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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

NFPE REACTION ON ALLOWANCES

NFPE REACTION ON ALLOWANCES

 

 

 

NEGATIVE:

 

  1. Date of Effect: The date of effect of all Allowances is kept as 1.9.2008 to deny handsome arrears to employees.

 

  1. Dearness Allowance: AICPI [IW] 1982 is modified into AICPI [IW] 2001. The base year in the existing fixed base index method is going to be revised as frequently as feasible in future as per the recommendations of Pay Commission. While change of base year of AICPI [IW] is understandable, the frequent change of base year is causing is to be viewed seriously. Moreover while working out the conversion the rounding off of the fraction leads to a perennial recurring loss of 1% DA.

 

  1. CCA: The City Compensatory Allowance  is totally abolished. Even though the Transport Allowance is stated to have been quadrupled, taking into account the fact that our existing Transport Allowance should have been enhanced long back on the basis of the Arbitration Award in our favour, the four times rise in Transport Allowance by abolishing CCA is not providing enough rise to all to compensate the loss in lieu of abolition of CCA.

 

  1. Transport Allowance: The non-acceptance of staff side demand for a minimum of 1200/-+DA on it to Metro Cities for lower grade officials and a minimum of 800+DA on it to non-metro city officials has been denied. The grant of 600+DA in Metros and 400+DA in other places is too low in the background of points discussed in the foregoing paragraph.

 

  1. Special Duty Allowance: The Staff Side demanded for payment to all CG Employees without any condition. The All India transfer liability is taken away. But still the condition for posting on transfer from one area to another may not ensure payment to all. There is no clean and unconditional waiver of conditions for payment by the Government as demanded by staff side. However it should be seen as to how the definitions in the order "including initial appointment" and "area" and differentiation of areas in States as A, B, C to distinguish "Hard Area" "other area" etc are going to be positively taken for making the SDA payment to all.

 

  1. Abolition of Border Area Allowance: The abolition of border area allowance payable to officials working on the international border of Punjab and Rajasthan will deprive such officials the benefit they were drawing since 1999. The rationale is lacking for abolishing this allowance by saying that the allowance quantum is very less that makes no impact on its withdrawal.

 

 

POSITIVE:

 

    1. Transport Allowance on par with 4200 to 4800 Grade Pay is allowed for all employees on 4000/- basic pay in pre-revised scale of pay. 
    1. Y and Z class Cities and Towns are allowed a rise of 5% and 2.5% in HRA.

     

    1. Many Allowances are to be automatically increased by 25% when the DA payable goes up to 50% in revised pay.

     

    1. Element of DA over the Transport Allowance is granted.

     

    1. The condition denying payment of Transport Allowance for employees provided with official accommodation within one kilometre of office orwithin a campus housing the place of work and residence is removed to fecilitate payment even to SPMs occupying quarters offices.

     

    1. Ladakh is now included for grant of SDA.

     

     

    NFPE REACTION ON PENSIONERS ISSUES

     

    POSITIVE:

     

    1. Acceptance for granting additional quantum of pension @ 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% and 100% on attaining the age of 80, 85, 90, 95 and 100.

     

    1. Payment of full pension on completion of 20 years of qualifying service.

     

    1. Maximum pecuniary limit of gratuity payment is increased to 10 lakhs.
    2. Enhancement of years of payment of family pension to 10 years in case of Government employees dying in harness.

     

    1. Quantum of family pension also is increased  by 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% and 100% as in the case of old pensioners.

     

    1. A constant attendant allowance is introduced to civilian retirees also as in the case of Defense forces.

     

    1. Ex-gratia grant in cases of death occurring due to accidents in course of duty attributable to acts of violence of terrorists etc or otherwise is  enhanced to 10 lakhs. The same is raised to 15 lakhs in case of enemy action international war or action against militants etc as well as due to natural calamities, extreme weather conditions while on duty in high altitude and border posts etc.

     

    1. The widowed daughters also are placed in first category along with sons for the purpose of nomination for eligibility to get family  pension etc.

     

    1. Childless widow will continue to get family pension even after her marriage until her income becomes equal or higher than minimum family pension.

     

    NEGATIVE:

     

    1. The 40% fitment weightage given to pensioners is only on the minimum of their basic pension unlike the serving employees who are given 40% of the maximum of their pay scale. This is a discrimination against the pensioners.

     

    1. Commutation value is reduced causing huge loss to all post 1.1.2006 retirees. The reduction of commutation factor is aimed to deny the actual  commutation quantum based on the increased basic  pay.

