The job crunch in the market due to economic slowdown and the revised pay-scales have again encouraged youngsters to join the armed forces. In the past one week about 1,000 students have turned up seeking jobs in the Indian Army for technical posts during a recruitment drive in five city-based engineering colleges under the scheme University Entry Level.
Aporve Joshi, a third semester student, who appeared in an interview said, “In the midst of recession no other sector offers a job with good salary, job security and honor.” He feels that, “once you have joined the defence services you become immune to any financial crises at macro or micro level.”
The army officials say they have received an overwhelming response as the number of students appearing in the orientation programme increased manifold compared to other years.
“The Sixth Pay Commission, which raised the armed forces salaries have made this profession a most-sought-after among the students this year,” said Col VS Gill, member of a team to shortlist candidates for SSB final interview.
When asked, do you think that ill effects of recession on corporate and Sixth Pay Commission will encourage the students to join army, he replied “Certainly yes, the armed forces offer better future prospects then any other profession.”
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The job crunch in the market due to economic slowdown and the revised pay-scales have again encouraged youngsters to join the armed forces. In the past one week about 1,000 students have turned up seeking jobs in the Indian Army for technical posts during a recruitment drive in five city-based engineering colleges under the scheme University Entry Level.
Aporve Joshi, a third semester student, who appeared in an interview said, “In the midst of recession no other sector offers a job with good salary, job security and honor.” He feels that, “once you have joined the defence services you become immune to any financial crises at macro or micro level.”
State government doctors have gone on a strike from Tuesday demanding that they should be paid as per the Sixth Pay Commission and should get allowances similar to the central government doctors.
“A total of 150 doctors in the city and 450 doctors in the district are participating in this indefinite strike, which will continue till our demands are met,” said Kalyan Deshpande, president of the Federation of Health Officer (doctors), Pune division committee. “A meeting of the federation was held at a Aundh hospital on Tuesday, where we took the decision to stop work.”
Strikes are rare in Pune city, but on Tuesday, it had a surfeit of them with college teachers, power utility staff, doctors and activists of the Republican Party of India staging strikes all at one go.
Over 10,000 state government employees jammed the busy Ambedkar Road in Camp area turning the normally chaotic traffic near the railway station even worse. The strike by the teaching staff in colleges continued for the seventh day on Tuesday and doctors continued to push for Sixth Pay Commission wages. Continue reading Rains and strikes bring city to a halt
Work in government offices across Jammu and Kashmir was hit as over 4.5 lakh State Government employees went on a two-day strike demanding early implementation of the sixth Pay Commission’s recommendations and enhancement of retirement age from 58 to 60.
The call for the two-day strike was given by Joint consultative committee – an amalgam of various government employees associations – in protest against the alleged failure of the government to implement the recommendations of the pay panel.
Staying away from their offices, the employees also staged peaceful rallies and protest demonstrations at various places including Sher-e-Kashmir Park, Lal chowk, Shaheed Gunj in Srinagar and other district headqarters, official sources said, adding, emergency services were exempted from the purview of the strike.
Employees in most of the departments in different districts of Jammu division did not perform their duties, official sources said.
Work in government offices across Jammu and Kashmir was hit as over 4.5 lakh State Government employees went on a two-day strike demanding early implementation of the sixth Pay Commission’s recommendations and enhancement of retirement age from 58 to 60.
The call for the two-day strike was given by Joint consultative committee – an amalgam of various government employees associations – in protest against the alleged failure of the government to implement the recommendations of the pay panel.
Staying away from their offices, the employees also staged peaceful rallies and protest demonstrations at various places including Sher-e-Kashmir Park, Lal chowk, Shaheed Gunj in Srinagar and other district headqarters, official sources said, adding, emergency services were exempted from the purview of the strike.
Employees in most of the departments in different districts of Jammu division did not perform their duties, official sources said.
The three-day roadways strike made on the call of UP Rajya Nigam Karamchari Sangh for nine point demands including the implementation of
Sixth Pay commission, met strong resentment from various roadways associations and more than 500 buses remained off road.
The impact of the ‘chakka jam’ of the buses from the midnight, was clearly visible as passengers kept facing difficulties in travelling. Owing to the strike, heavy rush on trains and Kanpur Central was witnessed. Many could not reach the desired venues on time, whereas several persons were compelled to change their schedule and postpone their trips in wake of the strike. Continue reading ‘Chakka jam’ poses trouble for commuters
Teachers of junior colleges and aided schools across the state went on a day’s token strike on Tuesday, to press for pay parity with central government teachers. Also on strike, albeit an indefinite one, were teachers of degree colleges, protesting non-implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission scales. The strikes, coupled with heavy rains, disrupted classes in colleges and aided schools in the city.
While most degree college teachers were on strike at Jai Hind College, Churchgate, junior college teachers reported for work. It was the same at KC College. As a mark of protest, in some colleges like St Xavier’s College, Dhobi Talao, teachers attended college and signed the register but did not teach. “Only 15% of staff and students made it to college today,” said St Xavier’s principal Fr Frazer Mascarenhas. At Wilson College, Chowpatty, while degree college teachers were on strike, junior college teachers came to help out with the admissions but stayed away from lectures.
Indian railways will be paying a higher dividend of Rs5,479 crore during the current fiscal despite over Rs3,000 crore dip in cash surplus on account of higher wage bill following implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission award.
Unveiling the rail budget for 2009-10, railway minister Mamata Banerjee said, “The Railways paid their full dividend liability of Rs4,717 crore in 2008-09 and will pay an even higher dividend of Rs5,479 crore in 2009-10.”
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The railways will be paying higher dividend despite the adverse “impact of increase in working expenses due to the Sixth Pay Commission and sluggishness in earnings due to the economic slowdown”.The cash surplus of the railways during the current fiscal is expected to dip to Rs14,201 crore from Rs17,400 crore in the previous fiscal, mainly on account of higher wage bill during the year.
According to Banerjee, the railways disbursed Rs13,600 crore during 2008-09 towards implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.For the current fiscal, she said, “After having absorbed the impact of the Sixth Pay Commission, to the extent of Rs14,600 crore in 2009-10, the cash surplus before dividend of the railways work out to Rs14,201, net revenue of Rs8,121 crore and operating ratio of 9.25%.”
In an attempt to make bureaucracy accountable, a radical system of assessment has been mooted by an official panel allowing government servants to be sacked after 20 years of service if they are found unfit to continue.
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The Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) headed by senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily recommended unprecedented and far-reaching changes in the service rules of government servants and suggested two intensive reviews to make civil servants accountable.
The first of its kind report in 150 years suggests far-reaching recommendations, including removal of non performing bureaucrats and perhaps even a formal degree in public policy.
