7th Pay panel will look into concerns of elderly: PM's adviser
The Centre has always been concerned about the genuine problems of senior citizens and the Seventh Pay Commission will look into the demands of pensioners, TKA Nair, adviser to the Prime Minister, said today.
"Several schemes benefiting the elderly and pensioners have been implemented by the government. The 7th pay commission will also look into the request and demand of pensioners.
"It is always our concern to endeavour into the genuine problems of elderly citizens. We have been taking different effective steps at the state, national and international levels for the ageing population of our country," he said.
Nair was speaking at a seminar organised on World Elders Day by Akila Bharatha Mooththa Kudimakkal Matrum Pensionergal Koottamaipu (ABMKPK), a Tamil-Nadu based body for senior citizens.
The association also staged a rally from Jantar Mantar to Kamini Auditorium prior to the seminar demanding fare concessions and relaxations in health schemes, rent-free telephone for lone senior citizens and tax relief for senior citizens.
Speaking at the seminar, A Saminathan, ABMKPK President, said, "Our primary aim is to educate the people about the benefits being provided by the government. We have set up many offices in various part of the state for the purpose."
Putting forth another demand, he said, "Railways should provide 50 per cent fare concession for 58-year-old men and free travel by train for senior citizens above 80 years of age."
Frequently asked questions About GANDHI : updated
If you can answer these Important questions about Mahatma Gandhi, you will surely get 1 mark in IBPS , UPSC, Bank clerk like exams. So Start to learn from Gandhi
1. When did Gandhiji born?
Answer: in 1869 October 2
2. When did Gandhiji went to South Africa to practice law?
Answer: in 1893
3. Where did Gandhiji's first Satyagraha experimented?
Answer: South Africa in 1906, September to protest against the Asiatic Ordinance issued against the Indians in Transval
4. When was Gandhiji's first imprisonment?
Answer: 1908 at Johannesberg in South Africa
5. In which railway station where Gandhiji was humiliated and ousted ?
Answer: Peter Marits Burg Railway Station in SouthAfrica
6. When did Gandhiji started Tolstoy Farm (SouthAfrica)?
Answer: in 1910
7. Where did Gandhiji started the Phoenix Settlement ?
Answer: Durban in South Africa
8. What is the name of weakly started by Gandhiji in SouthAfrica?
Answer: Indian opinion (1904)
9. When did Gandhiji returned to India from South Africa ?
Answer: 9th January 1915.
January 9 is observed as Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
10. Where was Gandhiji’s first satyagraha in India?
Answer: It was for the right of Indigo workers in Champaran in 1917
11. Where was gandhiji’s first fast (Gandhiji’s second satyagraha in India)?
Answer: In Ahmadabad
12. Which causes Gandhiji to abandoned his title Kaiser-I-Hind?
Answer: Jallianwalabagh Massacre (1919)
13. Who started weeklies named Young India and Navjeevan?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
14. Which is the only Congress session presided over by Gandhiji?
Answer: Congress session at Belgaum in 1924
15. Who started All India Harijan Samaj in 1932?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
16. Where is Wardha Ashram situated?
Answer: In Maharashtra
17. When did Gandhiji started the weekly Harijan?
Answer: 1933
18. Gandhiji called Subhash Chandra Bose as _________?
Answer: Patriot
19. Who called Gandhiji as “Half naked Seditious Fakir”?
Answer: Winston Churchill
20. Who gave the name ‘Gurudev’ to Tagore?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
21. Who called Gandhiji as ‘Mahatma’?
Answer: Tagore
22. Who is political guru of Gandhiji ?
Answer: Gopal Krishna Gokhale
23. Who is considered as spiritual guru of Gandhiji?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
24. When did Gandhiji assassinated?
Answer: 1948 January 30 by Nadhuram Vinayak Godse
25. What was called as 'Post Dated Cheque' by Gandhiji ?
Answer: Cripps's Mission (1942)
26. When did Gandhiji published 'Hind Swaraj' ?
Answer: In the year 1908
27. who gave Baba Amta the title 'Abhay Sadak' ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
28. The period which is considered as 'Gandhian Era' in Indian Independence struggle ?
Answer: 1915 - 1948
29. Where was Gandhiji’s third satyagraha in India?
Answer: kheda satyagraha
30. What is the real name of Gandhi's Autobiography ?
Answer: Satya na prayogo
31. What is the period that referred in Gandhi's Autobiography ?
Answer: 1869 - 1921
32. When did Autobiography of Gandhiji first published ?
Answer: 1927 (in Navajeevan)
