F.No.421l6/2016-P&PW(G)Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, P.G and PensionsDepartment of Pension & Pensioners Welfare'

********3rd Floor, Lok ayak Bhawan

Khan Market, New Delhi-l l 0003Date:- 10th Jan, 2017

To

All the Pensioners Associations included in the SCOV Avide Resolution dated 25.08.2015

Subject.- 29th SCOVA meeting under the chairmanship of Hon'ble MOS(PP) - ActionTaken Report on the meeting of the last SCOVA meeting.

Please find enclosed herewith Action Taken Report on the minutes of the 28th SCOVAmeeting held under the chairmanship ofHon'ble MOS(PP) on 27.06.2016 for your kind perusal.

Encl:- as above

(Sujasha Choudhury)Director(P)

Mini try of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions(Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare)

Action Taken Report on the Minutes of the 28th SCOV A meeting held underthe Chairmanshipof Hon'ble MOS(PP) on 27.06.2016

Issue

Para 4(i) of theminutes:-

Revision of PPOsof pre-2006pensioners.

S.No Action TakenDiscussion held duringprevious meeting

l. CPAO intimated that 5035PPOs are yet to be revised. Outof these, 75% of the casespertain to the pre-90 pensionersdetails for which are notavailable with theMinistries/Deptts/PxOs. TheIist of such pensioners has beenprovided to theBanks/Ministries/Departments.Details of such pensioners arealso available on the website.CPAO requested the PensionersAssociation to reach out to thepensioners and co-operate in theprocess. Secretary(P&PW)asked CPAO to take up thematter once again with banksand concernedDepartments/Ministries for

(.i)early revision of PPO .

CPAOStatus of Revision of PPOs for pre-2006pensioners as on 05.01.2017 is as under:-

Revisedauthorityissued byMins/Deptts

PPOs yetto berevised

TotalCases

32673,95,0913,98,358

For remaining 3267 cases revision by bankshave already been taken up. Revisions byDepartments/PAOs could not be done for want ofrelevant records. In this regard a meeting of CGAwith CCAs was convened on 11.11.2016 andfollowing decision were takerr-

CPAO would prepare fresh list of livepending cases on basis of e-scrolls which wouldbe provided to concerned MinistrieslDepartmentsto review the pendency. If any pensioner representfor revision of his/her pension, the same would berevised on verification of records provided byhim/her.

(ii) CPAO will also provide list of pending casesto the banks to check the genuineness of thesecases on basis of KYC records available withthem.

Ministn' of DefenceMinistry of Defence has shownil pendency. However:-

DoPPW held two review meetings under thechairmanship of Secretary(P&PW) to discusspending Issues of Defence Pensioners on27/09/2016 and 2011212016.

(i) One of the DefencePensioners Associations saidthat there are discrepancies indata, especially in case of AirForce Pensioners. Status of revision of PPOs for pre-2006 Air Force

pensioners is as under:-

Total Revised PPOs yetCases authority to be

issued revised48,245 45,877 2368

S.No Discussion held duringprevious meeting

Action TakenIssue

Information is being retrieved from e-scroll ofCPPCs of banks and these 2368 cases would berevised by 3 I .12.2016.

Further, there are about 15,000 cases for whichinformation on whether they are of pre-2006 orpost-2006 is not available. Secretary(P&PW)asked Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare totake up the matter with the CPPCs of theconcerned Banks, so that the 15,000 cases maybe revised by the first week of February,20 17.He also asked to share the list of 48,245 caseswith Defence Pensioners Associations so that theycan tally it with list available with them.

(ii) Pensioners Associationfrom Ambarnath has said thatmost of the retirees have not gettheir revised PPOs and thatPCDA(P), Allahabad 1S notacknowledging their reminders.Secretary(P&PW) askedrepresentatives of CGDA tohold a meeting of pensionersand officers of PCDA(P),Allahabad in Allahabad toassess the situation and reportoutcome to DoPPW.

» PCDA(P) Allahabad have informed thatthey have issued approximately !966 PPOs inrespect of civilian employees of OrdnanceFactory Ambarnath. To sort out the issuePCDA(P) Allahabad called a meeting o~20.10.2016 10 DPTI Allahabad, but therepresentatives of Association did not turn up forthe meeting. Again, PCDA(P) Allahabadapproached the association for the meetins but

'"the same could not be held due to non-approval ofTNDA for which PCDA(P) Allahabad is notcompetent authority to sanction. Further, CGPA,Ambarnath on 03.11.2016 intimated that approx1500 members of their association have receivedcorr. PPOs.

Department of TelecomDepartment of Telecominformed that 42 more PPOshave been revised. In remainingcase no records are availablewith the Department.

