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Order of recovery of excessive payment made to employees would be impermissible in law if the mistake is detected after 5 years or if it is from Group C or D employees or from retired employees: SC

Order of recovery of excessive payment made to employees would be impermissible in law if the mistake is detected after 5 years or if it is from Group C or D employees or from retired employees: SC Order of recovery of excessive payment made to employees would be impermissible in law if the mistake is  detected   after 5  years or if it is from Group C or D employees or from retired employees: SC  Quashing an order of recovery of excessive payments made to employees, a Supreme Court bench comprising of Justice J.S. Khehar and Justice Arun Kumar Mishra has held that, if the mistake of making a wrongful payment is detected within  five years , it would be open to the employer to recover the same, but if the payment is made for a period in excess of five years, even though it would be open to the employer to correct the mistake, it would be extremely iniquitous and arbitrary to seek a refund of the payments mistakenly made to the ...

Clarification, new guidelines regarding issue of medicines under CGHS

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Revision of ceiling rates for Intra Ocular Lenses (IOL): ECHS Order

Central Organisation, ECHS Adjutant General‘s Branch Integrated Headquarters Ministry of Defence (Army) Maude Lines Delhi Cantt-110010 B/49773/AG/ECHS/Rates/Policy  19 Dec 2014 REVISION OF CEILING RATES FOR INTRA OCULAR LENSES (IOL) 1. Refer this office letters:- (a) B/49773/AG/ECHS/Rates/Policy dt 10 Jan 2011. (b) B/49773/AG/ECHS/Rates/Policy dt 28 Oct 2014. (c) B/49773/AG/ECHS/Rates/Policy dt 24 Nov 2014. 2. The following ceiling rates for IOL are hereby made at para 16 of Appx ‘C’ of above mentioned letter on the basis of CGHS OM No 536/2012/R & H/CGHS dt 21 Aug 14 and even no of dt 11 Nov 2014:- (i) Hydrophobic Foldable IOL (Multi-piece/Single piece Aspheric) Rs. 5,800/- (ii) Hydrophilic  Acrylic  IOL Rs. 4,500/- (iii) PMMA IOL (AC/PC) Rs. 500/- (iv) Scleral Fixated IOL Rs. 3,500/- 3.  Reimbursement  for  LASIK Surgery  and INTACS Rings is not recommended. 4. Therapeutic and Bandage  contact Lens...

Wishing you, your family and your loved ones

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Wishing you, your family and your loved ones A Very Joyous & Merry Christmas and A Very Happy New Year!!!  Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All!!! AMEN!!!  Er. S.C.Maheshwari;Secy. Genl. 'BHARAT PENSIONERS SAMAJ'

The continuous empanelment scheme would be in force initially upto 28th February, 2015 for all CGHS cities except Mumbai.

S. No. 11045/36/2012/CGHS/HEC GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Central  Government  Health Scheme Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi GUIDELINES FOR CONTINUOUS EMPANELMENT SCHEME FOR EMPANELMENT OF PRIVATE HOSPITALS, DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORIES, EXCLUSIVE EYE CENTRES AND DENTAL CLINICS WITH CGHS. Background With a view to ensuring comprehensive  health care  to CGHS  beneficiaries , CGHS has been, apart from the Government Hospitals, empanelling private hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, exclusive eye centres and  dental clinics  by floating tenders periodically. The last tender process in this context commenced in the January 2014 and through this process  package rates  for different  treatment  procedures and investigations have been notified in 2014. As a part of this process, certain hospitals and diagnostic laboratories exclusive eye centres and  dental clinics  which participated in e-tender process and accepted...

Alteration of date of birth of a Government Servant

F.No.19017/1/2014-Estt (A-IV) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Personnel and Training North Block, New Delhi-110 001 Dated : 16th December, 2014 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject : Alteration of date of birth of a Government Servant — reiteration of the instructions. *** Rule 56 of Fundamental Rules states that except as otherwise provided in the rule, every Government servant will retire from service on the afternoon of the last day of the month in which he attains the age of sixty years. Provided that a Government servant whose date of birth is the first of a month shall retire from service on the afternoon of the last day of the preceding month on attaining the age of sixty years. 2. As per Note 6 below the aforesaid Rule, the date of on which a Government servant attains the age of fifty-eight years or sixty years, as the case may be, shall be determined with reference to the date of birt...

IRCTC to allow online ticket on Railway Passes soon IRCTC to allow online ticket on Railway Passes soon, It will benefit lakhs of Railway

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PCDA Circular: Forwarding of revised LPC-cum-Data Sheets for Retiring and disability Pension Module (Commissioned Officers) of the Pension Sanction Software by incorporating Aadhaar Number, Mobile No. and E-mail ID.

