Punishment for Corrupt Officials

The Government is considering a set of proposals to cut the time taken to penalise delinquent Government officials including sacking of officials found to be involved in corruption.

The Government had appointed a three member Committee of Experts to examine and suggest measures to expedite the process involved in Disciplinary/Vigilance Proceedings. The Committee has made a number of recommendations aimed at reducing time taken in conducting and concluding disciplinary proceedings against government servants. In its Report, the Committee has recommended :

· Creation of panels of Inquiry Officers from amongst both serving and retired government servants and enhancement of remuneration for conducting inquiries;

• Prescribing a time limit of two months for completion of minor penalty disciplinary inquiries and 12 months for major penalty disciplinary inquiries;
• Dispensing with second stage consultation with CVC;
• Dispensing with consultation with UPSC in minor penalty disciplinary cases;
• Setting up of Vigilance Commissions with statutory status in the States;
• Introduction of Plea-Bargaining in major penalty disciplinary inquiries;
• Major penalty of compulsory retirement to include cut in pension/gratuity;
• Amendment of Article 311 of the Constitution to provide for dismissal from service on charges of corrupt practices after beginning of trial in a competent court;

The Report of Committee is under examination.

This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Shri V. Narayanasamy in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.


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RTP Employees are entitle to be paid the same salary and emoluments per mensem as are being reserved by the PA w.e.f the date of their appointment

Employees recruited as Postal Assistant in Reserve Trainee Pool Scheme(RTPS) of Postal Department are entitled to be paid the same salary and emoluments per mensem as are being reserved by the Postal Assistant wef the date of their appointment other benefits are subject to their regular absorption in the Postal Department.

Facts: There are 9 Applicants who are Postal Assistant in the Reserve Trainee Pool of Postal Department earlier, they filled an O.A. which was disposed by the Tribunal with a direction to the Respondents to grant the Applicants benefit of regularization, seniority, pay scale, etc. from the initial date they were appointed as P.A. under the reserve Trainee Pool Scheme. That order was passed on the basis of earlier order of Jabalpur Bench of the Tribunal in O.A. NO.82 of 1986,dated 16-12-1986.That order was challenged in High Court which remitted the case back to Tribunal to give separate reasons for regularization ,seniority and salary from the date of their appointment under the Pool Scheme. In view of the above, the earlier order of the Tribunal was reconsidered in the review. But the Applicants were not present. Respondents were heard.

All the nine applicants were appointed as P.A. under the RTP Scheme in 1980.That scheme was withdrawn in 1986. But before that some RTP persons approached the Jabalpur Bench of the Tribunal by the filing T.A. No. 82 of 1986 for the relief which as allowed. That TA was disposed of by Jabalpur Bench. The important point to be noted in the order at para.13 concisely are; (i) To review the policy to stop recruitment/ absorption of person against regular Postal Assistant(ii) None are inducted as P.A. from other wing of Postal Department till the petitioners therein are absorbed against regular posts(iii) No fresh appointment of RTP are made till the policy of recruitment is reserved (iv) The cases of the applicants are considered for absorption on the basis of Circular, dated 30.10.1980 by forming a Screening Committee. Further it was held to keep parity of the RTPs with Postal Assistant in regular posts in regards to salary, etc. The Provision of Circular, dated 30.10.1980 in so far it relates to payment of hourly rates of wages to employees in RTP is discriminatory and violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the constitution. RTP are to be paid the same salary and allowances as was given to Postal Assistants. This order is subject to regular absorption of those RTPs.

The above orders when challenged it was dismissed by Supreme Court also.

The main oreder in T.A. NO.82 of 1986 filed in Jabalpur Bench is the direction of the respondents to treat the Applicants(RTPs) as regular Postal Assistant form the date of their appointment as RTP with all consequential benefits of seniority, pay fixation. They are allowed monetary benefits from the date of filing this O.A.

The Tribunal reconsidered their earlier orders. The Jabalpur Bench in T.A. No.82 of 1986 granted salary and emoluments to be paid to RTPs same as regular P.A. from the date of their appointment. But the Bombay Bench in respect of 9 Applicants herein to treat them as P.A. from the date of their appointment under RTP Scheme with all consequential benefits including seniority and pay fixation. To this extent there is a contradiction in the order of the Bombay Bench.

