Travelling Allowance Rules-- Referance

he ‘Grade Pay’ for determining the TA/DA entitlement is as indicated in Central Civil Service(Revised Pay) ,Rules 2008.

The term ‘Pay’ for the purpose of these orders refer to basic pay as defined in Rule3(8) of Central Civil Service(Revised Pay)Rules 2008 and includes the revised non-practicing allowance, if any, admissible in addition.

In respect of those employees who opt to continue in their pre-revised scales of pay, the corresponding Grade Pay of the pay sclaes of the post occupied on 1/1/2006 would determine the TA/DA entitlements under these orders. However, for determining the Composite Transfer Grant for such employees, the term pay shall also include, in addition to the basic pay in the pre-revised Scales, stagnation increments, Dearness Pay and NPA as per orders in force on 1/1/2006.

These orders shall take effect from 1st September,2008. However, if the Travelling Allowance entitlements in terms of the revised entitlements now prescribed result in a lowering of the existing entitlements in the case of any individual, groups or classes of employees, the entitlements, particularly in respect of ‘node of travel, class of accommodation, etc,. shall not be lowered. They will instead continue to be governed by the earlier orders on the subject till such time as they become eligible, in the normal course, for the higher entitlements.

The claims submitted in respect of journey made on or after 1st September,2008, may be regulated in accordance with these orders.

It may be noted that no additional funds will be provided on account of revision in TA/DA entitlements. It may therefore be ensured that permission to official travel is given judiciously and restricted only to absolutely essential official requirements.

In so far as the persons serving in the Indian Audit & Accounts Department are concerned, these orders issue in consultation with the Comptroller & Auditor General of India.


Entitlements for Journeys on Tour:

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs.10,000/- and above and those in pay scale of HAG + and above Business / Club Class by air / AC First class by train

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs.7,600 and Rs.8,900
Economy Class by air / AC First class by train

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs.5,400 and Rs.6,600
Economy Class by air / AC II Tier class by train

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs.4,200, Rs.4,600 and Rs.8,900
AC II Tier class by train

Officers drawing grade pay below Rs.4,200
First class / AC IIi Tier / AC Chair car by train

The revised Travel entitlements are subject to following: -

(i) In case of places not connected by rail, travel by AC bus for all those entitled to travel by AC II Tier and above by train and by Deluxe/ordinary bus for others is allowed.

(ii) In case of road travel between places connected by rail, travel by any means of public transport is allowed provided the total fare does not exceed the train fare by the entitled class.

(iii) Henceforth, all mileage points earned by Government employees on tickets purchased for official travel shall be utilized by the concerned department for other official travel by their officers. Any usage of these mileage points for purposes of private travel by an officer will attract departmental action. This is to ensure that the benefits out of official travel, which is funded by the Government, should accrue to the Government.

(iv) All Government servants are allowed to travel below their entitled class of travel.

International Travel Entitlement:

Cabinet Secretary/Secretary to G.O.I. and Equivalent
First Class.

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 10,000 and above and those in pay scale of HAG+
Business/Club Class.
Others Economy Class.

Entitlement for journeys by Sea or by River Steamer (SR. 40):

Offiicers drawing grade pay of Rs. 5400/- and above and those in pay scales of HAG+ and above
Highest Class.

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 4200, Rs. 4600 and Rs. 4800
If there be two classes only on the steamer, the lower class.

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 2400 and Rs. 2800
If there be two classes only on the steamer, the lower class.

If there be three classes, the middle or the second class.

If there be four classes, the third class.

Officers drawing grade pay less than Rs. 2400
The lowest class.

Accommodation entitlements for travel between the mainland and the A&N Group of Islands and Lakshadweep Group of Island by ships operated by the Shipping Corporation of India Limited will be as follows:

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 5400 and above and those in pay scales of HAG+ and above
Deluxe Class.

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs 4200, Rs.4600 and Rs 4800
First/’A’ Cabin class.

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs 2400 and Rs. 2800
Second/’B’ Cabin Class.

Officers drawing grade pay less than Rs. 2400
Bunk Class.

