The Interest rates for Deposits is again lowered by 0.1% from 1st July 17

ஜூலை முதல் வட்டி விகிதம் மீண்டும் 0.1% குறைப்பு

Saturday 15 October 2016

PJCA programme on GDS issues

POSTAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
FEDERATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATIONS
ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION – GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS
NATIONAL UNION OF GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS
NEW DELHI - 110001
No.PF-PJCA-12/2016                                                                                         Dated – 14.10.2016
To,
1.      All General Secretaries of NFPE/FNPO/AIPEU-GDS/NUGDS
2.      All Circle Secretaries of NFPE/FNPO/AIPEU GDS/NUGDS
3.      All Divisional Secretaries of NFPE/FNPO/AIPEU-GDS/NUGDS
Dear Friends and Comrade,
            As already decided by the PJCA, the two days strike demanding bonus-parity to GDS and payment of revised wages to casual labourers will take place on 9th& 10th November 2016. There is no positive outcome till this date. File is still pending in Finance Ministry. The PJCA has decided to serve the strike notice on 20th October 2016 to Secretary, Department of Posts, New Delhi. On that day, dharna is being organized in front of all Divisional/Regional/Circle officer by PJCA, as already decided.
            Copy of the strike notice should be served to all Circle/Regional/Divisional heads after conducting demonstrations. Draft copy of the strike notice is enclosed herewith.
            Please print notices and also issue circulars to all offices including Branch Post offices so that every employee shall get ready for the strike, if demands are not settled before 9th November 2016. Conduct intensive campaign among all employees.
            Please treat it as most urgent and important.
Yours sincerely,
R. N. Parashar                                                                                     D. Theagarajan
Secretary General                                                                               Secretary General
NFPE                                                                                                    FNPO
P. Pandurangarao                                                                               P. U. Muraleedharan
General Secretary                                                                               General Secretary
AIPEU GDS                                                                                           NUGDS
 
DRAFT COPY OF STRIKE NOTICE TO BE SERVED TO ALL CIRCLE/REGIONAL/DIVISIONAL HEADS ON 20.10.2016

POSTAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
FEDERATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATIONS
ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION-GRAMIN DAK SEWAKS
NATIONAL UNION OF GRAMIN DAK SEWAKS
NEW DELHI – 110001
No.  PJCA/STRIKE/2016                                                                                      Dated – 20.10.2016
To
The _____________,
_________________
_________________
_________________
NOTICE
Sir,
In accordance with the provisions of Sub Section (1) of Section 22 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, we hereby notify that all the Postal/RMS/MMS/Administrative & Postal Accounts Employees and the Gramin Dak Sewaks  will go on 2 days Nationwide   Strike on 09th  and 10th  November,2016.

Yours faithfully,

R. N. PARASHAR                                                                        D. THEAGARAJAN
Secretary General                                                                               Secretary General
NFPE                                                                                                    FNPO
                                                                                                                       
P. PANDURANGARAO                                                           P. U. MURALEEDHARAN
General Secretary                                                                               General Secretary
AIPEU-GDS                                                                                          NUGDS
 
POSTAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
FEDERATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATIONS
ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION-GRAMIN DAK SEWAKS
NATIONAL UNION OF GRAMIN DAK SEWAKS
NEW DELHI – 110001
No. PF- PJCA/STRIKE/2016                                                                    Dated – 14.10.2016
To,
            The Secretary
            Department of Posts
            DakBhwan,
            Delhi – 110001
Sub: - Indefinite hunger fast inside the Campus of Dak Bhawan , New Delhi by all
Secretary Generals and General Secretaries of NFPE, FNPO and GDS Union from
 3rd November 2016.
Sir,
           It is intimated that Indefinite hunger fast inside Campus of Dak Bhawan, New Delhi
 by the of all  Secretary Generals, General Secretaries of NFPE, FNPO and GDS Union will
be organized from 03rd  November,  2016 for the following pending demands:
                                    
