Wednesday 22 May 2013

Pension Scheme for the employees of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs)


Pension Scheme for the employees of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs)



Number of various categories of posts in teaching as well as non-teaching categories in the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas..?

Whether persons appointed in JNVs prior to the year 2004 in teaching as well as non-teaching categories are not getting pension after retirement..?

The Ministry has replied to the questions above mentioned in Lok Sabha on 13.3.2013 as under...


"The number of teaching as well as non-teaching categories of posts sanctioned in the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) in the country is given below:-


Sl. No.CategoryPosts Sanctioned
1Principal584
2Vice-Principal395
3Post Graduate Teacher (PGT)4,332
4Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT)5,146
5Misc. Categories teachers3,056
6Non-teaching staff9,023
Total22,536

The employees of JNVs appointed before 01.01.2004 have not been found eligible for the grant of pension under the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 as the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), an autonomous organization, was registered after 01.01.1986, the cut-off date for determining the eligibility of employees of autonomous bodies, for pension under CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972. These employees have been representing for this pension and some sections of them had proceeded on strike with effect from 06.02.2013 for fulfillment of their demands, of which the major demand related to grant of pension. The strike has since been withdrawn with effect from 15.2.2013 after assurances from the Government that all their legitimate demands would be sympathetically considered in a time-bound manner.

The Government has approved the introduction of the New Pension Scheme (NPS) for all the regular employees of the NVS, joining on or after 1.4.2009. Those employees who had joined the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti on a regular basis before 1.4.2009, including those appointed prior to the year 2004, shall have the option either to continue with the existing Contributory Provident Fund Scheme or to join the New Pension Scheme".

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Shri S.K. Chakrabarti(IPoS-1978), Chief Postmaster General, Odisha Circle promoted to the grade of Member, Postal Services Board.


Shri S.K. Chakrabarti(IPoS-1978), Chief Postmaster General, Odisha Circle is posted as Principal Chief Postmaster General, Odisha Circle, Bhubaneswar on his promotion to the grade of Member, Postal Services Board vide Department of Posts(Personnel Division) order No. 1-19/2013-SPG dated 21/5/2013 against the post of Member (HRD) redeployed temporarily till 31.07.2013 (i.e.the date of retirement of Sh.S.K. Chakrabarti on superannuation). 

The Post of Member (HRD) will stand restored on 01.08.2013. 

To view the order please Click Here.

Shashi Kant Sharma, Defence Secretary Appointed as the New Comptroller & Auditor General of India



The President of India has appointed Shri Shashi Kant Sharma, IAS, as the Comptroller & Auditor General of India, in terms of Article 148 (1) of the Constitution of India. Shri Sharma is presently holding the post of Defence Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. He will be taking over the charge of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India from 23rd May, 2013.

Question Paper of Postal/Sorting Assistant Exam Held on 19 May 2013


Circles covered: Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Uttarakhand and U. P. circles




  
 
Our special thanks: to our friend Pramod Yadav who has shared this Question Paper with us..

Whether Service Book of an Employee can be supplied under RTI

This question if gets an answer as ‘yes’ may sound a bit weird and unwarranted in employee’s point of view as nobody would like supply of personal records to public.

Of Course there is sense in employee’s case in this issue as Service book of an Government Employee contains very important information about his/her service including disciplinary proceedings taken against him/her.

More seriously, Service Book of a Government Employee would also contain certain personal information such as nominees, present health status, whether undergone any family planning procedures etc., which could be misused against an employee by unscrupulous elements under the cover of RTI.

However, Central Information Commission has decided in a case recently which came for appeal that PIO to supply a copy of the service record of employee under RTI after invoking Sec.10(1) of the RTI Act to sever all those portions that are exempt from disclosure u/s 8(1)(j) of the Act as personal information.

An Extract of order portion in this case is as follows.

“The Commission however, holds that the Public Authority is obligated under section 4(1)(b) the RTI Act to disclose information related to the service of its employees and is not convinced by Shri D’Costa’s argument that such disclosure will endanger his physical safety as all this information is anyway expected to be placed in the public domain.
The Commission accordingly directs the PIO to supply a copy of the service record of Shri Allan D’Costa to the Appellant after invoking Sec.10(1) of the RTI Act to sever all those portions that are exempt from disclosure u/s 8(1)(j) of the Act as personal information. The information should reach the Appellant within four weeks of receipt of this order.”

Though CIC ruling contains a rider for safeguarding private information of a Government employee out of purview of RTI, officials who actually supply information under RTI may find it difficult to differentiate between public and private information related to an employee. In the process, RTI information seeker with profit or malicious motive could sneak in with private information of Government employees.

We hope Government would come up with a meaningful classification of public and private information of a Government Employee and notifiy the same for effective implementation at lower level, which could find an effective soultion to this issue

Source: rtiIndia.org