Wish you & your family a happy, healthy, peaceful, purposeful, successful, safe, energetic and productive New Year.

May this new year bring many opportunities your way, to explore every joy of life and may your resolutions for the days ahead stay firm, turning all your dreams into reality and all your efforts into great achievements.

May this New Year give the courage to triumph over your vices and embrace the virtues.
May you get succeed in the year 2019 and achieve all your goals you have set.

May you stand up for your own rights this New Year and also the rights of fellow human beings,may nothing stop you from championing a cause that you hold close to your heart.

May you get everything you want in the New Year and overcome your difficulties of the past year.

This new year take a plunge into the ocean of hope and optimism and free yourself from all your grudges,sadness.

As this year is ending,I wish all the negativity and difficulties also end with this year and 2019 bring success and desired results for us.

आप सभी को नववर्ष की हार्दिक शुभकामनाये
नया साल आपके लिये मंगलमय हो !!

గతమంతా గుణపాఠాల నిధి, నూతన సంవత్సరం కొత్త ప్రణాళికలకు పునాది
ఈ నూతన సంవత్సరంలో
మీ ఆశలు, ఆశయాలు నెరవేరాలని;
సంతోషాలు, సంబరాలు మీ ముంగిట నిలవాలని;
బంధాలు, అనుబంధాలు పెంపొందాలని
మనస్ఫూర్తిగా కోరుకుంటూ...
మీకూ, మీ కుటుంబ సభ్యులకు నూతన సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు.
ప్రకృతిని ప్రేమిద్దాం, పర్యావరణాన్ని పరిరక్షిద్దాం.

All India DRDO Technical Officers' Association (AIDTOA)
Affiliated to Confederation of Central Government Gazetted Officers' Organisations (CCGGOO)
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MINIMUM WAGES : LOK SABHA Q & A (17-12-2018) Category-wise variation in Minimum Wages per day in All States as on 01.11.2018 (Provisional)

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Rule 18 of the CCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964- regarding standard forms for intimation/ permission under the rules and expenditure incurred on repairs or minor construction work in respect of immovable property - regarding.

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New Pension - a Magic Deer :: article published in Thozhilarasu

Scrap NPS

GRANT OF CHILD CARE LEAVE & Work Related Illness and Injury Leave

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Fixation of Pay ... MOD (Finance)

PROCEDURAL IMPEDIMENTS OF CGHS BENEFICIARIES -- LS : Q & A

Let's extend support to the programme of action of Struggle Committee against Govt. attitude on Defence Industry, to save Defence Industry, for scrapping of NPS and to achieve Defence/ DRDO Officers and employees.

All India DRDO Technical Officers Association  (AIDTOA) extends its support to the Struggle Committee of Defence employees programme of actions demanding SAVE INDUSTRY- SAVE THE NATION and protesting against the policies of Central Govt.

The Government in the name of 100% F.D.I and 100% Privatisation is trying to ruin Ordnance Factories, DRDO, Army Base Work Shops, Station Work Shops, Military farms, MES, DGQA, Air Force. Navy and many Army establishments. By giving a go bye to Self reliance,  several works are being outsourced in the name of Core and Non-Core in production and Research and placing orders to many private companies and MNCs.

All India DRDO Technical Officers Association  (AIDTOA) protests:

   Ø   Against privatisation of Ordnance Factories Products on the plea of core and non-core.

           Ø  Against Introduction of GOCO Model in Army Base Workshops, closure of EME Station     Workshops and Military Farms.

Ø  Against outsourcing of Works on DRDO, DGQA, MES, NAVY, Air Force and many Army establishments. Non Filling of vacant posts.

Ø  Against non-scrapping of New Pension (NPS) and non bringing Central Govt. /Defence under the
     purview of Old Pension Scheme (OPS)those who joined in service on are after 01-01-2004.

Ø  Against non increase of minimum Pay and fitment formula of VII CPC in respect of CG/ Defence       Employees.

