Strike notice served by FNPO with Charter of demands

Strike notice served by FNPO with Charter of demands.

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FNPO demonstration at NSH Chennai

A massive demonstration against the non-implementation of Speed Post norms at NSHs held at NSH Chennai.  
FNPO Secretary General Shri.D.Theagarajan addressed the gathering. 

 

சென்னை நகர RMS கோட்டங்களின் கூட்டு போராட்டக்குழு சார்பில் நடைபெற்ற பெருந்திரள் ஆர்ப்பாட்டம்.

NSH Chennai / BNPL Anna Road Manager திரு.அமுதகணேசன் அவர்களின் தொழிலாளர் விரோத போக்கை கண்டித்தும் மற்றும் Norms செயல் படுத்தவும் பெருந்திரள் ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் மாலை 03:00 முதல் 07:00 மணி வரை வெகுச் சிறப்பாக   நடைபெற்றது.  

FNPO சம்மேளன மா.பொது செயலாளர் தோழர் தே.தியாகராஜன் அவர்கள் கலந்து கொண்டு மிகவும் சிறப்பான எழுச்சியான நீண்ட நெடிய சீரிய கருத்துக்களூடன் உரையாற்றினார். 

 FNPO மாநிலச் செயலர்கள் P.குமார்,R/3, S.ஸ்ரீதரன்,R/4 P.சுகுமாறன்,P/4 மற்றும் FNPO & NFPE ,R/3 & R/4 செயலாளர்கள் மற்றும் P/3 ஊழியர்கள்  ஆகியோர் சிறப்புரையாற்றினார்கள். சென்னை  APSO கோட்டச் செயலர் R.ரவிச்சந்திரன் நன்றி கூற ஆர்பாட்டம் முடிவுற்றது.

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NUPE Postmen & MTS Served Notice of agitation

Today NUPE Postmen & MTS Served notice of agitation under Trade Union Act 10 F Sec 22 of Industrial Dispute Act 1947 to Secretary (P) Department of Posts.

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Government Gives Green Signal To Merger Of SBI, Associate Banks

Government Gives Green Signal To Merger Of SBI, Associate Banks

With the merger of all the five associates, SBI is expected to become a global-sized bank with an asset base of Rs. 37 lakh crore or over $555 billion, 22,500 branches and 58,000 ATMs. It will have over 50 crore customers.New Delhi: Seeking to create a global sized bank, the government today gave go ahead to the merger plan of SBI and its five associate banks but did not take a decision with regard to Bharatiya Mahila Bank.

"The Cabinet had earlier in-principle cleared the (merger) proposal. It had gone to the boards of various banks which have granted the approvals. The recommendations of the boards were considered today and the Cabinet cleared the proposal," Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.

The associate banks which will be merged with SBI are: State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur (SBBJ), State Bank of Mysore (SBM), State Bank of Travancore (SBT), State Bank of Patiala (SBP) and State Bank of Hyderabad  (SBH). 

"With this merger, the SBI, with all these five subsidiaries merging in it, will also become a very large bank, not merely from a domestic point of view but actually a global player in its very size," the minister said after the Union Cabinet meeting.

It will, he added, "certainly lead to far greater efficiency. It will lead to synergy of operations within these banks...it will cut down the cost of operations. The cost of funds itself will come down".

With the merger of all the five associates, SBI is expected to become a global-sized bank with an asset base of Rs. 37 trillion (Rs. 37 lakh crore) or over $555 billion, 22,500 branches and 58,000 ATMs. It will have over 50 crore customers.

State Bank of India has about 16,500 branches, including 191 foreign offices spread across 36 countries. SBI first merged State Bank of Saurashtra with itself in 2008. Two years later, State Bank of Indore was merged with it.

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Fixation of Seniority - Promotion on the basis of Reservation.

FIXATION OF SENIORITY OF GOVERNMENT SERVANTS PROMOTED ON THE BASIS OF RESERVATION FOR PROMOTION TO SCHEDULED CASTE AND SCHEDULED TRIBE - Click here to view -

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ISRO creates History

PSLV-C37 takes off successfully with 104 satellites, ISRO creates history

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro's) workhorse PSLV-C37 successfully lifted off from the Sriharikota space port near Chennai carrying 104 satellites with it, a first of its kind effort by any space agency in the world. 

