Points to be taken into consideration while finalizing the 7th Pay Commission Report :-

Calculation of Pay and allowance for the month  of January 2016 as per  Sixth CPC is given below:–

Basic Pay Pay = PB Rs.5200 + GP Rs.1800 = Rs.7000/-

Assuming DA 125% as on 1.1.2016 = Rs. 8750/-

(Since he is staying in Quarter) HRA = Nil

T.A. = 600 + DA = Rs. 1350/-

Total Gross Amount =Rs. 17100/-

Deductions:

NPS 10% of basic Pay + DA =  Rs. 1575/-

CGEGIS = Rs.    30/-

Total Deductions = Rs.  1605/-

Net Pay (6th CPC) =Rs. 15495/-

Calculation of Pay and allowance for the month  of January 2016 as per  Seventh CPC is given below:-

Basic Pay Pay = Rs.18000/-

7th Pay Commission DA as  on 1.1.2016 = Nil

(Since he is staying in Quarter) HRA = Nil

T.A. = 600 + DA = Rs. 1350/-

Total Gross Amount =Rs. 19350/-

Deductions:

NPS 10% of basic Pay =  Rs. 1800/-

CGEGIS (as per 7th CPC recommendation) = Rs.   1500/-

Total Deductions = Rs.  3300/-

Net Pay (7th CPC) =Rs. 16050/-

The Benefit out of 7th Pay commission is (16050 – 15495) only Rs. 555/- which is 3.2 % of the gross pay of 6th CPC.

The minimum wages should be fixed at Rs. 23,100/- as per the calculation given below

Basic Pay Pay = PB Rs.5200 + GP Rs.1800 = Rs.7000/-   (Basic Pay)

100% D.A. which should be merged as per Vth CPC = Rs. 7000/-  (Dearness Pay)

25% DA on the above (total DA 125% – 100%) =Rs.  3500/-  (D.A.)

40% benefit (as given in VIth CPC) on Pay +DP =Rs. 5600/- (Fixation benefit)(*)

(*)(VIth CPC has given fixation benefit of  40% of the maximum of pre-revised scale)

Total Gross Amount =Rs. 23100/-

Hence the minimum benefit should be not less than 23,100/-

House Rent Allowance

Rate of Increment shown in the Pay Matrix  is less than  3%

Cadre Restructuring

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Parity between Assistant, SO of Ordnance Factory and CSS/CSSS Pay Scale: Landmark Judgement by HC citing “Equal pay for Equal Work”.  Text of Hindustan Times News reproduced below:-

     New pay scale benefits for ordnance staff too: HC

UNIFORMITY Citing ‘equal pay for equal work’ principle, Delhi High Court tells Centre to grant pay parity to ordnance factory employees

Employees at Ordnance Factories (OF) – who have been contesting their omission from the benefits of the sixth pay commission for over seven years have finally more than one reason to rejoice.

Reining in the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ at public offices, the Delhi High Court has directed the Centre to grant pay parity to employees in the OF with that of identically ranked official in the Central Secretariat Service (CSS) and Central Secretariat Stenographer’s Service (CSSS).

The direction will be applied retrospectively from 2006 — when the sixth CPC was implemented. Not only this, the HC order will come in handy for the employees of the OF when the seventh central pay commission is implemented.

The HC order came in response to a petition filed by Ordnance Factory Employees Association challenging the decision of the finance ministry declining their request for the assistants working in the OF Board to be given same pay scale as was given to similarly placed officials in CSS, CSSS, Ar my Headquarters, UPSC and other services.

The starting point of discrimination against the employees of the OF Board came soon before the acceptance of recommendation of the sixth CPC when a pay upgradation of employees of CSS and CSSS was made in September 2006.

While the OFs and Armed Forces Head Quarters (AFHQs) — both non-secretariat organization — were excluded from the pay upgradation, the latter took the matter to the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) and got an order in its favour.

In the case of OF Board, the central government took the view that since it was a nonattached office working outside the Secretariat, there cannot be parity of pay scales. The OF Board was denied benefit of upgradation and the replacement scales given by the sixth CPC. The CAT, too, took a similar stand and denied any relief to the OF Board.

