NEW DELHI – Ruling that all government employees, even those retired, are entitled for medical reimbursement, the Delhi High Court Tuesday asked the Delhi government to pay the medical bills of a man who retired from a government enterprise in 2002. Justice Kailash Gambhir asked the government to pay the medical expenses of Suraj Bhan … Read more
Hit by a shortage of officers, the government has decided to hire its retired employees to contribute in the conduct of the mammoth Census exercise covering 1.2 billion residents spread over 35 states and Union Territories The government has floated 695 temporary posts to be filled by retired central and state government employees in the … Read more
A husb- and and a wife who are government employees are both entitled to house rent allowance if one of them is posted a “reasonable distance” away from the other, Calcutta High Court has said. The government now offers the allowance to either the husband or the wife if the distance between their workplaces is … Read more
Over 17,000 employees will be involved in collecting data for the census in the Kashmir valley. As many as 14,298 numerators, 2,383 supervisors and 372 master trainers are being deployed on duty to complete the census 2011 in the valley, Census Director Farooq Ahmad said. He said that census work will commence from … Read more
New Delhi, Mar 24 (PTI) The labour ministry has accepted a proposal to raise the ceiling of benefit under the Employees Deposit-Linked Insurance (EDLI) Scheme from Rs 60,000 to Rs 1 lakh, a move that would help over 4.71 crore EPFO subscribers. “The labour ministry has written to the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) for … Read more