7CPC: 7th Central Pay Commission for Central Government Employees
All about 7th Central Pay Commission for Central Government Employees. Dearness Allowance for Government Employees, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS - DOPT, DOPT Orders, Expected DA & more.
Request to the PM to release DA to the central government employees and DR to the pensioners
Release DA to the central government
employees
Binoy Viswam Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
116, North Avenue New Delhi – 110 001 Mob: 96057667022 E-mail:
binoyviswam55@gmail.com
To
Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister Government of India, New Delhi.
Date: 10.01.2021
Respected Shri Narendra Modi ji,
I write to bring to your attention a matter affecting the rights and
entitlements of Central Government employees in light of actions taken
by the Finance Ministry. Deviating from the decision of the Cabinet to
release 4% additional Dearness Allowance (DA) in light of the Covid-19
pandemic , the Ministry of Finance on 23rd April 2020 issued an order
for freezing of DA to the central govt. employees and DR to the
pensioners till July 2021. Effectively, these actions, amidst a
pandemic, have subjected the Central Govt. employees and pensioners to
undue financial hardship.
Successive Central Pay Commissions have dealt in detail about the
payment of DA to the Central Govt. employees and its importance to the
working conditions of Central Govt. Employees. The decision by the
Finance Ministry is in complete disregard to the rights of these workers
and the reasons for the grant of such an allowance by the Cabinet. The
dearness allowance (DA) stems from the need to protect the erosion in
the real value of basic salary on account of inflation and thereby
provides employees with the ability to deal with the ever-increasing
inflation in the country, even in their retirement. The Covid-19
pandemic has taken an unbearable toll on the lives of all people and
while many have been able to avoid the pandemic at its deadliest,
Central Govt. Employees have worked tirelessly to keep the country
moving and their service to the nation cannot be ignored. Many of these
workers have even succumbed to the deadly coronavirus.
In view of the above, I request you to kindly intervene in the matter
and reconsider the decision, since the employees who have
retired/retiring w.e.f. 01/01/2020 are not getting the benefit of the DA
increase in their terminal benefits, such as leave encashment, gratuity
etc. I once again request you to withdraw the decision taken by the
Government to freeze the 3 installments of DA due for the employees and
the pensioners and release the same to them at the earliest. The
Government must ensure that its employees are treated with dignity and
their rights are not compromised due to governmental apathy.
Yours sincerely
Binoy Viswam Leader of CPI Parliamentary Party & Secretary, National Council
File No. 1/ 2/ 2020-CS.II (A) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Personnel & Training
3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan Khan Market, New Delhi-110003 Dated: 13.01.2021
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
CSSS promotion orders 2021
Subject: Implementation of orders relating to promotion of officers in various grades in CSSS – reg.
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s Orders
relating to ad-hoc promotion in various grades of CSSS Cadre issued
recently, as per the details below:
S.No.
Description
Order No.
Date of issue
i
Promotion of Senior Principal Private Secretary to Principal Staff Officer
1/ 2/ 2020-CS.IIA
14.12.2020 &15.12.2020
ii
Promotion of Principal Private Secretary to Senior Principal Private Secretary
1I3/ 2020-CS .IIA
01.01.2021
iii
Promotion of Private Secretary to Principal Private Secretary
3/ 6/ 2020-CS.II A
01.01.2021
iv
Promotion of Personal Assistant to Private Secretary
4/ 3/ 2020-CS.II(A)
29.12.2020
v
Promotion of Stenographer Grade ‘D’ to Personal Assistant
5/ 1/2020-CS.Il(C)
29. 12.2020
CSSS promotion orders 2021
2. The ad-hoc promotion orders had to be made to address the urgent
requirement of various cadre units for manpower at various levels.
However, it is seen that a number of officers have not joined. It may be
appreciated that ad-hoc promotion is resorted to as a special
dispensation for ensuring efficiency in Government’s functioning. The
non-joining of officers is defeating the very purpose for which these
ad-hoc promotions were made.
