DoPT Order: Minutes of the 47th Meeting of National Council (JCM) held on 13th April, 2019.

6.3 D/o Expenditure, M/o Finance

6.3.1 Item No. 8/10/NC-46 – Sanction of Incentive Allowance to Central Government Employees working in Extremists Infested Areas.

6.3.2 Item No.9/10/NC-46 – Declaration of Gandhinagar as Link-City of Ahmedabad.


6.3.3 Item No. 10/10/NC-46 – Upgradation of Jamnagar as B-2 Town with effect from 14.2.2006.


6.3.4 Item No. 11/10/NC-46 – A-l Status to Bangalore City


6.3.5 Item No.3/19/NC-47 – Benefit of proviso to rule 10 CCS(RP) Rules, 2008


6.3.6 Item No. 11/19/NC-47 – Insisting on non-availability certificate from the Estate officer.


6.3.7 Item No. 28/19/NC-47 – Moped Advance.


6.3.8 Item No.35/19/NC-47- Revision in the amount of advance given to the family of a Government Servant who dies while in Service.

6.4 DoPT

6.4.l Item No.16/10/NC-46 – Relaxation of Upper Age Limit for Departmental Candidates for Appointment to Group C Posts



6.4.2. Item No. 1/19/NC-47 – Stoppage of Direct Recruitment in Group-D Posts in Central Govt. Offices.


6.4.3  Item No.2/19/NC-47 – Arbitration Awards.


6.4.4 Item No. 4/19/NC-47 – JCM Coverage.


6.4.5 Item No.6/19/NC-47: Washing Allowance


6.4.6 Item No. 12119/NC-47 – Stepping up of pay of Seniors with that of juniors under ACP and MACP.


6.4.7 Item No. 14/19/NC-47 – Increase in Residency Period for future Promotion.

6.4.8 Item No. 15/19/NC-47 – Fixation of Pay in case of employees who seek transfer to a lower post under FR-15(a).


6.4.9 Item No. 19/19/NC-47 – LTC for Dependent parents to visit their son at his duty station and to go back to native place.


6.4.10 Item No. 20/19/NC-47 – Revised Scheme of Compassionate Appointment.



6.4.11 Item No.22/19/NC-47 – Creation of NFSG grade in cadre of UDC/Stenographers in all offices outside Secretariat.



6.4.12. Item No.23/19/NC-47 -Hostel Subsidy.



6.4.13 Item No.26/19/NC-47 –Revision in rates of Sewing Charges of Uniform.


6.4.14 Item No.29/19/NC-47 – Revision of Sports increment


6.4.15 Item No.31/19/NC-47 – Litigation cases on service matters.


6.4.16 Item No. 8/19/NC-47 – Granting temporary status to all eligible casual laborers.

6.5 D/o Pension & Pensioners Welfare & D/o Financial Services:

6.5.1 Item No. 5/19/NC-47 – GPF for those who have been recruited on or after 1.1.2004.

6.5.2 Item No. 21/19/NC-47 – Eligibility of Unmarried/ divorced/ widowed and dependent real sister of Govt. servant/pensioners for Family Pension. 


6.5.3 Item No. 24/19/NC-47-Extension of constant attendant allowance to totally visually handicapped pensioners who retired under CCS(Pension) Rules, 1972.


6.5.4 Item No.25/19/NC-47 – Arbitrary orders denying revision of pension and family pension in favour of the pensioners who were receipt of compulsory retirement pension and compassionate allowance under Rule 40 and 41 of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972.

6.6 CBDT/Department of Revenue

6.6.1 Item No. 7/19/NC-47 – Exempt transport/running allowance from income-tax.



6.6.2 Item no. 10/19/NC-47 – Exempt the island special duty allowance, special duty allowance granted to employees in the north eastern region from the purview of income tax.


6.6.3 Item No. 36/19/NC-47 – Exemption from payment of income tax to Pensioners who have attained age of 80 years or more.


6.6.4 Item no. 9/19/NC-47 – Denial of Parity in scales of pay to the workshop staff of Railway/Defence and Postal Department.

7. After detailed discussions on the agenda, the following important points were raised by Staff Side member of MoD:-

i) MoD has taken a decision to declare 289 items being manufactured in the Ordinance Factories as non-Core and to outsource the same, thereby affecting drastically the workload of Ordinance Factories. Moreover, MoD has decided to close down many Defence Establishments, rendering more than 31,000 employees surplus. These decisions are taken without any discussion with the Staff Side, in spite of the fact that there is a clear direction from the Cabinet Secretary that before taking such decisions, the views of Staff Side should be kept in mind.

ii) During the strike negotiations with recognized Federations, Department of Defence Production has agreed to consider the demand of Staff Side to allot salary expenditure separately to the Ordinance Factories and to de-link the same from the cost of OFB products. The issue is still remaining unsettled and Staff Side requested to settle the matter at the earliest.

Thereafter the following points were noted and summarized:

i) Regular meeting of the National Council, Standing Committee as well as Departmental Councils of the JCM may be held in order to have speedy resolution of issues concerning the employees.

ii) On the persistent demand raised by the Staff Side concerning unavailability of latest instructions/circulars issued by various Departments to the Staff Side, it was directed by the Chairman that steps should be taken by the Departments to ensure that copies of the latest OMs/Circulars are made available to the Staff Side on e-mail as well as by other means.
iii) The Chairman also directed the Official Side to ensure that all matters which require further examination as discussed in today’s meeting should be taken up for resolution.
iv) The Chairman directed the official side to look into employee-specific grievances likely to arise due to implementation of decision of the Government to restructure the Printing and Stationery Department and Central Public Works Department.

8. This was followed by a briefing given by Shri Ajay Kumar, Secretary, Department of Defence Production about the work being done, including the important initiatives being taken, by the Ordnance Factory Board. He mentioned the efforts being undertaken to modernize the Board. It was also informed that a meeting of the Departmental Council would be held to discuss the issues of the Ordnance Factory Board with the Staff Side.

9. The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks given by Smt. S1tjata Chaturvedi, Additional Secretary (Estt.), DoPT

LIST OF MEMBERS OF OFFICIAL SIDE/STAFF SIDE WHO ATTENDED THE 47TH MEETING OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL (JCM) HELD ON 13TH APRIL, 2019 UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF SHRI P. K. SINH CABINET SECRETARY