     

    1. Restoration of full pension after 12 years as demanded by the staff side is not yet conceded even though the commutation percentage is reduced.

     



    --
    K.Ragavendran
    Secretary General NFPE

11 comments:

Sumit said...

SDA is eligible for the employees in case of initial appointment of the employees are from other area. What does this 'OTHER AREAS' mean?

bhaskar said...

Mr.Raghavendran,
while all of us in IA&AD and most in Railways think that the confederation of all Unions together feel that our interests have been sacrificed and what we may end up getting these pitiable scales for worse and the unions have played a cruel game with the employees.

NFPE said...

Dear Comrade Sumit - this is an allowance permissible only for those employees posted in NE Region and Ladakh. The Pay Commission has said this will be paid to all who are transferred from one area to another in the Region. The whole discussion now is whether "Area" means one "Area' within State or outside. The Pay Commission has segregated States into Difficult Areas and other areas in some States like North East etc. This is not applicable for other States. I have omitted to type NE Region in the original comment of NFPE which leads to some confusion to comrades like you from other areas. I hope this will make the position clear.

Unknown said...

Go on indefinite strike. Anything less would be a compromise.

Unknown said...

Sir, Negative aspects of pension also include - 1) Non-acceptance of 'one rank one pension'. 2) Benefits of removing the condition of 33 yrs for full pension, are applicable from the date of issue. These benefits should be extended to existing pensioners.

Unknown said...

dear sirs,
what about the increments, which are due in the months from feb to june. when will they get 1st and subsequent increments in the new fixation. kindly clarify. my old basic is 4800 on 1.1.2006 in the scale of 4000-100-6000 and increment month is due in may. then what is my salary on sep'2008. how many increments i will get from 1.1.06 to 31.09.2008?

Unknown said...

Its a pity that the children education allowance is being made effective from 1st September 2008.

With all good intention it should have been from the start of the school academic year say July 1st.

The pay commission says that the allowance includes money spent on Uniforms/ Text books/ note books/ Shoe etc which are always purchased at the beginning of the
academic year.

I wonder if something can be done to change this start date to 01-07-2008.


Thanks!!!

NFPE said...

Dear Comrade bhaskar - greetings - your apprehension is unfounded - The date of effect is 1.9.2008 but you can claim Children Education Scheme from the beginning of the academic year. Your claim in September can include the earlier period also and you can claim more than 3000/- also - The only condition is that for the whole year you cannot claim more than 12000/- per child. I hope this clarifies your doubt.

NFPE said...

Dear Comrade - greetings - i am unable to recognise you by name as you have chosen to say only 'p' as your name - As i have already said in one of my comments that the finance ministry is expected to issue corrigendum on the issue of date of annual increments either in tune with Hindi version of Gazette Notification that says increments are payable on 1st Jan and `1st July each year; or in tune with English version of Gazette Notification that says that increment is only once in a year on 1st July. So if we calculate as per the English version then your increment will be on 1.7.2006; 1.7.2007; and 1.7.2008. If the MOF accepts Hindi Version then you will get your increment on 1.1.2006; 1.1.2007; and 1.1.2008. Let us wait for the clarification.

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Unknown said...

Thanks for your prompt reply regardung the children education allowance.

But the orders state that the allowance will be applicable only from 1st September 2008. No where it has been clearly mentioned that original payment receipts dated in the previous months say June/July/August are "ACCEPTABLE"

There is no clarity in the memo.
Does the academic year mean the financial year April- March or from September to Aug?

I wonder if I am missing something in reading the Office memorandum No: 12011/03/2008-Estt (Allowance) dated 2.9.2008

Thanx!!!

NFPE said...

Dear Comrade bhaskar - greetings - see each employee is entitled to claim a maximum of 12000 per child in a year - your claim is quarterly but the amount u claim need not be restricted to 3000/= as it may go above that sum also - The claim is normally for the academic year from reopening of the shcools - say June normally - then june to august; september to november; october to january; and february to april form four quarterly claims - do not worry about the quarter that has gone before September 1st viz the date of implementation of the orders - you may prefer your september to november quarterly claim but stake your claim for whatever amount you want to claim say even 6000/=; but next two claims cannot be more than another 6000/= to total it for only 12000 in the whole year - Therefore there is no loss to you because of the implementation date - Is this clears your doubt comrade? yes you have missed para (g) of 2.9.2008 order wherein it is stated clearly as above - Regards.