3. Hence, in partial modification of the Orders mentioned in para-1
above, all the Cadre Units are hereby directed to issue instructions to
the promoted officers in all grades, who have not yet assumed the charge
of the posts, to assume the charge immediately and not later than
15.01.2021, failing which the promotion orders with respect to
non-joinee Officers, shall be liable to be withdrawn, apart from
debarment from ad-hoc promotion or other suitable consequences. Further,
the vacancies on this account shall be filled up by considering
eligible officers next in order of seniority.
4. The cadre units are also requested to submit a report by 15.01.2021 to this Department at email: bhagirathjha.68[at]gov.in
5. All the concerned Ministries/ Departments are hereby requested to
forward the list of officers who have not assumed the charge of the post
on promotion by 15.01.2021, 03:30 P.M. on the email id mentioned above.
(Bhagirath Jha) Under Secretary to the Government of India Tele: 24654020 email: bhagirathjha.68@gov.in
Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (2016=100) – November 2020
The All-India CPI-IW for November, 2020 increased by 0.4 points and
stood at 119.9 (one hundred nineteen and point nine). On 1-month
percentage change, it increased by (+) 0.33 per cent between October and
November, 2020 compared to (+) 0.92 per cent increase between
corresponding months of previous year.
The maximum upward pressure in current index came from Food &
Beverages group contributing (+) 0.25 percentage points to the total
change. At item level, Rice, Arhar Dal, Fish Fresh, Milk, Mustard Oil,
Soyabean Oil, Sunflower Oil, Onion, Potato, Chillies Dry, Tea Leaf,
Cooked Meal, etc. are responsible for the increase in index. However,
this increase was checked by Poultry (Chicken), Tomato, Brinjal, Carrot,
Cauliflower, Ginger, Gourd, Green Coriander Leaves, Lady Finger, Peas,
Orange, etc., putting downward pressure on the index.
At centre level, Puducherry recorded the maximum increase of 4
points. Among others, 3 points increase was observed in 4 centres, 2
points in 7 centres and 1 point in 30 centres. On the contrary, Guntur,
Bhilai, Udham Singh Nagar and Vadodara recorded a maximum decrease of 2
points each. Among others, 1 point fall was observed in 17 centres. Rest
of 25 centres’ indices remained stationary.
Year-on-year inflation based on all-items stood at 5.27 per cent for
November, 2020 as compared to 5.91 per cent for the previous month and
8.61 per cent during the corresponding month of the previous year.
Similarly, Food inflation stood at 7.48 per cent against 8.21 per cent
of the previous month and 9.87 per cent during the corresponding month a
year ago.
Y-o-Y Inflation based on CPI-IW (Food and General)
All-India Group-wise CPI-IW for October and November, 2020
Sr. No.
Groups
Oct, 2020
Nov, 2020
I
Food & Beverages
123.0
123.6
II
Pan, Supari, Tobacco & Intoxicants
132.5*
133.1
III
Clothing & Footwear
117.4
117.4
IV
Housing
113.5*
113.5*
V
Fuel & Light
126.4
126.8
VI
Miscellaneous
117.0
117.2
General Index
119.5
119.9
Expected DA January 2021 – AICPIN for November 2020 increased by 0.4 points
*Rounded up from second decimal place.
CPI-IW: Groups Indices
Speaking about the latest index, Shri Santosh Gangwar, Minister of
State (I/C) for Labour and Employment said, “The rise in index coupled
with fall in annual inflation will have dual impact in terms of
increasing income and purchasing power of the workers. He added that the
effect is mainly due to vegetables which had good supply in the market
and provided respite to the consumers.
Shri DPS Negi, Director General of Labour Bureau while releasing the
index said, “The rise in index during November, 2020 and fall in
inflation rate are in line with other price indices compiled and
released by other Government agencies”.
He further said that Rise in index is mainly on account of increase
in prices of Rice, Arhar Dal, Fish Fresh, Milk, Mustard Oil, Soyabean
Oil, Sunflower Oil, Onion, Potato, Chillies Dry, Tea Leaf, Cooked Meal,
Cooking Gas, Household Goods & Services etc.
