APPEAL TO ALL DAE EMPLOYEES 
TO PARTICIPATE IN 
THE STRIKE BALLOT
ON 04.02.2016


“IF YOU DON’T FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT,

DON’T CRY FOR WHAT YOU LOST”

Dear colleagues,

            As you all aware that the 7^th Central Pay Commission (CPC) submitted its report to the Government of India on 19^th November 2015. The Government in turn constituted an empowered committee of Secretaries with the Cabinet Secretary as the Chairman to review the recommendations of 7^th Central Pay Commission (CPC). An Implementation Cell in the Department of Expenditure also formed and directed all Ministries/Departments to appoint a Jt. Secretary as the Nodal Officer to interact with the Implementation Cell which is the Secretariat for the empowered committee.

            Though the visual media as well as print media out cried that the 7 CPC extended bonanza for the entire central government employees and they are going to get multiple fold salary hike and so on, the entire Central Government employees of the country are annoyed with the worst ever recommendations in the history of  pay revisions by the 7^th CPC and spontaneous reaction has came out in the nuke and corner of the country and termed the report is an engineered report for the behest of Government of India.

In response to the call from National Joint Council of Action (NJCA), the apex level joint forum of entire Central Government Employees of Railways, Defence, Postal, Income Tax, Audit & Accounts, Atomic Energy, Space, Civil Accounts, and all other Central Government Departments came out for protest programme and campaign against the retrograded recommendations of 7^th CPC.

What is the real impact on salary, allowances and other facilities of the employees after the implementation of the recommendations of 7 CPC?

·         Based on the manipulated data and deviating/diluting the 15^th ILC norms, Minimum Pay has been lowered as much the Pay Commission can

·         Thus the multiple factor becomes lowest ever and fixation benefit has not been given as in the earlier occasions.

·         A meager 14% increase in salary is awarded which is the lowest ever increase in pay by any Pay Commission to Central Government employees.

·         After the independence central government employees got 6 pay revisions.

Each time in the earlier occasions, the benefit of Pay & Allowances were given gradual increased by the subsequent pay commissions. From 3^rd CPC to 6^th CPC due to the gradual increase, the   benefit of Pay hike for the employees were from 20% to 48%. Where as the 7^th CPC brought back to the level of 2^nd Pay Commission recommendation by declaring meager 14% hike in salary

·         The 7^th pay Commission could not retain the take home salary of 6^th CPC in their recommendations   The fact is that the take home salary of the employees’ shall be reduced drastically from that of 31^st December 2015 for all Group C, B and Group A non gazette employees and the rate of reduction shall be from Rs 100 to Rs 1000.

·         CPC could not even assure the declared Increment rate of 3% to all stages.

·         The promotion benefit has been drastically reduced and meager one increment has been fixed as promotion benefit.

·         Many of the Allowances, Advances and other facilities has been withdrawn, modified our snatched away from the employees.

o    Transport Allowance was not enhanced.

o    HRA rate has been reduced to 24%, 16% & 8% from the existing 30%, 20% & 10% respectively.

o    NRPSA was not properly hiked

o    Overtime Allowance has not been revised

o    No recommendation to revise, QIS, Update Allowance, etc.

o    All interest free advances withdrawn

o    Motor Cycle and Motor car advances also withdrawn.

·          Various other facilities enjoyed by the Government employees all these years were withdrawn or altered.

In response to the request from the Implementation Cell the National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) of JCM Constituent submitted 26 points charter to the Cabinet Secretary for corrections in the CPC recommendations on 10^th December 2015 and demanded negotiation and an amicable settlement before February 2016. If the Government has not come forward for negotiation and settlement, NJCA decided and communicated the Government that the entire Central Government Employees will go for indefinite strike from first week of March.

National Federation of Atomic Energy Employees (NFAEE) held its Working Committee Meeting on 5^th December 2015 at Mumbai and unanimously decided to go along with the entire working force under the Government of India against the recommendations of 7^th CPC and formulated Memorandum on views and suggestions of DAE employees on 7^th CPC recommendations and submitted to the Cabinet Secretary and Secretary to the Government of India on 15^th December 2015 which contains common issues as well as Departmental Specific issues. NFAEE had a meeting with the Additional Secretary and other official on 18^th December 2015 and pursued the Department to comment on various common issues and accordingly on certain issues DAE sent their views to the Implementation Cell on 23^rd December 2015.

In response to the call from NJCA, NFAEE and its affiliates continuously conducted various campaign programmes such as lunch hour meeting, Gate meetings, Dharna programme and also joined in the common rally organized under the banner of NJCA at various places. Also to educate the members, organized special general body meeting at various places and through presentation by the leadership of NFAEE try to spread the impact of the worst ever report by the 7^th CPC among the employees and called upon for getting ready for united struggle if the situation warranted.

NFAEE further decided to go for STRIKE BALLOT on 4^th February 2016 throughout the DAE units to assess the employees support on forthcoming industrial action if the government has not considered the just genuine and reasonable demands to revisit the retrograded recommendations and ready to correct it. We appeal to all DAE Employees to assess the following questions by your own understanding and participate in the STRIKE BALLOT on 4^th February 2016.  

