Expected DA on July 2012

All-India Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers on Base 2001=100 for the Month of June 2012

All India Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) on base 2001=100 for the month of June, 2012 increased by 2 points and stood at 208 (two hundred eight). as on Dec 2011 it was 197 points. Hence increase of 11 points from Jan 2012 (208-197).

Likely  DA is 72.41. Hence Additional DA is 7%.  Increase in CPI is 11 points DA is likely at 7 %.

March to Parliament

Thousands of Employees marched on Parliament Street demanding Central Government to implement 15 charter of  demands including setting up 7th Pay Commission, DA merger and 5 career promotions in service.

The  march was attended by various organizations such as NPFE, ITEF, Ground Water, Audit &  Accounts Survey of India, CGHS , CPWD Atomic Energy. RMS,  GDS Etc 


Hundreds of  Comrades from AICGWBEA from different  parts of the country participated in the rally. The AICGWBEA  red salutes to all comrades  who have participated from different parts of the country in the rally we hope the Government will yield to our demands.  

      

March to Parliament programme

All Comrades are directed to report at Faridabad by  25th Evening or 26th Morning at 8 am or else they can directly come to New Delhi on 26th morning at 10 am at  Jantar Mantar near to the intersection of Parliament Street, where the signal lights are installed. There will be a banner of the Confederation and AICGWBEA some volunteers on the spot. Transport facility is being arranged from Faridabad to New Delhi. They should intimate the Secretary General accordingly.

  It has been decided to provide a badge to all the participants in the March.  The procession will commence at 11.30 AM to converge at the Parliament Street Police Station by 12 Noon.  The meeting will commence immediately thereafter.  A delegation will meet the Prime Minister either on the same day or on the day the appointment is given by the Prime Minister. 

Transport Allowance in respect of employees performing field duties

Transport Allowance: The existing rules are as follows;

 1)  If the absence of an employee, from duty, due to Leave /Training /Tour etc , more  than one month, the transport  allowance will not be admissible for calendar months(s) wholly covered by, absence .

2)  If the absence of an employee, from duty, due to Leave /Training /Tour etc , Covers , part of calendar  any month, it will  be admissible for the full month.

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There  are  employees who  remain  on  long  tour  duties / field duties on  survey sites  as  in  the  Audit  Department, Ground Water, Survey of India, GSI etc a prolonged field season of  more than 4-12 months. Since the CCA, which was earlier admissible to them, has been subsumed in the Transport Allowance, they are not getting any Transport Allowance while on  tour  for more  than  a  month, during which the field season lasts and they  are, therefore, losing even that  part  of  Transport  Allowance which  represents CCA. The  Staff side therefore  demanded that the  condition that  Transport Allowance   is  not permissible to those who are absent for more than a month, be dispensed with.

The present rule says if the are present even  for a day  in head quarters they get Transport allowance for whole month. The persons who are residing in same campus less than a km distance are provided with Transport allowance others who are performing field duties in the interest of Govt.  work leaving the family life  are not given Transport allowance

The 4^th meeting of the National Anomaly Committee was held on  17^th July, 2012. the Government has  considered to look to the demand of Transport Allowance for field staff and it is understood that the  Since the CCA, which was earlier admissible to them, has been subsumed in the Transport Allowance that portion of Transport Allowance will be admissible to them even after one month of stay in field. The minutes of the meeting will be available after one or two months then we will know the exact stand of the Government, Any away we thank the staff side of JCM to take up this matter. we hope the matter will be resolved to logical conclusion.   

Highlights of National Anomaly Committee meeting held on 17.07.2012

For details visit Confederation web site for all items


1) Promotee in same grade pay will get one extra increment.
 2. Transport allowance:  The revision of transport allowance was not agreed upon.  However, taking a percentage of the TA for the purpose of OTA and grant of a portion of the TA in respect of persons on tour for more than one month at a stretch will be considered. Earlier Overtime Allowance was admissible on City Compensatory Allowance(CCA) also. The VI CPC has sum the CCA with Transport Allowance. Official Side agreed to consider the provision of Transport Allowance to be paid for the purpose of OTA. It was also agreed to consider something for the residents of NCR, i.e. Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Gurgaon on the line of CCA.

3 The supervisors of earlier APEX Grade i.e. 7450-11500 are very likely to get one special increment. The  Staff Side  is doing all out efforts to get that increment w.e.f. 01.01.2006.

4 It has also been agreed that where there is Direct Recruitee in a cadre, promotee will get the basic pay @ par with Direct Recruitee in other words Promotee will not get less pay as compared to Direct Recruitee.

