Tuesday 13 November 2012

Rosaiah releases stamp on India Cements founder

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu governor K Rosaiah on Sunday released a commemorative postal stamp in honor of T S Narayanaswami, founder of India Cements.

The stamp and a booklet, named "Life and Times of Shri T S Narayanaswami', was released as part of late Narayanaswami's birth centenary celebrations.

India Cements was established in 1946 with its first plant being set up at Sankarnagar in Tamil Nadu in 1949.

N Srinivasan, son of Narayanaswami and managing director of India Cements Ltd, recalled the memories of his father at the programme and the emergence of the company that catered to the demands of most of the south Indian states and Maharashtra.

M A M Ramaswamy, chairman of Chettinad Group of Companies, and senior postal department officials took part in the function. 
Source : The Times of India

Pension option for voluntarily retired Bank Employees

Bank Officers who availed VRS can avail Pension Scheme

IBA (Indian Bank Association) issued an elaborate circular to extend the benefit of exercising another option to join the Pension Scheme to those officers who had taken Voluntary Retirement from the Bank’s service on or after 29.6.1995 in case of Nationalised Banks / 26.3.1996 in case of Associate Banks of State Bank of India in terms of rules framed by each Bank’s Board pursuant to the proviso to Regulation 19(1) of Bank Officers’ Service Regulations, 1979.
Option for joining existing pension scheme was not extended earlier to bank Officers who took voluntary retirement.
Now this IBA circular provides that officers who had availed VRS on after 29.06.1995 ( in the case of associate bank of state bank of india on or after 26.03.1996) can now give option to join the pension scheme
The full text of this IBA Circular is as follows

Indian Banks’ Association
No.CIR/HR&IR/2012-13/G2/6213
November 9, 2012
Chief Executives of Member Banks which are parties to the Joint Note dated 27.4.2010 on Pension Option
Dear Sirs,
Joint Note dated 27.4.2010 with Officers’ Organisations for extending another option to join the Pension Scheme to those who did not opt for pension earlier
We would like to draw your attention to our Circularno.CIR/HR&IR/G2/665/90/2010-11/999 dated 10.8.2010 forwarding copies of the Settlement / Joint Note on extending another option for pension to the non-optees who were in the service of the bank prior to 29th September 1995 in case of Nationalised Banks and 26th March 1996 in case of Associate Banks of State Bank of India and continued to be in service on or after the said date and did not opt for pension earlier.
2. In terms of aforesaid Joint Note, another option for joining the existing Pension Scheme was extended under the following clauses to those officers who-
Clause-2(a): Were in the service of the bank prior to 29th September 1995 in case of Nationalized Banks / 26th March 1996 in case of Associate Banks of State Bank of India and continue in the service of the bank on the date of this Joint Note;
Clause-3(a): Were in service of the bank prior to 29th September 1995 in case of Nationalized Banks / 26th March 1996 in case of Associate Banks of State Bank of India and retired after that date and prior to the date of this Joint Note;
Clause-4: The family of those officers who were in the service of the bank prior to 29th September 1995 in case of Nationalized Banks / 26th March 1996 in case of Associate Banks of State Bank of India retired after that date and had died will beeligible for family pension.
Clause-5: The family of those officers who were in the service of the bank prior to 29th September 1995 in case of Nationalized Banks / 26th March 1996 in case of Associate Banks of State Bank of India, but have died while in service of the bank after that date will be eligible for family pension.
Clause-7: Officers who ceased to be in service on or after 29th September 1995 in case of Nationalized Banks / 26th March 1996 in case of Associate Banks of State Bank of India on account of voluntary retirement under special scheme after rendering service for a minimum period of 15 years, shall be eligible to exercise an option to join the Pension Scheme subject to the terms and conditions mentioned for retiring officers opting for joining the Scheme.
3. The Joint Note dated 27.4.2010 for extending another option for pension to the non-optees indicates the categories of employees eligible for another option. In accordance with the provisions contained in the Joint Note dated 27.4.2010. Banks had extended the benefit of exercising another option to join the Pension Scheme to the eligible category of employees within the prescribed time schedule.
However, the Joint Note did not specifically include a provision for offering another option to join the pension scheme to those officers who took voluntary retirement. Consequently, a number of representations were made by such category of officers to banks / IBA / Government and many of them moved to court of law. Besides, representations have also been made by UFBU to resolve the issue.
4. The above matter has been engaging the attention of Government as well asIBA for quite some time. Accordingly, the Managing Committee of IBA at its meeting held on 30.10.2012 had decided that those officers who took Voluntary Retirement within the meaning and provision of Regulation 19(1) of Bank Officers’ Service Regulations, 1979 may be extended the benefit of exercising another option to join the existing Pension Scheme strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions laid down in the Joint Note dated 27.4.2010.
5. We are, therefore, to advise that the banks may, as decided by the Managing Committee of IBA extend the benefit of exercising another option to join the Pension Scheme to those officers who had taken Voluntary Retirement from the Bank’s service on or after 29.6.1995 in case of Nationalised Banks / 26.3.1996 in case of Associate Banks of State Bank of India in terms of rules framed by each Bank’s Board pursuant to the proviso to Regulation 19(1) of Bank Officers’ Service Regulations, 1979. Besides, the family of those officers who were in the service of the bank prior to 29.9.1995 in case of Nationalised Banks/26.3,1996 in case of Associate Banks of State Bank of India, retired after that date and had died thereafter will be eligible for another option to join the existing Pension Scheme for family pension. These categories of officers / family members are to be sanctioned the benefits in terms of Regulation-29 of Bank Employees’ Pension Regulations, 1995.
6. In extending the aforesaid benefits, all terms and conditions contained in Joint Note dated 27.4.2010 as enclosed with our letter no. CIR/HR&IRG2/665/90/2010-11/999 dated 10.8.2010 should be strictly adhered to.
7. No other category of officers outside the purview of Regulation 19(1) of Bank Officers’ Service Regulations, 1979 would be eligible to exercise another option to join the existing Pension Scheme.
Yours faithfully‚
sd/-
K.UNNIKRISHANAN
DY.CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Via : http://www.gconnect.in/