The next issue of CPI-IW for the month of December, 2020 will be
released on Friday 29th January, 2021. The same will also be available
on the office website www.labourbureaunew.gov.in.
The Labour Bureau, an attached office of the M/o Labour &
Employment, has been compiling Consumer Price Index for Industrial
Workers every month on the basis of retail prices collected from 317
markets spread over 88 industrially important centres in the country.
The index is compiled for 88 centres and All-India and is released on
the last working day of succeeding month.
Booking of Central GovtHoliday Homes - Allotment for over One Lakh Government Residential Accommodations Integrated on New Platform - E-Sampada
Booking of Holiday Homes
Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs
Booking of Holiday Homes, Social Function Venues Like 5 Ashoka Road,
Allotment for over One Lakh Government Residential Accommodations
Integrated on New Platform
E-Sampada- New Web Portal & Mobile App Launched on Good
Governance Day – To Simplify Processes & Bring Uniformity In Systems
Across India
Four Websites & Two Mobile Apps of Directorate of Estates
Integrated into one – all services on same Platform throughout Country
E-Governance to Boost Transparency & Accountability in Providing Various Estate Services
25 DEC 2020
Good governance day is celebrated annually on 25 December, the
anniversary of the birth of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
In line with the objectives of boosting transparency and
accountability while ensuring ease of living for the citizens, the
Directorate of Estates, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs today
dedicated to the nation, a new Web Portal and Mobile App, e-Sampada.
The new application provides a single window for all these services
including allotment for over one lakh government residential
accommodations, office space allotment to government organisations in 45
office complexes in 28 cities, booking of 1,176 holiday home rooms and
venues like 5, Ashoka Road for social functions etc.
In its endeavour to provide ‘One Nation, One System’, the erstwhile
four websites (gpra.nic.in, eawas.nic.in, estates.gov.in,
holidayhomes.nic.in), and two Mobile Apps (m-Awas & m-Ashoka5) of
the Directorate of Estates have been integrated into one, which paves
the way for all services on the same platform throughout the country.
The website and mobile app was launched by Shri Hardeep S Puri, Minister
of State(I/C) for Housing & Urban Affairs in the presence of Shri
Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, MoHUA and other senior officials here
today.
Addressing the media in a program organised on virtual platform, Shri
Hardeep S Puri said that this is a significant step towards promotion
of e-governance to boost transparency and accountability in providing
various Estate Services like allotment, retention, regularisation, no
dues certificate etc.
He further said that E-Sampada is developed to simplify processes and
bring uniformity in the system across India. This will promote ease of
living for Government of India officers / Departments as all services
can be availed online on a single window with a live tracking of
applications. Real time information on utilisation of assets and
delivery of service will facilitate optimum utilisation of resources.
The automated processes will minimize human intervention and will lead
to greater transparency.
Shri Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary said that E-Sampada equips users
with very specialised features like personalised dashboard, service
usage archive and real time status on licence fees/dues. All payments /
dues are to be made cashless through digital modes. It is user friendly
and is device responsive. Users will have visual experience of services
and will be able to give feedback online.
The portal provides online facility to users across India to lodge
complaints, submit documents and appear for virtual hearing. It will
reduce administrative cost and will save time and resources by reducing
visits to Directorate of Estate. e-Sampada Mobile App and Chatbot
facility has been provided for better user experience. Service level
benchmarks and activity log for officials are incorporated to ensure
accountability.
E-Sampada to benefit all services, across India : Online, Paperless, Cashless
1,09,474 Government Residential Accommodation at 40 locations
1.25 crore sq.ft Office Space Allotment in 45 office complexes at 28 locations
1,176 Holiday Home Rooms/Suits at 62 locations
Booking of Vigyan Bhawan
Booking of venues for social functions
The
new Web Portal and Mobile App have been developed by NIC. The Mobile
App will be available for Android as well as iOS platforms. The Web
Portal can be accessed at www.esampada.mohua.gov.in and Mobile App can be downloaded from Android Play Store / Apple App Store.
