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Dopt Orders on Posting of Government employees who have differently abled dependents

No.42011/3/2014-Estt.(Res.) 

Government of India 

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions 

Department of Personnel and Training 

North Block, New Delhi 

Dated the 6th June, 2014 

OFFICE MEMORANDUM 

Sub: Posting of Government employees who have differently abled dependents - reg. 

There has been demand that a Government employee who is a care giver of the disabled child may not have to suffer due to displacement by means of routine transfer/rotational transfers. This demand has been made on the ground that a Government employee raises a kind of support system for his/her disabled child over a 

period of time in the locality where he/she resides which helps them in the rehabilitation. 

2. The matter has been examined. Rehabilitation is a process aimed at enabling persons with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, and psychiatric or a social functional level. The support system comprises of preferred linguistic zone, school/academic level, administration, neighbours, tutors/special educators, friends, medical care including hospitals, therapists and doctors, etc. Thus, rehabilitation is a continuous process and creation of such support system takes years together. 

3. Considering that the Government employee.who has disabled child serve as the main care giver of such child, any displacement of such Government employee will have a bearing on the systemic rehabilitation of the disabled child since the new environment/set up could prove to be a hindrance for the rehabilitation process of the child. Therefore, a Government servant who is also a care giver of disabled child may be exempted from the routine exercise of transfer/rotational transfer subject to the administrative constraints. The word 'disabled' includes 

(i) blindness or low vision 

(ii) hearing impairment 

(iii) locomotor disability or Cerebral Palsy 

(iv) leprosy cured 

(v) mental retardation 

(vi) mental illness and 

(vii) multiple disabilities. 

4. Upbringing and rehabilitation of disabled child requires financial support. Making the Government employee to choose voluntary retirement on the pretext of routine transfer/rotation transfer would have adverse impact on the rehabilitation process of the disabled child. 

5. This issues with the approval of MoS(PP). 

6. All the Ministries/Departments, etc. are requested to bring these instructions to the notice of all concerned under their control. 

sd/-

(Debabrata Das) 

Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

Source: www.persmin.gov.in

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NGOs' Association Condemns Rail Freight Charge hike

A General Body meeting of the Information Technology Cadre Sub-Committee of the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association was held at Port Blair today (21.06.2014) in which various issues of employees belonging to the IT Cadre were discussed.  The meeting among other things discussed the issues of IT Cadre employees to be included in the Memorandum of the Association for the 7^th Central Pay Commission.  Addressing the meeting, Shri D. Ayyappan, General Secretary expressed concern over the sudden increase in the freight charges by the Indian Railway and said that this will be bound to increase the prices of all the items in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.   He demanded the central government to reconsider the freight charge hike.  Shri SL Vinjit and Shri Ikhlak Ali also addressed the meeting.     

NGOs' Association constitutes Committee to draft and finalise Memorandum to 7th CPC

A meeting of the office bearers of the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association was held today (14.06.2014) at Crusade House, Pheonix Bay, Port Blair under the chairmanship of Shri Sadanand Rai, President of the Association. The meeting discussed in detail about the modalities to be adopted for the preparation of the memorandum to the 7th Central Pay Commission. The meeting decided to constitute a committee with Shri S.Surender as Convener and 09 other members for drafting the memorandum to be submitted to the 7th Central Pay Commission. The committee will prepare the memorandum taking into account the suggestions/proposals to be received from various branch committees and sub-committees of the Association which are functioning in different areas and under various departments in the islands. 

The meeting decided to ask all the branch committees and sub-committees of the Association to convene their executive committee meetings and to formulate their suggestions/proposals in such meetings with regard to the issues/demands of the employees under such committees for inclusion in the memorandum to be submitted to the 7th Central Pay Commission. A large number of office bearers of the Central Committee and Branch/Sub-Committees of the Association participated in the meeting. Shri D.Ayyappan, General Secretary and Shri T.S.Sreekumar, Asst. General Secretary addressed the meeting.

Staff side JCM submits memorandum to 7th CPC on interim relief and DA merger

 The Staff Side of the Joint Consultative Machinery (National Council), New Delhi, in which the Confederation of Central Govt. Employees & Workers, New Delhi, is a constituent, has submitted a Memorandum to the 7^th Central Pay Commission urging the Commission to consider the demand already raised with the Commission on the issue of (i) Merger of DA with Pay and (ii) Grant of Interim Relief to central government employees.

  In a letter sent to Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, Chairman of the 7^th Central Pay Commission forwarding therewith the detailed Memorandum on the above two issues, Shri Shiva Gopal Mishra, Secretary, National Council (Staff Side), JCM, urged the Commission that the Dearness allowance as on 1.1.2014 which stood at 100% may be recommended to be merged and treated as Dearness Pay for grant of all benefits, allowances, pension and other retirement entitlements. The Staff Side has also urged the Commission that Merger of D.A. as on 1.1.2014 may also be recommended in respect of pensioners and Gramin Dak Sewaks of Postal Departments.

          The Staff Side, explaining in detail various aspects of real value erosion of wages, has submitted before the 7^th Central Pay Commission that Central Government employees presently have a very depressed salary structure.  The Secretary,  Staff Side JCM  pointed out that barring the 6th Central Pay Commission, all other Commissions had recommended grant of Interim Relief to the Central Government Employees. As per the 5^th Central Pay Commission, Interim relief represented a provisional arrangement during the period between setting up of a Pay Commission and submission of a report by the Commission and its acceptance by the Government. Most of the earlier Commissions with the exception of Ist and 6th Central Pay Commissions had taken 2-3 years and sometimes more to finalise their recommendations. The Staff Side said that the final outcome of the deliberations of the 7th CPC will become available only by 2016.

It is, therefore, needed that the employees have to be compensated in the form of Interim Relief.  The Staff Side urged the Chairman, 7^th Central Pay  Commission  that the Commission may, as has been done by the various earlier Pay Commissions, recommend atleast 25% of Pay in Pay Band plus Grade Pay as Interim Relief subject to a minimum of Rs. 4000/-.  The Secretary, JCM Staff Side further urged the Commission to recommend Interim Relief at the above rate subject to minimum of Rs.2000/- to pensioners and Gramin Dak Sevaks.

          The details of the Memorandum can be seen at the Confederation’s website  www.confederationhq.blogspot.in    or just click below to view in detail

Memorandum