DECEMBER 1st & 2nd , 2015 STRIKE DEFERRED
SECRETARY GENERAL AND
ALL GENERAL SECRETARIES OF NFPE & AIPEU GDS (NFPE) WILL SIT ON TWO DAYS
HUNGER FAST INFRONT OF DAK BHAWAN, NEW DELHI ON 1st & 2nd
DECEMBER 2015.
ONE DAY MASS HUNGER
FAST IN FRONT OF ALL CPMG / PMG & DIVISIONAL OFFICES ON 11th
DECEMBER 2015.
TO EXPRESS OUR ANGER,
RESENTMENT AND STRONG PROTEST AGAINST THE REJECTION OF THE LEGITIMATE DEMANDS
OF THREE LAKHS GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS BY THE NDA GOVT.
The Federal Secretariat of NFPE held at NFPE Office, New Delhi
on 26-11-2015, reviewed the whole situation prevailing among the postal
employees in general and the Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) in particular after the
submission of the 7th Central Pay Commission Report to the Govt and
also after the appointment of a separate committee for GDS by the Govt, headed
by a retired Postal Board Member as Chairman.
The Federal Secretariat further reviewed the proposed two days strike
call given by NFPE and AIPEU GDS (NFPE) for realization of the legitimate
demands of the Gramin Dak Sevaks, which
include bringing the GDS also under the purview of 7th CPC
treating them as Civil Servants.
The main demand of NFPE and AIPEU GDS (NFPE) in the charter
of demands submitted to Govt and Postal Board is “inclusion of GDS under the
purview of 7th CPC”. NFPE organized series of agitational programmes
for the GDS demands including dharnas, hunger fast, GDS Parliament March,
Parliament March under the banner of Postal JCA (NFPE & FNPO), one day
strike on 12th December 2012 and 48 hours strike on 12th
& 13th February 2014. Due to our agitational programmes the
Postal Board was compelled to submit the proposal for inclusion of GDS under 7th
CPC to Finance Ministry with favourable recommendations. But the Finance
Ministry rejected the proposal three times and it is in this background NFPE
& AIPEU GDS (NFPE) decided to go for two days strike on December 1st
& 2nd demanding the Govt to include GDS under the 7th
Pay Commission.
Even though the Govt refused to include the GDS under the 7th
CPC, the 7th CPC has suo moto examined the main demand of the GDS
ie., treating them as Civil Servants and extending them all the benefits of the
departmental employees, ofcourse proportionately. It is most unfortunate that
the Pay Commission headed by a retired Supreme Court Justice as Chairman, has
considered our demand and categorically stated that Gramin Dak Sevaks are
holders of Civil Posts but outside the regular civil service and hence can not
be treated at par with other civilian employees. After this observation of the
Seventh CPC even if the GDS are included in the 7th CPC they are not
going to get a fair deal. This has compelled us to modify the demand placed by
us before the Govt in the charter of demands.
NFPE, from the very beginning has opposed the appointment of
an Officer Committee for GDS and NFPE & AIPEU GDS (NFPE) has tried their
best to prevent appointment of an Officer Committee and compelled the
department to make effort for inclusion of GDS under 7th CPC itself.
But now NDA Govt rejected our demand and has unilaterally appointed GDS
Committee with a retired Postal Board Member as Chairman and cheated three lakh
GDS employees. From our past experiences we know that the retired officers of
the Postal Department will never do justice to the Gramin Dak Sevaks.
In view of the fact that 7th CPC has rejected our
demand for Civil Servant status and also the Govt has unilaterally imposed the
officer committee on GDS, the Federal Secretariat felt that it is not
appropriate to go for an immediate strike with the demands raised by us in the
charter of demands, i.e., inclusion of GDS under 7th CPC. Now
GDS
can get justice only if NDA Govt take a policy decision to regularize
the
services of GDS treating them as Civil Servants. Federal Secretariat is
fully
aware that we can not expect such a decision without the change in the
policy of the Government towards GDS. To make a change in the
policy decision of the Govt., a bigger mobilization and strike of all
postal
employees including GDS with the active support and solidarity of other
central
Govt employees under the banner of Confederation of Central Govt
Employees and
workers and also the JCM National Council Staffside organizations is
required.