The Appointment of RTPs herein appointed long back is not disputed. Evidently all the Applicants herein were granted all the consequential benefits from the date of absorption, admitting that the Applicants herein are placed similar to Applicants in O.A. No.82 of 1986.With the above details, the reconsideration of these case as ordered by the High Court of Bombay in its Order, dated 11-06-2010, these OAs are allowed by directing the Respondents to extend the present nine Applicants same relief as granted to the Applicant in T.A. No.82 of 1986 decided by Jaballpur Bench on 16-12-1986 and upheld by Supreme Court by Order, dated 11-05-1988 by dismissing the SLP No. 11313 of 1987 preferred by Union of India against the order of Jabalpur Bench of Tribunal.

Thus all nine OAs are partly allowed in the terms of the above direction.

Above judgement printed in Swamys news August 2011

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Railway Mail Service

The Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology, Shri Sachin Pilot today informed Lok Sabha in written reply to a question that the Department has a well-established procedure and mechanism for settlement of the grievances of its employees. Personal grievances of the employees are addressed by the administrative units concerned on the basis of receipt of such representations. There is a system of regular meetings with the service unions at Divisional, Regional and Circle Levels for redressal of operational grievances. Periodic meetings also take place at the Directorate level with the national representatives of the Unions to discuss operational issues.

The department takes requisite action with respect to employees grievances based on the representations and through the regular meetings.

The Department of Posts does not issue Railway Pass for RMS employees/families. Department of Posts provides a metal token to the RMS employees traveling in the trains for the purpose of carriage of mail as a proof of identity.

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Source : http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=74998

MGNREGA Payments Through Post Offices

The Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology, ShriSachin Pilot today informed Lok Sabha in written reply to a question that the scheme of payment wages under MGNREGA through post offices is operational in 19 Postal Circles ( 26 states and 5 UTs ) of the country ( except Delhi, J & K and Tamilnadu Postal Circles (Tamilnadu and Puducherry).

Circle	Zero-balaceAccounts	SB Accounts	Total
Andhra Pradesh	32,94,537	98,07,124	1,31,01,661
Assam	13,01,924	5,26,661	18,28,585
Bihar	18,03,621	37,72,607	55,76,228
Chattisgarh	31,91,844	2,86,209	34,78,053
Gujrat	17,75,570	2,52,053	20,27,623
Haryana	49,222	11,929	61,151
Himachal Pradesh	63,844	15,072	78,916
Jharkhand	18,12,829	15,04,839	33,17,668
Karnataka	2,98,607	13,43,189	16,41,796
Kerala	1,89,731	0	1,89,731
Madhya Pradesh	12,78,115	2,46,629	15,24,744
Maharashtra	14,28,426	1,50,243	15,78,669
N.E.	41,7749	1,07,668	5,25,417
Orissa	16,16,262	15,279	16,31,541
Punjab	2,02,261	70,651	2,72,912
Rajasthan	30,13,314	31,50,433	61,63,747
Uttar Pradesh	2,39,802	1,60,732	4,00,534
Uttarakhand	1,34,199	87,611	2,21,810
West Bengal	51,30,858	4,44,879	55,75,737
Total	2,72,42,715	2,19,53,808	4,91,96,523

2,19,53,808 SB accounts and 2,72,42,715 zero-balance accounts have been opened in Post Offices for payment of wages under MGNREGA. Department gets remuneration for live SB account from Ministry of Finance. The rate applicable for the year 2011-12 is Rs. 142.76 per account per year. However, Ministry of Finance is not giving any remuneration for zero-balance accounts.

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Source : http://www.pib.nic.in/ 24/08/2011

Central govt employee gets post-retirement benefits at age of 91

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the central government to provide its 91-year-old former employee some of the post-retirement benefits that he had been unable to avail due to lack of information.

Justice S Muralidhar ordered the government to provide former Indian Railways employee KSR Chari the benefits of railway pension and family pension scheme that he had been unable to avail due to a communication gap.

The court was hearing Mr Chari's petition in which he alleged that he had been unable to avail the benefits of the scheme due to lack of proper communication by his first employer State Railway Coal department, which he joined in 1942, to his second employer the National Coal Development Corp (NCDC).

"In conclusion, this court would like to take judicial notice of the fact that with rising inflation and spiralling prices of basic commodities, the life of the elderly in our country is becoming increasingly difficult," the court said.


With every passing day they feel the pinch of rising prices whether it is food, provisions, transport or health care, it said.

The court said the provident fund amount that some of the retired employees got after many years of dedicated service, was meagre by today's rates of income. Moreover, the rates of return on the lump sum amounts had drastically reduced over the years.

