Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Inaugurates Good Governance Week Celebrations

23 New Products Launched

Payment Bank to Begin from March 2017

A week-long celebration of Good Governance Week was organized by Department of Electronics and Information Technology starting from 25^th December 2015. A National event on Good Governance was inaugurated on 28th December 2015 by Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Hon’ble Minister of Communications & Information Technology (MoCIT) in India Habitat Centre at New Delhi.

Govt. considering gratuity for NPS subscribers

Central Govt. is considering payment of gratuity for employees who joined Central Govt. service after 31.12.2003 and covered under National Pension System (Popularly known as New Pension Scheme). Till now they are not covered under the existing gratuity scheme. Only in exceptional cases like death in service, retirement on invalidation etc., provisional gratuity is being paid vide order dated 05.05.2009 as an additional benefit.

Minister of State for Finance, Mr Jayant Sinha informed in parliament that Govt. is considering the benefit of gratuity to extend for the NPS subscribers too.

  Click here to view  the order

DPC for promotion to JTS Group A for the year 2015-16 - Update

DPC for the promotion to the cadre of Junior Time Scale (JTS) of IPoS group A for the vacancy year 2015-16 was convened for 36 vacancies (OC - 30, SC-4 and ST-2). The result of DPC is expected soon. 

Admission of children of GDS in Central Schools

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Seventh Pay Commission: Delay salary hikes, five states tell Centre

At least five fiscally-stressed states have asked the Centre to go slow on implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations, seeking extra time to be able to absorb similar pay hikes, government officials said.

Impact Of 7th Pay Commission Only 25K Crore And Not 100K Crore

There are various reports in the media about the impact of the 7th PayCommission recommendations on the common man and the government resources at large, the reports suggest that amount of ₹one lakh crores of public money has been spent for implementation of the 7th Pay Commission recommendations for 35 lakhs central Government employees, Perhaps the strongest criticism of Pay Commission awards is that they play havoc with government finances and also state government demand support to implement the 7th Pay Commission recommendations. At the aggregate level, these concerns are somewhat exaggerated and which is totally wrong.

Railways hikes tatkal ticket charges for AC, sleeper class

The government has increased the tatkal ticket booking charges by up to 33 per cent. The Indian Railways has increased the tatkal booking charges for travel in sleeper class, AC-III tier, AC-II tier and executive class and will come into effect from December 25.

Reallotments and Promotions in ASP Cadre

Circle Office Hyderabad has ordered the following Reallotments and Promotions in ASP Cadre vide CO memo dated 23-12-2015.

Click here to view CO memo dated 23-12-2015.

ADHOC Promotions to JTS Group A Cadre

Circle Office Hyderabad has ordered the following ADhoc promotions from PS Group B cadre to JTS of Group A Cadre vide CO memo dated 23-12-2015.

Click here to view CO memo dated 23-12-2015.

New Nomenclature to LDC and UDC designations in Central Govt offices

Designations like Lower Division Clerk (LDC) and Upper Division Clerk (UDC) in central government's employee hierarchy have been replaced with new nomenclature. 

The posts of UDC and LDC under Central Secretariat Clerical Service (CSCS) have been rechristened as Senior Secretariat Assistant and Junior Secretariat Assistant, respectively, an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said. 

Lok Sabha approved hike of wage ceiling for Bonus to Rs 21,000 and Bonus calculation ceiling to Rs 7,000

The Lok Sabha has approved amendments to the Payment of Bonus Act that seeks to make more workers eligible for bonus by raising the pay eligibility limit of employees to Rs 21,000 per month from Rs 10,000. 

Constitution of GDS Committee - Gazette notification

Click here to view the Gazette notification on setting up one man committee on GDS matters. Sri Kamalesh Chandra, Retired Member, Postal services Board will constitute the committee.

Seventh Pay Commission - Chairman finds discrepancy between IAS and non-IAS glaring

Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, chairman of the Seventh Pay Commission, tells ET Magazine in an exclusive interview that he was up against various demands from all the services. And that he tried hard but couldn't succeed in bringing Commission member Vivek Rae on board before recommending an end of IAS supremacy. Edited excerpts:

Review of existing provisions for filling up of vacant GDS posts [Other than GDS BPM]

Click here to view Postal Directorate order no 17-103/2007-GDS dated 17.12.2015 on the above subject matter. 