The Federal Secretariat decided to explore all possibilities
and wider consultations for such a united struggle. The Federal Secretariat
felt that to pave way for wider consultations, the independent strike call of
NFPE & AIPEU GDS (NFPE) need to be deferred and all likeminded
organizations are to be brought under a common platform. Accordingly Federal
Secretariat unanimously decided to defer the proposed two days strike scheduled
to be held on 1st & 2nd December 2015.
The Secretary General and all General Secretaries of NFPE
shall sit on two days hunger fast in front of Dak Bhawan, New Delhi on 1st
& 2nd December 2015 expressing our strong protest to the Govt
and also demanding regularization of Gramin Dak Sevaks by granting them civil
servant status with all consequential benefits of regular employees.
The Federal Secretariat, while saluting the grass root level
workers for their intensive campaign and preparation for the strike, calls upon
them to organize one day hunger fast infront of all CPMG / PMG and Divisional
Offices throughout the country on 11th December 2015 to ventilate
our anger, resentment and strong protest against the callous and inhuman
attitude of the NDA Govt towards three lakh Gramin Dak Sevaks who are the
backbone of the Postal Department catering to the needs of the rural population
of this country in postal sector.
Federal Executive of NFPE will meet shortly to review the situation and shall decide
future course of action.
=R.N.PARASHAR
SECRETARY GENERAL
7TH PAY COMMISSION ON PENSION, PAY AND MUCH ELSE
7th Pay Commission on pension, pay and much else: All you wanted to know about the top 4 disagreements between panel members
7th Pay Commission on pension, pay, allowancesand more has made many
far reaching recommendations that will go a long way in making
government servants some of the best paid employees in India. While the
pay hike on an average is 23.55 per cent, government, last time round,
had hiked the amount in excess of what the pay panel had asked for.
Whether that will happen this time is still anyone’s guess. Justice A K
Mathur was the Chairman of the Seventh Pay Commission. While there was
mostly unanimity in the 7th Pay Commission, there were many
disagreements too that split the panel straight down the middle. Here is
all you wanted to know in 4 short points:
1. 7th Pay Commission – The Edge: An edge (read: superiority in
service) is presently accorded to the Indian Administrative Service
(IAS) and the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) at three promotion stages
from Senior Time Scale (STS), to the Junior Administrative Grade (JAG)
and the NFSG. is recommended by the Chairman, to be extended to the
Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFoS).
Vivek Rae, Member is of the view that financial edge is justified only for the IAS and IFS. Dr. Rathin Roy, Member is of the view that the financial edge accorded to the IAS and IFS should be removed.
2. 7th Pay Commission – Empanelment: The Chairman and Dr. Rathin Roy,
Member, recommend that All India Service officers and Central Services
Group A officers who have completed 17 years of service should be
eligible for empanelment under the Central Staffing Scheme and there
should not be “two year edge”, vis-a-vis the IAS. Vivek Rae, Member, has
not agreed with this view and has recommended review of the Central
Staffing Scheme guidelines.
3. 7th Pay Commission – Non Functional Upgradation for Organised
Group ‘A’ Services: The Chairman is of the view that NFU availed by all
the organised Group ‘A’ Services should be allowed to continue and be
extended to all officers in the CAPFs, Indian Coast Guard and the
Defence forces. NFU should henceforth be based on the respective
residency periods in the preceding substantive grade. Vivek Rae, Member
and Dr. Rathin Roy, Member, have favoured abolition of NFU at SAG and
HAG level.
4. 7th Pay Commission – Superannuation: Chairman and Dr. Rathin Roy,
Member, recommend the age of superannuation for all CAPF personnel
should be 60 years uniformly. Vivek Rae, Member, has not agreed with
this recommendation and has endorsed the stand of the Ministry of Home
Affairs.
