Termination of LARSGESS Scheme – Railway Board Order Great Victory! – Com. Shiva Gopal Mishra made Railway Board to suspend draconian orders on LARSGESS – Railway Board has issued orders RBE 151/2018 in this regard! Dear Comrades, As a result of General Secretary AIRF’s untiring efforts and his discussions today, i.e. 28.09.2018, with the Chairman and Member Staff, Railway Board, Railway Board vide their letter No.E(P&A)I-2015/RT-43 dated 28.09.2018 (RBE No.151/2018)(copy enclosed) have issued amended letter to the General Managers of All Indian Railways, superseding their earlier letter of even number dated 26.09.2018(RBE No.150/2018. Source: AIRF

Press Release on Nationwide General Strike on 8th & 9th January 2019 Press Release 28/09/2018 Central Trade Unions call for Nationwide General Strike on 8th and 9th January 2019 National Convention of Workers decides to go for Nationwide General Strike on 8-9 January 2019 against the anti-people, anti-worker, anti-national policies of the BJP-led NDA Government. The National Convention of Workers held today, the 28th September 2018, in Mavlankar Hall, New Delhi, decided to go for two days’ Nationwide General Strike on 8-9 January 2019 against the anti-people, anti-worker, anti-national policies of the BJP-led NDA Government. The convention was jointly called by the ten Central Trade Unions (INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC,TUCC, AICCTU, SEWA, LPF, UTUC), in association with all independent National Federations of Workers and Employees, of both Industrial and Service sectors, Central Government and State Government employees, including Railways, Defense, Health, Ed...

Closing of domain name .nic.in for India Post ePost application and shifting to new URL i.e. http://www.epost-indiapost.gov.in No.52-01/2006 BD&MD Government of India Ministry of Communications Department of Posts Business Development & Marketing Directorate 5th Floor, Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg New Delhi – 110001 Dated : 26.09.2018 Office Memorandum Subject:  Closing of domain name .nic.in for India Post ePost application and shifting to new URL i.e. http://www.epost-indiapost.gov.in As per policy decision of NIC, all web sites using “.nic.in” are to be stopped. Accordingly, India Post ePost application URL “http://www.indiapost.nic.in” has been shifted to “http://www.epost-indiapost.gov.in”. 2. Both, old “http://www.indiapost.nic.in” and new “http://www.epost-indiapost.gov.in” URLs are working at present but old URL i.e. http://www.indiapost.nic.in will be stopped on 30th September-2018. 3. This may be brought to the notice...

AICPIN for the month of August 2018 No. 5/1/2018-CPI GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT LABOUR BUREAU ‘CLEREMONT’, SHIMLA-171004 DATED: 28th September, 2018 Press Release Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) – August, 2018 The All-India CPI-IW for August, 2018 remained stationary at 301 (three hundred and one). On 1-month percentage change, it remained static between July, 2018 and August, 2018 and it was also static between the corresponding months of previous year. The maximum upward pressure to the change in current index came from Miscellaneous and Food groups contributing (+) 0.25 and (+) 0.07 percentage points respectively to the total change. At item level, Rice, Wheat, Wheat Atta, Groundnut Oil, Brinjal, Cabbage, Carrot, Parval, Mango (Ripe), Sugar, Cooking Gas, Petrol, Ornaments Glass, etc. are responsible for the increase in index. However, this increase was checked by Fish Fresh, Poultry (Chicken), Eggs (Hen), Onion, French B...

Payment of Dearness Allowance to Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) effective from 01.07.2018 onwards No. 14-3/2016-PAP Government of India Ministry of Communication Department of Posts (Establishment Division)/P.A.P. Section Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi – 110 001. Dated 28 September, 2018 To, All Chief Postmasters General All G.Ms. (PAF)/Directors of Accounts (Postal). Subject:  Payment of Dearness Allowance to Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) effective from 01.07.2018 onwards – reg. Consequent upon grant of another installment of Dearness Allowance with effect from 1st July, 2018 to the Central Government Employees vide Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure’s 0.M. No. 1/2/2018-E-II(B) dated 07.09.2018, duly endorsed vide this Department’s letters No. 8-1/2016-PAP dated 12.09.2018, the Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) have also become entitled to the payment of Dearness Allowances on basic TRCA Matrix at the same rates as applicable to Central Government Employee...