                       (1)   Grant of enhanced bonus to GDS.
                       (2) payment of revised wages of casual labourers and revised bonus .
            As you are aware the bonus calculation ceiling of all Central Government employees was raised from 3500 to 7000 by the Government from 01.04.2014 onwards and orders were issued on 29.08.2016. Arrears for the financial year 2014-15 were also paid to the all departmental employees. But till this day, orders for payment of enhanced bonus to three lakhs Gramin Dak Sevaks are not issued by the Department of Posts.
            Similarly, eventhough the Postal Board has issued orders revising the wages of casual labourers w.e.f 01.01.2006 as per the 6th CPC minimum wage of Group ‘D’, till this day many circles and divisions have not paid the arrears to the poor, unorganized, marginalized and most exploited section of casual, part-time, contingent employees and Daily rated mazdoors. eg: Kerala Circle, Tamilnadu Circle etc.). 7th CPC revision has also become due now.
            It is therefore, requested to permit us to sit inside the premises of Dak Bhawan for Indefinite Hunger Fast from 03rd November, 2016. The Hunger Fast will be peaceful.
Yours faithfully,
R. N. PARASHAR                                                                                            D. THEAGARAJAN
Secretary General                                                                                           Secretary General

Thursday 13 October 2016

Allowances Committee will submit its report soon.

A committee is currently examining the 7th CPC recommendations on allowances and it will submit its report soon: Finance Secretary

Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa



The committee on allowances, which is looking into allowances, which was recommended by 7th Pay Commission, will soon submit its report, Union finance secretary Ashok Lavasa said during an interview.

“A committee headed by me is currently examining the Pay Commission’s recommendations on allowances and it will submit its report soon,” Lavasa said in the exclusive interview with The Economic Times



The government constituted the committee in June, comprising finance secretary as Chairman and secretaries of Home Affairs, Defence, Health and Family Welfare, Personnel and Training, Posts and Chairman, Railway Board as Members to examine the 7th Pay Commission recommendations on allowances, other than dearness allowance.

The committee has been asked to submit its report within four months but it’s ready to submit its report even two months in advance. 
Once the report is submitted, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will take a call on hike in allowances, the sources in finance ministry said. 
Last year, the pay commission headed by Justice A K Mathur had recommended abolition of 51 allowances and subsuming 37 others after examining 196 allowances.


The representatives of the employees unions had earlier conveyed to the government that they did not want it to approve the 7th Pay Commission recommendations on allowances without examining them further. So, the Union Cabinet directed to set up committee on allowances.

The matters relating to pay and pension as decided by the government have been implemented with effect from January 1 this year. The government has also paid its employees arrears of basic pay arising from implementation of the 7th Pay Commission recommendations in one go in August salaries without higher allowances.
“Till a final decision of allowances, all existing Allowances will continue to be paid at the existing rate,” an earlier official statement issued by the finance ministry said. 
The sources said that the quantum of allowances may not vary from those proposed by the 7th Pay Commission. 
“The committee on allowances is likely to stick with the 7th Pay Commission’s recommendations on allowances,” the sources added.


Last year, the finance ministry set up an ‘Implementation Cell’ to give effect to the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission which are eventually accepted by the government.

“So far as the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission report is concerned, an implementation cell was created under this ministry about a year ago and it is still continuing,” the finance secretary also said in the interview.

The recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission are applicable to 48 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners.


Tuesday 11 October 2016

6 Features Of RICT Handheld Device Everybody Should Know

As a pilot phase Department of Post has started using solar powered, biometric hand-held devices in rural post office with connectivity along with the application software in selected circles viz. Bihar, UP and Rajasthan. This move was the outcome of Rural ICT project declared by the Government of India.

Following re the important features or benefits of Hand-held device supplied to Branch Post Offices.
 1. Electronic transactions- Booking and delivery of Speed Post, registered mail, money orders, sale of stamps and postal stationery will be done through these devices and paper receipt shall be generated
 2. Instantaneously thereby eliminating chances of overcharging and other problems associated with manual transactions. Savings Bank deposits & withdrawals, PLI/RPLI premium deposits and loan/claim payments will also be done electronically on these devices.
 3. Immediate uploading of transaction data and financial reconciliation- Using mobile connectivity, data pertaining to all transactions done on the hand-held devices shall be uploaded onto the central server. E-Money order will reach the destination post office instantaneously unlike present day where the money order is digitized at the nearest computerized Post Office and leads to delay in delivery. All financial transactions shall also be reconciled immediately without any manual intervention and Cash on Delivery amount collected in the village shall be immediately credited to the account of e-Commerce Company. Similarly the artisans would be able to fulfill e-commerce orders and receive immediate payment for their sold products online. This will have a positive impact on the overall economy of the villages.
4. Automatic track and trace- Speed Post and Registered letters/parcels and money remittances will be trackable at the Branch Post Office level and booking/delivery information will also be uploaded to central server immediately.
 5. Fraud and leakage elimination- As Savings Bank and Postal Life Insurance transactions will be done on a real-time basis and through immediate generation of receipt and voice message, chances of fraud would be eliminated. Biometric authentication of MNREGS and social security beneficiaries at the time of pay-out would also reduce leakage in the schemes
 6. Post Offices as Common Service Centres- Branch Post Offices shall be able to work as Common Service Centres and offer services such as Railway Reservation, online bill payment for electricity and water utilities, mobile and DTH recharge, insurance policy premium payments & transactions for partner banks/insurance companies/mutual funds etc,

