Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's dharna and outlined the BJP's promises for the upcoming assembly elections, including job creation, increased financial assistance for women, and proper DA for state government employees.
Opening up the corner office is fine, but will the government be able to attract talent without giving a market-rate salary?, asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The 7th CPC places the Indian Police Service (and, almost in passing, the Indian Forest Service) on a level with the Indian Administrative Service, leaving the military out in the cold.
'The actions of Indian monetary authorities will depend on how quickly they want the inflation to come down to 4 per cent.'
The 79-year old veteran leader, who has already announced his retirement from electoral politics, said there is no question of him sitting at home, and after the assembly session he will tour the state and campaign for the party and its candidates.
The state has close to 280,000 employees and 180,000 pensioners.
Over 100 workers of the MSRTC had staged the protest outside 'Silver Oak', Pawar's bungalow on Pedder Road in south Mumbai on Friday afternoon, catching the police unawares.
Officials cited the example of the Sixth Pay Commission.
Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik on Thursday accused NCB's zonal director Sameer Wankhede and his family of obtaining two separate certificates of his mother following her death in 2015, each mentioning her as Muslim and Hindu.
The Commission will now have time until December 31 to submit its report.
The current salary paid by the Delhi government amounts to 17 per cent of the total expenditure.
Demands include 5-day banking, PF to be calculated on total salary and allowances, not only on basic
The Seventh Pay Commission had decided to choose the CPI-IW as the index for adjusting inflation for central government employees.
As the MPC is mandated to target CPI inflation rate at 4 plus minus 2 per cent, any measurement error in CPI is likely to have grave consequences for monetary policy.
The Centre is expected to increase the dearness allowance by 10% to 100% by the end of February.
Prez said basic pension of ex-servicemen of the Indian Army has increased by 2.57 times as compared to pension of December 31, 2015.
'The non-implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission, almost a year after it was implemented for civilians, is gradually beginning to hurt morale in the armed forces,' says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
The Railways is expected to mobilise a substantial chunk of funds through dynamic pricing.
State employees in Karnataka will have to wait longer for wage hike.
He said Parrikar had no right or authority to order the services chiefs to accept what is not acceptable to them, adding he had once again shown his inability to understand the services.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday unveiled its manifesto for the West Bengal elections, promising to build a 'Sonar Bangla' by providing employment, strengthening social security schemes and vowing to clear the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act in the first cabinet meeting of the new government.
Home and kitchen appliances, electronic products, apparel and B-segment cars stand to gain.
State governments want the Centre to direct the 14th Finance Commission to compensate states for implementing pay scales, to be recommended by the pay panel.
Madhya Pradesh has nearly 750,000 employees who would share the benefit of the pay hike.
The challenge of cleaning up the taxation system and introducing the goods and services tax (GST) regime cannot be underestimated.
This time, five states, including Tamil Nadu, have requested the Centre to delay the pay hikes.
The amount constitutes 45 per cent of the railways' total wage bill.
However, the hike in salary for government officials may take some time as the Centre had earlier this year decided to put a freeze on any hike in the DA of its employees till July, 2021, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations, One Rank, One Pension are the other triggers going ahead, analysts say
Govt is likely to find it hard to meet deficit target next year.
The aim is to reduce working expense by about 15 per cent.
BJP chief J P Nadda on Thursday launched 'Lokkho Sonar Bangla' (target to build golden Bengal) manifesto crowdsourcing campaign to seek suggestions from more than two crore people in West Bengal ahead of the upcoming assembly elections.
Jaitley said India needed to grow by additional 1-1.5%.
The government had committed to increasing spending in infrastructure
Overnight, the Wall Street closed on a flatter note.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said that Gandhi is an immature leader and his immaturity provided a handle to Pakistan today to accused India.
'They should decide their allocation based on their risk appetite and age, and not valuations.'
Railways to hive off all production units and workshops into new govt-owned company; may invite bids from private players to run passenger trains in next 15 days, with ownership vesting with the government.
About a million railway employees participated in the strike ballot of NFIR. In December, 800,000 employees participated in the strike ballot conducted by another leading union, the All India Railwaymen Federation, with 96 per cent voting in favour of a strike.
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