National Federation of Indian Railwaymen
3, Chelmsford Road, New Delhi – 110 055

No. 1/10/Pt. IV

Date: 23rd Sept 2014

The Member Staff,
Railway Board,
New Delhi

The Financial Commissioner (Rlys)
Railway Board,
New Delhi

Dear Sir,

Sub:- Productivity Linked Bonus payment – reg.

Pressure mounted from railway employees of different zones that the PL Bonus should be announced and paid in cash to enable them to make purchases for celebrating Dussehra. It is needless to mention that Puja days (Navratra) will commence from 25th Sept 2014 onwards hence there is need to arrange payment in cash.

NFIR, therefore, requests to kindly arrange to issue suitable instructions for payment of P.L. Bonus in cash as a special case.

Yours faithfuly,
sd/-
(M.Raghavaiah)
General Secretary

Source: NFIR

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA)
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. F(E)III/2014/PF/3/3

NEW DELHI, Dated: 27.08.2014

The General Secretary,
NFIR,
3, Chelmsford Road,
New Delhi-110055.

Dear Sir,

Sub: Simplification of rules/procedure on withdrawals from Provident Fund by Railway employees – reg.

Ref: (i) Item No: 8/2014-PNM/NFIR

(ii) NFIR’s letter No.1/3/Pt.1 dated 25.10.2013

Kindly refer to the Agenda item No. 8/2014 for PNM/NFIR meeting on the above subject wherein contention was that employees are being asked to submit affidavits and fulfil other unnecessary formalities for withdrawal from Provident Fund.

Information had been called for from all Zonal Railways regarding procedure being followed in different Railways while sanctioning withdrawals from Provident Fund few marriage purpose. Almost all Railways are following the simple procedure on withdrawals from Provident Fund by its employees except some Railways where self declaration duly witnessed by two railway employees is required. None of the Railways have asked its employees to submit affidavit in connection with withdrawal from Provident Fund.

It is therefore requested to indicate the specific Railway which is insisting on submission of affidavits etc. for withdrawal from Provident Fund, so that they are suitably advised.

Yours faithfully,
sd/-
Secretary, Railway Board

Source: NFIR

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA)
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. F(E)III/2014/PF/3/3

NEW DELHI,
Dated: 27.08.2014

The General Secretary,
NFIR,
3, Chelmsford Road,
New Delhi-110055.

Dear Sir,

Sub: Simplification of rules/procedure on withdrawals from Provident Fund by Railway employees – reg.

Ref: (i) Item No: 8/2014-PNM/NFIR

(ii) NFIR’s letter No.1/3/Pt.1 dated 25.10.2013

Kindly refer to the Agenda item No. 8/2014 for PNM/NFIR meeting on the above subject wherein contention was that employees are being asked to submit affidavits and fulfil other unnecessary formalities for withdrawal from Provident Fund.

Information had been called for from all Zonal Railways regarding procedure being followed in different Railways while sanctioning withdrawals from Provident Fund few marriage purpose. Almost all Railways are following the simple procedure on withdrawals from Provident Fund by its employees except some Railways where self declaration duly witnessed by two railway employees is required. None of the Railways have asked its employees to submit affidavit in connection with withdrawal from Provident Fund.

It is therefore requested to indicate the specific Railway which is insisting on submission of affidavits etc. for withdrawal from Provident Fund, so that they are suitably advised.

Yours faithfully,
sd/-
Secretary, Railway Board

Source: NFIR

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Inter-action meeting with the Seventh Central Pay Commission on NFIR’s memorandum — reg.

NFIR
National Federation of Indian Railwaymen
3, CHELMSFORD ROAD NEW DELHI-110055

No.IV/NFIR/7th CPC/CORRES/Pt.V

Dated: 02.08.2014

The Secretary,
Seventh Central Pay Commission,
Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhavan,
IIFT, Block ‘B’,
Qutab Institutional Area,
Near Sitaram Bharatiya Institute of Science & Research,
New Delhi – 110016
Madam.,

Sub: Inter-action meeting with the Seventh Central Pay Commission on NFIR’s memorandum — reg.

NFIRs delegation has called on you on 28th July, 2014 and handed over memorandum for taking appropriate action.
NFIR now requests to kindly arrange to convey the dates on which Federation’s representatives can meet the Pay Commission to explain the case of railway employees of various categories. In this Connection, we suggest as follows :-
a) Inter-action meetings may be fixed giving us reasonable advance intimation to enable us to reschedule our other programmes.
b) Meeting/hearing may be fixed department wise to facilitate us to meet the Pay Commission along with the representatives of the concerned departmental category.
c) In the Railways there are eight major departments with hundreds of categories. Eight different dates for explaining our case may kindly be considered.
d) Inter-action meetings may also be convened for explaining the case of miscellaneous and isolated categories.
e) We request that a separate date and time be provided to facilitate the Federation to explain uniqueness of railways as well unique nature of duties of railway employees in general.
We request you to kindly consider giving dates for us during September and October 2014. keeping in mind the holidays during these months. We shall be grateful to the Pay Commission, if the tentative dates are conveyed to enable to us to select and respond.