Check out break 7th Pay Commission report break-up:
| 2016-17 (Without VII CPC) | 2016-17 (With VII CPC) | Financial Impact | Percentage Increase | |
| 1. Pay | 244300 | 283400 | 39100 | 16 |
| 2. Allowances | ||||
| HRA | 12400 | 29600 | 17200 | 138.71 |
| TPTA | 9900 | 9900 | 0 | 0 |
| Other Allowances | 24300 | 36400 | 12100 | 49.79 |
| 3. Pension | 142600 | 176300 | 33700 | 23.63 |
| TOTAL: | 433500 | 535600 | 102100 | 23.55 |
All figures in Rs lakh except for percentage increaseSOURCE - financial express | ||||
Why we must not grudge them a pay hike - Article by the Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - published in 'the Hindu' dt.24.11.2015
In
the heyday of Indian socialism, the perception of government was
benign. In today’s climate of liberalisation, the government is viewed
with hostility. That must explain the negative reaction both in the
media and amongst the public at large to the increases in pay for
Central government employees recommended by the Seventh Pay Commission (SPC).
The pay hikes are modest — embarrassingly
so in comparison with pay increases and bonuses in the private sector.
Yet, media reports talk of a ‘bonanza for babus’. The impact on the
fiscal can be easily digested by the Indian economy. Yet, analysts warn
of slippages in the fiscal deficit, a possible boost to inflation, and a
setback to public investment. Do we want to run the government — which
comprises not just civil servants but the police, armed forces, nurses,
doctors, regulators and academics — at all? Or have we persuaded
ourselves that all of the government is simply money down the drain?
Setting pay in government
The
SPC’s figures don’t come out of nowhere. The Commission has a rigorous
basis for setting pay in government. It arrives at a figure for minimum
pay in government with reference to norms laid down by the 15th Indian
Labour Conference (ILC) in 1957. The ILC had said that the minimum wage
should cover the basic needs of a worker and his family, that is, a
spouse, and two children who are below the age of 14. The SPC has spelt
out the norms it has used for determining basic needs. It has gone by
food requirements specified by a well-known nutritionist. To this are
added provisions for clothing, fuel and lighting, education, recreation,
festivities, medical expenses, and housing. There is an addition of 25
per cent to the total of the above to provide for the skill factor (the
basic needs having been determined for an unskilled person). The SPC
report provides detailed computations for each of these items. No
reasonable person can accuse the SPC of being overgenerous.
Based
on these norms, the SPC arrives at a minimum wage of Rs. 18,000 for a
government employee. This is 2.57 times the minimum pay in the Sixth Pay
Commission. The increase over the projected pay on the current basis as
of January 1, 2016 is 14.3 per cent. This
is the second lowest increase recommended by any Pay Commission since
the first one, and it is way below the 54 per cent increase following
the last one. The
multiplication factor of 2.57 is used to arrive at pay for all levels of
government except for a few at the top where a slightly higher multiple
is used.
As
before, pay at the lower levels of government is higher than in the
private sector; at the top, the position is reversed. In today’s
context, this may not be a bad thing at all. Pay in the private sector
today is contributing towards massive inequalities in Indian society.
Having a very different structure in government is a useful corrective
to trends in the private sector. It will help contain tensions created
by rising inequality.
Good news
So far as the impact on government finances is concerned, the SPC numbers provide a stream of good news. First,
the impact of the pay hike on the Central government (including the
railways) will amount to 0.65 per cent of GDP. This is less than the
impact of 0.77 per cent of GDP on account of the Sixth Pay Commission.
Second, the impact on the Central government (excluding Railways), which is what matters when it comes to the Union budget, is 0.46 per cent of GDP. As
some of the increase in salary comes back to the government as taxes,
the impact, net of taxes, will be even less — say, 0.4 per cent of GDP
(assuming an average tax rate of around 20 per cent on government pay). This
is a strictly one-off impact. The correct way to view it, therefore,
would be to amortise it over a period of, say, five years. The annual impact then is 0.08 per cent of GDP. The impact on the fiscal at the central level is barely noticeable.
Trends
in the wage burden in the government are worth noting. Pay and
allowances in the Central government have remained stable since 2010-11
at around 1.8-2.0 per cent of GDP. Thus, pay and allowances have been
rising at roughly the same level as nominal GDP or 11-12 per cent. This
is the increase after taking into account increments, adjustments for
dearness allowance and promotions. In the private sector, such an increase would be considered laughable at all but the lowest level.
