Web Portal for Missing Children The Ministry of Women and Child Development, with the assistance of Department of Electronics and Information Technology, has launched a web portal Khoya-Paya on 2nd June, 2015 for reporting and searching of missing children. The web portal ‘Khoya-Paya’ will have information of missing and sighted children. So far approximately 2700 … Read more
Promotion Policy for Women Officers in the Armed Forces The details of the extant promotion policy for women officers in the armed forces, service-wise is as follows: Army: Presently, Women Short Service Commissioned Officers (SSCOs) of all Arms / Services are eligible for substantive promotion to non-select ranks of Captain, Major and Lieutenant Colonel on … Read more
What are the expectations of the Central Government employees from the 7th Pay Commission? “It is impossible for the 7th Pay Commission to fulfill all the demands of the Central Government employees. The question is – will it at least address the concerns of majority of them?” The media is full of unconfirmed reports on … Read more
Charter of Demands and Explanatory Notes – All India Strike on 2.9.2015
Fix minimum wage with provisions of indexation – Item No.5 Charter of Demands Item No.5. Fix minimum wage with provisions of indexation. (i) Effect wage revision of the Central Government Employees from 01.01.2014 accepting memorandum of the staff side JCM; ensure 5-year wage revision in future; grant interim relief and merger of 100% of DA; … Read more