Mileage Allowance for Journeys by Road:

In supersession of S.R.46 and the Government of India’s order thereunder, the grade pay ranges for travel by public/bus/auto/rickshaw/scooter/motor cycle, full taxi/taxi/own car is revised as indicated below:

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs 10,000 and above and those in pay scales of HAG+ and above.
Actual fare by any type of public bus including air-conditioned bus;

OR
At prescribed rates of AC Taxi when the journey is actually performed by AC Taxi;
OR
At prescribed rates for auto rickshaw for journeys by auto rickshaw, own scooter, motor cycle, moped etc.

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 5400, Rs. 6600, Rs. 7600, Rs. 8700 and Rs. 8900
Same as at (i) above with the exception that journeys by AC taxi will not be permissible

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 4200, Rs. 4600 and Rs. 4800
Same as at above.

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs 2400 and above but less than Rs. 4200.
Actual fare by any type of public bus other than air-conditioned bus;

OR
At prescribed rates for auto rickshaw for journeys by auto rickshaw/own scooter/motorcycle/moped etc.

Officers drawing grade pay below Rs. 2400
Actual tare by ordinary public bus only;
OR
At prescribed rates for auto rickshaw/own scooter/motorcycle/ moped etc.

Mileage allowance for road journeys shall be regulated at the following rates in places where no specific rates have been prescribed either by the Director of Transport of the concerned State or of the neighbouring States:
1. For journeys performed in own car/taxi: Rs. 16 per km.
2. For journeys performed by auto rickshaw own scooter, etc.: Rs. 8 per km.
3.The rate of Mileage Allowance for journeys on bicycle on tour and transfer, is revised from 60 paise to Rs 1.20 per kilometer.

Daily Allowance on Tour:

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 10,000/- and above and those in pay scales of HAG+ and above

Reimbursement for Hotel accommodation/guest house of upto Rs. 5000 per day, reimbursement of AC taxi charges of upto 50 kms for travel within the city and reimbursement of food bills not exceeding Rs. 500 per day.

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 7600 to Rs. 8900
Reimbursement for Hotel accommodation of upto Rs. 3000 per day; reimbursement of non-AC taxi charges of upto 50 kms per diem for travel within the city and reimbursement of food bills not exceeding Rs. 300 per day.

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 5400 to Rs. 6600
Reimbursement for Hotel accommodation of upto Rs. 1500 per day, reimbursement of taxi charges of upto Rs. 150 per diem for travel within the city and reimbursement of food bills not exceeding Rs. 200 per day.

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 4200 to 4800
Reimbursement for Hotel accommodation of upto Rs. 500 per day; reimbursement of travel charges of upto Rs. 100 per diem for travel within the city and reimbursement of food bills not exceeding Rs. 150 per day.

Officers drawing grade pay of below Rs. 4200
Reimbursement for Hotel accommodation of upto Rs. 300 per day, reimbursement of travel charges of upto Rs. 50 per diem for travel within the city and reimbursement of food bills not exceeding Rs. 100 per day.

In case of stay/journey on Government ships, boats etc. or journey to remote places on foot/mules etc., for scientific/data collection purposes in organization like FSI, Survey of India, GSI etc., daily allowance will be paid at rate equivalent to that provided tor reimbursement of food bill. However, in this case the amount will be sanctioned irrespective of the actual expenditure incurred on this account with the approval of the Head of Department/controlling officer. For journeys on foot, an allowance of Rs. 5 per kilometer travelled on foot shall be payable additionally.

TA on Transfer:

Accommodation and Mileage Allowance Entitlements:

(i) Accommodation and Mileage Allowance entitlements as prescribed at para 2 above, except for International Travel, for journey on tour by different modes will also be applicable in case of journeys on transfer. The general conditions of admissibility prescribed in S.R. 114 will, however, continue to be applicable.

(ii) The provisions relating to small family norms as contained in para 4(A) of Annexure to M/o Finance O.M. F. No. 10/2/98-IC &F. No. 19030/2/97-EIV dt. 17th April 1998, shall continue to be applicable.

Transfer Grant and Packing Allowance:

(i) The Composite Transfer Grant shall be equal to one month’s pay as defined in para 3 of this O.M. in case of transfer involving a change of station located at a distance of or more than 20 km from each other.

