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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Revised Allowances and Advances due DA above 50 %

The table of Allowances and Advances that would be automatically raised by 25% every time the Dearness Allowance on the revised pay structure goes up by 50%…


S.No.

Name of the Allowances & Advances

Existing

Revised

1.

Children Education Assistance & Reimbursement of Tuition Fee

Rs.12,000
(Per Year – Per Child)

Rs.15,000
(Per Year – Per Child)

2.

Advances for purchase of Bicycle Advacne, Warm clothing Advance,
Festival Advance, Natural Calamity Advance

Rs.3,000

Rs.3,750

3.

Special Compensatory Hill Area Allowance

Rs.600 / Rs.480

Rs.750 / Rs.600

4.

Special Compensatory Scheduled / Tribal Area Allowance

Rs.400 / Rs.240

Rs.500 / Rs.300

5.

Project Allowance

Rs.1,500 / Rs.1,000

Rs.1,875 / Rs.1,250

6.

Speical Compensatory (Remote Locality) Allowance

Rs.2,600 / Rs.2,100/ Rs.1,500 / Rs.400

Rs.3,250 / Rs.2,625/ Rs.1,875 / Rs.500

7.

Cycle Maintenance Allowance

Rs.60 (Per month)

Rs.75 (Per month)

8.

Mileage for road journey all components of daily allowance on tour

Rs.500 / Rs.300 / Rs.200 / Rs.150 / Rs.100

Rs.625 / Rs.375 / Rs.250 / Rs.190 / Rs.125

9.

Rates of Fixed Conveyance Allowance under SR-25 (Motor Car)

Rs.1,120 / Rs.1,680 / Rs.2,070 / Rs.2,430 / Rs.3,000

Rs.1,400 / Rs.2,100 / Rs.2,590 / Rs.3,040 / Rs.3,750

10.

Rates of Fixed Conveyance Allowance under SR-25 (Other modes)

Rs.370 / Rs.480 / Rs.640 / Rs.750 / Rs.850

Rs.470 / Rs.600 / Rs.800 / Rs.940 / Rs.1,070

11.

Washing Allowance

Rs.60

Rs.75

12.

Split Duty Allowance

Rs.200

Rs.250

13.

Spl. Allowance for Child Care for Women with Disabilities and
Education Allowance for disabled children
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Rs.1,000 per month

Rs.1,250 per month

14.

Cash Handling Allowance

Rs.600 / Rs.500 / Rs.400 / Rs.300 / Rs.150

Rs.750 / Rs.625 / Rs.500 / Rs.375 / Rs.190

15.

Postgraduate Allowance

Rs.1,000 / Rs.600

Rs.1,250 / Rs.750

16.

Desk Allowance

Rs.600

Rs.750

17.

Bad Climate Allowance

Rs.400 / Rs.240

Rs.500 / Rs.300

Monday, March 21, 2011

Performance Related Incentive Scheme (PRIS)

Incentive scheme for Central staff to be announced shortly


The incentives will be initially paid out of cost savings made by the department in that fiscal year
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has finally decided to implement the Performance Related Incentive Scheme (PRIS) recommended by the Sixth Pay Commission for all Central government employees. An announcement is expected in the next couple of days, government sources toldThe Hindu. Those government employees who make the cut will start earning their incentives in 2012.

A Committee of Secretaries (COS) chaired by Cabinet Secretary K. M. Chandrasekhar approved the broad contours of the PRIS on March 8, and asked the Department of Expenditure and Performance Management Division, Cabinet Secretariat, to work out guidelines to implement the scheme. Members of the COS included Finance Secretary Sushma Nath, who was also member-secretary of the Commission.
Any department, to qualify for financial incentives, will have to get a performance rating of 70 per cent or more on its Results-Framework Document (RFD) and implement a bio-metric access control system in its offices. As suggested by the Commission, the incentives will be initially paid out of cost savings made by the department in that fiscal year and hence there will be no additional burden on the exchequer for implementing the PRIS, government sources said. Initially, for every rupee saved by the department, it will allow to distribute up to 15 paise depending on its performance.
The PRIS will cover all employees of the department. While incentives paid to the Secretaries will depend entirely on departmental performance reflected in the RFD, incentives paid to Joint Secretaries will depend on a weighted average of their division's performance and departmental performance. Incentives for junior employees will depend primarily on their individual performance.
However, all employees will need to go through a rigorous performance appraisal system consistent with the RFD evaluation methodology.
Indeed, incentives will start rolling out only after a department has prepared two rounds of robust RFDs, so as to truly capture departmental performance. Given that 2010-11 was the first year for implementation of 12-month RFDs, performance incentives will be paid from 2012-13 to employees who make the cut.
The decision to implement the PRIS comes in the wake of the Prime Minister's Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System (PMES) for government departments that was approved in September 2009.
Interestingly, of the departments that have gone through the exercise, there have been some notable exceptions including the Ministries of Home, Finance, Defence, External Affairs, and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
Objections
This has led to objections from officials of other Ministries: the feeling is that these key ministries and departments influence the work of other departments, and unless they, too, are brought under the scanner, the RFD will be redundant and unproductive.
The view from the Cabinet Secretariat is that the Prime Minister did not keep any department out of the ambit of the evaluation process, but it was felt that it would be better to implement it in phases for practical, operational reasons.
The original idea was to cover all 84 ministries and departments - it started with 59 departments in the last quarter of 2009-10, and currently covers 62 departments.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Sarosh Homi Kapadia--The office boy who became Chief Justice of India

I come from a poor family. I started my career as a class IV employee and the only asset I possess is integrity.

