No. --/2023/AISGEF/HQ Dated, March 14, 2023.
To
The Finance
Secretary,
Government of India,
Central Secretariat,
New Delhi
(THROUGH THE DIVISIONAL
MAGISTRATE / DISTRICT COLLECTOR)
Sir,
Sub: Government Employees and Teachers across
India – Issues of – Redressal – Regarding.
Ref: Joint National Convention on 8 December, 2022.
We, the Employees & Teachers working under
Central Government and the State Governments, assembled in the National
Convention held at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi, on 8 December, 2022, at the
call of the All India State Government Employees’ Federation and the
Confederation of the Central Government Employees & Workers, resolved to
strengthen our united struggle to protect the hard-earned rights of the Central
and State Government Employees and Teachers.
The neoliberal policies have put the country's Civil
Service in a deep crisis. Civil Service is the unique mechanism for solving the
basic life needs of the ordinary people, and it has significant roles and
responsibilities on behalf of the Government. The strength and functions of
Civil Service need to be improved according to the development of society. But
the new economic policy dictates withdrawal of Government from all sectors,
causing the downsizing of Civil Service. Outsourcing, contractorisation, and
privatisation are increasing. Lakhs of posts remain vacant, causing unbearable
workload for the existing employees.
As part of implementing the neo-liberal policies,
the NDA government introduced the New Pension System in the Central Government
Service from 1 January, 2004. The Defined Benefit Pension Scheme for government
employees has been a well-built and best-of-all social security scheme without
any pecuniary contribution from the beneficiaries. The Defined Benefit Pension
Scheme had an inbuilt system for contribution from the beneficiaries in the
form of suppressed wages. Privatised Pension Scheme is now the most prominent
economic offensive of neoliberal globalisation, which has engulfed the workers
and employees worldwide. Following the IMF-World Bank Policy on Pension
Reforms, the Government of India introduced the so-called "New Pension
Scheme." In the wake of the
intensification of the neoliberal economic system, the IMF and the World Bank
seriously took up Privatised Pension Schemes for implementation. They
prescribed total linkage of pension funds with the market economy. They
compelled the scheme to depend on profit and loss from share market, without
any government control or intervention. Later the UPA Government renamed it as
the National Pension Scheme, and the Bill was enacted in the Parliament with
the support of the NDA.
Recently Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Punjab
& Himachal Pradesh State Governments have issued orders and notifications
for rollback to the Defined Benefit Pension Scheme. But the PFRDA Act subsists
as the sword of Damocles. It is the bounden duty of Central and the State
Governments employees and teachers to fight against the disastrous NPS. Through
consistent and continuous struggles, we aspire to pressurise the Union
Government to repeal the PFRDA Act, and enrol all NPS subscribers to the
Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
More than ten lakh posts in the Central Civil
Service are currently lying vacant. Nearly half of the sanctioned posts in many
States are filled up with contractual / outsourced / daily waged employees.
Last-grade posts completely vanished, and contract appointments are made even
to higher positions. The general attitude of the Union Government and most
State Governments towards the recruitment policy is one and the same. They are
trying to shrink the government system as much as possible. This is the general
approach and framework of neoliberal reforms. During the pandemic period, our
country also felt severely the shortcomings in the public health &
education system.
The public sector in our country was an instrument
to attain a self-reliant economy and create the country's industrial base. It
played an essential role in developing balanced regional growth. Dismantling
the public sector means subjugating our national economic interests, financial
independence, and sovereignty to the interests of International Finance
Capital, to imperialist interests.
The cost of living is going up alarmingly. The Union
Government should appoint the VIII Pay Commission considering all the aspects.
There is no parity of pay in States. In some States periodical pay revision
once-in-five years is prevailing. The Union Government should also follow
periodical pay revision once-in-five years as in the financial sector and
public sector undertakings. The Centre-States relations should be redesigned,
and the Union Government should allocate sufficient funds to the State
Governments for the pay revision of their employees.
The Union Government and a vast majority of the
State Governments allocate DA arrears to their employees only late which puts
the daily lives of the fixed-income earners like government employees in big
crises. The constant rise in prices of daily necessities and the high cost of
living are disrupting life. The DA released on time helps employees save at
least a little in the face of rising prices and soaring costs. Periodical wage
revision is not being implemented in most of the States.
