ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION
OF PAY & ACCOUNTS OFFICERS (CIVIL)
(Recognised by Govt.
of India)
Central Headquarter: 2/10 Jamnagar House, New Delhi 110011
Address for communication: C/o.
Regional Pay & Accounts Office, Ministry of Textile,
Prathistha Bhavan, 3rd floor, 101 M.K. Road,
Mumbai – 400020. Tele fax 022-22092339 email:aiapaoscivilchq@gmail.com
SECRETARY GENERAL: A.B.SUNILKUMAR PRESIDENT: S.S. CHAUHAN
M
09869253062 M 09013207971
NO.AIAPAO(
C)/CHQ/2014-15 Dt.28-06-2014
Dear Comrades/Friends,
Please find enclosed here with the Salient Features of JCM Staff Side Memorandum
on common issues for your information
and your opinions/suggestions if any may please be emailed to CHQ Association immediately
so as to give final suggestion to CCGGOOs. On 29th of this month.
The communication is received by us yesterday only same is forwarded to all
today itself.
Yours fraternally,
A.B. Sunilkumar
Secretary General
Dear Sir,
A broad understanding is reached between Confederation
of Central Government Gazetted Officers organizations and JCM Staff Side
organizations. Accordingly, the staff side has completed the draft memorandum
on all common issues. The Confederation of Central
Government Gazetted Officers Organizations is, generally endorsing the
same. As far as the specific Issues
are concerned to Gazetted Officers of Central Government we finalized the same.
The Salient Features of the JCM Staff Side Memorandum, on common issues is
attached herewith for your information and for further circulation amongst the
members. Any further opinion may please be communicated before 29th of this
month.
Yours Sincerely,
S.Mohan
Salient features of Memorandum to VII CPC submitted by the
National Standing
Council JCM on common issues
1. Principles
of Wage Determination
Demanded
need based minimum wage as per 15th ILC
formula. The intrinsic value of the assigned job at the intermediary level, the
necessity to keep the relativity both at horizontal and
vertical
level and the need to provide a comparable salary for the top bureaucrats,
taking into account the perks, privileges, benefits, allowances and concessions
that go with the posts. Thus
the
minimum pay to be assigned to the lowest level of Group C functionary in
Government of India service at Rs. 26,000/-.
2.Pay
Band & Grade Pay:
Staff
side decided to demand reversal of the PB & GP System to distinct pay scale
system.
3.Highest
Salary
It
is suggested that this ratio should be 1: 8.
4.Proposed
Pay Structure
Details
in the annexture.
5.Rate
of Increment
It
is demanded that the rate of annual increment at 5%.
6.Fitment
Formula
It
is demanded a uniform multiplication factor (26000/ 7000 = 3.7) to be applied
uniformly in all
the
cases to arrive at the revised pay in the new scale of pay.
7.
Fixation of Pay on promotion
The
benefit on promotion should be “Two increments in the feeder cadre with a
stipulation that
the
amount of benefit so arrived at must not be less than the difference of the
minimum of the
scale
of pay of the feeder cadre and the minimum of the scale of the cadre to which
one is
promoted
8.Date
of effect.
A.
To implement the recommendations of VII CPC with effect from 1.1.2014
especially in the
background
that the desirable tenure of the earlier Commission’s recommendations expired
on
1.1.2011.
B.
To merge DA and treat the same as pay for all purposes and ad when the DA entitlement
reaches
50%
C.
To set up the next wage revision body or Pay Commission sufficiently before the
expiry of
five
years.
9.Dearness
allowance.
The
existing formula of computation of DA and its payment with effect from 1st January, and 1st
July,
may continue.
10.House
Rent allowance.
X
classified cities:60% :
Y
classified towns:40% ;
Z
classified places:20%
11.Compensatory
City allowance.
Pay
Range X classified city Other places
Pay
upto Rs. 50,000 10% of pay 5% of pay
Pay
of more than Rs. 50000 6% of pay subject to a
minimum
of Rs. 5000
3%
of pay subject to a
minimum
of Rs. 2500
12.Transport
allowance.
Pay
Range X classified city Y classified towns.
