Railways to Formulate New Policy to Promote Sports –Mamata Railway Minister gives away Cash Awards to Railway Sports Persons who Won Medals in CWG-2010

Railways to Formulate New Policy to Promote Sports –Mamata Railway Minister gives away Cash Awards to Railway Sports Persons who Won Medals in CWG-2010

The Minister of Railways, Mamata Banerjee felicitated Railway players who won medals for India in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games, Delhi 2010 (CWG-2010), here today. She presented them with a shawl, a memento and the cheque of the award amount. Railway sports persons won 25 Medals for India which include 13 Gold medals, 3 Silver Medals and 9 Bronze medals in CWG-2010. The medal winners were given special Minister’s Award amount and the awards amount of Railway Sports Promotion Board. The Minister’s special awards were Rs. 10 lakh for Gold Medal winner, Rs. 6 lakh for Silver Medal winner and Rs. 4 lakh for Bronze Medal winner. These awards were in addition to the awards given by Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB). The awards of the RSPB were Rs. 5 lakh for Gold, Rs. 3 lakh for Silver and Rs. 2 lakh for Bronze and a promotion/increment in the Railway service.

In her address to the gathering during the felicitation function, the Railway Minister directed Railway Board to formulate a new Policy which will further promote the cause of sports and games so that Railways is able to produce many more talented sports persons who will bring glory to the nation. She said that the new policy should be formulated in such a way so that it provides sufficient encouragement, incentive, better career prospects and better professional and practical support to Railway players. She said that new policy should include incentives for railway coaches also and the provision for best professional facilities to railway sports persons. The Minister emphasized that Railways will not be found wanting in providing adequate support to its players in all respects.

She said that the Railway Ministry is committed to the promotion of the sports in the country through RSPB and will intensify its efforts so that its players bring medals for India in the next Olympics as well. She said that the Ministry will prepare a plan of action for the next Olympics after identifying ten sports discipline for this purpose. She said that the Railway players will be provided all kinds of facilities right from infrastructure to modern equipment to best coaching so that their performance is improved in all national and international events. She said that the Railway sports players are bringing glory and laurels to the nation and hence it is the duty of the Railways to take care of their genuine needs and demands so that they can concentrate effectively in their respective sports and games.

Referring to the tragic accident which happened last week in which Archery Coach Mr. Lenin who belonged to South Central Railway, was killed, the Railway Minister expressed profound grief over the tragedy and conveyed her deep condolences to the bereaved family. She said that en ex-gratia payment of Rs. 5 lakh will be given to the next of the kin of the deceased and Railway will also like to offer a job to his wife if she is willing to work.

The Minister of State for Railways, Shri E.Ahamed who was especially present on the occasion also congratulated the medal winners of Railways.

On this occasion, Chairman, Railway Board, Shri Vivek Sahai said that the tradition of encouraging sports in the Railways is very old and this will continue. Shri Sahai said that Railway sports persons in the CWG-2010 brought one third of Gold Medals won by India.

Shri V.N.Tripathi, Member Staff, Railway Board, and President of RSPB, outlined the achievements of Railway players in CWG-2010

Present on the occasion, Railway Board Members, sports persons, coaches and other seniors officials of the Ministry of Railways.

The Indian Railways, winner of the first ‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar’ instituted by the Government of India, always takes lead in promoting sports in the country. Railways have sixteen Padamshree, three Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, five Dronacharya Sammaan, six Dhyanchand Sammaan and 134 Arjun Puraskar to its credit which have been awarded to its sports persons.

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J-K govt to pay arrears to employees

The Jammu and Kashmir Government has approved the payment of arrears to its employees on account of implementation of the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.

The Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday evening, approved the roadmap for settlement of the arrears, an official spokesman said.

According to the decision, the state government will mobilise its own resources to pay 50 per cent of the arrears while the Centre will be pursued to fund the balance amount, the spokesman said.

The arrears will be paid in varying number of installments and through the General Provident Fund for different categories of employees and which will have different lock-in periods, he said.

Class IV employees shall be paid in four equal annual installments of 25 per cent each starting from 2011-12, with a lock-in period of three years for each installment.

Class-III employees shall be paid in five equal annual installments of 20 per cent each starting from 2011-12 with a lock-in period of four years for each installment.

Class-II and Class-I employees shall be paid in six annual installments starting from 2011-12. The first five installments shall be of 15 per cent each whereas the last installment shall consist of the balance 25 per cent, with a lock-in period of five years for each installment.

Pensioners shall be paid their dues in cash in three to six annual installments beginning from 2011-12, in relation to their categorization in different age-groups, the spokesman said.

The payment of arrears was one of the major demands of the nearly five lake state government employees, who had gone on strike several times over the past two years.

Source: Express India

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Incentive increments for vocational teachers

Incentive increments for vocational teachers

VELLORE: The State government has sanctioned incentive increments to vocational teachers for the higher qualifications acquired by them during their service, as given to other categories of teachers.

