Timely commencement of family pension to spouse in the event of death of the pensioners

CPAO/1T&Tech/Bank Performance/37 vol. III (PF)2017-18/191

30-1-2018

Subject: – Timely commencement of family pension in favour of spouse by banks in the event of death of the pensioners.

Attention is invited to this office 0M No. CPAO/Tech/ Bank Performance/2016-17/255 dated-27.02.2017 whereby Heads of all the CPPCs and Government Business Divisions of the Banks were advised to Commence the family pension to the spouse immediately on receipt of death certificate of the pensioner, proof of spouse age/date of birth and under taking of recovery of excess payment latest within a month.

However. analysis of reports prepared in CPAO regarding time taken in conversion of pension to family pension in favour of spouse of deceased pensioners shows inordinate delay in many cases. The details of these cases are available in CPPC logins http://ppo.nic.in

In view of the above, Heads of CPPCs and Government Business Divisions Of the banks are advised to review the latest position and ensure compliance of the above instructions and submit the status report to CPAO along with reasons for delay by 9th February, 2018 positively by e-mail at vijay.cpao@gmail.com

It is, further, requested to give the acknowledgement of receipt of application and death certificate to the family pensioner regarding commencement of family pension.

(Subhash Chandra)
(Controller of Accounts)

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ANNUAL REPORT 2017-18

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS

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Successful conclusion of Tamilnadu AIPRPA 3rd State Conference! 

The 3rd State Conference of Tamilnadu was concluded successfully yesterday evening at Chennai. Details of Conference will appear in next issue (March) of Pensioners Post as already the February issue is in print.

The Conference elected unanimously a team of office bearers led by Comrades M.Kannaiyan (State President); S.Santhanaraman (State General Secretary); and G.Kumar (StateTreasurer). The outgoing State GS comrade K.Ragavendran is elected as one of the Working Presidents. Comrade K.V.Sridharan is elected as Advisor. The Conference also reconstituted the AIPRPA State legal and Defence Cell with 11 members and Comrade M R.Meenakshisundaram will be its Convenor.

Here is the photo showing the summing up speech of delegates debate by the newly elected State GS com. S.Santhanaraman.

Our heartiest greetings to the newly elected team of office bearers....Y.N. GS,AIPRPA-AP STATE

 

PRESS STATEMENT

CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS DECIDES TO OBSERVE ALL INDIA PROTEST DAY ON 15^TH MARCH 2018

The meeting of the Central Trade Unions held on 22^nd February 2018 at INTUC Office New Delhi expressed indignation and strongly condemned the Government of the day for their intensified attack on the lives and livelihood of the people and seriously compromising the national interest. 

Attack on working class centering around dismantling labour laws designed to completely casualise employment conditions through various routes like amending Contract Labour Act, introducing Fixed Term Employment etc has assumed aggressive height. Further it is noted that the Government is out to erase the public sector from the industrial map of the country. Specific cases of attack on privatization of railways, opening coal mining to private and foreign companies without any restriction whatsoever, mass scale privatization as well as destruction of defence production network through widespread outsourcing, thereby  dismantling the  almost half of the ordinance factories are some of the examples of the gross anti-people and anti-national actions of the Govt. Accumulation of huge non-performing assets of the public sector banks arising out of pilferage of bank-funds by deliberately defaulting private corporate coupled with recent explosion of frauds with bank fund engineered by the same corporate class is also a reflection of the anti-national act of the Govt indulging and patronizing the same big-business class.

The Central Trade Unions reiterated their utter condemnation against the Union Budget 2018-19 which is basically anti-worker and anti-people in character and engineered a deception on the mass of the people through loud populist slogans without actually making any resource allocation.

The Central Trade Unions denounced the Govt of India’s surreptitious move in postponing the 47^th session of Indian Labour Conference, thereby reducing tripartism to a mockery.  

CTUOs noted with satisfaction the surging struggles by the working people in different sectors throughout the country, both organised and unorganized.

The workers and federations of coal and transport have been preparing for united industrywide actions to be undertaken shortly. All the Federations of Defence Production workers have jointly decided to go in for nationwide strike on 15^th March 2018. Many more sectoral actions are in the offing.

The CTUOs while reiterating their resolve to intensify preparation for indefinite strike in the days to come, calls upon all their constituents and working people in general irrespective of affiliations to jointly observe

ALL INDIA PROTEST DAY ON 15^TH MARCH 2018

·         In solidarity with the striking Defence Production workers against anti-national privatization move

·         Against the Anti-people Deceptive Union Budget 2018-19

The CTUOs will meet shortly after 15^th March 2018 to decide their next course of united countrywide action.

