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. 23 – Review of the income criteria for the dependent parents of government employees in the wake of the recent legislation of “Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007″
Department of Expenditure had through their letter dated 10.01.2017 informed that a proposal for revision of income limit to Rs. 9000/- for dependency for the purpose of providing CGHS coverage to family members, received from MoH&FW, had been examined and the comments /approval of that Department was conveyed to the MoH&FW vide D/o Expenditure ID No. 204/EV/2016 dated 19.10.2016. With regard to the demand for further review of the limit of Rs. 9000/-, it has been stated that no such proposal has been received in D/o Expenditure from MoH&FW.
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare had vide their OM No. B-12014 / 01
2016-JCM dated 05th April, 2017 informed that the income limit from all sources for dependency for the purpose of availing CGHS had been revised to Rs. 9,000/-plus the Dearness Relief on Pension. It has further added that revision of income limit has been done recently and there is no-proposal with reference to -review of income limit of Rs. 9,000/-.
Staff-Side requested that the revisions have to be in accordance with the “Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007”. It, was stated that in one such case the court had directed full reimbursement. They requested that the issue may be re-examined.
{Action: M/o H&FW}
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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