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Cabinet
approved creation of National Recruitment Agency (NRA), paving the way
for a transformational reform in the recruitment process for central
government jobs
Centre launched “Mission Karmayogi”- National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB)
Doorstep Service for submission of Digital Life Certificate through Postman launched
Revamped Scheme for PM’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration 2020 launched
Interviews for jobs abolished in 23 States and 8 UTs in India so far
31 DEC 2020
Following are the initiatives of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions during the year 2020:
Cabinet approved creation of National Recruitment Agency
(NRA), paving the way for a transformational reform in the recruitment
process for central government jobs
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi
has given its approval in August, 2020 for creation of National
Recruitment Agency (NRA), paving the way for a transformational reform
in the recruitment process for central government jobs.
Recruitment Reform – a major boon for the youth
At present, candidates seeking government jobs have to appear for
separate examinations conducted by multiple recruiting agencies for
various posts, for which similar eligibility conditions have been
prescribed. Candidates have to pay fee to multiple recruiting agencies
and also have to travel long distances for appearing in various exams.
These multiple recruitment examinations are a burden on the candidates,
as also on the respective recruitment agencies, involving avoidable
/repetitive expenditure, law and order/security related issues and venue
related problems. On an average, 2.5 crore to 3 crore candidates appear
in each of these examinations. A common eligibility Test would enable
these candidates to appear once and apply to any or all of these
recruitment agencies for the higher level of examination. This would
indeed be a boon to all the candidates.
National Recruitment Agency (NRA)
A multi-agency body called the National Recruitment Agency (NRA) will
conduct a Common Eligibility Test (CET) to screen/shortlist candidates
for the Group B and C (non-technical) posts. NRA will have
representatives of Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Finance/Department
of Financial Services, the SSC, RRB & IBPS. It is envisioned that
the NRA would be a specialist body bringing the state-of-the-art
technology and best practices to the field of Central Government
recruitment.
Access to Examination Centres
Examination Centres in every District of the country would greatly
enhance access to the candidates located in far-flung areas. Special
focus on creating examination infrastructure in the 117 Aspirational
Districts would go a long way in affording access to candidates at a
place nearer to where they reside. The benefits in terms of cost,
effort, safety and much more would be immense. The proposal will not
only ease access to rural candidates, it will also motivate the rural
candidates residing in the far-flung areas to take the examination and
thereby, enhance their representation in Central Government jobs. Taking
job opportunities closer to the people is a radical step that would
greatly enhance ease of living for the youth.
Major Relief to poor Candidates
Presently, the candidates have to appear in multiple examinations
conducted by multiple agencies. Apart from the examination fees,
candidates have to incur additional expenses for travel, boarding,
lodging and other such. A single examination would reduce the financial
burden on candidates to a large extent.
Women candidates to benefit greatly
Women candidates especially from rural areas face constraints in
appearing in multiple examinations as they have to arrange for
transportation and places to stay in places that are far away. They
sometimes have to find suitable persons to accompany them to these
Centres that are located far away. The location of test centres in every
District would greatly benefit candidates from rural areas in general
and women candidates in particular.
Bonanza for Candidates from Rural Areas
Given the financial and other constraints, the candidates from rural
background have to make a choice as to which examination they want to
appear in. Under the NRA, the candidates by appearing in one examination
will get an opportunity to compete for many posts. NRA will conduct the
first-level /Tier I Examination which is the stepping stone for many
other selections.
CET Score to be valid for three years, no bar on attempts
The CET score of the candidate shall be valid for a period of three
years from the date of declaration of the result. The best of the valid
scores shall be deemed to be the current score of the candidate. There
shall be no restriction on the number of attempts to be taken by a
candidate to appear in the CET subject to the upper age limit.
Relaxation in the upper age limit shall be given to candidates of
SC/ST/OBC and other categories as per the extant policy of the
Government. This would go a long way in mitigating the hardship of
candidates who spend a considerable amount of time, money and effort
preparing and giving these examinations every year.