Status of revision of PPOs as on 31.12.2016 is asunder:-

Total Revised TotalCases authority issued pendency

by Mins/Deptts

203 10 193

Out of these pending 193 cases:-(i) Details are not available in respect of 42

cases.(ii) E-scroll has not been generated in respect

of 48 cases.(iii) Pendency due to other reasons- 103

Ministry of Railways has showniI pendency. One of the

Pensioner A sociation informedthat format of DoPP\V is not

Ministrv of Railwavs

Steps have already been taken by Mini 'try ofRailways to incorporate the details of last pay

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Issue Discussion held duringprevious meeting

being followed In the PPOsissued by Ministry of Railwaysand pay scale and last paydrawn by the pension is notbeing indicated therein.Secretary(P&PW) directed therepresentatives of Ministry ofRai lways to ensure that theprescribe format is adhered to .

All organization were asked totake all steps to complete therevision process 111 the nextmonth and close the issuefinally as we have now to getready for revision based on 7~1CPC recommendations.

(Action:- CPAO, Ministry ofDefence, Ministry of Railwaysand Department of Telecom)

Action Taken

drawn and the pay scale in the PPO. Further,Steps are also being taken to incorporate thedetails of number of increments drawn in the payscale at the time of retirement for futurereferences.

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2. Para 4(ii) of theminutes:-

Health InsuranceScheme forpensionersincluding thoseresiding in Non-CGHS Area

Ministry of Health and FamilyWelfare informed that a draftEFC Memo was circulated bythem but only DoPPW havefurnished comments on thisDraft EFC Memo. Thecomments/views from otherMinistries/Departments are stillawaited so that the Final EFCMemo could be circulated byMinistry of Health and FamilyWelfare.. Secretary (P&PW)asked a\I the concernedDepartments to furnishcomments on Draft EFC Memowithin a week.

Ministry of Health and FamilyWelfare was also requested toconsider the request of DisabledWar Veterans/India), NewDelhi to include Prosthesis IIIthe Insurance cover.

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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

(i) The final EFC lema is under finalisationbased on the comments received from concernedMinistries/Departments.

(ii) In the Second Review Meeting held on20.12.20\6, Ministry of Health and FamilyWelfare has informed that the Heath InsuranceScheme i.e CGEPHlS will not be offered to Ex-servicemen as this Scheme is for supplementingthe CGHS whereas they are covered byECHS(Ex-servicemen Contributory HealthScheme ).

In response to the request of Disabled WarVeterans/India) that the Defence Civilianpensioners from Non-CGHS area may also becovered under the proposed Health InsuranceScheme. Secretary(P&PW) asked Ministry ofHealth and Family Welfare to arrange a meetingof concerned Pensioners Association i.e DisabledWar Veterans(India) with the Director (CGHS(P»).

~ Disabled War Veterans (India) wasreque ted to send a request to Department of E. -servicemen Welfare, so that the is LIe ofprosthesis may also be taken up by Department ofEx-servicemen Welfare with the Department ofEmpowerment of Persons with Disabilities.

S.No Issue Discussion held duringprevious meeting

Action Taken

(Action» Ministry of Health DoPPWand Family Welfare)

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to indicatethe latest status of EFC Memo during the meeting.Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has alsobeen reminded on EFC Memo vide remindersdated 17.11.2016 and 04.01.2017.

..,J. Para 4(iii) of the

minutes:-

Special "Higher"Family Pensionfor widows of thewar disabledinvalided out ofservice.

Ministry of Defence informedthat the proposal was examined111 consultation with theDepartment of Expenditure andthe latter did not agree to thesame. Disabled WarYeterans(lndia), ew Delhi,informed that the number ofdisabled pensioners who arelikely to be benefitted by theproposal is much less than thatprojected by Ministry ofDefence to Department ofExpend iture. Secretary(P &PW)directed Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare to have arelook at the issue. Departmentof Expenditure mentioned thatthey would have reconsider thematter if the proposal is sent byDepartment of Ex-servicemenWelfare again.

(Actiour- Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare)

Ministrv of Defence

The issue relates to payment of Special FamilyPension to war disabled invalided soldiers on theirdeath without considering the limit of seven years.The invalided war disabled soldiers are gettingdi ability pension comprising ervice element anddisability element. If they die after a period ofseven years, the family pension IS calculatedbased only on the service element -disabilityelement is ignored for family pension. Therequest is for calculating family pension takinginto account both disability element and serviceelement, even if th death occurred after sevenyear of their invalidation. The proposal v asearlier examined by Ministry of Defence.Ministry of Defence has stated that the commentsof Service Headquarters on the issue has beensought vide MOD 10 ote dated 10.10.2016 fromall the three Services which is still awaited.

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of recommended that all PostalExtensionCG HS facilities to Dispensaries should be covered

with CGHS. It was decided toawait the decision of theGovernment within a month.