The relevant government order No.240 of the School Education Department, dated August 18, 2010, follows a recommendation by the Director of School Education in the wake of the orders issued by the Madras High Court directing the government to grant incentive increments to vocational teachers, in various cases filed by the vocational teachers. The Madras High Court has in its order numbers 6273-6276/2005, dated December 2, 2008, stated “the writ petitions are allowed with a direction to sanction eligible incentive increments to the petitioners for acquiring higher qualifications. Necessary orders shall be passed in favour of the petitioners within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.”

As per the G.O., the Director of School Education has stated that while a pass in B.Ed. is a must for granting incentive increments to other categories of teachers, a pass in B.Ed. cannot be made conditional for eligibility for incentive increments for vocational teachers since B.Ed. is not insisted as a prescribed qualification for vocational teachers.

“However, vocational teachers who are eligible to pursue B.Ed. in various colleges and universities will be granted incentive increments only if they had acquired B.Ed. qualification. But, in the case of vocational teachers in engineering subjects who have an undergraduate (UG) degree or diploma, and who were not eligible for B.Ed., incentive increments can be granted if they had acquired a UG degree or postgraduate degree or diploma in the related subject.”

Vocational teachers in science, commerce and business who have acquired PG degrees in the related subjects would be given two advance increments as first incentive, and those who have M.Phil., Ph.D. or M.Ed. would get two more advance increments by way of second incentive.

In the case of engineering vocational teachers, those having UG engineering degrees or PG diploma in data processing (in the case of business machines and computer programming), or B.E. in Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering or Electrical and Electronics Engineering, or B.Sc. computer science or one-year PG Diploma in Computer Applications (in the case of computer instructors) or DPT with one year practical experience (in the case of printing technology), DME with one year practical experience (in the case of auto mechanic) or DEE with one year practical experience (in the case of electrical motor rewinding) would get two advance increments for possessing PG Diploma, B.E. or M.E. as the case may be, and those having PG degrees, M.Phil. or Ph.D. would get two more advance increments.

The government has stated that the eligible vocational teachers could be given the incentive increments from the date of the G.O.

While welcoming the G.O., S.N. Janardhanan, State organising secretary of the Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Vocational Commerce Teachers Association, has requested the government to make the incentive increments applicable from the date of regularisation of the services of the vocational teachers concerned or the date from which they were getting the monetary benefits for the regularised post, since many senior vocational teachers who had acquired the requisite qualifications even before 2008 and who have been promoted as PG assistants in the academic stream would not be able to get the benefit.

He wanted the incentive increments to be made applicable even to those who have acquired ‘cross major' higher qualifications, that is, in other subjects not related to the basic degree, on a par with other categories of teachers.

Source: The Hindu

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ANDHRAPRADESH govt employees threaten agitation

AP govt employees threaten agitation

Posted by Admin at Saturday, October 23, 2010

Hyderabad, Oct 21 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh government employees today threatened to undertake an agitation if their demands for health insurance and others are not accepted.

"If the government continues with its same negligent attitude, we will decide whether to issue a strike notice, undertake indefinite strike, lighting strike or indefinite hunger strike. We will announce on that day," K Swami Goud, leader of Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers Association, told reporters.

The employees unions would hold protests here next month, he said, adding they met state Chief Secretary S V Prasad over their demands.

The unions demand health insurance and 20 per cent House Rent Allowance (HRA) among other things.

The unions have held discussions with the Cabinet sub-committee earlier but expressed disappointment over the ministers not accepting their major demands.


source; PTI

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AIRINDIA to pay allowances to employees before Diwali

Air India today withdrew its move to defer by a fortnight payment of incentives and allowances to over 29,000 employees, saying these would now be paid a day before Diwali.

"Air India will be paying its employees the salaries for the month of October on November one and flying-related allowances, including Productivity-linked Incentives (PLI), on November four," an airline spokesperson said tonight.

The decision to withdraw the deferment came after strong protests from various unions, including those of the pilots.

Earlier, the national carrier had issued a staff notice saying that while the October salary will be disbursed on November one, PLI and flying allowances would be paid on November 15.

The reasons given for the delay in making the payment was primarily cash crunch caused by month-end rollover expenses like committed month-end payments to oil companies, aircraft induction, spare parts payments, bank loan rollovers and repayment of loans and interest obligations.

The move evoked protests from several Air India unions, which made a veiled threat that they would be forced to "review our cooperation" with the management in smooth running of the airline.

Terming the move as "absolutely uncalled for and outrageous", the union leaders, including those from the Indian Commercial Pilots' Association, said while the management has in the past followed 'no work, no pay rule' very religiously by cutting wages, "the workmen also are free to follow 'no pay, no work' rule to protect their hard earned salary".

"In view of this, we will henceforth be forced to review our cooperation with the management", the leaders had said.

On an average, PLI and flying allowances comprise almost 50-60 per cent of the employees' pay package.

