DEPARTMENT OF POSTS ISSUED D.A. ORDERS
FOR GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS
ON SECOND THOUGHT, DOPT DOES NOT WANT TO
SCRAP PENSIONS ACT.
New Delhi: The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has decided against scrapping a 145-year-old law, which exempts pension from being “attached or sequestered”, though a bill seeking its abrogation from statute book has already been passed by the Lok Sabha.
Earlier, the DoPT had asked the Law Ministry to include the Pensions Act, 1871 in the repealing bill so it could be removed from the statute book. One of the key provisions of the law is that it exempts pension from attachment by any court. But later, it wrote to the Law Ministry to remove the Act from the repealing bill.
After its passage in the Lok Sabha, the Repealing and Amending (Third) Bill, 2015 is pending in the Rajya Sabha.
The Law Ministry is the nodal agency for repealing laws which have lost relevance today.
A senior government functionary said that perhaps the realisation that there is no other law in the country which protects pensions led to decision against scrapping the Act.
After the DoPTs request, the Law Ministry approached the Union Cabinet to clear an official amendment to remove the Pensions Act from the repealing bill.
On March 23, the Union Cabinet cleared the official amendments, paving way for the passage of the bill in the upper house. After being cleared by the Rajya Sabha, the bill will travel back to the Lok Sabha to clear the official amendments.
Section 11 of the Act states that “No Pension granted or continued by government on political considerations, or on account of past services or present infirmities or as a compassionate allowance, and no money due or to become due on account of any such pension or allowance, shall be liable to seizure, attachment or sequestration by process of any court at the instance of a creditor, for any demand against the pensioner, or in satisfaction of a decree or order of any such court.”
Another official amendment cleared by the Union Cabinet relates to the Appropriation Acts (Repeal) Bill, 2015. The bill, cleared by the Lok Sabha and pending in the Rajya Sabha, seeks to repeal The Punjab Appropriation Act among other laws. But the Punjab Appropriation Act has already been repealed by the Punjab Legislative Assembly and “inadvertently” became part of the Appropriation (Acts) Repeal Bill, 2015.
The two bills seek to scrap a total of 1,053 Acts which have become redundant and are clogging the statute books: PTI
CONFEDERATION DIAMOND JUBILEE ALL INDIA CONFERENCE PREPONED TO 16th, 17th & 18th AUGUST 2016.
As the National Convention of Central Trade Unions and Federations including Confederation has decided to organise one day General Strike on 2nd September 2016 against the anti-people and anti-labour neo-liberal economic policies of NDA Govt, it is decided to prepone the dates of the Diamond Jubilee All India Conference of Confederation to 16th ,17th & 18th August 2016 (instead of 26th , 27th & 28th August fixed earlier). The Venue will be CHENNAI itself. All India Women’s Convention of Confederation will also be held along with the All India Conference.
M. Krishnan Secretary General Confederation.
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ALL INDIA CONFERENCE OF THE CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS WILL BE HELD ON 16TH, 17th & 18TH AUGUST 2016 AT CHENNAI. FORMATION OF RECEPTION COMMITTEE MEETING-REPORT.
As per the decision of National Secretariat of Confederation the Diamond Jubilee year All India Conference of The Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers, will be held on 16th,17th& 18th August 2016 at Chennai. Accordingly, the Formation of Reception committee meeting was held on 5-4-2016 in ITEF Room in Chennai.
Leaders from all the Central Trade Union organisations participated in the meeting. The meeting was presided by the President Confederation Tamilnadu Com. J. Ramamurthy, welcomed by Com. S.Sundaramurthy, Treasurer and the General Secretary of the Confederation Tamilnadu Com.M. Duraipandian announced the Office Bearers of the Reception Committee and other committees.
As per the decision the Hon`ble Member of Parliament Com.T.K.Rangarajan will be the Chairman Reception committee. Nearly 15 Vice Chairman including Com.M.Shanmugam, General Secretary, LPF, all India president of HMS Com.C.A. Rajashridhar, Com.T.M. Murthy General Secretary, AITUC. State President of CITU, Com. A. Soundararajan, MLA, among others. Leaders from various other organisations including Com.R. Tamilselvi, TNGEA, Com.R. Elangovan, DREU, Com.Sendhi kumar, SBI Officers Association, Com. Shanmugam from BEFI, felicitated and extended support for the successful conduct of the conference.
Earliar the president of the Confederation Com.KKN. Kutty and Com. M. Krishnan, Secretary General addressed the meeting. All India Women’s Convention of Confederation will also be organized along with the All India Conference. Tamilnadu State Conference of the Confederation will be held on 15th August, 2016 in the same Venue.
In the Reception Committee, under the Chairman Reception Committee Com.T.K.Rangarajan, alongwith 15 Vice Chairman Com. M. Duraipandian will be the General Secretary Reception committee and Com.S.Sundaramurthy, will be Treasure Reception Committee. Nearly 25 General Secretaries from the other affiliates of the organisations will be the Assistant Secretaries for the various sub committees of the Reception Committee for the successful conduct of the Conference. The meeting was concluded with the vote of thanks offered by Com.M.S. Vengatesan, General Secretary of ITEF Tamilnadu Circle.
M. KRISHNAN
Secretary General
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