1)Fixation of
Range of Seniority for promotion from PA to PS Grade of CSSS Select list
Year-2011-reg.
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Most Immediate
Reminder - II
No.4/4/2013-CS-II (A)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel,
Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel
and Training
3rd Floor, Lok Nayak
Bhavan,
New Delhi-I 10003.
Dated: 06/06/2013
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject : Fixation of
Range of Seniority for promotion from PA to PS Grade of CSSS Select list
Year-2011-reg.
Reference is invited to
this Departments’ O.M. of even number dated 28.03.2013 & subsequent
reminder dated 07/05/2013 on the above mentioned subject. The requisite
information regarding recommendation of DPC for promotion of eligible PA to
PS Grade of CSSS for the Select List Year-2011 was required to be furnished
in the prescribed proforma by 30/04/2013 by the Cadre Units of CSSS.
2. The requisite information
from the Cadre Units addressed below has not so for been received despite a
reminder. Thy non-receipt of this information is delaying the process of
finalizing the panel of eligible officers for appointment to PS Grade of CSSS
for the Select List Year-2011. The defaulting Cadre Units are requested to
furnish the requisite information without further delay.
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Vandana Sharma
Director (CS-II)
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PFRDA Circular on NPS Trust account numbers and contact details
of New Trustee Bank
PENSION FUND REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
PFRDA/2013/12/CRTB/2
31st May, 2013
To
All Central Government Ministries & State Governments
All PrAOs/PAOs/DTAs/DTOs
All POPs/POP-SPs/Aggregators/Corporates
All PFMs/ASPs
Dear Sir/Madam,
Subject : NPS Trust account numbers & contact details of
New Trustee Bank
1. From '1st July, 2013' onwards, all NPS contributions
are to be remitted to the designated accounts of Axis Bank. The overall
procedure for remittance of funds to the Trustee Bank, the matching &
booking of Subscriber Contribution Files (SCF) and the receipt of funds returned
from Trustee Bank shall remain unchanged. While remitting the funds
electronically to Axis Bank, the accredited banks shall still be required to
mention the 26 character string 'PAOFIN <7 digit="" number="" pao="" registration=""> <13 digit="" id="" transaction=""> in the 7002
field for NEFT and 7495 field for RTGS as per the current process. The RTGS
remittances should be through R-41 RTGS format only.
2. Please note the changes as mentioned below :-
a) Indian Financial System Code (IFSC) for NPS remittance
:- UTIBONPS001.
b) New Account Numbers :- 7 digit unique registration
number alloted by CRA (NSDL) would be the designated account number for the
respective remitting office.
3. The contact details of NPS Team at Axis Bank :-
First level of contact :
Second level of contact :
Email id: npstrust@axisbank.com
Address : Corporate Office, 6th Floor, Business Banking Dept.,
Wadia International Centre, P.B. Marg, Worli, Mumbai - 400025.
4. The Offices are requested to take note of the same.
Yours faithfully,
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(Subroto Das)
Chief General Manager
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Expected DA (Dearness Allowance) from July 2013 to central
government employees
Since the implementation of 6CPC from 1-1-2006, the consumer
price index number for industrial worker is not coming down ever but it is
increasing month by month. Similarly the rate of dearness allowance paid to
central government employees also increasing at the interval of every six
months period. The rate of dearness allowance was at zero level on
01-01-2006. After six years from implementation of 6CPC, now the dearness
allowance stands at 80% level. The average increase in the dearness allowance
is at the rate of 13% per year. Actually there is nothing to rejoice over the
increase of dearness allowance. The Dearness allowance is nothing but the
reflection of consumer price index.
Likewise the consumer price index is determined by increase in the prices of basket of identified essential commodities. The increase of CPI number is not good any way for either the government employees or common people. Whatever the money the central government employees are supposed to get from the dearness allowance hike will be swallowed by the essential commodities for which they have to spend every month, since the prices of all the essential commodities are increasing at the alarming rate.