Hence, the National Convention held at Talkotora
Stadium on8 December 2022 decided to call upon the Central and the State
Governments Employees & Teachers all over the country to rise unitedly to
fight for the following demands:
● Annul PFRDA Act; Scrape
NPS.
● Regularise all
contractual / outsourced / daily waged employees; urgently fill up all
vacancies in Central / State Government / PSUs.
● Stop privatisation /
corporatisation of PSUs.
● Constitute the VIII
Central Pay Commission.
● Release all DA / DR,
including confiscated arrears.
● Remove all riders and
restrictions on compassionate employment.
● Ensure democratic trade
union rights.
As part of the agitation, we decided to conduct Sit-in Dharna in Jantar Mantar and in all District Headquarters on 14 March raising the above seven point Charter of Demands. We request you to forward the representation to the Concerned officials at the earliest.
For and on behalf of
For and on behalf of
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No. --/2023/AISGEF/HQ Dated, March 14, 2023.
To
The Cabinet Secretary,
Government of India,
Central Secretariat,
New Delhi
(THROUGH THE DIVISIONAL MAGISTRATE / DISTRICT COLLECTOR)
Sir,
Sub: Government Employees and Teachers across India – Issues of – Redressal – Regarding.
Ref: Joint National Convention on 8 December, 2022.
We,
the Employees & Teachers working under Central Government and the State
Governments, assembled in the National Convention held at Talkatora Stadium,
New Delhi, on 8 December, 2022, at the call of the All India State Government
Employees’ Federation and the Confederation of the Central Government Employees
& Workers, resolved to strengthen our united struggle to protect the
hard-earned rights of the Central and State Government Employees and Teachers.
The
neoliberal policies have put the country's Civil Service in a deep crisis.
Civil Service is the unique mechanism for solving the basic life needs of the
ordinary people, and it has significant roles and responsibilities on behalf of
the Government. The strength and functions of Civil Service need to be improved
according to the development of society. But the new economic policy dictates
withdrawal of Government from all sectors, causing the downsizing of Civil
Service. Outsourcing, contractorisation, and privatisation are increasing.
Lakhs of posts remain vacant, causing unbearable workload for the existing
employees.
As
part of implementing the neo-liberal policies, the NDA government introduced
the New Pension System in the Central Government Service from 1 January, 2004.
The Defined Benefit Pension Scheme for government employees has been a
well-built and best-of-all social security scheme without any pecuniary
contribution from the beneficiaries. The Defined Benefit Pension Scheme had an
inbuilt system for contribution from the beneficiaries in the form of
suppressed wages. Privatised Pension Scheme is now the most prominent economic
offensive of neoliberal globalisation, which has engulfed the workers and
employees worldwide. Following the IMF-World Bank Policy on Pension Reforms,
the Government of India introduced the so-called "New Pension
Scheme." In the wake of the
intensification of the neoliberal economic system, the IMF and the World Bank
seriously took up Privatised Pension Schemes for implementation. They
prescribed total linkage of pension funds with the market economy. They
compelled the scheme to depend on profit and loss from share market, without
any government control or intervention. Later the UPA Government renamed it as
the National Pension Scheme, and the Bill was enacted in the Parliament with
the support of the NDA.
Recently
Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Punjab & Himachal Pradesh State
Governments have issued orders and notifications for rollback to the Defined
Benefit Pension Scheme. But the PFRDA Act subsists as the sword of Damocles. It
is the bounden duty of Central and the State Governments employees and teachers
to fight against the disastrous NPS. Through consistent and continuous struggles,
we aspire to pressurise the Union Government to repeal the PFRDA Act, and enrol
all NPS subscribers to the Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
More
than ten lakh posts in the Central Civil Service are currently lying vacant.
Nearly half of the sanctioned posts in many States are filled up with
contractual / outsourced / daily waged employees. Last-grade posts completely
vanished, and contract appointments are made even to higher positions. The
general attitude of the Union Government and most State Governments towards the
recruitment policy is one and the same. They are trying to shrink the
government system as much as possible. This is the general approach and
framework of neoliberal reforms. During the pandemic period, our country also
felt severely the shortcomings in the public health & education system.
