2 increment case - Status

The latest status (as on 23 Apr) on the TWO INCREMENT case is posted in the ISCF official web-page. Click below to read .

https://sites.google.com/site/iscftvpm/Home/2-increments-case-status

Chairman's tenure extended

A Press Information Bureau report says
"The extension of tenure of  Dr.Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO has been extended from Aug 29, to Dec 31, 2014. on functional grounds and in the public interest. "

Quotes from Bharat Pensioner

Quotes from : Bharat Pensioner , April 2014

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Justice must be the same for everyone. Government granted "One Rank One Pension"  to armed forces !  Judges granted it to themselves !!

What about other Central and State Govt pensioners ?  Are they 2nd grade citizens ? Where article 14 of the Constitution goes ??
"


"We, the Pensioners, are not Beggars, who asks for alms "

{ Quotes from : Bharat Pensioner , April 2014 }

Compute your Pension : Post 7CPC

What would be your pension post 7CPC implementation ?  Don't just laugh it off  now !  You can compute yourself, after reading the following article ( source : Bharat Pensioner Samaj )

7th Pay Commission :    Projected Pay Scales

People may think that the babus again started to make voice over pay revision and next pay commission or 7th Pay commission. There is a saying that “The crying baby gets the milk”. The need makes the man to act.

One should try to understand the fact that being a government servant one can witness a considerable pay hike at least twice or thrice of his/her entire service period. Because, other than promotion, only the pay commission recommendation will give them considerable pay hike. But it takes place once in ten years. Now a days a government employee can render service 20 or 30 years only due to non availability of employment opportunity in government service below the age of 25. So there is no need to be get annoyed by hearing the voice for seventh pay commission from central government employees. Because constituting next pay commission is for nothing but to review the salary of the govt. servants with the current economical condition of the country.

How the pay of a govt. employee had been fixed at the beginning of the Independence India.

Till now there are six pay commission had been constituted to review and recommend pay structure of central government employees.

All the six pay commissions have taken many aspects into consideration to prescribe the pay structure for government servants.

In the first pay commission the concept of ‘living wage’ was adopted.

In second pay commission it had been reiterated that the pay structure and working condition to be crafted in a way so as to ensure the effective functioning of government mechanism.

The third pay commission adopted the concept of ‘need based wage’

The Fourth CPC had recommended the government to constitute permanent machinery to undertake periodical review of pay and allowances of Central Government employees, but which got never implemented.

In Fifth pay commission all federations demanded that the pay scale should be at par with the public sector. But the pay commission didn’t accept this and told that the demand for parity with the Public Sector was however difficult to concede as it felt that the Job content and condition of service in the government and public sector not necessarily the same. There were essential differences between the two sectors.

The Sixth Central Pay Commission, claimed that it had not only tried to evolve a proper pay package for the Government employees but also to make recommendations rationalizing the governmental structure with a view to improve the delivery mechanisms for providing better services to the common man.

What about seventh pay commission?

Generally every pay commission, before recommending a pay structure, it used to analyze all the aspects including the economic situation of the country, financial resources of the government, comparison with the public sector, private sector and state government pay structure etc. So it is very much clear that Pay Determination is very complicated and sensitive task. Without any doubt every one accepts that this is very challenging task too. In order to determine the new pay structure the pay commission has to go through voluminous data consisting current economic condition, strength of the work force and working condition etc. In the meantime, if one tries to suggest or comment about 7thy pay commission pay scale or about what the seventh pay commission pay scale would be, it will not get much importance.

But when we come across all the recommendations of six pay commissions, we observed an interesting factor which is common to all the pay commission recommendations, particularly in the matter of percentage of increase in the pay. Average 3 times increase in the pay was recommended by each pay commission and it was accepted by government and implemented. We have posted three articles about six pay commissions before this post.

Obviously it is simple thing, we can say it a mathematical coincidence that we have in common in all previous pay commission, but we cannot neglect this. Because it was there, every time it is noticed that the revised pay was approximately three times higher than its pre revised pay. Apart from all the factors which has been used to determine the pay revision, we can use this simple formula ‘common multiplying factor’ to know the 7th pay commission pay scale . If next pay commission prefer to continue the same running pay band and grade pay system for seventh pay commission also, the pay structure may be like the following projected figures given below, using common multiplying factor ‘3’. The Following is only the projected figure using common multiplying factor ‘3’...

SIXTH CPC PAY STRUCTURE				PROJECTED PAY STRUCTURE FOR NEXT (VII) PAY COMMISSION
Name of Pay Band/ Scale	Corresponding Pay Bands	Corresponding Grade Pay	Entry Grade +band pay	Projected entry level pay using uniform multiplying factor` 3’
				Band Pay	Grade Pay	Entry Pay
PB-1	5200-20200	1800	7000	15600-60600	5400	21000
PB-1	5200-20200	1900	7730	15600-60600	5700	23190
PB-1	5200-20200	2000	8460	15600-60600	6000	25380
PB-1	5200-20200	2400	9910	15600-60600	7200	29730
PB-1	5200-20200	2800	11360	15600-60600	8400	34080
PB-2	9300-34800	4200	13500	29900-104400	12600	40500
PB-2	9300-34800	4600	17140	29900-104400	13800	51420
PB-2	9300-34800	4800	18150	29900-104400	14400	54450
PB-3	15600-39100	5400	21000	29900-104400	16200	63000
PB-3	15600-39100	6600	25530	46800-117300	19800	76590
PB-3	15600-39100	7600	29500	46800-117300	22800	88500
PB-4	37400-67000	8700	46100	112200-20100	26100	138300
PB-4	37400-67000	8900	49100	112200-20100	26700	147300
PB-4	37400-67000	10000	53000	112200-20100	30000	159000
HAG	67000- (ann increment @ 3%) -79000	Nil				201000
HAG+ Scale	75500- (ann increment @ 3%) -80000	Nil				226500
Apex Scale	80000 (Fixed)	Nil				240000
Cab. Sec.	90000 (Fixed)	Nil				270000

Source: www.scm-bps.blogspot.in

Pension for a Paisa

Below is an article in Business Line, on the New Pension System (NPS). Though this may not be  relevant to most of us, its informative and an eye opener for things to come.