Standardised Testing
NRA shall conduct a separate CET each for the three levels of
graduate, higher secondary (12th pass) and the matriculate (10th pass)
candidates for those non-technical posts to which recruitment is
presently carried out by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC), the
Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) and by the Institute of Banking
Personnel Selection (IBPS). Based on the screening done at the CET score
level, final selection for recruitment shall be made through separate
specialised Tiers (II, III etc) of examination which shall be conducted
by the respective recruitment agencies. The curriculum for this test
would be common as would be the standard. This would greatly ease the
burden of candidates who are at present required to prepare for each of
the examinations separately as per different curriculum.
Scheduling Tests and choosing Centres
Candidates would have the facility of registering on a common portal
and give a choice of Centres. Based on availability, they would be
allotted Centres. The ultimate aim is to reach a stage wherein
candidates can schedule their own tests at Centres of their choice.
OUTREACH ACTIVITIES BY NRA
Multiple languages
The CET would be available in a number of languages. This would
greatly facilitate people from different parts of the country to take
the exam and have an equal opportunity of being selected.
Scores – access to multiple recruitment agencies
Initially the scores would be used by the three major recruitment
agencies. However, over a period of time it is expected that other
recruitment agencies in the Central Government would adopt the same.
Further, it would be open for other agencies in the public as well as
private domain to adopt it if they so choose. Thus, in the long run, the
CET score could be shared with other recruiting agencies in the Central
Government, State Governments/Union Territories, Public Sector
Undertaking and Private Sector. This would help such organizations in
saving costs and time spent on recruitment.
Shortening the recruitment cycle
A single eligibility test would significantly reduce the recruitment
cycle. Some Departments have indicated their intention to do away with
any second level test and go ahead with recruitment on the basis of CET
scores, Physical Tests and Medical examination. This would greatly
reduce the cycle and benefit a large section of youth.
Financial Outlay
The Government has sanctioned a sum of Rs. 1517.57 crore for the
National Recruitment Agency (NRA). The expenditure will be undertaken
over a period of three years. Apart from setting up the NRA, costs will
be incurred for setting up examination infrastructure in the 117
Aspirational Districts.
Cabinet approved “Mission Karmayogi”- National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB)
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approved launching of a National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) with the following institutional framework in September, 2020: –
Prime Minister’s Public Human Resources (HR) Council,
Capacity Building Commission.
Special Purpose Vehicle for owning and operating the digital assets
and the technological platform for online training,
Coordination Unit headed by the Cabinet Secretary.
Salient Features
NPCSCB has been carefully designed to lay the foundations for
capacity building for Civil Servants so that they remain entrenched in
Indian Culture and sensibilities and remain connected, with their roots,
while they learn from the best institutions and practices across the
world. The Programme will be delivered by setting up an Integrated Government Online Training- iGOT Karmayogi Platform. The core guiding principles of the Programme will be:
Supporting Transition from ‘Rules based’ to ‘Roles based* HR
Management.Aligning work allocation of civil servants by matching their
competencies tothe requirements of the post.
To emphasize on ‘on-site learning’ to complement the ‘off-site’ learning,
To create an ecosystem of shared training infrastructure including that of learning materials, institutions and personnel,
To
calibrate all Civil Service positions to a Framework of Roles,
Activities and Competencies (FRACs) approach and to create and deliver
learning content relevant to the identified FRACs in every Government
entity,
To make available to all civil servants, an opportunity
to continuously build and strengthen their Behavioral, Functional and
Domain Competencies in their self-driven and mandated learning paths.
To
enable all the Central Ministries and Departments and their
Organizations to directly invest their resources towards co-creation and
sharing the collaborative and common ecosystem of learning through an
annual financial subscription for every employee,
To encourage
and partner with the best-in-class learning content creators including
public training institutions, universities, start-tips and individual
experts,
To undertake data analytics in respect of data emit
provided by iGOT- Karmayogi pertaining to various aspects of capacity
building, content creation, user feedback and mapping of competencies
and identify areas for policy reforms.
Objectives
It is also proposed to set up a Capacity Building Commission,
with a view to ensure a uniform approach in managing and regulating the
capacity building ecosystem on collaborative and co-sharing basis.
