Some Points / Suggestions for VII th pay commission

It is proposed to give a memorandum to the Chairman of the VII th pay commission our suggestion on the following points, hence it is invited from the colleagues more suggestion   to incorporate in the memorandum.

Since 1946, six pay commissions had been constituted to review and recommend the pay structure of the Central Government Employees. The pay commissions have taken many aspects into consideration to prescribe the pay structure. Some mile stones are

i)                    Living wage

ii)                   Need-based wage

iii)                 Proper pay package

Generally, the pay commission will analyse all the aspects including the economic situation of the country, financial resources of the government, comparison with public sector, private sector and state government pay structure.

It is observed an interesting factor which is common to all the past pay commission recommendations, particularly in the matter of percentage of increase in the pay. Average 3 times increase in the pay commission recommended by each pay commission and it was implemented.

The proposed pay commission prefer to continue the same running pay band and grade pay system the revised pay structure may like as below.

6 th CPC pay structure				7 th CPC projected pay structure
Name of Pay Band	Pay Band	GP	Entry pay+GP	Pay Band	GP	Entry pay+GP
PB-1	5200-20200	1800	7000	15600-60600	5400	21000
PB-1	5200-20200	1900	7730	15600-60600	5700	23190
PB-1	5200-20200	2000	8460	15600-60600	6000	25380
PB-1	5200-20200	2400	9910	15600-60600	7200	29730
PB-1	5200-20200	2800	11360	15600-60600	8400	34080
PB-2	9300-34800	4200	13500	29900-104400	12600	40500
PB-2	9300-34800	4600	17140	29900-104400	13800	51420
PB-2	9300-34800	4800	18150	29900-104400	14400	54450
PB-3	15600-39100	5400	21000	29900-104400	16200	63000
PB-3	15600-39100	6600	25530	46800-117300	19800	76590
PB-3	15600-39100	7600	29500	46800-117300	22800	88500
PB-4	37400-67000	8700	46100	112200-20100	26100	138300
PB-4	37400-67000	8900	49100	112200-20100	26700	147300
PB-4	37400-67000	10000	53000	112200-20100	30000	159000

(Thanks to gservants.com)

Eg: The official drawing pay of Rs18290/= with Grade Pay of Rs5400/= on 31.12.2015 his pay on 01.01.2016 is as below. The DA assumed as 130%(90+40) up to 31.12.2015

Existing Pay (9300-34800)                           Revised Pay(29900-104400)

Pay 18290                                                               42070

GP    5400                                                                16200

HRA  6987                                                               17481

T.A    7360                                                                 7360

D.A  30277                                                                        0

Total Rs 68314                                                    Rs  83111        

    

The 6 th Pay commission introduce a new method of giving annual increment in 1^st July and employees completing six months and above in the scale as on July 1^st will eligible for increment.

It is suggested instead of 1^st July if it is as 1^st Jan the problem of Feb to June and also the increment earned for 6 months qualifying service having the punishment of 6 months increment withheld of the punishment having no effect also solved .The full increment will be earned after completion of one year only.

The pay in the revised scale should be fixed to both those in either in substantive or officiating post on 01.01.2016. The next increment will be on 01.01.2017.

If those who are having non-qualifying service between two increment, the increment to be given as above. Say 11.01.2016 to 20.06.2011 his increment should be reduced for full completed month proportionately as 4*0.25 =1 from 3% and given on 01.01.2017 which is beneficial to the official without any postponement of increment from 01.01.2017.

Those who are promoted on 01.01.2016 the pay in the pre-revised scale should be fixed on 01.01.2016 and 3% increment should be given for promotion with next grade pay.

The increment for promotion having higher responsibility should be minimum 10% (deputation allowance is 10% and teaching allowance 15%) for not involving higher responsibility it may be 3% . For MACP either it may be 3% increase only or a separate intermediately grade pay to be introduced for getting 10% increase. The promotion is not attractive meagre amount of increase in Pay and even in drop in emoluments when promoted to station from 30% station  to 20% station.

Those who are promoted after 01.01.2016 the next increment will be on 01.01.2017 only but at proportionate rate.

               Eg: if promoted on 02.02.2016 then his next increment on 01.01.2017 at 2.75%(3*11/12%)

                ie 0.25%  to be reduced per month. 

      

If those who are having non-qualifying service between two increment, the increment to be given as above. Say 11.01.2016 to 20.06.2011 his increment should be reduced for full completed month proportionately as 4*0.25 =1 from 3% and given on 01.01.2017  which is beneficial to the official.