"The elderly cannot risk investing their precious savings in the volatile and uncertain share market. Had some of them opted for pension, they would have a better level of sustenance. It is not surprising then that those who gave the best of their productive lives for the progress of the country and the betterment of our lives justifiably feel that they are being treated unfairly and that the Government owes them more," said the court in its 12-page order.

"The lives of the elderly in our country are becoming increasingly difficult. For a majority of retired government servants, the social security cover, if it can be called that, is palpably inadequate to ensure them a decent living," said the court, ordering the government to provide Chari the two post-retirement benefits for railway employees.

The court imposed a fine of Rs. 5,000 each on the coal and mines ministry and NCDC for objecting to Chari's plea that he had come to the court after a gap of several decades after retirement.

Source : http://www.ndtv.com/

Objectionable Content on Websites

Every infrastructure/service may be used for hosting variety of applications and content of any nature. The web infrastructure does not distinguish the nature of content. The technology is therefore, used for purposes which may be liked by one section of society and not liked by other sections of society. Several groups have hosted websites with obscene/objectionable content on internet for variety of purposes. Such sites can be accessed by all sections of users. Most of such websites are hosted outside the country.

The filtering of websites with obscene/objectionable content poses a technical challenge. These websites keep on changing the names, domain addresses and hosting platforms from time to time making it difficult to filter or block such websites using technical tools available in the market. In addition, the tools provide filtering to a limited extent only. The tools, in the process, also filter genuine content and degrade the performance of systems.

The Information Technology Act 2000 amended by the Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 with effect from 27.10.2009 together with the Indian Penal Code 1860, provides legal framework for countering websites with obscene/objectionable content including child pornography. Sections 67, 67A and 67B of the Information Technology Act provides stringent punishment and fine for publishing or transmission of pornography in electronic form as well as hosting on website any information which is lascivious, or contains sexually explicit act or conduct, or depicts children engaged in sexually explicit act. Section 67 provides imprisonment up to three years and fine up to five lakh rupees for first conviction and imprisonment up to five years and fine up to ten lakh rupees for subsequent convictions. Section 67A and Section 67B provides punishment up to five years and fine up to ten lakh rupees for first conviction and imprisonment up to seven years and fine up to ten lakh rupees for subsequent convictions.

This information was given by Shri Sachin Pilot, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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Clarification regarding release of Severance Amount in respect of the GDS expired before subscribing under SDB Scheme-reg.

NO.6-11/2009-PE.II

GOVERNMENTOF INDIA

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND IT

DEPARTMENTOF POSTS

(ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION)

DAK BHAWAN, $ANSAD MARG, NEW DELHI - 110001

THE 16^TH AUG., 2011

TO

1. ALL HEADS OF CIRCLES,

2. ALL POSTAL ACCOUNTS OFFICES

Subject: Clarification regarding release of Severance Amount in respect of the GDS expired before subscribing under SDB Scheme-reg.

Sir/Madam,

I am directed to refer to the Director of Accounts (Postal), Thiruananthapuram. letter No. 1381/GPF/GOS/SOBSI2011 dated 2.08.2011, on the subject cited above and to clarify that Admissible Severance Amount may be released to the heirs/nominees of such deceased GraminDakSevaks, "who have either not opted/not been enrolled under the Service Discharge Benefit Scheme and/or those who had been enrolled under the Scheme but in whose cases(s) no subscription has so far been made under SDBS", as per the existing procedure without referring to the provisions contained in this Directorate OM of even No. dated 1^st April. 2011 and the Regulations enclosed therewith.

Yours faithfully,

Sd/-

(SURENDRA KUMAR)

ASST. DIRECTOR GENERAL(GDS/PCC)

Tele: 011 - 2303 6132

Telefax: 011 - 2309 6031

The Modified ACP Scheme is based on 'Grade Pay Hierarchy' - a VERY INFORMATIVE ARTICLE

Generally we all know that the word ‘Hierarchy’ means ‘an arrangement of items’. The same word plays an important role among the government employees. An employee who gets promoted from lower pay-scale to higher pay-scale as a result of promotion, the formation of pay structure is called ‘Promotional Hierarchy’.

It is very normal that each and every central government employee is eager to get a promotion in his service. The advancement of an employee from one grade to another grade is called promotion. That pattern of pay structure for promotion, which gives one grade to another grade with pay range is called ‘Promotional Hierarchy’.

In every central government departments, various staff are working together, but their pay differs. Promotion is provided on the basis of their own promotional hierarchy of category of post. Hierarchy is not common for all employees. It maintained ‘Basic Pay Structure’ for every category of post in every departments. Even though, the same category of employees working in different departments, they may have also different promotional hierarchy.