Right to Live, Right to Die

Senior Living Projects

This report from "Business Line" is obvious. The increasing need for a peaceful living for the SeniorCitizens.  Would you relate yourself with this ??

Greetings ! Vishu and Easter !!

Vishu Greetings 

&

Easter Greetings

Wish List for the 7CPC

A paper report says that IAS Officers are busy drafting a wish list and demands to be presented to the 7CPC. They are right !  Don't you feel ?

Let's hope that Associations , Forums, and Fraternities of  former ISRO employees should start doing  this exercise immediately. The demands and suggestions thus made should be discused in detail with all, before presenting to 7CPC.  The time is ripe to do this !!

ISCF- Annual General Body Meetig

ISRO Senior Citizens; Forum (ISCF)  invited all its members to attend the Annual General Body Meeting scheduled for 16th April.
Venue : Hassan marikar Hall (Near AKG Centre)
Timing :   Wednesday, 16-04-2014, 04 30 PM.

Seminar on 7th CPC and Central Pensioners

ISRO Pensioners  organises a Seminar on : 7CPC and Central Govt pensioners
Date and Venue     :  23 -4 2014 Wednesday; 10 Am; Bank Employees Hall, Pulimood, Trivandrum
Inauguration :           Dr. Thomas Issac (Former Finance Minister)
Topic presentation :  Sri. M Krishnan, Secretary General, CGPA

All are invited to attend.

Bonji - The Rocket drink

BONJI ! The secret behind the success of rocket launchings revealed ! !
An article in METRO PLUS (Hindu supplement dt. 3 April Thursday) titled "Cheers to the BONJI " by Smt. Saraswathy Nagarajan  also quotes our man Sri. R Aravamudan. Read below, what he writes !!

( For those of you who are not famailiar with BONJI, please read 'lemon juice or lemonade)

Best Wishes PSLV-C24

PSLV - C24, with  IRNSS-1B satellite will lift-off at 5.14 pm toaday from SHAR.
Congratulations , in advance , to ISRO and PSLV team , for the  twentififth consecutive successful launch of PSLV.

What aids DOS ?

What ails Indian science ?

A must read article on “Indian science’s bureaucratic mentality values administrative power over achievements”  ( R. Prasad, Page 15, Science & Technology , The Hindu dt April 3, 2014 )

A quote from the article :

“Indian science has for too long been hamstrung by bureaucratic mentalitynthat values administrative power over scientific achievements.

………..

It is, however, pertinent to note that the Department of Space stands out from the rest. Younger people have  been put in charge of important programmes,  and they have succeeded. …. This system is quite old in the Dept of Space.  (The author says ).

……

Worry not !

Elderly ?  No place !

According to the UNPF (United Nations Population Fund) estimates released recently,  India will be home to one out of every six of the world’s elderly, by 2050.  Their  number is expected to grow to 173 million by 2026 ( that’s just 12 years away ! ).  Worrying ?  Don't worry, you just cant help !!

OROP for High Court Judges

Supreme Court , on Monday, ruled that there should not be any disparity in the pension of High court Judges, irrespective of the source from where they are drawn. Hence the principle of "One Rank One Pension " be applied wef from 2004, the SC directed the Government.

Let's all hope that this principle of natural justice be extended to all Pre-2006 Central Pensioners as well.

Convention on Right to Pension and Parity

Convention on Right to Pension and Parity

100^th Birthday of late D S Nakara , falling on 21-04-2014 will be celebrated as a Convention on “Right to pension and Parity”. Get in touch with your Fraternity / Forum / Assosciation of Pensioners.

Scova highlights , Sankalp

SCOVA

24^th meeting of SCOVA was held on 5-2-2014,  under the chairmanship of  Hon’blw MOS (PP) at Vigyan Bhavan Annexe, Neqw Delhi.

Some of the points of importance to us :

1.         MOS (PP), Chairman, SCOVA, stated that Pensioners have served the country and helped in the Nation building process. Therefore, it is our duty to take care of their welfare.

2.         Two recent initiatives of the Dept. are

(i)  Bhavishya – an online Pension sanction and payment tracking system. This is currently in operation in 15  Orgns/Depts. This would help both Pensioners and Admn authorities.

(ii)  Sankalp – a programme to channelise skill and experiences of pensioners into socially useful and constructive work. This would be taken up on a pilot basis initially for 500 pensioners. 

3. The Dept is advicing Mins/Depts to conduct pre-retirement counseling / workshops to prepare the retiring officials for life after retirement, specially formalities required to be completed to avail of pensionary dues, Healtrh benefits (CGHS, etc..) financial investments, preparation of will etc.

 4.      Dedicated day for pensioners : All Mins/Depts agreed to fix a time in any day in a week to meeting the Pensioners. This would be informed by 28 th Feb.

More on  SANKALP

Dept of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare have now recognized the fact that retired government employees have a huge wealth of skills and experience  which could be channelised into constructive activities for the betterment of Society. A new initiative from Govt , named SANKALP, will help retired employees in leading a fuller and more meaningful existence post-retirement.

A pilot Project with 500 Central Pensioners (on a first-come-first-served basis ) is initially being run .  Those pensioners willing to associate with this initiative may register at  www.pensionersportal.gov.in/sankalp