The same will be adopted for retirement cases also.

Those who are retiring between  Jan to June even though they are having more than six months qualifying service they are not eligible for increment but those who are retiring on or after July and having only six months qualifying service will earn increment on 01.07. This also can be removed by adopting the same analogy as mentioned above by giving proportionate increment.

If this will be recommended it will be another mile stone in the recommendation of pay commission.

For example those who are retiring in between Feb to June they will get a proportionate increment @0.25% per month and it will give some benefit to the retiring employee.

Nowadays, any organized sector or corporate sector welcoming the cashless treatment nearby residence. Hence, instead of Medical Attendance Rules, it is better to provide Health Insurance coverage to all employees with their family on recovering Rs300/= per month as CGHS recovery and provide Insurance coverage to all employees. Nowadays only 20 -30% employees only enjoying the benefit under MA rules but this scheme will cover all the employees.

The yearly contribution by all Central Government employees will touch the amount of Rs 1326 crores by 3684543 employees if it becomes 2 times (ie Rs 600) in 7^th Pay Commission the amount will be Rs 2652 crores but the expenditure on reimbursement of medical claims shows 50% of the above amount for the past 3 years.

2009                        2010                             2011

518.89                    641.21                         599.34 (brochure 34 of Govt of India)

 If health insurance provided, the fear on health will reduce and will give hope on living and on department welfare.

By O.MADHAVARAJ AAO O/o G.M(PAF) Chennai 600 008

Bank Unions to go on two-day strike from January 20

The United Forum of Bank Unions ( UBFU) have called a strike on January 20 and 21, 2014. Around two lakh employees of Rural Bank have also announced to extend their support in the two-day strike.

Scores of bank employees representing 30 bank unions staged a demonstration during the day in front of Punjab National Bank, Birhana Road branch on Monday. Addressing to the bank employees, secretary UP Bank Employees Union, Sudhir Sonkar claimed that the tenth wage revision was due since November 1, 2012 whereas UFBU and Indian Bank Association had convened six rounds of talks and only two points - effective date of wage revision and merger of dearness allowance with 444 consumer price index - were agreed upon.

Sudhir told the demonstrators that institutional expenses of banks amounted to Rs 56,292 crore on March 31, 2012 and that the Indian Bank Association had proposed to enhance the salary at the rate of 5 percent i.e to give Rs 1,575 crore before the December 18 strike.

The banks were under stress due to the rise in pension cost and bad debts therefore they could not propose for higher wage revision IBA had claimed. Sonkar claimed that bank's plea did not have any base for protest as they had earned a gross profit of Rs 1,16,458 crore and after deducting the bad debts they had cornered a net profit of Rs 48,780 crore. Therefore, pleas that banks were bearing the burden of rising inflation and pension service was wrong whereas, the real reason was bad debts in which industrial houses had abstained from repaying loans. Bank employees were not responsible for that. Banks had given around 17.5 percent benefit to its employees by releasing Rs 48.18 crore in the ninth wage revision. Thereafter, an enhancement of 5 percent in wage revision was not called for.

Rajneesh Gupta, president of union, stated that the Central government was busy in framing policies which were not in the interest of the banking industry. The government was proposing to pass the management in the hands of private sector, issuing licenses to industrial houses for opening banks, giving permission to foreign banks to over take Indian banks , giving more relief to debtors, and putting loans of corporate sectors in bad debts. He demanded that strict measures must be taken to recover bad debts and bring all the private and foreign banks under the ambit of public sector banking.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

How to Hide the Excel 2010 Formula Bar

The Formula Bar resides at the top of your Excel window, immediately below the Ribbon area or the Formatting toolbar depending on which version of Excel you own the license to.

There are two parts of the Formula Bar: On the left-hand side is the Name Box and on the right-hand side is the contents of your currently selected cell.

If the Formula Bar serves as a distraction to you, you have the option of turning it off by following the instructions below:

1. Click the File tab of your Ribbon to display the Excel Options dialog box.
2. On the Left-hand side, click Advanced.
3. Scroll down until you see Display options.
   

4. Click on the Show Formula Bar checkbox. If it is already selected, then the Formula Bar is displayed. Deselect it and it will not be displayed.
5. Click Ok.

The Formula Bar resides at the top of your Excel window, immediately below the Ribbon area or the Formatting toolbar depending on which version of Excel you own the license to.

There are two parts of the Formula Bar: On the left-hand side is the Name Box and on the right-hand side is the contents of your currently selected cell.