(ii) In cases of transfer to stations which are at a distance of less than 20 kms from the old station and of transfer within the same city, one third of the composite transfer grant will be admissible, provided a change of residence is actually involved.

(iii) At present, only one transfer grant is permitted if the transfer of husband and wife takes place within 6 months of each other from the same place to the same place. With effect from the date of implementation of these orders, in cases where the transfer take place within six months, but after 60 days of the transfer of the spouse, fifty percent of the transfer grant on transfer shall be allowed to the spouse transferred later. No transfer grant shall be admissible to the spouse transferred later in case both the transfers are ordered within 60 days. The existing provisions shall continue to be applicable in case of transfers after a period or six months or more. Other rules precluding transfer grant in case of transfer at own request or transfer other than in public interest, shall continue to apply unchanged in their case.

Transportation of Personal Effects:

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 7600 and above and those in pay scale HAG+ and above
6000 kgs. by goods train/4 wheeler wagon/1 double container 18.00

(Rs. 0.30 per kg. per km.)

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 4200, Rs. 4600, Rs. 4800, Rs. 5400 and Rs. 6600
6000 kgs. by goods Train/4 wheeler wagon/1 single container 18.00

(Rs. 0.30 per kg. per km.)

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 2800
3000 kgs. 9.00

(Rs.0.31 per kg. per km.)

Officers drawing grade pay below Rs. 2800
1500 kgs. 4.60

(Rs.0.31 per kg. per km.)
The rates for transporting the entitled weight by Steamer will be equal to the prevailing rates prescribed by such transport in ships operated by Shipping Corporation of India.


Transportation of Conveyance:

Officers drawing grade pay of Rs. 4200 and above and those in pay scales of HAG+ and above
One motor car etc or one motor cycle/scooter, or one horse

Officers drawing grade pay less than Rs. 4200
One motorcycle/scooter/Moped or one bicycle.

T.A. Entitlement of Retiring employees:

Transportation of Conveyance:

In partial modification of S.R. 147 the expenditure on transportation of conveyance by government servants on their retirement shall be reimbursed without insisting on the requirement that the possession of the conveyance by them while in service at their last place of duty should have been in public interest.

Lumpsum Transfer Grant and Packing Allowance:

(i) The composite transfer grant equal to a month’s pay last drawn as defined in para 3 of this O.M. may be granted in the case of those employees who, on retirement, settle down at places other than the last station(s) of their duty located at a distance of or more than 20 kms. The transfer incidentals and road mileage for journeys between the residence and the railway station/bus stand, etc. at the old and new station, presently admissible are subsumed in the composite transfer grant and will not be separately admissible.

(ii) As in the case of serving employees, government servants who, on retirement, settle at the last station of duty itself or within a distance of less than 20 kms may be paid one third of the composite transfer grant subject to the condition that a change of residence is actually involved.

The TA/DA rates shall automatically increase by 25% whenever Dearness Allowance payable on the revised pay structure goes up by 50%.

Download TA rules Sixth pay commission

India Post to lose its monopoly; Govt. forces courier cost to charge double rates

NEW DELHI: A planned overhaul of a 113-year-old postal law proposes to end government monopoly completely in the next decade and a half, but, ironically, sets the clock back for courier companies, which are governed by a different policy at present. The draft Post Office Bill 2011 aims to open the letter mail segment to the private sector in 15 years by withdrawing all exclusive rights to India Post and removing all pricing curbs on private courier companies. The Department of Posts has sent the draft bill for cabinet approval to replace the archaic Indian Post Office Act 1898. The amendment will also provide greater legitimacy to the courier industry.

"Considering the role of couriers in the present economy, opening up the letter mail sector to them will not only accord legitimacy to the private operators but also would be recognition of market reality ," said an official in the department privy to the cabinet note. Courier companies are not celebrating , though. They say the transition regime proposed is too harsh and could end up killing the over Rs 7,000-crore domestic industry that engages nearly one million workers and pays Rs 1,200 crore in service tax.

