NC JCM (Staff Side) meeting with Secretary, Ministry of Health & FW on 16-05-2019

Shiva Gopal Mishra
Secretary

National Council (Staff Side)
Joint Consultative Machinery
for Central Government Employees
13-C, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi – 110001
E Mail : ncjcm.np @ gmail.com
Ph.: 23382286

May 16, 2019

Dear Comrades,

A meeting with the Staff Side of the National Council JCM under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Ministry of Health & FW was held today at Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi. The Staff Side was represented by Comrades Shiva Gopal Mishra, Guman Singh, KKN Kutty, C. Srikumar, M.S. Raja and R. Parashar. The following agenda points were taken up for discussion and the decisions taken are given below for your information.

Item No.1
Agenda Point: Non grant of 90% Medical Advance for all type of treatments by the Audit Authorities in the Ministry of Defence in violation of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Letter No. S. 14025/I 8/2015-MS/EHSS dated 17.10.2016

Decision: It was clarified by the Official Side that 90% advance even in the case of other than package can be made to the employees as per Ministry of Health OM dated 17.10.2016. In case the Accounts Authorities of the MOD is not allowing the same the MOD may be requested to refer the matter to Ministry of Health .

Item No.2
Agenda Point: Review of ward entitlement for Central Government Employees

Decision: It was agreed to reconsider the wage limit for Ward entitlement and also to streamline the same as per the 7th CPC pay matrix.

Item No.3
Agenda Point: Withdrawal of the condition imposed in Ministry of Health OM No. S.14011/1/73-M.C., dated 23rd August, 1973 with regard to diabetic treatment.

Decision: The condition to produce certificate from DMO/ Civil surgeon for continuing the treatment for diabetics etc. has been removed and any Government Doctor can issue certificate in this regard.

Item No.4
Agenda Point: Review of package rate for Organ Transplantation

Decision: The actual cost of organ transplantation will be considered depending on merit of each individual case

Item No.5
Agenda Point: In-patient treatment m Hospitals without going through the AMA.

Decision: The Ministry of Health OM dated 2nd May 1953 will be re-circulated to all the Ministries which permits the in-patient treatment without AMA sanction

Item No.6
Agenda Point: Reimbursement of preventive Vaccination charges

Decision: This is a policy matter which Government will have to decide

Item No.7
Agenda Point: Emergency Treatments in CGHS recognized Hospitals.

Decision: At present the CGHS beneficiary can directly approach the recognized hospital with the CGHS Card without any referral memo. The proposal of the Staff Side to avoid hardship to the patient for subsequent dealings with the CGHS Wellness centre would be considered the concerned hospitals will be asked to get the approval of the concerned dispensary doctor.

Item No.8
Agenda Point: Reimbursement of Medical expenses not covered under the CGHS Package Rates.

Decision: Steps are being taken to revise the CGHS packages and at that time the inclusion of new procedure etc would be considered.

Item No.9
Agenda Point: Issue of Medicines to CS(MA) beneficiaries availing inpatient treatment in CGHS recognized Hospitals.

Decision: Not agreed. CS(MA) beneficiaries has to get reimbursement of the Expenses

Item No.10
Agenda Point: Permission / Ex-post facto approval for elective treatment / investigation taken in non-empanelled Hospitals / Diagnostic Centers for CS(MA) beneficiaries at par with CGHS beneficiaries.

Decision: Not Agreed

Item No.11
Agenda Point: Treatment of dependents of the deceased Employees / Employees who have taken voluntary retirement / premature retirement / medical invalidation / compulsory retirement etc.

Decision: Provisional CGHS Card will be issued to the above category of employees based on the Last Pay Certificate

Item No.12
Agenda Point: Opening of CGHS Dispensaries in AGRA, Barrackpore (Kolkata) and Kochi

Decision: Government orders are already issued in this regard. As regards Kochi, Kozhikode and Kannur steps are taken to acquire accommodation for the wellness Centre. At Kochi the BSNL Quarters have been identify. Formalities to access the same is under way. The doctor shortage of Agra would be looked in to. At present Barrackpore wellness Centre is functioning as an extension counter. Depending upon its utility the demand for establishing the same as a permanent wellness centre would be considered.

Item No.13
Agenda Point: Central Government health Scheme. Empanelling of hospitals – streamlining the procedure to provide in-patient treatment to the beneficiaries.

Decision: More than Rs. 300 crores are due to the hospitals are being cleared and under way to clear the same. steps are taken to streamline the payment procedure for the Hospitals

Item No.14
Agenda Point: DISPROPORTIONATE REVISION OF SUBSCRIPTION UNDER CGHS DUE TO REVISION OF PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF CENTRAL GOVT EMPLOYEES ON ACCOUNT OF IMPLEMENTATION SEVENTH PAY COMMISSION.