The proposed delay has "completely demoralised the employees who were quite upbeat on the airline posting good growth in revenue, yield and load factor", they said.

They said the employees had "bent backwards" to ensure that, as the official carrier for Commonwealth Games, not a single flight was delayed or cancelled due to the teething trouble at Delhi airport's T3 terminal or a severe monsoon.

Source: Express India

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Rate of Monthly subscription and insurance cover under CGEGIS-1980

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

(RAILWAY BOARD)

RBE.No. 145/2010

dated 6.10.2010.

S.No.PC-VI/230
No.PC-VI/2010/GIS/I


The General Managers,
All Indian Railways/PUs etc.


Subject : Rate of Monthly subscription and insurance cover under CGEGIS-1980 for erstwhile Group 'D' employees placed in PB-1, Grade Pay Rs.1800/- and classified as Group 'C'.

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Attention is invited to Ministry of Finance's OM No.E7.(5)-EV/89 dated 15-05-1989 updating the Central Government Employees Group Insurance Scheme-1980 (CGEGIS), circulated vide Board's letter No.PC-III/89/GIS/I dated 19-09-1989.

2. Consequent upon implementation of recommendatins of 6th Central Pay Commission as accepted by the Government and issue of revised classification vide Board's letter No. PC-VI/2009/I/RSRP/4 dated 08-01-2010, the issue of rate of recovery of monthly subscription and insurance cover under CGEGIS-1980 for erstwhile Group 'D' employees placed in PB-1, Grade Pay Rs.1800/-, have been under consideration in consultation with Ministry of Finance, the nodal Ministry for this purpose, for some time.

3. It has now been decided that subscription towards CGEGIS and insurance coverage to the erstwhile Group 'D' employees placed in PB-1 with Grade Pay Rs.1800 and classified as Group 'C' vide Board's letter No. PC-VI/2009/I/RSRP/4 dated 08-01-2010 (RBE No.05/2010), may be enhanced @ Rs.30/- per month from 1st January of the next calendar year i.e. January-2011.

4. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry.

5. Kindly acknowledge receipt.
(This disposes of Metro Railway's letter No.MRTS/E.340/VIth PC dt. 28-04-2010)

s/d

(Hari Krishan)

Director Pay Commission II

Railway Board

Source: Railway Board Order

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Master Crafts Man (MCM)-Grade Pay 4200-Obstacles to be cleared by this month

Master Crafts Man (MCM)-Grade Pay 4200-Obstacles to be cleared by this month

Ministry of Defence issued an order granting Grade pay 4200 to the MCM, with the approval of DOP&T U.O.No.5358/10/CR dated 25.2.2010,and Ministry of Finance I.D.No.2(16)E.III Desk/2008 dated 10.06.2010 and concurrence of Ministry of Defence(AG/08) vide their U.O.No 164/AG/PB dated 14.06.2010. According to this the grade structures for Industrial Employees in Ministry of Defence will be as follows

i) Grade pay Rs.1900 to Skilled Workers

ii) Grade pay Rs.2400 to Highly Skilled –II Workers

iii) Grade pay Rs.2800 to Highly Skilled –I Workers

iv) Grade pay Rs.4200 to Master Craftsman

But one of the conditions laid down by the MOD to implement this four grade structure is not accepted by all the defence workers federations including INDWF, AIDEF and BPMS.

As per the order,4 (i) The post of Master Craftsman Shall be part of the hierarchy and the placement of Highly Skilled Grade-I in the grade of Master Craftsman will be treated as promotion.

All the federations confronted with this condition and they demanded that HS-I Grade should not be treated as a promotion, instead of this it should be treated as a Placement.

The sources close to the south block told that, the views of these federations has been forwarded to the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance and the matter has been examined by this department. And it is expected that necessary directions, to implement the four grade structure, will be issued by this month.

A decade long demand of the Industrial Employees of Defence Establishments, granting Grade Pay Rs.4200/- for MCM at par with railway artisans, succeeded through many struggles and it will be realized possibly before the end of this month. All the credits for this achievement goes to all the Daefence federations of unions.

Source: GServants

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Extension of Risk Allowance till 31.12.2010.

No.210 12/01/2008-Estt. (Allowance)

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions

Department of Personnel & Training

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New Delhi, dt.13th October, 2010.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Extension of Risk Allowance till 31.12.2010.

The undersigned is directed to refer this Department's OM No.21012/01/2008-Estt.(AL) dated 16.6.2010 vide which payment of Risk Allowance was extended till 30.9.2010. Extension of Risk Allowance for a further period of three months beyond 30.9.2010 has been considered and it has been decided that Risk Allowance may be continued for a further period of three months upto 3 1.12.2010 or till such time Risk Insurance Scheme is implemented, whichever is earlier. All the Ministries / Departments are requested lo ensure implementation of Risk Insurance Scheme before 31.12.2010. No further extension will considered thereafter.

( Zoya C.B.)

Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

Government Order

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