Ø  Against non review of Cadre restructuring of DRTC and also Officers & Staff of Admin, Stores,         Accounts, DEO, Steno, Security, Firemen, FED, VO (MT), Canteen Cooks and Sup. Staff,
      Sup(GD), AMS(MTS) Hindi Asst. and Paramedical Staff etc.


Ø  Against non- payment of 20% PRIS to DRDO Officers & employees.


Ø Against non regularisation of thousands of casual/contract /consolidated employees.

Ø Against non settlement of LTC claims of 2013-14 in spite of DOP&T Guidelines and   relaxation Orders.


Let's extend support to the programme of action of Struggle Committee against Govt. attitude on Defence Industry, to save Defence Industry, for scrapping of NPS and to achieve Defence/ DRDO Officers and employees.

Long live Defence Officers & Employees unity. 

Scrap NPS

Central Civil Services- Revised (Pay) Rules, 2016 - Opportunity for revision of Option to come over to revised pay structure

JUDGMENT ON WRIT PETITION - important Parliament reply

Applicability of Judgments to similarly placed employees.

Government of India

Ministry of Defence

D(CMU)

Sena Bhawan, New Delhi,

Dated 07 September, 2018.

Subject: Implementation of recommendations of Expert Committee constituted by Hon’ble Raksha Mantri

Reducing Litigation has been the prime focus of the Government of India and is being repeatedly emphasized by various circulars from Cabinet Secretariat and Ministry of Law & Justice. in this regard, various circulars have been issued by D(CMU) which cover the following aspects significantly:

I. Procedure for handling Court Cases in Ministry of Defence.

II. Procedure for filing of Appeal/SLP in Supreme Court.

III. Measures to withdraw repeated Appeals/SLPs where the issue has already been decided by the Apex court.

2. In this regard, a Committee of Experts was also constituted by the Hon’ble Raksha Mantri vide MoD O.M. No.61/D(CMU)/2015 dated 15.07.2015 to look into solutions for reducing litigation concerning the Ministry of Defence and to put in place an efficient mechanism of redressal of grievances related to service and pension matter. The said Committee has made several recommendations to strengthen the grievance redressal mechanism and to reduce litigation. These were examined by the Ministry. With the approval of the Hon’ble RM, 16 recommendations were accepted for implementation, 16 recommendations were accepted in-principle and 43 recommendations were to be further examined for taking an appropriate decision. Based on the recommendations of the Committee, the following guidelines are hereby reiterated for the guidance of all concerned:

Recommendations No. 22, 24 & 61 : Avoiding unnecessary appeals

In these recommendations, the committee has recommended that litigation be viewed in an impersonal, non-adversarial and dispassionate manner and should not be made a prestige-issue or a win/loss situation. The committee has also recommended that- the tendency of continuous unethical filing of appeals in issues that have attained finality at the High Court or Supreme Court should be checked and all such pending appeals should be identified and immediately withdrawn. Further, it has also been emphasized by the committee that unnecessary appeals should be avoided. and as a matter of principle, the attempt of the Government should be to accept court verdicts as far as possible. Appeals should be an exception and not the rule. And in exceptional cases only challenges should be made to the High Courts against verdicts of CAT rendered in favour of employees, and not as a matter of routine. 

All concerned are requested to take note of the above mentioned guidelines. In this regard, D(CMU) has also issued ID note No. 7(9)/2018/D(CMU) dated 26.06.2018 (copy enclosed) and Office Order No. 1/(1)/2015-D(CMU) dated 02/02/2016 (copy enclosed).

Recommendation No. 50: Applicability of Judgements to similarly placed employees

Expert committee has recommended that whenever a legal principle is settled by a High Court or the Supreme Court, the same must be universally applied to all similarly placed employees or at least on individual representations after examining the same, rather than forcing them into individual litigation. 

In this regard, attention is drawn to D(CMU)’s ID No. 7(9)/2018/D(Cl\/lU) dated 26.06.2018. However, it is proposed that each case may be decided on its merit, subject to consultation with Department of Expenditure and DOP&T having regard to financial implications.