Sarosh Homi Kapadia

At a time when the Indian judicial system is mired in controversy, thanks to the likes of KG Balakrishnan and PD Dinakaran, comes a man with the courage and the integrity to say all is not well with the system.

India's 38th chief justice S H Kapadia began his life as an office assistant who ran errands at a law firm. But deep down, he wanted to study law and be a judge.

Homi Kapadia hailed from a lower middle class Parsi family: his father was a clerk and his mother a homemaker. Quality education was a luxury. Which is why, in 1960, he took up a humble job at the law offices of Behramjee Jeejeebhoy.

His colleagues hadn't imagined even in their wildest dreams that he would one day go on to become the chief justice of India.

A co-worker from his early years told The Indian Express, "He was a young boy when he joined us to help senior advocates carry their heavy case briefs. His self-conscious demeanour would force me to wonder at times what he was doing in such a smart law firm".

The young Sarosh first sought to help his father and finance his younger brother's education before embarking on his journey to become a lawyer.

At 27, in 1974, he became counsel for the income tax department. He was appointed additional judge of the Bombay High Court in 1991 and made a permanent judge in 1993. He decided on matters relating to the environment, banking, industries, and taxation. He also presided over the high-profile Ketan Parekh stock scandal case in 1999, and played an important role in the proceedings of the Joint Parliamentary Committee constituted to investigate the scam.

On 5 August 2003 he became the Chief Justice of the Uttaranchal High Court and on December 2003 was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court.

Here, Kapadia delivered some landmark judgments. In one, he ruled against DNA testing in a property dispute case. He was also part of a three-member bench that heard the income tax case of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav. The case went in Lalu's favour.

On 12 May 2010, Kapadia was sworn in as the Chief Justice of India by President Pratibha Patil.

Soon after his appointment, Kapadia wrote to retired Justice V R Krishna Iyer, replying to his congratulatory letter, "I come from a poor family. I started my career as a class IV employee and the only asset I possess is integrity. Even as a judge of the Supreme Court, I have used my knowledge of accounts and economics for the welfare of the downtrodden, including tribals and workmen. I hope to fulfill my obligation to the Constitution in the matter of achieving the goal of inclusive growth."

His actions, after he took over, clearly show that he is here to set the judicial house in order.

Kapadia has warned against frivolous public interest litigation (PIL). "Huge costs will be imposed against those filing frivolous PILs," Kapadia said, during a hearing. But the Indian courts are choked with cases filed by frivolous litigants who, for example, want to teach their political and business rivals a lesson. Citizens hope Kapadia will deal with them as firmly.

Reviving judicial activism

Kapadia was instrumental in asserting the supremacy of the apex court by exposing the irregularities in the telecom sector. He has ordered a thorough probe in the 2G spectrum scam and told the CBI to investigate the process of granting of licences which caused the Indian exchequer huge losses.

In fact, a Supreme Court bench questioned PM Manmohan Singh's inaction and silence on the 2G spectrum scam and asked the centre to file an affidavit on the PM's silence on Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy's petition seeking action against A Raja.

Kapadia is a judge who is unafraid of the politically powerful. In the latest case, he has unseated central vigilance commissioner PJ Thomas, and rattled the power elites of the nation. In 2010, a bench headed by him had questioned the appointment of Thomas as the CVC when he faced charges of corruption in the palmolein import case. The appointment of Thomas had been challenged in two public interest petitions, one of them filed by former chief election commissioner JM Lyngdoh.

When it comes to PILs with merit, Kapadia has been sympathetic. In another landmark ruling, the Supreme Court said mentally challenged rape victims could have babies.

A bench headed by Kapadia ruled in favour of a 20-year-old woman, raped at Nari Niketan, an institution run by the Chandigarh administration. She wanted to have the baby but the Chandigarh administration moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court citing it was in best interest of the mother to undergo an abortion, to which the court gave a go-ahead. The Supreme Court overturned the verdict saying that human rights for a disabled woman in state custody should be strengthened, not weakened.

When it comes to human rights, the Supreme Court under Kapadia has held that narco-analysis, brain-mapping and polygraph tests on suspects can only be done if the suspect agrees to undergo such tests.

In another important verdict, the Supreme Court ruled that the governor of a state could not be removed if he/she does not agree with the policies or ideologies of the union government or with the party at power at the centre. It also ruled that the state government could not remove a governor on the grounds that it has lost confidence in him/her.

The rigorous intent with which the apex court has pursued a wide range of cases has given new hope to ordinary citizens. Kapadia's efforts could repair the damage that our judicial system has suffered durring the tenure of Balakrishnan.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Disciplinary Action Against Govt. Servants

Time-Limit for Disciplinary Action Against Govt. Servants


The Government had appointed a three member Committee of Experts to examine and suggest measures to expedite the process involved in Disciplinary/Vigilance Proceedings. In its Report, the Committee has recommended that a time limit of two months may be prescribed for completion of minor penalty disciplinary inquiries and 12 months for major penalty disciplinary inquiries.

The report of the Committee is under examination. As part of preventive measures for checking corruption, it is imperative that Disciplinary Proceedings are completed in time, and delinquent officers are punished.

The matter related to amendment to the Article 311 of the constitution to remove the protection shield of Government servants is being examined by a Group of Ministers.

This information was given 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 Rajya Sabha .