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National Federation of Atomic Energy
Employees
NFAEE
DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY
Regn.No.17/9615
Recognised
by DAE vide DAE OM No. 8/1/2007 – IR&W/95 dated 13th June 2007
NFAEE
Office, Opp. NIYAMAK BHAVAN, Anusaktinagar, Mumbai 400 094
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Ref. No: nfaee/15/229 15.12.2015
To
Shri Pradhip Kumar Sinha
The Cabinet Secretary
Government of India
Rashtrapathi Bhavan Annex
New Delhi 110001
Sub: Comments/Views
on 7th Central Pay Commission Report - Reg
Sir,
National
Federation of Atomic Energy Employees (NFAEE) is the sole Federation recognised
by the Government of India/Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) under CCS (RSA)
Rules. NFAEE represents all non gazetted staff in Group A, B and C working in
various establishments under DAE. The establishments include Industrial,
Research & Development, Service and Supportive Sector.
Since the
activities under Department of Atomic Energy are entirely different from other
conventional Departments, the issues are also vary from other Departments.
While submitting the memorandum to the 7th Central Pay Commission
and thereafter during the oral presentation with the Pay Commission, NFAEE
tried to pursue such issues to the Pay Commission. But unfortunately most of
such issues are still unresolved and not considered by the Pay Commission while
finalising its report.
The Working Committee meeting of NFAEE was held on 5th
December 2015 at Mumbai and discussed the recommendations of the Pay Commission
in detail and unanimously decided to submit the suggestions and views on
various issues to the Government as well as to the Department.
The Minimum Pay, Matrix, Fitment formula, Increment, Promotion benefits,
MACP, Allowances, Advances, Leave,
Vacant Posts, Out sourcing, Pension related issues and all other issues
referred in the report is necessary to have a relook by the Secretaries
Committee under your Chairmanship as there are major discrepancies found in the
recommendations .
The HRA component gives the feeling of hike in emoluments in total. HRA
is not a factor for the entire Government employees as those who are staying in
the Government quarters are not eligible for HRA. Moreover HRA is not a uniform
factor across the country since it varies from city to city and towns.
The normal deduction on PF, NPS, CGHS, CGEIS, Income Tax, etc is going
to increase as the basic pay increases. This results the take home salary of a
section of employees less than that of the salary after the revision of the
pay.
Similarly there are recommendations on various issues pertaining to
Department specific also. Recommendations on Merit Promotion, Update Allowance,
Overtime Allowance, Nuclear Research Plant Supporting Allowance, etc are some
of the issues to be revisited.
The suggestions and views on these points are also prepared after
detailed discussion in the Working Committee. Following are the important
recommendations of the 7th CPC to be reviewed and corrective measure
to be taken. Detailed note with illustration on each point given below has been
attached as Annexure I.
COMMON ISSUES:
01.
Determination
of Minimum Pay: Re-compute the minimum wage on the basis
of the actual commodity prices as on 1.7.2015 and factor the Dr. Aykroyd
formula stipulated percentages for housing and marriage social obligations,
children education etc. Revise the fitment formula and pay levels on the basis
of the so determined minimum wage.
02. The effect of recommendation
of lesser pay as Minimum Pay: By recommending the minimum pay as Rs 18000/- the
increase in the salary become a meagre amount. This can be established from the
minimum pay recommended itself. At the Minimum Pay level the increase in salary
shall be just Rs2250/-. As per the recommendations of CPC the deduction in
salary on PF/NPS, CHSS, CGEGIS, etc will be about Rs 2500/- It means take home
salary shall be less than about Rs 200/- as on today.
03. Rationalisation of Pay
Structure: It is seen that the 7th CPC
has applied varying multiplication factors for different pay levels. The 6th
CPC has taken the emoluments in the private sector to hike the salary of
officers by applying different yardstick to compute the pay bands disturbing
the vertical relativity, while the 7th CPC has further accentuated
the gap of differences in wages between officers and employees. This being
unacceptable we urge upon adoption of uniform multiplication factor for
determining pay levels.
04.
Minimum
Pay:
Based on the correction in “Determination of
Pay”, new Minimum Pay should be derived
05. Pay Matrix: Revise the pay matrix basing
upon the revised minimum wage and rounding off the stages to the next hundred.
Continuing pay scale corresponding to Grade Pay of 5400 in PB2 and in PB3 shall
be an aberration and hence request to abolish the level 9 from the Pay Matrix.
06.
Increment:
Revise the rate of increment to 5 %. The rate of increment has been pegged down
to 3% by the 7th CPC. At this rate an employee will not be able to
double his pay even after 30 years.
07.