In the run-up to the complete deregulation , the draft bill has proposed to open the express mail segment (EMS) with a "reserve area" of 50 gm for all articles at a price multiple of twice the government EMS rate. That is, a courier firm will have to charge at least Rs 50 for a package weighing up to 50 g, which is twice the Rs 25 charged by India Post for its Speed Post service for a similar package. At present, couriers are allowed in the EMS segment without any restriction or price, making the market fiercely competitive. The reserve area regulation will give India Post time to prepare for a more competitive regime.

"The proposal to have a reserve area for EMS is unfair and will lead to anti-competitive behavior by the postal department," said Vijay Kumar, chief operating officer, Express Industry Council of India . It could lead to the extinction of the courier industry, he said. Introduced in 1986, Speed Post is the only EMS service provided by India Post. The department has strongly defended the proposal to impose a reserve area by citing international examples. Globally, postal deregulation has been in phases and exclusive rights for state-run postal business still exist in many countries. In India, the courier industry has run ahead of the postal laws because it was allowed under the foreign direct investment regime, which allows 100% overseas investment in the business. International courier companies, such as DHL , TNT, FedEx and UPS , secured FIPB approval under the 100% FDI route.

The bill will now recognize them under the postal law, but the proposed transition turns the clock back somewhat by imposing restrictions that did not exist earlier. "Over 60% of the business for small- and medium-sized courier business in India is dependent on document delivery, which is typically within the 50 gm weight segment ," said RK Saboo, deputy managing director, First Fight Couriers. The proposal was retrogade and would force small courier firms to close down, he said.

The private industry is also not enthused by the entry in the normal mail business, or letter mail segment , where the draft bill has fixed a reserve area of Rs 150 gm for all registered couriers at a price multiple of Rs 2 times the postage of letter mail. The industry says India Post service is highly subsidized , which industry says will make it difficult for it to compete. The bill, which is likely to be introduced in the forthcoming monsoon session of Parliament, has also proposed to simplify registration and licensing of couriers without charging any fees. Most large domestic courier companies in the country like DTDC, First Flight and Skypak are all registered with the Registrar of Companies

Source: Economic Times 09/07/2011

e-Office Orientation Workshop held

An e-Office OrientationWorkshop of Government of India Nodal Officers was held in New Delhi. This was the first workshop organized by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) of this kind, which was attended by the Nodal Officers of the 18 consenting Departments /Ministries.

Secretary DARPG, Shri Ramesh C. Misra provided a perspective of the e-Office, a Mission Mode Project of the National e-Governance Plan and decisions of the GoM on the 11 Report of the 2 Administrative Reforms Commission. He also narrated the insights emerging from the implementation of the three pilot sitessince September 30, 2010– at Department of Information & Technology (e-Gov. Division), Department of Personnel &Training (Training Division) and DARPG. There was also a reference to the draft Central Secretariat Manual of Electronic Office Procedure targeted to be prepared by June 30, 2011.

On the occasion a presentation was made on the implementation of e-Office by National Informatics Centre which included background and objectives, framework, deployment plan, change management, business process re-engineering and monitoring.An online demonstration of the product and its features was also shared where-in the modules related to email integration, e-File, e-Leave, e-Tour, Knowledge Management were explained. Case study of e-Office implementation in the Cabinet Secretariat was also presented.There was consensus inWorkshop on the tasks involved in e-Office implementation. They included the following:

1.To streamline and automate all the internal processes (covering establishment, finance and accounts, stores and purchase);
2.To embed all the rules and regulations (stipulated in the CCS guidelines, the FR, SR, GAR, GFR etc.) that govern and validate the execution of all the workflows;
3.To be completely workflow based and data driven through structured forms.
4.To conform to the e-Governance Standards;
5.To have sufficient flexibility to configure and accommodate core activities of the office;
6.To provide user-friendly front-end enabling quick learning and acceptability by employees; and
7.To satisfy the commitments relating to RTI Act, Citizen's Charter and CAG and other audit bodies.


Courtesy : CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS

Ultimate Definitions

OFFICE:

A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life

CIGARETTE:

A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other!

MARRIAGE:
It's an agreement wherein a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master

LECTURE:
An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students withoutpassing through the minds of either

CONFERENCE:
The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present

COMPROMISE:

The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece

TEARS:

The hydraulic force by which masculine will power is defeated by feminine water-power!

