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Monday, May 31, 2021

Consumer Price Index & DA

 All-India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (2016=100) for April, 2021 increased to 120.1 points (old 340 points) compared to 119.6 points (old 333.58) for March , 2021.


DA as on 1st May 2021 is 30.06% .

DA from 1st July, 2021 is likely to be  30% or  31%

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Relaxation of Rule 80-A for payment of provisional Family Pension on death of a Government Servant

 


To

The Secretary General

Confederation of Central Government employees and Workers

New Delhi.

Sub: Relaxation of Rule 80-A for payment of provisional Family Pension on death of a Government Servant during service due to the delay in finalization of family pension and gratuity results in hardship to the family of the deceased Government servant.

Comrade ,

                 With reference to the Relaxation of Rule 80-A for payment of provisional Family Pension on death of a Government Servant during service  the Central Government had issued  OFFICE MEMORANDUM Dated 29th July, 2020 issued vide No. 1/11/2020-P&PW (E) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare. In respect of payment of provisional Family Pension on death of a Government Servant during service

                The Central Government had issued this order to curtail the hardship to family members in respect of provisional family pension and death gratuity in favour of claimant or claimants. But this order falls short of aspirations of the family members the hardships faced by the family members especially during covid times are not resolved by the above office memorandum dated 29th July 2020 and needs immediate attention to improve this OM. 

The highlights of the order is as follows:

 

1)     The Head of Office shall not wait for forwarding of the family pension case (including Form-14, Form-18 and other relevant documents mentioned in Rule 80) to Pay & Accounts Office before sanctioning the provisional family pension.

 

2)      In order to avoid any hardship to the family of the deceased Government servant, it has been decided to relax the provisions of rule 80-A of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 to the extent that if a claim for family pension in Form 14 along with death certificate and bank account details of the claimant has been received and the Head of Office is satisfied about the bonafide of that claim, he shall sanction provisional family pension immediately

 

3)     The Pay & Accounts Office shall release the provisional family pension on the basis of sanction order issued by the Head of Office without insisting for any other documents including service book.

 

4)     The payment of provisional family pension sanctioned as may initially continue for a period of six months from the date, following the date of death of employee. The period of such provisional family pension sanctioned may be further extended, for not more than six months at a time, on the advice of Pay & Accounts Office and with the approval of Head of Department (HOD).

 

The practical problems the family of the deceased Government faces are follows :

1)     The pension papers should be submitted to the head of the office only after issue of death certificate by the local Government agencies such as Municipal corporations, Village level Panchayats  etc .     Due to lockdown and covid situation considerably time is taken to get the certified death certificate form local government agencies at present it takes about two to three months’ time itself . After getting the death certificate they take time to fill the papers online system portal and processing it by office and PAO.

 

2)     Many of the  Pay & Accounts Offices is always not located in the  same city sometimes there are located thousands of  kilometres away due to covid and lockdown the transportation of papers are difficult and time consuming  for example a family pension case is processed in Bangalore and sent to New Delhi PAO office then it takes about 10 days’ time to, reach this office and then case to process in PAO then takes another 10 to 15 days so there shall be an month delay for provisional family pension to be issued .

 

In view of the above the above order shall be modified as below :

 

1)     The death certificate issued from doctor and cremation certificate   should be sufficient for issuing of the provisional family pension .

 

2)     The head of the office shall issue the and pay the family pension without obtaining permission from the  Pay & Accounts Offices, they can only intimate the Pay & Accounts Offices only.

  

3)     The provisional family pension shall be issued for at least one year instead of six months or till the pension case is settled .                  

I kindly request to take up the above issues with the Central Government on priority basis .

                                                                       Comradely yours

 

                                                                      (P.S.Prasad)  

                                                                    Working President

 

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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Covid affecting the employees and family members

 



                                           Dated: 18/5/2021

To

The Secretary General

Confederation of Central Government employees and Workers

New Delhi.

Comrade ,

                   The Covid situation in our country especially the 2nd wave is very bad and taking away the lives of many younger generation people including the Central Government employees , the CG employees such as Postal , Railways, CGHS, Income tax , Audit , Central Excise   etc ,are the  frontline workers who are in public contact each day , the problems faced are many for them , the Confederation shall take up the cause of the Central Government Employees and their families interest with the Central Government for a meaningful solutions .

1)    The Central Government employees and their family members should be considered as frontline workers and provided with vaccinations at their respective offices.

 

2)    The Central Government Pensioners and their family members  should also be provided vaccinations at CGHS dispensary’s. 

 

3)    Many Central Government employees are carrying out the Government works in spite of  Covid situation ,in the process they are affected  by covid virus. Some employees who have recovered from covid are spending lakhs of rupees for  treatment and the reimbursement is taking place as per state government rates, which is far below the private hospital rates , as such for example for Rs 4 lakhs hospital bill they are reimbursed with just 1.5 lakhs ,  hence the entire medical treatment costs including oxygen support as oxygen concentrators rent and oxygen cylinders  and  medicines for home treatment should be reimbursed fully .

 

4)      Sadly many Central Government employees have lost their lives while performing the government duties due to covid or other wise. Their family members are facing many issues such as pension settlement, medical treatment , CGHS card issue etc , Due to lockdown and covid issues many state government departments are not functioning properly , the issue of official death certificate by local authorities  is taking considerably time may be a few months , hence there are not in a position to apply for the pension settlement and CGHS card . Secondly the family members are deprived of CGHS medical facilities   as they have to surrender it immediately after death .hence following suggestions are proposed.

 

 

A)    The existing  CGHS card shall be retained by the family members till the new pensioners CGHS card is provided to them.

 

B)     The pension cases to be processed   to be processed immediately upon the doctors death certificate instead of local Government certificate and later stage they can produce it as and when the death certificate is issued  by local state Government agency .

 

 

C)     The CGHS is asking for PPO number for issuing CGHS  pensioner card in this respect temporary  card for one year  shall be issued based upon the letter from concerned Head of office stating that the pension case is under process , this letter should be sufficient rather than PPO number .

 

D)    Immediate financial assistance to these family members shall be Rs  2 lakhs which can be deducted in gratuity amount at later stage.

 

E)     The pension cases shall be settled within three  months of death of the employee and provisional pension shall be fixed by head of office .

 

I kindly request to take up the above issues with the Central Government on priority basis .

                                                                Comradely yours

 

                                                                  (P.S.Prasad)  

                                                          Working President

 

                   

 

Saturday, May 1, 2021

CPI and DA March 2021

  1. All-India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (2016=100) for March, 2021 increased to 119.6 points compared to 119.0 points for February, 2021.
  2. The increase observed in index is mainly due to items like Cooking Gas, Petrol, Poultry Chicken, Edible Oils, Apple, Tea Leaf, Served & Processed Packaged Food, etc. which experienced an increase in prices.
  3. Inflation for March, 2021 went up to 5.64 per cent compared to 4.48 per cent of previous month. Similarly, Food inflation also rose to 5.36 per cent from 4.64 per cent in the previous month.

DA as on 1st April 2021 is 29.52% .

DA from 1st July, 2021 is likely to be  30% or  31%