Govt to revise rates for CGHS empanelled hospitals

In a good news for lakhs of beneficiaries under the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), the Government is in the process of revising the rates of medical procedures offered by empanelled hospitals and diagnostic centres and giving them early payment assurance to encourage more medical institutions join the scheme.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has floated e-tenders for empanelment of hospitals and decided that the rates of various medical procedures would be fixed by an average of rates quoted in e-tenders instead of the old system where the lowest quotation became the rate.

Rates of all medical procedure centres under CGHS would be revised by April next year.

Transfer Policy for deployment of Group ‘B’ Gazetted officers of Ordnance Factories Organisation.

No 100/MISC/POLICY/AN
Govt. of India
Ministry of Defence,
Ordnance Factory Board,
10A S.K. Bose Road
Kolkata -700001
Dated-23rd December, 2013
To
All Sr. General Manager / General Manager /
Head of Establishment Ordnance and Ordnance Equipment Factories
Sub : Transfer Policy for deployment of Group ‘B’ Gazetted officers of Ordnance Factories Organisation.
As approved by O.F.Board. Transfer Policy for JWM, Sr. PS & PS is hereby circulated for information of all concerned. A copy of the same enclosed herewith an Annexure.

Railway Board is scheduled to meet the representatives of the two leading Railway Union on January 15 and 16.

This is after one of the two leading Unions-All India Railwaymen Federation conducted a strike ballot on December 20 and 21 across seventeen zones of the Indian Railway.

The other prominent one called the National Federation of Indian Railwaymen is planning to conduct a strike ballot on January 17 and 18 across the country.

The permanent negotiating machinery chaired by the Member Staff of the Railway board will hear the demands of the Unions.The Unions have threatened a strike in February 2014 if their demands are not addressed.

Earlier the strike ballot planned in September 2013 was deferred as the seventh pay commission was announced. However, senior leaders of the Railway Union have said that their other major demands which include abolishing new pension scheme and addressing the anomalies arising out of the sixth pay commission have remain unaddressed.