Easy access to health services to the public: GIS-enabled HMIS application and the self-printing of e-CGHS cards

Press Information Bureau 

Government of India

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

29-March-2016 20:10 IST

 Shri J P Nadda launches GIS-enabled HMIS application, self-printing of e-CGHS Card 

“A significant steps towards Digital India and for easy access of health services to the common man”: Shri J P Nadda

Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare launched two major Digital initiatives to provide easy access to health services to the public: GIS-enabled HMIS application and the self-printing of e-CGHS cards, here today. Launching these initiatives of the Health Ministry, the Union Minister stated that the Health Ministry remains committed to strengthening public health systems and providing user-friendly health services in the country. He further stated that that this will provide a tremendous opportunity to further strengthen and enhance the reach of key interventions.

Terming these as significant and forward looking steps contributing to Digital India, Shri J P Nadda said: “The initiative will not only monitor the performance and quality of the health services being provided under the NHM, but will also provide effective healthcare to the rural population throughout the country”. The GIS-enabled HMIS services will provide comprehensive data on a GIS platform on 1.6 lakh Government Health facilities spread across the country. The project has been developed with the objective of enabling the effective usage of the HMIS application, enhancing analytical capabilities of States/UTs and providing a geographical display of HMIS data using GIS. The application also has scope of incorporating map layers of roads and water bodies which will provide comprehensive information regarding health facilities and disease vulnerable areas of the country. At present, the application is available in login domain of HMIS portal. It is planned to put it in public domain in near future. Moreover, the mapping provides data only on public health facilities presently, which shall soon be expanded to cover private facilities also, the Union Minister informed.

Health Management Information System (HMIS) is a web-based monitoring system that has been put in place by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) to monitor its health programmes and provide key inputs for policy formulation and interventions. It was launched during October, 2008 with uploading of district consolidated figures. To make HMIS more robust and effective and in order to facilitate local level monitoring, “facility based reporting” was initiated since April, 2011. At present, 1.94 lakh health facilities (across all States/UTs) are uploading facility wise data on monthly basis on HMIS web portal. Data are presently being made available to various stakeholders in the form of standard & customized reports, factsheets, score- cards etc. HMIS data are widely used by the Ministry and States for policy planning, monitoring and supervision purpose.

The Union Health Minister, while launching the self-printing of the E-CGHS card, stated that this will provide ease and access to all those beneficiaries such as the pensioners who may find it difficult to go to the CGHS centres for renewal, and in the event of loss/misplacement of the card. As this can be printed from any location once the process of application based on authentic documents has been approved, this enables easy reprinting by the beneficiary himself/herself. The beneficiary can access this facility by visiting the CGHS portal at cghs.nic.in where simple steps for this have been enumerated.

Also present at the meeting were Shri B P Sharma, Secretary (HFW), and senior officers of the Health Ministry. 

Group- "B" -Transfers and postings in Vijayawada Region.

PMG Vijayawada vide memo no. ST/1-group B/RT/2016 dated 30.03.2016 issued the following transfers and postings in the region. We wish every success to the officers in the new place of posting.

SLNO.	Name of officer	Present posting	New posting
1	Sri Md.Sadiq	SP Narasaraopet	SP Tenali
2	Sri K.S.Venkateshwar Rao	SP Tenali	SP Narasaraopet
3	Sri Ch.Syambabu	SP Eluru	SP Gudivada
4	Sri SMSSV prasad	SP Gudivada	SP Eluru

7th Pay Commission: Central govt employees narrow down charter of demands; turn reasonable

New Delhi: The Joint Consultative Machinery of central government employees--the forum for amicable settlement of grievances of the Central Government employees relating to their service matters--seems to have turned more reasonable and have narrowed down the charter of demands seeking review of the seventh pay panel recommendations.

In February, the employees' forum had decided to proceed on an indefinite strike from April 11, if their charter of 26 demands was not met.

The demands also included no privatization of government functions, no FDI in Railways and Defence and no corporatization of Defence Production Units and Postal Department.

As per reports the Empowered Committee of Secretaries headed by the Cabinet Secretary assured that fair consideration will be given to all points brought out by the Joint Consultative Machinery​ before taking a final view.

