Observance of Protest week from 12th to 19th December 2016.

The reasons for the protest week& Present status of the     committees.

Dear  colleagues,

You are aware FNPO and its affiliated unions have decided to observe protest week from 12th to 19th December 2016.

The reasons for the protest week:

On 30th June 2016 & 06th July 2016 Group Of Ministers called our NJCM leaders and gave assurance that a High-Level Committee will examine the 7th CPC issues, mainly the Minimum Wage and Multiplying Factor. Based  on the assurance, the JCM Constituent deferred the Strike action on 06th July 2016.

 Accordingly, the following committees were constituted .

1)  Committee to examine the 7th CPC issues mainly the Minimum Wage and Multiplying Factor: The committee met once and the outcome of the meeting not known.

2)  Allowance Committee: Met once they discussed HRA & other allowances, but no commitment from the official side. Committee chairman conducted the meeting with all Departments. On 03/11/2016, a meeting was conducted under the Chairmanship of Finance Secretary & Secretary (Expenditure) with regard to postal department. During the meeting India Post Chairman, Postal board, Member (P), DDG (Esst.), DDG (P) & Director (Esst.) were present. Secretary Generals of the three Federations represented the staff side.

The Department of Posts submitted a proposal for retaining the  following allowances.

·       Fixed Monetary Compensation to Postman.

·       Special Allowance to PO & RMS Accountants.

·       Cycle allowance to Postman.

·       Cash handling and Treasury allowance.

·       Headquarter allowance

·       Fixed Medical allowance.

·       Overtime Allowance

After a long discussion on the revision of above allowances, the Finance Secretary  asked to furnish the quantum of Fund required by the Department of Post to meet the Expenditure. Our departmental officers who were present at the meeting agreed to give the required fund details. According to our information, our department has sent the details to the Finance Secretary.

Let us hope that Finance Ministry will agree to our Departments proposal.

3) Anomaly committee was constituted department vice.

4) NPS Committee: According to our information the committee is constituted but no official information.

5) Pension option committee: To examine the feasibility to implement option -1  

Now four months have lapsed, we are yet to know the committees decision on the issues of Minimum Wage, Pay Fixation Formula, Allowances and National Pension system (NPS) etc. as on date
. Besides these, after implementing the 7th CPC (only pay), the Government is accepting all the recommendations affecting the employees one by one such as the benchmark for MACP from “GOOD” to VERY GOOD” which has created unrest in the minds of every employee.

FNPO cannot be a mere silent spectator after reading the employees mind, therefore FNPO and its affiliated unions have decided to observe protest week from 12th to 19th December 2016. 

We request all Divisional / Circle secretaries to go through the programs and make it a grand success.

Conduct of Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the cadre of P.S. Group 'B' scheduled on 04th December, 2016.

The Directorate has now issued to instruction to Circles video DE Section Letter No.A-34012/08/2016-DE dated 29th November, 2016 issue Admit Cards to the eligible candidates of the Examination scheduled on 04th December, 2016.

 

Standard operating procedure regarding legal cases where the Central Vigilance Commission has been made respondent along with the organizations concerned.

Circular No. 11/09/2016 016/Misc/Legal/005 05.10.2016

 Subject: Standard operating procedure regarding legal cases where the Central Vigilance Commission has been made respondent along with the organizations concerned.

The Central Vigilance Commission, under the provisions contained in Section-8(1)(g) and Section-17(2) of the CVC Act, 2003 has the mandate to tender advice to the Central Government, corporations established by or under any Central Act, Government companies, societies and local authorities owned or controlled by the Central Government, regarding the officers covered under its advisory jurisdiction as defined under Section 8(2) of the CVC Act, 2003. 2. The Central Vigilance Commission takes a considered view regarding the further course of action to be taken in respect of officers/cases as mentioned above, based on the records/evidence/material available with it and should advise either prosecution of the Suspected Public Servant or initiation of appropriate disciplinary proceedings or for imposition of appropriate penalty as the case should be, based on the irregularities noticed on their part. 3. The officers concerned, against whom action has been advised by the Central Vigilance Commission, sometimes feel aggrieved by the advice of the Central Vigilance Commission and approach either Central Administrative Tribunal or other Courts of Law with the prayer to get the advice tendered by Central Vigilance Commission and subsequent disciplinary action against them quashed. The Central Vigilance Commission and/or its officers, along with the organization concerned to whom the officer belongs and the Disciplinary Authority of the petitioner officer are made respondents by them. 4. In such cases, where the Central Vigilance Commission has been named as a respondent along with the organization concerned/other respondents, the authorities concerned in the organization, immediately on receipt of a notice from the respective court or on receipt of an advance copy of the petition/application/plaint etc. should bring the same to the notice of the Chief Vigilance Officer of the organization. The Chief Vigilance Officer of the organization ……2/…… -2-