RTI Act 2005 : Complete Edition of the Rule available in various languages…

RTI Act 2005 : Complete edition of the rule available in various languages…
Hindi Version of RTI Act, 2005 (As modified upto 1st February, 2011) – DOPT
Department of Personnel and Training has published on its portal today the complete Hindi manual of RTI Act. It is modified up to 1.2.2011. You can download by clicking the link is given below… 
http://rti.gov.in/rti-actinhindi.pdf
The complete edition of Right to Information Act, 2005 is being published in different languages, and also available in the official portal of RTI, here we are bringing the link to various languages…

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Confederation writes to DOPT on revival of the JCM functioning

CONFEDERATION WRITES TO SECRETARY PERSONNEL
ON REVIVAL OF JCM FUNCTIONING

D/16/2012 Dated: 10th November, 2012.

To
The Secretary (Personnel)
Department of Personnel and Training,
Government of India
North Block,
New Delhi. 110 001

Dear Sir,

Sub: Revival of the JCM functioning- Departmental level-Regarding :
We solicit your kind reference to the discussions at the National Anomaly Committee meeting held on 17th July, 2012 when the leader and Secretary Staff Side  and other members of the Staff Side brought to your kind notice that the JCM at the Departmental Council level in most of the Ministries other than Railways and Defence have become defunct.  The Staff Side also informed you that the recognition of Service Association, despite the submission of the requisite applications and adherence to conditions stipulated under the CCS(RSA) Rules, 1003 are denied by the heads of departments for no legitimate reasons.  The attitude of the Official Side in this regard has resulted in the virtual shutting out any discussion on issues of concern to employees in various Ministries.     You had been good enough to assure us that concrete steps would be taken to revive the functioning of JCM at all levels and in all Ministries.

We are to bring to you kind notice that the status quo as obtained at the time of the said National Anomaly Committee meeting is in existence even today without any improvement.  We shall be grateful if you could kindly direct the concerned to take steps so that the functioning of the councils could be revived without further loss of time.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General.
Source:   www.confederationhq.blogspot.in

Transfers & Postings in JAG cadre of IPoS Gropu A

Click here to view Postal Directorate(Personal Division) Order No.2-8/2011-SPG dated 02.11.2012