Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Central Govt Employees-DA Hike

The Union Cabinet, approved to release an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance  to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief  to pensioners w.e.f. 01.07.2018 representing an increase of 2% over the existing rate of 7% of the Basic Pay/Pension, to compensate for price rise.This will benefit about 48.41 lakh Central Government employees and 62.03 lakh pensioners.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Re Construction Of Flood Affected Houses-Mobile App Survey Planned

Mobile App based survey will be conducted for identifying destructed houses during recent flood situation in Kerala. Chief Secretary issued press release stating that designated Govt employees will visit the damaged houses and conduct survey electronically.

Monday, August 27, 2018

Ayushman Bharat - PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaAbhiyan (AB-PMJAY) Launch on September 25th

29 states and UTs have signed the MoU and have started working on implementation of the PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaYojna.The pilots have started in 16 States / UTs. Other states/UTs will also start pilots before fully launching the scheme on 25thSeptember. Union Health Minister  said that the Government has given total flexibility to the States to choose their own modes of implementation among Insurance, Trust or Mixed Mode and Government is ready to provide the required support also.

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Flood-Revision Of Annual Plan-Permission Granted

Govt permitted LSGIs to revise annual plan for repair and re construction of damaged assets including roads. Permission is also granted to cut down productive sector allocation to 20% by Grama/Block Panchayaths and 25% in the case of District Panchayaths. 

LSGI Honararium- Advance Payment Sanctioned

LSGD issued sanction for advance drawal of honorarium for members of Local Self Govt Institutions during Onam.

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

PMAY(G) New Beneficiery Selection Only from LIFE Mission List

LIFE Mission issued instructions regarding new beneficiery selection for PMAY(G) Housing programme.As per the instructions only those families included in the approved LIFE Housing Scheme list should be surveyed and geo tagged.

Festival Allowance donation to CMDRF-Directions Issued

Finance Department issued directions for donating Special Festival Allowance announced to State Govt Employees to Chief Ministers Distress Relief Fund.
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Saturday, August 18, 2018

LIFE Housing Programme FAQ

LIFE Mission issued answers for frequently asked questions by various stakeholders regarding the eligibility of beneficiaries, Implementation of Housing programme for the beneficiaries having land.

NREGS Workers-Festivel Allowance Sanctioned

LSGD issued orders sanctioning Festival Allowance at the rate of Rs 1000 to each workers.

Flood Relif- Directions from Sanitation Mission

Sanitation Mission issued circular describing detailed directions for maintaining hygenic situation in flood relief camps. Resource persons of Sanitation Mission should attend the relief camps and give directions regarding sanitation facilities.
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Friday, August 17, 2018

LSGD Integration-Draft Special Rules Revised

Principal Directorate of LSGD published revised draft special rules regarding the integration of Local Self Govt Department. Ratio of promotion of various posts were newly included in the revised rules.
Draft Subordinate Service Special Rules

Flood Relief works- Permission Granted to LSGIs

For managing the flood affected situation in Kerala, Govt instructed all Local bodies to implement disaster management activites. Permissive sanction was also given to spend from Own fund and Development Fund allocated to LSGIs.
Post Flood Situation activities
Additional directions
Cleaning activity directions