Negation of the promises
Top leaders of
the present Central Government had showered promises to the working class,
especially the Central Government Employees during General Election. The
promises including exemption of Income Tax limit up to 5 lakhs and many other
assurances appeared to have more than 80% Government Employees in favour of
them. But today we see the blatant negations of the promises made by them.
Income Tax
As against the
promise of exemption of Income tax limit up to 5 lakhs, a mere increase of Rs.
30000 i.e. from Rs. 220000 to 250000 made whereas everybody know the minimum
annual increase of salary due to increments and
DA during the period 1/4/2013 to 31/3/2014 is more than 50000. Thus, in
spite of Rs. 30000 exemption, the lower income group whose gross salary is less
than Rs. 5 lakhs has been charged more taxes than the previous year.
Granting of IR/Merger of DA
Yet another
betrayal from the stand taken in favour of central Government Employees by the
then major opposition party is the refusal of giving IR/merger of DA. It is
said that merger of DA is not considered because 6th Pay Commission
in its report has not recommended for such merger. It is worth mentioning here
that constitution of 7th Pay Commission was also not recommended by
the 6th Pay Commission.
Cancellation of LTC by air for low
class employees:
Moreover, prior
to the Government taking over the charge lower level central Government
employees had allowed LTC for North East/Jammu & Kashmir by Air. Granting
of LTC by air to the 28 lakhs Group C employees for North East and Jammu &
Kashmir were chiefly aimed for the economic growth of these statesand more
integration with the rest of India. But the Government has withdrawn the
facility. On the other hand officers with Rs. 5400 and more Grade pay are still
allowed to fly anywhere in India either on tour or LTC.
Installation of Biometric punching
machine
Now the
Government of India has announced installation of biometric punching machine in
all its offices in a phased manner and the same are being linked with Aadhar.
In this series most of the Government Offices functioning in Delhi has already
been installed and the remaining offices have been asked to install the machine
immediately. But, merely installing biometric punching machine and asking the
employees to report duty in time will not solve the issue. A section of employees especially employees belong
to lower income group working in Delhi offices are living outside Delhi. It has
come to know that persons residing more than 150 Kms away from Delhi are
attending duties in Delhi offices by travelling local trains & other
conveyance. What prevent them to stay in
Delhi? First reason is non allocation of Government quarters in the nearby
places of their posting. Secondly, the living cost of Delhi is not bearable to
a low class employee because the successive pay commissions and Governments
neglected them. According to the 6th Pay Commission pay structure
MTS, LDC or the posts with equivalent grade would not get net monthly salary
more than Rs. 14000-16000. How they manage a family with this meager amount? So
they used to live in the joint family in the home villages in the nearby areas
of Delhi. Since being the value of humanity is above than everything,
Government should study and solve the problems faced by this section also.
By concluding
this, I would like to produce a comment written by an anonymous person on
Ministry of Finance directive to keep economy in use of paper in Central
Government Offices. “Finance Ministry, Dept of expenditure, DoPT is the major
breeding grounds of unnecessary expenditures. They are the root cause of many
court cases. They did not accept to implement the judgment to similarly placed
employees, like the case of MACP in promotional hierarchy. This lead many cases
filed in various courts all over India. This result into huge expenditure to
govt. in respect of legal adviser fee, court fee etc. But they go on speaking
about economy in use of paper. They never apply their mind to curtail court
case expenditure”.
-TKR Pillai
General Secretary
Sir, you have raised the right issue. Now you can see that traffic jams are part of lift in cities like Delhi. Without addressing the issues like providing of govt accommodation, proper transport facilities connecting different parts of city with direct bus etc, the government is going to implement biometric attendance system. The Government should introduce flexible timings so that in case of late coming, they work late also. Not only they spending money on court cases, misuse of official cars to personal purposes, misusing the office computers,internet facilities, deploying the staff to personal purposes by the officers are rampant in the Government of India.
ReplyDeleteMis-use of papers in office may result loss of in terms of rupees or paise but mis-use of govt. vehicle etc. result loss of thousand of rupees. Hence, officers should optimise the loss instead of blaming to low grade LDC.
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