DICTIONARY:

A place where divorce comes before marriage

CONFERENCE ROOM:

A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on

ECSTASY:

A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before

CLASSIC:

A book which people praise, but never read

SMILE:

A curve that can set a lot of things straight!

YAWN:

The only time when some married men ever get to open their mouth

ETC:

A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do

COMMITTEE:

Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together

EXPERIENCE:

The name men give to their Mistakes

ATOM BOMB:

An invention to bring an end to all inventions

PHILOSOPHER:

A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead

DIPLOMAT:

A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip

OPPORTUNIST:

A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river

OPTIMIST:

A person who while falling from EIFFEL TOWER says in midway "SEE I AM NOT INJURED YET!"

PESSIMIST:

A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, Instead of the first letter in OPPORTUNITY

MISER:

A person who lives poor so that he can die RICH!

FATHER:

A banker provided by nature

CRIMINAL:

A guy no different from the other, unless he gets caught

BOSS:

Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early

POLITICIAN:

One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence Later

DOCTOR:

A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by his bills!

This content is shared with GConnect by Mr. Padmanabhan Vijayaraghavan, an active GConnect member.

Courtesy: http://www.gconnect.in/

When to Withdraw money from PF,PPF

Any financial planner will tell you that the best way to face a financial emergency is to be prepared for it by making adequate arrangements to tackle it. Often, creating a contingency fund is the first step in financial planning. But very few adopt such a systematic approach and end up scraping the bottom of the barrel to meet exigencies.

They don't hesitate to even tap expensive sources of funds like credit cards and personal loans, failing to realise the harm such costly source of funds can do to their finances over a period of time. Instead, they can turn to their long-term savings, if any, to tide over the financial emergency. For instance, you can look at liquidating your investments or withdrawing from your provident fund (PF) and public provident fund (PPF). Loans, too, can be availed of against such investments.

PROVIDENT FUND

Being a mandatory form of investment in most organisations, a salaried individual is likely to have some savings in his/her PF account. You can dip into it in times of crises. Donote though that if you make a withdrawal within five years of continuous employment, it will be liable to tax, unless you demonstrate that it is being done to fund the purchase of a house or your daughter's wedding.

A tax free withdrawal is also allowed if you are unemployed due to ill health. This apart, you can also avail of a loan against your PF.

PUBLIC PROVIDENT FUND

Now, PPF is made up of voluntary contribution made by an individual with the objective of building a retirement corpus. Unlike PF, this does not entail any employer contribution. Contributions made to PPF can be claimed as deductions under section 80C, subject to the overall ceiling. On maturity, the proceeds received are tax-free as well, making it the most attractive and popular avenue for retirement planning. Like PF, this can be used during financial emergencies.

For the purpose, the account needs to be at least seven years old. You are allowed to make one withdrawal every year from the seventh year, subject to a formula – roughly 50% of your PPF balance three years prior to the date of withdrawal. Again, you can borrow against your PPF from the third financial year of opening the account.

You are permitted to borrow upto 25% of the balance two years before the withdrawal. Though you can exercise these options in times of desperate need,you need to remember that it is best to create a contingency fund to meet financial exigencies . By withdrawing from the PF and PPF accounts, you stand to lose out on the compounding effect which is essential for your investment to acquire a decent size by the time you retire.

Source: Economic Times & www.investmentkit.com

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Alcohol for Diabetics

Alcohol for Diabetics

Alcohol is everywhere – at family gatherings, at cookouts, after the cricket game, at parties…. "What would you like to have?" someone asks. If you have diabetes, what should you say?

It all depends. Start by asking yourself three basic questions:

1. Is my diabetes under control?
2. Does my doctor agree that I am free from health problems that alcohol can make worse - for example, diabetic nerve damage or high blood pressure?
3. Do I know how alcohol can affect me and my diabetes?

If you said "yes" to all three, it's okay to have an occasional drink. What does occasional mean? The American Diabetes Association suggests that you have no more than two drinks a day if you are a man and no more than one drink a day if you are a woman, though an increasing number of experts suggest that you have only three or four drinks a week. This recommendation is the same for people without diabetes.

