Eligibility for allotment of General Pool residential accommodation, to the officers and employees of the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee (SCLSC).

Government of India
Ministry of Urban Development
DIRECTORATE OF ESTATES

No.11013/D/4/2002.pol.I

Nirman Bhavan, New Delhi-110 011
October, 26th 2012.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: - Eligibility for allotment of General Pool residential accommodation, to the officers and employees of the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee (SCLSC).

   The undersigned is directed to refer to Department of legal Affairs ministry of Law & Justice Cabinet Note No. A-60011/57/2008-Admin.III (LA) dated 28.9.20l2 seeking approval of Cabinet Committee on Accommodation (CCA) for grant of eligibility to the officers and staff of Supreme Court Legal Service Committee (SCLSC) and to say that CCA has considered the matter in its meeting held on 09.10.2012 and has decided to declare the office of SCLSC eligible for allotment of General Pool Residential accommodation at Delhi. Accordingly, the officers and employees working in SCLSC at Delhi will be eligible for allotment of General Pool Residential accommodation on maturity of their turn in the waiting List subject to fulfillment of other usual conditions.

FACILITIES EXTENDED TO HANDICAPPED PERSONS IN RESPECT OF RESERVATION IN TRAINS.

FACILITIES EXTENDED TO HANDICAPPED PERSONS IN RESPECT OF RESERVATION IN TRAINS.

   (i) A reservation quota of two sleeper class berths has been earmarked in all trains running on non- suburban sections for handicapped persons performing their journey on handicapped concessional ticket. The person accompanying the handicapped person as escort is also allotted the berth out of this quota.

   (ii) Instructions have also been issued that in the tickets issued through Computerized Passenger Reservation System, to extent  feasible, one lower berth should be allotted to the handicapped person and the  person accompanying the handicapped person as escort should be allotted middle/upper berths near the handicapped person subject to availability of accommodation.

   (iii)After departure of the train, if there are vacant lower berths available in the train, and if any physically handicapped person booked on the authority of handicapped concessional ticket, who has been allotted upper/middle berth, approaches for allotment of vacant lower berths, the Conductor/Train Ticket Examiner (TTE) has been authorized to allot the vacant lower berth to them making necessary entries in the chart.

   (iv) Specially designed coaches known as SLRD coaches with wider entrance doors to allow a wheel chair to  enter, wider aisles and modified toilet with 4 berths, the lower two for physically challenged persons and upper berths for attendants have been attached in almost all Mail/Express  trains except Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Jan Shatabdi Express Trains and Duronto Express Trains.

Amendment in Provident Fund Rules – Notification issued by Ministry of Labour and Employment.

MINISTRY OF LAROUR AND EMPLOYMENT
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 5th October, 2012.

     G.S.R. 744(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by section 5, read with sub-section (1) of section of the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (19 of 1952), the Central Government hereby makes the following Scheme further to amend the Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme, 1952, namely: -

   1. (i) This Scheme may be called the Employees’ Provident Funds (Fourth Amendment) Scheme, 2012.

       (ii) It shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

   2. In the Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme, 1952 (hereinafter, referred to as the principal Scheme), under paragraph 83 relating to special provisions in respect of International/Workers.

       (a) in paragraph 69 of the principal Scheme" as modified by para 6 of aforesaid paragraph 83, for sub-paragraph (4), the following sub-paragraph shall be substituted, namely: -