NFPE Unions, Odisha Circle start campaigning for bringing thundering success to the forthcoming one day strike on 16.03.2017 : Meeting at Berhampur on 05.02.2017

Meeting arranged by the Divisional Working Committee of AI RMS & MMS EU, BG Division, Berhampur.

Coordinated by Com. B C Samataray, Ex-Divisional Secretary, AI RMS & MMS EU, BG Division, Berhampur and presided by Md. Ahmed Baig, President, AI RMS & MMS EU, BG Division, Berhampur.

Inaugurated by Com. B Samal, Circle Secretary, AIPEU, Group-C, Odisha Circle

Addressed By:

Com. Debabrata Mohanty, Circle Secretary, AIPEU, Postmen & MTS, Odisha Circle

Com. Dusmanta Kumar Sethi, Circle Secretary, AI RMS & MMS EU, Group-C, Odisha Circle

Com. Ashok Kumar Mohanty, Circle Secretary, AI RMS & MMS EU, MG & MTS, Odisha Circle

Com. Shivananda Dash, Asst. Circle Secretary, AIPEU, Group-C, Odisha Circle & Divisional Secretary Berhampur

Com. Basant Kumar Pathy, Organizing Circle Secretary, AIPEU, Group-C, Odisha Circle & Divisional Secretary, Aska

Com. Fani Bhusan Tripathy, Asst. Circle Secretary, AI RMS & MMS EU, Group-C, Odisha Circle & Branch Secretary, Cuttack RMS

Com. Rajendra Kumar Mohapatra, Divisional Secretary, AI RMS & MMS EU, BG Division, Berhampur

Com. Ambikeswar Behera, DPM, Berhampur HO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

New Rs 100 notes from RBI soon, older notes to continue

Source : The Samaj, dated 04.02.2017

Booking and despatch of insured parcels through speed post to be tendered by CBSE on 28.01.2017 to 20/21.02.2017

 

 

 

Posting of PPF/SSA Intersol deposits by PM at HO

From: Gopinath S <gopinath.s@indiapost.gov.in>

Date: 3 February 2017 at 09:34

Subject: POSTING OF PPF/SSA Intersol deposits by PM at HO

Sir/Madam,

            I am directed by competent authority to convey the following.

 Implementation of 25,000 intersol limit

 Cheques accepted for subsequent deposits in Sub Office PPF / SSA accounts are lodged at HO in 0017 account of HO and posting is carried out at HOs after clearance, to facilitate posting, as per SB order 5  of 2016 intersol limit has been configured as 1.5 lakhs on 07/01/2017 as a temporary solution. Now Patch is deployed for implementing intersol limits from today.

POs are instructed to follow the below procedure for posting high value PPF/SSA deposits .

Postmaster role users at HO are given access to CPDTM/CPWTM menus (for PPF/SSA accounts) for posting the subsequent deposits through cheques of sub offices.

The high value deposits for PPF/SSA will be done by Postmaster instead of PA handling Cheque clearance.

Please revert immediately in case of any issues.

Thanks and Regards

Gopinath S

Inspector Posts

DMCC

Chennai 600 002

Grant of paid holiday to employees on the day of poll : DoPT Order

F.No.12/3/2016-JCA-2
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
(Department of Personnel 85 Training)
Establishment (JCA-2l Section

North Block, New Delhi
Dated 1st February, 2017

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:    General Election to the Legislative Assemblies of Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, 2017 - Grant of paid holiday to employees on the day of poll - regarding

The undersigned is directed to say that in connection with the General Elections to the Legislative Assemblies of the States of Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, to be held during the months, of February and March, 2017, the guidelines, issued by this Department vide OM No. 12/14/99-JCA dated 10.10.2001, may be followed for closing of the Central Government Offices, including Industrial establishments in the above mentioned States the relevant portion of the OM as referred to above are reproduced here.

(i) The relevant organizations shall remain closed in the notified areas where general elections to the State Legislative Assembly are concerned scheduled to be conducted;

(ii) In connection with bye-election to Lok Sabha/ State Assembly, only such of the employees who are bona-fide voters in the relevant constituency should be granted special casual leave on the day of polling. Special Casual leave may also be granted to an employee who is ordinarily a resident of a constituency and registered as a voter but employed in any Central Government Organization / Industrial Establishment located outside the constituency having a general / bye-election.

2. The employees detailed on election duty may also be permitted to remain away from their normal duties on polling day(s) as also on the days required for performing journeys which might be undertaken in order to perform such election duty

3. The above instructions may be brought to the notice of all concerned.

sd/-
(D.K. Sengupta)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India

Tax Relaxation under NPS

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance

03-February-2017 18:16 IST 

Tax Relaxation under NPS

The Finance Act, 2016 amended the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) to provide that 40% of the amount payable to the employee subscriber of NPS on his closure of account or his opting out of the scheme, shall be exempt from tax.

Further, Finance Bill, 2017 has proposed to amend the Act to provide exemption from tax at the time of partial withdrawal by an employee from National Pension System Trust in accordance with conditions specified under Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 2013 and regulations made there under, to the extent it does not exceed twenty five per cent of the contributions made by him.

There was no proposal for tax relaxation from Securities and Exchange Board of India in the agenda of 16th Financial Stability Development Council meeting held on 5thJanuary 2017.

