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15/01/2017

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GDS Commission latest developments.

FNPO & NUGDS are giving correct information to our colleagues about the GDS commission report without hiding the truth, we are maintaining cent percent transparency in every issue. The following developments have taken place in the last week.

On 09/01/ 2017 Our officers approached Minister to give concurrence to publish a report.

On  10/01/2017 Minister clear the file.

On 11/01/2017 Minster's office raised the objection to publish the report citing Election commission code of conduct.

On 12/01/2017 & 13/01/2017, our department discusses the issue of Election commission code of conduct & staff side pressure finally Department decided to meet Election commissioner on 13/01/2017.

Our Department officers propose to meet Election commissioner on 16/01/2017 to get the clearance.

We may get a reply on the same day or next day.

We request our colleagues, we maintain enough patience on this issue .we cannot remain silent furthermore, we will show our protest on 17/01/2017 by conducting peaceful hunger fast with our NUGDS Circle office bearers to the Department.

FNPO&NUGDS always interested GDS welfare, not other issues.

D.Theagarajan                            P.U. Muralidharan.

S.G. FNPO                                   G.S NUGDS 

The Government is issuing newly designed PAN (Permanent Account Number) cards 

The Government is issuing newly designed PAN (Permanent Account Number) cards that have added security features to make them tamper-proof and with contents written in both Hindi and English, a senior Income-Tax Department official said on Friday.

The distribution of new-look PAN cards, being printed by NSDL and UTIITSL (UTI Infrastructure Technology and Services Ltd), started since January 1. The cards are being issued to new applicants but existing ones can only apply for them. "The distribution of new PAN cards kicked off on January 1. However, these are only for the fresh lot of PAN card applicants," the official said.

 "We have automated the data and made the PAN cards error-free," he said, adding, "In case existing cardholders apply for a fresh PAN card, they will be issued the newly designed cards."

Keeping in view the Rajbhasha policy of the Government, we have made fixed contents of the new PAN cards bilingual in which the headers are in English and Hindi, he said.

The Government has added a new feature to the card, known as Quick Response Code, which will help in verification process.

The code will help in providing all details of the cardholder in one go as when the document is produced before any authority. Hence, no room will be left for the cardholder to either tamper or give any kind of wrong information relating to the card, the official said.

PAN cards are mandatory for any transaction above Rs 2 lakh and for a lot of other activities like opening of a bank account and as identity proof. There are currently more than 25 crore PAN cardholders in the country.

As per Government estimate, every year 2.5 crore people across the country apply for PAN cards.

88 percent of pension accounts have been linked to Aadhaar: Dr Jitendra Singh

Press Information Bureau

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

12-January-2017 18:15 IST

Dr. Jitendra Singh chairs 29th meeting of SCOVA

88 percent of pension accounts have been linked to Aadhaar: Dr Jitendra Singh

Make Pensioners part of nation building process, says Minister

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh chaired the 29th meeting of the Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) here today. The SCOVA meeting is organised by the Department of Pensions & Pensioners’ Welfare (DoP&PW), Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and the last such meeting was held on June 27, 2016.

During the meeting, Dr. Jitendra Singh said that today’s interaction was very meaningful and stimulating, thus reflecting on the working of DoP&PW. The Minister said that there are about 50-55 lakh pensioners in the country and almost 88 percent of pension accounts have been seeded to Aadhaar. He further said that minimum pension has been increased to Rs. 9000 per person and ex-gratia amount has been increased from Rs. 10-15 lakh to Rs. 25-35 lakh.Dr. Jitendra Singh said that we need to put in place an institutionalized mechanism to make good use of the knowledge, experience and efforts of the retired employees which can help in the value addition to the current scenario. Dr. Jitendra Singh said the retired employees are a healthy and productive workforce for India and we need to streamline and channelize their energies in a productive direction. We should learn from the pensioners’ experience, he added. The Minister also said that the DoP&PW should be reoriented in such a way that pensioners become a part of nation building process.

In the meeting, discussions were held on the action taken report of the 28th SCOVA meeting. Further many issues related to pensioners were discussed threadbare, such as revision of PPOs of pre-2006 pensioners, Health Insurance Scheme for pensioners including those residing in non-CGHS area, Special “Higher” Family Pension for widows of the war disabled invalidated out of service, Extension of CGHS facilities to P&T pensioners, issue relating to CGHS Wellness Centre, Dehradun etc. The Minister directed for the prompt and time bound redressal of the grievances of the pensioners and said that we should have sympathetic attitude towards them.

The Secretary, DoP&PW, Shri C. Viswanath and other senior officers of the department were also present on the occasion. The meeting was also attended by the member Pensioners Associations and senior officers of the important Ministries/Departments of Government of India.