4. All concerned are again requested to take cognizance of the above recommendations and take necessary action as required, in order to reduce litigation.

Sd/-

(SK Sharma)

Director(MIS)

All Joint Secretaries in MoD

All-Additional FAs in MoD(Finance)

CCR&D HQ

MoD ID No. 4(5)/D (CMU)/ 2018 dated 07.09.2018

Minutes of the Meeting held under the Chairmanship of Additional Secretary (JN) to Identify Court Cases to be Withdrawn

A meeting was convened by AS(JN) on 22.06.2018 with all the Joint Secretaries of Department of Defence, JS(ESW) and LA(Def) to deliberate upon the above said issue.

Representatives of the JAG(Army) and JAG(Navy) were also present in the meeting. 

2. Initiating the discussion, AS(JN) gave the background of the meeting and informed that recently Supreme Court had imposed a penalty of 1 Lakh on Ministry of Defence for repeatedly filing SLPs over the issue which are already decided by the Apex court.

There is an urgent need to take appropriate measures to withdraw such cases so as to avoid further embarrassment and penalty/strictures in similar instances.

3. Each participant was thereafter requested to provide details of the existing no. of cases in Supreme Court, High Court, AFTs, CAT and District & Subordinate Courts and the number of cases identified for withdrawal. In response, the following information was provided by the participants regarding their respective Wings/Divisions:

Name of Wings/Division	Details in r/o Court Cases pending/withdrawn/proposed to be withdrawn.
JS(ESW)	A total of 163, 46 & 8 pension cases relating to Army, Air & Navy respectively are pending before the Supreme Court. Out of 163 pension cases of Army, 20 are proposed to be withdrawn. Out of 46 pension cases of Air, 14 have been withdrawn and 22 are proposed to be withdrawn. Out of 8 pension cases of Army, 1 is proposed to be withdrawn.
JAG (Army)	Approximately 6000 cases are pending in all the courts inclusive of 1000 cases (approx.) in Supreme Court.
Rep. from Navy	There are 388 cases (mostly pension cases) pending in AFT, out of which 79 are proposed to be withdrawn.
CAO	1 case is pending in Supreme Court which has been filed by UPSC with MoD as a proforma respondent. 36 cases are pending before High Courts and 51 cases before CAT. In addition, 6 cases are pending before AFT/lower courts. A vast majority of the cases relate to service matters of civilian employees.
BRO	Total 1246 cases are pending, out of which 28 are in supreme Court.
PDCP (Principle Directorate of Civilian personnel) of Navy	Total 788 cases are pending, out of which 5 in Supreme Court, 123 in High Court, 26 in District & Subordinate Courts and rest are in CAT
JS(Works)	DGDE has 387 cases pending in Supreme court and 37 in CAT. E-in-C has a total of 1310 cases pending, out of which 54 in Supreme Court, 224 in High Court, 844 in CAT & 112 in AFT.

4. AS(JN) observed that no clear or satisfactory position is emerging from the data provided in the meeting. After detailed deliberation, following action points were agreed upon:-

a) An exercise to be carried out urgently to compile data regarding the total number of existing court cases pending in various courts i.e., Supreme Court, High Court, AFTs, CAT and District & Subordinate Courts, along with appropriate categorisation of cases.

b) Wherever an issue has already been decided against the Department by the Supreme Court, all matters where similar appeals are pending before Supreme Court, High Court, AFTs, CAT and District & Subordinate Courts, shall be identified for withdrawal.

c) In all cases identified for withdrawal in accordance with b) above, appropriate action should be taken for withdrawal of cases expeditiously.

d) As regards the suggestion of LA(Def) to amend the existing policies to bring them in line with the decisions of the Supreme Court wherever the two are in conflict, the issue can be considered once the exercise of quantifying, categorizing and identifying cases for withdrawal as mentioned above has been completed. Similarly, his suggestion to automatically give'consequent relief to all similarly placed persons once a case has been finally decided against the Department and not confine grant of relief only to persons who were litigants in that particular case will also be considered after the above exercise has been completed.

e) AS(JN) requested all participants to complete the action on the points as decided in the meeting and come with all details in the next meeting. 

