RAJESH KUMAR R GREF/BRO

MEDICAL FACILITIES TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES (INCLUDING CGHS) 27.1  The  Central Government  servants  are  entitled  to medical  facilities  under the  Central  Services  (Medical  Attendance)  Rules,  1944,  the  salient  features  of which are given hereunder: 27.2  These Rules are applicable to all government servants other  than  (i) those in Railway Service, and  (ii)  those of     non-gazetted  rank  stationed  in or passing through  Kolkata,  whose  conditions  of  service  are  prescribed  by  rules made  or deemed  to have been made by  the Central Government, when  they are on duty, leave  or  foreign  service  in  India  or when under  suspension.    Following medical facilities are available under ...

It was extremely unfortunate that the Staff Side Secretary through his press statement issued yesterday has chosen to praise the Modi Government over the decisions it had taken on various demands of the Central Govt. employees. The said statement was issued apparently without causing any consultation either formally or informally with the other members of the Staff Side, in any case not at all in consultation with the signatories of this statement.  We, being the members of the Standing Committee, emphatically disagree and distance ourselves from the position taken by him in the Press Statement. There had been no justification for the 7 th  CPC to reduce the rate of HRA by an imagined factor of 0.8. Neither during the discussions, the staff side had with the committee headed by the Expenditure Secretary, nor in the press release issued after the Cabinet meeting, the Govt. had advanced  any logic for their decision to restore the rate of HRA only for those wh...