7th CPC Central Government has rejected the main demand for higher Military Service Pay for Junior Commissioned Officers

7th CPC Military Service Pay (MSP)

Govt Rejects Main Demand

7th CPC Military Service Pay (MSP) - Govt Rejects Main Demand

Central Government has rejected the main demand for higher Military Service Pay for Junior Commissioned Officers.
As per the media news today, the Army Headquarters was very upset over the decision of the Finace Ministry. Around 1.12 lakh military personnel including 87,646 Junior Commissioned Officers and 25,434 personnel of equivalent rank from the Navy and the India Air Force will be impacted by the decision.
The Defence Force Personnel, particularly the JCOs in Army, demanded to increase the MSP from Rs.5500 to Rs.10000. Earlier the 7th Central Pay Commission has recommended MSP Rs.5200 to JCOs.(Table shown the rates of MSP recommended by 7th CPC)
7th Central Pay Commission has applied a common multiplication factor of 2.57 on MSP of JCOs and ORs. As per methodology, the MSP has been raised to Rs.5200 pm from Rs.2000 pm.
The long pending demand on MSP that the commission forgot to consider that both JOCs and Equivalents are also Group 'B' Officers.
Whereas, the Group 'B' officers in Military Nursing Service, MSP had been fixed Rs.10800 pm. All JCOs and ORs (Combatants) demanded to raise the MSP to Rs.10000 pm at par with MNS Officers.
The 7th CPC recommended the rates of MSP was as follows:

Designation	Existing Rate of MSP	Recommended by 7th CPC
Service Officers	6000	15500
Nursing Officers	4200	10800
JCO / ORs	2000	5200
Non Combatants (Enrolled) in the Air Force	1000	3600

MSP will continue to be reckoned as Basic Pay for purposes of Dearness Allowance, as also in the computation of pension. Military Service Pay will however not be counted for purposes of House Rent Allowance, Composite Transfer Grant and Annual Increment.
The Military Service Pay, which is a compensation for the various aspects e.g., intangibles linked to special conditions of service, conducting full spectrum operation including force projection outside India's boundaries, superannuation at a younger age and for the edge historically enjoyed by the Defence Forces over the civilian scales, will be admissible to the Defence forces personnel only.

WHAT WE CAN DO WHEN THE FENCING ITSELF EATS THE CROPS

Forwarding of my representation to a wrong Department by DESW

M B Chandran Menon <vinodvihar31@gmail.com>

10:05 AM (0 minutes ago)

to rm, secyesw, jsesw

Respected Madam / Sir,

My attached application to DESW has been wrongly forwarded to Directorate of Army veterans instead of Directorate of Air Veterans.

I am a Air Force Veteran & Ex Sgt M B Chandran, My service particulars were clearly mentioned in my Representation.It is shameful to the entire MOD/DESW that an officer responsible for the welfare of Ex-servicemen do not know the Ranks in three services & their respective Directorate of Veterans.

Due to such ignorant people working in MOD / ESW, the pension Pension sanctioning of many widows  / Veer Narris were Held up for years together.

We ex-servicemen were very much impressed by the Good Governance Program announced by our Hon Prime minister Shri Narendra Modi, These type of people working in various departments are  torpedoing his Ambitious program & this is the condition of Good governance Programme at fag end of the five year Term of this Government.

As a Columnist I used to Point out to the Govt,that ma,y Ambitious programs of this Govt are Torpedoed by Bureaucrats lobby& this is a fine example that.I am taking up this with the PMO grievance cell.

You are Kindly requested to look in to this matter & take appropriate corrective action with intimation to me. Copy of my original representation & copy of wrong forwarding letter received is attached herewith.

Yours Faithfully,

M B C Menonn

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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