Kerala to introduce contributory pension scheme for government staff.

   The employees would be required to contribute 10 per cent of their pay and dearness allowance to the pension fund. The government would also make a contribution to the fund.

   The government has issued orders approving, in principle, the proposed contributory pension plan for government employees. The plan is proposed to apply to new recruits joining service from next year.

   The employees would be required to contribute 10 per cent of their pay and dearness allowance to the pension fund. The government would also make a contribution to the fund.

   Pensions would be available to employees who contribute to the fund for a specified number of years. Payment of full pension by government would be discontinued.

Department of Posts : Recruitment of Postal Assistant / Sorting Assistants – August 2012.

   Direct Recruitment of Postal Assistant / Sorting Assistants / Postal Assistant (Savings Bank Control Organization)

   Department of Posts published a notification(No.No. RECTT/4-3/2011/II  dated at Thiruvananthapuram 33, the 11th August 2012) today regarding recruitment of Assistants in various domains. Kerala circle, Thiruvananthapuram requires 45 Postal Assistants, 34 Sorting Assistants and 14 Postal Assistants (SBCO). The total vacancies of 93 will have the adoption of regular reservation as per rules. The scale of pay for the Assistants will be Rs.5200-20200 Pay Band with Grade Pay of Rs.2400 plus all admissible allowances.

One Rank One Pension: No end to ex-servicemen's agony

   New Delhi: The Prime Minister-appointed pay panel is unlikely to accept the ex-servicemen's demand of One Rank One Pension (OROP). Sources say that the government could agree to modified parity. The committee which is still to submit its report to the Prime Minister has already met the three service chiefs.

   The nitty-gritties of the One Rank One Pension would be clear if we look at one Army family that had two generations serving the nation at two different periods for the same length of time in the same capacity as Havaldar, and yet earning two different pension figures.

   Rajesh Kumar, an Army man, lives just about 200 kilometre from the capital in the village of Beri. A small family of three, his father too served in the Indian Army.