Strengthening establishment of Single Handed Branch Post Offices

Click here to view Postal Directorate order no 17-103/2007-GDS/I dated 17.12.2015 on the above subject matter.

Scheme for engagement of a dependent of deceased casual labourer engaged on or before 01.09.1993 on compassionate grounds to GDS Post

Click here to view Postal Directorate order no 17-17/2010-GDS/1 dated 17.12.2015 on the above subject matter.

Scheme for engagement of a dependent of deceased GDS on compassionate grounds - Review of existing point based system of assessing indigence

Click here to view Postal Directorate letter no 17-17/2010-GDS dated 17.12.2015 on the above subject matter.

Transfers/Postings in the Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) of IPoS, Group 'A'

Click here to view Postal Directorate order no 1-3/2015-SPG dated 18.12.2015 on the above subject matter. 

29th All India Postal Kabaddi Tournament - Tamilnadu Winner and Andhra Pradesh Runner up

 29^th All India Postal Kabaddi Tournament for the year 2015-16 was held at Postal Training Centre, Vadodara. 

First semi final match played between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and second semi final match between Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh qualified for final and in which Tamil Nadu won the match by good margin. 

Tamil Nadu Circle winning team members

                                                                         Runners-up team Andhra Pradesh Circle

Special Campaign under Swachh Bharat Mission from 18th to 27th December, 2015

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Government of India

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Department of Posts

(Estates Division)

Dated: 17^th December, 2015

To

            All Heads of Circles

Sub:     Special Campaign under Swachh Bharat Mission from 18^th to 27^th December, 2015.

Respected Sir/ Madam,

      

As you are aware, Government attaches great importance to the need for improving cleanliness including in the Government offices. Under Swachh Bharat Mission, Circles and field units have been undertaking Action Plan for furthering the cause of cleanliness. Futher, special focus needs to be given to the regular cleaning and proper upkeep of office premises, review and weeding of records and disposal of obsolete and unused items as well as repair, paining and sprucing of the street letter box and Post Office signage etc.  Digitization of records and documents would also ensure tidy workspaces.

             Now Government of India had decided to observe a Special Campaign in all Ministries/Departments from 18^th to 27^th December, 2015.  Accordingly, a day to day Action Plan for the said Special Campaign is enclosed compliance.

Bureaucratic reshuffle in 7th Central Pay Commission's implementation cell

Senior IAS officer R K Chaturvedi has been appointed as Joint Secretary in seventh Central Pay Commission's implementation cell as part of mid-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected today by the government. 

Difference between national pension system (NPS) and Atal pension Yojana (APY)

Recently Central Government launched one more pension scheme called Atal Pension Yojana. The differences between existing National Pension System  (NPS) and Atal Pension Yojana (APY) are as follows.

Mandatory use/opening of Savings Account in CBS Post Offices - Further clarifications to SB Order No. 12 and 15/2015 - SB Order No. 17/2015

Click here to view SB Order no 17/2015 on the above subject matter.

Promotion/transfers of Private Secretary (Gazetted) General Central Service, Group 'B'

Click here to view Postal Directorate order no 1O-2/2014-SPG dated 15.12.2015 on the above subject matter.

Rules regarding quoting of PAN for specified transactions is amended

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance

15-December-2015 19:59 IST

The Government is committed to curbing the circulation of black money and widening of tax base. To collect information of certain types of transactions from third parties in a non-intrusive manner, the Income-tax Rules require quoting of Permanent Account Number (PAN) where the transactions exceed a specified limit. 

            To bring a balance between burden of compliance on legitimate transactions and the need to capture information relating to transactions of higher value, the Government has also enhanced the monetary limits of certain transactions which require quoting of PAN. 

    The changes to the Rules will take effect from 1^st January, 2016.

A chart highlighting the key changes to Rule 114B of the Income-tax Act is furnished below.