The matter finally reached the Delhi HC last year and after over a year of deliberation a bench of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Vipin Sanghi termed the discrimination meted out to the OF Board as “over-classification.”

The HC said the discrimination was illogical and artificial. It also took note that the cadre structure of CSS and CSSS is identical to that of the OF. In all the above organisations, the cadre of upper divisional clerks (UDCs) is filled by the feeder of the cadre of the lower divisional clerks (LDCs).

The cadre of assistants on the OF Board is filled by promotion from the feeder cadre of UDCs with at least five years of experience on regular basis.

“The OF Board was treated historically as equals to CSS/CSSS employees and enjoyed equal pay and all benefits flowing from equal pay,” the high court noted adding, “This was based on the previous four instances of determinations by successive pay commissions that they performed equal work.”

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Source: http://lobis.nic.in/dhc/SRB/judgement/14-10-2014/SRB14102014CW46062013.pdf

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S. Kaliamurthy
PRESIDENT,CHENNAI
09848234942

The Secretary, Seventh Central Pay Commission,
Post Box No. 4599, Hauz Khas P.O,
New Delhi 110 016
E-mail:- secy-7cpc@nic.in

Sub: – Submission of Memorandum on issues of the All India Customs Ministerial Employees’ Federation under Central Board of Excise & Customs-reg.

Respected Sir/Madam,

I am submitting herewith the Memorandum on issues of the Customs Ministerial Staffs, Chemical Staffs(Group-‘C’) and Marine Staffs working in the field formation of the Central Board of Excise & Customs, North Block, New Delhi-110 001.

I on behalf of my Federation would like to request before your goodself to allow this Federation to submit an oral deposition with documents before 7th CPC for redressal and we would also like to request you to give us opportunity for supplementary submission, if any, for your kind consideration.

Thanking you.

Submitted by

This Federation i.e. All India Customs Ministerial Employees Federation (AICMEF) is the largest Ministerial Federation recognized by the Central Board of Excise and Customs(CBEC) after satisfying the Membership over 35% of working strength of the Ministerial Staff as laid down in the CCS(RSA)Rules,1993. It is known to all that CBEC is functioning under Department of Revenue whereas another wing is existing in the name of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). This CBDT & CBEC is the major Revenue earning organization of Govt. of India. This Federation, AICMEF have their members all over India in the ‘Customs’ domain.

Ministerial Staff in the Customs Field formations are participating directly in the process of Revenue earning and is engaged in different technical departments such as Import Noting, Appraising, Export, Preventive etc. and is also playing a pivotal role in doing the housing keeping job.

PROFILE OF MINSTERIAL CADRE UNDER CBEC:

Other than Group ‘A’ cadres there are mainly two types of cadres (1) Executive cadres such as Appraiser (Group ‘B’ Gazetted), Superintendent of Customs (Preventive)(Group ‘B’ Gazetted), Inspector (Preventive Officer & Examiner) and (2) Ministerial cadres. Ministerial cadres at present consists of Chief Accounts Officer (Group ‘A’), Administrative Officer (Group ‘B’ Gazetted). DY. Office Superintendent (Group ‘B’ non-gazetted), Sr. Tax Assistant (Group ‘B’non-gazetted), Tax Assistant(Group ‘C’) and Lower Division Clerk (Group ‘C’).

Distinctive function of Ministerial Cadre:

It is evident from the designation that these Ministerial Cadres are directly involved with the Revenue collection procedure which is unique to this Ministerial cadres because the Ministerial cadres in other department are involved with the house keeping job only. It is not out of context to mention here that the Staff Selection Commission takes a separate examination to appoint Tax Assistant in the Revenue Department i.e. in the CBEC & CBDT.

