Amenities facilities to teachers and staff of Kendriya Vidyalayas.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF  HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
RAJYA SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-4132

ANSWERED ON-03.05.2013

Amenities facilities to teachers and staff of Kendriya Vidyalayas

  4132 .    SHRI ANIL KUMAR SAHANI

   (a) whether teachers and staff of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) are provided various amenities and facilities;

   (b) if so, the details thereof including Quarters, Medical, Sikshak Sadan, etc.;

   (c) whether KVS collects part of salary of employees under Employees Welfare Scheme (EWS);

   (d) if so, the details thereof including rules governing EWS, money collected, utilised, unutilised during the last three years;

   (e) whether several facilities in Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) like Swimming pool, Gym. etc. are operated by outside private parties;

   (f) if so, the details thereof including rules regarding access by KV employees; and

   (g) the steps being taken by Government for welfare of employees of KVs?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. SHASHI THAROOR)
   (a) & (b) Yes, Sir. The employees of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) are eligible to avail amenities and facilities of Staff Quarters, Medical Facilities and Shikshak Sadans at Bhopal and Jaipur.

   (c)    Yes, Sir.

   (d)    The benefits under the scheme would be akin to the benefits granted to the Central Government Employees under CGEGIS, 1980. The scheme is wholly contributory and thus on a self-financing basis. The scheme is meant to provide twin benefits of a welfare cover to help the family of employees of KVS in the event of unfortunate death while in service and a lump-sum payment to augment their resources on retirement, resignation, etc. The amount of monthly subscription and the welfare cover to the employees is as under:-

Service Group to which the employee belongs	Rate of monthly Subscription	Amount of Welfare Cover provided to employee
A	Rs. 120	Rs. 1,20,000.00
B	Rs. 60	Rs. 60,000,00
C	Rs. 30	Rs. 30,000,00
D	Rs. 15	Rs. 15,000,00

   The details of subscription collected and utilized under Employees Welfare Scheme (EWS) of KVS from 2009 to 2012 is as under:-

S.NO.	Years	Subscription received from subscribers	Payment out of welfare fund to Subscribers	Balance Corpus
1	2009-2010	16273170	14355817	1917353
2	2010-2011	25679996	14107713	11572283
3	2011-2012	76764463	19873078	56891385

   e) to (g) 21 Swimming Pools and/ or Gym were constructed in different Kendriya Vidyalayas in Gujarat, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh by signing Build Operate Transfer (BOT) agreements with private parties between November 2001 and June 2004 by the KVS. As per the agreements entered into at the time of creation of these facilities, the concessionaries are to provide free of cost training facilities to school children and staff or any other users decided by the KVS authorities during school hours, which includes instructors, trainers, life guards and necessary equipment/materials etc.

Source: Rajaya Sabha Q & A

Attendance check in CGHS Dispensaries.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF  HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
RAJYA SABHA

STARRED QUESTION NO-489

ANSWERED ON-30.04.2013

Attendance check in CGHS Dispensaries

   489 . SHRI DILIPBHAI PANDYA

   (a) the norms for surprise inspections to check attendance in CGHS dispensaries in Delhi and NCR;

   (b) whether it is a fact that some of the CGHS dispensaries have been inspected only once during the last two years or have not been inspected at all;

   (c) if so, the reasons therefor; and

   (d) whether Government proposes to make it mandatory to carry out four to five inspections in a year to check attendance of doctors and other staff members of these dispensaries so that beneficiaries do not face any difficulty?

ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI GHULAM NABI AZAD)

   (a)to(d): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO RAJYA SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.489 FOR 30TH APRIL, 2013

   (a): The Zonal Additional Directors of CGHS are expected to conduct surprise inspections of the dispensaries in Delhi/NCR and report the outcome of the inspections indicating the areas such as punctuality, availability and behaviour of officers/staff, special care for pensioners/senior citizens, deficit areas/complaints and also the good work done in each of the dispensaries inspected, etc.

   (b)&(c): No. Surprise inspection of the CGHS dispensaries are conducted by the Additional Directors of respective zones on regular basis and report submitted to higher officers.

   (d) Ministry has already issued instructions to the Zonal Additional Directors to conduct at least five surprise inspections of the dispensaries in Delhi in a month and report the outcome.

