6th Pay Commission - Arrears and Income Tax Calculator

I am highly thankful to all those who have given feedback (both bouquets and brickbats), for having helped in making the calculator as accurate as possible for computation of arrears and income tax in respect of most employees with normal pay structure/fixation. Paucity of time and effort involved prevented me from providing for calculation of pay and arrears in respect of extra-ordinary/exceptional cases. However, I hope that officers belonging to such categories will understand that my aim was only to reduce the burden on DDO's and not to remove it altogether.

I am also happy to know that officers of some Departments received the first instalment of arrears even before their first salary drawn as per the accepted recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission, as per feedback received over phone/email.

Meanwhile, alongwith several of my colleagues, I am still awaiting receipt of the first instalment of arrears.

A copy of the Resolution and the CCS Pay (Revised) Rules, are available at http://excisebangalore3.gov.in/.

The pay calculator is now largely updated and covers almost the entire spectrum, including -S1 Pay Band corresponding to Old Scales S-1 to S-3. I have now covered even Merger and Upgradation of posts.

It can be used by

1. Those who had joined the Department before 01 January 2006 and have not had pay fixation on account of promotion or ACP,
2. Those who had joined the Department before 01 January 2006 and had pay fixation on account of promotion or ACP,
3. Those who had joined the Department after 01 January 2006 and have not had pay fixation on account of promotion / Selection grade.
4. Physically Handicapped / disabled employees.

It is not suitable for use by Defence employees with MSP.

You may feel free to download, test and give your comments and feedback. While giving feedback on errors in the calculator, please furnish details about input you have given to the calculator, so that I can locate the exact cause of the error, and also know whether the instructions in the entry screen are being followed correctly, as wrong input will definitely result in wrong results. In some cases, the errors are genuine are have been, or are being, fixed, and wherever the feedback was received through mail, I have informed them about the reason for the error and whether it has been fixed.

Click here to download Version 5.0.8 (24 September 2008).

Those accessing this blog from Headquarters Office, Bangalore-III Central Excise Commissionerate click here to download.

Those with upgraded and merged pay, and those who have received promotions after 01 January 2006 may use this version

Feedback regarding alterations, corrections or modifications are most welcome.

Windows Settings required for using the application:
In Regional Options, Currency should be set to Rupees and Date should be set to European format. otherwise, the figures will be shown in $ instead of Rs. and dates may be shown as ########.

To do this in Windows XP: Go to Control Panel, select Date, Time, Language and Regional Options, then select Regional and Language Options. There, select Location as India (Default is United States). Select Language as English (United Kingdom) and click on the Customize button. In the new dialogue box that opens, click on the Currency tab and change the currency from $ or £ or € to Rs. and then click on the Date button and change the Short Date Format to DD/MM/YYYY and remove the Weekday from the Long Date Format. Then click OK on the Customize tab and again OK on the Regional and Language Options Tab.

To do this in Windows Vista: Go to Control Panel, select Change Display Language. In the dialogue box that opens, click on the Formats Tab and select Current Format as English (India). Click on the Location Tab and select India. Then click OK.

Feedback can be sent by clicking comments below or email to bsudhiracharya@gmail.com or sudhiracharya@hotmail.com or bsudhiracharya@yahoo.co.uk.

Accident or Mass Human Sacrifice?

Eleven people, including seven primary school students of Bami Lower Primary School in Tenkulepady, near Kaikamba in Mangalore, were killed when a school bus with 36 people fell into the flooded Phalguni river in Ulaibettu early morning on the 14th of August, the eve of India's 61st Independence Day. The driver of the bus also died in the mishap.

If a follow-up news article in the Times of India dated 16th of August is to be believed, 13th and 14th of August had been declared holidays for the local schools due to inclement weather. However, the same could not be communicated to the school on time since the approval of holiday declaration first got delayed in bureaucracy and the subsequent announcement of the holidays was stuck in red-tape, thereby forcing the hapless tiny-tots to attend school on both the "Holidays" at their own peril.

At this age, when superstitious Animal and Human Sacrifice at the altar of deities has been banned, these eleven people have been sacrificed at the altar of bureaucracy and red-tapism, as if these two are greater than God.

Seven tiny-tots were sacrificed and Twelve other tiny-tots in the same bus, who were lucky enough to survive were put to heavy stress in their struggle for survival, while adults are unable to cope with simple stresses like inflation, at a time when all these 19 children could have been safe in the shelter of their homes, in the protective care of their elders. Seven children, who should have been the future of the nation, have been relegated to the past.

The Minister for Fisheries, Shri Krishna Palemar, rushed to the spot to supervise rescue operations and announced Rs one lakh compensation to the relatives of those who died, and subsequently, the Prime Minister, Shri Manmohan Singh announced another Rs one lakh compensation. Is each child worth only Rs two lakhs? Can a price be fixed for the void caused in the life of their loved ones?

The media, polititions and the authorities have started the blame game and mud-slinging. The politicians will see this as a golden opportunity to cash-in for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, and all the common man can do is to pray for the departed souls and their family, and hope that such mistakes will not happen again, to anyone in general and to oneself or one's own family members in particular, as we get to see or hear about such incidents happening around us almost everyday.

The sacrifice of these eleven people should not be allowed to go in vain. This should be an eye-opener to bureaucrats and all others alike, to act fast, at least in taking life-saving decisions.

Priceless Treasure Lost+Found

I have now been able to put my first post a few weeks after creating this blog. I have finally been able to make the time for it.

I would like to start this blog with good tidings of having found a long-lost priceless treasure about a week back. I have been able to trace out my closest friend and classmate of Mountain Home High School, Coonoor, Gul P Samtani, after more than 27 years of separation and last 3 years of searching. In fact, although I have been hunting for him since Friendhip Day 2005, it was he who traced me. We were 10 years and some months old when we last met. We have now got in touch with one-another, thanks a lot to my sister Sunitha's classmate, Raquel Audrey Karim (nee Browne), and my sister Kavitha, and are looking forward to meeting each-other and catching up with the lost time, hopefully on the 1st of November this year, or if possible, before that. To some extent, the website www.Batchmates.com was also responsible for this re-union. I consider myself very lucky to have caught-up with a long-lost friend just before the formal Friendship Day (although I consider everyday as Friendship Day).

Thanks Raquel, Thanks Kavitha, Thanks Sunitha, Thanks Gul for tracing and promptly calling me, Thanks Batchmates.com and Thanks a lot to God for directing this re-union.

Now, I would like to search for and find N. Suresh, who was also my classmate and close friend in Mountain Home High School, Coonoor.

Where are you, Suresh?