33. In which language Gandhiji wrote his Autobiography ?
Answer: Gujarati
34. Who translated Gandhi's autobiography into English ?
Answer: Mahadev Desai
35. Who founded Satyagrah Sabha ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
36. Who was the secretary of Mahatma Gandhi after the demise of Mahadev Desai ?
Answer: Pyarelal
37. What is the real name of Mira Behn, the disciple of Gandhiji ?
Answer: Madeleine Slade
38. Who compared Gandhi's Dandi March to the legendary journey of Sri Rama to Lanka ?
Answer: Motilal Nehru
* Persons having nick name as Gandhi
39. Who is known as Frontier Gandhi ?
Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
40. Who is known as Bihar Gandhi ?
Answer: Dr. Rajendra Prasad
41. Who is known as Modern Gandhi ?
Answer: Baba Amte
42. Who is known as Sri Lankan Gandhi ?
Answer: A.T. Ariyaratne
43. Who is known as American Gandhi ?
Answer: Martin Luther King
44. Who is known as Burmese Gandhi ?
Answer: General Aung San
45. Who is known as African Gandhi ?
Answer: Kenneth Kaunda
46. Who is known as South African Gandhi ?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
47. Who is known as Kenya Gandhi ?
Answer: Jomo Kenyatta
48. Who is known as Indonesian Gandhi ?
Answer: Ahmed Sukarno
Some of the Books about Gandhi.
*49. Who wrote the book "The words of Gandhi" ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Other Books written by Gandhiji -
"The Essential Gandhi" , "The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi" , "The Penguin Gandhi reader","Gandhi on Islam", "The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi", "The book of Gandhi wisdom", "Hind swaraj and other writings", "The Way to God", "For Pacifists"
*50. Who is the writer of "Gandhi on Non-Violence" ?
Answer: Thomas Merton
*51. "The Life Of Mahatma Gandhi" is written by?
Answer:Louis Fischer
*52. who is the author of "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India"
Answer: Joseph Lelyveld
1. When did Gandhiji born?
Answer: in 1869 October 2
2. When did Gandhiji went to South Africa to practice law?
Answer: in 1893
3. Where did Gandhiji's first Satyagraha experimented?
Answer: South Africa in 1906, September to protest against the Asiatic Ordinance issued against the Indians in Transval
4. When was Gandhiji's first imprisonment?
Answer: 1908 at Johannesberg in South Africa
5. In which railway station where Gandhiji was humiliated and ousted ?
Answer: Peter Marits Burg Railway Station in SouthAfrica
6. When did Gandhiji started Tolstoy Farm (SouthAfrica)?
Answer: in 1910
7. Where did Gandhiji started the Phoenix Settlement ?
Answer: Durban in South Africa
8. What is the name of weakly started by Gandhiji in SouthAfrica?
Answer: Indian opinion (1904)
9. When did Gandhiji returned to India from South Africa ?
Answer: 9th January 1915.
January 9 is observed as Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
10. Where was Gandhiji’s first satyagraha in India?
Answer: It was for the right of Indigo workers in Champaran in 1917
11. Where was gandhiji’s first fast (Gandhiji’s second satyagraha in India)?
Answer: In Ahmadabad
12. Which causes Gandhiji to abandoned his title Kaiser-I-Hind?
Answer: Jallianwalabagh Massacre (1919)
13. Who started weeklies named Young India and Navjeevan?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
14. Which is the only Congress session presided over by Gandhiji?
Answer: Congress session at Belgaum in 1924
15. Who started All India Harijan Samaj in 1932?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
16. Where is Wardha Ashram situated?
Answer: In Maharashtra
17. When did Gandhiji started the weekly Harijan?
Answer: 1933
18. Gandhiji called Subhash Chandra Bose as _________?
Answer: Patriot
19. Who called Gandhiji as “Half naked Seditious Fakir”?
Answer: Winston Churchill
20. Who gave the name ‘Gurudev’ to Tagore?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
21. Who called Gandhiji as ‘Mahatma’?
Answer: Tagore
22. Who is political guru of Gandhiji ?
Answer: Gopal Krishna Gokhale
23. Who is considered as spiritual guru of Gandhiji?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
24. When did Gandhiji assassinated?
Answer: 1948 January 30 by Nadhuram Vinayak Godse
25. What was called as 'Post Dated Cheque' by Gandhiji ?
Answer: Cripps's Mission (1942)
26. When did Gandhiji published 'Hind Swaraj' ?
Answer: In the year 1908
27. who gave Baba Amta the title 'Abhay Sadak' ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
28. The period which is considered as 'Gandhian Era' in Indian Independence struggle ?
Answer: 1915 - 1948
29. Where was Gandhiji’s third satyagraha in India?
Answer: kheda satyagraha
30. What is the real name of Gandhi's Autobiography ?
Answer: Satya na prayogo
31. What is the period that referred in Gandhi's Autobiography ?
Answer: 1869 - 1921
32. When did Autobiography of Gandhiji first published ?
Answer: 1927 (in Navajeevan)
