7CPC : Govt Likely To Give Better Pay Package Than Seventh Pay Commission - Col Ranbir Lamba

New Delhi: This give a great pleasure to central government employees, with the government is likely to modify the pay package of its employees, they can expect a higher package from next year. The coming revised pay will be higher than what the Seventh Pay Commission recommended.

 

The Seventh Pay Commission increased 16 per cent pay hike, which is significantly lower than what the Sixth pay commission had recommended which was close to a 40 percent increase in salaries. The extent of increase is actually on the lower side of expectations.

 

The Seventh Pay Commission report for pay package hiking submitted to the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on November 19. However, the central government employees are in for disappointment as the report has been proposed a 16 percent hike in pay package starting January 1, 2016.

 

We understand from sources of Finance Ministry that the average increase in basic pay for all government employees will be in the region of 20-24%. This is a very rough average because for low paid employees, the payback could increase by more than 26%.

 

We understand that minimum basic salary is likely to hike at least Rs 20,000 from Rs 18,000 recommended by the Seventh pay commission.

We also understand from sources, in good news for about 50 lakh central government employees, the the government is likely to approve doubling of existing rates of allowances and advances, which has been recommended for abolition by Seventh Pay Commission like risk allowance, small family allowance, festival advance, motor cycle advance.

 

It is also added that the central government employees at various levels have been complaining of the abolition of the above allowances and advances.

 

They also demanded to make up pay gap between employees and higher officers because in its report, the Seventh Pay Commission has recommended to increase the pay gap between the minimum and maximum from existing 1:12 to 1: 13.8, while all pay panels from second to sixth made up pay gap from 1:41 to 1:12.

 

Col Ranbir Lamba( one man army)

SOURCE: The Sen Times

Light Utility Helicopters - PIB

The Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) for development and production of Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) was signed between India and Russia in October, 2007. The Preliminary design phase was completed in June 2013 against the planned date of August 2012.

In its meeting in May 2015, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for procurement and co-production in India of the Russian Ka-226T Helicopters for Indian Army and Air Force. There has been a delay in execution of some defence projects. The delay is due to non-completion of Design & Development activities and delay in supply of upgrade kits amongst other things.

Raksha Mantri had visited Russia from October 30, 2015 to November 02, 2015 for participating in the 15th India-Russia Inter Governmental Commission on Military and Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-MTC). During the visit, both sides discussed a range of issues of mutual interest concerning bilateral military technical cooperation and regional and global security issues. Both sides also discussed the measures for resolving issues in implementation of on-going projects under Military Technical Cooperation.

This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh in a written reply to Shri Adhalrao Patil Shivajirao and others in Lok Sabha today.

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E-Sahyog Project; Aims at Reducing Compliance Cost, Especially for Small Taxpayers

The Government has launched ‘e-Sahyog’ project on a pilot basis. It is aimed at reducing compliance cost, especially for small taxpayers. The objective of ‘e-Sahyog’ is to provide an online mechanism to resolve any mismatch or discrepancy in information as per Income-tax return of the tax payer viz-a-vis information received through AIR, CIB, TDS Statements etc., without visiting the Income Tax Office. Under this initiative the Department will provide an end to end e-service using SMS, e-mails to inform the taxpayers of the mismatch. The taxpayer has to login to the e-filing portal with his user-ID and Password to view mismatch related information and submit online response on the issue. The responses submitted online by the taxpayers will be processed and if the response is found satisfactory, the issue will be treated as closed. The taxpayer can check the updated status by logging into the e-filing portal. The tax payers shall also be informed of closure of cases through SMS and e-mail.

The Government has taken steps to address the genuine problems being faced by the tax payers and to reduce the unnecessary harassment meted out to them by the tax authorities.

The Government has set up PAN camps at some selective remote areas in the country. These PAN Camps have been organized through PAN services providers NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Limited (NDDL e-Gov) and UTI Infrastructure Technology and Services Limited (UTIITSL).

NSDL e-Gov has organized PAN Camps at 23 locations across India in the months of October and November 2015. In these PAN camps, blank PAN forms have been made available alongwith instructions and guidelines for filling these forms. Duly filled-in forms along with prescribed documents are also collected in these camps.

UTIITSL has organized PAN camps at 30 locations across India in the months of October and November 2015. Organizing such camps is an ongoing process. The service providers will continue to hold more camps during the year to facilitate obtaining of PAN by persons residing in remote and semi urban areas.

This was stated by Shri Jayant Sinha, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

 

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One Rank One Pension

Government order on One Rank One Pension (OROP) has been issued on 07.11.2015.

Salient features of the OROP are as follows:

• Pension of the past pensioners would be re-fixed on the basis of pension of retirees of calendar year 2013 and the benefit will be effective with effect from 01.07.2014.

• Pension will be re-fixed for all pensioners on the basis of the average of minimum and maximum pension of personnel retired in 2013 in the same rank and with the same length of service.

• Pension for those drawing above the average shall be protected.

• Arrears will be paid in four equal half yearly instalments. However, all the family pensioners including those in receipt of Special / Liberalized family pension and Gallantry award winners shall be paid arrears in one instalment.

• In future, the pension would be re-fixed every 5 years.

Certain ex-servicemen associations have been demanding for changes in methodology for fixation of pension, periodicity of its revision, coverage of future PMR cases etc. The Government has decided to appoint a Judicial Committee to look into anomalies, if any, arising out of implementation of OROP.

Personnel who opt to get discharged henceforth on their own request under Rule 13(3) 1(i)(b), 13(3)1(iv) or Rule 16B of the Army Rule 1954 or equivalent Navy or Air Force Rules will not be entitled to the benefits of OROP. It will be effective prospectively and in future, the pension would be re-fixed every 5 years.

This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh in a written reply to Shri Gopal Shetty and others in Lok Sabha today.
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ARTY REGIMENT PENSIONERS DURING XIIITH REUNION OF REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY 2015 IN PENSIONER’S SAMMELAN HELD ON 04 DEC 2015, ZSWO NASHIK