Saturday, 28 March 2015

extending the validity of full/half sets of privilege passes, dt : 26.03.12

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Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Sunday, 22 March 2015

Saturday, 21 March 2015

Irregularity in booking -- Modification of tickets on ARP date, dt : 10.3.15


GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. 2014/TG-I/20/P/ARP 
New Delhi, dated 10.3.2015
The Managing Director,
CRIS, Chanakyapuri
New Delhi


The Chief Commercial Manager
All Zonal Railways
Commercial Circular No. 14 of 2015

Sub: Irregularity in booking -- Modification of tickets on ARP date.

As per extant provisions, postponement or preponement of journey on the confirmed or RAC or waitlisted ticket shall be allowed in the same class and for the same destination or any higher class by the same train or by any other train for any subsequent days, subject to condition that the ticket is surrendered during the working hours of reservation office and at least forty eight hours before the scheduled departure of the train in which originally booked.

2. Cases have come to the notice wherein the reservation staff modify previously
generated PNRs on the ARP date so as to obtain confirmed tickets. As the journey and passenger details are auto populated on the modification form by entering PNR number only, modified tickets for opening ARP were generated in less time. Due to modification of tickets at the time of opening of counter, the passengers standing in queues are not able to get confirmed tickets which leads to complaints.

3. In view of the above, Board desires that the facility of journey modification (preponement and postponement) may be blocked/disabled during the first hour of the opening of ARP with immediate effect.

4. Necessary instructions may be issued to all concerned.

sd/-
(Vikram Singh)
Director Passenger Marketing
Railway Board

Source: www.indianrailways.gov.in [http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/traffic_comm/Comm-Cir-2015/CC_14_2015.pdf]

Friday, 20 March 2015

BPS


SC : Pension can't be less than 50% of pay


National Federation of Indian Railwaymen, dt 9.3.15


NFIR
National Federation of Indian Railwaymen
3, CHELMSFORD ROAD, NEW DELHI – 110 055
No. II/35/Pt. 11
Dated: 09/03/2015

The Secretary (E),
Railway Board,
New Delhi



Dear Sir,

Sub: Counting of services paid from contingencies with regular service for retirement benefits of railway employees who have put in such service – reg.

Ref:(i)NFIR’s PNM Item No. 27/2011 & 3/2013.
(ii)Ministry of Railway’s OM No. E(NG)II/2014/CL/14 dated 25/11/2014 to the Secretary, DoP&T, North Block, New Delhi.
(iii)NFIR’s letter No. II/35/Part. 11 dated 07/01/2015.
(iv)Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, DoP&T OM No. Misc-14017/6/2015 – Estt(RR), Dy. No. 1066914/15/CR dated 26/02/2015 addressed to Secretary, Railway Board, New Delhi & copy endorsed to the General Secretary, NFIR.

The Secretary, DoP&T, North Block, New Delhi while enclosing copy of NFIR’s letter No. II/35/Part. 11 dated 07/01/2015, has addressed letter to the Secretary, Railway Board (OM dated 26/02/2015), wherein the Railway Ministry has been advised to send the proposal in accordance with the procedure laid down in DoP&T OM No. 2034/2/2010 – Estt. (D) dated 13th August, 2010.

Federation also desires to state that the issue was discussed in the NFIR’s PNM meeting held with the Railway Board on 19th/20th December, 2014 wherein the Official Side while discussing PNM Item No. 27/2011 & 3/2013 had stated that the subject matter has been referred to the DoP&T vide OM dated 25/11/2014 whose response was awaited. However the DoP&T’s OM dated 26/02/2015 reveals that the Railway Ministry has not sent proposal in the prescribed format. For ready reference copy of DoP&T OM dated 26/02/2015 is enclosed.

NFIR, therefore, requests the Railway Board to kindly see that proper proposal is sent to the DoP&T duly endorsing copy to the Federation. The matter may be treated as important in view of the fact that the PNM item is pending since four years.

Yours faithfully,

Sd/-
(Dr. M. Raghavaiah)
General Secretary

Source: NFIR

Thursday, 19 March 2015

Pensioners own media -TELGU PENSIONER a publication of POPA Hyderabad an affiliate of BPS

Family Identity Cards to retiring/retired railway employees.. dt 16.3.15

RBE No. 19/2015
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
RAILWAY BOARD No.E(W) 2003/PS 5-8/1
Date 16.03.2015 
The General Manager(P)
&
The General Manager(Comml.),
All Indian Railways.