5. The MACP issue including removal of infructous Grade Pay Rs. 2000 were also discussed and separate meeting on MACP issues will be held on 27.07.2012. 
 6. The staff side also raised the issues of Librarians/Asstt. Librarians. The official side assured staff side for earlier consideration, after collecting data from Ministry of Culture which is nodal Ministry for this.

The staff side shown its anguish on non functional of JCM scheme due to which National Council is not being held since Feb. 2010. Meetings of anomalies committees are also not taking place frequently except Railways, Defence & P&T. The Departmental Anomaly Committees are either not constituted or non functional. Chairman National Anomaly Committee and Secy/DOPT assured that JCM scheme will be revived & NC meeting will take place after the Monsoon session of Parliament.

The details of other items will be followed soon........

AGENDA ITEMS FOR THE MEETING OF NATIONAL ANOMALY COMMITTEE

Meeting on 17th July 2012

ITEM NO. 1

PAY FIXATION IN CASE OF MERGER OF PREREVISED PAY SCALE

ITEM NO. 2

DENIAL OF MONITARY BENEFIT IN THE MATTER OF FIXATION OF PAY WHILE GRANTING HIGHER REPLACEMENT SCALE.

ITEM NO. 3

FIXATION OF PAY IN REVISED PAY SCALE

ITEM NO.4

FIXATION OF PAY FOR NEW RECRUITS IN THE GRADE PAY OF RS.4200/-

ITEM NO. 5

ON REVISED PAY RULES. 2008

ITEM NO. 6

BENEFIT ON PROMOTION

ITEM NO.7

FIXATION OF PAY ON PROMOTION

ITEM NO. 8

REFIXATION OF PENSION / FAMILY PENSION

ITEM NO. 9

ANOMALY IN PENSION FOR GOVERNMENT SERVANTS WHO RETIRED/DIED IN HARNESS BETWEEN 1.1.2006 AND 1.9.2008

ITEM NO. 10

COMMUTATION OF PENSION

ITEM NO. 11

GRANT REVISED ALLOWANCES WITH EFFECT FROM 1.1.2006

ITEM NO. 12  

TRANSPORT ALLOWANCE

ITEM NO.13

INCREASE OF TA (TRANSPORT ALLOWANCE) AT PER WITH PB – 3

ITEM NO.14

REVISION OF EXISTING ALLOWANCES

ITEM NO. 15

PARITY IN PENSION OF ALL PRE 1996 RETIREES WITH THOSE WHO RETIRED ON OR 

AFTER 1.1.96

ITEM NO.16

ANOMALY IN REVISED PENSION TO PRE 2006 RETIREES

ITEM NO.17

DISPARITY IN PENSION/FAMILY PENSION BETWEEN PRE AND POST PENSIONERS / FAMILY PENSIONERS

ITEM NO. 18

ANOMALY IN PENSION TO THOSE RETIRING WITHIN FIRST 9 MONTHS OF 2006 NOT 

FULLY RECTIFIED.

ITEM NO. 19

REVISION OF PENSION OF THOSE WHO RETIRED  DURING THE PERIOD 1.1.2006 TO 

1.9.2008.

ITEM NO.20

ALLOWANCE - Daily Allowance on Tour

ITEM NO.21

50% OF REVISED PAY BAND + GRADE PAY NOT CORRECTLY DETERMINED.

ITEM NO.22

REVISION OF PENSION OF THOSE WHO ARE RECEIVING TWO PENSIONS.

ITEM NO.23

SPECIAL PROVISION FOR THOSE WHO RETIRED ON OR AFTER 1.1.2006 BUT RETAIN PRE-REVISED SCALE OF PAY

ITEM NO.24

COMMUTATION OF ADDITIONAL PENSION OR RETROSPECTIVE REVISION OF PENSION IN RESPECT OF POST 31.12.2005 RETIREES

ITEM NO.25

APPLICATION OF NEW COMMUTATION FACTOR RECOMMENDED BY VI CPC  –CONTRARY TO RULES AND JUDICIAL DIRECTIONS

ITEM NO.26

COMMUTATION OF REVISED PENSION

ITEM NO.29

REVISION OF BASE INDEX FOR D.A.

ITEM NO.30

BENCH MARK IN AICPI SCHEME FOR GRANT OF DA / DR WEF 1.1.2006 ON CPC VI LEVEL PAY / PENSION RESTRUCTURING

ITEM NO.31

CHILD CARE LEAVES IN RESPECT OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT WOMEN EMPLOYEES AS A RESULT OF SIXTH PAY COMMISSION REPORT.