Para 4(iv) of theminutes:-

P&T pensioners

The representatives of Ministryof Health and Family Welfareinformed that the 7th Cl'C has

(Action.- Ministry of Healthand Family Welfare)

Ministrv of Health and Familv Welfare

The decision of the Government on therecommendations of 7th Cl'C is still awaited.

DoPPW

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to indicatelatest ranis during the meeting a to where thematter is pending. The Ministry of Health andFamily Welfare has also been reminded on thesame vide DoPPW' OM dated 04.01.2017 toexpedite the matter.

5. Para 4(v) of theminutes:-

Anomaly infixation of pensionto DoT em ployees

It was mentioned by Departmentof Telecom that based on aformulation suggested byDepartment of Pension andPensioners Welfare, the file wasreferred to Department ofExpend iture for their

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Department of Telecom

BS L has submitted financial implicationsresulting from 2 method suggested by IFD(DoT)and DOPPW for 4230 affected pensioners. As perIFD (DoT) method financial implication come to

of

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Issue

absorbed BSNLretired between01.10.2000 and31.07.2001

Para 4{vi) of theminutes:-

The Department of Telecom Department of Telecominformed that the proposal hasalready been ubmitted for Consequent on approval of Cabinet, the necessaryapproval of Cabinet. instructions were issued to the concerned CCAs

vide OM dated 18.07.2016.

Discussion held duringprevious meeting

approval/decision. Departmentof Expenditure has sought somefurther details from Departmentof Telecom. DoT was asked toexpedite the information toensure that the matter is resolvedwithin a month.

(Action»Telecom)

Department

Merger of 78.2(YoIDA with basicpension benefit to [Actionr-absorbed BSNL Telecom)

Action Taken

Rs. 31,00,566 p.m + IDA DR, and as per DoPPWmethod financial implication comes to Rs.5,43,320 p.rn + IDA DR. Consequently, IfD ofDOT has sought a list showing cases of actualshortfall for the concerned pensioners forestablishing the correct financial implications andidentifying beneficiaries. The detail of same have

of been sought from BS L vide letter dated14.12.2016 and reply in this regard is awaited.

DoPPWDoT vide OM dated 04.01.2017 has beenreminded to expedite the matter.

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pensioners.

Para 4(vii) of theminutes:-

Extension ofbenefit ofupgraded GradePay to pre-2006retirees of S-12grades (Issue ofgrant of grade payof Rs. 4600/-instead of Rs.4200/-)

Department

DOT informed that in few caseswhere the CAT has directedgrant of the benefit of Gradepay of Rs.4600 to the pre 2006pensioners retired from the prerevised pay scale of Rs.6500 -105001-, the orders of CAThave been implementedconsequent on dismissal ofappeal filed in the High COUft.Department of Expenditure hadnot however agreed to extensionto grant of this benefit to allsimilarly placed pre 2006pensioners. Department ofExpend iture was requested toreconsider this issue keeping inview the orders of variouscourts and the ContemptPetitions filed 111 CAT,Bangalore Bench in this respect.Department of Telecom wasasked to follow up withDepartment of Expenditure toensure that the matter iresolved expeditiously.

(Action» Department ofTelecom and Department ofExpenditure)

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Department of Expenditure

The comments of Department of Expenditurewere forwarded to DOT on 06.07.2016.

DoPPW

Department of Expenditure has observed that theupgraded Grade Pay of Rs. 46001- was givensubsequently outside the recommendation of the6th CPC. Since this up-gradation is post 6th CPCdecision, it is not applicable to those who areholding the pre-revised scale of Rs. 65400-10,5001- and retired before 01.01.2006.

Department of Telecom

The matters IS still sub-judice and benefit ofGrade Pay of Rs. 4600 to pre-2006 pensioners inpre-revised pay scale of Rs6500-10500/- has 0

far not been given to any applicant 1Il

implementation of CA T's Order.

S.No Issue Discussion held duringprevious meeting

Action Taken

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(.:.;28:::..:.=2)'-----"0:..:.f_....;t~h'_=eMinistry of Health and Family Ministrv of Health and Familv Welfareminutest- Welfare informed that there is

Issue relating toCGHS WellWellness Centre,Dehradun.-

(D) Merger ofSurvey of IndiaDispensary inCeHS on thesame lines as P&TDispensary

(28.4) of the Ministry of Health and Family Ministrv of Health and Familv WelfareWelfare representative informedthat Th Cl'C has recommended The decision of the Government on themerger of all Postal recommendations of 7th Cf'C is still awaited.Dispensaries with CGHS. Itwas decided to await the DoPPWdecision of the Government onthis recommendation. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to indicate

the latest status during the meeting where the(Action:- Ministry of Health matter is pending at this stage.and Family Welfare)

no proposal for merger of thedispensaries of Survey of Indiawith CGHS was underconsideration 111 the Ministry.Secretary(P&PW) askedMinistry of Health and FamilyWelfare to examine the issue inconsultation with the Survey ofIndia, particularly in view of therecommendation of the 7th Cl'Cfor convergence of medicalfacilities available with variousdepartments of CentralGovernment.

