Monday 31 December 2012



EXPECTED DA FEOM JAN 2013 IS 8 %

Central Government Employees, Pensioners and family Pensioners may get Dearness Allowance of 80% with effect from 1st January 2013


The price index which is called as AICPI – IW (All India Consumer price Index for industrial workers with the base as 2001=100) for the month of September 2012 has been issued by Government.
This is the table All India consumer price index AICPI-IW for the period from January 2012 to September 2012
MonthAICPI-IW
Jan 2012198
Feb 2012199
Mar 2012201
Apr 2012205
May 2012206
Jun 2012208
Jul 2012212
Aug 2012214
Sep 2012215
Oct 2012Will be released in the last week of November 2012
Nov 2012Will be released in the last week of December 2012
Dec 2012Will be released in the last week of January 2012
The above indices from Jan 2012 to Sept 2012, require special mention here as Calculation of expected Dearness Allowance for central government employees, Central Government Pensioners and central government family pensioners with effect from 1st January 2013 need these indices.

The expected Dearness Allowance with effect from January 2013

To calculate Dearness Allowance with effect from January 2013 we require AICPI (IW) for previous 12 months.
Dearness Allowance with effect from 1st January every year(Average of AICPI-IW for the months from January to December of previous year – 115.76)X100/115.76
Dearness Allowance with effect from 1st July every year(Average of AICPI-IW for the months from July of previous year to June of this year – 115.76)X100/115.76
115.76 is a factor which converts 1982 series AICPI (IW) (Base 1982=100), which was applicable prior to 6CPC to 2001 series AICPIW (Base 2001=100). In turn, This is arrived at by dividing the 1982 series AICPI by a linking factor which is 4.63 (536/4.63=115.76)
To estimate the Dearness Allowance that Central Government Employees and Pensioners will be getting with effect from 1st January 2013 based on AICPI-IW, we will consider following 4 Scenario
 Scenario 1 (No Inflation)Scenario 2 ( Inflation contained)Scenario 3(Sameinflationarytrend)Scenario 4 (More inflation)
MonthAICPI-IWAICPI-IWAICPI-IWAICPI-IW
Jan 2012198198198198
Feb 2012199199199199
Mar 2012201201201201
Apr 2012205205205205
May 2012206206206206
Jun 2012208208208208
Jul 2012212212212212
Aug 2012214214214214
Sep 2012215215215215
Oct 2012 (expected)215210216217
Nov 2012 (expected)215210217219
Dec 2012 (expected)215210218221
Expected DA80%79%80%81%

Wednesday 26 December 2012


NFPE                                              NFPE                                        NFPE
ALL INDIA POSTAL CASUAL, PART TIME CONTINGENT & CONTRACT WORKERS FEDERATION [CHQ], NEW DELHI
PRESIDENT: COM. C.C. PILLAI,                                         
WORKING PRESIDENT: COM. Y.NAGABHUSHANAM
GENERAL SECRETARY: COM. P. MOHAN
No. aipcpccwf/study camp/cz                                                                                           dt. 26-12-12
 
 
 
To
The circle secretaries
PIII/PIV/GDS [NFPE]/RIII/RIV
Maharashtra/MP/C.GARH/BIHAR
 
Dear comrade,
 
You are aware that study camp of central zone conducted by NFPE is going to be held at VIDISHA [MP] from 19th to 20th January 2013 and quota of delegates’ from each state and organization was fixed and circulated by NFPE already.
 
THE FOLLOWING QUOTA WAS FIXED TO CASUAL UNION.
MAHARASTRA---1, MP---1, CHATTISGARH----1, BIHAR---1, JARKHAND—2.
 
As our casual labour union was not yet formed in your circle, you are requested to take steps to bring at least one deligate from casual/ contingent workers of your circle who are interested and active in union activities.
 
We hope that you will spare some time in mobilizing casual/ contingent workers  for forming casual labour union in your state as early as possible.
 
With warm greetings,
 
Yours comradely,
 
[P. MOHAN]
GENERAL SECRETARY.

Friday 21 December 2012


Labour Laws Applicable to Casual and Self Employed Work Force


Reliable estimates of employment and unemployment are obtained through quinquennial labour force surveys conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). Last such quinquennial labour force survey was conducted during 2009-10. As per results of the most recent survey, 15.6 per cent, 33.5 per cent and 51.0 per cent of the total work force on usual status basis was found to be engaged in regular wage/salaried work, casual labour and self employment respectively during 2009-10.

The Central labour laws applicable for the casual labour in the country are broadly The Minimum Wages Act, 1948, The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976, The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979, The Contract Labour (Regulation and abolition) Act, 1970, The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 and The Unorganized Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008.

The Minister of State for Labour & Employment Shri K. Suresh gave this information in reply to a written question in the Lok Sabha today .

Source: PIB



OBC in Central Government Services – Other Backward Classes representation in Central Government Services as on 1.1.2011


Group wise representation of  OBC in Central Government Services as on 1.1.2011

OBC  in Central Government Jobs As per information received from various Ministries/ Departments, the Group- wise representation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in Central Government services as on 1.1.2011 is as under:-
Groups
Number of OBCs
Percentage of OBCs
A
5357
6.9
B
13,897
7.3
C
3,46,433
15.3
(erstwhile) D
81,468
17.0
Reservation to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in Central Government services is provided at the rate of 27% in case of direct recruitment on all India basis by open competition. In case of direct recruitment on all India basis, other than by open competition, reservation for OBCs is provided at the rate of 25.84%.
Representation of OBCs is still low for the reason that reservation for them started only in September, 1993. Moreover, those OBCs recruited before 1993 have not shown themselves as OBCs since the reservation was not available to them before 1993, and they were recruited/ appointed as general candidates. There is no reservation for OBCs in promotion.
Reservation to SCs in Direct Recruitment is available since 1947. Whereas, reservation for STs in direct recruitment was introduced from 1950. The provision of reservation in promotion for SCs/STs is available since 1955.
As per information received from various Ministries/ Departments, the representation of SCs, STs and OBCs in posts and services of the Central Government as on 1.1.2011 is as under:-
Group
SCs
STs
OBCs
Number
%
Number
%
Number
%
A
8922
11.5
3732
4.8
5357
6.9
B
28403
14.9
11357
6.0
13897
7.3
C
370557
16.4
174562
7.7
346433
15.3
(erstwhile) D
110515
23.0
32791
6.8
81468
17.0

A Special Recruitment Drive to fill up the backlog reserved vacancies of SCs, STs and OBCs in services of the Central Government was launched on 19th November, 2008 to fill up all backlog vacancies existing as on 1.11.2008. The drive was extended upto 30.6.2011. The progress of the drive was reviewed on 1st July, 2011 and it was decided to re-launch the drive so as to fill up the remaining identified backlog vacancies by 31.03.2012. As reported by the Ministries/Departments so far, the backlog vis-à-vis filled up vacancies of SCs, STs and OBCs is given in the following table:
Category
Backlog vacancies
Filled up
SCs
24779
16693
STs
30010
15813
OBCs
22886
12950

This was stated by Shri V. Narayanasamy, Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office in written reply to a question by Dr. Gyan Prakash Pilania in the Rajya Sabha