ITEM NO. 32

CUMULATIVE LOSS IN WAGES AS A RESULT OF NEW FIXATION FORMULA ON PROMOTION TO THE NEXT HIGHER GRADE.

ITEM NO.33

NEW RECRUITS GETTING MORE PAY THAN PROMOTEES IN THE SAME PAY BAND AND GRADE PAY

ITEM NO 34

RE-OPENING OF OPTION FOR FIXATION OF PAY ON PROMOTION.

ITEM NO.35

REOPTION TO THOSE PROMOTED PRIOR 2.9.2008

ITEM NO. 36

INCOME CRITERIA IN RESPECT OF PARENTS AND WIDOWED/DIVORCED/ UNMARRIED DAUGHTERS.

ITEM NO. 37

WAIVER OF RECOVERY OF HIGHER DA /DR DRAWN DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1.1.2006 TO 31.8.2006

ITEM NO. 38

ANOMALY IN FIXING GRADE PAY

ITEM NO. 39

ANOMALY DUE TO NOT APPLYING INFORMLY THE MULTIPLICATION FACTOR OF 1.86 IN FIXING THE MINIMUM PAY IN ALL THE REVISED PAY BANDS APPLYING DIFFERENT.

ITEM NO. 40

GRANT OF NOTIONAL INCREMENT AS MAY BE DUE ON THE FIRST DAY OF JULY FOLLOWING THE SUPERANNUATION / DEATH IN SERVICE FOR  COMPUTATION OF EMOLUMENTS / AVERAGE EMOLUMENTS FOR PENSIONERY BENEFITS.

ITEM NO.41

FIXATION OF PAY ON PROMOTION TO A POST CARRYING THE SAME GRADE PAY

ITEM NO.42

REMOVAL OF ANOMALIES IN MODIFIED ASSURED CAREER PROGRESSIONSCHEME.

ITEM NO.43

BEFORE THE 6TH PAY COMMISSION, THERE WERE 3 HAG SCALES OF PAY NAMELY:

ITEM NO.44

ANOMALY IN THE PAY SCALE / PAY BAND AND GRADE PAY OF LIBRARY INFORMATION ASSISTANTS

ITEM NO.45

ANOMALY IN PENSION OF THOSE IN RECEIPT OF STAGNATION INCREMENTS IN PREREVISED PAY SCALE.

ITEM NO.46

DISPARITY IN PAY SCALES AND STATUS: OFFICERS IN STENOGRAPHERS CADRE.

ITEM NO.47

DATE OF ANNUAL INCREMENT IN EOL CASES

ITEM NO. 48

15 YEAR PERIOD FIXED FOR RESTORATION OF COMMUTED PORTION OF PENSION (CPOP) IS ARBITRATY AND UNJUSTIFIED BEING CONTRARY TO THE PRINCIPLE ENUMERATED BY THE 6TH CPC AND LAID DOWN BY THE APEX COURT.

ITEM NO.49

ANOMALIES IN THE MATTER OF PAY SCALES OF STENOGRAPHERS

ITEM NO.50

ANOMALIES IN THE PAY SCALES OF OFFICIAL LANGUAGE STAFF

ITEM NO. 51

ASSIGNING HIGHER GRADE PAY OF RS.4600/- TO ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER GR.III PRIVATE SECRETARY IN SUBORDINATE OFFICERS

DA Formula Rectification & Revision of Wages

Price rise in last six years is 152%.

Total increase in Consumer Price Index is 90 points.

Total DA due is 70 % as 1/6/12

       The  Confederation has  prepared a comparative chart of the price of 14 commodities, which go into the computation of minimum wage.  for more details see Confederation web sitehttp://confederationhq.blogspot.in/ Placed there-under is the computation of the Minimum wage on the basis of the prices of the requisite articles as in January, 2012.  It could be seen there-from that while the prices on an average registered an increase of 152% the DA compensation had only been 65%. This fact may kindly be used to bring home the necessity of revision of wages immediately.  .CLICK here for more information

The prices of the commonly used items of the common man  has risen from 100% to 250% from last six years, where as the  Consumer Price Index  numbers has risen only by 90 points in last six years, We can observe that many of the common  used items such as Rice, Wheat, tamrind, electricity bills ,water bills payments etc are missing in the Consumer Price Index Numbers  weight-age  , the miscellaneous  weight-age  is 25 % instead of that it should have been distributed  in Fuel, Oils, vegetables. Housing etc, improper house rent rates are reflected in CPI the cost of  a single dwelling in metros is Rs 8000, where as the Government rates of HRA is taken into account while commuting the CPI.