Increment
Date: Employees joined between 1st January and 30th
June has to be complete for 13 to 18 months for next increment. To remove anomaly, the annual increment date
may be 1st January for those recruited prior to 30th June
and 1st July in respect of those recruited prior to 31st
December.
08.
Fitment: Revised Fitment Factor should be derived
based on the new Minimum Pay and the existing Minimum Pay
09.
Fixation
benefit on Promotion:
Grant two increments in the feeder cadre levels as promotion benefit.
The recommendation of 7 CPC one increment in the lower level and fix equal or
next stage will give meager benefit only.
10.
Modified
Assured Career Progression: MACP to be treated as financial
up-gradation, without any grading stipulation; to be provided on the basis of
the promotional cadre hierarchy of the concerned department;
increase the number of MACP to five on completion of 8,15,21,26 and 30th
years of service.
11.
Benchmark for Promotion and MACP: Pay
Commission proposed to stop annual increment in case of those employees who are
not able to meet the bench mark either for Promotion or MACP in the first 20
years of their service. Reject the
proposal for indirect entry of Efficiency Bar stipulation made by 7th
CPC.
12. Head Quarters – Field Parity: a)
Parity to be ensured for all Stenographers, Assistants, Ministerial Staff in
subordinate offices and in all the organized Accounts cadres with Central
Secretariat/Head Quarters by upgrading their pay scales (and not by downgrading
the pay scales of the CSS)
b) Drivers in all Government offices to be granted pay
scale on par with the drivers of the Lok Sabha
13.
Allowances:
Revise the following allowances as under
in place of the recommendations made by the 7th CPC:
a.
House
Rent Allowance: Retain the rate of house rent allowance
in place of the recommendation of the Commission to reduce it.
b.
Transport
Allowance: Restructure the transport allowance into two slabs at
Rs. 7500 and 3750 with DA thereof removing all the stipulated conditions. Transport
Allowance should be net of TAX.
c.
Overtime
Allowance: Overtime allowance must be based upon the actual
basic pay of the entitled employee and the rule existing in the Department for
OTA calculation.
d.
Dress Allowance: Considering the
various factors of subsuming Uniform allowance, Washing allowance, Shoe
Allowance, etc, ceiling to be raised to Rs 20,000/- p.a.
e.
Nursing Allowance: Nursing Allowance to
be raised to 2.25 times of the existing Allowance.
f.
Family
Planning Allowance: Small family norms allowances should
continue and must be enhanced to 2.25 times.
g.
National
Holiday Allowance: The recommendation of the Pay Commission to
extend to all other Departments where the employees are regularly working on
National Holidays.
h.
Special
Duty Allowance: The special duty allowance in NE Region
should be uniform for all at 30%.
i.
Increase
in Fixed Allowances: All fixed allowances must be raised to
2.25 times as per the principle enunciated by the Commission
j.
Allowances
not mentioned by the Pay Commission: Restore the allowances
abolished for the reason that it is either not reported or mentioned in the
Report by the Commission.
14.
Advances:
Restore the following advances and revise the same to 2.25 times unless
otherwise mentioned.
a.
Interest
Free Advances: Recommended
to abolish Warm clothing Advance, Advance of Pay on Transfer, Advance of TA on
Tour/Transfer/Retirement, Advance of TA to the family of a deceased government
employees, Advance on LTC, Advance of Leave Salary, Advance in connection with
medical Treatment, Festival Advance, Advance in the event of natural calamity,
etc.
b.
Interest
Bearing Advances: Vehicle advances
including cycle advance as per the eligibility
15.
Child
Care Leave: The stipulation made by the 7th
CPC to grant only 80% of salary for the second year of CCL be rejected and the existing provisions may be
retained
16.
Child
Adoption Leave: The erroneous statement in Para 9.2.5 to
be corrected. Vide OM No. 13018/1/2009-Estt (L) dated 22.07.2009, DOP, P&W,
the leave period for Child adoption has been increased to 180 days.
17.
Casual Leave: Should enhance to 12 for
civilian employees and 15 to industrial workers
18.
Hospital
Leave: Full pay and allowances to be provided for the entire
period of WRIIL. The conditions stipulated in clause (4) & (5) under Para
9.2.37 for WRILL be removed
19.
Medical
facilities: Health insurance should not be introduced
20.
Compassionate
Ground Appointments: In the absence of any recommendation made
by 7 CPC, the Government must withdraw the stipulated ceiling on compassionate
appointments
21.
Central
Government Employees Group Insurance Scheme: The recommendation
of the Pay Commission should be revisited and a proper Insurance Scheme should
be worked out by considering component of Insurance Fund as well as the Savings
Fund based on Life Insurance Corporation of India and the interest factor for
the Saving Fund etc.