Your Body and Alcohol
Alcohol moves very quickly into the blood without being broken down (metabolised) in your stomach. Within five minutes of having a drink, there's enough alcohol in your blood to be measured. 30 to 90 minutes after having a drink, the alcohol in your bloodstream is at its highest level.

Your liver does most of the job of breaking down the alcohol once it is in your body. But it needs time. If you weigh 68 Kgs, it will take about two hours to metabolise a beer or mixed drink. If you drink alcohol faster than your liver can break it down, the excess alcohol moves through your bloodstream to other parts of your body. Brain cells are easy targets. When someone talks about getting a buzz from alcohol, this is what they are feeling.

Risk of Low Blood Sugar
If you have diabetes and take insulin shots or oral diabetes pills, you risk low blood sugar when you drink alcohol. To protect yourself, never drink on an empty stomach. Plan to have your drink with a meal or after eating a snack.

How does alcohol add to your chances of having low blood sugar? It has to do with your liver. Normally, when your blood sugar level starts to drop, your liver steps in. It goes to work changing stored carbohydrate into glucose. Then it sends the glucose out into the blood, which helps you avoid or slow down a low blood sugar reaction. However, when alcohol enters your system, this changes. Alcohol is a toxin. Your body reacts to alcohol like a poison. The liver wants to clear it from the blood quickly. In fact, the liver won't put out glucose again until it has taken care of the alcohol! If your blood glucose level is falling, you can quickly wind up with very low blood sugar.

This is why drinking as little as 2 ounces of alcohol (that's about 57 ml; around two drinks) on an empty stomach can lead to very low blood sugar. When you mix alcohol and exercise, you increase the risk of going low. This can happen because exercise helps lower your blood sugar levels. Let's say you've just played a couple of hard sets of tennis. You have a beer after the match. But in the hours after the game, your body is still working. It is replacing the energy your muscles used up. To do this, it clears glucose from the blood and adds it to the muscles' store. This is why exercise can cause your blood sugar level to go down.

If you take insulin or diabetes pills, they too are working to clear glucose from your blood. Unless you eat or your liver adds glucose to your blood, you could be heading for a low blood sugar level. If you drink a beer, the alcohol will stop your liver from sending out any glucose. Your chances of going low are even higher. Check with your doctor to see if it is alright to combine alcohol with your diabetes medications. Low blood sugar when drinking, is less of a risk for those with type 2 diabetes, who control their diabetes with meal planning and exercise alone.

Alcohol affects your body's ability to get over a low blood sugar level. If you have low blood sugar, you may need to treat it more than once, as time goes by. If you've been drinking, check your blood sugar before you go to sleep. Eat a snack before you retire to avoid a low blood sugar reaction while you sleep.

Your Diabetic Wife Diabetes mellitus is like your wife, It will be with you throughout your life;It's yours to adjust and compromise, With all the resources that form your premise. Diabetes and militancy cannot be terminated, It can be controlled but not eliminated; It affects every part of your body's action, And shows its might with destruction. Diabetes is a dangerous companion, It engulfs you without compassion; Dips you it in deep sea to fret, With aggression, without regret. Control your diabetes with ideal weight, Drugs are secondary but they can't wait; Exercise and diet together, Can almost protect you forever. Keep you lipids level in the safe zone, And your HbA1c within seven alone; As if in heaven, learn to enjoy life, Without changing you lifestyle or your 'wife'. Dr. K Babu Rao is Rtd Sr. Medical Superintendent, Railways, and Consulting Surgeon & Physician, Visakhapatnam

A Warning
Glucagon shots don't help severe low blood glucose caused by drinking. Glucagon shots treat very severe low blood glucose reactions caused by too much insulin. Glucagon works by getting your liver to release more glucose into your blood. But alcohol stops this process. You need to be able to treat your reaction with a carbohydrate, such as oral glucose tablets or gels. So you need to avoid letting a low blood glucose level become severe. If you pass out, you will need glucose injected into your bloodstream by a healthcare professional. Heavy drinking over time can hurt your liver. It won't be able to make glucose as well. When this happens, your diabetes is harder to control.

