Minutes of Standing Committee Meeting Held on 3.5.2017 between NC JCM Staff Side and the Official Side under the Chairmanship of Secretary
S.No. 12 – Ensuring five promotions in the service career
Establishment Division, DoPT, vide their letter dated 09.02.2017, had informed that action on this point was required to be taken by Cadre Review Division and a letter had been written to the concerned Joint Secretary.
With regard to other demand i.e. grant of MACP in promotional hierarchy, they informed that if MACP was granted in the promotional hierarchy, it would give rise to uneven benefit to employees falling in the same pay scale since several organizations had adopted different hierarchical patterns.
Consequently employees working in organizations having larger number of intermediate grades would suffer because financial upgradation under MACPS would place them in lower pay scale vis-a-vis similarly placed employees in another organization that had fewer intermediary grades. Further, 7th CPC has also recommended that MACP will continue to be administered in the hierarchy of levels in the Pay Matrix.
Staff-Side opined that the previous ACP scheme was far better because it was in promotional hierarchy while MACP scheme provides upgradation in grade pay hierarchy.
Staff-Side further stated that the two financial upgradations under the previous ACP scheme after 24 years were more beneficial than what an employee would get after three decades under the MACP Scheme. On this, the Chairman observed that the Standing Committee cannot look into issues which have been settled by the 7th CPC.
It was informed that when this anomaly was earlier pointed out to the Joint Committee it was promised that this would be reconsidered and rectified.
They suggested that if the MACP scheme was considered more beneficial, the employee should be given option to choose whether he wants ACP scheme or MA.CP scheme. The Chairman desired to know if there was any pay commission recommendation on this issue, on which he was informed that there was not.
It was decided that the Establishment Division would examine the issue further.
{Action: JS(E)DoPT}
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S.No. 2 – Include Grameen Dak Sewaks within the ambit of 7th CPC
S.No. 3 – Settle all anomalies of the Sixth Central Pay Commission
S.No. 4 – No Privatisation PPP or FDI in Railways and Defence Establishments
S.No. 5 – No corporatization on Postal Services
S. No. 6 – No ban on recruitment/creation of posts
S.No. 7 – Scrap PFRDA Act and reintroduce the defined benefit statutory pension scheme
S.No. 8 – No outsourcing, contractorisation, privatisation_of governmental function
S.No. 9 – Regularise the Existing Daily Rated/Casual and Contract Workers
S.No. 11 – Remove the arbitrary ceiling on compassionate appointments
S.No. 12 – Ensuring five promotions in the service career
S.No. 13 – Non-implementation of the decision taken in the 46th National Council (JCM) Meeting
S.No. 14 – Reduction of one day Productive Linked Bonus PLB to the employees of OFB & DGQA
S.No. 15 – Grant of one time relaxation to the Central Government employees ho have availed LTC-80
S.No. 16 – Grant of House Rent Allowance to the employees who have vacated government quarters
S.No. 17 – Restoration of interest-free advances withdrawn by the Government based on 7th CPC recommendations
S.No. 19 – Grant of 3rd MACP in GP 4600 to the Master Craftsmen (MCM) of Defence Ministry
S. No. 20 – Carrying forward of Earned Leave by Defence Industrial Employees on transfer
S.No. 21 – Reimbursement of actual medical expenditure incurred by the employees in recognized hospitals
S.No. 23 – Review of the income criteria for the dependent parents of government employees
S.No. 26 – Removal of ambiguity in fixation of pay of re-employed ex-servicemen
S.No. 30 – Fill up all vacant posts including promotional posts in a time bound manner