INTUC                                    AITUC                                    HMS               CITU             

AIUTUC          TUCC             SEWA            AICCTU         UTUC                       LPF  

CLARIFICATION ISSUED BY DIRECTORATE ON COUNTING TRAINING PERIOD FOR TBOP & BCR

Aiprpa kakinada  dharna programme on 12th

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PROGRAMME OF DHARNA BEFORE DIVISIONAL OFFICES WAS SUCESSFULLY CONDUCTED IN ALMOST ALL DIVISIONS AS PER THE INFORMATION RECEIVED. MEMORANDUM TO MINISTER OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE ON CGHS PROBLEMS WAS SUBMITTED TO DVNL. SUPERINTENDENT FOR ONWARD TRANSMISSION.

PHOTOS OF RAJAHMUNDRY DIVISION PUBLISHED. OTHER PHOTOS WILL BE PUBLISHED LATER.

OUR DHARNA PROGRAMME FROM 12TH TO 16TH FEBRUARY 2018 WILL CONTINUE

A meeting on 15 points charter of demands was held in the chamber of Sri Tilak Dey, Addl D.G. (Post) Dak Bhawan, New Delhi . Sri Shailender Dashora DDG(SR), Smt Daisy Warla, Director(SR) and Sri R.S Mawar, A.D.G(SR) were present from Administrative side. From NFPE,  Coms. R.N. Parashar S/G – NFPE & G/S - P-III, Giriraj Singh President NFPE & G/S-R-III, Vikram Shah, G/S P-IV, S.B Yadav G/S- Postal Accounts and Virendra Tiwari G/S-SBCO participated in the meeting.

          A detailed discussion took place on all agenda items.

          But there is no fruitful result.

Therefore our Dharna Programme from 12^th to 16^th feb 2018 will continue.

R.N Parashar

Secretary General

                                                                                                           NFPE

OBITUARY

Com. A.G Pasupathy,  a veteran leader of NFPE who lead P-4 union in Tamilnadu  circle for decades, expired on 07/02/2018 in Chennai.

        He was a fighter and an uncompromising leader. He was attending all programmes of NFPE despite his ill health in Tamilnadu circle.

        We on behalf of NFPE, convey our heartfelt condolences on the demise of Com. A.G Pasupathy and dip our banner as a mark of respect to him. 

Com. A.G.P Amar Rahe.

Press Statement of AITUC

National Federation of Postal Employees

1^st Floor North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110 001

Phone: 011.23092771                                                    e-mail: nfpehq@gmail.com

       Mob: 9868819295/9810853981                      website: http://www.nfpe.blogspot.com

Dated: 04^th January, 2018

APPEAL

TO

        ALL GENERAL SECRETARIES /ALL INDIA OFFICE    BEARERS, CIRCLE SECRETARIES, DIVISIONAL   SECRETARIES & BRANCH SECRETARIES OF ALL NFPE UNIONS:

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          Kindly make all efforts to make the 5 days Dharna at New Delhi from 12^th to 16^th February -2018 a grand success by mobilizing  maximum number of participants  as per quota allotted to each Circle as per schedule issued by NFPE HQ(which is again reproduced below)

CIRCLE WISE AND DATE WISE PARTICIPATION PROGRAMME FOR 5 DAYS RELAY DHARNA AT NEW DELHIFROM 12^th TO 16th FEBRUARY-2018

DATE	CIRCLES	QUOTA FOR EACH CIRCLE	REMARKS
12.02.18	Andhra  Pradesh	100	(1) All NFPE Unions Circle Secretaries should convene meetings and allot quota to each union and book the tickets to and fro journey in advance to avoid inconvenience. (ii) All General Secretaries /NFPE Office bearers and All India leaders of All NFPE unions will remain present all the days. Respective CHQ will make their arrangements for stay.
	Telengana	75
	J&K	15
	Himachal Pradesh	30
	Punjab	50
	Delhi	100
13.02.18	Kerala	100
	Karnataka	100
	Haryana	50
	Uttarakhand	30
	Rajasthan	100
14.02.18	Tamilnadu	100
	Maharashtra	100
	Assam	30
	North East	15
	UP(Eastern)	75
15.02.18	West Bengal	100
	Odisha	75
	Bihar	75
	Jharkhand	50
16.02.18	UP (West)	100
	Madhya Pradesh	100
	Chhattisgarh	50
	Gujarat	100

        All all India Leaders of All NFPE Unions have to stay in Delhi for all the 5 days i.e. from 12^th to 16^th February-2018.

          Stay arrangements have been made by respective CHQs.