The compilation of Consumer Price Index  numbers generally consists of two stages i.e. (i) calculation of price indices for elementary aggregates (item level indices) and (ii) the aggregation of these elementary price indices to higher level indices using the weights associated with each level.Laspeyres formula is used for aggregation of indices. Specifications of items have been selected on the basis of popularity in the respective areas. These specifications are different in terms of units, quality etc for different price schedules. Prices relative of each product specification (current month price/base year average price) is worked out. Average of these price relatives under the respective item multiplied with 100 gives the index for that item.

Laspeyres formula; go through the below links to know this formula works.

CLICK HERE for  Laspeyres formula

http://www.usna.edu/Users/econ/rbrady/312%20Materials/LaspeyresCalc.pdf

http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2007/11%20november/1107_cpipce.pdf

Calculating a Laspeyres Index

A Laspeyres Index is known as a “base-weighted” or “fixed-weighted” index because the price increases are weighted by the quantities in the base period. 

 Let us calculate DA using Laspeyres formula for example prices of Rice and Wheat are as follows

Price of Rice in 2006 is Rs 20 per kg for 100kgs consumption

Price of Rice in 2011 is Rs 30  per kg for 100kgs consumption

Price of Rice in 2012 is Rs 40  per kg for 100kgs consumption

Price of wheat  in 2006 is Rs 15  per kg for 100kgs consumption

Price of wheat  in 2011 is Rs 25  per kg for 100kgsconsumption

Price of wheat  in 2012 is Rs 30 per kg  for 100kgs consumption

Calculate Consumer Price Index  using the  Laspeyres formula

 for 2012 year  L2012 =

{100 × 40.00} + {100 × 30.00} / {100 × 20.00} + {100 × 15.00} = 4000+3000/2000+1500 =7000/3500 =200 points 

for 2011  year L2011 =

{100 × 30.00} + {100 × 25.00} / {100 × 20.00} + {100 × 15.00} = 3000+2500/2000+1500 =5500 /3500 =157 points 

Calculate DA

Dearness Allowance = (Avg of AICPI for the past 12 months - 115.76)*100/115.76

DA ={{ (200+157)/2} -115.76)}}*100/115.76 = (178-116) *100/115.76=6200/115.76= 53% DA

Price Rise is 100 % in last six years ,where as DA is 53 %.

 Formula available for calculate CPI are

Laspeyres formula

Paasche formula

Fisher formula

Please click the link for  Consumer Price Index Numbers - Separately for Rural and Urban Areas and also Combined (Rural plus Urban)

vide http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/brochure_n_cpi18_feb11.pdf

The Staff Side of JCM has represented to the 5^th and 6^th CPC about the faulty DA formula and the DA should be paid every three months and Average of AICPI should be removed. The same demand of the Staff Side of JCM should be there now also.

Special Casual Leave

SPECIAL CASUAL LEAVE FOR UNION ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES

        Government servants who are union office bearers and delegates of the Central Government employees unions/associations may be granted special casual leave to attend the activities of Unions/Associations.

(a)	An office bearer of a recognized service association/union of Central Government employees may be granted special casual leave up to a maximum of 20 days in a calendar year, for participation in the activities of Associations/Unions.
(b)	Outstation/delegate members of executive Committee of recognized All India Association/Federation may be granted special casual leave up to 10 days in a calendar year to attend its meetings and
(c)	Similarly the local delegates/local members of executive committees of all recognized Associations/unions Federations may be granted special casual leave up to 5 days in a calendar year for attending meetings of such Associations/Unions/Federations.

Those availing special casual leave as office-bearers will not be entitled to avail special casual leave separately in their capacity as Delegate/Committee members.

       Where a Union/Association/Federation follows a year other than the calendar year for the purposes of its annual elections, the entitlement of special casual leave should be regulated in terms of the year actually followed by such Union/Association/Federation in place of the calendar year.  When an office-bearer comes into office during the course of the year in casual vacancies, the competent authority has the discretion to grant special casual leave up to the maximum entitlement in a full year, having regard to the genuineness and merits of each particular case.

(MHA OM No. 27/3/69-Estt(B), dated 8.4.69 & Deptt. of Personnel OM No. 8/13/72-JCA, dated 4^th September, 1972)

       At the request of the leader of the Staff Side, the Head of the Department/Office may grant special casual leave not exceeding five days in a year, to a member of the Staff side to enable him to attend Staff side Consultations.