This was stated by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

AIPEU, Group-C, CHQ published Hand Book 2017

Pages : 334
Price : Rs.180/- (Postage Extra)

Closure of Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs)

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance

03-February-2017 18:21 IST 

Closure of Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs)

NITI Aayog constituted a committee on Sick/Loss making/Non performing Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) on March 9th 2016. The committee noted that financial performance of 74 CPSEs has been unsatisfactory and a number of these have requested for and received periodic support from budgetary resources. Over the years, this has become a significant drain on limited resources of the government. The committee has made the recommendations of closure/winding up of 26 such CPSEs.

Under the Central Sector Scheme of DPE i.e. Counseling, Retraining & Redeployment (CRR Scheme) skill development training is providing to CPSE’s employees separated under Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS)/Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) (VRS/VSS Optees) to enable them to get redeployment or to take up self-employment. The Scheme has a provision for training of the dependent also in lieu of the VRS/VSS Optees.

This was stated by Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

Proposal to waive off bank transaction charges and decrease interest rate for credit cards to promote cashless transactions

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance

03-February-2017 18:03 IST 

Proposal to waive off bank transaction charges and decrease interest rate for credit cards to promote cashless transactions

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given banks the freedom to fix bank service charges for transactions.

RBI has deregulated interest rates on credit card dues. Interest rates are determined by banks with the approval of their respective Board of Directors subject to regulatory guidelines on interest rate on advances issued by RBI from time to time. RBI does not maintain information on the rate of commission charged.

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has approved a scheme for giving 0.5% incentive on payments made through the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) to merchants.

In respect of debit card transactions on PoS devices, between 1.1.2017 and 31.3.2017, Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) has been capped at 0.25% for transaction value upto Rs. 1,000, and for debit card transactions value between Rs. 1,000 and Rs. 2,000, MDR has been capped at 0.5%.

Reserve Bank of India has decided that till 31.3.2017, banks and prepaid payment instrument issuers shall not levy any charges on customers for transactions up to Rs. 1,000 settled on Immediate Payment Service (IMPS), Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) and Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Further, Government has issued a direction in public interest to all public sector banks not to charge fees for transactions settled on IMPS and UPI in excess of rates charged for National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) for transactions above Rs. 1,000, with service tax being charged at actual; for USSD transactions till 31.3.2017 above Rs. 1,000, a further 50 paise discount is provided.

NPCI has waived switching fees for RuPay Card transactions (both for PoS and e-commerce), IMPS, UPI, National Unified USSD Platform (NUUP) and AEPS, with effect from 1.1.2017 till 31.3.2017.

Credit card, debit card, charge card and other payment card services by banks have been exempted from payment of service tax for transactions of up to Rs. 2,000.

Government has introduced Lucky Grahak Yojana for customers and Digi Dhan Yojana for merchants to promote means of cashless transactions.

In terms of Office of Controller General of Accounts Office Memorandum dated 14.12.2016, the applicable Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) charges on debit cards for payment up to Rs. 1 lakh shall be absorbed by the Government. In terms of Department of Public Enterprises letter dated 9.12.2016, all Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) are required to ensure that transaction fees, MDR charges associated with payment through digital means shall not be passed on to the consumers and all such expenses shall be borne by CPSEs.

This was stated by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

Press meet by Chief PMG, Odisha Circle : IPPB from September

Source : The Samaj, Dt. 03.02.2017

7th Pay Commission: Will launch protest if Centre hikes allowances with no arrears, says NJCA chief

The total amount pending from January 1, 2016 should be given to the employees. But we are not sure whether they would release the arrears as well," Shiv Gopal Mishra said.

 New Delhi, Feb 3 :  Central  Government employees are expected receive their hiked allowances from the month of April. National Joint Council of Action (NJCA), which has been raising the demands of central government employees before Committee of Secretaries, claims that Centre would implement the hike by April 1. However, NJCA convenor Shiv Gopal Mishra has confirmed that a protest would be launched if arrears are not provided on hiked allowances.

“Government is expected to hike the allowances from April 1. We have demanded them to provide the arrears as well. The total amount pending from January 1, 2016 should be given to the employees. But we are not sure whether they would release the arrears as well.” Shiv Gopal Mishra said while speaking to India.com. “Arrears are unlikely, but protests would be launched if they fail to release (the arrears),” he further added.

The date of implementation for 7th Pay Commission was fixed as January 1, 2016. The pay panel report of Justice (retd) AK Mathur was approved by Union Cabinet in first week of July. However, only the basic component of salary was hiked, as employee unions had raised several anomalies related to allowances.

Along with the hike in basic salaries, central government employees were also provided arrears for the months of January to June. Similarly, the employees are also seeking arrears on allowances from January 2016. However, the populist demand, if implemented, may adversely impact the exchequer.

NJCA also expressed disappointment against the Finance Minister for making no reference to central government employees during the Budget speech. “The speech of Finance Minister made no reference to central government employees. We were expecting Mr Jaitley to make some positive announcement, but all of us are upset,” Mishra said.

NJCA has also been spearheading the demand of revising minimum salary. Through the 7th Pay Commission, the minimum pay was hiked from Rs 7,000 to Rs 18,000. However, the Joint Council (staff side) has reiterated that the minimum salary should be revised to Rs 26,000.

Implementation of 7th Pay Commission directly impacts nearly 47 lakh central government employees and 53 lakh pensioners. The total hike approved by Centre was 23.4 per cent. However, the actual hike realised so far by the employees is 14.3 per cent, which is related only to their basic pay. The remaining portion of the hike would be realised upon the hike in allowances.

Source : http://www.india.com

Strike Circular issued by NFPE Unions, Odisha Circle