27 Thursday Aug 2015
Posted in Neo-liberal policy, PSU
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It is reported that the new Chairman of the Public Sector NTPC may be from the private sector. Some of the PSU Banks are also going to be imposed by private sector people. This is completely inappropriate and against the interests of the respective PSUs.
This anti-PSU policy is to be resisted and defeated.
27 Thursday Aug 2015
Posted in General
The Hunger strike and dharna at Jantar Mantar by the retired defence pensioners are strengthening every day. The leaders who were on hunger strike and have been hospitalised have refused food and are continuing the hunger strike. Now many widows of the war veterans have joined the dharna at Jantar Mantar.
The government is dilly dallying and delaying the decision on One Rank One pension, which was an election promise. Prime Minister Modi was expected to announce the same on 15th August Independence Day speech. But nothing happened, as on other promises.
The people who defends our land and sacrifice their lives for the country can not be defenceless in their time of need. Extend all support to the fully justified demand of the Defence Pensioners.
27 Thursday Aug 2015
Posted in CG Employees, VII CPC
The tenure of the VII Central Pay Commission has been extended by four months to December 2015 by the government. It was expected that it will submit its report by 28th August 2015, but now it may be submitted only by December 2015. The recommendations are to be implemented from 01-01-2016, ten years after the last wage revision. There is a rumour that the Pay panel is going to suggest for constituting a permanent body for giving recommendations.
26 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in General, TU News - India
The meeting between the Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitely and the Central trade Union leaders did not make any headway since there was no concrete proposals from the government for settling the major demands raised by the CTUs. The talks will continue tomorrow.
The Central TU leaders called upon the workers to fully prepare for the strike since no concrete proposals have come from the government. Anyhow, they will attend the meeting tomorrow.
Make the 2nd September Strike a big success.
26 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in CG Employees, VII CPC
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| New Delhi: The Seventh Pay Commission is likely to recommend the government to form a permanent pay panel to give recommendations to the government from time to time on issues pertaining to pay structure of central government employees. |
The permanent pay panel would recommend regular salary hikes in keeping with the rate of inflation.
The formation of the permanent pay panel would help raise the salaries and allowances of central government officials and employees, an official of the pay panel said.
He added the permanent pay panel would recommend salary and allowance hikes in keeping with the rising inflation rate, which will be implemented by the government. “Then it will not be necessary to form a new commission during the next several years for central government employees.”
However, the Seventh Pay Commission got one month extension to submit its recommendations.
Accordingly it is expected to submit its report by the end of September. The time allotted for the commission ends this month.
The government appointed the Seventh Pay Commission on 28 February 2014 under chairman, Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, with a time frame of 18 months to make its recommendations
“There are some data points that are missing, which we hope to get by this month end. We are trying to submit the report by 20 September,” the official of the pay panel also said.
The government’s salary bill will rise by 9.56% to Rs 1,00,619 crore with the implementation of the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission, according to a statement tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on August 12.
The recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission, is likely to be implemented in April, next year. (Courtesy: Confederation)
26 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in General
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The contention between the opposition parties and the BSP government continues on the passing of the GST Bill. While the government wants the GST Bill to be passed in a special Session of the Parliament, the opposition is firm that their concerns should be addressed.
26 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in CG Employees, VII CPC
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Justice A.K.Mathur, Chairman of the VII Central Pay Commission has stated that the recommendations of the Commission will be submitted to the Government by the end of September 2015. This is one month’s delay from the earlier proposal to submit the report in August 2015.
The CG Employees are due for pay revision w.e.f. 2016. Most of the state governments are revising the pay of their employees based on the recommendations of the Central Pay Commission.
26 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in Telecom
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Every body will agree with Prime Minister Modi that the problem of call drops requires urgent attention. The only question is why the PM has not stated the same much earlier, since the problem was existing for a very long time. Any way, better late than never.
Every body, including customers, providers and government agrees that call drops is a very big issue. Calls are cut in between resulting a lot of irritation, unhappiness in relations, increased charges and so on. The reasons may be different; Lack of spectrum, lack of towers, providing more connections than capable by the system and so on.
There is really an urgent need to attend to the same on a fat track. A co-ordinated effort on the part of telecom companies and government is very much needed.
25 Tuesday Aug 2015
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If the period for wage revision is taken as 10 years, as in the case of central Government Employees, the BSNL employees are due for wage revision in January 2017. If the demand of BSNLEU is accepted for 5 years, the wage revision is due from January 2012. For the executives in BSNL, pay revision depends upon the Pay Revision Committee to be appointed by the government. For the non-executives, it is through direct negotiations between the Management and the Recognised Unions.
Whatever be the position, it is high time that the wage negotiation starts. Last time it took about more than three years of hard negotiation and struggles including strikes to reach an agreement. (Of course, it was a very good wage revision). Even if the negotiation takes about one year, it is time to start the same. There need not be any delay in the matter.
25 Tuesday Aug 2015
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