Pay
upto Rs. 75,000 Rs. 7500 + DA Rs. 3750 +DA
Above
Rs. 75,000 Rs. 6500 +DA Rs. 3500+ DA
13.Classification
of Posts.
All
cadres, which were characterised as “Gazetted” may be placed in the Group of
Executive
and
the rest is in non-executive.
14.Special
pay:
It
is demanded that bringing back the system of special pay with special allowance
to curtail the
number
of pay scales.
15.Deputation
duty allowance.
It
is demanded to recommend to double the rate of Deputation duty allowance i.e.
10% of pay
when
posted in the same station and 20% when posted outside.
16.Income
tax on salary.
Demanded
to recommend to the Government for the reintroduction of the provisions of
section
16(1)
and allow deduction of 30% of the salary income to arrive at the taxable
income. Also
demanded
that the Commission should suggest exempting the pension and allowances in the
case
of retired personnel fully exempt from the purview of income tax.
17.Liabilities
of a person who Die in harness.
It
is proposed to recommend to the Government for the waiver of all governmental
dues in the
case
of an employee who died in harness.
18.Women
Employees
Demanded
the full implementation of the recommendations of the the 5th CPC with regard to
flexi
time, Sub-reservation, increasing the age of recruitment, Public convenience
facilities,
Separate
women’s hostel etc., Most of these recommendations have not even considered by
the
Government.
It is requested to recommend to the Government to implement the above
schemes.
Also demanded to recommend the guidelines for posting husband and wife in the
same
station is made mandatory, to implement the recommendations of the National
Women’s
Commission
for 30%, sub-reservation and the women employees be granted one month special
leave
for those facing problems like removal of uteruses etc.,(Hysterctomy) after
attaining the
age
of 40 years or more which requires special rest.
19.Downsizing
/ Outsourcing / Contractorisation
It
is requested to recommend for scrapping of Outsourcing/ Contractorisation
/Downsizing of
Central
Government functions.
20.Regularisation
of Casual / Contingent / Daily Rated Workers
It
is Demanded regularisation of casual/contingent paid employees should be
ensured from the
date
they have completed two years of continuous service (ignoring the interruptive
while are
imposed
every year) if necessary by creating supernumerary or shadow posts for the
period till
a
vacancy in the cadre takes places. Alternatively entire service rendered by
such staff after first
two
years may be deemed as regular service not only as qualifying service for
pension but also
for
extension of all other benefits entitlements admissible to a regular employee.
In no case
such
employee is thrown out of service to substitute by a worker provided by a
contractor.
21.Assured
Career Progression/Modified Assured Career Progression
It
is proposed that there should be five financial upgradation in the career of
all employees,
exclusive
after serving 8,7,6,5 and 4 years of service (i.e., first after 8 years of
induction, second
on
completion of 15 years, third on completion of 21 years, fourth on completion
of 26 years
and
fifth on completion of 30 years of service. The 5 MACPs should be granted on
promotional
hierarchy
as ordered by the Supreme Court instead of Grade Pay hierarchic the present
systems.
It is also proposed that periodical cadre revised in the lines it had been done
in the
Railways
by creating 5 level s of pay scale in each cadre fixing a certain percentage of
posts for
each
level.
22.Bonus.
It
is proposed that VII CPC may recommend that a green signal may be given to all
Departments/Ministries
where Adhoc Bonus is now being paid to initiate negotiations in their
Departmental
Councils to evolve an appropriate productivity linked bonus scheme after
consulting
experts in the field within a period of one year from the date of Report of VII
CPC is
submitted
to the Government pending finalization of such PLB Schemes the Adhoc Bonus
equal
to
increase average number of days productivity linked bonus are paid in each year
may be
paid
to these employees.
23.Housing
facilities
It
is demanding recommendation of the following suggestions for its acceptance.
1.
To achieve housing satisfaction level of 70% at Delhi and atleast 40% in all
other
town/cities.
2.
To take on lease, the accommodation from private property to allot to the
employees.
3.
The land and building acquired by the Income Tax Department as part of their
acquisition
proceedings may be utilised for constructing residential accommodations for
Government
employees.
24.House
Building Advance.
It
is requested that the following suggestions to improve the present procedure.
1.
To simplify the procedure
2.