The Gujarat High Court has issued notice on NPS

The Gujarat High Court has issued notice to the central and state governments over a PIL challenging the validity of the market-linked New Pension Scheme (NPS), applicable to government employees who joined on or after January 1, 2004.

NEW PENSION SCHEME

The Gujarat High Court has issued notice to the central and state governments over a PIL challenging the validity of the market-linked New Pension Scheme (NPS), applicable to government employees who joined on or after January 1, 2004.
A division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi issued the notice on October 7 and posted the matter for further hearing after a month.
Petitioner Pranav Desai, a retired scientist of ISRO, stated in his petition that the market-linked new pension scheme provides only annuity and gratuity in place of pension, and has no security for family members of an employee if he passes away.
“Old pension scheme, on the other hand, provided for the 50 per cent of last pay, floor pension, family pension if retiree dies, medical benefits and death gratuity,” he said.
Pension is not a gratuitous payment but deferred payment. Compulsory imposition of NPS violates Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution. Government is exercising economic duress by imposing NPS as it will not help employees in his old age but may in all probability make him starve, the petitioner alleged.
“Mathematical simulation shows that a bulk of employees will get annuity less that subsistence of about Rs 14,000. Also, the NPS provides for no family pension unlike OPS, in the event of the employee passing away,” he said.
“There is uncertainty about pension availability to family if the employee dies. NPS is at the mercy of share market. It is annuity that one gets in place of pension,” he said.
The petitioner further said in NPS, pensioners are not allowed a wide choice of fund manager and asset class.
As per the new pension scheme, a beneficiary cannot withdraw money if he subscribes to an account where government makes an equal matching contribution of 10 per cent of mandatory contribution by employees, he said.
When exiting at the retirement age of 60, one gets 60 per cent of money while 40 per cent has to be invested to LIC-type annuity. And if exiting before retirement age, 80 per cent has to be invested, the new pension scheme mandates, the petitioner said.

கருத்து சுதந்திரத்துக்கு வருகிறது தடா.....

All associations or federations that if anyone indulges in criticism of the government and its policies, appropriate action (including disciplinary action) shall be taken,” an order issued recently by Finance ministry 
The Centre has warned employees of disciplinary action if they indulge in criticism of the government or its policies.
The move comes after officers of Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) and All Association of Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers, among others, suggested changes in Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), a private company tasked with creatinginfrastructure for the goods and services tax (GST), and composition of Revenue Secretary-led council secretariat.
“Of late, it has been noticed that some associations or federations have commented adversely on the government and its policies. It may be brought to the notice of all associations or federations that if anyone indulges in criticism of the government and its policies, appropriate action (including disciplinary action) shall be taken,” an order issued recently by said.

It cited service rules that bar any government servant from making any adverse criticism of any policy or action of the government.

“No government servant shall, in any radio broadcast, telecast through any electronic media or in any document published in his own name or anonymously, pseudonymously or in the name of any other person or in any communication to the press or in any public utterance, make any statement of fact or opinion which has the effect of an adverse criticism of any current or recent policy or action of the central government or state government,” the service rules say.

Citing existing norms, the said the primary objective of the service associations is to promote common service interest of its members.

The ministry asked chief commissioners and directors general concerned to ensure that only recognised employees associations get the benefits mentioned in the rules.

All recognised service associations or federations are entitled for certain benefits such as correspondence and meetings with the head of administrative departments, provision of accommodation for the association subject to availability, facility of special casual leave up to 20 days in a year to office-bearers of associations and payment of Travelling Allowance and Dearness Allowance for attending officially sponsored meetings.

“In the case of service associations or federations which are not recognised or whose recognition has expired, office-bearers of such associations or federations shall not be entitled for these benefits,” the said.

Besides service associations, Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Subramanian Swamy has also been opposing majority stake for private entities in and has already written to Prime Minister objecting to this.

