Govt weakening labour laws, a few becoming billionaires, says Rahul

INTUC plenary session: Govt weakening labour laws, a few becoming billionaires, says Rahul

Alleging that Modi has launched a "big assault" on the workers, a combative Gandhi vowed to fight their battle like the Congress did for the farmers on the land acquisition bill.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of having launched a “big assault” on workers by trying to weaken labour laws and attempting to “tear into pieces” their safety net.
He said the Prime Minister is coming with new buzzwords like ‘Smart Cities’, ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ and is talking about growth and progress, but “only a handful” are benefiting and becoming billionaires.

“Prime Minister thinks that the workers of India are dishonest, work shirkers and could be made to work only by wielding a lathi. He feels labour laws have to be weakened and workers disciplined so that they are forced to work. He wants to bring them on their knees. If you look at the new laws being made in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana, it will become clear that Modi has started a big assault on workers,” he said, addressing the 31st plenary session of INTUC, the trade union arm of the Congress.
“He (Modi) feels workers will work by implementing hire and fire policy and by weakening unions. The government should be impartial. But the government has left the workers to fend for themselves… It is not the government’s job to forcefully make workers work. Partnership between workers and industry is only possible when the government plays the role of a judge and doesn’t act as an advocate of capitalists,” he said.
Rahul also said the PM was merely creating buzzwords. “It started with ‘achche din’, then came ‘Swachch Bharat’, ‘Smart Cities’, ‘Make in India’, ‘Digital India’ and now ‘Accessible India’. God knows which jumla will come out next.”
“The phrases are interesting, but they hide as much as they talk. Words like growth, development and progress are tossed around. But growth, development and progress for whom? Who is benefiting from growth? Only 20-25 people are becoming billionaires,” he said.
He said the Prime Minister’s vision was to make India a global manufacturing centre. “He thinks India can compete with China and I agree with him. Unfortunately, there ends our unanimity because our view on what is ‘Make in India’ is totally different… India is lagging in manufacturing because our workers are scared as they are uncertain about their future. You talk about productivity but workers will not be able to work properly if they fear about their future… The worker is scared whether the job he has today will be there tomorrow. Will the factory gate open for him tomorrow… you remove that fear from their minds and see where they will take India….we will surpass China,” the Congress leader said.
“Modiji, you cannot make workers work better by reducing their job security. Their problems cannot be solved by making setting up of unions difficult. ‘Make in India’ will not be successful by ending their basic necessities. Productivity will not increase and they cannot be made to work more by introducing contractual system…I don’t know who is giving you advice on these issues… you should spend some time with those who understand the issues of workers,” Rahul added.
Referring to the Congress’s opposition to changes in the Land Bill, he said the party will fight for the cause of workers. “We will not retreat an inch. We will fight BJP, Modi and the RSS,” he said.

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FNPO views on 7th CPC

Dear colleagues,
Our corrected views on 7^th CPC are published as under however this will be finalized in consolation with NFPE before submission.
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Our Blogs Day (6th Dec)

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(4th Anniversary on 6th Dec 2015) 

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Barclays Bank London Wishes to Tie Up with India Post

Barclays Plc is seeking a partnership with India’s postal department, which won preliminary approval to set up a payments bank, as the U.K. bank strives to widen its reach in the South Asian country.

A partnership with India Post, as the service is known, would give Barclays “access to areas where we do not have a physical presence,” George Cherian, a Mumbai-based spokesman for the bank, said by phone on Friday.

The U.K. bank and Deutsche Bank AG are among 17 firms including three insurers that want to use the postal service’s network to deliver financial services, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified as the information is private. A unit of the department will offer the services initially through 500 branches and will later expand the operation across the country, the person said.

A tie-up opens up the prospect for lenders and insurers to distribute products and offer financial services through a portion of a network that has about 155,000 post offices across India. By comparison, State Bank of India is the nation’s largest lender by branches with 16,400 outlets.

The Department of Posts was one of 11 entities that won “in-principle” approval from the central bank in August for a payments banking license, which allows companies to collect deposits, facilitate money transfers and sell insurance and mutual funds. Through these lenders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hopes to eventually tap into savings from rural areas that currently have limited access to banking services, and bolster credit growth in the world’s second-most populous nation.