(Action: Ministry of Healthand Family Welfare)

Office of Surveyor General of India has conveyedthat Survey of India, dispensaries situated atDehradun, ew Delhi and Hyderabad weree tablished as per the obligations under FactoriesAct as per v hich, it is mandatory to run adispensary, wherever printing office is located.Merger of these dispensaries with CGHSdispensaries would lead to violation of FactoriesAct. Hence, the merger of Survey of IndiaDispensary in CGHS on the same lines as P&Tdispensary i not possible.

minutest-

Conversion ofPostal Dispensaryat Cantt. Road,Cuttack to ceHSWellness Centre.

10. .>.,;;(2;;.;;8;...;...S=...)'--.......;;;0..;;..f__ t:.;;.h;;.;;.eMinistry of Rai Iways informedminutest- they ha e issued instructions for

adopting orders datedof 02.03.2016 issued by DoPT inof this regard. One of the

StoppageRecoverywrongful/excesspayments fromRailwaysPensioners

Pensioners Associationinformed that the reco erre arebeing made from Railwaypensioners in spite of theinstructions issued by theGovernment in pursuance of theupreme Court order .

Secretary(P&PW) advised theRailway Board to resolve thisissue by holding a meeting withthe concerned PensionersAssociations.

(Actionr-Railways)

Ministry

Ministrv of Railways

In this regard, a meeting of the concernedPen ioners Association i.e .F RailwayPensioners Association ha been scheduled withthe Executive Director Finance (Estt) on12.01.2017 at 9 am in Railway Board's Office.

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11. =(2:;.;;8;.;;...7;..L)__ o=f~--=th::..;;eJt was informed that the orders CPAOin this regards have been issuedby the DoPPW vide its OMdated 1/27120 ( I-P&PW(E)dated 20.09.2013. CPAOinformed that the instructionshave been issued by them alsoon 02.06.2016 and 14.06.16 tothe banks. CPAO al 0 informedthat there is lack ofcommunication between bankbranches and CPPCs. Jt.Secretary (P&PW) asked CPAOto take monthly reports fromCPPCs of all banks.

S.No Issue

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Delay incommencement offamily pension tospouse to death ofPensioners.

12. (28.8) of theminutes:-

Payment of (i)Restoration ofcommutationamount and (ii)AdditionalPension onattaining the ageof 80 years shouldbe streamlined bythe Banks.

(Actiun:- CPAO) The matter was also reviewed in the meeting heldwith banks on 22nd Aug, 2016 where it wasadvised to the Banks to take necessary steps inthis regard to ensure timely payment of familypension in the event of death of pensioners andreport the same to the CPAO through Format 'F'of e-Scroll.

It was informed that there is an CPAOinbuilt mechanism 111 thesoftware of all the banks for Vide OM No. CPAO/Tech/Bankautomatic restoration of Performance/20 15-16/45, dated 02nd June, 2016commutation and payment of CPAO has issued instructions regardingadditional pension on attaining restoration of commuted portion of pension after80 years of age. 15 years from date of payment of commutationSecretary(P&PW) asked CPAO and payment of additional pension on attainingto obtain reports from the the age of 80 years both automatically. The sameBanks to check whether was also reiterated to the banks in the meetingrestoration of commutation with the Banks on 22.08.2016. In the meeting itamount and payment of was also decided that :-additional pension to oldpensioners 1 being doneautomatically and in rime.

Discussion beld duringprevious meeting

(Action:- CPAO)

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Action Taken

CPAO has issued an OM Bo CPAO/Tech/banksPerformance/20 I5-16/45 dated 2nd June, 2016 toHeads of CPPCs and Government BusinessDivisions of all Authorised Banks. Banks aresupposed to commence the family pension to thespouse immediately on receipt of death certificateof the pensioner, after obtaining proof of his/herown age/date of birth and undertaking of recoveryof excess payment. Banks are instructed toarrange payment of family pension latest within amonth of submission of above documents andprovide details of transaction for the interveningperiod of the family pensioner.

(i) As per the note below the Special SealAuthority (SSA)!Pension Authorisation order andGuideline o. 13 on the reverse of the SSA issuedby CPAO to banks that such restoration andadditional pension have to be restored/started bybanks automatically.

(ii) All CPPCs have been directed to submit thecompliance report of above e-rnail on monthlybasis and instructions in this regard have beenissued by CPAO vide OM dated 02.12.2016.