Read full memorandum click here
Source: Confederation

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After tweaking the order on minister’s staff, the DoPT is now reviewing the government order to relax the criteria and the likely changes are expected to limit the “time period” of serving a minister in the last three years of the UPA regime for banning appointments of officers and personal staff to the new NDA ministers.
A revised order is likely to be issued once the DoPT’s new proposal gets cleared by the PMO. The Prime Minister is the cabinet minister in-charge of DoPT and is the competent authority.
It can be recalled that the appointment of a private secretary to home minister Rajnath Singh got stalled after his choice in Alok Singh, a 1995 batch IPS officer, did not get the PMO’s clearance as Mr Singh had served as private secretary to former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid.
The appointments of Abhinav Kumar and Rajesh Kumar, as PS to minister of state for Home Kiren Rijiju and minister of state for external affairs V.K. Singh respectively, were also not cleared. Abhinav was PS with Shashi Tharoor and Mr Rajesh was PS with Chandresh Kumari Katoch.

Source: www.asianage.com
[http://www.asianage.com/india/dopt-may-put-3-years-gap-posts-ministerial-staff-981]

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Re-designation of Superintendent Gd-I in subordinate ministerial cadre of CPWD has not been accepted by the MoUD keeping in view setting up of 7th CPC.  The text of DG, CPWD’s OM is reproduced below:-

No. 48(1)1412013-S&D/196

Date: 21 Mar 2014

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Sub: Re-designation of Superintendent Gd-I in subordinate ministerial cadre of CPWD.

The issue related to re-designation of Superintendent Gd-I in subordinate ministerial cadre of CPWD was taken up by this Directorate, however, finally the same has not been accepted by the Ministry of Urban Development keeping in view setting up of 7th CPC etc.

2.    All concerned are informed of the above decision of the Ministry.

sd/-
(Krishna Pal Singh)
Director(S&D)

Source: http://cpwd.gov.in/WriteReadData/org_stru/9819.pdf

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Secretary General of Ministerial Staff Association writes a detailed letter to the Secretary of Department of Science and Technology regarding the discrepancies in implementation of MACP Scheme to the ministerial staff working in the department of Survey of India.

Particularly the Upper Divisional Clerk (UDC) may be granted 4200 Grade Pay under the MACP Scheme to next promotional post of Assistant…

The detailed letter has been uploaded in the official blog of Ministerial Staff Association, for your ready reference we have reproduced and given below…

GRANT OF THE BENEFITS UNDER MACP TO UPPER DIVISION CLERK (UDC) AND OTHER MINISTERIAL STAFF OF SURVEY OF INDIA IN THE HIERARCHY OF THE PROMOTIONAL GRADE – REQUEST FOR.

MINISTERIAL STAFF ASSOCIATION

SURVEY OF INDIA, CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS : DEHRADUN

C/o NPG, Hathibarkala Estate, Dehradun-248 001

No.CHQ- 31 /MSA/2013

Dated 14 -8-2013

To
The Secretary to the Government of India,
Department of Science and Technology,
(Ministry of Science and Technology)
Technology Bhawan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-110 016.

(Through the Surveyor General of India)

SUB: GRANT OF THE BENEFITS UNDER MACP TO UPPER DIVISION CLERK (UDC) AND OTHER MINISTERIAL STAFF OF SURVEY OF INDIA IN THE HIERARCHY OF THE PROMOTIONAL GRADE – REQUEST FOR.

Sir,
With due respect, I would like to submit the following few lines on the subject for favour of your kind consideration and necessary action:-

1) That the Ministerial Staff of Survey of India are recruited to the post of Lower Division Clerk (LDC) in the then pay scale of Rs.950-1500. The said pay scale was revised to Rs.3050-4590 w.e.f. 1-1-1996 in terms of the Fifth CPC. The said pre-revised pay scale was revised to Pay Band-1(Rs.5200-20200)+Grade Pay Rs.1900 w.e.f. 1-1-2006 in terms of the Sixth CPC.

2) That as per the provisions contained in the Recruitment Rules for the Ministerial Staff, the LDCs are eligible to be promoted to the post of UDC on completion of 8 years regular service by DPC (1s promotion). It is also provided in the said Rules that the LDCs can be promoted to the post of UDCs after completion of 3 years regular service subject to passing of the 25% the Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the post of UDCs (1st Promotion). Accordingly, the LDCs are promoted to the post of UDCs by DPC/LDCE in the pay scale of Rs.4000-6000.

