Holding of 38th Binnial conference of AIPEU Sambalpur Division

  The 38th Binnial conference of AIPEU Sambalpur Postal Division sucessfully held on 28.07.2014 to 29.07.2014 in Sambalpur HO premises. The details of the conference will be published in this blog shortly.


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Formation of seventh pay commission and merger of DA

According to our sources in New Delhi, there is no chance of any merger of Dearness Allowance with basic pay as demanded by the associations. But the Government is considering the formation of seventh pay commission.

The seventh CPC is scheduled to be effective from 1.1.2016 and if it is formed this year, there will be ample time to finalize it's recommendations. Moreover, if it is not effective from an earlier date, the Govt. will be free from any burden of paying arrears, which may adversely effect the fiscal situation. Most significantly, in the eve of general election, the Govt. may spread a "feel good" situation among the employees without having to pay an extra penny from the exchequer. In the other hand merging D.A. with basic pay will lead to a considerable expense and as there is definite negative recommendation of sixth CPC in this respect, Govt. can easily deny this demand. After formation of seventh CPC, if the ruling party fails to come back in the corridors of power, the entire liability will have to be borne by the new Govt. So, it's a win win situation of the ruling party and most likely, it will be announced in the later half of the year.

Source : http://paycommissionupdate.blogspot.in/

Delay in declaration of Dearness Allowance

According to the PIB release dated 13-4-2013, The Union Finance Minister Shri P. Chidambaram left for one week tour to Canada and USA on Sunday,14th April, 2013. The Finance Minister will leave for the back home on 20th April, 2013 and will arrive in the national capital on the early morning of 22nd April, 2013.

Now it can be claimed that the decision on Dearness Allowance will be declared only after the Finance Minister’s arrival. So the central government employees may have to wait for one more week to get the result on 8% hike in dearness allowance from January 2013.Let us hope this will be the reason for the delay!

 

 

 

Enhancement of DA rate w.e.f 01.01.2013

 

A proposed hike of 8% in the dearness allowance of government employees is likely to come up before the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Tuesday but a decision could be deferred with finance minister P Chidambaram out on a tour to Japan.

The move to increase DA to 80% from 72% is likely to benefit around 50 lakh employees and 30 lakh pensioners of the central government. The government had raised DA to 72% in September last year, which had come into effect from July 1, 2012. According to the current proposal, the increase would be effective from January 1, 2013 and employees and pensioners would be entitled for arrears.

Source:-The Times of India

7^th PAY COMMISSION– CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES PLEA FOR CONSTITUTION OF 7CPC SUPPORTED BY MINISTER SHRI .AJAY MAKEN

While demand for constitution of 7th Pay Commission getting stronger, Shri.Ajay Maken Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has also given a support voice for formation of Seventh Commission as Central Government Employees will be entitled for 7th CPC Pay with effect from 1.1.2016.

As per the Media reports, Shri.Ajay Maken has addressed a letter to Prime Minister Shri.Manmohan singh and pointed out that except sixth Pay Commission all earlier pay commissions were constituted in the third year of every decade. In other words earlier pay commissions except 6CPC were formed well before its implementations became due.

The Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has also observed in his letter dated 14th March 2013 that setting up of 7th Commission was in larger interest of Government Employees as well the Congress Party.

Times of India has reported this News as follows.

AJAY MAKEN BACKS CRY FOR SEVENTH PAY PANEL

With a little over a year to go before the next general election, the demand for a Seventh Pay Commission has started to gather momentum. Union housing and urban poverty alleviation minister Ajay Maken has taken the lead in endorsing the Central government employees’ request for setting up of the new pay panel, citing the erosion of real wages due to high inflation since implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission’s recommendations.

In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Maken underlined how every pay panel since the Second Pay Commission, barring the Sixth Pay Commission, were set up in the third year of the decade.“We are again in the third year of the ongoing decade and Central government employees are justifiably looking forward to the Seventh Pay Commission,” he said.

Recalling that it was under Singh that the last pay panel was set up in 2005, after the NDA government failed to do so in 2003, Maken, in the communication dated March 14, requested that a decision be “taken on priority” for constitution of the Seventh Central Pay Commission.“A notification for constitution of the 7th Central Pay Commission is the need of the bour, which is bound to have bearing upon about 20 million employees,” he said.

Maken concluded by emphasizing that setting up of the new pay panel was in “larger interest of government employees as well as the (Congress) party”.

Source: Times of India

We Lost our beloved KOONKOO.

AIPEU, Sambalpur Division express deep condolence on the sad demise  of Comrade Subhransu Kumar Panigrahi who passed away at 03.30 AM today dtd.02.01.2013 after a brief illness.

 

Late Panigrahi was a very active, helpful and pleasant personality of the postal fraternity which can never be replaced.

 

We pray to the almighty God, let his soul rest in peace.

 

 

AIPEU Sambalpur Branch,

Sambalpur.

BONUS - 2012

Monday, October 15, 2012

BONUS - 2012

Postal Board has sent the Bonus File to the Hon'ble Minister Communications for approval.

Regarding Enhancement of Bonus ceiling to GDS from 2500 to 3500 as the Finance has again rejected the proposal, Communication Minister will be taking up the case with Finance Minister itself as per the assurance given to the JCA Earlier.