    R.N. Parashar

Secretary General

BUDGET -- NO MENTION ABOUT INCREASE IN MINIMUM PAY AND FITMENT FORMULA

We are publishing below the Budget Speech of Sri Arun Jaitley , Finance Minister and Press Statements issued by Central Trade Unions  CITU, AITUC & BMS. As far as Central Government Employees are concerned the budget  is disappointing.

M. Krishnan 

Secretary General 

Confederation

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Email : mkrishnan6854@gmail.com

PRESS STATEMENT – BUDGET 2018 - CITU

Press Release                                                                                            1^st February 2018

THE UNION BUDGET 2018-19:  ANTI-PEOPLE ANTI-WORKER AND DECEPTIVE

The Union Budget 2018-19, presented by the Finance Minister of the Narendra Modi Govt today on a preliminary scrutiny, turns out to be deceptive one, meticulously articulated to misguide and confuse the people. The Budget is anti-workers, anti-people and also militates against the national interest. CITU condemns such an anti-people exercise.

The Budget remained liberal about extending concession to business houses. On the plea of supporting Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) the Budget extended the reduced corporate tax rate of 25% to companies having Rs 250 crore annual turnover. Is the turnover the right measure of identifying an MSME or the ‘capital deployed’ should categorise the MSME more honestly ?  Will it really benefit the genuine MSMEs or allow the big players to corner the benefit ?  However through such deceptive manner the burden on corporate houses has been reduced further by Rs 7000 crore while giving no relief to suffering millions reeling under post GST indirect tax burden. This along with other pro-corporate policy drives  continued to remain the pattern of budget exercise of the Modi Govt in successive years of its governance pushing the entire country in the midst of extreme and obscene income inequality of one percent people cornering 73% of the national wealth. And yet the Govt will continue to call itself pro-poor.

Budget speech made no mistake in mentioning its resolve to extend the atrocious “fixed term employment” system to all the sectors consistent with its brazenly anti-worker pro-corporate drive for labour-law changes designed to impose slavery on the workers.  While speaking lavishly about improving health, education and social welfare services toward universalisation, it remained totally negative in considering the long standing demands of about a  crore workers working in its flagship scheme of NHM, Mid-day-Meal(MDM) and ICDS (Anganwadi) and other related central govt schemes of extending them at least the right to statutory minimum wages and attendant social security benefits. In fact the allocation under National Health Mission (NHM) has been reduced and on ICDS and MDM there are marginal increase that too for other expenditures. Such an attitude is utterly condemnable.

On employment generation also, the claim made in the budget speech is also not true. In fact, even as per official estimate, the net employment generation has turned negative in absolute term if job-losses owing to closure of factories/establishments during the period is taken into account. The claim of  creation of 70 lakh jobs in the formal sector said to be based on the increase in number of EPFO data  as touted by a so called “independent study” upheld by the Finance Minister is another hoax to confuse and misguide the people and a cruel joke on the several lakhs of unemployed. Rather every step of this Modi Govt is degenerating the employment situation in the country;  and all concessions being given to business houses by the Govt including bearing the burden of employers contribution in EPF, allowing liberal income tax rebate to employers on account of wages paid to the newly employed workers etc is actually an arrangement of organized pilferage from the national exchequer

                                                                                                                                               

by the employers’ class in complicity with the custodians of the said exchequer, without creating any

employment whatsoever.  Added to this has been the recent move of abolishing all posts in central govt establishment deliberately kept vacant for last five years, killing lakhs of employment positions.

The Budget speech has gone extremely lavish in pronouncing commitments for development of agriculture and rural development along with launching so many schemes, whereas budgetary allocation for 2018-19 both on account of Agriculture and Allied Services and Rural Development marked a marginal increase of Rs 9793 crore in nominal term meaning actually a decline both in real terms and also as a percentage of GDP and total budgetary allocations. The Budget gave a shockingly surprising news that the Govt has already implemented the Minimum Support Price (MSP) at the rate of one and half times of production cost for majority of the Rabi Crops and now the Govt is committed to extend the same to Kharif  crops in the current year also which is totally untrue. Even Govt’s deposition before the Apex Court in this matter is reportedly negative.

Similarly, the budgetary statement about putting in place under its flagship programme of National Health protection Scheme to provide for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization at the rate of Rs 5 lakh per family per year to 10 crore poor and vulnerable families, if weighed in terms of actual budgetary allocations, turns out be another hoax. The budgetary allocation on this account is merely Rs 1600 core which can cover hardly 10 lakh families (and not 10 crore). And such discrepancy exposes the dubious intent.  Overall, behind the shrill fraudulent noise of all round development, the budget continued to remain a contractionary budget and focus of almost all govt expenditures are designed to benefit only the rich and propertied business class and the common people and the workers in particular are being subjected to deeper exploitation and repression.