AIDTOA congratulates all the Defence Civilian employees & officers through out India for boycotting Lunch on 13.11.2018. Save Defence Industry.

Review the policy decisions taken by the MoD / Army Hqrs which created alarming situations in the Defence establishments.

(1) The former Defence Minister Sri Manohar Parikkar set a target of Rs.20,000 Crores to be achieved by the Ordnance Factories during the financial year 2019-2020. Accordingly OFB  was travelling in that direction. During the year 2017-18 OFB achieved a target production worth Rs.17,250 Crores. However without any reason all of a sudden the target was reduced to Rs.6,500  Crores and subsequently to Rs.11,600 Crores. Even today the Army Hq has not released indent  for many items. Due to this there is a sudden wage reduction imposed on the employees of Ordnance Factories by reducing the piece work earnings and overtime. 

(2) In the name of "Non-Core" many strategic Defence equipment such as small arms, ammunition box, Vehicles (Trucks), Troop Comfort Items like strategic Army Logo Trouser and Jacket,Extreme Climate Clothing, Blankets, Tents, Parachutes, Boots. Jersey etc., were withdrawn from Ordnance Factories and the Army is reluctant to place indent for these items to the Ordnance  Factories and hence the future of 5 OEF Group of Factories, VFJ and the Small Arms group of Factories is in dark. This has created a situation not only disturbing the existing employees, but the future of the trained Trade Apprentices who are trained under the Skill Development mission is also in dark, since their employment opportunities in the Ordnace Factories have also become bleak.

 (3)The MoD has previously assured in writing that no Ordnance Factories would be closed, No worker would be displaced, efforts will be taken to provide the existing workload to the factories  &  training and redeployment would be done in the same factories. However till date no road map  has been  made to provide sufficient work load to these factories and also for identifying alternative  work load, training and redeployment in the same factory.

 (4) Orders have been issued by the Army Hqrs to disband all the station workshops under EME  thereby displacing the civilian employees resulting in disturbance in their family and social life.

(5) Steps are also taken to close down the 4 Depots under DGOS.

(6) Steps are also taken to handover the Army Base Workshops under DGEME to the private sector  in the name of GOCO Model.

(7) Recruitment action taken for filling up of more than 30,000 posts in various Army units has been kept in abeyance and 26,000 NACs are pending with AG's Branch. The AG's Branch is not issuing NACs  to the Army units to fill up the vacancies  on the plea  that 31,000 Defence Civilian employees declared surplus due to the above mentioned steps should be adjusted first, The more  than 30,000 unemployed youth selected for appointment is being denied the employment opportunity and they will become over aged thereby denying the employment opportunity for them including the youth from socially and economically downtrodden OBC, SC & ST communities.

AIDTOA extends support to the demands of Struggle Committee of Defence civilian employees to save Defence Industry.

DEMANDS

1) To withdraw policy decisions taken by the Government against Defence Industry.

i) Withdraw  the  decision taken  to declare  the products  of  Ordnance  Factories as Non-core, provide sufficient workload to all the Ordnance Factories, and change the costing system of Ordnance Factories by removing the salary element and other overheads from the cost of these products, enabling Armed Forces to continue to procure items from Ordnance Factories resulting in employment opportunities to the Trained Trade Apprentices.

ii) No closure of EME Station Workshops and Depots under DGOS.

iii) No GOCO Model of Army Base Workshops.

iv) No outsourcing in MES, DRDO, DGQA and Navy and fill up all vacancies in all the Defence Establishments.

2) To scrap the NPS, alternatively exempt Defence Civilian employees from NPS at par with Armed Forces and restore Defined Pension under CCS (Pension) Rules,1972 to those   recruited on and after 01.01.2004.

