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Council of Ministers After 12.07.2011

Cabinet Ministers

Pranab Mukherjee : Finance

Sharad Pawar : Agriculture; Food Processing Industries

A K Antony : Defence 
P Chidambaram : Home Affairs 
S M Krishna : External Affairs

Virbhadra Singh : Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Vilasrao Deshmukh : Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

Ghulam Nabi Azad : Health and Family Welfare

Sushil Kumar Shinde : Power

M Veerappa Moily : Corporate Affairs

Dr Farooq Abdullah : New and Renewable Energy

S Jaipal Reddy : Petroleum and Natural Gas

Kamal Nath : Urban Development

Vayalar Ravi : Overseas Indian Affairs; Civil Aviation.

Ambika Soni : Information and Broadcasting

Mallikarjun Kharge : Labour and Employment

Kapil Sibal : Human Resource Development; Communications and Information Technology.

Anand Sharma : Commerce and Industry; Textiles

C P Joshi : Road Transport and Highways

Kumari Selja : Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation; Culture

Subodh Kant Sahay : Tourism

G K Vasan : Shipping

P K Bansal : Parliamentary Affairs; Water Resources

Mukul Wasnik : Social Justice and Empowerment

M K Alagiri : Chemicals and Fertilizers

Praful Patel : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Shriprakash Jaiswal : Coal

Salman Khurshid : Law and Justice; Minority Affairs

V Kishore Chandra Deo : Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj

Beni Prasad Verma : Steel

Dinesh Trivedi : Railways

Jairam Ramesh : Rural Development.

 

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Dinsha J Patel : Mines

Krishna Tirath : Women and Child Development

Ajay Maken : Youth Affairs and Sports

Prof K V Thomas : Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Srikant Jena : Statistics and Programme Implementation and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers

Jayanthi Natarajan : Environment and Forests

Paban Singh Ghatowar : Development of North Eastern Region

Gurudas Kamat : Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministers of State

 

Ministers of State

E Ahamed : External Affairs; HRD

Mullappally Ramachandran: Home Affairs

V Narayanasamy : Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; PMO

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia: Commerce and Industry

D Purandeswari : HRD

K H Muniappa : Railways

Panabaka Lakshmi : Textiles

Namo Narain Meena : Finance

M M Pallam Raju : Defence

Saugata Ray : Urban Development

S S Palanimanickam : Finance.

Jitin Prasada : Road Transport and Highways

Preneet Kaur : External Affairs

Harish Rawat : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries; Parliamentary Affairs

Bharatsinh Solanki : Railways

Mahadev S Khandela : Tribal Affairs

Sisir Adhikari : Rural Development

Sultan Ahmed : Tourism

Mukul Roy : Shipping

Choudhury Mohan Jatua : Information and Broadcasting

D Napoleon : Social Justice and Empowerment

S Jagathrakshakan : Information and Broadcasting

S Gandhiselvan : Health and Family Welfare

Tusharbhai Chaudhary : Road Transport and Highways

Sachin Pilot : Communications and Information Technology

Prateek Prakashbapu Patil: Coal

R P N Singh : Petroleum and Natural Gas; Corporate Affairs

Vincent Pala : Water Resources; Minority Affairs

Pradeep Jain : Rural Development

Agatha Sangma : Rural Development

Ashwani Kumar : Planning; Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

K C Venugopal : Power

Sudip Bandyopadhyay : Health and Family Welfare

Charan Das Mahant : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

Jitendra Singh : Home Affairs

Milind Deora : Communications and Information Technology

Rajeev Shukla : Parliamentary Affairs.

TAX Structure in India

TAX STRUCTURE IN INDIA

M.Peer Mohamed Sardhar

1) Qus. : What are you doing?

Ans.: Business.

Tax: PAY PROFESSIONAL TAX!

2) Qus. : What are you doing in Business?

Ans.: Selling the Goods.

Tax: PAY SALES TAX!!

3) Qus. : From where are you getting Goods?

Ans.: From other State/Abroad

Tax: PAY CENTRAL SALES TAX, CUSTOM DUTY & OCTROI!

4) Qus. : What are you getting in Selling Goods?

Ans.: Profit.

Tax: PAY INCOME TAX!

5) Qus. : Where you Manufacturing the Goods?

Ans.: Factory.

Tax: PAY EXCISE DUTY!

6) Qus. : Do you have Office / Warehouse/ Factory?

Ans.: Yes

Tax: PAY MUNICIPAL & FIRE TAX!

7) Qus. : Do you have Staff?

Ans.: Yes

Tax: PAY STAFF PROFESSIONAL TAX!

 Qus. : Doing business in Millions?

Ans.: Yes

Tax: PAY TURNOVER TAX!