Now
everyone eyes at the expected dearness allowance from July 2013. It is now 80
percent of AICPI Numbers from which the rate of DA has to be arrived has been
released. The AICIN for Industrial Workers for two more months are yet to be
released to confirm the exact rate of Dearness Allowance going to be approved
by the central government. The average of AICPIN for IW from the month of
July 2012 to June 2013 will determine the rate of dearness allowance to be
paid from July 2013. So look at the Consumer price Index numbers from June
2012 given below...
The formula for calculating dearness allowance is:
( Avg of AICPI for the past 12 months – 115.76)*100/115.76
To find out the average CPI for 12 months we need remaining two
months CPI numbers. Let us assume that if the remaining two months AICPI
numbers stands at 226 levels, the average AICPI for 12 months is 220.0833.
If we apply this in the formula given above the answer is =
90.120
From this it is now very much clear that, even though if there
is no change in the position of AICPI numbers for remaining two months, if it
happened to continue in the same level of 226 points for remaining two
months, the increase in the rate of dearness allowance will be 10% for the
next six months starts from July 2013. According to this, the expected
dearness allowance from July 2013 for central government employees will not
be less than 90% level. So it is expected that the dearness allowance will be
increased from existing 80% to 90% level from July 2013. With this 10%
increase in dearness allowance, the annual increment for the year 2013 also
will be granted for all the central government employees from July 2013.
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Department of Personnel & Training
Establishment ‘D’ Division
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Compassionate Appointment
S.No. Question Answer
Introduction and Objective
1. Under what provisions of Government, appointments on
compassionate grounds are regulated?
The appointments on compassionate grounds against a post in
Central Government are regulated in terms of the provisions of “Scheme for
Compassionate Appointment under Central Government” issued under Department
of Personnel & Training O.M. No.
14014/6/1994-Estt(D) dated 09.10.1998, as
amended from time to time. All the instructions on compassionate
appointments have been consolidated vide OM.14014/02/2012-Estt(D)
dated 16.01.2013 and are available on the
Department’s website www.persmin.nic.in (OMs & Orders > Establishment
> (A) Administration (III) Concessions in Appointments (a) Compassionate
Appointments).
2. What is the objective of scheme for compassionate
appointments?
The objective of the Scheme is to grant appointment on
compassionate grounds to a dependent family member of a Government servant
who has died while in service or who is retired on medical grounds before
attaining the age of 55 years (57 years for erstwhile Group ‘D’ employees),
thereby leaving the family in penury and without any means of sustainable
livelihood so as to provide relief to the family of the Government
servant concerned from financial destitution and to help it get over the
emergency.
3. Is the Scheme applicable to member of Armed Forces?
Yes. Dependent family member of a Armed Force personnel can be
considered for appointment against a civilian post within any
establishment/organisation under the Ministry of Defence, if the armed force
personnel:
a) Dies during service; or
b) Is killed in action; or
c) Is medically boarded out and is unfit for civil
employment.
4. Can dependents of a deceased government employee who
committed suicide be considered for compassionate appointment?
Yes. If the family satisfies the criteria to be considered for
compassionate appointment (see S. No. 29).
Age Limit to Appointment on Compassionate Ground
5. What is the upper and lower age limit for making
compassionate appointment?
The age limits would be based on the Recruitment Rules of the
post to which the compassionate appointment is proposed to be made.
6. Whether upper age limit prescribed for a post can be
relaxed while making appointment compassionate ground?
Yes. Upper age limit can be relaxed wherever found to be necessary.
7. Whether lower age limit prescribed for a post can be
relaxed while making appointment compassionate ground?
No. The lower age limit cannot be relaxed below 18 years of age.
8. What is the crucial date for determining age eligibility
for appointment on compassionate grounds?
Age eligibility shall be determined with reference to the ‘date
of application’ for compassionate appointment.
9. Which authority is competent to grant relaxation of upper
age limit?
Authority competent to take a final decision for making
compassionate appointment in a case is the competent authority to grant
relaxation of upper age limit.
10. Is there any restriction of age limit of medically
retired government servant for consideration of cases of dependents for
compassionate appointment?