The central government holds 24.5 per cent stake in GSTN, while state governments together hold another 24.5 per cent.

The remaining 51 per cent equity is with non-government financial institutions, like HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and LIC Housing Finance.

“Management of be entrusted to Directorate General, Systems of Central Board of Excise and Customs, as is a newly created special purpose vehicle, which does not have any experience in implementing any IT project or domain knowledge in Indirect Tax laws,” the IRS association had said in a statement.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister, had recently approved ‘Project Saksham’, a new indirect tax network (systems integration) of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).

The total project cost involved is Rs 2,256 crore, which will be incurred over a period of seven years.


Monday 10 October 2016

India Post to Raise the Postage Rates after 15 Years

The Postal Department has bucked up to overcome its big annual revenue deficit of Rs 6000 by hiking prices of postcards, stamps etc. The decision comes after Minister of Communications Manoj Sinha held a meeting to discuss the strategies to bring in the additional Rs 1000 cr revenue every year.
During the meeting when Sinha was apprised with the fact that the pricing comes from Finance Ministry, the Communications Minister directed a committee of ministers to be formed to decide on the hike and the new prices.

According to media news, the new prices of the 25 paise and 50 paise postcards will be 2 rupees, and the price of the Rs 6- printed postcard to Rs 9 per printed postcard. Similarly, the price of an inland letter of Rs 2.50 denomination has been proposed to be increased to Rs 9. The price of India Post’s parcels have also been surged up from Rs 19 per 500 gms to Rs 30 now.

However with the new rates in execution, the Minister did not forgot to remind the officials about focusing on the time of delivery of the parcels.

Going by a report of 2015, the Department found out that its expenses had risen by 262 per cent despite the revision last made in 2001-02 and the prices remaining unchanged.

Also discussed in the meeting was the India Post’s market share in the parcel market which is a minor Rs 1.5-2.0 lakh crore compared to other courier majors. India Post is already cashing in on the boom in e-commerce deliveries, especially the surging cash-on-delivery consignments of the country’s top online sellers — Amazon,Snapdeal, Flipkart and Myntra. Sinha asked the officials to come up with a strategy to beat the over priced courier companies in market in order to shoot up India Post’s shares. All of the further plans will be discussed in a second meet planned for the next month.

Introduction of Rural ICT Handheld Device in Branch Post Offices

As a pilot phase Department of Post has started using solar powered, biometric hand-held devices in rural post office with connectivity along with the application software in selected circles viz. Bihar, UP and Rajasthan. This move was the outcome of Rural ICT project declared by the Government of India.
Following re the important features or benefits of Hand-held device supplied to Branch Post Offices.

1. Electronic transactions- Booking and delivery of Speed Post, registered mail, money orders, sale of stamps and postal stationery will be done through these devices and paper receipt shall be generated
2. Instantaneously thereby eliminating chances of overcharging and other problems associated with manual transactions. Savings Bank deposits & withdrawals, PLI/RPLI premium deposits and loan/claim payments will also be done electronically on these devices.
3. Immediate uploading of transaction data and financial reconciliation- Using mobile connectivity, data pertaining to all transactions done on the hand-held devices shall be uploaded onto the central server. E-Money order will reach the destination post office instantaneously unlike present day where the money order is digitized at the nearest computerized Post Office and leads to delay in delivery. All financial transactions shall also be reconciled immediately without any manual intervention and Cash on Delivery amount collected in the village shall be immediately credited to the account of e-Commerce Company. Similarly the artisans would be able to fulfill e-commerce orders and receive immediate payment for their sold products online. This will have a positive impact on the overall economy of the villages.
4. Automatic track and trace- Speed Post and Registered letters/parcels and money remittances will be trackable at the Branch Post Office level and booking/delivery information will also be uploaded to central server immediately.
5. Fraud and leakage elimination- As Savings Bank and Postal Life Insurance transactions will be done on a real-time basis and through immediate generation of receipt and voice message, chances of fraud would be eliminated. Biometric authentication of MNREGS and social security beneficiaries at the time of pay-out would also reduce leakage in the schemes
6. Post Offices as Common Service Centres- Branch Post Offices shall be able to work as Common Service Centres and offer services such as Railway Reservation, online bill payment for electricity and water utilities, mobile and DTH recharge, insurance policy premium payments & transactions for partner banks/insurance companies/mutual funds etc,.