9) Qus. : Are you taking out over 25,000 Cash from Bank?

Ans.: Yes, for Salary.

Tax: PAY CASH HANDLING TAX!

10) Qus. : Where are you taking your client for Lunch & Dinner?

Ans.: Hotel

Tax: PAY FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT TAX!

11) Qus. : Are you going Out of Station for Business?

Ans.: Yes

Tax: PAY FRINGE BENEFIT TAX!

12) Qus. : Have you taken or given any Service/s?

Ans.: Yes

Tax : PAY SERVICE TAX!

13) Qus. : How come you got such a Big Amount?

Ans.: Gift on birthday.

Tax: PAY GIFT TAX!

14) Qus. : Do you have any Wealth?

Ans.: Yes

Tax: PAY WEALTH TAX!

15) Qus. : To reduce Tension, for entertainment, where are you going?

Ans.: Cinema or Resort.

Tax: PAY ENTERTAINMENT TAX!

16) Qus. : Have you purchased House?

Ans.: Yes

Tax : PAY STAMP DUTY & REGISTRATION FEE !

17) Qus. : How you Travel?

Ans.: Bus

Tax: PAY SURCHARGE!

1 Qus. : Any Additional Tax?

Ans.: Yes

Tax: PAY EDUCATIONAL, ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL & SURCHARGE ON ALL THE CENTRAL GOVT.’s TAX !!!

19) Qus. : Delayed any time Paying Any Tax?

Ans.: Yes

Tax: PAY INTEREST & PENALTY!

Sorting Postman Designation- Clarification

D.G. Posts No. 25-20/2008-PE.I dated 12^th July, 2011.

            Please refer to this Directorate's letter of even number dated 04.05.2011 vide which the post of Sorting Postman has been re-designated as Postman and both Postman and Sorting Postman have been given a common generic designation Postman.

2.         During the meetings of the Staff Federations with the Secretary (Posts), the Federations have raised following issues in connection with the implementation of the ibid order in the fields:

(i)         Circles are either abolishing or redeploying the posts of Sorting Postman. Such    posts may be restored.

(ii)        All the Postman are being put on the job of Beat Sorting at a time.

3.         This is wrong interpretation and implementation of the said order of the Directorate. Nowhere in the order is it mentioned that posts of Sorting Postman are either to be abolished or redeployed and all the Postmen are to be put on the Beat Sorting work at a time. In fact, the order is very lucid that post of Sorting Postman is re-designated  as Postman. Therefore, such abolished or redeployed posts of Sorting Postman may be restored immediately. The designation of the existing Sorting Postman may not be changed.

4.         Further, in the third para of the aforesaid order, it is indicated that concerned Divisional Head or Sr. Postmaster has to work out the exact requirement of Postmen required for Beat Sorting on the basis of the total number un-registered mail received for delivery as per the existing norms. Hence, concerned authorities in the Division to decide the number of Postmen to be put on the Beat Sorting job on the basis of existing norms. Thus, all the postmen are not to be put on the Beat Sorting work at a time. Rather, each one of them should be assigned the said job on turn-by-turn basis while observing the existing norms.

5.         Further, the number of postmen deployed for Beat Sorting should be to ensure that Beat Sorting, is completed one hour before the postmen leave for delivery so that necessary documentations and procedural requirement could be completed, which are necessary for carrying out the delivery effectively.

6.         It, is therefore, requested to please look into the issue personally and ensure correct and effective implementation of the Directorate's order dated 04.05.2011.

7.         It may please be accorded Top Priority.

This issues with the approval of the Competent Authority.

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NREGS is Helping India Post's Revenue

New Delhi: India Post is sailing through a revival, all thanks to the flood of post office accounts opened by those employed through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to receive their payments has led to a virtual revival of the department. Close to five crore workers have opened accounts with the post offices.

India Post revenues had declines sharply following the last decade’s boom in telecom and internet communication, but since 2008-09, things have changed for the better.

Budget figures show that the net revenue of the department of posts rose 42% from Rs 3,824 crore during 2008-09 to R5,463 crore during 2009-10. In 2010-11, the rise was 18%. The department’s net receipts were languishing at R1,373 crore in 2006-07.

Due to the rush for payment of NREGS wages, the department has been hiring temporary staff to help the existing workforce manage the large number of accounts.

Although a senior postal department official.. said that they do not earn ‘enough’ out of these ‘no-frills’ savings accounts, the finance ministry is reimbursing the postal department R130 per account annually for incurring costs in maintaining the accounts. This implies a net income of R650 crore annually to the postal department.

Close to one lakh post offices mostly in rural areas are handling 4.94 crore NREGS accounts for timely wage disbursements. The performance of post offices in managing so many accounts has been 'satisfactory, said the department official.