Wise Drink Choices
Some drinks are better choices for people with diabetes. Select drinks that are lower in alcohol and sugar. If you use mixers in your drinks, choose ones that are sugar free, such as diet soft drinks, diet tonic, club soda, or water. This will help keep your blood sugar levels in your target range.

Light beer and dry wines are good choices. They have less alcohol and carbohydrates and fewer calories. To make drinks last longer, try a "spritzer": Mix wine with sparkling water, club soda, or diet soda. Try a "virgin" Bloody Mary made without alcohol.

Alcohol is a Poor Choice
People with diabetes should preferably not drink alcohol. Alcohol can make some diabetic problems worse. If you have nerve damage from diabetes in your arms or legs, drinking can make it worse. Alcohol is toxic to nerves. Drinking can increase the pain, burning, tingling, numbness, and other symptoms found with nerve damage. Some studies show that even regular light drinking (less than two drinks per week) can bring on nerve damage.Heavy drinking (three or more drinks per day) may make diabetic eye disease worse. If you have high blood pressure, you can lower it if you stop drinking alcohol. Many people with diabetes have high levels of the fat called triglycerides in their blood. If you do, you should not drink alcohol. Alcohol affects how the liver clears fat from the blood. Alcohol also spurs the liver on to make more triglycerides. Even light drinking can raise triglyceride levels.





Courtesy-Dr. R N Mehrotra at Apollo Health City, Hyderabad & http://tkbsen.blogspot.com

Gratuity Amount Calculation

Employees, as defined here, are the ones hired on company payrolls. Trainees are not eligible and gratuity is paid on the basis of the employee’s basic plus dearness allowance if any.

How much can you get?

You become entitled to a gratuity on resignation or on retirement after five years or more of service. As per the Act, the gratuity amount is 15 days’ wages multiplied by the number of years put in by you. Here wage means your basic plus dearness allowance. Take the monthly salary drawn by you last (basic plus dearness allowance) on resignation or retirement and divide it by 26, assuming there are four Sundays in a month. This is your daily salary. Multiply this amount by 15 days and further with the number of years you have put into service.

For instance, if your average monthly salary is Rs 50,000, the gratuity payable to you after 10 years of service would be Rs 290,000. However your employer factors in another term: ‘uninterrupted service’. The term covers the service period of the employee including leaves or breaks, except periods notified as breaks in service by the employer.

For employees who do not fall under the Gratuity Act, the amount due for them is half of the average ten months’ salary multiplied by the number of years of service.

How to calculate Gratuity ?

Gratuity = (Last drawn salary + Dearness Allowance / 26) x 15 x Number of years of service

Source : Rediff & igecorner.com

How to Remove Friends on Facebook

Want to delete a friend on Facebook? This guide will show you how to do it.

Once you have logged in to Facebook, on the top right of the page, click on the Account tab and then select the Edit Friends option, which is the one highlighted in the next image:

Once you have done that, you will be directed to a new page. Click on the large button that says "Recently Interacted," located right above your list of friends, and select "All friends" in the appearing menu. This way you will see the list of all your Facebook friends.

Now you just have to click on the big X at the right side of each friend you want to remove. Facebook will ask you if you are sure, and you will have to click on the button that says "Remove from Friends" to confirm the action.

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Special Recruitment Drives for backlog Vacancies reserved for SCs/STs/OBCs/PWDs

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

Government Launches Drive to fill up Vacant Posts of SCs/STs/OBCs/PWDs

The Government has launched a drive to fulfil the backlog vacancies of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs and Persons with Disabilities.

This is following a review of the vacancy position in these categories by the Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances & Pension, Shri V.Narayansamy recently. All Ministries/Departments have been directed to fill up all the vacant posts in these categories by March 31, 2012.

The Government has been concerned about non-filling up of large number of backlog vacancies reserved for SCs/STs/OBCs/PWDs. Therefore, two Special Recruitment Drives – one for SCs, STs and OBCs another for PWDs were launched in 2008 and 2009 respectively.

The Drives enabled various offices to fill up about 26750 backlog vacancies but large number of such vacancies are remaining to be filled up.

Source: PIB