Banks such as Barclays could also use the postal network to provide cash-management services to clients. In cash management, a bank collects and disburses cash, and manages surplus funds to support a corporate customer’s day-to-day operations.

Linus Chettiar, a Mumbai-based spokesman for Deutsche Bank, couldn’t immediately comment. Postal department spokesman N. N. Kaul didn’t answer two calls to his mobile phone.

State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, IDBI Bank Ltd. and Yes Bank Ltd. are among other lenders that are seeking to partner with India Post, according to the person

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Secretary General's Lr to Tamilnadu CPMG

Sir/Madam

            You are aware four Districts of Tamilnadu namely, Chennai, Kanchipuram, Thiruvallur and Cuddalore are badly affected by flood. Staff from this divisions are being deputed to Chennai & Pondicherry from 09.12.2015. The forecast eats territorial rain during next week. Kindly postpone the CBS training to be imparted in coastal station prone to heavy rainfall. Kindly grant flood advance liberally.

Yours Sincerely
D.Theagarajan.

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Flood Advance for Tamilnadu Circle.

             The Secretary General of FNPO Shri.D.Theyagarajan appeal to DG Posts to grant Flood advance to the Staffs of flood affected division in Tamilnadu Circle. The DG readily agreed and directed the Tamilnadu CPMG to send the proposal to the Directorate. The Secretary General also further talks to Tamilnadu CPMG and requested him to expedite the submission of proposal. Now, the process is under way. 

               He also discuss with the Tamilnadu CPMG to cancel all the training programme and also to grant Spl CL to the staff's in flood affected areas like as Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kanchipuram, and Cuddalore district. The CPMG favourably assured to consider the case as per provision of the rules in this regard. 

Our sincere thanks to the Federation for the timely intervention. 

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Sale of 10 Years NSC-IX issue will be stopped from 20.12.2015

Sale of 10 Years NSC-IX issue will be stopped from 20.12.2015

 

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எடுத்த கொள்கையில் உறுதி இதுவே நமது நிலை - சம்மேளனம்

FNPO Federation's appeals to our colleagues,

                  FNPO & NFPE submitted joint Memorandum to the 7^th CPC, at this stage we cannot go back from our earlier demands, further 7^th CPC rejected our demands out right.

                  Submitting different views to 7^th CPC will helpful to Department & Government not to  staff , however we have to  submit our views according to the present scenario.

             FNPO therefore request our colleagues to send their view to our Federation before 3^rd December. time line is very short, views received after 3^rd will not be considered.

D.Theagarajan

Secretary General

FNPO. 

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e-darpan -e-news letter from CEPT

e-news letter from Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology December, 2015  

e - darpan

Helpdesk Management System (HDMS)

Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology (CEPT) launched Help Desk Management System (HDMS). HDMS is a web based tool and staff who need support and help on the software developed by CEPT can raise tickets. The HDMS site is access protected and restricted to employees of the department. The Staff who are already having access to the http://cept.gov.in can use the HDMS and register tickets. Those who are not having access can Register through http://cept.gov.in which is free. . Divisional Head, Regional Head or Circle Head can view all the tickets raised against offices under their jurisdiction. They can also issue reminder for pending tickets. To ensure better efficiency, CEPT strongly suggests not to send any emails seeking support but use the HDMS only.

Post Info

Mobile app for android phones and windows phones is developed by CEPT for the use by Citizens.

The app for Android based phones was launched on 12th May, 2015 by Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Union Minister of Communications & IT.

The Postinfo Mobile app for windows based Mobile phones was launched by Ms. Kaveri Benerjee, on 31st October, 2015.

 Employee Needs Corner (ENC)

Most of the employees who are working away from place of choice may be wishing to go back to their place of Choice The Department provides a facility of mutual transfer to help such employees. But most of the times, it is very difficult to know who is willing to go on mutual transfer to a particular place.

            In order to help employees, who are searching for an employee who is willing to facilitate a mutual transfer CEPT launched Employee Needs Corner. Employees who are registered with http://cept.gov.in can publish their needs which will be displayed in the CEPT web site. So far, 160 requests are registered.