To exempt the stamp duty required to be mortgaged and de- mortgaged.
3.
To increase the advance to 50 times of the Salary
4.
Since the repayment of the advance is to be made in a span of not more than 20
years,
the
employees must be made entitled to the advance on completion of 5 years, which
is
presently
10 years.
5.
In the case of a Government employee, who does not have the service period of
10 years
remaining,
to adjust the repayment from the entire gratuity may be incorporated in the
rules.
6.
The maximum ceiling limit to be raised appropriable on the basis of the new pay
scales.
7.
To reduce the rate of Interest at not more than 5%.
8.
To make the Government employees entitled for the advance for purchasing
secondhand
or
used houses.
25.Common
categories of staff and Common cadres.
The
6th CPC has classified the following as common
categories.
Account
Staff belonging to un-organised account cadres- Artists-Para Medical staff
Canteen
staff-
Photographers - Care taking staff - Police personnel - Drawing Office staff -
Printing staff –
Drivers
- Receptionist - E D P staff - Store Keeping staff - Fire Fighting staff
–Teachers - Library
staff
– Veterinary - Laboratory staff-Workshop staff
The
Associations/Federations participating in the JCM will submit a detailed
memorandum
covering
these common categories, wherever they exist. It is requested to consider and
accept
the
views and suggestions made by them in their memorandum and make appropriate
recommendation.
26.Scheme
for Appointment on Compassionate Ground.
It
is requested to recommend the following:
1.
To remove the 5 % ceiling
2.
To ensure that compassionate appointment to the deserving candidates are given
within
3 months of the date of death of the employee.
3.
In case of any administrative delay in offering compassionate appointment the
deserving
applicants may be granted minimum of the pay scale of the post on which his
application
will be considered. .
27.Travelling
Allowance and T A on transfer.
In
the recommendation of the 6th CPC
the coloumn “Pay Range”shall have to be altered because
instead
of pay band and Grade pay pattern it is proposed Time Scale of Pay Structure in
our
Memorandum.
Therefore It is propose that all persons belonging to Executive Class may be
extended
I class by air/ AC First Class by train and all non executive Y class by Air/AC
II tier
class
by train.
28.Daily
Allowance:
The
present entitlement for accommodation, taxi charges and food bills are proposed
as
under:
Category
A1 and A class city Other cities
Executives
Rs.5000/-per day +DA Rs.3500/- per day + DA
Non-
Executives Rs.4000/-per day +DA Rs.2500/- per day + DA
29.Travelling
Allowance on Transfer
We
agree that composite Transfer Grant equal to one month Pay + DA alongwith
actual fare for
self
and family as per the entitled class may continue. As regards transportation
charges of
personal
effects It is proposed the following:-
Class
By Train/Steamer Rate per Km for transport
by
Road
Executive
Class 6000 Kgs by goods train
/
14 wheeler
wagon/1single
container.
Rs.50
+DA (Re.1/- per Kg
per
Km)
Non
Executive Class 3000 Kgs Rs.50 +DA (Re.1/- per Kg
per
Km)
30.Children
Education Allowance to be extended to college going children
It
is requested the following suggestion may be recommended to the Government for
its
acceptance.
1.
The insistence of receipt for each and every expense to claim the allowance in
the
present
system may be dispensed with.
2.
Instead of that the employer may be asked to produce an affidavit to the effect
this
child/children
were bonafide student of the school
3.
The scheme may be extended to cover children studying for
Graduate/Post Graduate
and
Professional courses.
31.Other
Allowances/ Advances.
It
is suggested to recommend increasing the present quantum to three times for the
following
allowances
/ advances:-
AAllowances:
Conveyance Allowance; Risk Allowance;Children Education
Allowance;Project
Allowance;
Washing Allowance;Child Care Allowance;Cash Handling Allowance
BAdvances:
Natural Calamity Advance, Vehicle Advance, Personal Computer
Advance,
Uniform
and Stitching Charges and All other Advance
C.Over-Time
Allowance
It
is proposed that over time allowance shall continue to be paid and calculated
on the basis of
actual
pay, DA and Transport Allowance from time to time. The rate of overtime
Allowance
should
be refixed as and when the DA is increased and there shall be no ceiling on
amount of
overtime
which became payable.