Pay,
allowances and pension (PAP) as a proportion of government expenditure
has been declining sharply. In 1998-99, PAP was 38 per cent of revenue
expenditure. The SPC estimates that this figure has fallen to 18 per
cent in 2015-16. (It will go up to 22 per cent in 2017-17 consequent to
the SPC award, but will decline thereafter, as pay grows at a lower rate
than government expenditure). The implication is striking: in financial
terms, the workforce in government has been effectively downsized by
nearly half over the past 17 years.
Pay in the private
sector is contributing towards massive inequalities in society. Having a
different structure in government will help contain tensions created by
this inequality
Even
in terms of numbers, India’s central bureaucracy (including the
Railways but excluding the armed forces) has neither been increasing in
recent years nor hugely bloated in absolute terms. The number of employees grew to a peak of 41.76 lakh in 1994. It has declined since to 38.9 lakh in 2014. Of the total, 13.8 lakh is accounted for by security-related entities (police and defence civilians). Railways and Post, which perform commercial functions, account for 15 lakh personnel. There
are other commercial departments as well, such as Communications.
Excluding security and commercial functions, the total central
employment is just 4.18 lakh. “The ‘core’ of the government…”, the SPC report notes, “is actually very small…”
The
SPC substantiates its point by comparing India’s Central government
workforce with that of the federal government workforce in the U.S. In
2012, the non-postal civilian workforce in the U.S. was 21.3 lakh. In
India, the corresponding figure in 2014 was 17.96 lakh. The
number of personnel per lakh of population in India was 139 in 2014,
way below the figure of 668 for the U.S. India’s bureaucracy needs not
so much downsizing as right-sizing — we need more doctors, engineers, IT
specialists, tax experts, judges, and so on.
The government is not bound by the SPC’s recommendations. It can opt for higher pay hikes as happened with the previous Pay Commission. Assuming
the government goes along with the SPC, what impact on growth can we
expect? Increased pay for government employees means greater government
expenditure and hence a fiscal stimulus — provided government
expenditure on other counts is not reduced and the fiscal deficit rises.
This happened at the time of the Sixth Pay Commission. Higher wages for government employees contributed to a higher fiscal deficit and helped stimulate growth in the short run.
This
time round, the Finance Ministry insists that it will stick to its
fiscal deficit target for 2016-17 after providing for the SPC pay hike.
If it does so, the reduction in fiscal deficit will be contractionary.
Hence, the pay hike will not lead to economic expansion in the
aggregate. However,
greater income in the hands of government employees could favourably
impact sectors such as the real estate, automobiles and consumer goods.
(T.T. Ram Mohan is professor at IIM Ahmedabad)
//copy//Courtesy : The Hindu (dt.24th Nov 2015)
Recommendations of Overtime Allowance (OTA) in 7th Pay Commission
7th CPC allowed Overtime Allowance (OTA) to continue in Industrial Establishments of Defence and Railway
Overtime Allowance (OTA) is granted to government employees for performing duties beyond the designated working hours.
Presently, OTA is paid in several ministries/ departments, up to a certain level, at varying rates.
Though the III, IV V and VI Pay commission recommended to abolish the
Over time allowance except where it is a statutory requirement, it was
continued in some departments even when it is not a statutory
requirement.
But JCM-Staff Side has demanded that OTA should be paid to all
government employees who are asked to work beyond office hours, on the
basis of actual Pay, DA and Transport Allowance.
The commission obseved that 90% of total expenditure on Over time
allowance is spent in Defence and Railway. So the recommendation on Over
Time Allowance is expected very much by the employees of these two
Ministries
The 7th pay commission suggested in its recommendation that
“…..government offices need to increase productivity and efficiency, and recommends that OTA should be abolished (except for operational staff and industrial employees who are governed by statutory provisions), at the same time it is also recommended that in case the government decides to continue with OTA for those categories of staff for which it is not a statutory requirement, then the rates of OTA for such staff should be increased by 50 percent from their current levels”.
A stricter control on OTA expenditure is also suggested
So the employees of Ministry of Railways and Defence breathed sigh of
relief as the Pay commission recommended to continue the Over time
allowance.
Source: http://www.gservants.com/
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