The role of Commission will be as under-
To assist the PM Public Human Resources Council in approving the Annual Capacity Building Plans.
To exercise functional supervision over all Central Training Institutions dealing with civil services capacity building.
To create shared learning resources, including internal and external faculty and resource centers.
To coordinate and supervise the implementation of the Capacity Building Plans with the stakeholder Departments.
To make recommendations on standardization of training and capacity building, pedagogy and methodology
To set norms for common mid-career training programs across all civil services.
To suggest policy interventions required in the areas of HR Management and Capacity Building to the Government.
iGOT- Karmayogi platform brings the scale and
state-of-the-art infrastructure to augment the capacities of over two
crore officials in India. The platform is expected to evolve into a
vibrant and world-class market place for content where carefully curated
and vetted digital e-learning material will be made available. Besides
capacity building, service matters like confirmation after probation
period, deployment, work assignment and notification of vacancies etc.
would eventually be integrated with the proposed competency framework.
Mission Karmayogi aims to prepare the Indian Civil Servant for the
future by making him more creative, constructive, imaginative,
innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling,
transparent and technology-enabled. Empowered with specific
role-competencies, the civil servant will be able to ensure efficient
service delivery of the highest quality standards.
Financial implications
To cover around 46 lakh Central employees, a sum of Rs.510.86 crore
will be spent over a period of 5 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The
expenditure is partly funded by multilateral assistance to the tune of
USD 50 million. A wholly owned Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for NPCSCB
will be set up under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013. The SPV will
be a “not-for-profit” company and will own and manage iGOT- Karmayogi platform. The SPV will create and operationalize the content, market place and manage key business services of iGOT- Karmayogi
platform, relating to content validation, independent proctored
assessments and telemetry data availability. The SPV will own all
Intellectual Property Rights on behalf of the Government of India. An
appropriate monitoring and evaluation framework will also be put in
place for performance evaluation of all users of the iGOT– Karmayogi platform so as to generate a dashboard view of Key Performance Indicators.
Background
Capacity of Civil Services plays a vital role in rendering a wide
variety of services, implementing welfare programs and performing core
governance functions. A transformational change in Civil Service
Capacity is proposed to be affected by organically linking the
transformation of work culture, strengthening public institutions and
adopting modern technology to build civil service capacity with the
overall aim of ensuring efficient delivery of services to citizens.
A Public Human Resources Council comprising of
select Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, eminent public HR
practitioners, thinkers, global thought leaders and Public Service
functionaries under the Chairmanship of Hon’ble Prime Minister will
serve as the apex body for providing strategic direction to the task of
Civil Services Reform and capacity building.
Doorstep Service for submission of Digital Life Certificate through Postman launched Huge relief for pensioners to submit Life certificate while staying at home.
India Post Payments Bank, IPPB of Department of Posts & Meity
have successfully launched the initiative of the Department of Pension
& Pensioners’ Welfare: “Doorstep Service for submission of Digital
Life Certificate through Postman” in November, 2020. The facility to
submit life certificate online through Jeevan Pramaan Portal was
launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister in November, 2014 with the
objective to provide a convenient and transparent facility to pensioners
for submission of Life Certificate.
Ever since, DoPPW, under the able guidance of Dr. Jitendra Singh,
Minister of State, Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pensions, has been
leveraging technology year after year, to make the system seamless and
more and more convenient for the elderly Pensioners.
In order to make this facility available across the country, DoPPW
roped in the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) and utilise its huge
network of Postmen and Gramin Dak Sevaks in providing doorstep facility
to pensioners for submission of life certificate digitally.
IPPB
has customized its Bank software and dovetailed the same with Jeevan
Pramaan software of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
(MeitY) and UIDAI, to provide DLC services at the doorstep of
Pensioners. This facility shall be in addition to other facilities such
as withdrawal of money from bank account etc. while sitting at home.
IPPB is utilising its national network of more than 1,36,000 access
points in Post Offices and more than 1,89,000 Postmen & Gramin Dak
Sevaks with smart phones and biometric devices to provide Doorstep
Banking Services. As a result a huge number of pensioners across the
country shall be able to avail doorstep service through Postmen/ Gramin
Dak Sevak, without visiting to bank branch or standing in a queue
outside the bank branches.