D.Night
Duty Allowance
It
is urged upon the VII CPC to recommend that rates of NDA for all should be
computed on
the
basis of revised pay recommended by VII CPC and it should be reviewed annually
in order
to
include the DA Admissible.
32.Transfer
Policy.
Sought
recommendation of the following suggestions in the matter considering the
Group-C & D
employees,
taking into account the fact that their emoluments do not even enable them to
make the both
ends
meet, should not be transferred at all except on their request/compassionate
ground;
1.
If transfer becomes necessary on promotion, or due to other administrative
exigencies, the same
should
be subjected to a policy evolved in the Departmental Councils. Every department
should
therefore,
evolve a transfer policy on mutual agreement being reached at the respective
Departmental
Council or through bilateral discussions. The Official Side in the Counsel will
place
an item for discussion in the Counsel on transfer guidelines.
2.
No transfer be permitted, which is violation of such an agreement or in the
absence of such an
agreement
having reached in the Council. If such transfers are made sans such an
agreement, it
shall
be instantly cancelled by the Head of Department or Secretary to the Ministry
concerned on
receipt
of a representation for the concerned employee.
3.
In case, no agreement is reached in the Departmental Council, the same should
be referred to the
Standing
Committee of the National Council, JCM, whose decision is to be treated as
final.
4.
In respect of other category of officials, the Department of Personnel must be
asked to issue
instruction
in clear terms as per the above quoted recommendation of the 5th CPC.
33.Additional
Monetary Incentive for Personnel Posted in N E Region.
It
is Demanded that the VII- CPC to recommend that in the light of the DOPT order
dated 10-2-
2009
granting Special Duty Allowance to All India Service to the employees to all
personnel @
37
½ % of pay.
34.Leave
Travel Concession
It
is requested to consider recommending the following relaxations/improvements.
1.
Permission for air journey for all categories of employees to and from NE
Region.
2.
Permission for personnel posted in NE Region for a journey within NE Region.
3.
To increase the periodicity of the LTC once in two years.
4.
Explore the possibility of allowing an employer to undertake tour outside India
once in his
life
time in lieu of the LTC.
35.
Secretariat & Field Offices
It
is demanded to ensure that the parity of pay structure obtaining in the
secretariat and the
field
offices is maintained and it is extended to all pay scales beyond that of the
Assistants upto
the
level of under secretary. Corollary of this would be that pay structure evolved
by the VII
CPC
would apply for various cadres of both of the secretariat as also the field
offices.
36.Need
for a Effective Grievance Procedure.
It
is demanded that the VII CPC to consider and devise ways and means whereby the
Government
is advised to adhere to the laid down processes and to implement the objectives
for
which JCM Scheme was operationalised in particular
1.
All Group C and Group B Central Government employees should be brought; under
coverage
of JCM.
2.
These should be spot settlement in the councils of JCM important issues
relating to
wages
etc should not be evaded / rejected precipitating a situation of confrontation
3.
The schedule of 3meetings in a year is fully observed.
4.
Departmental councils should be revived in all Departments without fail.
5.
Arbitration Awards may be implemented and in no case kept pending for more than
six
months
time. Before referring any award for rejection by the parliament, it should be
discussed
with the staff side with a view to reach some modified form of agreement
6.
System of referring the matters on which immediate agreement was not possible
to sub
committees
for separate discussion and report should be revived.
37.Equal
Pay for Equal Work.
Demanded
the VII CPC to devise a mechanism under which the wages determining Authorities
do
coordinate and ensure that the principle of equal pay for equal work is kept in
view and
ensured.
38.
Anomalies relating to Sixth CPC wage structure
It
is requested the VII CPC to consider the matter regardidng Anomalies relating
to sixth CPC
and
ask Government through an Interim Report to refer all the unresolved anomalies
for
Arbitration
by appointing an Arbitrator to consider them and give awards in all case within
a
period
of six months.
39.Scrap
New Pension Scheme
The
VII CPC is requested to review the NPS and recommend scrapping of NPS and the
PFRDA
Act.
40.Career
progression: Grant five promotions in the service career.