“We are slowly building the savings habit in a large section of rural poor families by including them in the formal banking system,” the top postal official told FE.

Since the launch of the mega job guarantee scheme in February 2006, the UPA government has been flooded with several complaints about non-payment or partial payment for NREGS workers, and there have even been several reports of ‘ghost’ workers siphoning off the.. wages of genuine workers.

The MGNREGA, 2005 was amended in February, 2009 to enable payment of wages through banks and post office saving accounts of the workers. A rural development ministry official said that more than 84% of the total wage payment under the employment guarantee scheme had been made every year through banks and post offices. Last fiscal, close to R 25,000 crore of NREGS wages were paid through these saving accounts.

Source:  Financial Express 6^th July, 2011

Indian Railway's New Web Portal Launched

Ministry of Railways

Single Window web Interface – “The Indian Railway web Portal” - Launched for the Benefit of Multiple Rail users
E-Ticket on Mobile Phone now Possible through new Web Portal Facilitating Travel by Merely Displaying SMS Without Ticket Printout
No Travel Agents Allowed to use New Web Portal to Facilitate Convenient Booking by Normal Passengers   

In a milestone measure undertaken by Ministry of Railways for the benefit of   rail users, a comprehensive Indian Railway Web Portal with the URL www.indianrailways.gov.in has been launched with a view to consolidate all the services and information onto a single window web-interface for the public.   This comprehensive omnibus single window web interface will be for the entire Rail User community of India whether they are Passenger Service, Freight Service or Parcel Service Customers.

At an impressive programme jointly organized by Eastern Railway and Kolkata Metro Railway  yesterday at Kolkata, former Union Railway Minister and presently the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee launched this unique public friendly facility.  Minister of State for Railways, Shri Mukul Roy was among those specially present on this occasion.  The other activities inaugurated at this function included Automatic Fare Collection & Passenger Control  System (AFC & PC)  gates at all Kolkata Metro  Stations. 

Indian Railway Web Portal has following components:

1. Hosting the existing websites of Railway Board, all the Zonal Railways, Production Units onto the portal.
2. Creation of uniform Web address system of all the Railway Websites
3. Tracking facility for freight trains running and Parcels status by customers
4. Journey planner with user-friendly functionalities.
5. E-ticket functionality dedicated for normal passengers.
6. Facility to book retiring rooms for any station.
7. Mobile phone based ticket booking in which passenger need not print his/her ticket but carry the display ticket sent to his/her mobile phone through SMS.
8. Web and SMS based Complaints and Suggestions Management System for all Railway customers 

The e-ticketing module of the Indian Railway Web Portal is expected be the most sought after facility by the normal passenger.  The e-ticketing operations of IRCTC on its website shall also continue in parallel. In the additional facility of e-ticketing provided by IR Web Portal, no travel agents have been allowed so that normal passengers can have ease of booking during peak hours.

The Portal will broadly provide e-ticketing on the Internet (booking and cancellation) and e-ticketing on mobile phone (booking and cancellation).

Individual users choosing to use the e-ticketing facility shall be required to register himself/herself for the first time for this purpose after submitting the mandatory details and shall be provided a unique user ID.  This registration will be free of charge.  Thereafter he can avail the services of Booking and Cancellation of e-tickets.  He can take a printout of the e-ticket which is known asElectronic Reservation Slip (ERS).

Individual users desirous of utilizing the facility of booking e-ticket on mobile phone ( which is being named as m-ticket), having requisite internet facility can do so by downloading the mobile ticketing application on the mobile phone from the IR Portal, using the URL sent in SMS.  On completion of booking and payment formalities, a SMS containing the ticket details will be sent to user which is referred to as Mobile Reservation Message – (MRM).  The cost of MRM from IR Web Portal shall be borne by Indian Railways.  Such passengers need not require to carry a print out of the ticket and instead display the SMS (namely MRM).  Similarly a Screen-shot of the e-ticket displayed through laptops/palmtops (referred as Virtual Reservation Message – VRM) will also be construed as e-ticket and such passenger also need not take a print out of the e-ticket and instead display the Screen-shot on their laptops/palmtops. 

• It is mandatory that at least one passenger booked on the e-ticket/m-ticket carry at least one of the following eight proofs of identity (in original ) :
  Ø Voter Photo Identity Card issued by Election Commission of India.
  Ø  Passport.
  Ø  PAN Card issued by Income Tax Department.
  Ø  Driving License issued by RTO.
  Ø  Photo Identity card issued by Central/State Government.
  Ø  Student Identity Card with photograph issued by recognized school/college for their students.
  Ø  Nationalized Bank Passbook with photograph.
  Ø  Credit Cards issued by Banks with laminated photograph

ERS/MRM/VRM along with any one of the eight prescribed ID proofs in original and the indication of the passenger(s)’ name(s) in the Reservation Chart will entitle the passenger(s) to travel.

