the conference a success.

Notice

Notice to all the members and affiliates that 7^th State Conference of the Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers of Karnataka State will be held on 21^st April 2011, 10 AM at the SCM House, CSI compound ,2^nd Cross Mission Road Bangalore (Near Subbiah circle )to discuss following agenda:

1. General Secretary’s Report for the years 2007-08 to 2010-11 and Audited Accounts

2. Election of Executive Committee for the years 2011-12 to2013-14 and

3. Nomination of Auditor

4. The developments on CG employees’ problems.

5. Any other subject with the permission of the chair.

Note: The number of posts in the Executive Committee is as under:

Sl. No.	Name of the post	No of posts
1	President	1
2	Working President	1
3	Vice President	2
4	General Secretary	1
5	Joint Secretary	2
6	Finance Secretary	1
7	Assistant Finance Secretary	1
8	Assistant secretary	7

Please note that as per the Bye-laws of the Confederation only those who paid the subscription for the years 2007-2008 to 2010-11 are entitled for voting in the Conference. All the Affiliates are requested their arrears of subscription, if any, before 21^st April 2011.

(P.S.Prasad)

General Secretary

Income tax

WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS FOR MEDICAL FACILITIES TO QUALIFY AS TAX FREE PERQUISITES?

Medical Facilities For Employees In India [Provision to Section 17(2)]

Expenditure on medical treatment in India

• In certain cases medical facilities are treated as tax free. When an employee is granted medical facilities or his family members are granted medicalfacilities in any hospital, dispensary or nursing home maintained by the employer ,in such a situation medical perquisites are treated as tax-free perquisites.
• In case of reimbursement by the employer of an amount actually spent by the employee for obtaining medical treatment for himself or his family members is a tax free perquisites up to a ceiling of Rs. 10,000/- p.a. This ceiling has been raised to Rs.15,000/- from the assessment year 1999-2000. However in the following cases medical treatment of the employee and his family members shall be fully tax free even if the amount paid or reimbursed exceeds these specified limit of Rs.15,000/- as mentioned above :
  • Actual expenditure incurred by employee on himself or his family's medical treatment in a Government Hospital or in a hospital approved by the Government for its employees.
  • Expenditure incurred by the employee on himself or his family member's medical treatment in respect of prescribed diseases in a hospital approved by the Chief Commissioner of Income Tax. To avail the benefit under this Section the employees has to attach, alongwith his return of income, a certificate from the hospital specifying the disease for which medical treatment was required and the receipt for the amount paid to the hospital.
  • http://www.tax4india.com/salary-and-perquisites/medical-facilities.html

PL see Income tax official web site

http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/publications/1_Compute_Your_Salary_Income/1_Income_from_salary.asp#WHAT%20ARE%20THE%20CONDITIONS%20FOR%20MEDICAL%20FACILITIES%20TO%20QUALIFY%20AS%20TAX%20FREE%20PERQUISITES?

DA orders issued

click here to get DA orders http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/notification/da/da01012011.pdf

PFRDA BILL INTRODUCED IN THE PARLIAMENT:

HOLD DEMONSTRATION BETWEEN 12 AND 2 PM ON

FRIDAY 25^TH MARCH 2011

IN FRONT OF ALL OFFICES

TO REGISTER OUR STRONG PROTEST AGAINST THE ATTROCIOUS ATTEMPT

OF THE UPA GOVERNMENT

TO REINTRODUCE THE LAPSED BILL

PL see http://confederationhq.blogspot.com/ for more details

14th April Holiday

Declaration of Holiday on 14th April, 2011- Birthday of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. see orders

http://persmin.gov.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02est/12_2_2011-JCA-2.pdf

COC meeting

To

All Affiliates

COC Karnataka

Comrade,

Please attend the of COC meeting to be held on Friday the 25th March 2011 at 6.30 pm at Income tax office ITEF Queens Road Bangalore

The take up following agenda for the meeting .

1) To discuss CGHS Bangalore problems

2) State level Convention of COC due to be held on 21st April 2011 with elections of Office bearers.

Note : all affiliates are requested to submit COC subscription.

Comradely yours

(P.S.Prasad)

General Secretary

The National Anomaly Committee minutes

Please see http://confederationhq.blogspot.com/2011/03/macp-sub-committee-meeting-minutes.html for Minutes for The subcommittee constituted by the National Anomaly Committee.

New Methodology to Assess Price Index

According to information furnished by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation on 18th February, 2011, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), released a new series of Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers on base 2010=100 for rural and urban areas separately and combined (rural+urban). This index is available at the all-India level and also at the level of States/UTs. The All-India Consumer price indices for January, 2011(provisional) in respect of rural, urban and combined are 107, 104 and 106 respectively.