The
VII CPC should recommend that the cadre reviews are undertaken wherever not
done so
far
to ensure five hierarchical promotions to all employees in their career on the
pattern
obtaining
for Group A Officers.
41.Training:
It
is suggested that the annual budget drawn up for each department must have
sufficient
allotted
specifically for training purposes. We request that the VII-CPC may kindly make
recommendations
on the need for in-service training and setting up training programmes by all
Departments.
42.Leave
entitlement, holidays and working hours.
We
request the Commission to recommend the following suggestions to the
Government.
A.
Holidays
Presently
the holidays are deferred for each year by the DOPT. However, they permit the
high
power
welfare committee of each State to finalise, taking into account the local
conditions, three
among
the listed holidays. We suggest that this may be recommended to be increased to
six.
This
apart, we may bring to the notice of the commission that only Government of
India has
refused
to recognise the importance of May Day. May Day is not a holiday for the
Central
Govt.
employees. We request the commission to recommend for the declaration of May
days as
a
holiday.
B.Leave
Entitlement:
The
Govt. reduced the Casual leave from 12 to 8. The number of days as 12 was conceived
to be
a
day per month. Taking into account the various contingencies one has to face,
the increasing
social
obligations, we request that the number of Casual leave may be increased to 12
per year.
C.Special
Disability leave:
The
Special disability leave is sanctioned for treatment in the case of an employee
who gets
injured
in an accident. The Govt. has imposed a ceiling on this leave of maximum of 24
months.
During
the leave period he will be entitled for full salary for 120 days and rest at
half pay rate.
Our
suggestion in the matter is that such leave must not have any restriction on
the number of
days
bit left to the Doctor treating the employee.
D.Earned
leave:
The
ceiling limit of 300 days can be reasonably raised to 450. The Govt. employee
may be
permitted
to encash part of such accumulated leave say up to 50% to meet certain
financial
exigencies
if he has put in 20 years of service or more.
On
a humanitarian consideration, we made a novel suggestion of gifting leave to
needy
employees.
Due to prolonged illness or hospitalisation requiring prolonged treatment an
employee
will be unable to attend office and might have exhausted all entitled leave at
his
credit.
We suggest that in such extreme circumstances, either his spouse or is
colleagues may
get
certain number of days leave at his credit to the suffering employee. This will
help the
suffering
employees to take over the financial difficulties which he is compelled to be
in leave
on
medical grounds.
E.Half
Pay Leave:
Presently
the half pay leave on credit is not allowed to be encashed. This has to be
permitted.
F.Maternity
and Paternity Leave:
The
entitlement may be increased to 240 days in the case of maternity leave and 30
days for
paternity
leave.
G.Child
Care Leave:
There
is presently a restriction of the number of times the child care leave can be
availed in a
year
i.e., 3 occasions. This being unnecessary may be removed.
H.Special
Casual Leave:
It
is Demanded to increase in the entitlement of Spl Casual Leave for
Union/Association
activists
and Sports persons to 40 days.
43.
Group Insurance
The
staff side decided to demand increase in both contribution and premium under
the
CGEGIES
as under.
Group
Rate of Subscription Insurance cover
Executive
1500 1500000
Non
executive
(other
thanMTS)
750
750000
MTS
500 500000
Annexure-
Proposd pay structure to the VII-CPC by Staff Side.
Pay
scale
Number
PB
PBNo GP Pay+GP
Proposed
inimum
of
the pay
scale
S.1
5200-20200 1 1800 7330 26000
S-2
5200-20200 1 2000 8060 33000
S-3
5200-20200 1 2800 11170 46000
S-4
9300-34800 2 4200 14430 56000
S-5
9300-34800 2 4800
18750 74000
S-6
9300-34800 2 5400
20280 78000
S-7
15600-39100 3 5400 22140 88000
S-8
15600-39100 3 6600 26410 102000
S-9
15600-39100 3 7600 29920 120000
S-10
37400-67000 4 8900 48590 148000
S-11
37400-67000 4 10000 54700 162000
S-12
75500-80000
HAG &
HAG + 0 75500 193000
S-13
80000(
Fixed ) Apex Scale 0 80000 213000
S-14
90000
(Fixed) Cab Secy 0 90000 240000
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