Meet the Programmer

CEPT strongly believe that more and more interaction with the users of the

software can clear many doubts. Therefore, CEPT is holding a Video

Conference on 18th December, 2015 through which the Development team

will interact with the system administrators and IT team of the

Circles. The VC can be participated at the Circle and Regional Head Quarters.

CEPT is planning to have this PROGRAM once every month.

Items for discussion in the VC may be sent to directorcept@indiapost.gov.in

Customer care centre (CCC)

About 4,500 complaints are registered daily. The complaints are coming

through India Post web site, through CCCs and also through the CCM. About

500 complaints per day are getting closed without the intervention of CCC by the.

AUTOCLOSURE: CEPT introduced the auto closure of Complaints relating to

NON DELIVERY of articles or NON PAYMENT of e-Money orders based on the

latest data available in the server .

 Corporate Complaints Module:

CEPT observed that bulk mailers are facing problem to register complaints using the web interface as it is time consuming. Therefore, a facility to upload complaints through Excel is provided for registered customers.

Customers approved by Head of the Circle will be provided this facility by CEPT.

Bulk Closure of Complaints:

CEPT is planning shortly to release the bulk closure of complaints at CCCs.

Want to work in CEPT?

The Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology is the ideal work place if you

have aptitude and desire to be part of the IT transformation of the Department..

CEPT is looking for programmers with experience in .net, C#, web designing etc.

CEPT is also looking for Android App, IOS app developers.

CEPT have few vacancies in Help Desk and administration areas also.

If you are ready for challenging work experience you may apply at

http://cept.gov.in

Meghdooth 7.9.3 and SpeedNet 4.3

(Latest update to Meghdoot and Speed net were released on 9.10.2015)

New features in Meghdoot 7.9.3 are; Transfer of COD Parcel, automatic supply of

data to Post office to which the Hub sends the COD Parcel, Y series of Barcode

for Parcel COD, New Service Tax, closing of bags for Foreign articles to Office of

exchange.. and many more.

Read the release document for full details.

 

New features in SpeedNet 4.3;

Pincode based tariff calculation, changes in XL format for bulk upload, Range

scan removed, National Account facility, Closing of bags for Foreign articles to

Office of exchange …and many more.

Read the release document for full details

The status of upgradation can be monitored by Divisions, Regions and Circles.

Meghdoot:  https://services.cept.gov.in/Parcelnet

SpeedNet:   https://services.cept.gov.in/speednet/tools/versionreport.aspx

Technical Integration

e-Commerce: The booking information is collected electronically from the servers of the customers. The information is made available at the Booking office. After receipt of the articles, with single click the article can be booked. Information regarding booking, bagging and delivery of the articles booked by the customer are electronically transferred to the customers server. This gives great facility to customers who are sending huge volumes because they have all the information at their server.

Presently this facility is being availed for Speed Post by M/s. Amazon, M/s., Flipkart, M/s. Myntra and M/s. Yepme.

e-Payment with TNEB: Tamilnadu

Electricity Board bill payments are accepted through e- Payment. The billing

information is obtained from TNEB servers dynamically when the customer visits Post Office. The payment is accepted on the basis of information received from TNEB. The bill payment information is also transmitted to the TNEB electronically

through an automated software. This gives greater comfort to the customer and huge convenience and savings in terms of updating their records to the TNEB  

 

e-Payment with BESCOM:

In Karnataka State the Electricity bills are collected through e-payment. The data from the BESCOM servers is received on daily basis by CEPT. This updated data will be utilized by Post offices while accepting payments. The payment information is electronically transferred to BESCOM.

Useful MIS Software

Username     Password                              Web site

e-Payment               dop     ePmt              https://services.cept.gov.in/epayment/

AccountMIS           dop     accts               https://services.cept.gov.in/AccountsMIS/

ParcelNet                 dop     india               https://services.cept.gov.in/parcelnet/

Rnet                        dop     india               https://services.cept.gov.in/RNet/

SpeedNet                dop     india               https://services.cept.gov.in/Speednet/

e-Money order         dop     eMO              https://services.cept.gov.in/emo/

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Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology,

Mysore 570 010

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