If the Formula Bar serves as a distraction to you, you have the option of turning it off by following the instructions below:

1. Click the File tab of your Ribbon to display the Excel Options dialog box.
2. On the Left-hand side, click Advanced.
3. Scroll down until you see Display options.

4. Click on the Show Formula Bar checkbox. If it is already selected, then the Formula Bar is displayed. Deselect it and it will not be displayed.
5. Click Ok.

HDMS by CEPT Mysore

The newly developed ‘Help Desk Management System (HDMS)’ to be made operational from 10.01.2014 is an attempt to standardize the mechanism of providing support to the field units in respect of various technical issues in a number of application packages developed by CEPT, Mysore. At present the technical support is being provided through email using the support email id (support@ceptmysore.net). This existing system has a number of limitations of which the most important is the limit of sending emails via Gmail on a particular day resulting in delayed replies to the field units. Moreover a particular issue is being raised at various levels e.g. PO / Division / Region / Circle multiple times resulting in multiple handlings of same case thereby delaying the new cases. “Help Desk Management System (HDMS)" is developed as a solution to a number of such issues. This application is hosted over the website of CEPT i.e. http://cept.gov.in under the ‘Support’ Menu.

The Salient features of this application are as follows:

1. Only registered users having valid user id and password (registered for logging into the CEPT website) can raise a technical issue, called “Ticket”, in respect of pre-defined modules. Any departmental employee can register as a user of CEPT Website & resultantly use the HDMS following due procedure detailed under the Signup link on the Home Page of http://cept.gov.in. 2. The technical issues can be raised for all types of applications developed / maintained by CEPT & being used at all types of offices in the department. However in the first phase of HDMS, a ticket can be raised in respect of 25 major modules / application / website being used at 06 major types of operative offices. The remaining applications / office type is planned to be included under HDMS in second phase subsequently. 3. Each technical issue raised is allotted a unique identity called “Ticket Number” automatically. All correspondences in connection with a particular issue may be seen under this unique ticket number. The user / ticket raiser may remind the CEPT in case the ticket raised by him is not replied within a pre-fixed time frame. 4. Each operative unit shall be mapped to the concerned Division / Region / Circle, which in turn will be able to view the tickets raised for the units under their administrative control. They can also remind on the pending tickets. 5. All the issues raised and solution provided by CEPT will be available for scrutiny at any time and thus in long run, the replies furnished by CEPT will be used to build a knowledge base. 6. The users are encouraged to provide their feedback on the application as well as on the individual tickets. 7. Please click on User Manual for Ticket Raiser to understand the functionality of the various options under HDMS Source: cept.gov.in Visit HDMS Visit CEPT for Registeration.

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Expected DA from Jan 2014 - Additional DA from Jan 2014 likely to hike by 11%

Expected DA from Jan 2014 - Additional DA from Jan 2014 likely to hike by 11% 

The one more and another additional Dearness allowance to Central Government employees and Pensioners from Jan 2014 will be announced in the middle of March 2014. 

This is too early and predict the enhancement in percentage of Dearness allowance with effect from January 2014. The prediction and announcement of this hike make us cool, that the additional DA will jump to 101% and another word, an additional DA would be 11%. 

But, still we have to wait for one more month, that the magic number of AICPIN would be increased by 3% and more..! From the existing level of the AICPIN is now 243, if it becomes 246 in end of December 2013, out prediction will be right…or otherwise certainly we would cross century in total Dearness allowance… 

The table describes the prediction of additional DA from Jan 2014…

Month	Year	AICPIN (IW) BY 2001=100	Points Increasing in AICPIN	Total	Average	App. DA	DA
Jun	2013	231	3	2648	220.67	90.62	90
Jul	2013	235	4	2671	222.58	92.28
Aug	2013	237	2	2694	224.5	93.93
Sep	2013	238	1	2717	226.42	95.59
Oct	2013	241	3	2741	228.42	97.32
Nov	2013	243	2	2766	230.5	99.12
Dec	2013	Expected 246	3	2793	232.75	101.06	101

Source : www.7thpaycommissionnews.in
[http://7thpaycommissionnews.in/expected-da-from-jan-2014-additional-da-from-jan-2014-likely-to-hike-by-11/]

SHORT ARTICLE ON IT MODERNIZATION - CBS implementation of INDIA POST PROJECT 2012

