Happy Independence Day
Friday, August 14, 2015
Thursday, August 13, 2015
PAID LEAVE
FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT VICTIMS
((PMIN OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES & PENSIONS
Instructions have been issued by this Department vide Office
Memorandum dated 27.11.2014 regarding Alignment of Service Rules with the
Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal)
Act 2013. As per para 6 of the said Office Memorandum, the Complaint Committee
will have the powers to recommend to the employer (a) to transfer the aggrieved
woman or the charged officer to any other workplace; or (b) to grant leave to
the aggrieved woman up to a period of three months, which will be in addition
to the leave she would be otherwise entitled to.
As per
Section 9 of Chapter IV of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace
(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013, any aggrieved woman may make,
in writing, a complaint of sexual harassment at workplace to the Internal
Committee within a period of three months from the date of incident and in case
of a series of incidents, within a period of three months from the date of last
incident.
The
Committee may, for the reasons to be recorded in writing, extend the time limit
not exceeding three months, if it is satisfied that the circumstances were such
which prevented the woman from filing a complaint within the said period.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Shri P.Nagarajan and Shri B. Vinod Kumar in the Lok Sabha today.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Shri P.Nagarajan and Shri B. Vinod Kumar in the Lok Sabha today.
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KSD/PK/BK/RS
(Release ID :124861) 12th August,2015
KSD/PK/BK/RS
(Release ID :124861) 12th August,2015
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Monday, August 10, 2015
BRIEF OF THE MEETING HELD 7th AUGUST 2015 WITH THE VII CENTRAL PAY
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Friday, August 7, 2015
FREE HEALTH
CHECK-UP CAMP FOR THE BENEFIT OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND THEIR
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Thursday, August 6, 2015
2015 SEPTEMBER 2nd ALL INDIA STRIKE - COPY OF THE CONFEDERATION STRIKE NOTICE
All affiliated organisations shall also serve strike notice to their respective departmental heads on 11.08.2015.
Click here to view Stike Notice & Charter of Demands
Government of India has started a RTI online
web portal whereby Right to Information (RTI) applications can be filed online
by Indian citizens, including those who are living abroad. The detailed
procedure in filing of on-line RTI application is as under:
An
Indian citizen can file RTI application online through RTI online web-portal,
having Uniform Resource Locator (url) www.rtionline.gov.in. The prescribed fee
for RTI application can also be paid online through a payment gateway of State
Bank of India by way of internet banking of State Bank of India and its
associate banks and by using Rupay card, debit/credit cards of Master/Visa.
This facility at present is available for 431 Public authorities of Government
of India.
All
the States have been requested vide this Department’s letter dated 3rd
December, 2013 to explore the feasibility of implementing online RTI in their
respective States. National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been requested to
provide technical support such as software and source code to the State
Governments who desire to replicate the web portal for online filing of RTI
applications at state level.
This
was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and
Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra
Singh in a written reply to a question by Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia and Adv.
Joice George in the Lok Sabha today.
Source : PIB
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
FACILITIES TO
DIFFERENTLY ABLED AT GOVERNMENT OFFICES
The Department of
Personnel and Training has informed that as per information submitted on-line
by 71 Departments/Ministries, as on 01.01.2013, there were 9341 number of
persons with disabilities who were employed in the Departments/Ministries of
the Central Government. State/UT-wise information is not compiled.
As per
section 46 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of
Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995, the appropriate Governments and the
local authorities are required to provide for-
(a) ramps in public buildings;
(b) adaptation of toilets for wheel chair users;
(c) braille symbols and auditory signals in elevators or
lifts;
(d) ramps in hospitals, primary health centers and other medical
care and rehabilitation institutions.
All the
Ministries/Departments have been requested to comply with this provision. The
Ministry of Railways provides concessional fare for various classes of persons
with disabilities as under:
|
S.No.
|
Category
of Persons
|
Percentage
of Concession
|
|
1
|
Orthopaedically
Handicapped/Paraplegic persons who cannot travel without escort –for any
purpose
|
|
|
2
|
Mentally
retarded persons who cannot travel without escort- for any purpose.
|
|
|
3
|
Blind persons
travelling alone or with an escort- for any purpose
|
|
|
4
|
Deaf & Dumb
persons (both afflictions together in the same person) travelling alone or
with an escort- for any purpose.
|
· 50% in
2nd , Sleeper and 1st Class
· 50% in
Monthly Season Ticket & Quarterly Season Ticket
· One
escort is also eligible for same element of concession.
|
Similarly, State
Governments have their own schemes for providing concessional fare for persons
with disabilities while travelling by the buses owned by State transport
undertakings.
As per
Section 33 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of
Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995, every appropriate Government are
required to appoint in every establishment such percentage of vacancies
not less than three per cent for persons or class of persons with disability of
which one per cent each is reserved for persons suffering from blindness or low
vision; (ii) hearing impairment; (iii) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy,
in the posts identified for each disability.
This
information was given by the Minister of State for Social Justice and
Empowerment, Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar in a written reply to a question in Lok
Sabha here today.
Source: PIB Release, 04.08.2015
Monday, August 3, 2015
JEEVAN PRAMAAN AN AADHAAR BASED LIFE CERTIFICATION
SYSTEM HAS BEEN LAUNCHED TO FACILITATE SUBMISSION OF LIFE CERTIFICATE BY
PENSIONERS.CLICK HERE FOR
DETAILS
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