Categories of staff going to be benefited from7 th CPC recommendations

7th pay commission report is being widely criticized from top to bottom and down and across yet there are categories which have been benefited. The list of benefited categories along with present grade and upgraded grade has been reproduced below:- 

Installation of ATMs at Identified Post offices - Operational Hand Book on ATM

  It  has been intimated by Postal Directorate that the concerned stake holders are actively working to complete the ATM installation process as per the DoP schedule but most of the ATM locations are not aware of the instructions relating to ATM implementation process and interim cash management process. Some of the locations are not providing the ATM fit currency notes to the AGS vendor for loading into the ATM machines for enabling the cash live. This is resulting in undue delay in completion of the ATMs rollout.     

           To make the all concerned aware of the ATM Implementation process, Directorate has ordered to   circulate the hand book  to all the P.Os where ATM are going to be installed.

Click here to view and download the Hand book on ATM. 

Attempted frauds at CBS Post offices - Preventive measures

As informed by Postal Directorate that in two CBS post offices of Delhi circle, some hand holding team members of FSI vendor had taken advantage of their familiarity with the PO staff and attempted to do some transfer transactions which were blocked by EOD blocking validation report. In both the cases, Postal staff exposed their desktops to the handholding persons after login into Finacle for the purpose of getting help in understanding some functtionalities after many days of go-live.

Postal Directorate vide its letter no 109-02/2015-SB dated 6.12.2015 has communicated the following preventive measures at all the CBS post offices to avoid any attempted fraud by such persons in the name of Postal staff.

Email Policy of Department of Posts

Click here to view the Email policy of Department of Posts (version 1.0) along with its annexures which is published for information and compliance by all the email users of DoP.

POSTInfo - Mobile App of Dept of Posts

Postinfo - is the Dept of Posts Android mobile application developed by CEPT which provides facilities like articles tracking, Post office search, Postage calculator, Insurance premium calculator, Interest calculator etc on  mobile phone itself. The size of the application is 9.1 MB and requires android 4.0 and up OS in d mobile. 

To install the improved and updated App in mobile phone, type the following URL in mobile browser and download the app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.indiapost&hl=en 

Geo tagging of Post offices through Bhuvan Indiapost App - Operating Procedure

Bhuvan IndiaPost App is a user-friendly mobile application which enables to collect and report for geo-tagged of Post Office information on various parameters such as type of post office, name, services offered, delivery status, PIN-code and address. This mobile app will provide a platform for controlled crowd sourcing to build spatial database on Bhuvan Geo-platform.

Central Govt employees submit charter of demands to Cabinet Secretary

Following demands regarding implementation of seventh CPC have been submitted to Cabinet Secretary by National Joint Council of Action of Central Govt. employees. 

In a letter it has urged for a meeting to discuss the issues raised in the charter of demand and threatens to go on indefinite strike from March 2016 if no settlement is arrived within first week of February.

Post office Savings Schemes - Gross Deposits for current fiscal sofar crossed 2.11 lakh Crores

Presently thirteen National Saving Schemes (NSS) viz Post Office Savings Accounts, Time Deposits (1 year, 2 year, 3 year and 5 years), Monthly Income Scheme, Post Office Recurring Deposit Scheme, National Savings Certificate (VIII Issue), National Savings Certificate (IX Issue) [to be discontinued with effect from 20.12.2015], Kisan Vikas Patra Scheme, Public Provident Fund Scheme, Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme and Senior Citizens Savings Schemes are under operation.

Discontinuance of NSC (IX Issue) with effect from 20.12.2015 - S B Order No. 16/2015

Click here to view SB Order  NO 16/2015 on discontinuance of NSC (IX Issue) with effect from 20.12.2015.

All Departmental Exams will be conducted Online forthwith - Directorate clarification

It was clarified by Postal Directorate that hence forth, the Departmental Examinations will be conducted online and new calendar of Examinations will be issued after the engagement  of new agency for conducting the exams online.

Copy of the said Postal Directorate  letter no A-34012/01/2015-DE dated 04.12.2015 is reproduced below.

DPC for promotion to JTS of IPoS Group A for the vacancy year 2016-17 - Nominations called for

Directorate vide letter no 4-18/2015-SPG dated 27.11.2015 has communicated the tentative zone of consideration containing list of 156 officers for JTS DPC for the vacancy year 2016-17 and asked the circles to submit the APARs etc of these 156 officers covering the period from 2009-10 to 2014-15 by the schedule date given to each circle.