LDCE for promotion to the cadre of P.S.Group ‘B’




7 Interest Free Advances Are Abolished, Only 4 Retained

The interest free advances for Medical Treatment, Travelling Allowance for family of deceased, Travelling Allowance on tour or transfer and Leave Travel Concession shall be retained. All other interest free advances stands discontinued







Confusion Continues in Promotion Option after Finance Ministry order

Ministry of finance has issued an Office Memorandum regarding Revising Promotion Option under FR 22(1) (a). 
Here there should not be any misunderstanding between Exercising Option for Pay Revision under CCS (RP) Rules 2016 and Exercising option for Pay Fixation for Promotion/MACP under FR 22(1)(a) 
As per the provisions of FR 22 (l) (a) the Government servants have the option, to be exercised within one month from the date of promotion, to have the pay fixed under this rule from the date of such promotion or from the date of next increment. 
Some of the employees. promoted between 01.01.2016 and 25.7.2016 had opted for their pay fixation on promotion/financial up-gradation under MACPS from the date of their next increment in the lower grade. Consequent upon notification of CCS CRP) Rules, 2016 i.e 25th July, 2016. the option submitted by such employees has now turned out to be disadvantageous. 
In some Department the Employees Promoted between 01-01-2016 and 25-7-2016 are allowed to exercise their Option to revise their Pay from the Date of Next increment i.e 1st July 2016. 
But As per the provisos to CCS (RP) Rules 2016, they should not have been allowed to give option to revise their Pay beyond their date of Promotion Since it has been stated in CCS (RP) Rules 2016 under Rule No.5. 
Now the Ministry of Finance issued an OM which says
“Under the changed circumstances after notification of CCS (RP) Rules. 2016. the employee may be allowed to exercise revised option for fixation of pay under FR 22(I)(a)(I). Such revised option shall be exercised within one month of issue of this OM Option so revised, shall be final” 
After this Clarification there is confusion among Government servants those who got Promotion between 01-01-2016 and 25-7-2016 regarding how their Pay will be fixed…?
The Doubts are ..
1. What is the status of Employees promoted between 01.01.2016 and 25.7.2016 and opted to Revise their pay on Date of Next Increment i.e 1.7.2016 ? 
i. Would they be asked to revise their promotion option under FR 22(1)(a) ? 
ii. The option Exercised under the provisos to rule 5 of CCS (RP) Rules 2016 also to be revised again…? 
iii. If one opt to fix the pay on Date of Promotion under FR 22(1)(a) and Opt to revise the pay on date of Promotion under Revised Pay Rules 2016, how the Pay will be fixed…? Our federation will take up the issue with Department of post.

India Post Recruitment - 3281 PAs / SAs Vacancy in SSC (10+2) Examination, 2016

India Post Recruitment Via Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has published Advertisement for Combined Higher Secondary Level (10+2) Examination, 2016. Other details like age limit, educational qualification, selection process, application fee and how to apply are given below.
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Exam : Combined Higher Secondary Level (10+2) Examination, 2016Posts :5134Postal Assistant/Sorting AssistantLower Division Clerk (LDC)Data Entry Operator (DEO)Court Clerks

Total No. of Posts : Tentatively the vacancies for the post of Postal Assistant/Sorting Assistant, LDC, DEO and Court Clerks are 3281, 1321, 506 and 26 respectively. Total number of jobs in India Post recruitment are 3281.

Educational Qualification : Must have passed 12th Standard or equivalent examination from a recognized Board or University.

Age Limit : 18-27 years as on 01.01.2017 (Candidates born not before 02-01-1990 and
not later than 01-01-1999).

Application Fees : Mode of payment of fee payable Rs. 100/-(Rupees One Hundred only).
Candidates may note that online application will be accepted at http://ssconline.nic.in only.
Fee paid in respect of online application through SBI Challan/Net banking and any credit
and debit cards will be accepted.

Scheme of Examination : The examination will consist of a Computer-based Written Examination (Tier-I), Descriptive Paper (Tier-II) and Typing Test/Skill Test (Tier-III) Examination for the post of Data Entry Operator, Postal Assistant & Sorting Assistant (PA/SA), Lower Division Clerk and Court
Clerk.

How to Apply : Interested Candidates may Apply Online Through official Website.

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Important Dates :
Last Date to Apply Online : 07-11-2016
Date of Computer Based Examination (Tier-I): 07-01-2017 , 05-02-2017
Date of Tier-II (Descriptive Paper): 09-04-2017


All the best to candidates appearing for India Post PA/SA recruitment. We hope to see you soon.

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