Consumption patterns used for new CPI have been derived from the results of the Consumer Expenditure Survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Office during 2004-05. A statement giving details of sub-group and group along with all India weights for rural, urban and combined is given below:

New series of CPI-- All India weights

Sub group/group	Rural	Urban	Combined (Rural+Urban)
Cereals and products	19.08	8.73	14.59
Pulses and products	3.25	1.87	2.65
Milk and milk products	8.59	6.61	7.73
Oils and fats	4.67	2.89	3.90
Egg, fish and meat	3.38	2.26	2.89
Vegetables	6.57	3.96	5.44
Fruits	1.90	1.88	1.89
Sugar etc	2.41	1.26	1.91
Condiments and spices	2.13	1.16	1.71
Non- alcoholic beverages	2.04	2.02	2.03
Prepared meals etc	2.57	3.17	2.83
Pan, tobacco and Intoxicants	2.73	1.35	2.13
Food, beverages and tobacco	59.31	37.15	49.71

Others	1.12	0.99	1.06
Miscellaneous	24.91	28.00	26.31
All Groups	100.00	100.00	100.00

Prices of specified consumption items are collected every month from 1181 selected villages covering all the districts by the officials of the Department of Posts. Prices from urban areas covering 310 selected towns which include all State/UT capitals by the Field Operations Division of the National Sample Survey Office, excepting three States/UT of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Lakshadweep where the price collection work is undertaken by the respective State/UT Government.

This information was given by Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister for Labour And Employment in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.

MACP SUB COMMITTEE MEETING

Dear Comrade,

The sub committee constituted by the National Anomaly Committee to
look into the issues concerning the MACP is scheduled to meet on 15th
March, 2011. Com. S.K. Vyas, President, Confederation will attend the
meeting as a member of the Committee.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,

K.K.N. Kutty.
Secretary General

Minutes of Meeting

To

All Affiliates

COC Karnataka

Comrade,

The Minutes of COC meeting held on 11th March 2011 at 6.30 pm at City RMS office Bangalore, Which was presided over by President of COC Com V.Muthukumar and is published for your information.

The General Secretary Com P.S.Prasad took up following agenda for the meeting .

1) To discuss CGHS Bangalore problems

2) participation of Workers march to Parliament programme on 23^rd Feb. 2011

3) The National Women Convention held at Kolkata on 7^th and 8^thFebruary, 2011.

5) State level Convention of COC due to be held with elections of Office bearers.

The Meeting decided following programme of actions .

a) To hold dharna in front of Additional Directors office CGHS located at Kedria sadhanKoramanagala Bangalore on April 2011 in respect of upward revision of CGHS rates and more enplanement of CGHS recognised hospitals and in respect of local issues a meeting will be held with Additional Directors CGHS Bangalore.

b) The participation in Workers march to Parliament programme on 23^rd Feb. 2011 was very good especially from AG's, ITEF, Postal, RMS, GDS, and Ground Water. The COC has exceeded the specified targets.

d) seven delegates paricipated National Women Convention held at Kolkata on 7^th and 8^thFebruary, 2011, five from AG's , two from ITEF participated ,Com Seethalakkshmi Joint Secretary COC and Com Nirmala were elected as Committee members.

e) It was decided to hold State level Convention of COC due to be held with elections of Office bearers on 21st April 2011 at GPO or NGO hall Bangalore, all affiliates are requested to clear theirCOC subscription at Rs 2/- per member per year. All affiliates are requested to submit their membership lists . The notice for the meeting will be issued in April 2011 affiliates are requested to clear the dues of the COC for participation in convention. The Central Leaders have confirmed their participation in this convention.

Th All affiliates are requested to inform the District units so that the district units shall actively participate in this convention. posters will be available in first week of April.

T The next meeting of COC will be held in April 1st week

Comradely yours

(P.S.Prasad)

General Secretary

Medical emergency treatment

Pl see http://www.mohfw.nic.in/S14025-2-ms11jan2011.pdf for details

COC meeting

To

All Affiliates

COC Karnataka

Comrade,

Please attend the of COC meeting to be held on Friday the 11th March 2011 at 6.30 pm at City RMS office Bangalore,

The take up following agenda for the meeting .

1) To discuss CGHS Bangalore problems

2) Out come of Workers march to Parliament programme on 23^rd Feb. 2011

3) To discuss the outcome of National executive meeting of the Confederation held at Mumbai on 24th Feb, 2011

4) The out come National Women Convention held at Kolkata on 7^th and 8^thFebruary, 2011.

5) State level Convention of COC due to be held with elections of Office bearers.

Comradely yours

(P.S.Prasad)

General Secretary

International Working Women’s Day on the 8th of March

Comrades,

Please organize programs on International Working Women’s Day on the 8th of March, and form womens committees in each office. Greetings to all working womens on eve of womens day.

Comradely yours,

P.S.Prasad

General Secretary

National Women Convention

Pl see http://confederationhq.blogspot.com/ for details of National Women Convention held at Kolkatta on 7^th and 8^th Feb. 2011..

Election of Womens' committee:

The following members were elected from Karnataka COC congratulates these comrades.

Com. Nirmala - ITEF, Karnataka & Com. Seethalakshmi -NFPE P4, Karnataka