AIDTOA appeals to all Defence civilian employees & Officers throughout India to boycott lunch on 13.11.2018.

CAT- Ernakulam :: Sheeba B. vs UoI -- on Pensionary benefits to PAs recruited in 2005 against the vacancies of 2002

CVC / DoP&T- No action should be taken on anonymous / pseudonymous complaints.

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Judgment-The benefit of MACP is a part of the pay structure and not merely some allowance.

Petitioner is entitled to receive benefit of MACP w.e.f 01.01.2006 instead of 01.09.2008.
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Strengthen CCGGOO

 "My fellow Gazetted Officers...

To defend your rights & Old Pension Scheme

To protect against indiscriminate application of Rule 56J

To oppose indiscreet workload

To fill up the prolonged vacancies

To get the respectable Pay Level

To Get Bonus

To Get Grievance Redressal Machinery

To Get Anomaly Committee

To remove the “Very Good” Bench Mark appraisal

To uphold our Self respect from the indifferent  attitude & treatment of authorities.

Strengthen Confederation of Central Government Gazetted Officers Organisations (CCGGOO)

“The Sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light”

Draft Secretary General Activity Report of the Confederation of Central Government Gazetted Officers’ Organisations (CCGGOO) at the 2nd All India Conference held in Chennai on 12th & 13th October 2018.

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DATE OF BIRTH IN AADHAAR CAN BE CHANGED MORE THAN ONCE

PROCEDURE FOR UPDATING DATE OF BIRTH, NAME AND GENDER IN AADHAAR CARD MORE THAN ONCE – AADHAAR CARD HOLDER SHOULD APPROACH REGIONAL OFFICE ALONG WITH SUPPORTING DOCUMENT

F.No.4 (4)/57/159/2016-E&U
Government of India
Ministry of Electronics and IT
Unique Identification Authority of India

***********

UIDAI Hqrs. Building,
Bangla Sahib Road, New Delhi-01
Dated: 24 Sept .,2018

Office Memorandum

Sub:- Updation of Name. Gender and Date of Birth.

The Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) ( Sixth amendment) Regulations, 2018 provides that the date of birth of resident can be updated only once. In case the date of birth is to be updated more than once, it can be done through an exception handling process which may require the resident to visit Regional Office (RO) of the UIDAI. Similar decision has been taken for Name and Gender which can be updated twice and once respectively.

2. Further to this, it has been decided that one time change in date of Birth (DOB) shall only be allowed plus / minus one year of existing age in Aadhaar else the update shall be rejected.

3. However, for genuine cases of update of Name/ Date of Birth and Gender more than the threshold, an exception process shall be followed as below :-

(a) Resident may approach Regional Offices with relevant details of update along with necessary proof documents.

(b) RO shall do the due diligence and ascertain whether the update request is RO may seek additional information from resident or carry field investigation as required.

(c) In case RO ascertain the request to be genuine, case shall be sent to Tech Center for processing / reprocessing the request.

(4) This has approval of competent authority.

( Ashok Kumar)
Assistant Director General

Admissibility of SPORTS (Society for Promotion of Nature Tourism and Sports) tour package to Lakshdweep Islands on ships operated by Lakshadweep Administration on LTC

Guidelines regarding handling of complaints in Ministries / Departments

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GPF INTEREST RATE 8%

Important Judgment

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ENTRY PAY FOR DIRECT RECRUITS APPOINTED ON OR AFTER 01.01.2006 AND PAY FIXATION IN THE CASE OF PERSONS OTHER THAN SUCH RECRUITS- CCS (REVISED PAY) RULES, 2008 - SECTION II OF THE PART "A" OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE THERETO

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Holiday-Homes-How-to-apply

सैलरी बढ़ोतरी की मांगों को लेकर केंद्रीय कर्मचारी की खास तैयारी, करेंगे संसद का घेराव

