MINISTRY OF DEFENCE - Manufacture of identified ammunition by Indian Industry:

  Major activities of Department of Defence for the month of March, 2017.

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions - OFFICE MEMORANUM

Fixation of pay in case of employees who seek transfer to a lower post under FR 15(a)- clarification regarding.

Ministry of Water Resources - Press Information Bureau

Water level of 91 Major Reservoirs of the Country goes down by two percent.

PENSION - OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Grant of Dearness Relief to the Burma Civilian pensioners/family pensioners and pensioners/families of displaced Government Pensioners from Pakistan who are Indian Nationals but receiving pension on behalf of Government of Pakistan.

Ministry of Finance - Department of Revenue - Central Board of Direct Taxes

Date for filing of declaration under PMGKY extended upto 10th May, 2017.

Controller General of Defence Accounts - ORDER

Rate of Interest on GPF and other similar Provident Fund for the year 2017-2018.

Lavasa panel on allowances in 7th Pay Commission submits report to Arun Jaitley

7th Pay Commission – Lavasa panel on allowances in 7th Pay Commission submits report to Arun Jaitley.

NEW DELHI: A high-level committee headed by the Finance Secretary submitted today its report on allowances to 47 lakh government employees to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. The Ashok Lavasa Committee was constituted in June last year after the government implemented the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission. The pay panel had recommended abolition of or subsuming of allowances like acting, assisting cashier, cycle, condiment, flying squad, haircutting, rajbhasha, rajdhani, robe, shoe, shorthand, soap, spectacle, uniform, vigilance and washing. After submitting the report to Jaitley, Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa said the committee has taken into account representations made by various stakeholders. The report will now be examined by the empowered committee of secretaries and following that it will be placed before the Cabinet, he said. Out of total 196 allowances, it had recommended abolition of 52 and subsuming of another 36 into larger existing ones. The commission had recommended hiking the HRA in the range of 8-24 per cent. If the pay commission recommendations on allowances are implemented fully, then as per estimates the cost to the exchequer will be Rs 29,300 crore. Lavasa said the government will take the final call on the date of payout of revised allowances to government employees.

Source:- Economics Times