Revised Rate of Dearness Relief to Central Government Pensioner/Family Pensioners w.e.f. 01.07.2021
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Restoration of Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR)
In a major relief to central government employees and pensioners, the Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved a steep hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) to 28 per cent from 17 per cent, Union Minister Anurag Thakur announced.
The hike in DA and DR will be effective from July 1, the minister said adding that this move will impact 48.34 lakh central government employees and 65.26 lakh government pensioners.
“The DA rate which was 17 per cent earlier, has been risen by 11 per cent to 28 per cent,” the minister said.
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Consumer Price Index May 2021 and DA
All-India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (2016=100) for May, 2021 increased to 120.6 points (Old 347 points) compared to 120.1 points (old 345 points) for April 2021.
Inflation for May, 2021 went up to 5.24 per cent compared to 5.14 per cent of previous month. Similarly, Food inflation also increased to 5.26 per cent from 4.78 per cent in the previous month.
DA as on 1st June 2021 is 30.65 %
Expected DA as on 1st July is 31%
Monday, June 28, 2021
Thursday, June 17, 2021
48th Meeting of the National Council, (JCM) – 26.06.2021 at 10.30 onwards
F.No.3/4/2021-JCA
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pension
Department of Personnel & Training
Establishment (JCA) Section
North Block, New Delhi
Dated; June 9, 2021
To
The Secretary,
Staff Side, National Council (JCM),
13-C, Ferozeshah Road,
New Delhi
Subject: 48th Meeting of the National Council, (JCM) – 26.06.2021 at 10.30 onwards
The 48th meeting of the National Council (JCM) is scheduled to be held under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary on 26.06.2021 (Saturday) at 10.30 AM onwards. Detailed Note on Agenda, Venue and mode of conduct of meeting will be communicated shortly.
Kindly make it convenient to attend the meeting through the mode to be communicated.
Yours faithfully,
(S.P.Pant)
Deputy Secretary (JCA)
Source : NCJCM Staff Side
Note: The issue of freeze DA/DR will be discussed in Govt-Staff meeting. Central Government decided to hold the 48th Meeting of the National Council (JCM) on 26.06.2021 under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary to discuss various service matters of Govt Servants.
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
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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%
Thursday, April 1, 2021
CPI and DA -February, 2021
The All-India CPI-IW for February, 2021 increased by 0.8 points and stood at 119.0 (one hundred nineteen and point zero). (old 342 points)
The maximum upward pressure in current index came from Fuel & Light group contributing 0.31 percentage points to the total change.
DA as on 1st March 2021 is 28.92%.
Expected DA from July 2021 likely around 30%.
Monday, March 8, 2021
A Condolence Meeting to pay homage to Com. M. Krishnanji,
Respected Comrades of all COC Affiliates,
Hope all are in good health.
A Condolence Meeting to pay homage to Com. M. Krishnanji, Vice President Confederation, Ex.Secy Gen of Confederation & NFPE and Ex.General Secretary AIPE Union Gr- C, will be held on 9th March, 2021 at 6.30 p.m. at ITEF Association room, Ground floor, C.R.Buiding Annexe, Queen's Road, Bengaluru.
All the Office bearers and members of the COC, Karnataka are requested to attend the Meeting to pay our respects and tributes to our beloved leader.
It will be followed by a COC meeting.
Thank you all. Take care. Stay Safe.
Confederation Zindabad
COC Karnataka Zindabad
Monday, March 1, 2021
VERY SAD AND SHOCKING NEWS.
Our beloved leader, a legend, stalwart and veteran leader of trade union movement, Com. M. Krishnan passed away due to Covid today on this day, 1st March 2021.
He lead Postal Unions and Central Government Employees Unions for decades.
He was very knowledgeable, militant, Dedicated and committed Comrade.
He was an unparallel leader.
No words to express sorrow.
Our association with Com Krishnanji was immense ,
We on behalf of Confederation of Central Governement employees of Karnataka state , our heartfelt condolences to bereaved family and Comrades of country. we dip our flag .
RED SALUTE COM. KRISHNAN.
COM. KRISHNAN AMAR RAHE,
LONG LIVE COM. KRISHNAN.
Friday, February 26, 2021
Monday, February 1, 2021
Saturday, January 30, 2021
CPI and DA -December 2020
The All-India CPI-IW for December, 2020 decreased to 118.8 points (old 342) compared to 119.9 points (old 345) for November, 2020. decrease in prices of food items viz. Rice, Poultry (Chicken), Orange, Brinjal, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Carrot, Chillies Green, Ginger, Onion, Peas, Potato, Tomato, etc. had greater impact.
DA as on 1st January 2021 is 28.16%.
DA as on 1st January 2021 is 28% confirmed .
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees
To
The Secretary General
Confederation of CG Employees and Workers
Subject: Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief to Central Government pensioners
at current rates due to improved covid and financial situation in the
country .
Comrade,
Vide Office Memorandum dated 23rd April, 2020 of Government of
India Ministry of
Finance , Department of
Expenditure letter No. 1/1/2020-E-II-B, the additional DA for CG employees and DR for pensioners was
freezed from 1st January 2020 till 1st July 2021 due to the reason “view of the crisis arising out of COVID-19”.
These orders are applicable to
all Central
Government employees and Central Government pensioners. Which has affected both the serving employees
and pensioners and especially to those who have retired during the period 1st
Jan 2020 to 1st Jan 2021.
The
Covid-19 situation in India has improved considerably and under control with a
vast population of the country are unaffected by the Covid-19, The Covid cases
in September 2020 was around 95,000 cases daily , on 4th January 2021 is around17,000 cases which is
lowest in six months, with less mortality rate.
The economy ic situation in the country has also improved
compared to April- May 2020 situation, where the industrial production had gone
down to minus 57% and in October to plus 3.6 % Industrial production has vastly improved with
a recovery , the financial position of the country has also improved
considerably the GST collections has shown a positivity in last four months .
|
Month |
GST collection in
rupees cores |
|
March, 2020 |
97,597 |
|
September, 2020 |
95,480 |
|
October, 2020 |
1,05,155 |
|
November 2020 |
1,04,963 |
|
December 2020 |
1.15,000 |
The Goods and Service Tax collection for
December 2020 touched a record high of Rs 1.15 lakh crore. This is the highest
ever collections since the implementation of the countrywide tax in July 2017.
The Central Government employees have
attended their assigned duties even during the pandemic situation, many have
lost their sacrificed their life for the nation building, hence there
contribution should be taken into the account.
The additional financial implication on account of this
increase in Dearness Allowance for additional 11% DA is due which works out to 13,000
crores annually, which is manageable under the existing financial conditions ,
more over this will benefit about 49.93
lakh Central Government employees and 65.26 lakh pensioners who pump this money
into the market which also improves the economy considerably and about 30% of
the amount spent is collected back by the Government by way of taxes.
As the Covid situation is under control and economic situation in the country has also improved considerably
it is requested to take up the issue of grant of Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief to Central Government pensioners
at current rates which is 28% as on 1st January 2021.
Comradely yours
(P.S.Prasad)
Working President
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