7th pay commission की सिफारिशों से अधिक वेतन बढ़ोतरी का इंतजार कर रहे केंद्रीय कर्मचारियों की उम्मीदें खत्म होती जा रही है। वेतन बढ़ोतरी में हो रही देरी से कर्मचारियों में मायूसी छाने लगी है। वेतन बढ़ोतरी की उनकी मांगों के प्रति सरकार के रवैये को लेकर 50 लाख से ज्यादा कर्मचारी गुस्से में आ गए हैं और उन्होंने सरकार के खिलाफ विरोध प्रदर्शन का बिगुल फूंक दिया है। न्‍यूनतम बेसिक सैलरी में बढ़ोतरी की मांग कर्मचारी लगातार न्‍यूनतम बेसिक सैलरी में बढ़ोतरी की मांग कर रहे हैं। अब उन्होंने संसद घेराव का मन बना लिया है। नेशनल काउंसिल ऑफ ज्वाइंट कंसलटिव मशीनरी ऑफ सेंट्रल गवर्मेंट इम्पलाइज के सचिव और ऑल इंडिया रेलवे मेल्स यूनियन के महासचिव शिव गोपाल मिश्रा ने कर्मचारियों की मांगों को लेकर जानकारी देते हुए कहा कि देश के 50 लाख कर्मचारी वेतन आयोग की विसंगतियों को दूर करने और पुरानी पेंशल पॉलिसी को वापस लाने की मांग कर रहे हैं, लेकिन सरकार के रवैये को देखते हुए अब कर्मचारियों के भीतर आक्रोश बढ़ता जा रहा है। केंद्रीय कर्मचारी करेंगे संसद का घेराव वेतन बढ़ोतरी की मांगों पर सरकार के रूख से नाराज केंद्रीय कर्मचारियों ने संसद घेराव की तैयारी की है। कर्मचारियों का कहना है कि अगर उनकी मांगें नहीं मानी गई तो दिसंबर में केंद्रीय कर्मचारी संसद भवन का घेराव करेंगे। वहीं उन्होंने 19 सितंबर से सरकार के खिलाफ विरोध प्रदर्शन शुरू कर दिया है। 19 सितंबर को ‘ऑल इंडिया प्रोटेस्‍ट डे’ के तौर पर मनाया गया और कहा कि पूरे सितंबर महीने में वो अलग-अलग स्तर पर विरोध प्रदर्शन करेंगे। सरकार पर दवाब बनाने की तैयारी में केंद्रीय कर्मचारी न्यूनतम वेतन बढ़ोतरी को लेकर सरकार साफ कर चुकी है इसमें किसी भी तरह की बढ़ोतरी नहीं की जाएगी। ऐसे में लोकसभा चुनाव से पहले कर्मचारी सरकार पर दवाब बनाना चाहते हैं। देश में लगभग 48 लाख केंद्रीय कर्मी हैं और 60 लाख के करीब पेंशनभोगी है। करीब 1 करोड़ लोगों की नाराजगी सरकार के लिए बड़ी मायने रखती है। सरकार इतने बड़े वोटबैंक को नाराज नहीं करना चाहेगी। इसी को ध्यान में रखते हुए केंद्रीय कर्मचारी सरकार का विरोध कर उसे घेरना चाहती है। सितंबर होगा प्रोटेस्ट महीना कर्मचारियों ने 19 सितंबर को ऑल इंडिया प्रोटेस्‍ट डे क तौर पर मनाया। देश भर में केंद्रीय कर्मचारियों ने धरने और प्रदर्शन किए। वहीं केंद्रीय कर्मचारियों ने कहा है कि सितंबर महीने वो अलग-अलग तरीके से विरोध प्रदर्शन करेंगे। गौरतलब है किकर्मचारियों की मांग है कि न्‍यूनतम वेतनमान 18000 से बढ़ाकर 26000 रुपए कर दिया जाए और फिटमेंट फैक्‍टर को 2.57 से बढ़ाकर 3.68 किया जाए। Source – Odisha TV