Following are the narrowed demands presented by the Joint Consultative Machinery​ before the Empowered Committee of Secretaries:

1. Revision of the minimum pay of Rs. 18000 p.m. recommended by the Commission, taking into account commodities prices as on 01.07.2015 and appropriately factoring in for social obligations & housing.

2. Withdraw the New Pension Scheme. The Centre made made the NPS mandatory for employees who joined the service on or after January 1, 2004. It has since been adopted by most state governments also.

3. To re-examine the relevance of allowances and interest free advances in certain departments before taking a decision.

4. Should increase Fixed Medical Allowance from the existing Rs 500 per month to Rs 2000 per month, as large number of cities are not covered under central government health scheme.

5.Should discouraged outsourcing of services breed inefficiency and contractors exploit contract workers.

6. Enhancement in contribution towards Group Insurance Scheme has reduced the actual increase in take home salary considerably. If the rates are to be raised, the Government should bear the insurance premium

7. The recommendation regarding grant of only 80% of salary for the second year of Child Care Leave need not be accepted as this would deter women from availing of Child Care Leave, defeating the purpose of the welfare measure.

8. Annual increments be granted at the rate of 5% instead of existing 3% and increments may be granted on two dates i.e. 1 st of January and 1 st of July of every year against the current norm of granting of increment on 1 st July of every year.

9. The Commission’s recommendation of downgrading the Assistants of Central Secretariat for bringing in parity with their counterparts in the field offices is not appropriate.

10. Recommendation regarding Performance Related Incentive Scheme unacceptable as these could encourage favoritism.

Source: zeenews.india.com  &Posted by AIAIPASP( Chq)

5 Year Post office Time Deposit eligible for 80C

Investment made in "five year time deposit in an account under Post Office Time Deposit Rules, 1981" will be eligible for deduction from the Gross total income, under section 80C, with the overall section treshold of 1 Lakh.

The additional point to be noted is "The amendment shall apply to investments, as above, made during the financial year 2007-08 and subsequent years."

Below is the summary of the Finance bill presented in the budget:

Enlargement of the scope of eligible saving instruments under section 80C

Section 80C of the Income-tax Act provides for a deduction of upto rupees one lakh to an individual or a Hindu undivided family (HUF) for,-

(i) making investments in certain saving instruments; or

(ii) incurring expenditure on tuition fee and repayment of housing loan.

With a view to encourage small savings, it is proposed to enlarge the scope of eligible saving instruments by inserting two new clauses in sub-section (2) of section 80C. The following investments made by the assessee, during the previous year, shall be eligible for deduction under section 80C within the overall ceiling of rupees one lakh:-

(i) five year time deposit in an account under Post Office Time Deposit Rules, 1981; and

(ii) deposit in an account under the Senior Citizens Savings Scheme Rules, 2004.

Further, it is also proposed to provide that where any amount is withdrawn by the assessee from such account before the expiry of a period of 5 years from the date of its deposit, the amount so withdrawn shall be deemed to be income of the assessee of the previous year in which the amount is withdrawn. The amount so withdrawn, accordingly, shall be liable to tax in the assessment year relevant to such previous year. The amount liable to tax shall also include that part of the amount withdrawn which represents interest

accrued on the deposit. However if any part of the amount so received or withdrawn (including the amount relating to interest) has suffered taxation in any of the earlier years, such amount shall not be taxed again.

Release of 6% additional installment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief to Pensioners due from 1.1.2016

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved release of an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to Pensioners w.e.f. 01.01.2016. This represents an increase of 6 percent over the existing rate of 119 percent of the Basic Pay/Pension, to compensate for price rise. 

This will benefit about 50 lakh Government employees and 58 lakh pensioners. 

The increase is in accordance with the accepted formula, which is based on the recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission (CPC). The combined impact on the exchequer on account of both Dearness Allowance and Dearness Relief would be of Rs. 6796.50 crore per annum and Rs.7929.24 crore respectively, in the financial year 2016-17 (for a period of 14 months from January, 2016 to February, 2017). 

