POSTAL HOLIDAYS LIST– 2015

HOLIDAYS LIST– 2015

Sl.No.	Occasion	Date Christian Era	Date Saka Era	Day of the Week
1	Republic Day	January 26	Magha 06	Monday
2	Maha Shivaratri	February 17	Magha 28	Tuesday
3	Mahavir Jayanti	April 02	Chaitra 12	Thursday
4	Good Friday	April 03	Chaitra 13	Friday
5	Vishu/ Vaisakhadi/Bahag Bihu	April 15	Chaitra 25	Wednesday
6	Buddha Purnima	May 04	Vaisakha 14	Monday
7	*Idu’l Fitr (Ramzan)	July 18	Ashadha 27	Saturday
8	Independence Day	August 15	Sravana 24	Saturday
9	Onam	August 28	Bhadra 06	Friday
10	*Idu’l Zuha (Bakrid)	September 25	Asvina  o3	Friday
11	Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday	October 02	Asvina 10	Friday
12	Dussehra  (Vijaya Dashmi)	October 23	Karthika 01	Friday
13	* Muharram	October 24	Karthika 02	Saturday
14	Diwali (Deepavali)	November 10	Karthika 19	Tuesday
15	Guru Nanak’s Birthday	November 25	Agrahayana 04	Wednesday
16	*Milad-Un-Nabi or Id-E-Milad (Birthday of Prophet Mohammed)	December 24	Pausha 03	Thursday
17	Christmas Day	December 25	Pausha 04	Friday

    

* Subject to change depending on the sighting of the moon.

                The dates for the four holidays of Idu’l Fitr (Ramzan) (July 18), Idu’l Zuha(Bakrid) (Sept. 25),  Muharram (Oct. 24)  and Birthday of Prophet Mohammed (Dec. 24) have been adopted from the Central List.  If the State Government changes any of these holidays, the changed date only will be observed as a Closed Holiday for Central Government Offices also.  But if the State Government sanctions any additional holiday(s) in connection with the above occasions, the date(s) of such additional holiday(s) will be observed as Restricted Holiday(s) only for Central Government Offices. If the change of date of any of the above occasions is notified at very short notice, announcement through TV/AIR/Newspaper can be taken as authority for such change.

RESTRICTED HOLIDAYS 2015

Sl. No.	Occasion	Date Christian Era	Date	Day of the Week
SAKA ERA 1936
1	New Year’s Day	January 01	Pausha 11	Thursday
2	Makara Sankranti	January 14	Pausha 24	Wednesday
3	Pongal	January 15	Pausha 25	Thursday
4	Basanta Panchami / Sri Panchami	January 24	Magha 04	Saturday
5	Guru Ravidas’ Birth Day	February 03	Magha 14	Tuesday
6	Swami Dayanand Saraswati Jayanti	February 14	Magha 25	Saturday
7	Shivaji Jayanti	February 19	Magha 30	Thursday
8	Attukal Pongala  / Holika Dahan	March 05	Phalguna 14	Thursday
9	Holi	March 06	Phalguna 15	Friday
10	Chaitra Sukhladi/Gudi Padava/Ugadi/Cheti Chand	March 21	Phalguna 30	Saturday
SAKA ERA 1937
11	Ram Navami	March 28	Chaitra 07	Saturday
12	Maundy Thursday	April 02	Chaitra 12	Thursday
13	Easter Sunday	April 05	Chaitra 15	Sunday
14	Vaisakhi/Masadi	April 14	Chaitra 24	Tuesday
15	Thrissur Pooram	April 29	Vaisakha 09	Wednesday
16	May Day	May 01	Vaisakha 11	Friday
17	Hazarat Ali’s Birth Day	May 03	Vaisakha 13	Sunday
18	Guru Rabindranath’s Birth day	May 09	Vaisakha 19	Saturday
19	St: Thomas Day	July 03	Ashada 12	Thursday
20	Jamat-ul-Vida	July 17	Ashadha 26	Friday
21	Rath Yatra	July 18	Ashadha 27	Saturday
22	Karkadaka Vavu	August 14	Sravana 23	Friday
23	Parsi New Year’s Day/Nauroz	August 18	Sravana 27	Tuesday
24	First Onam	August 27	Bhadra 05	Thursday
25	Third Onam / Avani Avittam	August 29	Bhadra 07	Saturday
26	Fourth Onam/ Sreenarayana Guru Jayanti	August 30	Bhadra 08	Sunday
27	Janmashtami	September 05	Bhadra 14	Saturday
28	Ganesh Chaturthi/Vinayak Chaturthi	September 17	Bhadra 26	Thursday
29	Sree Narayana Guru Samadhi	September 21	Bhadra 30	Monday
30	Dussehra (Maha Saptami) Additional	October 20	Asvina 28	Tuesday
31	Dussehra (Maha Ashtami) Additional	October 21	Asvina 29	Wednesday
32	Dussehra (Maha Navami)	October 22	Asvina 30	Thursday
33	Maharishi Valmiki’s Birth Day	October 27	Karthika 05	Tuesday
34	Karaka Chaturthi (Karva Chouth)	October 30	Karthika 08	Friday
35	Deepavali (North India)	November 11	Karthika 20	Wednesday
36	Govardhan Puja	November 12

Alteration of date of birth of a Government Servant — reiteration of the instructions.

