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Cabinet okays bonus for railway employees
The Union Cabinet on Friday decided to give productivity-linked bonus equivalent to 78 days of wages to non-Gazzetted railway employees for financial year 2010-11. The decision would benefit about 12.61 non-Gazzetted railway employees having the wage ceiling of Rs 3,500 per month. The financial implication of the decision would be Rs 1098.58 crore, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni told reporters.
The Cabinet also decided to bring before Parliament the International Labour Organisation’s Domestic Workers Convention’s recommendations. The ratification of the Convention would help in improving the condition of 6.4 million domestic workers who are poor, backward and unskilled, she said.
The Cabinet also approved the setting up of a Central Procurement Agency for Department of Health and Family Welfare for efficient procurement and distribution of health sector goods. The Government will provide one time budgetary support of Rs 50 crore to enable establishment of CPA. It would help the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in the efficient procurement and proper distribution of quality medicine, vaccines, contraceptives and medical equipment. Every year the Government procures medicine worth Rs 1700 crore and CPA would help in eliminating wastage by keeping track of the medicines through IT-enabled services thereby preventing wastage during storage.
The meeting further nodded the establishment of six new National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research at Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Guwahati and Rai Bareli at an estimated cost of Rs 633.15 crore. It will help in meeting highly skilled manpower of pharmaceutical industry by imparting higher PG level education and taking up R and D projects.
The Cabinet also decided to establish an international institute namely Borlaug Institute of South Asia in India with centres at Ludhiana in Punjab, Pusa in Bihar and Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. The institutes being set up on the proposal of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre would help in harnessing the best of international science and meeting food security challenges.
The Cabinet also decided to bring before Parliament the International Labour Organisation’s Domestic Workers Convention’s recommendations. The ratification of the Convention would help in improving the condition of 6.4 million domestic workers who are poor, backward and unskilled, she said.
The Cabinet also approved the setting up of a Central Procurement Agency for Department of Health and Family Welfare for efficient procurement and distribution of health sector goods. The Government will provide one time budgetary support of Rs 50 crore to enable establishment of CPA. It would help the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in the efficient procurement and proper distribution of quality medicine, vaccines, contraceptives and medical equipment. Every year the Government procures medicine worth Rs 1700 crore and CPA would help in eliminating wastage by keeping track of the medicines through IT-enabled services thereby preventing wastage during storage.
The meeting further nodded the establishment of six new National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research at Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Guwahati and Rai Bareli at an estimated cost of Rs 633.15 crore. It will help in meeting highly skilled manpower of pharmaceutical industry by imparting higher PG level education and taking up R and D projects.
The Cabinet also decided to establish an international institute namely Borlaug Institute of South Asia in India with centres at Ludhiana in Punjab, Pusa in Bihar and Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. The institutes being set up on the proposal of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre would help in harnessing the best of international science and meeting food security challenges.
