VOPIANS SALUTES THIS BRAVE SON OF OUR MOTHER LAND

OROP HEARING NEWS FROM COURT ROOM. THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS WERE PRESENT IN SUPREME COURT

OROP HEARING TODAY 19 NOV 2018 IN SUPREME COURT
OROP case was heard in court no 13 Supreme Court in front of Honourable Justice Chandrachud & Justice Shah on 19 Nov 2018. Our side was represented by Sh VK Tankha, Sh Balaji Srinivasan, Sh Arunava Mukherjee, Sh Varun Chopra and M/s Garima. UOI was represented by M/s Pinky Anand and Sh Rana Mukherjee. Govt counsels argued that this petition needs to be dismissed but OROP counsels strongly represented that notice has been issued to UOI and counter affidavits has been filed by UOI and rejoinder has been filed by petitioners. We are ready for final arguments. We have very strong case that injustice has been done to ex-servicemen by Govt. While Govt is claiming that they have released OROP whereas the fact is that OROP has not been released and because of inherent conditionalities in even 7 CPC full advantage has been denied to old ESM pensioners. Judges took note of petitioners arguments and ordered that case be listed for final arguments in first week of Feb 19.
GROUP CAPT VK Gandhi.

Incorrect/Wrong practice being followed by banks in payment of Defence Pension on e-PPOs.

Circular 207

No. AT/Tech/358-II 

Dated: 12.11.2018.

To,

1. The Chief Accountant, RBI Deptt. of Govt. Bank Accounts, Central office C-7, Second Floor, Bandre- Kurla Complex, P B No. 8 143, Bandre East Mumbai-400051

2. The Director of Treasuries of all state

3. The Manger CPPC of Public Sector Banks including IDBI

4. The CDA (PD) Meerut..........

5. The CDA-Chennai..........

6. The Nodal Officers (ICICI/ AXIS/HDFC Bank).

7. The Pay & Accounts Officers.

8. Military and Air Attache, Indian Embassy Kathmandu, Nepal.

9. The DPDO............

10 The Post Master..............

Sub: Incorrect/Wrong practice being followed by banks in payment of Defence Pension on e-PPOs.

Consequent upon generation of e-PPO by this office for all categories of Defence Pensioners, procedures for forwarding of e-PPOs by the Pension Sanctioning Authorities to the Pension Disbursing Authorities and e-verification of these e-PPOs were issued under this office circular No. 588 dated 20.10.2017

The procedure mentioned in above circular clearly states that a copy of e-PPO, duly digitally singed will be sent to the bank through SFTP connectivity which this office has established with various banks and through email id pcdapedp.cgda@nic.in to others bank and other PDAs (except DPDO to whom the PPOs are forwarded through CGDA WAN) who have not established SFTP connectivity that time. A copy of these e-PPOs, duly digitally signed will also sent electronically to Army HQrs/Record Offices(ROs)/ Head of Offices for scrutinizing and checking the same. Army HQrs/ Record Offices(ROs) / Head of Offices were required to provide to the PDA a hard copy of the e-PPO( after printing from the PDF file) along with the descriptive roles of the Descriptive Particulars of the pensioners.

PDAs were advised to affect the payment based on e-PPO received by them through SF TP/email only after confirmation from the Army HQrs/Record Offices(ROs)/ Head of Offices in the form of receipt of hard copy of e-PPO and Descriptive Role and Descriptive Particular.

However, flagrant incidents of ignoring the above guidelines by the banks have been noticed where banks are found making payment on the basis hard copy of e-PPOs where PPO has been issued in favour of CPDA, Allahabad instead of banks.

In view of the above, all the banks are requested that on receipt of hard copy of PPOs from Army HQrs/Record Offices(ROs)/ Head of Offices may invariably be confirmed with e-PPO received through SFTP and payment may be released only if they are authorized to make payment by that e-PPO. In case, e-PPO shows that PDA is other agency e-PPO may not be acted upon.

(SANDEEP THAKUR)

Addl.CDA (P)

JOVA TN SHOWS THE WAY

JOVA TN CROSSES A LAND MARK ACHIEVMENT BY HELPING A WIDOW TO GET HER PESION ARREARS OF 22,10,000N & AN INCREASE IN MONTHLY PENSION BY 23000/- CONGRATS TO JOVA TN & TEAM MOHANRANGA.

Improvement in Minimum Wage and Fitment Formula – NJCA

Meeting of the NJCA on 19-11-2018 – New Delhi

NJCA
National Joint Council of Action
4, State Entry Raod, New Delhi – 110055

No.NJCA/2018

Dated: November 9, 2018

All Members of the NJCA

Sub: Meeting of the NJCA

It has been decided to hold meeting of the National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) on 19th November, 2018 from 16.00 Hrs. in JCM Officer, 13-C, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi, to take stock of the current situation in regard to non-settlement of major pending issues, viz.

(i) Improvement in Minimum Wage and Fitment Formula

(ii) No Progress in respect of NPS Covered Central Government Employees

(iii) Other pending issues related to National and Departmental Anomalies.

All of you are requested to make it convenient to attend the aforementioned meeting of the NJCA, so as to take the consensus decision for future course of action in the prevalent scenairo.

With Fraternal Greetings,
sd/-
(Shiva Gopla Mishra)
Convener

NJCA MEEETING ON MF AT DELHI

Verification of Online Application for ECHS Cards by Record Office

Central Organisation ECHS

Adjutant General’s Branch

Integrated Headquarters of

MoD (Army),Maude Lines,

Delhi Cantt- 110 010

B/49711-IT/AG/ECHS 

05 Nov 2018

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(All Record Offices (Army, Navy & Airforce)

MP -5 / 6

MP-8

Coast Guard

VERIFICATION OF ONLINE APPLICATION FOR ECHS CARDS BY RECORD OFFICE

l. The process of making of new 64 Kb ECHS Card by an EX-Servicemen is initiated by the ESM by filling an online application form. ESM fills full details of self and dependents and uploads the required documents and photographs. Then ESM is required to make online payment through the payment gateway. Alter payment is made the application is visible to respective Record Offices for verification.

2. The application is verified by the Record Office after which there is no human intervention and the Cards are automatically printed. Hence, incase incorrect data is uploaded emneously by the ESM and the same is verified by respective records then the Card is printed with wrong data e.g. Date of Birth. name etc. Once the ECHS Card with wrong data is used by the beneficiary in case of emergency, ESM may be for once denied treatment/admission by an empanelled hospital, which may have sever repercussion leading to litigation.

3. A large number of complaints have been received from the environment where new 64 Kb Cards have been printed with wrong data. it is reiterated that although the onus to fill onlinc application for ECHS Card correctly is with the ESM but from the organizational point of view Record Office is the final authority to verify the correctness of all data including photo, PPO etc.

4. In view of the above. it is requested that Records Offices may please ensure that all fields in the application form filled by the ESM for new 64 Kb ECHS Smart Card be scruitinized with delibration to ensure error free verification.

5. This letter may please be put up to respective CROs.

Sd/-

(Rakesh Kakar)

Jt Dir (Stats & Automation)

for MD ECHS