Due to the extra ordinary situation arises due to virus outbreak, DOPT extended timeline for submission, review and appraisal for the APAR Year 2019-20.
Important dates are :
Activity Last Date
Disreibution of Blank Forms 31st May
Submission of self appriasal 30th June
Forwarding report of review officer 31st July
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It is clarified bt DOPT that "the Central Govt. employees who are attaining the age of superannuation on 31st March 2020, shall retire irrespective of whether they are working from home or working from office :
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Current lockdown throughout the country paralyzed the entire system of Govt. and Public. All salaried employees are in a dilemma whether to get their salary in time this month. Normally Govt. employees get their salary credited on the first BANK working day of April.
Now the salary bill is created in PFMS and uploaded online to the PAO and subsequently the hard copy is submitted to the Accounts Office.
In the present scenario, bills can be prepared and submitted online from home but sending of hard copy is not possible. It is learnt from Controller General of Accounts' office that for this month the necessity of sending hard copy is dispensed with.
An order issued on 23.03.2020, Dept. of Expenditure, assured prompt functioning of Govt. Expenditure Mechanism in the hour of crisis.
Order
Ministry of Home Affairs issued an addendum to include CGA employees in the exemption list in the lockdown.
"In the new guidelines, the ministry said Reserve Bank of India and RBI-regulated financial markets, pay and accounts officers and field officers of the CAG, petroleum products and supply chain and forest staff are exempted from the purview of the lockdown."
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It is expected that salary may be credited in time.
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The Pay Commission has recommended that the revised pay and pension be effective from January 1, 2016.
The Second National Judicial Pay Commission submitted its final report on proposals to revise the pay, pension, and allowances of judicial officers across the country.
The Commission was directed to be set up by the Supreme Court in May 2017, during the course of hearing the All India Judges Association case. The panel was tasked with examining the present structure of emoluments and conditions of service of judges of subordinate judiciary.
The panel was headed by former Supreme Court judge, Justice P Venkatarama Reddy and also had Senior Advocate and former Kerala High Court judge R Basant, and Vinay Kumar Gupta, District Judge of the Delhi Higher Judicial Service as its members.
As per a press note issued on Thursday, the salient features of the recommendations made by the Pay Commission in its final report include the following.
Junior Civil Judge/First Class Magistrate whose starting pay is Rs.27,700/- will now get Rs.77,840/-.
The next higher post of Senior Civil Judge starts with the pay of Rs.1,11,000/-
District Judge starts with a pay of Rs.1,44,840/-. The highest pay which a District Judge (STS) will get is Rs. 2,24,100/-.
The percentage of Selection Grade and Super Time Scale District Judges proposed to be increased by 10% and 5% respectively.
The revised pay and pension to be effective from January 1, 2016.
Arrears to be paid during the Calendar year 2020 after adjusting the interim relief.
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Pension at 50% of last drawn pay, worked out on the basis of proposed revised pay scales is recommended with effect form January 1, 2016
The family pension will be 30% of the last drawn pay.
Additional quantum of pension to commence on completing the age of 75 years (instead of 80 years) and percentages at various stages thereafter are increased.
The existing ceiling of retirement gratuity and death gratuity to be increased by 25% when the DA reaches 50%.
Nodal officers to be nominated by the District Judges to assist the pensioners/family pensioners.
Recommendation has been made to discontinue the New Pension Scheme (NPS) which is being applied to those entering service during or after 2004. The old pension system, which is more beneficial to be revived
The New Pension Scheme (NPS) for judicial officers has been the subject of challenges before the Delhi, Karnataka, and Bombay High Courts.
As per the press note, the existing allowances have been suitably increased and certain new features have been added. However, the City Compensatory Allowance (CCA) is proposed to be discontinued. Other recommendations made include:
Improvement in the medical facilities and simplification of the reimbursement procedure
Medical facilities to be granted to pensioners and family pensioners also
Certain new allowances viz. children education allowance, home orderly allowance, transport allowance in lieu of pool car facility, have been proposed
House Rent Allowance (HRA) proposed to be increased uniformly in all states
Steps to ensure proper maintenance of official quarters recommended.
The recommendations made by the Commission are to be applicable to judicial officers throughout the country. These will be implemented once the Supreme Court gives appropriate directions in this regard, after hearing the stakeholders.
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