22.
Vacant
Posts: There are about 7.5 lakhs posts lying vacant in
various Departments. Fill up all vacant posts by holding special
recruitment drive
23.
Regularisation
of Contractual Labours: Contract/casual and daily rated
workers to be regularized against the huge vacancies existing in various Government offices.
24. Cadre Review: Ensure
Cadre Review of Group C & D Employees in all Departments periodically.
25.
Pension: Revise
the pension benefits and other retirement benefits as under:-
a.
Parity
in Pension: Parity between the past and present pensioners to be
brought about on the basis of the 7th CPC recommendations with the
modification that basis of computation to be the pay level of the post / grade/ scale of pay from which one
retired; whichever is beneficial.
b.
Quantum
of Pension: Pension to be 60% of the last pay drawn in the case
of all eligible persons who have completed the requisite number of years of
service.
c.
Quantum
of Family Pension: The family pension to be 50% of the last
pay drawn.
d.
Enhancement
in Pension: Enhance the pension and family pension by 5% after
every five years and 10% on attaining the age of 85 and 20% on attaining the
age of 90.
e.
Restoration
of Commutation:
Commuted value of pension to be restored after 10 years or attaining the
age of 70, whichever is earlier.
f.
Fixed
Medical Allowance: Fixed medical allowance for those
pensioners not covered by CGHS and REHS to be increased to Rs. 2000 p.m.
g.
Additional
Increment: Provide one increment on the last day in service if
the concerned employee has completed six months or more from the date of grant
of last increment.
26. Gratuity: Gratuity should not
be restricted to 33 years of service and should be given for the full service. Gratuity calculation to be on the basis of 26
days in a month as against 30 days as per the provision in the Gratuity Act 1972.
27.
National
Pension Scheme: Exclude the Central Government employees
from the ambit of the National Pension Scheme (NPS) and extend the defined
benefit pension scheme to all those recruited after 1.1.2004. Without prejudice
to the demand consider the recommendation of the Pay Commission to streamline
the NPS pending decision of exempting NPS to al l Central Government Employees.
28.
Tenure
for Wage Revision: Wage
of Central Government Employees be revised in every 5 years
29.
Anomaly Committee:
Set up a group of Ministers’ Committee to consider the anomalies including the
disturbance of the existing horizontal and vertical relativities at the National
level and Departmental/Ministry level with provision for referring the disputed
issues to the Board of Arbitration under the JCM scheme
30.
Upgradation of Pay Scales: To remove the anomalies created by earlier Pay
Commissions Upgradation of Pay Structure of various categories of employees to
be done.
DEPARTMENTAL
SPECIFIC ISSUES:
31.
Merit
Promotion Scheme: Suggestion to introduce fixing percentage for promotion should be rejected.
32.
Update
Allowance: Update Allowance should continue to the Technical and
Non Technical and supporting Staff working in DAE and the same should enhance
to 50% of the existing Rate.
33. Overtime Allowance: Government
should ensure Revision in Overtime Allowance based on the revised pay and the
existing Rule for calculation of Overtime Allowance in the Department concerned where the employees has to perform overtime to
run the activities interruptedly in Nuclear Plants, Facilities, Laboratories,
etc
34.
Qualification
Incentive Scheme (QIS): The Qualification Incentive Scheme
should be retained & enhanced by2.25 times
35.
Nuclear
Research Plant Allowance (NRPSA): NRPSA should be renamed
as Extra Duty Allowance and the same should be extended to all those who are
working in the Round the Clock Shift for their extra duty in comparison with General
shift personnel.
36.
Risk
Allowance: Based on the new Risk Hardship Matrix the risk
involved in the Nuclear Installations should be considered and the nuclear
worker should be extended Risk Allowance.
37.
Project
allowance: Should be extended to the ongoing projects at various
places in the country.
A detailed note as an annexure I to this letter is
attached detailing the points to be considered and reviewed by the Secretaries
Committee, which contains short note on common issues and the Departmental
specific issues with illustrations to explain the reason for our suggestions.
We request to give an opportunity to NFAEE to make our oral presentation
before the Secretaries Committee constituted by the Government for finalising
the suggestions/views of the Departments/Ministries and Federations,
associations of Central government Employees on recommendations of 7th
CPC.
Thanking you.
Yours faithfully,
Jayaraj KV
Address
for Correspondence: Jayaraj. KV, Secretary General, NFAEE
PESS/UED;
BARC, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085
Tel. No: (O): 022 – 25596519; (Res): 022 – 25554179;
(Mobile): 9869501189