DoPT Order: Alteration of date of birth of a Government Servant — reiteration of the instructions.

F.No.19017/1/2014-Estt (A-IV)

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

Department of Personnel and Training

North Block, New Delhi-110 001

Dated : 16th December, 2014

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject : Alteration of date of birth of a Government Servant — reiteration of the instructions.

Rule 56 of Fundamental Rules states that except as otherwise provided in the rule, every Government servant will retire from service on the afternoon of the last day of the month in which he attains the age of sixty years.

Provided that a Government servant whose date of birth is the first of a month shall retire from service on the afternoon of the last day of the preceding month on attaining the age of sixty years.

2.  As per Note 6 below the aforesaid Rule, the date of on which a Government servant attains the age of fifty-eight years or sixty years, as the case may be, shall be determined with reference to the date of birth declared by the Government servant at the time of appointment and accepted by the Appropriate Authority on production, as far as possible, of confirmatory documentary evidence such as High School or Higher Secondary or Secondary School Certificate or extracts from Birth Register. The date of birth so declared by the Government servant and accepted by the Appropriate Authority shall not be subject to any alteration except as specified in this note. An alteration of date of birth of a Government servant can be made, with the sanction of a Ministry or Department of the Central Government, or the Comptroller and Auditor-General in regard to persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, or an Administrator of a Union Territory under which the Government servant is serving, if —

(a) a request in this regard is made within five years of his entry into Government service;

(b) it is clearly established that a genuine bona fide mistake has occurred; and

(c) the date of birth so altered would not make him ineligible to appear in any School or University of Union Public Service Commission examination in which he had appeared, or for entry into Government service on the date on which he first appeared at such examination or on the date on which he entered Government service.

3. The Supreme Court of India in Civil Appeal No.502 of 1993 — Union of India Vs. Harnam Singh — Judgement dated 9th February, 1993 had observed that :

"Inordinate and unexplained delay or laches on the part of the respondent to seek the necessary correction would in any case have justified the refusal of relief to him. His inaction for all this period of about thirty five years from the date of joining service, therefore precludes him from showing that the entry of his date of birth in service record was not correct".

The observations of the Apex Court was also circulated to all Ministries and Departments of the Government of India vide OM No.19017/2/92-Estt.(A) dated 19-5-1993.

4. All the Ministries and Departments are requested to keep the above in view while processing cases of requests for changes of date of birth.

5. Hindi version follows.

sd/-

(B.Bandyopadhyay)

Under Secretary to the Government of India

Source: www.persmin.nic.in
[http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02est/19017_1_2014-Estt.A-IV-16122014.pdf]

Government decides to pay 8.75% interest on PF for 2014-2015

Government decides to pay 8.75% interest on PF for 2014-2015

Over five crore provident fund subscribers governed by the EPFO will get 8.75 per cent interest on their deposits for the current fiscal. 

The Finance Ministry has ratified the rate for 2014-15, after a decision was taken to retain the interest payout at this level by the Central Board of Trustees of the Employees'Provident Fund Organisation, sources said. 

As per the practice, EPFO trustees' decision gets implemented after the concurrence of the Finance Ministry. 

Following the ratification by the Finance Ministry, the decision would now be notified by the Labour Ministry as also by the Income Tax Department.

RAJYA SABHA QUESTION ON 7th PAY COMMISSION

RAJYA SABHA QUESTION ON 7^th PAY COMMISSION

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

                                                               MINISTRY OF FINANCE     

                                                                    RAJYA SABHA

              QUESTION NO 230

ANSWERED ON 25.11.2014

7th Pay Commission

230 SHRI SHANTARAM NAIK

Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to satate :-a) the details of meetings, the 7th Pay Commission has taken so far and the items/issues discussed till date;

b) the States, visited, by the Commission if any till date and the States which the Commission proposes to visit;

c) whether the Commission proposes to take the views of the State Governments as regards their pay-scales since invariably, most of the States adopt the Central Pay Commission reports;

d) whether Commission proposes to submit any interim report;

e) whether the Commission proposes to make any recommendations to bring in financial transparency; and
f) if so, the details thereof?

ANSWER

SHRI JAYANT SINHA
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(a)&(b): The 7th Central Pay Commission is required to make its recommendations on its Terms of Reference. Also, the Commission is to devise its own procedure. The Commission’s Terms of Reference do not enjoin upon it to keep the Government updated on its functioning and the procedure being followed by it during the course of its deliberations. 

(c ): The Terms of Reference of the Commission provide that the Commission will make its recommendations, keeping in view, inter alia, the likely impact of the recommendations on the finances of the State Governments, which usually adopt the recommendations with some modifications.

(d)to(f): The Commission is required to submit its report on its Terms of Reference. However, no Report, including any interim one, has so far been submitted by the Commission.

Payment of salary in cash - option to DoP officials

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