Thursday, September 30, 2010

CPI(IW) is high on Aug 2010-Chance to get 7% D.A from July 2010.CJM

Index Number
Base Year
All India General Index
July 2010
August 2010
Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers - CPI(IW)
2001=100
178
178



July 2010
August 2010
Consumer Price Index Numbers forAgricultural Labourers
1986-87= 100
554

557

Consumer Price Index Numbers for Rural Labourers
1986-87=100
554

556

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Find the below article to know about the brutal reduction of retirement age by EMS, the LDF personality: C.J.athews Sankarathil

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

A small extension of service to government employees

BRP BHASKAR
Gulf Today

The government of Kerala has surreptitiously offered a small extension of service to its employees by pushing the date of retirement to the last day of the financial year in which they attain the age of superannuation.

Kerala has the highest life expectancy in the country. Ironically, it also has the lowest retirement age.

At the time of independence, the retirement age of government employees was 55 years throughout the country. That was enough to assure them a reasonably long working period since life expectancy at that time was only 32 years.

Thanks to the success of various governmental and non-governmental programmes, over the last six decades infant mortality rate in the state dropped dramatically and public health improved significantly.

Today, life expectancy in the state is higher than in the rest of the country.

At the time of the 2001 census, life expectancy at birth in Kerala was at 71.7 years for males and 75.0 years for females as against 64.1 years for males and 65.4 years for females in the country as a whole.

In 1966, when Kerala was under President's rule, the state government, taking note of the rising longevity, raised the age of retirement of government employees to 58 years.

A coalition government, headed by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), which came to power the following year, reduced it to 55 years again. This was done to create immediate vacancies in the government and facilitate fresh recruitment.

Quite naturally youths welcomed the step. Since then the governments at the Centre and in the other states have raised the retirement age to 58 or even 60 years.

Nowhere is it below 58 years. Central government employees now retire at 60. In Assam and Uttar Pradesh, too, the retirement age is 60 years.

School teachers in Kerala, like government employees, retire at 55. The retirement age of teachers in Madhya Pradesh is 62 years, which is higher than that of government employees.

No government in Kerala has had the courage to increase the retirement age since the move will be unpopular with young jobseekers. The state suffers a double loss on this account.

On the one hand, the state incurs a huge expenditure by way of pension payments to employees for long periods. On the other, it loses the services of persons who have work experience and are physically and mentally fit to work for several years more.

Even government doctors retire at 55 in Kerala. This has proved beneficial to the private medical colleges and hospitals that have sprung up in the state in recent years.

These institutions are able to find their requirement of doctors and teachers from among the recently retired. Pension and salary payments account for about 75% of the Kerala government's non-plan expenditure.

In the past 10 years, government employees' salary payments have risen from Rs22.16 billion to Rs80.55 billion a year and pension payments from Rs7.53 billion to Rs40.54 billion a year.

Early this year, a government-appointed public expenditure review committee proposed that the retirement age of government employees and teachers be raised from 55 to 58 years immediately and to 60 years later on.

It said this would release a significant part of the government revenue for productive use. It pointed out that often the government paid pension to retiring employees for 25 to 30 years. It was not good for healthy persons to receive payment without doing any work.

Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan immediately shot down the proposal. Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said, "No political party has come forward to support the demand for a higher retirement age."

Some organisations of government employees have called for upward revision of the retirement age. However, no political party backs the demand.

The Democratic Youth Federation of India, the CPI-M's youth wing, opposes the demand on the ground that it will restrict employment opportunities.

There are 4.26 million jobseekers on the live registers of the employment exchanges in the state. Of them, 2.31 million are women. The government's annual intake of 18,000 can make little difference to joblessness of this magnitude.

The move to shift the retirement date of employees from their dates of birth to the last day of the financial year was announced by Finance Minister TM Thomas Isaac in this year's budget speech. To mollify the youth, he has said some 12,000 government jobs will still be on offer this year.

Raising of retirement age- Latest call for discussion.Cjm


Central government to consider making a universal retirement policy for all public servants--Neelendra Pandey

>> Sunday, September 26, 2010

PIL on retirement age of civil servants

A PIL was filed in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court today, seeking direction to extend the retirement age of officers of India Civil Services from 60 years to at least 65 years.

Neelendra Pandey, a local social worker, stated in his PIL that he is aggrieved with discrepancies in the retirement policy of different government services.

He said IAS, IPS and IFS officers retire at 60 years, while people of about 80 years and sometime even more continue as President, Prime Minister, Governor and Chief Minister, Minister and MLAs.

Professors and doctors of Central universities and institutions like AIIMS retire at 65 and primary school teachers retire at 62, Pandey said while terming the retirement policies as defective and challenging the same.

He requested the court to direct Central government to consider making a universal retirement policy for all public servants.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

D.A.Calculator for State Employees : C.J.Mathews Sankarathil, MBA


       C.J.Mathews Sankarathil
         State President, Kerala Gazetted Officers Front


 Labour Bureau, Department Statistics, Government of India website: http://labourbureau.gov/. announces the CPI-IW index  every month.
After implementation of sixth pay commission report for Central Government employees, the dearness allowance has to be calculated based on CPI-IW index with the base year.Therefore,the DA with effect from the period 1.1.2006, has to be calculated using average Price CPI-IW index of 536 for 2005 (base 1982=100) adjusted to the base year 2001=100 by dividing the same with the Linking Factor between 1982 and 2001 Series which is 4.63. As a result, the average consumer price index (Industrial workers) for 12 months in 2005 (base 2001=100) was worked out to 115.76.
To calculate Dearness Allowance from the year 2006, twice a year using this average index? It’s quite simple. Say, if you want to calculate Dearness Allowance with effect from Jan-06, get the average of monthly All India Consumer Price Index (IW) with the base year 2001=100 for the preceding 12 months.

 Formula for calculating Dearness Allowance
 using AICPI-IW


Dearness Allowance = (Avg of AICPI for the past 12 months – 115.76)*100/115.76
For example if you want to calculate DA with effect from 1.1.2006, get the average of AICPI for the period from 1.1.2005 to 31.12.2005, which is 115.76 and apply the same in the formula as follows
DA with effect from 1.1.2006 = (115.76-115.76)*100/115.76
= 0%
DA w.e.f 1.07.2006 = (118.95-115.76)*100/115.76
= 2%



EXPECTED DA FROM JULY 2010  --95% or 96%--?

>> Saturday, Sept 24, 2010                  TRIVANDRUM<<


               All India Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) on base 2001=100 for the past four month have been published in Labour Bureau website. According to these results we can expect that July 2010 will witness at least 17.5% increase in Dearness Allowance That is from the Existing 78% to95%OR EVEN 96%
          All India Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) on base 2001=100 for the month of  jUNE, 2010 boosted to   174(one hundred and seventy four).For the past three months from February From 2010 January  the Index Number for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) is boosting.The consumer Price Index Number(CPI-IW) for the month of August 2010 is  178 and the CPI-IW for the month of September 2010 yet to be announced.
         Hence it is not so easy to predict the exact  rate of  D.A hike for the period of July 2010 to December 2010.Since  the CPI-IW Number for the month of June and JUly was high as per the official CPI-IW index published by Labour Bureau, Department of Statistics,  take our expectation for an increase 17.5% hike in Dearness Allowance from July 2010.
The announcement of Central D.A from 35% to 45% leades the way to it. Since the pay revision is not implemented or interim relief declared, there is a chance for an increse of18% during the month of December, which can be drawn along with January salary.