Budget speech lavishly spoke about developing self reliance in defence production and what is being actually done is setting the process of destruction of the existing indigenous manufacturing capabilities  in  the Ordnance factories, the defence PSUs and country’s shipyards by way of mass scale outsourcing in favour of private sector, both foreign and domestic  turning around half of the Ordnance Factories redundant and starving the Defence PSUs and Shipyards of work-orders. On the same way, under the camouflage of expanding Railway network, the project of total privatization of Railways is being pursued in full swing.  Are these in any manner serving national interests or sabotaging the same in favour of foreign  players ?

The Govt has been moving fast in selling out the national assets through wholesale privatization. In the current year the target for disinvestment /privatization is kept at Rs 80000 crore to keep on the pace of its ‘destroy India’ programme  under the camouflage of “Make in India”.

CITU denounced the budget 2018-19 of the Modi Govt and calls upon the working class to unitedly  protest and fight against the fraud and exploitation they are being subjected to simultaneously.

                                                                                                                       Issued by

                                                                                                                                    

(Tapan Sen )

                                                                                                                  General Secretary

Press Statement of AITUC

Press Release

The following statement was issued to press today on budget by Ms. Amarjeet Kaur, General Secretary, All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)  

NDA government budget fails to address the concerns of common man, unemployed and vulnerable sections.

The NDA Govt. budget presented by Finance Minister was more of a jugglery of words, manipulation of statistics and deceitful way of putting things to sell dreams once again without backing of concrete steps and actions needed to implement the statement of ‘intent’ made.

The Finance Minister ended with quote from Swamy Vivekanand but his budget was just opposed to what Swamy ji wanted India to emerge from as a powerful nation of working people to full fill their aspirations, and attain a life of dignity.

The budget once again gives huge concessions to the corporates and big businesses including on focus to foreign investments, and continued disinvestments of Public sector units to the tune of Rs. 80000 crores in the coming year. The Govt wants to be satisfied with certificate from International Monetary fund for the growth estimates, as the Govt once again appeared to be committed to tag India’s economy with International finance capital. Ease of Business continued to be the keyword.

Several heads were amalgamated & repeated across various projects while duplicating to show huge amounts of allocations which is far from truth. On the one hand side 100 percent FDI is being brought in animal husbandry and on the other side it is nearly lip service made in the budget to this sector & fisheries.

The Govt had failed to fulfill its election promise to raise income of farmers by one & half times and once again the lollypop is distributed on similar promise. Nothing serious emerged how to tackle agrarian crises which is accepted even by Economic Survey Report. Only grant of the loan limits are increased, from ten lakh crores to eleven lakh crores how to take farmers out of indebtedness is no where in sight. The amount announced is meager for creation of farmer markets and irrigation.

While speaking on Education, health & basic amenities it seemed the Finance Minister is addressing only the upper middle class, elites and not the vulnerable common man which constitutes more than 80% of population. Black board to digital board is talked but those who do not have black boards in schools or those who have no access to black boards are not in the agenda of government.

 Some adjectives are added as usual to SC & ST population with inflated figures of four years as if it is for the year 2018 - 2019. The population figure is presented to appear as if all of them are going to hugely benefit.

The medical colleges are only the upgradation of existing ones, but are projected as if new colleges are coming out. Announcements on RSBY are made which would enhance the business of private hospitals and private insurance companies.  But public health system is not addressed, even when health care is becoming out of reach of common man.

Cess is being increased on Education & Health which will further add to indirect taxation on common man. On the other side the tax concessions to corporate and big business continued in this budget also.

70 lakh jobs were lost after demonetization and Govt. is talking of creating only 17 lakh jobs. Another six crores of people are expected to loose livelihood in informal sector according to independent surveys &

17 lakhs formal jobs to be further lost says the same survey.

Talking of railways and airways, concern and needs of vast majority of people of public transportation are not addressed, once again the FM was playing to the gallery of elites and affluents.

The budget dodged the common people who are in misery due to price rise in essential commodities and the students youth of India who want good inexpensive education in govt. sector and the employment to live with dignity.

 Released from AITUC headquarters

35-36, DDU Marg, Road Rouse Avenue, New Delhi

Akshay-8447230937

Press Statement Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh

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Budget Speech of Hon' Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance

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PRESS RELEASE FROM CITU (click here to the view)

HIGHLIGHTS OF BUDGET 2018-19 (Click here to the view)