In order to avail “doorstep service for submission of DLC”
through IPPB, pensioners can get detailed information on
ippbonline.com. It is a chargeable service and will be available to all
Central Government Pensioners across the country irrespective of the
fact their pension accounts are in different bank. The process to avail “doorstep service of DLC”
through IPPB can be viewed @ Youtube(Pension DOPPW) and facebook of D/o
Pension & Pensioners Welfare . In view of current pandemic, it is a
huge relief for pensioners to submit Life certificate while staying at
home.
Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh launched the
revamped Scheme for PM’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration
2020 and web portal www.pmawards.gov.in
In July, 2020, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER),
MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and
Space, Dr Jitendra Singh launched the revamped PM’s Awards for
Excellence in Public Administration and the web portal
www.pmawards.gov.in. Addressing the Central Ministries and State/ UT
Governments on this occasion, Dr. Jitendra Singh said that the Scheme
has been revamped in tune with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s
governance model of citizen participation. He said that the Mantra of
“Maximum Governance, Minimum Government” is incomplete without citizen
participation and citizen centricity and added that transparency and
accountability are its twin hallmark.
The Scheme Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public
Administration 2020, has been revamped to recognize the performance of
the District Collectors towards outcome indicators, economic
development, peoples’ participation and redressal of public grievances.
Nominations have been called in four major categories – District
Performance Indicators Programme, Innovation General Category,
Aspirational Districts Program and Namami Gange Program. Under the
District Performance Indicators Programme, District Collectors would be
evaluated on their contribution to Inclusive Development through credit
flow to priority sector, Promoting peoples movements – Jan Bhagidari
through effective implementation of priority sector schemes of SBM
(Gramin) and SBM (Urban) programs, Improving service delivery and
redressal of Public Grievances. The Innovations category of the Scheme
has been broad-based to provide separate award categories for
innovations at National, State and District level. The period of
consideration for the awards is 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2020. In
all 15 Awards would be conferred under the Scheme in 2020.
Interviews for jobs abolished in 23 States and 8 UTs in India so far
Interview for jobs has been abolished in 23 States and 8 Union
Territories of India. This is a follow up to the abolition of interview
for Group-B (Non- Gazetted) and Group – C posts in the Central
Government ever since 2016.
It was on the 15th of August 2015, while speaking from the rampart of
Red Fort on the occasion of Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra
Modi had suggested abolition of interview and making the job selection
totally on the basis of written test because whenever an interview call
was received by a candidate, his entire family would get disturbed with
apprehension and anxiety. On a quick follow up to the Prime Minister’s
advice, the DoPT undertook an expeditious exercise and within three
months completed the entire process to announce abolition of interview
for recruitment in Central Government with effect from 1st January,
2016.
Three new Information Commissioners administered oath of office in November
The Chief Information Commissioner Shri Y.K. Sinha administered the
oath of office to Information Commissioners Shri Heeralal Samariya, Ms.
Saroj Punhani and Shri Uday Mahurkar at a swearing-in ceremony organized
in Central Information Commission in November this year. With their
induction, the total number of Information Commissioners including the
Chief Information Commissioner has risen to 8 in the Central Information
Commission.
Shri Heeralal Samariya, a former IAS officer, was Secretary, Ministry
of Labour & Employment in Government of India before retirement. He
holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering. His area of expertise
includes Administration and Governance.
Ms. Saroj Punhani, an IA&AS officer, before joining as
Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission, was
holding the post of Deputy Comptroller & Auditor General (HR &
Training) in Government of India. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in
Humanities. Her area of expertise includes Administration and
Governance.
Shri Uday Mahurkar, a veteran journalist, before joining as
Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission, was
functioning as Senior Deputy Editor with a leading media house. He
graduated from Maharaja Sayajirao University in Indian History, Culture
and Archaeology. His area of expertise includes his vast experience in
media.