The
public sector in our country was an instrument to attain a self-reliant economy
and create the country's industrial base. It played an essential role in
developing balanced regional growth. Dismantling the public sector means
subjugating our national economic interests, financial independence, and
sovereignty to the interests of International Finance Capital, to imperialist
interests.
The
cost of living is going up alarmingly. The Union Government should appoint the
VIII Pay Commission considering all the aspects. There is no parity of pay in
States. In some States periodical pay revision once-in-five years is
prevailing. The Union Government should also follow periodical pay revision
once-in-five years as in the financial sector and public sector undertakings.
The Centre-States relations should be redesigned, and the Union Government
should allocate sufficient funds to the State Governments for the pay revision
of their employees.
The
Union Government and a vast majority of the State Governments allocate DA
arrears to their employees only late which puts the daily lives of the
fixed-income earners like government employees in big crises. The constant rise
in prices of daily necessities and the high cost of living are disrupting life.
The DA released on time helps employees save at least a little in the face of
rising prices and soaring costs. Periodical wage revision is not being
implemented in most of the States.
Hence,
the National Convention held at Talkotora Stadium on 8 December 2022, decided
to call upon the Central and the State Governments Employees & Teachers all
over the country to rise unitedly to fight for the following demands:
● Annul PFRDA Act; Scrape NPS.
● Regularise all contractual / outsourced / daily waged
employees; urgently fill up all vacancies in Central / State Government / PSUs.
● Stop privatisation / corporatisation of PSUs.
● Constitute the VIII Central Pay Commission.
● Release all DA / DR, including confiscated arrears.
● Remove all riders and restrictions on compassionate
employment.
● Ensure democratic trade union rights.
As part of the agitation, we decided to conduct Sit-in Dharna in Jantar Mantar and in all District Headquarters on 14 March raising the above seven point Charter of Demands. We request you to forward the representation to the Concerned officials at the earliest.
For and on behalf of
For
and on behalf of
***************************************
No. --/2023/AISGEF/HQ Dated, March 14, 2023.
To
The Chief
Secretary,
Government of ……………..,
Government Secretariat,
……………………………
(THROUGH THE DIVISIONAL
MAGISTRATE / DISTRICT COLLECTOR)
Sir,
Sub: Government Employees and Teachers across
India – Issues of – Redressal – Regarding.
Ref: Joint National Convention on 8 December,
2022.
We, the Employees & Teachers working under
Central Government and the State Governments, assembled in the National
Convention held at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi, on 8 December, 2022, at the
call of the All India State Government Employees’ Federation and the
Confederation of the Central Government Employees & Workers, resolved to
strengthen our united struggle to protect the hard-earned rights of the Central
and State Government Employees and Teachers.
The neoliberal policies have put the country's Civil
Service in a deep crisis. Civil Service is the unique mechanism for solving the
basic life needs of the ordinary people, and it has significant roles and
responsibilities on behalf of the Government. The strength and functions of
Civil Service need to be improved according to the development of society. But
the new economic policy dictates withdrawal of Government from all sectors,
causing the downsizing of Civil Service. Outsourcing, contractorisation, and
privatisation are increasing. Lakhs of posts remain vacant, causing unbearable
workload for the existing employees.
As part of implementing the neo-liberal policies,
the NDA government introduced the New Pension System in the Central Government
Service from 1 January, 2004. The Defined Benefit Pension Scheme for government
employees has been a well-built and best-of-all social security scheme without
any pecuniary contribution from the beneficiaries. The Defined Benefit Pension
Scheme had an inbuilt system for contribution from the beneficiaries in the
form of suppressed wages. Privatised Pension Scheme is now the most prominent
economic offensive of neoliberal globalisation, which has engulfed the workers
and employees worldwide. Following the IMF-World Bank Policy on Pension
Reforms, the Government of India introduced the so-called "New Pension
Scheme." In the wake of the
intensification of the neoliberal economic system, the IMF and the World Bank
seriously took up Privatised Pension Schemes for implementation. They
prescribed total linkage of pension funds with the market economy. They
compelled the scheme to depend on profit and loss from share market, without
any government control or intervention. Later the UPA Government renamed it as
the National Pension Scheme, and the Bill was enacted in the Parliament with
the support of the NDA.