Source : PIB(Release ID :138312)

OROP : First installment of arrears released, Revised pension from March'16 onwards

As to the more than 1.46 lakh family pensioners, the government will credit the new benefits by the end of this month, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.

Acceptance of declination of ASP Promotion.

The Circle Office vide memo no. ST/92-1/kw dated 04.03.2016 has accepted the declination letter dated 25.02.2016 of Sri V.Nagender Dy.Manager (BNPL) NSPC Begumpet Hyderabad,  for promotion to ASP cadre. Circle Office is in favour of granting regular promotion to senior IPs instead of adhoc promotion. Let us wait for good news to 5 IPs.

Don't take action on anonymous graft complaints: CVC to departments

There is no need to take action on anonymous or pseudonymous complaints of corruption against government employees, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has said.

In its directive to all ministries and public sector undertakings, the Commission said that such complaints only needed to be filed. 

The directive to all ministries and public sector undertakings comes after CVC received references from departments and organisations seeking clarification on the action to be taken on anonymous or pseudonymous complaints, which were acted upon. 

"No action should be taken on anonymous or pseudonymous complaints in line with Commission's present instructions dated November 25, 2014 and such complaints should be filed," it said. 

The anti-corruption watchdog has been clarifying on the issue since 1999. In its guidelines issued yesterday, the CVC said the action pursued on anonymous or pseudonymous complaints prior to the issue of 1999 circular can be "pursued further to its logical end". 

Material or evidence gathered during the investigation or verification of anonymous complaints when the action was prohibited on such complaints, or when such enquiry was initiated without the approval of the CVC, can be utilised for further initiation of disciplinary proceedings on misconducts noticed in such verification or enquiry, it said. 

The Commission usually gets a number of complaints against a government employee when he or she is being considered for a senior level post or for some important assignment, a senior CVC official said. 

"The intention behind filing such a complaint is intended to delay the process of granting vigilance clearance to an employee. People have been asked to give verifiable details of corruption charges along with their details so that prompt action can be taken against guilty and to ensure that honest officers are not harassed," he said. 

The CVC gives vigilance clearance to senior government officials being considered for foreign postings, central deputation or other appointments. 

All Chief Vigilance Officers--who act as distant arm of the CVC--have been asked to follow these latest guidelines while processing anonymous and pseudonymous corruption complaints, the official said.

Source : The Economic Times

Issue of revised Recruitment Rules of PS Gr. B Cadre and to reduce share of General Line officials from 6% to 3%…regarding

No. CHQ/AIAIPASP/CRC/2012                                       Dated :     10/3/2016

To,                                                                                          

Shri S. V. Rao,  

Director (DE),

Department of Posts, 

Dak Bhavan, Sansad Marg, 

New Delhi 110 001. 

Subject : Issue of revised Recruitment Rules of PS Gr. B Cadre and to reduce share of General Line officials from 6% to 3%…regarding

Ref.       :   Dte No. A.34012/01/2015-DE dated 15^th January 2015

Respected Sir,    

            

Your kind attention is invited to this Association’s letters of even number dated 15/7/2013, 19/11/2013, 6/1/2014, 17/4/2014, 16/5/2014, 21/6/2014, 29/8/2014, 9/3/2015 and 7/11/2015 on the above captioned subject.

In this regard it is to intimate that this Association has been perusing through above cited letters to conduct LDCE for PS Gr. ‘B’ for the year 2013, 2014 and 2015 separately only after revision of Recruitment Rules of PS Gr. B cadre and also reducing share of General Line officials from 6% to 3% in the examination quota.

As per clause 3.1.5 of DoPT OM No. AB-14017/48/2010-Estt (RR) dated 31^st December 2010 revision in the Recruitment Rules once in 5 years with a view to effecting such changes as are necessary to bring them in conformity with the changed position, including additions to or reduction in the strength of the lower and higher level posts”. It is learnt that approval from Nodal Ministry/UPSC is awaited for issue of revised recruitment rules of PS Gr. B cadre.  

Sir, this vital issue is pending for more than 2 years, and therefore it is requested to bestow your personal attention and conduct the above said pending LDCEs at the earliest and that too separately after reduction of share of General Line officials from 6% to 3% in the examination quota and to avoid further litigation's etc.