33. In which language Gandhiji wrote his Autobiography ?
Answer: Gujarati
34. Who translated Gandhi's autobiography into English ?
Answer: Mahadev Desai
35. Who founded Satyagrah Sabha ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
36. Who was the secretary of Mahatma Gandhi after the demise of Mahadev Desai ?
Answer: Pyarelal
37. What is the real name of Mira Behn, the disciple of Gandhiji ?
Answer: Madeleine Slade
38. Who compared Gandhi's Dandi March to the legendary journey of Sri Rama to Lanka ?
Answer: Motilal Nehru
* Persons having nick name as Gandhi
39. Who is known as Frontier Gandhi ?
Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
40. Who is known as Bihar Gandhi ?
Answer: Dr. Rajendra Prasad
41. Who is known as Modern Gandhi ?
Answer: Baba Amte
42. Who is known as Sri Lankan Gandhi ?
Answer: A.T. Ariyaratne
43. Who is known as American Gandhi ?
Answer: Martin Luther King
44. Who is known as Burmese Gandhi ?
Answer: General Aung San
45. Who is known as African Gandhi ?
Answer: Kenneth Kaunda
46. Who is known as South African Gandhi ?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
47. Who is known as Kenya Gandhi ?
Answer: Jomo Kenyatta
48. Who is known as Indonesian Gandhi ?
Answer: Ahmed Sukarno
Some of the Books about Gandhi.
*49. Who wrote the book "The words of Gandhi" ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Other Books written by Gandhiji -
"The Essential Gandhi" , "The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi" , "The Penguin Gandhi reader","Gandhi on Islam", "The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi", "The book of Gandhi wisdom", "Hind swaraj and other writings", "The Way to God", "For Pacifists"
*50. Who is the writer of "Gandhi on Non-Violence" ?
Answer: Thomas Merton
*51. "The Life Of Mahatma Gandhi" is written by?
Answer:Louis Fischer
*52. who is the author of "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India"
Answer: Joseph Lelyveld
Portal for pension-related info to ex-servicemen launched
NEW DELHI: CAG Shashikant Sharmatoday launched a website for providing pension-related information to ex-servicemen.
"The Defence Pensioners' Portal has been designed to provide pension related information to pensioners paid by the Defence Pension Disbursement Offices (DPDOs)," a Defence Ministry release said.
The portal was launched on the sidelines of a function to mark the 267th Defence Accounts Department Day.
"The dpdopensioners.org portal can be accessed to know the details of pension received by the pensioner and the history of his pensionary benefits," the release said.
The Defence Ministry gives pension to more than two million pensioners under it.
Speaking on the occasion, Minister of State for Defence Jitendra Singh complimented the Defence Accounts Department for issuing revised Pension Payment Orders (PPOs) to 6.5 lakh pensioners.
"It has undertaken the gigantic task of issuing revised PPOs to pre-2006 pensioners on account of 6th Pay Commission. It is satisfying to note that the Department has been able to issue 6.5 lakh corrigendum PPOs besides implementing the Cabinet Secretary Committee recommendations made in 2012," he said.
The Minister expressed hope that the department would complete the issuing of balance 12 lakh corrigendum PPOs as quickly as possible by deploying all possible resources.
Defence Secretary RK Mathur also addressed the gathering in presence of IAF Chief NAK Browne and Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi.
Upgradation of 3335 posts from Group 'C' to Group 'B' has been approved by Railway Ministry
NFIR has issued a Press Statement regarding the upgradation of 3335 posts from Group ‘C’ to Group ‘B’ (Gazetted). It has been approved by the Minister of Railways and the proposal has been sent for the clearance of Ministry of Finance. The Federation expressed its gratitude to the Ministryof Railways and urged to the railway board for issuance of orders before Dussehra:-
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDIAN RAILWAYMEN
(Affiliated to INTUC, ITF & ILO)
3, Chelmsford Road, New Delhi — 110055.
No. 1/10 Dt: Oct 1, 2013
PRESS STATEMENT
Upradation Benefit for Railway Employees on the eve of Dussehra
The National Federation of Indian Railwaymcn (NFIR) thanks the Railway Ministry for agreeing to issue Orders pertaining to Cadre Restructuring and upgradation of 3335 posts from Group ‘C’ to Group ‘B’ (Gazetted) after due consultation and approval of Ministry of Finance.
About 3.5 lakh employees are expected to be benefited on account of cadre restructuring all over Indian Railways. The Cadre Restructuring Committee (CRC) meetings had taken place from 2010 and the last CRC meeting had taken place on 22nd February 2013.
These decisions are expected pursuant to the consistent dialogue and struggle of NFIR affiliates with the Railway Ministry.
General Secretary, NFIR had spoken to Railway board today morning and urged for issuance of orders before Dussebra.
(M.Raghavaiah)
General Secretary
source : NFIR
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