Recently Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Punjab
& Himachal Pradesh State Governments have issued orders and notifications
for rollback to the Defined Benefit Pension Scheme. But the PFRDA Act subsists
as the sword of Damocles. It is the bounden duty of Central and the State
Governments employees and teachers to fight against the disastrous NPS. Through
consistent and continuous struggles, we aspire to pressurise the Union
Government to repeal the PFRDA Act, and enrol all NPS subscribers to the
Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
More than ten lakh posts in the Central Civil
Service are currently lying vacant. Nearly half of the sanctioned posts in many
States are filled up with contractual / outsourced / daily waged employees.
Last-grade posts completely vanished, and contract appointments are made even
to higher positions. The general attitude of the Union Government and most
State Governments towards the recruitment policy is one and the same. They are
trying to shrink the government system as much as possible. This is the general
approach and framework of neoliberal reforms. During the pandemic period, our
country also felt severely the shortcomings in the public health &
education system.
The public sector in our country was an instrument
to attain a self-reliant economy and create the country's industrial base. It
played an essential role in developing balanced regional growth. Dismantling
the public sector means subjugating our national economic interests, financial
independence, and sovereignty to the interests of International Finance
Capital, to imperialist interests.
The cost of living is going up alarmingly. The Union
Government should appoint the VIII Pay Commission considering all the aspects.
There is no parity of pay in States. In some States periodical pay revision
once-in-five years is prevailing. The Union Government should also follow
periodical pay revision once-in-five years as in the financial sector and
public sector undertakings. The Centre-States relations should be redesigned,
and the Union Government should allocate sufficient funds to the State
Governments for the pay revision of their employees.
The Union Government and a vast majority of the
State Governments allocate DA arrears to their employees only late which puts
the daily lives of the fixed-income earners like government employees in big
crises. The constant rise in prices of daily necessities and the high cost of
living are disrupting life. The DA released on time helps employees save at
least a little in the face of rising prices and soaring costs. Periodical wage
revision is not being implemented in most of the States.
Hence, the National Convention held at at Talkotora
Stadium on 8 December 2022 decided to call upon the Central and the State
Governments Employees & Teachers all over the country to rise unitedly to
fight for the following demands:
● Annul PFRDA Act; Scrape
NPS.
● Regularise all
contractual / outsourced / daily waged employees; urgently fill up all
vacancies in Central / State Government / PSUs.
● Stop privatisation /
corporatisation of PSUs.
● Constitute the VIII
Central Pay Commission.
● Release all DA / DR,
including confiscated arrears.
● Remove all riders and
restrictions on compassionate employment.
● Ensure democratic trade
union rights.
As part of the agitation, we decided to conduct Sit-in Dharna in Jantar Mantar and in all District Headquarters on 14 March raising the above seven point Charter of Demands. We request you to forward the representation to the Concerned officials at the earliest.
For and on behalf of
For and on behalf of
PIB
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
06.03.2023
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh says, all portals like Pension Disbursing Bank portals, ANUBHAV, CPENGRAMS, CGHS will be integrated in a single portal in the form of the newly created “Integrated Pensioners’ Portal” to ensure “Ease of Living for the elder citizens”.”
Addressing the Bankers Awareness Workshop in Bhopal, Dr Jitendra Singh said, in tune with Vision of Prime Minister for an “Integrated Approach to bring Ease of Living”, the move will mitigate the problems faced by the pensioners
Says, all 18 Pension disbursing banks will be integrated in Integrated Pensioners’ Portal
Pension Department has undertaken a Nation-wide Digital Life Certificate through Face Authentication campaign in the November, 22 which has resulted into 30 lakhs pensioners submitting their life certificate digitally: Dr Jitendra Singh
Posted On: 06 MAR 2023 4:28PM by PIB Delhi
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today informed that the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare has decided that all the pension portals like Pension Disbursing Bank portals, ANUBHAV, CPENGRAMS, CGHS etc. will be integrated in a single portal in the form of the newly created “Integrated Pensioners’ Portal” (https://ipension.nic.in) to ensure “Ease of Living for the elder citizens”.