3) That it is also provided in the said Recruitment Rules of Ministerial Staff that UDCs in the pay scale of Rs.4000-6000 shall be eligible for promotion to the post of Assistants by DPC (2nd promotion) in the pay scale of pre-revised Rs.5000-8000 (previous pay scale Rs.1400- 2300) after 5 years service as UDC.

4) That it is also provided in the Recruitment Rules of Ministerial Staff that Assistants in the pay scale of Rs.5000-8000 shall be eligible for promotion to the post of Office Superintendent (Rs.5500-9000) by DPC (3rd promotion) after 3 years service as Assistant. But due to lack of appropriate promotional ratio, the incumbents are not granted promotion within the prescribed residency period and hence are stagnating in the same post. The Hierarchy Chart for the Ministerial Staff in Survey of India is annexed as Annexure-1 for your ready reference please.

5) That it is submitted that based on the recommendations of the Fifth CPC, Government of India introduced the Assured Career Progression Scheme (ACP Scheme) under DoP&T’s OM No.35034/3/97-Estt. (D) dated 9-8-1999. The main objective of the Scheme was to deal “with the problem of genuine stagnation and hardships faced by the employees due to lack of promotional avenues”. In said Scheme, it was provided for grant of two financial upgradations in the promotional hierarchy of the cadre on completion of 12 and 24 years of service respectively, counted from the direct recruitment grade. The said benefits under the ACP shall be applicable w.e.f. 9-8-1999.

6) That at the time of the introduction of the ACP Scheme, there was an acute stagnation in the LDC, UDC and other cadres in the Ministerial Staff. Accordingly, most of the LDCs were granted 1st ACP in the next hierarchical grade i.e. in the pay scale of Rs.4000-6000 w.e.f. 9-8-1999 or on completion of 12 years. A number of LDCs and UDCs were also granted 1st and 2nd ACP in the 1st and 2nd promotional grade i.e. in the pay scale of Rs.4000-6000 and Rs.5000-8000 (Pre-revised pay scale of Assistant) respectively w.e.f. 9-8-1999 or on completion of 24 years of service.

7) That the Govt. of India implemented the recommendations of the Sixth CPC under Ministry of Finance’s Notification No.F.No.1/1/2008-IC dated 29-8-2008 effecting from 1-1-2006 and accordingly LDC. UDC, Assistant, Office Superintendent and Establishment & Accounts Officers were placed in the pay structure furnished as under:-

8) That the Govt. of India also issued orders regarding revised ACP Scheme i.e.  Modified ACP (MACP in short) under DoP&T’s OM No.35034/3/2008-Estt. (D) dated 19-5-2009 for the Central Govt. Civilian Employees replacing the existing ACP Scheme with two financial upgradations in the hierarchy of the promotional grade on completion of 12 and 24 years of service counted from the direct entry grade to three financial upgradations on completion of 10, 20 and 30 years counted from the direct entry grade in the hierarchy of grade pay under MACP. As per the aforesaid orders, the benefit under the MACP is applicable from 1-9-2008.

9) That the Surveyor General’s Office has decided to grant MACP to the Ministerial staff keeping the pay structure of LDC as PB-1(Rs.5200-20200)+Grade Pay Rs.1900 in view as entry grade pay structure and contended to grant the First, Second and Third MACP in the pay structure of PB-1 (Rs.5200-20200)+Grade Pay Rs.2000, PB-1(Rs.5200-20200)+Grade Pay Rs.2400 and PB-1(Rs.5200-20200)+Grade Pay Rs.2800 after completion of 10, 20 and 30 years of service as LDC/UDC respectively. As such, the said decision is detrimental to the interest of the cadre and discriminatory in nature.

10) That the following table shows how the benefits under MACP Scheme is less advantageous because of the fact that the MACP is granted in the hierarchy of the successive grade pay than the erstwhile ACP Scheme to the Ministerial Staff which was granted in the promotional hierarchy. An extract of the same is furnished hereunder :-

As item No.1, 3, 8, 9, 29 & 46 are similar, it was decided to club them together.

After detailed discussions on the issues, it was decided that Para 13 of MACPS shall be revised to the effect that Organizations / Cadres shall have the option to choose either the ACP Scheme or the MACP Scheme. Individual options, however, cannot be permitted.

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