Why is Annual Increment denied to employees retiring in June - Increment issues

Increment issues – Why is Annual Increment denied to employees retiring in June?

Why is Annual Increment denied to employees retiring in June?

Until 01.01.2006, the date of implementing employee’s annual increment was fixed on the basis of his/her date of appointment or promotion option. After the 6th CPC, it was decided that 1st July of each year would be the uniform date of implementation of annual increment for all Central Government employees.

Employees who are appointed after January 1st are not eligible for that year’s annual increment on July 1. They qualify for annual increment only the next year.

The revised pay rules said that “If an employee is on leave or is availing joining time on the 1st of July, the benefit of annual increment in pay will be drawn only from the date on which he resumes duty and not from the first of July. Each year, employees who retire in the month of June are not given the annual increment of the year since they do not report to work on 1st July. Only those employees who resume duty on July 1st are eligible to receive the annual increment. Or, the day they report back to work is taken as the date for implementing the annual increment. Since there are no possibilities for the retired employees to return to work, they are not considered as qualified to receive the annual increment.

The revised pay rules states that only those who have been receiving the same basic pay continuously for 6 months are considered as qualified for annual increment. According to the another rule of qualification for increment, the person should have complete one year in service after receiving the annual increment. Therefore, despite being qualified, these employees are denied their annual increment.

There is an order that states that those who retire on July 1st should complete the retirement formalities in the month of June.

Instead of strictly looking into such technicalities, it would be a nice gesture on the part of the Government to extend the benefits of annual increment to those senior employees too who retire from service in the month of June.

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Payment of Dearness Relief to re employed pensioner Ex-servicemen

PCDA Clarification on Dearness Relief to re-employed Ex-servicemen

Office of the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Pension),

Draupadi Ghat, Allahabad-211014

Date:12.05.2015

Sub: Payment of Dearness Relief to re employed pensioner: Clarification thereof.

As per para l(a) of MOD letter No. 7(1)/95/D(Pen/Services) dated 28.8.2000, entire pension admissible to ex-servicemen who held post below commissioned officers (PBOR) at the time of retirement, is ignored and their pay on re-employment is to be fixed at the minimum of the pay scale of the post in which they are re-employed. Such pensioners will consequently be entitled to dearness relief on their pension.
Deptt. of Pension and Pensioners Welfare, vide their UO No.41/42/2007/P&PW(G) dt. 03.04.2008, reproduced under this office circular No. 386 dt. 19.06.2008, further clarified that if the pay is fixed at a higher stage because of advance increments and no protection of last pay drawn is given, the pay should be treated as fixed at a minimum only for the purpose of ignoring the entire pension and allowing dearness relief on pension. For availing this benefit the ex-servicemen would have retired at post below commissioned officers Rank (PBOR) before attaining the age of 55 years.

Now representations from the banks, where number of ex-clarify the elements to be taken into account for assessing the last pay drawn by the ex-servicemen for the purpose of last pay protection.

The dearness relief on re-employment should be regulated by the Pension Disbursing Agencies on the basis of certificate issued by re-employer, clearly stating whether benefit of last pay protection has been given or not. However, on examination of cases submitted by the banks it has been found that pay scale in banks are still on old pattern, whereas ex-servicemen have been retired with Pay in Pay Band, Grade Pay, MSP, Group Pay etc. In such cases it is clarified that for the purpose of assessing the last pay drawn for last pay protection, the elements to be taken into account should be last pay in pay band i.e. Band Pay plus Grade Pay, last drawn before retirement as envisaged vide MOP, PG & P, DOPT OM NO. 3/19/2009 Estt. Pay II dt. 8th Nov 2010 and no other elements should be taken for this purpose.

In view of the above, it is advised that all the cases of dearness relief where pay of ex-servicemen has been fixed at a higher stage because of advance increments may be reviewed and regulated accordingly.