Addressing the Bankers Awareness Workshop in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Dr Jitendra Singh said, in tune with Vision of Prime Minister for an “Integrated Approach to bring Ease of Living”, the move will mitigate the problems faced by the pensioners with the banks like Change of bank, Submission of life certificate, Submission of death certificate of pensioners, Pension slip and retrieval of pension slip, Income tax deduction data/form 16, Pension receipt information, the websites of Pension Disbursing Banks will also be integrated with the Integrated Pensioners Portal.
The Minister also pointed out that the task of Integration of Pension Seva Portal of SBI and Canara Bank with Bhavishya portal have been completed. With this integration, the pensioners can now get their pension slip, status of submission of Life Certificate and Form-16 through the Integrated Pensioners’ Portal. He also informed that all 18 Pension disbursing banks will be integrated in Integrated Pensioners’ Portal.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, DoPPW will take care of not only serving/retiring employees but also work for the Ease of Living of our pensioners and Digital Life Certificate is another step towards this direction. He pointed out that in November 2014, an Aadhar based scheme for online submission of digital life certificate, “Jeevan Pramaan” was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure transparency and “Ease of Living” for pensioners while submitting their life certificate.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, initially submission of DLCs using biometric devices was commenced and later, the Department engaged with MeitY to develop the milestone Face-Authentication Technology-based system based on UIDAI Aadhaar software through which it became possible to give DLC from any Android based smart phone. This breakthrough technology has reduced the dependence of pensioners on external bio-metric devices and has made the process more accessible and affordable to masses by leveraging biometric systems available on smartphones, he added.
The Minister informed that the Pension Department has undertaken a Nation-wide Digital Life Certificate through Face Authentication campaign in the November, 22 which has resulted into 30 lakhs pensioners submitting their life certificate digitally.
Secretary, Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, Shri V.Srinivas said in his address that DoPPW has commenced a series of awareness programs for Bankers with a view to provide information about the latest pension rules/procedures reforms and welfare initiatives to Bank’s field functionaries, handling pensions. He said, in line with the Government’s objective of transparency, digitization and service delivery, the Bhavishya platform has ensured End-to-End digitization of the Pension processing and payment. From the retiree filing his/her papers online till issue of the PPO in electronic format going into the Digilocker, this platform has showcased the intention of complete transparency and efficiency of the Government. The ‘Bhavishya’ platform, an integrated online pension processing system was made mandatory for all central government departments w.e.f. 01.01.2017.
This system is at present being successfully implemented in the main Secretariat of 97 Ministries/ Departments including 818 Attached Offices, 7,941 DDOs on board. As on date, more than 1,89,494 cases have been processed i.e. PPOs issued which includes more than 1,23,249 e-PPOs.
PPO in Digilocker and eliminates delays in forwarding PPO to new Pensioners, as well as the necessity of handing over a physical copy. Considering that a very large number of retirees are from CAPFs who serve in far flung areas of the country, such software is a boon both in terms of Ease of processing as well as speed and accuracy in pension processing.
It may be recalled that the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare has bagged the 3rd Rank for BHAVISHYA (An online tracking system for pension sanction and payment developed by DOPPW) as per the NeSDA Assessment 2021 among all the Central Government e-Governance Service Delivery Portals. The ranking is based on Accessibility, Content Availability, Ease of Use, Information Security & Privacy, End Service Delivery, Integrated Service Delivery, Status & Request Tracking. It’s very creditable to be able to achieve rank 3 on the basis of these parameters.
This Awareness programs also provide a platform for strategizing and conceiving new initiatives for the benefit of Pensioners. This facilitated introduction of the path for integration of Bhavishya Portal with the pension paying portals of the Banks. So far State Bank of India and Canara Bank has integrated their portals with Bhavishya - IPP and process is on with Punjab National Bank.
The workshops held were an excellent two-way learning process and will go very far in reducing Pensioners' Bank related grievances since the Pension dealing Bank officials were made aware of all the measures/OMs taken/issued by DoPPW for Ease of Living of Pensioners. Such Awareness Programs also convey a strong message of the seriousness of this Department to focus on hitherto neglected expectations of the Pensioners from Banks.
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