ERS/MRM/VRM along with one of the eight prescribed proofs of Identity in original will also authorize the passenger to enter the platform on the day of journey and he/she will not be required to purchase platform ticket.  ERS/MRM along with original ID proof will be required to be produced on demand by Ticket Checking Staff on the platform.

The facility of booking e-tickets through IR Web Portal will be available from 00.30   hours to 23.30 hours daily.  The booking for a particular train shall be permitted up to the time of preparation of reservation charts.

A maximum of eight PNRs per user ID per month shall be permissible.  The passengers can book seats/berths on the e-ticket on the web portal against General quota/Tatkal quota/Ladies quota/Senior Citizen Quota.  No concessions, except Senior Citizen concession, will be allowed on e-tickets.  No Group Booking shall be permissible on e-ticketing through Indian Railway Web Portal.

The service charges levied by the Railways will be Rs. 5/- per ticket for Sleeper Class (SL) and Second Sitting (2S) classes and Rs. 10/- per ticket for all other Reserved Classes.

The detailed procedure of cancellation and refund has also been mentioned in the IR Web Portal.

The detailed commercial circular of Ministry of Railway on this introduction of e-ticketing and ticketing through mobile phone on IR Web Portal can be seen in http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/

Source : PIB & CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS

7% DA from July 2011 (Expected)

We feel features, expectations and calculations are on the forefront for most of the central government employees regarding the additional Dearness Allowance from July, 2011 to be announced soon.

Thee will be no change in the 7% DA unless a huge change takes place in the month of June AICPIN (i.e.if the AICPIN falls below 180 points or increase above 195, a change of DA can take place, but chances are very remote.) AICPIN now stands at 187.

Surprisingly, some employees are eager to know if the DA crosses 100%, it will merge with the basic pay or not.

The is no such recommendations said in the 6th CPC.The allowances only will be increased by another 25%, every time the DA crosses 50%.

As of now, the important increase in the allowance is Children Education Allowance and Hostel Subsidy. It was increased from Rs.12000 to Rs.15000 from 1.1.2011. This will be increase upto Rs.18750 after the Da crosses 100% and some other allowances also will be enhanced by 25% from the existing rates.

Assumption are that the DA will touch 100% in the next three years. Before the 7th CPC, which will be from 2016, the DA surely crosses 100%.

The DA was merged with the basic pay as happened in the year 2004, the 5th CPC had recommended that DA should be converted into Dearness pay each time the CPI increase by 50% over the base index used by the Pay Commission.

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For your information :-

Have a look the order published from Finance Ministry on 1st March, 2004 regarding the Merger of 50% of DA and DR with basic pay / pension to Central government employees / pensioners w.e.f.01.04.2004.

F.No. 105/1/2004-IC
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure

New Delhi, dated the 1st March, 2004

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Merger of 50% of Dearness Allowance/Dearness Relief with basic pay/pension to Central     Government employees/pensioners w.e.f. 01/04/2004.

             The Fifth CPC in para 105.11 of their report had recommended that DA should be converted into Dearness Pay each time the CPI increase by 50% over the base index used by the Pay Commission.

2.          This recommendation of Fifth CPC has been considered and the President is pleased to decide that, with effect from 01/04/2004, DA equal to 50% of the existing basic pay shall be merged with the basic pay and shown distinctly as Dearness Pay (DP) which would be counted for purposes like payment of allowances, transfer grant, retirement benefits, contribution to GPF, Licence fee, monthly contribution to CGHS, various advances, etc. The entitlements of LTC, TA/DA while on tour and transfer and government accommodation shall, however , continue to be governed on the basis of the basic pay alone without taking into account Dearness Pay. In case of existing pensioners, Dearness Relief equal to 50% of the present pension will, w.e.f. 01/04/2004, be merged with pension and shown distinctly as Dearness Pension. Dearness Allowance/Dearness Relief converted into Dearness Pay/Dearness Pension respectively would be deducted from the existing rate of Dearness Allowance/Dearness Relief.

3.         To ensure that pensioners retiring between 01.04.2004 to 31.01.2005 do not face any loss in fixation of pension, as a special dispensation in their case, DA equal to 50% of the basic pay would be treated as basic pay for purposes of computation of pension in respect of basic pay received by them prior to 01.04.2004. Consequently, element of dearness pension will exist only for pensioners retired/retiring from Government of India up to 31.03.2004.

4.        Insofar as the persons serving in the Indian Audit & Accounts Department are concerned, these orders issue after consultation with the Comptroller & Auditor General of India.

(SUSHMA NATH)
Joint Secretary to Government of India

Source : CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS