Economy in use of paper in Central Government Offices – Finance ministries Orders on 22.8.2014

No.25(6)/E.Coord-2014 Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure North Block, New Delhi, 22nd August. 2014 Office Memorandum Subject :- Economy in use of paper. Ministry of Finance has been issuing instructions from time to time on expenditure management, fiscal discipline and on the need for economy and rationalization of Government expenditure. Government is one of the major consumers of paper. Injudicious use of paper not only leads to infructuous expenditure but also impacts the environment as trees are the major source of paper pulp production. Instructions on judicious use of paper have been issued by this Department in the past and similar instructions are also contained in the Manual of Office Procedure (MOP) published by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances. With a view to further stress the importance of economy In use of paper in Government offices, following instructions are issued for strict compliance by all concerned : - (i) Notes should be typed/written on both sides of the paper/note sheet (ii) Typing should be done in single space; (iii) Policy instructions/guidelines issued through Orders, OMs, etc. may be uploaded on the official website of the Ministry/Department/Organization. Number of hard copies of such communications may be limited to the required minimum: (iv) Office copies should not be typed again where the draft itself is legible and does not contain many corrections. (v) Forms, proformas, returns etc., if any, stipulated by Ministries/ Departments/Organizations in connection the organizational mandate may be reviewed in relation to their size and format and should be recast and simplified/shortened in keeping with the recent directives from Cabinet Secretariat. Manual submission of forms, returns, etc,, wherever stipulated, either under statutory obligations or otherwise, should be discouraged, Switching over (oc-forms, online submission of forms/returns, etc., may be encouraged. 2. All the Ministries/Departments, attached, subordinate offices and autonomous or statutory bodies funded by GOI may comply with the above directives. Suitable instructions on above lines may be issued by line Ministries/Departments of GOl in r/o organizations/entities or field establishments under their administrative control, 3. This has the approval of Secretary(Expenditure). sd/- (Sudha Krishnan) Joint Secretary to the Government of India

Simplification of pension procedure - Submission of undertaking by retiring Government servant along with pension papers

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE

CENTRAL PENSION ACCOUNTING OFFICE

TRIKOOT-II, BHIKHAJI CAMA PLACE,

NEW DELHI-110066

CPAO/Tech/Simplification/2014-15/241-351

8.8.2014

Office Memorandum

Sub: Simplification of pension procedure-submission of undertaking by retiring Government servant along with pension papers

“The Scheme for Payment of pensions to Central Government Civil Pensioners through Authorized Banks" issued by CPAO provides for an undertaking of recovery of overpayment to be submitted by the retiring Government servant/pensioner to the pension disbursing bank before commencement of pension. Delayed submission of this undertaking has been a main reason in crediting the first payment of pension to the pensioners account.

In order to simplify the pension procedure and consequent upon the delinking of commencement of pension with the first time identification of the pensioner by bank, the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare has approved the submission of undertaking by the retiring Government servant along with pension papers before his retirement. 

Now. the required undertaking may be obtained by the Head of Office from the retiring Goventment servant along with Form 5 and other documents before his retirement and forwarded the same to Pay and Accounts Office along with pension case for onward transmission ‘to bank through CPAO. The undertaking shall be addressed to the Branch Manager of the Pension Account Holding Branch and in the prescribed format (copy enclosed)

These instructions were earlier issued by Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare vide their OM dated 7th May, 2014 and CPAO vide its OM dated 28th May. 2014 (available on CPAOs‘ website). But it has been noticed that Head of the Offices and Pay and Accounts Offices are not even aware of these instructions so far. Consequently, these instructions are not being implemented and the main reason of delay in first credit of pension by the banks still persists.  This is a matter of great concern.

Therefore. all Pr. CCAs/CCAs/CAs are requested to issue directions to their PAOs for complying with the OM No. CPAO/Tech/Simplification/2014-15/52 dated-28.05.2014 and to ensure that all pension cases received from Head of Offices are supported with undertaking of recovery of overpayment and the same is invariably forwarded to CPAO as a part of PPO booklet for onward transmission to CPPC of the bank. All authorization sections in CPAO have already been directed not to accept any pension case for authorization of pension payment received without the undertaking.

sd/-

(Suman Bala)

Chief Controller (Pensions)

Sanctioned and Acutal Strength of Employees in Central Government

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance

01-August-2014 17:05 IST

Sanctioned and Acutal Strength of Employees in Central Government; 30,84,530 Civilian Employees in Position

As per the information available, the estimated sanctioned and actual strength of Civilian Employees (Group-wise) in the Central Government is:

Group-wise number of sanctioned posts		Number in position
A(G)	100869	87960
B(G)	86840	76724
B (N.G)	144454	113477
C (N.G)	3352380	2806396
Total	3684543	3084530

In view of the prevailing economic scenario and in order to promote fiscal discipline, Government of India has issued Economy instructions which, inter alia, impose a ban on creation of new posts. However, proposals for creation of posts are examined/concurred to in the Ministry on case to case basis if supported by adequate functional justification.

All Ministries/Departments are required to review their vacancies vis-a-vis the work load regularly to take necessary steps for filing up vacancies as per their requirements subject to extant guidelines and rules on the matter.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Finance, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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MACP on Promotional hierarchy – Hon’ble High Court dismisses Department’s Appeal against the CAT Judgement in favour of Employee to provide MACP in promotional hierarchy

MACP on Promotional hierarchy was directed to be granted by Principal CAT Delhi in its order in Appeal OA 864-2014 dated 12.03.2014 Now Hon’ble Delhi High Court has dismissed the department’s appeal against this CAT Order

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

W.P.(C) 3608/2014

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH and TRAINING

….. Petitioner

Through: Mr. Anand Nandan, Adv.

versus

OM PRAKASH and ORS ….. Respondents

Through: None.

CORAM:

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE S. RAVINDRA BHAT

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE VIPIN SANGHI

O R D E R

14.07.2014

The petitioner/NCERT is aggrieved by an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (hereinafter called CAT) dated 12 March, 2014 whereby the respondents? claim to be placed in the pay scale Rs. 9300-34800/- with grade pay of Rs. 5400/- was directed to be considered.

The NCERT submits – his counsel argues- that the CAT fell into error in making the impugned directions at the first hearing. It was submitted that the CAT should not have directed the grant of relief once it was brought to its notice that the NCERT, on 26 November, 2013, had consciously considered and rejected the claim of higher pay scale.

The impugned order of the CAT is premised upon the respondents? entitlement to the pay scale claimed by them which, in turn, was based on a judgment of the Punjab and HaryanaHigh Court in CWP 19387/2011. That judgment was not interfered with by the Supreme Court even though SLP (CC) 7467/2013 was preferred. The NCERT?s rejection of therespondents? claim for the higher pay scale appears to be solely based on the absence of any DOPT instructions pursuant to the Punjab High Court?s orders.

Having regard to these circumstances, this Court is of the opinion that since there is no direction to grant pay scale, the NCERT should pass a reasoned order indicating its reasons for denying the pay scale claimed by the respondents. In other words, its reasons cannot merely be absence of DOPT instructions, but have to be more substantial, upon application of mind to the judgments and directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, as endorsed by the Supreme Court in its orders.

In view of the above, the impugned order does not call for any interference.

The Writ Petition is accordingly dismissed.

S. RAVINDRA BHAT, J

VIPIN SANGHI, J

JULY 14, 2014

source : Hon’ble Delhi High Court