No. AT/Tech/263-XVIII

sd/-
(A.D.Mishra)
Asst.CDA (P)

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Latest news on OROP – Efforts To Remove Anomalies Underway, A New Veterans Welfare Directorate to come up – K.J.Singh to Veterans

Latest news on OROP – Efforts To Remove Anomalies Underway, A New Veterans Welfare Directorate to come up – K.J.Singh to Veterans

EFFORTS TO REMOVE PAY ANOMALIES ARE UNDERWAY , A NEW VETERANS WELFARE DIRECTORATE TO

 COME UP- K.J SINGH TO VETERANS

Chandigarh: 11 May 2015- Lt. General K.J.Singh, GOC-in C Western Command has urged the army veterans to have patience as the case for the removal of pay anomalies is already being taken up with the higher authorities and is under consideration. Replying to the queries of veterans gathered at the Manekshaw Auditorium in the premises of Chandimandir Cantonment from various place of Punjab, Haryana, UT Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh, he said that since the acceptance of One Rank One Pension demand will incur a huge sum of 8322 crores for the government, there may be procedural delay only but it will not take long now for it to materialize. He said that efforts are on to broadbase army by doubling the number of commissioning from JCOs, adding that 60000 new vacancies are being created shortly in different ranks. The establishment of a new Directorate for the welfare of veterans is also on anvil, he said.

On this occasion, Major General A.K.Singh in charge Administration informed that the matter to exempt the veterans from the toll-tax is being taken up with the government. He said that Western Command has set up a helpline: 1800-180-2081 for helping out the veterans and another helpline:1800-180-5321, has been set up by PCDA Allahabad to address their financial woes. The Major Gen. Singh told that a job-fair shall be held at Jalandhar in September this year for providing employment to the ex-soldiers.

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7th Pay Commission interacts with the delegates of CG Employees including Army, Air Force, Para Military Forces, Central Armed Police Forces

7th Pay Commission interacts with the delegates of CG Employees including Army, Air Force, Para Military Forces, Central Armed Police Forces

7th CPC team visits NE region to interact with stakeholders

The Seventh Central Pay Commission visited the North East region for interaction and to obtain inputs/views from the stakeholders, a defence spokesperson said.

The four-member Central Pay Commission (CPC) team headed by its Chairman Justice A K Mathur based its activities out of Shillong in Meghalaya for three days concluding on Tuesday.

During their visit, the team interacted with a wide array of stakeholders from Union Government services, including the Army, Air Force, Para Military Forces, Central Armed Police Forces and their family members, PRO Defence, Shillong, Group Captain Amit Mahajan said.

The focus of the CPC was to get first-hand information from various union government organisations, troops and their families deployed in different areas of the NE region, he said.

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Increase the percentage of women personnel in CAPF upto 33 percent

Increase the percentage of women personnel in CAPF upto 33 percent

Reserving 33 Percent Posts for Women in CPMFs

There is no proposal to increase the percentage of women personnel in CAPF upto 33 percent. However, in compliance of recommendations given by Parliamentary Committee on Empowerment of Women in its sixth report, directions have been issued to all CAPFs to bring percentage of women in the forces to 5%. The force-wise details of women personnel at present are as under:-

Force/Orgz’n	Posted Strength	Female	%age of Women w.r.t. posted strength
CRPF	286892	6120	2.13%
CISF	126636	6203	4.89%
SSB	79049	1186	1.50%
BSF	248882	3534	1.42%
ITBP	80864	1570	1.75%
AR	65609	485	0.74%
Total	887932	19098	2.15%

To enhance the strength of women in CAPFs, Government is taking continuous steps. Some of these steps are as follows:-

· In the ongoing recruitment of Constables/General Duty, out of total vacancies of 62390, 8533 (about 14%) are earmarked for women.
· Government has approved recruitment of 2772 Mahila personnel (21 Companies) during the year 2014-15 to 2017-18 in Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
· Government has approved raising of 02 Mahila (women) Battalions in place of 02 General Duty Battalions in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to be raised in the year 2015-16 and 2016-17.

Women personnel of General Duty cadre are deployed for performing combat duties like:-

(i) Gate management, Checking and Frisking
(ii) Patrolling duties
(iii) Interrogation and escorting of female apprehendees.
(iv) Law & Order duties
(v) Static guard duties at some of vital installations and also deployed during Shri Amarnathji Yatra
(vi) Also deployed in Maoist affected states for anti-Naxal operations

This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary in a written reply to a question by Shri Anil Desai in the Rajya Sabha today.

Source: PIB News