Introduction

                In the changed scenario, modernization of Post office is mandatory to give enhanced service to the costumer, by avoiding duplication of work, better staff management with cost efficiency. For those modernization following methodologies are essential to implement the IT modernization of India Post, and for every below fields, vendors are called and approved by the department of Posts, India. I write this article to the common staffs of department of posts to know easily about the future course of action of our department under IT modernization

IT MODERNIZATION IS CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING

1.   Rural ICT Hardware Provider

Providing infrastructure like hand held device, mobile transmission infrastructures to the rural sub  post offices including BOs. M/s Infosys is signed as vendor

2.  Rural ICT mobile device platform provider – Supplying mobile hand held device software to the rural POs _ M/s Infosys is signed as vendor

      3. Core System Integrator (Except Banking and PLI) – Integrating and maintaining the software and datas for Mails, staff management, Accounts and auditing M/s TCS is signed as vendor

4.       Financial System Integrator (For Banking and PLI) – Integrating and maintain the software and datas for Savings Bank operations(CBS Finacle), PLI and RPLI & ATM installations – M/s INFOSYS is signed as vendor

5.        Data centre Facility – proposed to maintain the centralized main server at PTC Mysore and back  server at Mumbai – M/s Reliance is signed as vendor

6.       Network Integrators – connecting all the post office thro network – SIFY is signed as vendor

7.    Mail office Hardware supply – Supplying required infrastructure for 15000 postmen like hand held devices and hard ware for Mail offices and TMOs _ Still no vendor is nominated

8.     Change Management – Project management units (PMUs) shall be deployed upto regional level to suggest innovative ideas to grow better and effective management to the Postal administrators. – M/s Sai is nominated for that purpose as vendor

CBS implementation

CBS(Core Banking solutions) is one of the areas for FSI, and to migrate to the CBS finacle following pre migration activities like, Database discrepancies cleaning, Circle processing centres(CPC), Signature scanning are required to the migrate the sanchay post data to the CBS finacle centralized server server. PLI/RPLI credit particulars updation are also in FSI and that’s why we are obtaining and updating the omitted credit particulars of PLI/RPLI nowadays.

Need for CBS,

1. Cost efficiency ( For every Banking deposit/withdrawal transaction Nearly Rs 45-50 cost is occurred ) After IT modernization implementation thro ATM (Rs 15-18) and by net banking we could do transactions for Rs4)

2. Improved customer service – By alternate channels like ATM, net banking, mobile banking we could serve 24*7*365 to the customers

Value add on services like, SMS alerts, eBanking, eCommerce facilities can be offered to the postal customers

3. AML/KYC

By assigning Customer Identification File No(CIF) detect multiple accounts of the depositor can be detected, opened across the india.

Avoidance of submitting kyc documents whenever open the accounts by indicating the CIF no (Customer Identification File number assigned by CBS software)

4. Electronic Payment systems like NEFT (National Electronic Fund Transfer), RTGS(Real time gross settlement) facilities can be enabled to the customers to transfer the funds of their account to inter/intra bank beneficiaries.

Benefits to the Department

1.       Financial inclusion can be effected efficiently up to the bottom line of the people

2.       Better decision making by centralized server MIS (Management Information system)

3.       Reduction of cost and availability of man power for redeployment in marketing and other revenue generating capabilities

4.       Increased Productivity and accountability

For employees:

1.       Learn, build and enhance new skills and experiences,

2.       Reduction in Manual work and enhance productivity

3.       IT enabled services to avoid customer complaints

4.       Opportunity to work in an innovation based culture like Banking sectors

5.       Growth and strong Auditing

In FSI (Financial system integrator), for banking activities, CBS finacle software is designed by the INFOSYS, and gradually rolling out to the Pilot offices like T.Nagar HPO, Greames road P.O, Karaikkudi HPO etc.,

                After migration to CBS finacle the following important differences are there with our regular Sanchay Post software. Visit this site to read the differences

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Conclusion:

                In the changing scenario, change is the only thing unchangeable. Department of Post is also not exceptional. By implementing IT enabled services, definitely shortage of staffs shall be eliminated and department is assured not to lift the excess man power and to utilize them for marketing and other growth oriented activities. To survive our best in the twin challenges like increasing competition and continuing advances in communication technology, IT modernization is much essential to uphold the 160 years glories of India post.

Source : Various articles of DOP regarding IT modernization

Shortened and compiled by, K.Kalimuthu PM Grade I, Madurai

For queries, suggestions, doubts please contact 9566330927, muthudsm@gmail.com

Source : http://sapost.blogspot.in/