With the successful launch today, India scripted history by becoming the first country to launch more than 100 satellites in one go. ISRO made its second successful attempt after the launch of 23 satellites together in June 2015.

PSLV-C37, which was on its 39th mission, took off at 9:28 a.m. and it is carrying the 714 kg CARTOSAT-2 series satellite for earth observation, along with 103 co-passenger satellites. 

While 96 co-passenger satellites belong to USA, five are from International customers of ISRO — Israel, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Switzerland and United Arab Emirates. Antrix Corporation Ltd (ANTRIX), the commercial arm of the ISRO, has made arrangements for the nano-satellites belonging to international customers.

Two other Indian nano satellites are also carried by the rocket, and the total weight it would carry is around 1,378 kg. The nano satellites will provide an opportunity for ISRO technology demonstration payloads, provide a standard bus for launch on demand services, said ISRO sources.

Cartosat-2

The 714 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite is the primary satellite carried by PSLV-C37. This satellite is similar to the earlier four satellites of the Cartosat-2 series. After its injection into a 505 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit by PSLV-C37, the satellite will be brought to operational configuration following which it will begin providing regular remote sensing services using its panchromatic and multi-spectral cameras.

The images from Cartosat-2 series satellite will be useful for cartographic applications, urban and rural applications, coastal land use and regulation, utility management like road network monitoring, water distribution, creation of land use maps, change detection to bring out geographical and man-made features and various other Land Information System (LIS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) applications.

The CartoSat 2 series satellite will be injected into a 505 km Sun Synchronous Polar Orbit (SSPO), following which the satellite will be brought into an operational configuration. The CartoSat-2D is the fifth earth observation satellite in the CartoSat series, ISRO had previously placed into o-Your data has been truncated.

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வருந்துகிறோம்.

தேசிய சங்கத்தின் தமிழ்மாநில இடைக்கால குழு தலைவர் 
திரு திருஞானசம்பந்தம் அவர்களின் தகப்பனார் திரு பெருமாள் அவர்கள் 
14.02.2017 அன்று இயற்கை எய்தினார் என்பதை வருத்தத்துடன் தெரிவித்து கொள்கிறோம். அன்னாரது பிரிவால் வாடும் அவர்தம் குடும்பத்தினருக்கு எமது ஆழ்ந்த அனுதாபங்கள்.

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Misusing LTC? Govt warns employees of disciplinary action

Misusing LTC? Govt warns employees of disciplinary action

Central government employees found misusing Leave Travel Concession (LTC) will face disciplinary action, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has warned.

A government employee gets reimbursement of tickets for to-and-fro journey, in addition to leaves, when he avails LTC.

As per fresh guidelines by Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the employees are required to submit a declaration that he and the members of the family in respect of whom the claim is submitted have indeed travelled upto the declared place of visit.

The declaration is required in the cases where a government servant travels on LTC up to the nearest airport, railway station or bus terminal by authorised mode of transport and undertakes rest of the journey to the declared place of visit by private transport or own arrangement (such as personal vehicle or private taxi etc.).

"Furnishing of false information will attract disciplinary action," the DoPT said in a directive issued to secretaries of all central government departments.

The Centre is trying to put a strict system in place to check misuse of LTC after it had noticed certain instances where some of its employees allegedly colluded with private travel agents to submit inflated airfare to clandestinely obtain undue benefits like free boarding, lodging, transport or cash refunds.

"If public transport is available in a particular area, the government servant will be reimbursed the fare admissible for journey by otherwise entitled mode of public transport from the nearest airport, railway station or bus terminal to the declared place of visit by shortest direct route," it said.

In case, there is no public transport available in a particular stretch of journey, the government servant may be reimbursed as per his entitlement for journey on transfer for a maximum limit of 100 kms covered by the private or personal transport based on a self-certification from the government servant, the DoPT said. Beyond that, the expenditure shall be borne by the employee himself.