Sl. No	Question	Column for YES Put tick mark if you agreeing	Column for NO Put tick mark if you are not agreeing
01	Do you feel the Minimum Pay recommended by 7th CPC is less?	YES	NO
02	Are you agreeing with the higher Pay demanded by NJCA & NFAEE?	YES	NO
03	Do you feel that the Pay commission done injustice by recommending lesser HRA, Transport Allowance, NRPSA & rejecting the demand for OTA on real wages, etc.?	YES	NO
04	Do you agree with the stand taken by NFAEE & NJCA for agitation incase Government has not come forward for negotiation and settlement?	YES	NO
05	Do you feel that the entire Central Government employees should agitate unitedly for achieving the justifiable demand on Revision of Pay, Allowances and other facilities?	YES	NO
06	Are you ready to join for industrial action in case all the Central Government employees marching foreword for agitation, in case Government has not accepted the charter submitted by NFAEE/NJCA?	YES	NO

All employees are requested to think on the above mentioned questions and come with a firm decision to strengthen your strength for bilateral discussion with the management. While exercising your right to vote remember what mentioned in Bhagvat Geeta

“IF YOU DON’T FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT,

DON’T CRY FOR WHAT YOU LOST”

Date of Strike Ballot: 04.02.2016

NATIONAL JCA (NJCA) OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ZINDABAD

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF ATOMIC ENERGY EMPLOYEES 

(NFAEE) ZINDABAD

F. No.1-1/2016- IC

Government of India

 Ministry of Finance Depar tment ofExpenditure

Meeting Notice

Subject:  Meeting of   Nodal   officers   of   various   Deportments   - implementation of the recommendations of the W‘ CPC--- Issues on way ahead.

In order to process the recommendations of the 7" Central Pay Commission, the Cabinet has approved setting up of an Empowered Committee of Secretaries chaired by the Cabinet Secretary. Accordingly, the ECOS h‹zs been set up as per this Ministry’s OM No. 1-4/2015/EIII- A dt. Z7.1.2016 (copy placed on the website of this Ministry, viz, www.finmin nic.in).

            2. As provided in the said OM dt.  271.2016, the Implementation Cell created in 

                       this Ministry  shall work as the Secretariat for the ECOS.

3. This Ministry has already requested off the Ministries/Departments vide DO letter No. 1-4/2015/EIII.A dt. 2I.11. 2015 from  JS (Pers)  addressed  to off the Secretaries to nominate a nodal officer at the level of a Joint Secretary to interact with the Implementation Cell during the curse of processing of the recommendations of the 7" CPC.

4.  Accordingly, Joint Secretary (Implementation Cell) shall toke a meeting of the Nodal Officers of the Ministries/ Departments on 2. 2. 2016 of 11.00 a.m. in Conference Hall (R. No. 72], North Block, New Delhi to discuss the relevant issues in connection with the processing of the recommendations of the 7^th CPC   and   to   concretise   the   points   of   action   pertaining   to   all  the Ministries/ Departments in general and also in regard to specific issues concerning individual Ministries/Departments with a view to enabling an effective, holistic and quicker processing of the recommendations of the 7th CPC and for submission of the matter before the   ECOS.

5. As this is the  first  meeting  of  the  Nodal  Officers  to  formulate the action points on the way ahead on processing of the recommendations of the V’ CPC, it is requested that the concerned nodal officers may kindly make it convenient to offend the meeting

(Amar Nath Singh)

Deputy Secretary to the Government of India

To

All the nodal officers of 44inistries/Departments, as per list attached.

No. 1-4/2015-E. I II(A)

Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure

New Delhi, dated the 27" January, 2016

OFFICE   MEMORANDUM

Subject: Constitution of Empowered Committee of Secretaries for processing the Report of the Seventh Central Pay Commission

             It has been decided with the approval of the Cabinet to set up an Empowered Committee of Secretaries to process the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission. The Committee will have the following members.

1.                  Cabinet Secretary                                                          :Chairman  

2.                    Finance  Secretary/Secretary  (Expenditure)              : Member

3.                  Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training         : Member

4.                  Secretary, Department of Pension & PW                      : Member

5.                  Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs                            : Member

6.                  Secretary, Ministry of Defence                                     : Member

7.                  Secretary, Department of Revenue                            : Member

8.                  Secretary, Department of Posts                                      : Member

9.                  Secretary, Department of Health                                    : Member

10.              Secretary, Department of Science & Technology         : Member

11.             Chairman, Railway Board                                             : Member

12.              Deputy Comptroller & Auditor General                      : Member

13.             Secretary (Security), Cabinet Secretariat                   : Member

2.                  The Committee may co-opt any other Secretary, whenever found necessary.

3.     The Empowered Committee will function as a Screening Committee to screen the recommendations of the Commission after taking into account the views of the concerned stakeholders, viz, the Ministries/Departments, Staff Associations and the JCM, so as to firm up the final conclusions for approval of the Cabinet.

4.       The Implementation Cell created in the Department of Expenditure shall function as Secretariat for the Empowered Committee of Secretaries.

5.         The final recommendations of the Empowered Committee of Secretaries will be submitted for approval pf the Cabinet.

 Sd/-

                                                                                        (Annie George Mathew)

Joint Secretary to the Government of India

To

1.                  Cabinet Secretary, Chairman 

2-13.    All Members

Copy to:

1.                  Comptroller & Auditor General of India

2.                  All Ministries/Departments of the Government of India

3.                  NIC, Ministry of Finance.... for uploading this OM on the website of the Ministry.

{Annie George Mathew)

Joint Secretary to the Government of   India