Source: Rajya Sabha Q & A

Fixation of pay of disabled/medically unfit running staff on being appointed against alternative (stationary) posts in revised (6th CPC) pay structure.

RB/ESTT.No.41/2013

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. E(NG)I-2008/RE-3/4

New Delhi, dated 30.04.2013

The General Managers (P)
All Indian Railways and
Production Units.
(As per standard list).

Sub:- Fixation of pay of disabled/medically unfit running staff on being appointed against alternative (stationary) posts in revised (6th CPC) pay structure.

   Reference Railway Board’s letter No. E(NG)I-96/RE-3/9(2) dated 29.04.1999 containing procedure for absorption of disabled/medically unfit Railway servant in alternative employment, framed pursuant to the enactment of Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act-1995.

   2. Consequent upon implementation of revised pay structure inter-alia involving merger of various pre-revised scales and comprising running Pay Bands & Grade Pay based on recommendations of 6th Central Pay Commission, a question has arisen regarding methodology for fixation of pay of medically unfit running staff on being posted/appointed against stationary posts. The matter has, accordingly, been considered by the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) and based on the recommendations of a Committee constituted for the purpose, it has been decided that while determining pay in Pay Band for the purpose of fixation of pay of medically unfit running staff in alternative (stationary) post, an amount equal to such percentage of basic pay (pay in Pay Band + Grade Pay) representing pay element of running allowance as may be in force from time to time may be added to the existing pay in Pay Band and the resultant figure (ignoring the fraction of rupee, if any) rounded off to the next multiple of 10, would be the pay in the Pay Band in the alternative post with no change in the Grade Pay of substantive post, in suitable alternative post. An illustration in this regard is enclosed as Annexure-I.

   3. For this purpose, Para 1307 and 1308 of Indian Railway Establishment Manual, Volume-I, (Revised Edition-1989) First Re-print Edition-2009 may be amended as per Advance Correction Slip No.224 enclosed as Annexure-II.

   4. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Directorate of Ministry of Railways.

   Please acknowledge receipt.

   Hindi version will follow.

Sd/-
(M.K. Meena)
Deputy Director Estt.(N)
Railway Board

ANNEXURE-I

Annexure to Board’s letter No.E(NG)I-2008/RE-3/4 dated 30.04.2013

Illustration:

I	Present Pay :- Rs.12470 + Rs.4200	Rs.16,670
	Add 30% pay element# Rs.5001 i.e.	Rs.5010
	Pay fixed in alternative post would be	Rs.17480+Rs.4200
II	Present pay:- Rs. 7950+Rs. 1900	Rs. 9850
	Add 30% pay element# Rs.2955 i.e.	Rs.2960
	Pay fixed in alternative post would be	Rs.10,910+Rs,1900

Note:# At present the rate of pay element of running allowance being 30% of Basic Pay.

ANNEXURE-II

Indian Railway Establishment Manual, Volume-I, (Revised Edition-1989) First Re-print Edition-2009

   Chapter-XIII : Absorption of disabled/medically unfit staff in alternative employment.

ADVANCE CORRECTION SLIP NO.224

   1. Substitute the following for the existing paragraph 1307:

   1307: Reckoning of element of Running Allowance for the purpose of fixation of pay of disabled/medically unfit running staff : While determining pay for the purpose of fixation of pay of medically unfit running staff in an alternative (stationary) post, an amount equal to such percentage of basic pay representing the pay element of running allowance as may be in force from time to time, may be added to the existing pay in Pay Band and the resultant figure (ignoring the fraction of rupee, if any) rounded off to the next multiple of 10 would be the pay in the Pay Band in the alternative post with no change in the Grade Pay of substantive post, in suitable alternative post.

   2. Substitute the following for the existing paragraph 1308:

  1308 : Fixation of Pay (other than Running Staff): The pay in Pay Band of the disabled/medically unfit Railway servants (other than Running Staff) will be fixed in the alternative post as previously drawn in the post held by them on regular basis before acquiring disability.

(Authority: Railway Board’s letter NO.E(NG)I-2008/RE-3/4 dated 30.04.2013)

Source: NFIR