Decision: Not Agreed

Item No.15
Agenda Point: Direct consultation with Specialists in CGHS/Central Government/State Government Hospitals /Polyclinics. Continuation of the facility to those CGHS beneficiaries who were eligible for direct consultation before revision of the Monetary Ceiling

Decision: The monetary ceiling is already removed

Item No.16
Agenda Point: Revision of monetary Ceiling for direct consultation with Specialists in CGHS/ Central Government/ State Government Hospitals /Polyclinics in respect of Pensioners and Family Pensioners.

Decision: The monetary ceiling is already removed

Item No.17
Agenda Point: Plastic Cards

Decision: Settled

Item No.18
Agenda Point: Indication of Ward entitlement in plastic cards of pre-1-6-2009 Beneficiaries

Decision: Would be considered

Item No.19
Agenda Point: Grant of one time option to CGHS Beneficiaries to opt for ward entitlement as per their revised Pay in Pay Band.

Decision: Would be considered

Item No.20
Agenda Point: Provision of CGHS facility for life time to dependent disabled/mentally retarded children of Central Government Employees/Pensioners

Decision: Agreed to consider the demand in consultation with Department of Expenditure

Item No.21
Agenda Point: Extension of CGHS facilities to retired BSNL employees – follow up action by the Ministry of Health and family Welfare & fixation of rates of contribution & ward entitlement.

Decision: Settled

The remaining twelve fresh agenda points would be discussed later. The Health Ministry will fix the date for the said meeting.

The issue of inadequacy of CGHS empanelled hospitals at Mumbai was seriously discussed in the meeting. After discussion the official side agreed to re visit the issue considering the difficulties being faced by the Central Government Employees posted in Mumbai it was also agreed that the demand of the Staff Side for establishing a Central Government Hospital at Mumbai would be considered again and the proposal of the Staff Side to locate the said hospital at Antop Hills was favourably responded.

With Greetings,
sd/-
Yours Comradely,
(Shva Gopal Mishra)
Secretary

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F.No.3/1/2019-JCA
Government Of India
Ministry of personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department Of Personnel & Training
Establishment (JCA) Section

North Block, New Delhi – 110 001
Dated-April 30, 2019

Shri Shiv Gopal Mishra
Secretary, Staff Side
National Council,
Staff Side (JCM)
13-C, Ferozeshah Road,- 110001

Subject: Draft minutes of the 47th Meeting Of the National Council (JCM) was held on 13.04.2019.

Please End enclosed a copy of the draft Minutes of the Meeting of the
National Council (JCM) held on 13.04.2019 under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary with the representative of Staff Side. You are requested to send your comments on the draft minutes by 06/05/2019 positively.

Yours sincerely,
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Deputy Secretary (JCA)
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Minutes of the Meeting of Joint Secretary (IC) with the Members of the Staff-Side of the Standing Committee (National Council-JCM) held on 19.02.2016

A Meeting was held under the chairmanship of Joint Secretary (Implementation Cell), Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, with the Members of the StaffSide of the Standing Committee (National Council-JCM) on 19.2.2016 to discuss the issues raised by the National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) {Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM)} in their letter No. NJC/2015/7th CPC dt. 10.12.2015, addressed to the Cabinet Secretary, regarding their Charter of Demands on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission. The Secretary, Staff-Side of the Standing Committee (National Council- JCM), who is the convener of the NJCA, along with other office bearers attended the meeting. The list of the participants from the Staff-Side is attached at Annexure.

2. Welcoming the members of the Staff-Side, JS(IC) mentioned that the meeting has been convened to enable the Staff-Side to bring out their concerns on the recommendations of the 7th CPC in the light of the Charter of Demands made by them in the aforesaid letter of NJCA so that same could be examined in the Implementation Cell and submitted for consideration of the Empowered Committee of Secretaries. He informed the office bearers that before arriving at a decision, the ECoS would also hold separate discussions with the Staff Side.

2. Commencing the discussions from the Side of the Members of the Staff-Side, Secretary, Staff-Side, Standing Committee (National Council-JCM), explained that they have already placed their Charter of Demands as per the letter of NJCA dated 10.12.2015. He mentioned that the reasons based on which these demands have been made have also been explained therein. He, however, highlighted that the Staff-Side is not at all happy with the recommendations of the 7th CPC and, in fact, no section of the employees is satisfied, as the Commission has recommended a minimal pay increase as compared to the previous Pay Commissions. He mentioned that the Staff-Side does not agree with the minimum pay of Rs. 18000 and the reason as to why the methodology adopted by the 7th CPC to arrive at this figure is not correct has been explained in their letter dated 10.12.2015. He stated that Staff-Side demands enhancement of the minimum pay to Rs. 26000 and the reasons in support of this have been given in their aforesaid letter. He further stated that an amicable and mutually negotiated settlement of these demands is necessary as non-acceptance would further cause resentment in the employees. He informed that Staff-Side has already made their stand clear to go on strike from 11th April, 2016 if their demands are not considered and no amicable settlement happens.

