Delhi University teachers are yet to get 40% arrear.

The Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) is still waiting for their arrears to be paid and has asked the UGC  to pay additional maintenance grant for payment of revised salaries and arrearsto its faculty members.

UGC has recently revised the pay structure of teachers.

According to the Ministry of Human Resource Department's (HRD) instructions, 40% of the totalarrears of the central university teachers' were to be cleared off by February 20.

The DU teachers are still left out in this context, whereas the payments of the arrears have already been made to the teachers' of JNU  and Jamia Milia University.

If the arrear is not paid in this fiscal, it may attract estra burden of Income Tax to the teachers.

DUTA has also condemned the attempt of new semester system at the undergraduate level.

New Pension Scheme scheduled to open to public from 1st April 2009, deffered due to Model Code of Conduct of Election.

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Keeping in view the Model Code of Conduct for Elections, it has not been possible for PFRDA to continue this information campaign and undertake other preparatory activities as originally scheduled. It has, accordingly, been decided to defer the date of the extension of the NPS to other citizens. 

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New Pension Scheme is now going to be opened for public w.e.f. 01.04.2009. As per PFRDA’s (The Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority of India) latest announcement, any individual including the Government employees who were not covered by NPS earlier will be able to start a New Pension account and start saving up for a pension.

The scheme is already operational for new entrants of the Central Govt. and a few state Governments w.e.f. 01.01.2004. Now it is being offerred to General public.

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As of now, NPS is awaiting constitutional approval as PFRDA Bill, 2005 is yet to be passed in Parliament. However, Government through its executive orders has made all interim arrangements to set the ball rolling.

Investment regulations for the New Pension System for the informal sector.

Relevant website for more details.

Helo BSNL Staff : "Pay revision is on the way."

Despite a decline in its revenue over the past couple of years, the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has decided to introduce pay revision across the board.

Owing to stiff competition from the private players in the telecom sector, BSNL had been recording a decline in its revenue over the last couple of years.  During the last fiscal, BSNL had suffered a decline of Rs 2,000 crore in its revenue.  The figure is likely to go up in the current fiscal.

Amidst this situation, a hike of nearly 50 percent has been effected for BSNL employees, that too with retrospective effect from January 2007.  Highly placed sources in BSNL told ‘Express’ that the additional amount required in view of the implementation of the new pay scale was yet to be worked out.  Moreover, 40 percent of the arrears will have to be paid during this month.  This payment will also cause huge financial burden to the public sector undertaking at the end of the financial year.

The decision to give huge hike to BSNL employees has raised many an eyebrow.  “BSNL employees may wholeheartedly welcome the hike. But in the long run, it will weaken the financial position of the organisation,” said a BSNL official.

Many leading companies are now resorting to cost cut measures such as downsizing and slash in wages owing to the global recession.  BSNL giving huge hike to the employees at this point reflects its unprofessional management.

However, BSNL employees point out that a pay revision is being implemented after a decade. They said that the pay revision could be treated only as a genuine one.

Source : Express News Service.

BSNL has earlier formed three sub committee comprising of Management and staff side members to study in detail about pay scales, perks and allowances and pension and welfare issues provided to non executives in other Central PSU s. The committees are to submit their report by 25th March and hopefully a decision of wage hike will be taken soon after.

View the Order of formation of sub committees.

BSNL Executives' Salary Hiked

BSNL has already hiked the salary of the executives on 5th March 2009 with retrospective effect from 01.01.2007. The arrear from 01.01.2007 to 28.02.2009 will be paid in two installments like the Central Govt. - 40% in this Financial Year and the balabce 60% in 2009-10.

View the Order Here.

Retired military personnel in the battle of ballots.

Retired military personnel are readying themselves for the battle of ballots.

“We are going to fight the Lok Sabha polls as we have lost faith in present-day political parties which are denying us due pensions,” the vice-chairman of the Indian Ex-servicemen Movement, Maj Gen (retired) Satbir Singh, has said.

They would try to ensure that the UPA did not return to power as “it has ill-treated us by not granting the ‘one-rank-one pension’ demand”, he said.

Source : The Telegraph.

All-India Kendriya Vidyalaya teachers’ plea for salary arrears

Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) teachers are on the warpath against what they describe as the discriminatory treatment being meted out to them.

N. Sadanandan, regional secretary of the All India Kendriya Vidyalaya Teachers Association, said on Friday that the 45,000 teaching and non-teaching staff of around 1,000 Kendriya Vidyalayas under the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan were yet to get salary arrears.

He said that the Central government employees had received 40 per cent of salary arrears in cash as per the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission and were about to receive the remaining 60 per cent.

The delay in giving 40 per cent of the salary arrears to teachers was a violation of the Centre’s decision to disburse it this financial year itself.

He said that institutions like Navodaya and Sainik Schools had implemented the pay revision in toto and had disbursed the salary arrears. “Those at the helm of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan are more interested in making fresh appointments and transfers. They are not doing anything for the institution’s smooth functioning or for the welfare of the employees,” he alleged.

He warned of a country-wide agitation if the Centre and the Human Resources Ministry did not change their attitude towards the employees of the Kendriya Vidyalayas.

Source : The Hindu.