should inform the Central Vigilance Commission immediately about the court case. The Chief Vigilance Officer should also forward a self contained note containing a summary about the issues raised in the petition/application/plaint etc., indicating the paras where Central Vigilance Commission’s actions have been described/questioned and also quoting the Central Vigilance Commission’s references/correspondences exchanged with the organization concerned relating to the case mentioned before the Court/Central Administrative Tribunal etc., if any. 5. During the intervening period, when correspondence is being made by the Chief Vigilance Officer of the organization with the Central Vigilance Commission and prior to receipt of its specific advice/directions, the Chief Vigilance Officer of the organization concerned should ensure that the Central Vigilance Commission’s and its officers’ interest are duly protected before the Court, if the case comes up for hearing. The Chief Vigilance Officer and/or any other authority concerned of the organization, should suitably brief the counsel/advocate of the organization about Central Vigilance Commission’s functions and powers and its advisory jurisdiction, as mandated under Section 8 and 17 of the CVC Act, 2003 to suitably apprise the court accordingly. Provisions contained under Section 15 of the CVC Act, 2003 stating that “No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Commission, the Central Vigilance Commissioner, any Vigilance Commissioner, the Secretary or against any staff of the Commission in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act” should also be brought to the notice of respective Courts, through the organization’s counsel/advocate in order to get the name of the Central Vigilance Commission or its officers deleted from the list of respondents. 6. Many a times, petitioners/applicants/plaintiffs approach the Courts alleging corrupt/inappropriate activities against various Govt. organizations and/or by public servants and seek investigation about such inappropriate activities through Central Vigilance Commission. In case they had made complaint to the Central Vigilance Commission earlier regarding the issues mentioned before the court, they point out this fact in their petition/prayer and sometimes express dissatisfaction about the action taken by the Central Vigilance Commission on their complaints, as should have been intimated to them. In such cases also, immediately on receipt of a notice from the respective court or on receipt of advance copy of the petition/application/plaint etc., the authorities concerned in the organization should bring the same to the notice of the Chief Vigilance Officer of the organization immediately. The procedure as prescribed in paras (4) and (5) above should be followed in respect of such cases also. 7. Wherever a need arises to debate or argue, before the respective Courts, the merits of specific advice tendered by the Central Vigilance Commission in a particular case or action taken by it on an indi ividual complaint or any other action of Central Vigilance Commission, the organization should seek specific comments and advice of Central Vigilance Commission before informing/apprising the Court through their counsel/advocate.

8. The Chief Vigilance Officers should suitably sensitise/ inform the officers of their organizations about the guidelines as given above. 

9. This issues with the approval of the Commission.

 (Praveen Sinha) Additional Secretary 

To:- All Chief Vigilance Officers of Ministries / Departments /CPSEs / Public Sector Banks / Insurance Companies /Autonomous organizations / Societies etc

PM Narendra Modi's cabinet charts out a roadmap for cashless payments

Monday’s meeting was preceded by a meeting last week, which was attended by power minister Goyal and IT minister Prasad to evolve a strategy to fast-track cashless transactions.

 
NEW DELHI: Top ministers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet convened in the capital on Monday to chart out a roadmap for cashless payments, which is one of the government’s key agendas after the demonetisation exercise.

A plan has been chalked out in the meeting to promote tools such as Unified Payment Interface (UPI) and banking and digital wallet apps, as well as making government-owned touch points such as schools and post offices tech savvy for the disbursal of digital payments.

Also figured on top of the list was collaborating with state governments and authorities in the drive to convert the economy into a cashless one. The meeting was chaired by the minister for law, electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad. Power minister Piyush Goyal, petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan, health minister JP Nadda, HRD minister Prakash Javadekar, Panchayati Raj minister Narendra Singh Tomar and agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh were the other participants.The chief executive of the NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant, and about half a dozen secretaries were also present. In his monthly Mann Ki Baat address on Sunday, Modi said his government’s dream is to be make India a cashless society.

“This is correct that 100 per cent cashless society is never possible. But we can make a start with a less-cash society, then cashless society will not be a far-off destination,” he said, appealing to the youth to help in nation-building by teaching 10 families daily on how to conduct cashless transactions through mobile apps, mobile banking and debit or credit cards.

According to a government official, the agenda behind the meeting was to discuss the methodology for quicker adoption of applications available for cashless transactions. These include the UPI — the newly-launched bank account to bank account money transfer system that moves money instantaneously — SBI apps such as SBI Buddy, which is the lender’s mobile wallet application, along with private technology platforms such as wallets by Paytm or Mobikwik.



“It has also been decided that the Centre will request state governments and the authorities to support the initiatives towards converting the economy into a cashless one. In this content, the Centre will be shortly approaching states for support,” said the official, who was aware of the discussions. The meeting, held in the Parliament building, discussed how central ministries and departments can “best leverage” available interfaces for the popularisation of technology tools to aid digital payments.

“It has been decided that several interfaces should be made tech savvy. These include the common service centres (CSCs), schools, petroleum outlets, rural development ministry’s outlets and cooperative society outlets along with post offices which can play a role in not just disbursal of digital payments but also in training,” the official said.

There are around 2 lakh CSCs or Digital Seva Kendres and the ministry of IT plans to increase the number to 2.5 lakh. Monday’s meeting was preceded by a meeting last week, which was attended by power minister Goyal and IT minister Prasad to evolve a strategy to fast-track cashless transactions.

As part of Monday’s discussions, government’s policy think tank NITI Aayog has created a core team which will educate officials of central ministries on technology available for cashless transactions. The first set of presentations took place on Monday where officials of the ministries of law and justice, health and agriculture were trained.

“Pay Digitally! NITI Aayog drives the movement towards #digitalpayments in India!,” said NITI Aayog in a series of tweets. It also said a NITI Aayogled committee made a detailed presentation on easy digital payments to the chief secretaries of states on Monday.

It was attended by the CEOs of the Unique Identification Authority and NITI Aayog, and secretaries of finance and IT.

This will now be followed by meeting with district collectors and officials up to taluk levels to apprise everybody about the five modes of digital payments available to them to help the country move towards a cashless economy.

 Source:

retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com/