       Similarly the leader of the Staff Side and, at and above the Departmental Joint Council level, one Secretary from the Staff Side designated as such by the leader, may be allowed additional special leave not exceeding 10 days in a year for preparing staff side cases.  This will be in addition to the provisions regarding grant of special casual leave for association activities contained in OM No. 27/3/69-Estt(B), dated the 8^th April, 1969.

DA formula and Inflation

Price rise in last six years is 153%

Total increase in Consumer Price Index is 90 points.

Total DA due is 70 % as on 31/5/12

Tables - current and historic CPI India

CPI in  recent months  period inflation  may 2012 10.160 %  april 2012 10.215 %  march 2012 8.649 %  february 2012 7.568 %  january 2012 5.319 %  december 2011 6.486 %  november 2011 9.341 %  october 2011 9.392 %  september 2011 10.056 %  august 2011 8.989 % CPI in recent years  period inflation  may 2012 10.160 %  may 2011 8.721 %  may 2010 13.908 %  may 2009 8.633 %  may 2008 7.752 %  may 2007 6.612 %  may 2006 5.926 %  may 2005 3.740 %  may 2004 2.834 %  may 2003 4.661 %

Consumer Prices (MEI) in India is the costlier and having  highest inflation in world

Click here to compare Consumer and inflation world wide 

Please click the link for  Consumer Price Index Numbers - Separately for Rural and Urban Areas and also Combined (Rural plus Urban)

Full information is provided by NSSO 

http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/brochure_n_cpi18_feb11.pdf 

It is observed that the Consumer price index basket of 2001 is not correct common items used by the Government items are not reflected in this basket hence the points instead of raising  to 153 points is just 90 points.

All India Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) on base 2001=100 for the month of MAY, 2012 increased by 1 points and stood at 206 (two hundred six ) Hence increase of 8 points from January  2012 Current DA likely at 70 % as on 31/5/12.

Current DA formula

Dearness Allowance = (Avg of AICPI for the past 12 months - 115.76)*100/115.76

ie is   DA =  (196.42-115.67) * 100/115.673 = 69.67 % 

The below table denotes the calculation for the month of April 2012…

Month/Year	AICPIN	Total of 12 Months	12 Months average	% Increase over 115.763	App.DA	DA%
April -2012	205	2357	196.42	80.66	69.67	69

The Average of the past 12 months  should be removed  and only it should be last AICPI should be  taken into account.  The division factor of  115.76 is also not correct . The DA for entire year of 2006 was only 2% due to faulty formula.

a)       The Prices  of the articles are continuously rising.

  b) The DA is announced twice in  a year that is January  and July respectively

c)      The Index point which was at 100 on 1/1/2001

d)       The Index point which was at 115.76 on 1/1/2006.

e)      From 1/1/2006 to 30/5/2012 the points has risen from  15 points to 206 points there by there is an increase of 90 points compared to 70 % DA.

f)        The Price of an article which was as on 115.76 on 1/1/2006 is Rs 206 as on 30/5/12 that is the market  cost of today’s price is  206 and Government employee if he goes to market to buy the article has to pay an increased price of Rs 90/- and DA is just 70. that means simple calculation of 90% DA should be given to Government Employees.

g)      The prices which are increased from  January  to  July is provided DA wef from JULY. That is that the prices which are increased for example the Cost groundnut oil  is Rs 70 as on 1^st July 2011 shows an steady increase and is Rs 90 as on 30^th June 2012 DA as on 1^st July 2012 is computed as average of Rs 70 & Rs 90 that is it works out to Rs 80.  There after it is divided by factor 115.6 that works out to Rs 69  hence no DA is admissible even though the prices are increased from Rs 70 to Rs 90.

h)       The prices which are increased from past twelve months are not compensated only it is compensated after 6 months of increase. Hence the worker is cheated. For example if the price of an article is increased abruptly after DA is announced on July 2011 and He has to wait for compensation till JULY 2012. due to average of 12 months criteria.  That is no immediate compensation of price rise is available to him.  That is he has to pay from his pocket to buy the article.

i)         The Variable DA should be there as in case of petrol prices as and when the international crude is increasing the oil companies raise their prices of petrol, so no burden on them,  same should be the case of Government Employees as and when the AICPI increase then the DA should automatically increase every month.  

j)         Recommendation of 6^th CPC vide para no 4.1.13

The  Commission is of the view that the National Statistical Commission may be asked to explore the possibility of a specific survey covering Government employees exclusively, so as to construct a consumption basket representative of Government employees and formulate a separate index. Meanwhile, the Government may continue to use the AICPI (IW) for estimating the DA.

Hence separate DA AICPI should be formed for Government employees