10 Officers of AP circle figured in the ZoC. Time slot given for AP circle for submission of  APARs is 04.01.2015.

Click here to view the list of officers figured in the Zone of consideration and the circle wise timeslot given for submission of APARs etc to Directorate. 

Updation of Gradation Lists (Upto the Year 2000) of Inspector Posts

Click here to view the updated Gradation list of Inspector Posts up to the year 2000 communicated vide Postal Directorate letter No.9-9/2011-SPG dated 02.12.2015.

Verification of claims of candidates belonging to SCs, STs and OBCs for purpose of appointment to posts/services - Instructions

Click here to view the Dept of Personnel and Training OM no No.36011/1/2012-Estt.(Res.) dated 07.12.2015 on the above subject matter.

Engagement of a dependent of deceased GDS on compassionate grounds

A copy of Directorate clarification on the above subject matter vide letter no 17-17/2010-GDS dated 30.11.2015 is reproduced below.

DPC for promotion to JTS of IPoS Gr. A for the year 2015-16 - Update

 It was learnt that the file is still with Union Public Service Commission. Date for holding of DPC is yet to be given by UPSC.

Source : CS IP/ASP aasociation

Transfer policy relaxed for employees with disabled children

Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh yesterday (04.12.15) disclosed that the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) had relaxed the transfer policy in case of government employees who happened to be the parents or care-givers of a disabled child. As a result of this, parents of such children would be exempted from routine exercise of transfer in government service, subject to administrative constraints. 

Navi Mumbai Festival of Stamps 2015 - Nerul

L to R : Shri E. V. Rao DPS Mumbai Region, Shri Ranjeet Kumar PMG Mumbai Region, Shri A. K.Dash CPMG Maharashtra, Guest of Honour, Shri Sankha Samanta Stamp Designer and Shri Prakash Shewale SSP Navi Mumbai Division

Navi Mumbai Festival of Stamps 2015, a district-level philatelic exhibition was held at Agri Koli Sanskruti Bhavan, Palm Beach Road, Sector 24, Nerul, Navi Mumbai on 1st and 2nd December 2015. 

Release of commemorative coins on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi released the commemorative coins on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, in New Delhi on December 06, 2015. The Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information & Broadcasting, Shri Arun Jaitley and Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot are also seen.

Revised Recruitment Rules : Staff Car Drivers

Click here to view the revised Recruitment Rules for Staff car Drivers.

Post Office Inventory Project- Geo-Spatial Inventory of all Post Offices in collaboration with Department of Space

ISRO has developed a software solution to geo tag all Post Offices in the Country. The application is available for download on Bhuvan Geo Platform. The URL for the Bhuvan Geo Portal is: http://bhuvan-noeda.nrsc.gov.in/ministry/postal .

Closed Holidays and Restricted Holidays for the year 2016

Click here to view the list of closed Holidays and Restricted Holidays for the year 2016 for all Central Govt offices in Andhrapradesh and Telengana states.

Transfers and Postings in PS Group B Cadre in Hyderabad Region

PMG, Hyderabad has ordered the following transfers and postings in PS Group B cadre.

1.Smt B.Hymavathi, Asst Director I RO Hyd to be Asst Director II RO Hyd.

2Sri T.V.Ragavulu, on regular promotion to PS Group B to be SPOs  Suryapet Dn.

3. M.N.RAJU on reallotment from Maharastra circler to AP circle to be SPOs Warangal Dn.

4.Sri G.Shanmukheswararao, on regular promotion to PS Group B to be SPOs Wanaparthi Dn.

5.Sri G.Umamaheswar,on Reallotment from Postal Directorate to AP Circle,  to be SPOs Adilabad Dn.

Adhoc Promotion to PS Group B cadre - Willingness called for

Circle Office, vide letter no. ST/12-1/Ad Gr-B/2015/I dated 02.012.2015, has once again called for willingness or otherwise of the following  43 ASPOs  to consider their cases for promotion to PS Group B cadre on Adhoc basis. Willingness or otherwise to be sent  before 11.12.2015 along with copies of ACR/APAR for 5 years.