Yours sincerly,
sd/-
(M.Raghavaiah)
General Secretary

Source: NFIR

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NFIR
National Federation of Indian Railwaymen
3, Chelmsford Road, New Delhi – 110 055

No.II/16

Date : 14/7/2014

The Gerieral Secretaries of Affiliated Unions of NFIR,
Brother,
Sub: Applicability of Old Pension Scheme to substitutes who attained temporary status prior to 01/01 12004 and regularised after 01/01/2004 – clarification.

Ref: (i) GS/NFIR’s letters No.II/16 dated 9th October 2012. 04/10/2013 & 31/03/2014
(ii) GS/NFIR’s letter No. II/16 dated 4/10/2013 addressed to Secretary, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi and copy endorsed to the AM/Staff, Railway Board.
(iii) NFIR’s PNM item No. 15/2011.
In continuation to the above cited references, the Federation desires to convey that the Ministry of Finance has since given clearance. (as informed by the E.D/FE. Railway Board, during discussions) for applying liberalized pension scheme to those substitutes who attained temporary status prior to 01/01/2004 but, however, got regular absorption subsequent to 01/01/2004 with continuous service.
With this clarification of MoF, those substitutes who attained temporary status prior to 01/01/2004 and later on absorbed as regular staff will get covered under the Old Pension Scheme i.e. Liberalized Pension Scheme. Railway Board is processing the case for issuing orders. This is NFIR/PNM item being pursued by Federation since the year 2011.
Concerned Staff may be advised accordingly.

Yours fraternally,
sd/-
(M.Raghavaiah)
General Secretary

Source: NFIR

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NFIR
National Federation of Indian Railwaymen

No.II/95/Pt. VI

Dated: 20/02/2014

The General Secretaries of
Affiliated Unions of NFIR.

Brother,
Sub: Merger of 50% DA with Pay and grant of Interim Relief.

NFIR has been writing to the Government of India (including Prime Minister, Finance Minister etc) for merger of 50% DA with pay through its letters dated 10/01/2013, 05/08/2013, 27/09/2013. Also in its 27th National Convention held at Visakhapatnam from 10th  to 12th December, 2013, the Federation had passed a resolution demanding merger of 50% DA with Pay and grant of interim relief to employees of Central Government including Railway employees.

NFIR feels happy to convey that the Central Government has conceded the demand of the employees raised by the Federation.

Union Cabinet is likely to consider the issues to day for taking final decision. Federation will advise decision when taken by the Government. Federation expects that there may be Good News for all Central Government employees very soon.

Yours faithfully,
sd/-
(M.Raghavaiah)
General Secretary

Source: NFIR

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All India Railwaymen Federation, AIRF writes to Railway Board regarding that the payment of PLB Bonus should be made before Puja to all Railway employees…

Productivity Linked Bonus to the Railwaymen for the year 2012-13 – AIRF

ALL INDIA RAILWAYMEN’S FEDERATION
4, STATE ENTRY ROAD, NEW DELHI, INDIA

No.AIRF/387
Dated: September 5, 2013
The Member Staff,
Railway Board,
New Delhi

Dear Sir,

Sub: Productivity Linked Bonus to the Railwaymen for the year 2012-13.

Durga Pooja is the biggest festival of the Eastern part of the country. Durga Puja and Festive Season are approaching very last, and every time we have seen eleventh hour trouble creating lots of frustration and chaos among the Railwaymen. There is rumour in the corridors that, this year Productivity Linked Bonus may be reduced inspite of untiring efforts made by the Railwaymen in increased productivity.

AIRF has achieved PLB for the Railwaymen after lots of struggles and sacrifices. In this connection, it is worth-mentioning that PLB is a bilateral agreement arrived at between the Organized Labour and Ministry of Railways, any tinkering with PLB Formula or any deviation from the inputs will definitely create confrontation

Since AIRF is maintaining very good harmonious industrial relations over the Indian Railways, we hope, nothing will be done to harm the industrial peace.

As per our calculation, Railwaymen must get increased PLB for the year 2012-13 in comparison to last year, since productivity has increased. In case Railway Board think it, otherwise the matter may be discussed, but no means that payment of PLB should be delayed, which may cause serious industrial relation.

Please treat the matter as Most Urgent and arrange the payment of PLB as per formula, already decided.

Yours faithfully,
sd/-
(Shiva Gopal Mishra)
General Secretary

Source : AIRF

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