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Gratuity Benefits under NPS Lok Sabha Q & A

GRATUITY BENEFITS UNDER NPS LOK SABHA QUESTION & ANSWER

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The government has allocated Rs 500 crore for India Post Payments Bank

The government has allocated Rs125 crore as capital infusion for India Post Payments Bank and Rs375 crore as grant in aid .

 

New Delhi: The government has allocated Rs500 crore to India Post Payments Bank for the financial year 2017-18 as it gears up to set up 650 branches across country by September 2017.

The government has allocated Rs125 crore as “capital infusion into corporate entity for India Post Payments Bank” and Rs375 crore as “grant in aid to India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)”, as per Output-Outcome Framework for Schemes 2017-18 for the department of posts (DoP) released on Monday.

India Posts is the second entity to roll out payments bank—though on a pilot basis—in Raipur and Ranchi, after Airtel that has earmarked Rs3,000 crore as initial investment for pan-India operations with an interest rate of 7.25% on deposits. Besides, Airtel is offering free money transfer from Airtel to Airtel numbers within Airtel Bank, money transfer to any bank account in the country.

The IPPB will offer an interest rate of 4.5% on deposits up to Rs25,000; 5% on deposits of Rs25,000-50,000 and 5.5% on Rs50,000-1,00,000. The total paid up equity of the new bank IPPB is Rs 800 crore, of which the government has already infused Rs275 crore.

Payments banks can accept deposits up to Rs1 lakh per account from individuals and small businesses. The new model of banking allows mobile firms, super market chains and others to cater to banking requirements of individuals and small businesses. The allocation to IPPB is part of Rs1,034.13 crore earmarked for the department of posts. The second big chunk of the total allocation, Rs279.6 crore, has been allocated for providing IT hardware and software in identified rural areas for improved access to services and customer satisfaction, resulting in increase in customer transactions, traffic and revenue.

The DoP has been allocated Rs110.83 crore for establishing e-commerce, parcel booking, international business centres, Rs73.5 crore for estates management, Rs32 crore for mail operations and Rs17.7 crore for equipments and IT infrastructure in rural post offices. The government has allocated Rs3.8 crore for setting up 246 offices and 200 outlets for providing better access to communication and financial services.

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Rule 38 transfer - Application Form (Model)

Rule 38 transfer -  Application Form (Model)

 

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No “Conditions Apply” in India Post Payments Bank Says IPPB CEO

No “Conditions Apply” in India Post Payments Bank Says IPPB CEO

Our USP is door-to-door banking with help of postman: IndiaPost Payments Bank CEO

IndiaPost Payments Bank, which is set to launch operations soon, will follow a bottoms-up approach, targeting people who either have feature phones or no mobiles at all.

In his first interview after taking over as the CEO of IndiaPost Payments Bank, Ashok Pal Singh tells ET's Surabhi Agarwal that the idea of the bank will be to simplify and universalise payments. Excerpts:

You rolled out a few pilots; what is the timeline for the launch?

We started in Ranchi and Raipur, and our concept is to have a district office in each district. The idea is that the branch office in a district will map all the post offices, urban and rural, in that area.

The idea is to test this model out through the pilot. We are hoping that by September we will start operations in at least 650 districts of the country.

What is going to be your target audience?

The core of our audience is the 500 million who use feature phones and we are currently testing how familiar they are even with the basic banking products -are they comfortable with it or do these need to be simplified?

How do you plan to differentiate your offerings?

Something that many others are doing but we want to pilot here is paperless account opening. Something that others are not doing but might emerge as our USP is door-to-door banking with the help of the postman.

Plus, simplified payment solutions for the masses is what we will be targeting, both for these feature phone users and around 350 million who are below that -who are without any phone at all. The payments bank will depend on third party fee-based services because the way in which the regulator has put it, you can't make money on anything else.

How do you look at the intense competition in the space from players such as Paytm and Airtel Payment Bank?

We are looking at a bottoms-up approach because our so-called competitors will start skimming the market. Let them do it. We will attempt to broaden and deepen the market from below.

That may not be as great a commercial proposition as skimming the market, but we believe that once we broaden and deepen it, there is a larger objective which is also being served and ultimately everyone will benefit including the so-called competitors.

We are not positioning ourselves as competitors because we are funded out of public money, and typically government should not be competing with its corporates, because they are ours. it's still a win-win for India.