CCS (RP) Rules, 2008 – Section II of the Part ‘A’ of the First Schedule – entry pay to DR appointed on or after 1.1.2006 and pay fixation in the case of persons other than such direct recruits No.8-23/2017-E.IIIA Government of India Ministry of Finance Department Of Expenditure North Block, New Delhi 28th September, 2018 Office Memorandum Subject:  CCS (RP) Rules, 2008 – Section II of the Part ‘A’ of the First Schedule – entry pay to DR appointed on or after 1.1.2006 and pay fixation in the case of persons other than such direct recruits . The undersigned is directed to invite the attention to the provisions contained in Section-2 of Part ‘A’ of the First Schedule Of the Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 which provides for entry pay in the revised pay Structure (pay structure effective from 1.1.2006 up to 31.122015) for direct recruits appointed On or after 1.1.2006 on a post and to say that pay in respect Of persons appointed to the same posts before 1.1....

Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 – Entry pay for direct recruits appointed on or after 1.1.2006 and pay fixation in the case of persons other than such direct recruits No. 8-23/2017 – E.IIIA Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure North Block, New Delhi 28th September, 2018 Office Memorandum Subject:  Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 – Section II of the Part ‘A’ of the First Schedule thereto – entry pay for direct recruits appointed on or after 1.1.2006 and pay fixation in the case of persons other than such direct recruits. The undersigned is directed to invite the attention to the provisions contained in Section-2 of Part ‘A’ of the First Schedule of the Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 which provides for entry pay in the revised pay structure (pay structure effective from 1.1.2006 up to 31.12.2015) for direct recruits appointed on or after 1.1.2006 on a post and to say that pay in respect of per...

Induction/transfer of Trackmen into other departments GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) RBE No. 146/2018 No. E(NG)II/2018/RR-I/13 New Delhi, Dated: 20.09.2018 The General Manager (P), All Indian Railways/ PU s, New Delhi. Sub:   Induction of Trackmen into other departments. Para 179 (XV) of IREM Vol. I (Revised Edition-1989) provides for induction/transfer of Trackmen to Mechanical Engineering and Transportation (Power) Department, Traffic 86 Commercial Department and to the Works side of Engineering Department against 10% quota. 2. It is seen that the Railways have been experiencing difficulty in implementation of these instructions due to reliever(s) not being readily available in the Engineering Department. This has been considered by the Board. In order to ensure viable implementation of these instructions, it has been decided that henceforth 10% of the proposed intake for recruitment in Level-1 (erstwhile Group D) of all those department...

Supreme Court Judgement: Withholding of Pension or Gratuity C.A. No.6770/2013 @ SLP (C) No. 1427 of 2009 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO. 6770 OF 2013 (Arising out of Special Leave Petition (Civil) No. 1427 of 2009) State of Jharkhand & Ors. ….. Appellant(s) Vs. Jitendra Kumar Srivastava & Anr. …..Respondent(s) WITH C.A. No. 6771/2013 (arising out of SLP(C) No. 1428 of 2009) JUDGMENT A.K. Sikri, J 1.Leave granted. 2. Crisp and short question which arises for consideration in these cases is as to whether, in the absence of any provision in the Pension Rules, the State Government can withhold a part of pension and/or gratuity during the pendency of departmental/ criminal proceedings? The High Court has – answered this question, vide the impugned judgment, in the negative and hence directed the appellant to release the withheld dues to the respondent. Not happy with this outcome, the State of Jharkh...

Minimum educational qualification for recruitment of staff from open market in Level-1 of the pay matrix of 7th CPC GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) No.E(NG)II/2018/RR-I/ 13 The General Manager (P), All Indian Railways/PUs, New Delhi. RBE No.148/2018 Dated:25.09.2018 Sub:   Minimum educational qualification for recruitment of staff from open market in Level-1 of the pay matrix of 7th CPC. Attention is invited to instructions issued vide Board’s letter under RBE No.73/2017 dated 27.07.2017, laying down qualification for recruitment from open market to posts in Pay Band-1 of   Rs.5200-20200 having Grade Pay Rs.1800/-   (Now Level-1 of the Pay Matrix of the   7th CPC ), through all modes, against direct recruitment quota in Civil Engineering, Mechanical, Electrical and S&T Departments as 10th pass plus National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) granted by NCVT or 10th pass plus ITI. This laid down educational qualification was, ...