          With regards,

                                                                                 Yours sincerely,

 Sd/-

(Vilas Ingale)

General Secretary

Good news! Now non-entitled employees can claim LTC on air travel

New Delhi: All non-entitled central government employees have been allowed to travel by air while availing Leave Travel Concession (LTC) with a condition that reimbursement in such cases shall be restricted to the fare of their entitled class of train or actual expense. 

The Ministry of Personnel had recently eased norms for processing claims of LTC -- which allows grant of leave and ticket reimbursement to eligible central government employees to travel to their home towns and other places.

"Government employees not entitled to travel by air may travel by any airline. However, reimbursement in such cases shall be restricted to the fare of their entitled class of train, transport or actual expense, whichever is less," an order issued by the Ministry said.

The move comes after the government received a number of queries in this regard. In many cases, employees did not have railway station or good road network to their home towns and they had requested for permission to travel by air to save time, which was being denied, officials said.

Now, they will be allowed to travel by air and by any airline, they said. At present, those entitled to travel by air have to mandatorily travel by Air India.

A government servant may also apply for advance for himself or his family members 65 days before the proposed date of the outward journey and he or she would be required to produce the tickets within ten days of the withdrawal of advance, irrespective of the date of commencement of the journey, as per the new norms.

There are about 50 lakh central government employees.

All central government employees have been asked to share photos and interesting details of their holidays.

The DoPT has decided to put a limit of one month for verification of LTC claim after the LTC bill is submitted by government employee for settlement and final payment.

"Efforts should be made to reduce the duration of processing of LTC applications or claims at the earliest. The maximum time limit should be strictly adhered to and non- compliance of time limit should be adequately explained," its directive said.

Source : http://zeenews.india.com/

DPC for PS group "B" cadre.

Directorate vide memo no.9-02/2015/SPG dated 02.03.2016 has called for the nominations from the senior ASPs as shown below in connection with conduct of supplementary for the year-2015-16.

1. O.C: 25 Candidates: From AP Circle. Sri S.Muralikrishna ASP Nellore and Sri P.Rangaiahnaidu (Adhoc AD CO) 1992 batch are listed.

2. SC/ST:29 Candidates: From AP Circle. S.Prasad Rao, ASP (Hyd Stg Dn) Hyderabad, Sri T.Isaiah ASP Warangal, Sri P.Parisudha Rao ASP Chirala, Sri JR.Prasad ASP Nuzvid, & Sri M.Audinarayana ASP Nizamabad dn.

3. Last candidates called category wise:
a. Sri GB Khara O.C-1992,
b. Sri JR Prasad S.C-1994,
c. Sri Bist.JS      S.T-1996.

It is expected from directorate to call for nominations for the year 2016-17 soon.

Rs 70,000 crore allocated for 7th pay commission in Budget 2016

As much as Rs 70,000 crore has been provisioned in the Union Budget 2016-17 for implementation of Seventh Pay Commission for government employees, a top finance ministry official said.

While the Budget did not provide an explicit overall provision number, the government had said the 7th Pay Commission hike has been built in as interim allocation for different ministries and Budget numbers were credible. Implementation of the pay commission report in toto is to cost the government Rs 1.02 lakh crore.

Preservation of records at branch offices.

Preservation of records at branch offices is as shown below.

1	Branch Office account (Pa.6)	3 years after they are used
2	BO Journal (Pa-5),BO slips	3 years after they are used
3	Book of BO receipts(Ms-87(a)	2 years after they are used
4	Regd lists/Parcel lists/Mail lists	2 years after they are used
5	Invoices received from P.S.D	3 years.
6	BO Slips	2 years.
7	Order book/Stock book	To be destroyed after special permission from divisional head
8	Postman book (ms-87)	2 years
9	Book of postmarks	2 years
10	Deptl.Circulars	Permanent
11	Enumeration returns	5 years
12	Yearly value returns(yvr)	5 years

(Rule 21 of Book of Rules for Branch Offices)

Note: The records i.e order book, stock book, postman book and book of postmarks should be destroyed by fire or otherwise, in such a manner that they may not be used again. Other record should be torn up and sold as waste paper.