Initially in 2008, 6th CPC had recommended the new Grade Pay structure for all Central Government employees, this formation also called ‘Hierarchy of Grade Pay’. This Grade Pay Hierarchy is common for all employees, but ‘Promotional Hierarchy’ will differ to each category. In 5th CPC, the order in pay structure was 3050, 3200, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6500.., but all the employees didn’t get promotion in this order. Every department has different pattern of pay structure for promotion. This is known as ‘Promotional Hierarchy’.

Erstwhile ACP Scheme was based on ‘Promotional Hierarchy’.

The Modified ACP Scheme is based on ‘Grade Pay Hierarchy’.

An employee getting promotion as per his ‘Promotional Hierarchy’, whereas an employee getting MACP upgradation as per ‘Grade Pay Hierarchy’. The Grade Pay has created many anomalies within a single cadre. Hence, all the Trade Unions and Federations summarily rejected and insisted that grade pay of the next promotional post to be granted under the new MACP Scheme instead of granting next higher grade pay in the revised grade pay hierarchy. One more alternative also given by staff side in MACP Core meeting held on 25.2.2010 that the first two MACPs after 10 and 20 years should be to the next promotional post as per the hierarchy of respective department as under the erstwhile ACP scheme and thereafter the third MACP in the next grade pay of the revised pay band and grade pay.

Finally, Dopt has ordered to send the necessary information in respect of specific categories of employees where the MACPs is less advantageous that the erstwhile ACPS. It is based on the discussion with the Staff Side in 3rd meeting of the Joint Committee of MACP Scheme held on 15.03.2011. It identified more in some departments like Railways, Defence, Urban development, Home affairs and Postal.

We have tabled here for your information, hierarchy of some different category of post in various departments…

Group- C cadres existing in the Postal :-

Grade	Grade Pay
MTS	Rs.1800
Sorter	Rs. 1800 (Defunct Cadre)
LDC	Rs. 1900
Junior Accountant	Rs. 2800
Senior Accountant	Rs. 4200
Asst. Accounts Officer	Rs. 4800 (Gr.B)

The present cadre of Technician in Ordnance is as under :-

Grade	Pre-revised Scale	Grade Pay
Technician Skilled Grade	3050 – 4590	1900
Technician Highly Skilled Grade	4000 – 6000	2400
Technician MCM Grade	4500 – 7000	2800

The present cadre of Technician in Railways is as under :-

Grade	Pre-revised Scale	Grade Pay
Technician Skilled Grade	3050 – 4590	1900
Technician Grade-I	4000 – 6000	2400
Technician Grade-II	4500 – 6000	2800
Technician MCM Grade	5000 – 8000	4200

The present Fire Fighting Staff Cadre structure is as under :-

Grade	Pre-revised Scale	Grade Pay
Firemen	3050 – 4590	1900
Leading Firemen	3200 – 4900	2000
Station Officer	4500 – 7000	2800
Asstt. Divisional Fire Officer	5000 – 8000	4200
Deputy Divisional Fire Officer	7450 – 11500	4600

present Clerical grades iThe n Ordnance is as under :-

Grade	Pre-revised Scale	Grade Pay
Lower Divisional Clerk	3050 – 4590	1900
Upper Divisional Clerk	4000 – 6000	2400
Office Superintendents	5000 – 8000	4200

Pay structure

Central Secretariat Central Secretariat Stenographer service – pay structure of various levels:

Grade	Pay Band	Pay Range	Grade Pay
Stenographer Grade ‘D’	PB-I	5,200-20,200	2,400
Stenographer Grade ‘C’	PB-2	9,300-34,800	4,200
Private Secretary Group ‘B’	PB-2	9,300-34,800	4,200
Private Secretary Group ‘B’	Gazetted after 4 years continuous service PB-3	15,600-39,100	5,400
Principal Private Secretary	PB-3	15,600-39,100	6,600
Sr. Principal Private Secretary	PB-3	15,600-39,100	7,600

SECRETARIAT			NON-SECRETARIAT
Entry level	Grade D	4000-6000	Gr.D/III	4000-6000
Next promotion	Grade C/PA	6500-10500	Gr.II	5000-8000
Next promotion	PS	6500-10500	Gr.I	5500-8000
Next promotion	PS	8000-13500	NIL	NIL
Next promotion	PPS	10000-15200	PS/Reporter(M)	6500-10500
Next promotion	Sr.PPS	12000-16500	NIL	NIL

Courtesy : http://cgstaffnews.com/