Sub: Family Identity Cards to retiring/retired railway employees.

In terms of Board's letter of even number dated 24.08.2006 on the above subject, Family Identity Cards Issued to retiring/retired railway employees are renewed after every 7 years.

2. The issue regarding enhancing the validity of such Family Identity Cards from present 7 years has been under consideration in Board’s Office.  The matter has been considered by Board and it has now been decided that validity of Family Identity Cards issued to retiring/retired railway employees and widows of railway employees will now be for lifetime instead of 7 years.  Other terms and conditions as laid down in Board’s letter of even number dated 04.06.2003 will remain the same.

3. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

4. Please acknowledge receipt.

(Debasis Mazumdar)
Director Estt.(Welfare)
Railway Board


Source: www.indianrailways.gov.in
[http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/establishment/E%28W%29/2015/RBE_19_2015.pdf]

Press Information Bureau , dt : 18.3.15


Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions 
18-March-2015 13:18 IST
Digitisation of Government Functioning 

National Informatics Centre (NIC) has developed work flow based application software for visitor management at any office known as eVisitor. It is a web based solution hosted at the NIC data centre and can be accessed / adopted by any Government office just by providing necessary master data for on-boarding. 


Government has taken initiative to digitize Government files and documents for its easy accessibility. NIC is providing technical support and consultancy on digitization of files and documents to the various Ministries / departments. Government has conceived Mission Mode Project (MMPs) under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) to improve service delivery system in the Central /State Government Ministries / Departments. The responsibility of provisioning of funds and digitization of file and documents rests with the concerned Ministry/Department/Organization. 

NIC has also developed and implemented eOffice application. The eOffice application aims to support governance by ushering in more effective and transparent inter and intra-government processes. eOffice is Mission Mode Project under the National E-Governance Plan. 

This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in Prime Minister’s office Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Shri Ramesh Chander Kaushik in the Lok Sabha today. 

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Format for giving information to the applicants under RTI Act- seeking comments from public regarding: DoP&T Order, dt : 17.3.15



No. 10/1/2013-IR
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pension
Department of Personnel & Training
North Block, New Delhi
Dated 17th March, 2015

CIRCULAR

Subject: Format for giving information to the applicants under RTI Act- seeking comments from public regarding

A committee comprising of representatives of Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Home Affairs and Central Information Commission was constituted to devise a standard format for reply to RTI applications under the RTI Act, 2005. The Committee recommended that there should not be a model/standard format for reply to the RTI application as there is no such provision in the RTI Act or RTI Rules. However, the Committee recommended that few points can be uniformly adopted by the Public Information Officers while replying to the RTI applications. Based on the recommendations of the Committee and in consultation with Ministry of Law and Justice, draft guidelines have been attempted regarding the elements that a RTI reply should essentially contain, which is placed at Annexure - I.

2. It has been decided to invite views/suggestions from the citizens on the draft guidelines. The views/suggestions, preferably not exceeding more than one page, may be sent latest by 16.4.2015 through e-mail only to Shri R.K. Girdhar, US (RTI), North Block at email ID usrti-dopt@nic.in.

(Sandeep Jain)
Director (IR)

Annexure-I


Subject: Format for giving information to the applicants under RTI Act- issue of guidelines regarding.

It has been observed that different Public Information Officers provide information to RTI applicants in different formats. Though there cannot be a standard format for providing information, the reply should however essentially contain the following information:


i. The name, designation, official telephone number and email ID of the CPIO.
ii. In case the information requested for is denied, detailed reasons for denial quoting the relevant sections of the RTI Act should be clearly mentioned.
iii. In case the information pertains to other public authority and the application is transferred under section 6(3) of the RTI Act, details of the public authority to whom the application is transferred should be given.
iv. In the concluding para of the reply, it should be clearly mentioned that the First Appeal, if any, against the reply of the CPIO may be made to the First Appellate Authority within 30 days of receipt of reply of CPIO.
v. The name, designation, address, oflicial telephone number and e-mail ID of the First Appellate Authority should also be clearly mentioned.

2. In addition, wherever the applicant has requested for ‘certified copies’ of the documents or records, the CPIO should endorse on the document “True copy of the document/record”, sign the document with date, above a seal containing name of the officer, CPIO (in place of designation) and name of public authority; as enumerated below:

True copy of the document/record


Sd/-
Date
(Name of the Officer)
CPIO
Name of the Public Authority

Soure: www.persmin.nic.in
[http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02rti/10-1-2013-IR.pdf]