Some of your competitors are offering interest rates as high as 7.5%. How do you plan to match it?

I have nothing to say on how they are doing it. But in any case, they have private money at their disposal. All my funding is from the government which is public money. Which is Rs 400 crore equity, Rs 400 crore grants. I have no means to do that and these are going to be short-term in any case.

Someone who says that you get that fancy rate of interest immediately puts an asterisk saying conditions apply. We also want to put an asterisk which says no conditions apply. Because if we have to live off the brand of the post office, it has to be about integrity and trust.

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Views of NC/JCM staff side to Committees on NPS

No.NC.JCM-2016/Pension (NPS)

February 10,2017

The Chairman,

Sub-Committee III on NPS

Dept of Pension & Pensioners Welfare

3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market,

New Delhi

Dear Sir,

Thank you very much for your letter No 57/2016-P&PW(B) dated 31st January 2017 and the decision to reschedule the meeting at our request.

We find from your letter cited that the Committee set up by the Government to streamline the NPS has delegated the task to different Sub-Committees and we are before the Sub-Committee No III. Since the identified task of each subcommittee is not made known, nor even as to how such many subcommittees are set up, we may not be able to make a comprehensive presentation on NPS. On 20th January 2017, we had made a written presentation of our views in the matter. We attach the said letter to this communication and reiterate the views conveyed therein.

1. The entire Central and State Govt Employees of the Country must be excluded from the purview of the NPS and consequently of PFRDA Act for the elaborate reasons mentioned in our Memorandum to 7 CPC. The National Pension Scheme which is based on defined mandatory contribution with the employee's organisations in the JCM forum and amounts as unilateral and arbitrary withdrawal of an existing benefit, which is clearly impermissible. We give hereunder our comments on each of the issues raised in the letter cited.

2.Without compromising on the above position,. We request that benefits defined under the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 as amended on a date must be the pension and other entitlements in the case of all Central And State Govt. employees. In other words, every employee who retires after completion of 20 years of service must be given-

Pension @50% of the last pay drawn or average emoluments of the last 10 months whichever is beneficial to the employee along with the appropriate Dearness Relief, subject to the minimum pension under the Rules as is amended from time to time.

On his death as Pensioner, family members shall be entitled to family Pension, subject to the specified minimum amount of family pension, stipulated by the Government from time to time along with appropriate Dearness Relief. Besides, all persons on retirement will be entitled to Gratuity as specified under extant Rules.

(A) The framing of rules on service matters of NPS employees including the following:

(i) Provision of an option for entitlements under old pension scheme on death, disability or invalidation during service

There cannot be a provision for the option. The stipulation of pensionary benefit afforded under the extant rules / CCS(Pension) Rules be extended to them. The provisional pension benefit orders issued by the Govt. is to be continued or made permanent.

(ii) Family for the purpose of payment of annuity

Family definition must be as is provided for the present CCS (Pension) Rules

(iii) Contribution during suspension, extraordinary leave (i.e.leave without pay), unauthorised absence

Contribution during suspension: 10% of the subsistence allowance and Govt.

Contributes 10% of the entitled full salary

Extra Ordinary leave-No contribution

Unauthorised absence-No contribution

(iv) Entitlements/deductions on dismissal / removal during service

Entitlement/deduction on dismissal/removal during service – Return of the Contributions made by the official and the Govt on his behalf. If the purchases an annuity by investing the funds so received, the said annuity must not be in any case less than 1/3rd of the last pay drawn by the dismissed/removed official.

(v) Withholding of NPS funds due to departmental/judicial proceedings pending at the time of retirement.

Neither the Pension fund be withheld nor the entitled defined benefit pension. In other words, the pension must be delinked from any disciplinary proceedings.

(vi) Departmental proceedings after retirement for the alleged misconduct during service.

It must not have any bearing on the Pension entitlements of an official who is subscriber to NPS

(vii) Withholding of annuity on account of future misconduct

Does not deserve any comment

(viii) Voluntary retirement of NPS employees

Voluntary retirement is presently afforded after 20 years of service. Therefore, the official will be entitled to full pension

(ix) Commercial employment of NPS employees after retirement.

Must not have any bearing on pension entitlement.

