Setting up of Anomaly Committee to settle the Anomalies arising out of the implentationof the 6th CPC recommendations.

The Government has released orders
for constituting National Anomaly Committee and
Departmental Anomaly Committees for settlement of anomalies
arising out of implementation of 6th CPC recommendations.

No.11/2/2008-JCA

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

Department of Personnel & Training

JCA Section

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OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Dated the 12th January, 2009
Subject:- Setting up of Anomaly Committee to settle the Anomalies arising out of the implentationof the 6th CPC recommendations.
Definition of Anomaly will inculde the folllwing cases:
(a) Where the Official Side and the Staff Side are of the opinion that any recommendation is in contravention of the principle or the policy enunciated by the 6th CPC itself without the Commissionassigning any reason: and
(b) Where the maximum of the revised scale is less than the amount at which one is entitled to be fixed except in those cases where the same is as a result of modified fixation formula adopted by theGovernment and
(c) Where the amount of revised allowance is less than the existing rate.
(2) Composition: There will be 2 levels of Anomaly Committees, National and Departmental, consisting of reprensentativesof the Official Side and the Staff Side of the National Council and the Departmental Council respectively.
(3) The Departmental Anomaly Committee may be chaired by the Additional Secretary (Admn.) or the JointSecretary (Admn.), if there is no post of Additional Secretary (Admn.). Financial Adviser of the Ministry/Departmentshall be one of the Members of the Departmental Anomaly Committee.
(4) The National Anomaly Committee will deal with anomalies common to two or more Departments and inrespect of common categories of employees. The Departmental Anomaly Committee will deal with anomaliespertaining exclusively to the Department concerned and having no repercussions on the employees of anotherMinistry/Department in the opinion of theFinancial Adviser. The items already taken up by the Fast Track Committeewill not be considered by the Anomaly Committee.
(5) The Anomaly Committee shall receive anomalies through Secretary, Staff Side of respective Council upto six months from the date of its constitution an it will finally dispose of all the anomalies within a period of one yearfrom the date of its constitution. Any recommendations of the Anomaly Committee to resolve the anomaly shallto the approval of the Govenment.
(6) Cases where there is a dispute about the definition of "anomaly" and those where there is a disagreementthe staff side and the official side on the anomaly will be referred to and "Arbitrator" to be appointed out of apanel of names proposed by the two sides. However, this arbitration will not be a part of the JCM scheme.
(7) The Arbitrator so appointed shall consider the disputed cases arising in the Anomaly Committees at the National as well as Departmental level.
(8) Orders regarding appointment of the Arbitrator and constitution of Anomaly Committee at NationalLevel will be issued separately.
(9) All Ministries/Departments are accordingly requested to take urgent action to set up the Anomaly Committeesfor settlement of anomalies arising out of implementation of the 6th CPC recommendations as stipulated above.
Sd/- (Dinesh Kapila) Deputy Secretary (JCA)

New Pension Scheme - “An Election Gimmick ” criticized by Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)

New Pension Scheme - “An Election Gimmick ” criticized by Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
The following is the statement issued by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.
The New Pension Scheme announced by the Pension Regulatory Authority as reported in the media, is essentially meant to benefit Pension Fund Managers and boost the share market by utilising workers’ hard earned money.
The permission, if granted by the Election Commission to release the scheme does not alter its character of an election gimmick to hoodwink the workers and give electoral advantage to the UPA government.
The Pension Regulatory Authority has no statutory backing since the authority has been constituted without even passing the pending pension bill in parliament.
The new pension scheme does not specify what rate of pension will be available to the workers since it would be decided by the share market operation. The government is going ahead with such scheme despite strong opposition of the entire trade union movement. The scheme is supposed to cover all workers but the annual contribution of Rs 6000 makes it limited only to those who can afford to provide Rs 500 contribution per month. The new pension scheme will be in the hands of private sector managers who may swindle workers money.
The CITU therefore calls upon the trade unions and the working class to oppose the scheme that is no more a social security measure and only benefits the unscrupulous pension fund mangers in the country.
CITU also urges upon the Election Commission not to allow a fraudulent scheme to be announced by the government of the day under the cover of PFRDA to mislead the people in violation of the model code of conduct.

CITU QUESTIONS THE AUTHORITY OF THE UPA GOVT
The CITU strongly denounced the decision of the government of the day to impose a high natural gas price regime in the country by giving a clearance to the “Gas Sales and Purchase Agreement” (GSPA) for supply of natural gas from Krishna Godavari (DG D6) basin to fertiliser and power companies including PSUs which would in turn lead to higher price of power and fertiliser, at the cost of public exchequer in terms of tariff and subsidy.
It questioned the authority of the UPA government sans its alliance partners at this stage to take such decision which will have long term implication of bench marking a gas price at double the present rate of administered gas price of public sector companies like ONGC and OIL. The inequitable GSPA, totally loaded in favour of RIL-NIKO Group, the contractor, assigned to produce gas from KG D6 under a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with government of India, is violative of the Article 297 of the constitution of India which mandates the benefit of such natural resource to the people of India and not to production sharing contractor. This mandate can only be ensured after the election.
The CITU therefore demanded that government should not finalise the GSPA till formation of a new Lok Sabha which will scrutinise the GSPA. It also demanded that to meet the present acute shortage of gas, GAIL India Ltd, the nodal PSU for distribution of gas, should be asked to distribute KG D6 gas at the rate arrived through a global tendering in 2005 by M/s NTPC at 2.34 dollar per million BTU (British Thermal Unit) vis-à-vis the rate of 4.20 dollar per million BTU now being imposed through GSPA by RIL-NIKO Group.