Dearness Allowance: Centre to survey spending patters of working class to finalise CPI numbers.

Dearness Allowance: Centre to survey spending patters of working class to finalise CPI numbers.

Centre to survey spending patterns of working class

In a bid to understand the spending patterns and living conditions of working class, the Centre has decided to conduct a survey of workers’ family income and expenditure.

The survey, which will be conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation, a Government of India body, will be used to finalise consumer price index (CPI) numbers for the working class. The CPI is the base for deciding dearness allowances (DA) of the working class.

“The Working Class Family Income and Exemption Survey-2015 will cover workers engaged in seven organised sectors of employment-registered factories, mines, plantations, ports & docks, public motor transport undertakings, electricity generating and distributing establishments, and railways,” an official from NSSO told Deccan Herald.

The survey will be conducted in 88 centres spreading across 28 states and union territories including Delhi, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. The survey will be conducted in eight places in Karnataka — Bengaluru, Belagavi, Chikkamagaluru, Davangere-Harihar, Hubballi-Dharwad, Kodagu, Mysuru and Mangaluru.

Read more at: Deccan Herald

One Rank One Pension – Ex-servicemen launch nationwide stir

One Rank One Pension – Ex-servicemen launch nationwide stir

Ex-servicemen have launched a series of protests all over the country demanding the implementation of the One Rank One Pension scheme. A massive relay hunger strike began in New Delhi.

In select cities around the country, ex-servicemen gathered in huge numbers to express their dissatisfaction against the government.

Ex-servicemen are being given pension depending on the year of their retirement, their ranks, and the number of years that they had served. Soldiers who had retired before 1996 continue to get very low pensions compared to those who had retired after 1996, leading to a great dissatisfaction among those who belong to the former category. A senior officer who had retired before 1996 draws lesser pension than his junior officers who had retired after 1996. Despite the fact that budgetary allocations were made to resolve this issue, nothing was done.

In addition to Delhi, similar protests are also on in Bihar, Jalandar, and Bengaluru.

Revision of time limit for submission of final claims reimbursement of medical expenses under CS(MA) rules, 1944

No. S. 14025/19/2015-MS

Government of India

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Department of Health & Family Welfare

Nirman Bhagavan, New Delhi

Dated : 27^th May, 2015.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Revision of time limit for submission of final claims reimbursement of medical expenses under CS(MA) rules, 1944 – regarding.

The undersigned is directed to refer to OM No. F. 29-40/68-MA dated 15.10.1968 in which it was laid down that submission of final claims for reimbursement of medical expenses of Central Government servants in respect of a particular spell of illness should ordinarily be preferred within 3 months from the date of completion of treatment.

2. A representation was received from National Council (Staff Side) to extend the time limit for submission of such medical bills from 3 months to 6 months. The matter was examined in the Ministry and it has been decided that the period of 3 month s for submission of medical claims be revised to 6 months. Henceforth, only the cases in which the bills are submitted after 6 months from the date of completion of medical treatment/discharge of the patient from the hospital are required to be taken up for condonation. The power of condonation of such delays and other terms and conditions woukld be same as enumerated in the OM No.S.14025/8/99/-MS dated 25.05.1999.

3. The issue with the approval of the competent authority.

(Sunil Kumar Gupta)

Under Secretary to the Govt. of India.

Pay Commission report to be filed by late June

Pay Commission report to be filed by late June

Even as tenure of the State Pay Commission is drawing to a close on June 30, the Commission is keeping itself on its toes to submit the report in time. The date has not been finalised yet in view of the impending by-election in Aruvikkara.

Since the Commission, headed by Justice C.N. Ramachandran Nair, was unable to take decisions on certain crucial issues, the report carries only recommendations on pay scale and pension of the employees.

The members of the commission had earlier sought to extend the deadline to include recommendations covering all the issues. However, the Justice Ramachandran, and other members of the Commission, K.V. Thomas and T.V. George reached a consensus to file the report in time.

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Employment News for this week – Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Combined Higher Secondary Level Examination (CHSLE)(10+2) 2015 – 6578 Vacancies Last Date 19.7.2015

Employment News for this week – SSC CHSLE(10+2) 2015 – 6578 Vacancies Last Date 19.7.2015

Employment News for this week from 13th June to 19th June 2015

SSC Recruitment 2015: Staff Selection Commission has published an important employment notification for the SSC Combined Higher Secondary Level (10+2) Examination, 2015 recently. The SSC will hold an examination for Recruitment of Postal Assistants, Data Entry Operators and Lower Divisional Clerks. Tentatively the vacancies for the post of Postal Assistant/Sorting Assistant, LDC and DEO are 3523, 2049 and 1006 respectively.

The closing date for the examination is fixed as 13th July 2015. The date of examination will be held in various dates as 1st, 15th and 22nd November, 2015. These are all falling on Sundays.

For more details click to view the ‘SSC CHSL Notification 2015′

1. Staff Selection Commission.

Name of Post – Postal & Sorting Assistant, Data Entry Operator and Lower Division Clerk

No. of Vacancies – 6,578

Last Date – 13.07.2015

2. IDBI Bank.

Name of Post – Assistant Manager Grade ‘A’

No. of Vacancies – 500

Last Date – 24.06.2015

3. National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited.

Name of Post – General Manager, Addl. GM (Law), Deputy General Manager

(Engg), Project Manager (Civil), Manager (Finance) etc.

No. of Vacancies – 109

Last Date – 07.07.2015

4. Reserve Bank of India.

Name of Post– Junior Engineer (Civil) and Junior Engineer (Electrical).

No. of Vacancies – 23

Last Date – 26.06.2015

5. Directorate General Border Security Force.

Name of Post – Para Medical Staff

No. of Vacancies – 60

Last Date – 30 days from the date of publication

6. Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences.

Name of Post– Assistant Professor

No. of Vacancies – 33

Last Date – 21 days from the date of publication.

Source: www.employmentnews.gov.in