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Implementation of Government’s decision on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission – Revision of Pension in respect of Pre- 01.01.2016 OFFICE OF THE PR. CONTROLLER OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS (PENSION) DRAUPADI GHAT, ALLAHABAD- 211014 No. G-1/M/01/ICO’s/7th CPC/Vol. II/2017 Date: 29.09.2017 To, The PCDA (O) Golibar Maidan Pune- 411001 Subject: – Implementation of Government’s decision on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission – Revision of Pension in respect of Pre- 01.01.2016 Armed Forces Commissioned officers & their eligible families Pensioners. Reference: – (1) GoI, MoD letter No. 17(01)/2016-D(Pension/Policy) dated 29.10.2016 (Circulated vide this office Circular No. 570 dated 31.10.2016 available on this office website of this office www.pcdapension.nic.in (2) MoD letter No.17(01)/2017/(02)/D(Pension/Policy) dated:05.09.2017. Attention is invited towards the GoI, MoD letter No. 17(01)/2016-D (Pen/ Pol) dated 29th October 2016 regar...

As you’re walking back home, you notice an elderly person always sitting at that same corner outside his/ her house, sometimes staring into nothingness. Have you ever given thought as to what goes on in the lives of such old people? How do they live? Who do they talk to? Sometimes, the only ray of sunshine in their lives is a rare phone call from a son or daughter settled far away. Many youngsters, who live a carefree life, don’t realise that someday they too shall get old. They spend their days happily, never ready for the impending reality of life. They live by the words of English author Francis Bacon: “I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.” To these youngsters, I say: Stop and see. Notice and empathise. Because one day you will be in those shoes. About a tenth of the population is above 60, and with an average life expectancy of 66 years, the elderly population is set to grow sizably. Most of the old are either marginalised or ostrac...

What robotisation can offer to the future of work in India   As we ask ourselves how  employment  is threatened by technology, we should look at how labour has changed in recent decades. Before we get so attached to the current job market, and feel we must defend it from an eventual robot takeover, we should examine how unfair the labour system has become and how robotics could contribute to change that. If properly managed, the  robotic revolution  could be a chance to free millions of people from a system of exploitation of labour which is unprecedentedly inhumane. Or not. In ancient Rome, a slave worked a maximum of six hours a day. A third of the year was spent in festivities. European workers in the Middle Ages had a six-hour work day and spent 150 days in religious celebrations — almost half the entire year off! Nothing close to the 13 to 14 hours put in by the average, always-on entrepreneur of our times. Or the 10 hours a regular empl...

Former RAW staffer dies 23 days after he was poisoned by a passenger inside a bus and robbed NEW DELHI: A retired government employee died of poisoning at a Delhi hospital last week, 23 days after he was “drugged and robbed” inside a DTC bus, allegedly by a youth who appeared to be disabled. Vinay Kumar Bhatnagar, 64, worked in the secretarial staff of the RAW and retired in 2012. His daughter Divya is a television actor. Vinay had gone missing on September 25 and was later traced to the ICU of a hospital where doctors said he was poisoned. NEW DELHI : A retired employee of India’s premier intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), died of poisoning at a Delhi hospital last week, 23 days after he was allegedly “drugged and robbed” inside a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus by a youth who appeared to be physically disabled. Vinay Kumar Bhatnagar, 64, was a secretarial staff at RAW and retired in 2012. His daughter Divya Bhatnagar is a television actor. Bhatnagar li...

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COLUMNS Updated: Oct 21, 2017 23:36 IST Pushpa Girimaji  So remember, So remember, no manufacturer or service provider can take refuge under terms and conditions that are not made known to you.(AFP) Are you aware that service providers cannot bind you to terms and conditions that are not made known to you? Or that they can no longer use the small print to get away with unfair terms and conditions? Or that failure to give consumers the most crucial information pertaining to a product or a service constitutes violation of the consumer’s right to information? The apex consumer court has emphasized these points in a number of landmark judgements and here I am putting together a few of them. In Lufthansa German Airlines Vs Dr R.Bhaskaran, when a couple’s request for refund of their unused tickets was rejected by the airline on the ground sthat the terms and conditions governing the ‘excursion fare’ did not allow it, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission considered...

Indians are writing their wills earlier, and onlineRanjani Ayyar | 2017-10-21 20:11:00 +0000 Pooja Srivats, a resident of Bengaluru, was 39 when she drafted her first will after her father died leaving a sizeable inheritance without a will. "I didn't want money or property to become a cause of discord. However foolish it may seem, I wrote a will to record the little money and assets I had," said Srivats. Pune-based Pramod Kumar drew up a will in July when he turned 40. Being a single parent to two minor girls, he wanted to make sure they were taken care of, if anything untoward were to occur. More people, even those in their forties, aren't leaving things to chance but are writing their wills early on to avoid the kind of bitter property disputes they've seen tear families apart. And a slew of online will drafting options are aiding this trend. Founder and CEO of Vakilsearch Hrishikesh Datar said the number of will-related enquires had doubled every two years...

Pollution a cause of more than one of four early deaths  in India BPS calls upon pensioners to rise to the occasion to wage war against pollution by educating younger generation Indians are the worst affected by environmental pollution in  the  world. Environmental pollution from filthy air to contaminated water is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world- more than smoking, hunger or natural disasters, more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 about 9 million could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure, according to a major study released on Thursday (19.10.17) in the Lancet medical journal. Asia and Africa are the regions putting the most people at risk, the study found, while India tops the list of individual countries. In the most severely affected countries pollution is responsible for more than one in four deaths, the report said- PTI BPS calls upon ...

Posted: 19 Oct 2017 11:57 PM PDT Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Exit from NPS for Central Government Sector (CG) and Central Autonomous Bodies (CABs) DISCLAIMER: For detailed provisions and regulations, please refer PFRDA (Exit and Withdrawal under National Pension System) Regulations 2015 and subsequent amendments under it. The same are also available on website of PFRDA at  www.pfrda.org.in . Question Answer 1. What is an exit? An exit is defined as closure of individual pension account of the subscriber under National Pension System. 2. When can I exit from NPS? A subscriber can exit from NPS at any point but complete withdrawal is subject to certain conditions. 3. Whether pre-mature exit and voluntary retirement are same or not? Yes, under NPS both are same Pre-mature exit is defined under NPS as exit re the superannuation/retirement age. Under NPS, Voluntary retirement is treated as pre-mature exit. However, eligibility & terms ...