It is expected that the government can announce the arrears in the budget. Shiv Gopal Mishra, Secretary, Joint Consultative Machinery, National Council (Employees Side) for Central Government Employees has urged the Central Government to release the 18 months DA arrears that were pending earlier.

Central employees will get 18 months DA arrears

Will central government employees and pensioners get the pending Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) arrears of 18 months during the COVID-19 pandemic? Actually, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received a proposal in this regard. In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, the central government had stopped the payment of DA and DR for 18 months from January 2020 to June 2021. Earlier, Mukesh Singh, General Secretary of Bharatiya Pratiraksha Mazdoor Sangh had urged the central government to release the payment.

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DA stopped during Covid has not been received yet

DA arrears of 18 months are still pending. According to a letter written to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, it is written in the letter that we fully understand the financial difficulties caused by the Kovid 19 epidemic. Due to this, three installments of Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) were stopped for the financial year 2020-21. However, as our country is slowly recovering from the effects of the epidemic, it is a pleasure to see the improvement in the financial condition of our country.

Modi government received the proposal for 18 months DA arrears

In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mishra said that as Secretary (Employee Side) of the National Council (JCM), it is my duty to draw your attention to some major issues that are bothering the central government employees and pensioners. If the government accepts the proposal of 18 months DA arrears, then the employees can get a big amount in salary. This will help them in times of inflation.

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A committee was constituted by the Central Government under the chairmanship of the Finance Secretary to make changes in the National Pension Scheme ie NPS. On June 9, a meeting was held with the office bearers of the National Council of Staff Site CM.

old pension scheme should be restored

In the meeting, the committee was clearly told by the representative of the central government employees organization that apart from the old pension, the employees organization will not approve anything else. The only way to solve this problem is to abolish the unguaranteed NPS scheme and restore the old pension scheme.

Constitution of committee for amendment in NPS

In this case, the chairman of the committee assured that attention will be given to all the points of the memorandum given by the staff side. Along with this, whatever issues have been raised during the discussion, they will also be looked into. For the time being, a report is required. Therein an attempt will be made to address the concerns expressed by the staff side. Explain that the committee was formed by the government to amend the NPS.

Labor union demands

Here, in the meeting, the representative of the employees’ organization has given various arguments in support of its demands of the committee. The committee says that NPS should be abolished at all costs and the Guarantee Sudha Purani Pension Yojana should be restored.

Tell that after 2004 there has been a demand to withdraw the National Pension System applicable to Indian employees. The employees union demands that all the employees recruited after January 1, 2004 should be brought under the purview of the old pension scheme under the CCS Pension Rules, 1972. Reforms in NPS are not beneficial to the employees in any way and were never demanded by the employees.

The employees organization says that there is no stability in the National Pension Scheme and the employees, satisfied with the scheme, formed a committee of 4 members under the chairmanship of the regular secretary.

The NPS present in the committee is being reviewed. The responsibility has been given to find out whether there is a need to change its structure and functioning. Apart from the committee, the secretary of JCM attended the meeting. Apart from this, many other officials also attended the meeting.

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