Yes. The Government servant should have retired on medical grounds
before attaining the age of 55 years (57 years for erstwhile Group D
employees).
Definition of Dependent Family Members
11. Who are considered Dependent Family Members for the
purpose consideration appointment compassionate grounds?
Dependent Family Members means :
a) spouse; or
b) son (including adopted son); or
c) daughter (including adopted daughter); or
d) brother or sister in the case of unmarried Government
servant; or
e) member of the Armed Forces, as defined in S.No. 3, who was
wholly dependent on the Government servant / member of the Armed Forces at
the time of his death in harness or retirement on medical grounds, as the
case may be.
12. Whether a ‘married daughter’ can be considered for
compassionate appointment?
Yes, but subject to conditions:
i. That she was wholly dependent on the Government servant at
the time of his/her death in harness or retirement on medical grounds
ii. She must support other dependents members of the family.
13. Whether ‘married son’ can be considered for compassionate
appointment?
No. A married son is not considered dependent on a government
servant.
14. Whether ‘married brother’ can be considered for
compassionate appointment?
A married brother is not considered dependent on a government
servant.
15. Whether dependent of an employee working on ‘daily wage
or causal or apprentice or ad-hoc or contract or re-employment’ basis can be
considered for compassionate appointment?
No. Only the dependent of regular government employee can be
considered for compassionate appointment.
16. Whether dependent of “confirmed work-charged staff’ can
be considered for compassionate appointment?
Yes. Confirmed work-charged staff is covered by the term Government
servant.
17 Whether a widow appointed on compassionate ground be
allowed to continue in service after re-marriage?
Yes.
18. Whether dependent of a missing government employee can be
considered for compassionate appointment when there is an earning
member in the family?
In deserving cases, even where there is already an earning
member in the family, a dependent family member may be considered for
compassionate appointment with prior approval of the Secretary of the
Department/Ministry concerned who, before approving such appointment, will
satisfy himself that grant of compassionate appointment is justified having
regard to number of dependents, assets and liabilities left by the Government
servant, income of the earning member as also his liabilities Including the
fact that the earning member is residing with the family of the Government
servant and whether he should not be a source of support to other members of
the family.
19. Whether dependent of a missing employee can be considered
for compassionate appointment?
Yes. Subject to conditions prescribed in this Department O.M.
dated 09.10.1998, dependent family of
missing government employees can be considered for compassionate appointment.
Competent Authority for Compassionate Appointment
20. Who is the competent authority to make appointment on
compassionate grounds in case of a Ministry / Department?
a) Joint Secretary In-charge of administration in the Ministry /
Department concerned;
b) Head of the Department under the Supplementary Rule 2(10) in
case of attached and subordinate office;
c) Secretary in the Ministry/Department concerned in special
type of cases; Posts/Vacancies against which compassionate appointments can
be made
21. Against which group of posts a compassionate
appointment can be made?
Compassionate appointment can be made only upto 5% of vacancies
falling under direct recruitment quota in Group ‘C’ posts (Including
erstwhile Group ‘D’ posts) in a ‘recruitment year’. The manner of determination
of vacancies has been explained in the consolidated instructions on
compassionate appointment dated 16.01.2013.
22. How do we make appointment on compassionate grounds in
small offices/cadres in which there are less than 20 direct recruitment
vacancies in a ‘recruitment year’, the minimum vacancies required to make a
compassionate appointment?
Group 'C' posts, in which there are less than 20 direct
recruitment vacancies in a recruitment year, may be grouped together and out
of the total number of vacancies ‘in a year’, 5% may be filled up on
compassionate grounds subject to the condition that appointment on
compassionate grounds in any such post should not exceed one. For the purpose
of calculation of vacancies for compassionate appointment, fraction of a
vacancy either half or exceeding half but less than one may be taken as one
vacancy.
23. How are vacancies for appointment on compassionate
grounds to be calculated in small Ministries / Departments where sufficient
vacancies do not arise, year after year,for making compassionate appointment?
The small Ministries / Departments may apply a more liberalized
method of calculation of vacancies under 5% quota for compassionate
appointment. Small Ministries / Departments, for the purpose of these
instructions, are defined as organizations where no vacancy for compassionate
appointment could be located under 5% quota for the last 3 years. Such small
Ministries/Departments may add up the total of DR vacancies in Group ‘C’ and
erstwhile Group ‘D’ posts (excluding technical posts) arising in each year
for 3 or more preceding years and calculate 5% of vacancies with reference to
the grand total of vacancies of such years, for locating one vacancy for
compassionate appointment. This is subject to the condition that no
compassionate appointment was/has been made by the Ministries/Departments
during 3 years or number of years taken over and above 3 years for locating
one vacancy under 5% quota.
24. Can compassionate appointment be made against a Group ‘A’
or Group ‘B’ post?
No.
25. Can compassionate appointment be made to a Group ‘A’ or
Group ‘B’ post if the dependent has higher qualifications?
No.
26. If compassionate appointment cannot be given in a year,
can it be considered in the next recruitment year?
Yes. There is no time limit for compassionate appointment. A request
for compassionate appointment can be carry forward to next or more
years, but the total compassionate appointment made in a year should
not exceed 5% limit of the direct recruitment Group C quota.
27. Can compassionate appointment be made against a future
vacancy?
No. Compassionate appointment can be made only if a regular vacancy
is available for that purpose. No appointment can be made against a future
vacancy.
28. Whether the administrative Ministry / Department /Office
are required to prepare a waiting list for appointment compassionate ground?
No. Since no compassionate appointment can be made against a future
vacancy, no waiting list is to be prepared.
29. Can a Committee constituted in a Ministry/Department for
considering the request for appointment on compassionate ground recommend
persons for appointment against the next year vacancy?
No. The recommendation of the Committee should be limited to
existing vacancies only. No recommendation for appointment on compassionate
ground can be made against a future vacancy.
30. Can appointment on compassionate grounds be made against
a Technical post?
Yes. Compassionate appointment can also be made against
technical ‘posts’ at Group ‘C’ and erstwhile Group ‘D’ level. The 5% quota of
vacancies will be calculated on the basis of total DR vacancies arising in a
year against the technical posts.
31. Is reservation roster applicable to compassionate
appointments?
Yes. A person selected for appointment on compassionate grounds
should be adjusted In the recruitment roster against the appropriate category
viz SC/ST/ OBC/General depending upon the category to which he belongs. For
example, if he belongs to SC category he will be adjusted against the SC
reservation point, if he is ST/OBC he will be adjusted against ST/OBC point
and if he belongs to General category he will be adjusted against the vacancy
point meant for General category.
Criteria for consideration of the desirability of compassionate
appointments
32. What s criteria for determining eligibility of a person
for consideration for compassionate appointment?
Following factors are to be mandatorily taken into consideration
for making compassionate appointments:
a) The family is indigent and deserves immediate assistance for
relief from financial destitution;
b) Applicant for compassionate appointment should be eligible
and suitable for the post in all respects under the provisions of the
relevant Recruitment Rules.
The onus for examining the penurious condition of the dependent
family rest with authority making compassionate appointment. Courts have
clearly stated in various judgments that offering compassionate appointment
as a matter of course, irrespective of the financial condition of the family
of the deceased or medically retired Government servant, is untenable.
Exemptions Admissible for Compassionate Appointment
33. What exemptions available to administrative
Ministry/Departments while making compassionate appointment?
Compassionate appointments are exempted from observance of the
following requirements:
a) Recruitment procedure i.e. without the agency of the Staff
Selection Commission or the Employment Exchange.
b) Clearance from the Surplus Cell of the Department of
Personnel and Training/Directorate General of Employment and Training.
c) The ban orders on filling up of posts issued by the Ministry
of Finance (Department of Expenditure)
34. Whether a person appointed as LDC on compassionate ground
exempted from requirement of passing the type writing test?
In the matter of exemption from the requirement of passing the
typing test, those appointed on compassionate grounds to the post of Lower
Division Clerk will be governed by the general orders issued in this regard
:-
i. by the CS Division of the Department of Personnel and
Training, if the post is included in the Central Secretariat Clerical
Service; or
ii. by the Establishment Division of the Department of Personnel
and Training, if the post Is not included In the Central Secretariat Clerical
Service.
35. Whether a person who does not fulfill education
qualification of a post can be appointed on compassionate ground?
Yes. A person who does not fulfill educational qualification of a
post can be appointed as “Trainee” (DOPT OM No. 14014/2/2009-Estt(D) dated
11.02.09 and 03.04.2012)
36. Whether Government Department can appoint a widow who
does not fulfill educational qualification requirement of a post?
Yes. In case a widow who does not fulfill educational requirement
of a post is considered for compassionate appointment, she can be appointed
only against a multi-task staff post provided the appointing authority
is satisfied that she can satisfactorily perform duties of the post with the
help of some on job training.
37. Can dependents of deceased government employee be
considered for appointment on compassionate ground on casual/daily
wage/ad-hoc/contract basis?
No. Only regular appointment can be made on compassionate
grounds against a regular vacancy.
Time Limit for considering cases of compassionate appointment
38. Is there any time limit for considering a for
compassionate appointment?
Subject to availability of a vacancy and instructions on the
subject issued by this Department, as amended from time to time, any application
for compassionate appointment can be considered without any time limit
subject to the merit of each case (see criteria mentioned in S.No. 32).
39. Can a Department consider belated requests for
compassionate appointment?
Ministries/Departments can consider requests for compassionate
appointment even where the death or retirement on medical grounds of a
Government servant took place long back. While considering such belated
requests it should, however, be kept in view that the concept of compassionate
appointment is largely related to the need for immediate assistance to the
family of the Government servant in order to relieve it from economic
distress. The very fact that the family has been able to manage some how all
these years should normally be taken as an adequate proof that the family had
some dependable means of subsistence.
40. Can the cases which were closed on completion of 3 years’
time-limit as provided in DOPT OM dated 5.5.2003, be re-opened after the
waiver of time-limit in DOPT OM dated 26.07.2012?
Yes, provided that the cases were closed due to non-availability of
vacancies during the 3 year time-period and subject to the criteria mentioned
in S.No. 32 and S.No. 39. Such cases should not be opened merely
because the time limit has been waived off.
41. Whether belated case of passionate appointments against
the Group D can be considered now aftelarization of all Group ‘D’ employees
as Group ‘C’ employees?
The belated cases of compassionate appointment are to be
considered as per the revised recruitment rules for the MTS posts.
Status and admissibility of pay/allowance of a Trainee
42. What will be Status of Trainee?
A person appointed as ‘Trainee’ enjoys the Status of Government
servant from initial day and will be allowed all the allowances and benefit
allowed to a government servant.
43. What will be maximum time period allowed for a person
appointed as ‘Trainee’ to acquire minimum education qualification?
A person appointed as a ‘Trainee” on compassionate grounds has
to acquire minimum educational qualifications in 5 years.
44. Whether a person appointed on compassionate grounds as
‘Trainee’ will have probation period?
Yes. The probation period, as specified in Recruitment rules of the
post/grade against which he/she is appointed would commence from the date
he/she acquires minimum educational qualifications.
45. Whether Earned Leave, Half pay leave and other types of
leave as applicable to regular Government employees would be admissible to a
Trainee?
A ‘Trainee’ appointed on compassionate ground would be entitled
for all kinds of leave allowed to a regular Government servant.
46. Admissibility of Leave Travel concession as applicable to
regular government servants.
A ‘Trainee’ appointed on compassionate ground would be allowed
LTC concession only on completion of one year service.
47. Is a Trainees appointed on compassionate grounds entitled
to Medical facilities / Benefit of CGEGIS / CGHS and Children
Educational Allowance?
Yes. As allowed to a regular government servant in the pre-revised
pay scale of Rs.440-7440/- without grade pay. However, he would not be
entitled to OTA during the period as a Trainee.
48. Admissibility of New Pension Scheme?
Yes. As allowed to a regular government servant in the pre-revised
pay scale of Rs. 4440-7440/-without grade pay.
49. Whether dependent of a Trainee appointed on compassionate
grounds entitled to compassionate appointment?
Yes.
Miscellaneous
50. Which administrative authority is responsible for
informing the dependents of deceased government employee or a medically
retired official about the scheme for compassionate appointment?
Welfare Officer of the concerned Ministry/Department/Office is
responsible for appropriate counselling and facilitating the process of
compassionate appointment of the dependent of a deceased or medically retired
Government employee.
51. Whether maintenance of the family of the deceased
employee is responsibility of person appointed on compassionate ground?
Yes. A person appointed on compassionate grounds under the
scheme has to give an undertaking in writing that he/she will maintain
properly the other family members who were dependent on the Government
servant/member of the Armed Forces in question and in case it is proved
subsequently (at any time) that the family members are being neglected or are
not being maintained properly by him/her, his/her appointment may be
terminated forthwith.
52. Once a person has been appointed on compassionate ground,
can be considered eligible for consideration for appointment on compassionate
against another post?
No. When a person has been appointed on compassionate grounds to a
particular post, the set of circumstances, which led to such appointment,
should be deemed to have ceased to exist and he/she should strive in his/her
career like his/her colleagues for future advancement and any request for
appointment to any higher post on considerations of compassion should
invariably be rejected.
53. Can an appointment on compassionate ground be transferred
from one person to another person?
Appointment made on compassionate grounds cannot be transferred
to any other person and any request for the same on considerations of
compassion is invariably to be rejected.
54. How is the seniority of a person appointed on
compassionate ground to be determined?
A person appointed on compassionate ground in a particular
recruitment year may be placed at the bottom of all the candidates
recruited/appointed through direct recruitment, promotion etc. in that year,
irrespective of the date of joining of the candidate on compassionate ground.
55. Can service of an employee appointed on compassionate
grounds terminated for not fulfilling the terms and condition of offer of
appointment?
The compassionate appointments can be terminated on the ground
of non compliance of any condition stated in the offer of appointment after
providing an opportunity to the compassionate appointee by way of issue of
show cause notice asking him/her to explain why his/her services should not
be terminated for non-compliance of the condition(s) in the offer of
appointment and it is not necessary to follow the procedure prescribed in the
Disciplinary Rules/Temporary Service Rules for his purpose.
56. Can a dependent of deceased government employee who held
the erstwhile Group ‘D’ now MTS post, considered for appointment on
compassionate ground against a Group ‘C’ post?
Yes. A family member of erstwhile Group ‘D’ post Government servant
(now MTS) can be appointed to a Group ‘C’ post for which he/she is
educationally qualified, provided a vacancy in Group ‘C’ post exists for this
purpose.
57. Can an application on compassionate ground rejected
because the family of the deceased government employee has received benefits
under various welfare scheme?
No. An application for compassionate appointment cannot be rejected
merely on the ground that the family of the Government servant has received
the benefits under the various welfare schemes and will have to be considered
on the basis of criteria mentioned in S.No. 32 and S.No. 39.
58. Can an application on compassionate ground be rejected on
the ground of re-organisation in the Ministry / Department / Office?
No. Compassionate appointment cannot be denied or delayed merely on
the ground that there is reorganisation In the Ministry/Department / Office.
It should be made available to the person concerned if there is
a vacancy meant for compassionate appointment and he or she Is found eligible
and suitable under the scheme (see criteria mentioned under S.No. 32).
59. Can courts order appointment on compassionate grounds?
The Supreme Court has held in its judgement dated February 28,
1995 in the case of the Life Insurance Corporation of India vs. Mrs Asha
Ramchandra Ambekar and others [JT 1994(2) S.C. 183] that the High Courts and
Administrative Tribunals cannot give direction for appointment of a person on
compassionate grounds but can merely direct consideration of the claim for
such an appointment.
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(Mukta Goel)
Director (E.l)
Source : www.persmin.nic.in
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