O/o THE PR. CONTROLLER OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS (PENSIONS) V DRAUPADI GHAT, ALLAHABAD- 211014 Circular No. 20 Date : 05.12.2014 To, 1. The PCDA (O) Golibar Maidan Pune- 411001 2. The Adjutant  General Integrated H. Qrs of MOD (Army) MP 5& 6, West Block- Ill, R.K. Puram, New Delhi -110066 3. The Adjutant  General Integrated H. Qrs of MoD (Army) MPRS (O), L Block, New Delhi -110001 Subject: Forwarding of revised LPC-cum-Data Sheets for Retiring and disability Pension Module (Commissioned Officers) of the Pension Sanction Software by incorporating Aadhaar Number, Mobile No. and E-mail ID. Reference: This office Section order Nos. 4 and 5 dated 19/9/2014 Please refer to this office above cited Section orders under which PHP based LPC-cum-Data Sheet along with instruction for filling of additional columns of Data Sheets for sanction of pensionary  awards  in r/o Commissioned officers retired/ invalided out from service have been...

One Rank One Pension promise in peril? - Times of India Article

One Rank One Pension promise in peril? Nalin Mehta,TNN | Dec 14, 2014, 06.18   AM   IST Military veterans   claim babus are thwarting PM Modi's poll   pledge of   one-rank-one-pension by inflating its   cost estimates Roman emperor Augustus started the tradition of military pensions in 13 BC, when every legionary who had fought 20 years for Rome was guaranteed a pension for-life. It set the bar for modern armies, and independent India continued the British tradition of financially   privileging   military service until the mid-1970s, when soldiers were paid more than civilian bureaucrats, in service and after retirement. All that changed with the Third Pay Commission, which brought military   salaries   in line with civil services, and while soldiers have long complained about political control over the military in independent India mutating into bureaucratic control, a row over the NDA's promise for one-rank-one-pension ...

Bharat Pensioners Samaj: Marry Christmas

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Bharat Pensioners Samaj: Marry Christmas

Effect of BPS suggestion on http://mygov.in/. PMO & DARPG to abandon 'Forward & forget policy' with respect to'Online Grievance redressal'. System being revamped to trek resolving of grievance to its logical end

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15 Dec 2014 Hindustan Times (Delhi) Aloke Tikku atikku@hindustantimes.com PMO query sparks overhaul of grievance redressal body Zoom While analysing public grievances to identify policy gaps, PMO asks DARPG to upgrade system, classify and track complaints THE PMO ALSO CALLED FOR ENCOURAGING THE POOR TO ACCESS THE ONLINE GRIEVANCE SYSTEMS THROUGH THE NETWORK OF CITIZEN SERVICES CENTRES NEW DELHI: In its first attempt to analyse public grievances to identify policy gaps and bottlenecks, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has ordered an overhaul of the system to not only improve tracking of grievances but also use them to point out gaps that lead to the grievances. ILLUSTRATION: ABHIMANYU SINHA Nripendra Mishra, the principal secretary to the prime minister, ordered the detailed analysis of the grievances at a recent meeting convened to review the working of the PMO’s public wing that receives over 1,800 petitions from people every day. Soon enough, Mishra figured the P...

Pensioners’ Day Message from Secy. Genl. Bharat Pensioners Samaj

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SCOVA Agenda of AIFPA a MOU partner of BPS

ALL INDIA FEDERATION OF PENSIONERS’ ASSOCIATIONS CHENNAI-600 015 Items suggested for Inclusion in the Agenda for the 26 th SCOVA Meeting-January 2015 1. Irregular Denial of Family pension for widowed daughters.             (a) Family Pensioners who have become widows after the death of Both Pensioner/Family Pensioner (Wife of the Pensioner), have got their family pension terminated/not sanctioned in view of Government of India, MOP, PG & P.O.M No.1/13/09-P & PW(E) dated 11.09.2013 without due notice to the beneficiary . As the order under reference is contradictory to the Rule 54(6) (c) of CCS (Pension) Rules 1972 and therefore merit withdrawal. Refusal of benefits Conferred under CCS (Pension) Rules 1972 by an executive order is irregular.  The CAT, Ernakulam Branch, vide their order OA No.180/01041/14 dated 26.05.14 had stayed the ‘said’ order dated 11.09.2013.  The operation of the ‘said’ order...

Karnataka CGPA, Bangalore an affiliate of BPS writes to Deepa Anand Under Secretary GOI M/O Personnel, PG & Pensions-DOP & PW

        Dear Madam -- In response to your OM sent out recently on the subject of Items for the Agenda for    the SCOVA  scheduled to meet in January 2015, I have prepared a Note. It is Attached. Attachment: Proposed Items for the Agenda to SCOVA Meet in January 2015 ================================================= 1.     Gains from SCOVA What is coming up in January 2015 is the 26 th meeting of SCOVA, instituted by late Shri Rajiv Gandhi, then Prime Minister. (Incidentally, when he alighted from the aircraft at Stuttgart on June 8, 1988, there was a sudden pour. I had an umbrella and held it over him. Later, his Chief Security Officer Shri Defender Singh, known to me, came down the aircraft ladder, called me up by name, and took over the umbrella. I got fully drenched with my suit on. I had wished the Prime Minister, and his small smile is still in my memory. I was a junior diplomat attached to the Indian E...