B. Provision of GPF for the NPS employees

May be provided as a voluntary option to all officials.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

(Shiva Gopal Mishra)

Secretary

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Lok sabha Q & A on Maternity Leave and Min Wages

Maternity Leave Lok sabha Question & Answer

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 672
TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.02.2017

MATERNITY LEAVE

672. DR. SHASHI THAROOR:
Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT be pleased to state:
(a)whether the Government proposes to extend the time span of the compulsory paid maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks in private organizations;
(b)if so, the details thereof;
(c)whether the Government also proposes to amend section 4 of the Maternity Benefits Act, 1961, to ensure that women employed in various public sector undertakings receive the same benefit; and
(d)if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI BANDARU DATTATREYA)

(a) & (b): Yes, Madam. The Government has decided to enhance the paid maternity leave from existing 12 weeks to 26 weeks and an Amendment Bill in this regard was introduced in the Rajya Sabha. The Rajya Sabha has already passed the Bill on 11.08.2016. With regard to women workers covered under Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948, such enhancement has already been effected by amending the ESI (Central) Rules,1950.
(c) & (d): There is no proposal to amend Section 4 of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961. The benefits under this Act are already applicable and available to women employed in various public sector undertakings.
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KV School Admission Schedule for the Session 2017-18

KV School Admission Schedule for the Session 2017-18


SCHEDULE FOR ADMISSION

The Admission Schedule for the Session 2017-18 will be as under:-

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List of Holiday Homes for CGE

Holiday Homes and Touring Officers’ Hostels under Ministry of Urban Development

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Speed Post, delivering excellence in 100 countries with Finland being the newest addition

Speed Post, delivering excellence in 100 countries with Finland being the newest addition

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Shrink your Postal address to six characters with eLoc

The typical postal address is a few lines long. Now, you can shrink it into just six characters — no matter how long and complicated it is — and share with anyone who can find the building, business or even your home that it represents with almost pinpoint accuracy.

More than eight years after it started working on it, digital mapping company MapmyIndia formally launched eLoc (short for e-Location) on Thursday. For now, it is a free service.

It shortens an address into a combination of six alphabets and numbers. You can put it on your visiting card, on a website or share via any other means. If someone is looking to reach you, the person needs to just enter the eLoc in MapmyIndia's maps portal (or app) and it will instantly offer turn-by-turn directions right up to your address.

The closest to eLoc, in a context that everyone can understand, is our PIN code. The problem with the PIN code is that it specifies an area that could as large as 50 square kilometres. An eLoc, on the other hand, can guide the user right up to the address.

If you're reading this, chances are that the eLoc for your address has already been created. You can head over to www.mapmyindia.com/eloc and check. Once you have your eLoc (ABC123 for example), you can also share a short URL to it, which will be //eloc.me/ABC123. Clicking the link will open MapmyIndia's maps in a web browser and show you the precise location. If you don't have an eLoc, you can right click on the map and create one.

Apart from consumer use, businesses and government services, too, could benefit from eLoc. Taxi aggregators, emergency services, local deliveries, courier services, property administration, postal services and others can all use it.

"Just like Aadhaar is the identity of a person, eLoc is the identity of an address or a business," said Rakesh Verma, managing director of MapmyIndia. "Over 2 crore (20 million) eLocs have been generated already and, apart from the address, it can also include more information about a business."

When asked about monetising the eLoc, he said: "Initially, we want to do whatever it takes to get the maximum number of people to start using it. At some point, business will start benefiting from eLocs and that's when we will look at monetising. We want to take the total 20 million eLocs to about 100 million — as we keep building house addresses, the eLoc database will be built alongside."

Source : The Times of India

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GDS Online Recruitment Schedule.

GDS ONLINE RECRUITMENT

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Appointment of interim MD & CEO of the IPPB

Appointment of interim MD & CEO of the India Post Payments Bank

 

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Secretary General Shri.D.Theagarajan at Mumbai GPO

FNPO Secretary General Shri.D.Theagarajan along with president FNPO, R H Gupta ASG &J K SARDESAI Circle secretary NAPE Gr C visit various post offices  SG FNPO addressed the meeting at Mumbai GPO

 

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