3. Thereafter, the other members of the Staff-Side also expressed their arguments for acceptance of these demands and all of them emphasised that the minimum pay needs to be revised. Consequently, the fitment multiple of 2.57 would also need commensurate change. The leader of the Staff-Side explained that the office bearers who were present in the meeting represent various sections of Central Government employees including railways, defence civilians, postal employees etc., the number of which is around Rs. 32 lakhs.

4. The Staff-Side brought out their concerns on all the 26 demands included in the Charter of Demands and all the points brought out by them in the letter of the NJCA dt. 10.12.2015 were reiterated. However, following issues in support of their demands were highlighted :-

(i) Minimum Pay needs to be revised to Rs. 26000 p.m. and the minimum pay of Rs. 18000 p.m. as recommended by 7th CPC is not acceptable. This would require upward revision in the fitment multiple of 2.57 and change in the Pay Matrix. It was argued that if the 10% of the pay for NPS contribution and the recommended increase in the CGEIS contribution are taken into account, there would be a drop in the take-home salary of the employees at the
minimum pay of Rs.18000.

(ii) Central Government employees need to be excluded from the National Pension Scheme (NPS), which has been a long pending demand of the StaffSide. The Staff-Side stated that the Pension Fund which has been created under NPS to generate annuity for employees, would not ensure reasonable pension. Rather it is quite likely that it may generate negative returns because of the dismal performance of the financial market to which the fund is
invested, leaving the employees without any reasonable social security benefit.

(iii) The 7th CPC has recommended abolition of 52 allowances without properly appreciating the justification of these allowances. The example of break-down allowance in case of Railway employees was given, stating that this allowances is given so that the concerned employees take up the necessary follow up action in the case of breakdown on an urgent basis and therefore its withdrawal is not justified in operational interests of Railways.

(iv) The withdrawal of advances, especially LTC, TA, Medical, National Calamity Advance, was not justified. It was argued that these advances are recovered from the employees and, therefore, the same should be retained. (v) In regard to enhancement of contribution under Group Insurance Scheme, it was argued that increase in the contribution from the employees was not justified and if the same is to be raised, the Government should bear the
insurance premium.

(vi) The post of LDC should be upgraded to UDC and as part of delayering, Grade Pays of Rs. 1900, Rs. 2400 and Rs. 4600 should be abolished and merged with the next higher Grades.

(vii) The rate of increment needs to be raised from 3% to 5% because pay is revised in the Central Government after 10 years. It was mentioned that in the PSUs the pay is revised after 5 years and the rate of increment is also higher.

(viii) Two increments in the feeder post may be granted as promotion benefit.

(ix) Fixed medical allowance for pensioners who are not covered by CGHS and REHS needs to be increased from Rs. 500 p.m. to Rs. 2000 p.m.

(x) The recommendation regarding grant of only 80% of salary for the second year of Child Care Leave need not be accepted and the existing provisions may be retained

(xi) It was also demanded that though the D/o Expenditure has sought the comments of the Ministries/Department on the issues pertaining to them after consulting the Staff Associations, administrative Departments are not inviting the Staff associations for discussions.

5. After detailed explanation by the Staff-Side on all the demands included in the Charter of Demands, JS(IC), while concluding the discussions, assured the Staff-Side that the concerns and demands made by them would be placed before the Empowered Committee of Secretaries for consideration after examining the same in the light of the recommendations of the Commission. He also mentioned that in cases where the comments of the administrative Ministries/ Departments would be necessary, e.g., the case of break-down allowance pertaining to Ministry of Railways, the same would be considered before the issues are placed before the E-CoS. As regards the issue raised that the administrative Departments are not inviting staff associations for discussions, JS(IC) mentioned that the Departments have to formulate the views keeping in view the representations made by the Staff Associations.

6. Thereafter, the meeting ended with thanks to the chair.

Members of the Staff side of the National Joint Council (JCM), who attended the meeting with JS (IC) held on 19.02.2016 -7th Central Pay Commission
S.No Name (S/Shri)
1. Shiva Gopal Mishra
2. M.Raghavaiah
3. N.Kanniah
4. Guman Singh
5. K.K.N.Kutty
6. C.Srikumar
7. S.N.Pathak
8. Ashok Singh
9. R.N.Prashar
10. M.S. Raja
11. Giri Raj singh
12. Satish Chander
13. R.Srinivasan

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