Saturday, 23 August 2014
Admissibility and Annual Ceiling in Children Education Allowance and Hostel Subsidy – Minister’s Reply
Reimbursement of Children Education Allowance and Hostel Subsidy
admissible if Institution where children are studying is affiliated to
any board or recognized by the Central or State Government or Union
Territory Administration or by University or a recognized educational authority
CEA Annual Ceiling : Rs. 18000/- per child
CEA Annual Ceiling for disabled children : Rs. 36000 per child
Hostel Subsity Annual Ceiling : Rs. 54000/- per child
Hostel Subsidy for disabled children : Rs.9000 per month per child
Gist of Minister’s Reply in the Parliament on Children Education Allowance and Hostel Subsidy
Children Education Allowance for Central Government Employees – Annual Ceiling and Details of Admissible Institutions
While answering to a question in Parliament on 18.7.2014, Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley said in a written form regarding the details of
Children Education Allowance that it has been informed by the
Department of Personnel and Training that the annual ceiling limit for
reimbursement of Children Education Allowance (CEA) is 18,000/- per
child. The Hostel Subsidy shall be 4,500/- per month per child.
The annual ceiling for reimbursement of CEA for disabled children of Government employees is 36,000/- per annum per child and the rates of Hostel Subsidy for disabled children ofGovernment employees is 9,000/- per child per month.
These revisions are applicable with effect from 1st January, 2014.
The reimbursement is admissible for the children studying in
institutions affiliated to any Board or recognised institution, whether
in receipt of Government aid or not, recognised by the Central or State
Government or Union Territory Administration or by University or a
recognised educational authority having jurisdiction over the area where
the institution is situated.
Source: PIB
Economy in use of paper in Central Government Offices – Finmin Orders on 22.8.2014
Economy in use of paper in Central Government Offices – Finmin Orders on 22.8.2014
No.25(6)/E.Coord-2014
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
North Block, New Delhi,
22nd August. 2014
Office Memorandum
Subject :- Economy in use of paper.
Ministry of Finance has been issuing instructions from time to time on
expenditure management, fiscal discipline and on the need for economy
and rationalization of Government expenditure. Government is one of the
major consumers of paper. Injudicious use of paper not only leads to
infructuous expenditure but also impacts the environment as trees are
the major source of paper pulp production. Instructions on judicious use
of paper have been issued by this Department in the past and similar
instructions are also contained in the Manual of Office Procedure (MOP)
published by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances.
With a view to further stress the importance of economy In use of paper
in Government offices, following instructions are issued for strict
compliance by all concerned : -
Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System
(AEBAS) be implemented in all central government offices
Aadhaar watch on babus
New Delhi, Aug. 20: The
sarkari babu will have to make every minute count.
The
Narendra Modi government has ordered that an Aadhaar Enabled Biometric
Attendance System (AEBAS) be implemented in all central government offices.
A
circular issued to all central government offices in the capital today has also
asked employees, of all ranks, to submit their contact details (email ID,
residential address, telephone and personal mobile phone numbers) to the
department of personnel and training that is with the Prime Minister’s Office.
Delhi
police are already building a databank containing the cellphone number, email
ID, name, rank and “personal number” and of every city cop, from constable to
commissioner, on the orde
rs
of the PMO. A letter from the home ministry on August 5 had asked for such a
databank, which will also include the municipality in which the cop lives. “All
the station house officers are on the job,” an officer said.
The
circular issued today does not give a date from which the new attendance system
will be implemented. It says “Aadhaar number is mandatory to register attendance”.
At
least one state — Jharkhand — has begun implementing the AEBAS. But a central
government order means the system will have to be adopted across the country.
The
system will be implemented in the capital first and then in all central offices
outside New Delhi. The order is binding on all employees, including those in
the armed forces.
To
implement the system, all offices will have to install fingerprint scanners
with Wi-fi Internet. The objective of the system, sources said, is “to check absenteeism
and measure the time an employee spends in office and the time he or she checks
in and checks out”.
Similar
systems have been implemented in many corporate offices, both in the private
and the public sector, though they are not based on Aadhaar, the card issued to
citizens by the Unique Identification Authority of India that was headed by
Nandan Nilekani and created by the UPA II government of Manmohan Singh in 2009.
The
system will also seek to ensure that employees cannot backdate attendance or
mark attendance for someone else.
On
July 1, Nilekani had met Modi and finance and defence minister Arun Jaitley and
given a presentation on the Aadhaar scheme that impressed the new regime.
Police
clueless
Delhi
police have been left befuddled by the message from the PMO asking for the
databank.
“This
is unprecedented. We are not clear about the objective behind it,” a senior
officer said in private.
“It
seems the PMO is going to be the new control room for everything: it will keep
a tab on all government officials including the police,” conjectured an IPS
official posted in the home ministry.
The
Delhi police, who claim to be the world’s largest metropolitan force with their
80,000 personnel including nearly 50,000 constables, have thrown themselves
into the massive exercise.
Delhi’s
is the only police force in the country that is under the Union home ministry’s
direct control. Police sources said the directive came in the form of a
ministry letter dated August 5.
Additional
deputy commissioner Mahesh Batra then wrote to all the zonal deputy
commissioners to help prepare the databank.
“May
kindly direct the concerned to collect the same from every employee under your
control and feed the information by August 13,” says the letter, dated August
11, of which The Telegraph has a copy.
“There
will not be an extension of this date, being time-bound requirement by Prime
Minister’s Office….”
Not
surprisingly, the deadline has been missed. A senior officer said the task
would be completed by the end of this month.
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
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