Tuesday 26 May 2015
Pay fixation of direct recruit Assistants appointed after 1.1.2006-Stepping up of pay of DRs with reference to the pay of junior promotee Assistants- Clarification CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Saturday 23 May 2015
Tuesday 19 May 2015
BPAOEA HAS WON O.A. 050/00440/2014
& MA/050/00094 /2015 IN CAT PATNA ON 11-5-2015 FILED BY BPAOEA
THROUGH GENERAL SECRETARY SHRI SANJAY SINHA REGARDING GRANT OF STEPPING
OF PAY OF SENIORS ON ACCOUNT OF DRAWING LESSER PAY THAN JUNIOR DUE TO ACP BENEFITS IN LINE WITH O.A. 2124/2011 IMPLEMENTED BY DEPARTMENT .
Wednesday 13 May 2015
Postal department has decided to rope in professionals from the private sector for Post Bank of India (PBI)
As PBI is to use the department's infrastructure - real estate,
office premises, computers, information technology system and a large
part of its staff - to run the payments bank, the department expects to
earn a revenue of Rs 2,365 crore over the first five years of
operations, through transfer pricing. This will help the government
reduce the subsidy it annually gives the department for running its
operations.
The postal department's deficit for 2015-16 has been pegged at around
Rs 6,665.09 crore, according to Budget documents. This had stood at Rs
6,377.89 crore the previous year, and Rs 5,339.28 crore in 2013-14.
According to sources, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) could approve
issue of licence for this payments bank by August this year, after which
the process for setting it up might start.
Within three months of getting the licence, the department will hire
key resources like chief executive officer, chief financial officer,
chief operating officer, chief people officer and chief risk officer,
according to a presentation recently made before Communications Minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad.
This core team will take up the increased responsibility during the
first 12-18 months after approval of licence, and assume full charge
around the date of the launch. PBI is expected to become viable within
three years of operations and is projected to generate annual profits of
about Rs 91 crore by the end of five years.
The department will soon move a Cabinet note for approval of Rs 650 crore as investment in the proposed payments bank.
For PBI, the plan is to have a hub-and-spoke model. There will be 650
main branches where the department will have head or bigger post
offices. Subsequently, 25,000 'spoke' branches will be set up, while
some 130,000 post offices with act as business correspondents for the
payments bank.
The idea will be to target rural customers with products like small
savings accounts, payments/remittances services and assistance in
getting loans and insurance products from third-party institutions. For
urban customers, the products will include pre-paid wallets for easy
remittances and micro insurance products. Also, there will be an attempt
to tap micro and small businesses with their products. The focus will
be on high-volume, low-value transactions and providing small savings
accounts and payment services to migrant labour, low-income households
and the unorganised sector, according to the presentation.
The department had earlier proposed a fully-owned and new entity as
an umbrella firm for its four or five strategic business units, to look
after banking & financial services and insurance, and for offering
third-party products, besides e-commerce and management of government
services.
And, a few of these units will be hived off into separate entities; a
feasibility study for setting up new units will start sometime this
year.
The postal department has a 150,000-strong network of post offices
across the country which directly employ 500,000 people. The department
is largely moving in line with the report of a panel headed by former
Cabinet Secretary T S R Subramanian in this regard.
In the Budget speech this year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had
said the government was committed to increasing people's access to the
formal financial system. "The government proposes to utilise the vast
postal network, with nearly 154,000 points of presence across villages
of the country. I hope the postal department will make its proposed
payments bank venture successful, so that it contributes further to the
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana."
While remittance is a big segment, 55-60 per cent of this happens
through the unorganised sector. The department is looking to strengthen
its foothold in this space. Half of India's remittance market, estimated
to be worth Rs 2 lakh crore, is in the informal sector, and does not
reflect in official numbers (on remittances through India Post, mobile
wallets, etc) for want of clarity on definition of migrants.
Apart from India Post, other applicants for a payments bank licence
include Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular, Uninor and
Reliance Industries. Unlike full-fledged banks that make money on float
through arbitrage - they lend money at higher interest rates than what
they pay depositors, and do not charge on transaction services - this
proposed payments bank will charge for services, primarily cash-outs and
cash-ins. The proposed entity could deposit the amount in government
securities and earn annual interest at 8-8.5 per cent, and it might give
customers three to four per cent on the amount. However, unlike
scheduled banks, they will not be allowed to use the cash for giving
loans.
Source : http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/post-bank-to-get-professionals-from-pvt-sector-115051100059_1.html
Marriage of daughter not a bar in being considered for govt. job on compassionate grounds after the death of her father while in service: Madras High Court
Affirming a Single Judge’s ruling that that marriage alone need not
necessarily disentitle a woman from claiming a Government job, as
marriage is not a disqualification, a Division Bench of the Madras High
Court has held that married daughter of a government employee is
entitled to be considered for the job on compassionate grounds after the
death of her father while in service subject to her fulfilling two
requirements : one, she must obtain a no-objection certificate from
other siblings and; two, she and her husband must give an undertaking
that she will take care of other members of her parents’ family from her
salary.
“A married daughter is eligible for consideration, subject to
submission of no-objection certificate of other members of the
deceased’s family and also with an undertaking from her and her husband
that she will take care of other members of the parents’ family,” said a
division bench of the Court comprising of Justice Satish K Agnihotri
and Justice M Venugopal recently, while dealing with a case of one
Kayalvizhi whose father V Indarjith died while in service in the
education department under the State Government.
Kayalvizhi, who was the only daughter of Indarjith and happened to be
married by the time he died in harness, then applied for appointment on
compassionate grounds. When she was denied appointment, she approached
the High court seeking reliefs. Citing a government order governing the
issue, a single judge of the Madras High Court said she was entitled to
be considered for the job. Her marriage alone need not necessarily
disentitle her from claiming the job, as marriage is not a
disqualification, the judge said.
Assailing the order of the learned Single Judge, the Assistant
Primary Education Officer in Anthiyur in Erode district had gone in
appeal before the Division Bench.
Ruling in favour of Kayalvizhi, the Division Bench relied on an
earlier judgment of the Court in Kamatchi v. state of Tamil Nadu,
wherein it had been held that even if there are other members in the
family, the beneficiary could take a no-objection from them and stake
her/his claim for appointment under compassionate grounds, and the GO
issued by the State Government, which on its part, clearly said an NOC
from the remaining members of the family, an undertaking from the
beneficiary that he/she shall be helpful to her/his parents’ family and
an assurance from the spouse of the beneficiary that he/she shall not
cause hindrance to her/him in helping members of his/her parents’ family
in future, should be fulfilled to become eligible for appointment.
The Division Bench upheld Kayalvizhi’s rights in this regard subject
to her producing a NOC from members in her paternal family and an
undertaking from her husband, and directed the authorities to consider
her case for appointment within a period of four weeks.
Source : http://www.livelaw.in/marriage-of-daughter-not-a-bar-in-being-considered-for-govt-job-on-compassionate-grounds-after-the-death-of-her-father-while-in-
Age concession for direct recruitment to civil posts/services under the Central Government to Persons with Disabilities
Grant of age concession to the Persons with Disabilities suffering from (a) blindness or low vision, (b) hearing impairment and (c) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy for direct recruitment to civil posts/services under the Central Government.
G.I., Dept. of Per. & Trg., O.M.F.No.15012/1/2003-Estt.D, dated 12.5.2015
Subject: Grant of age concession to the Persons with Disabilities suffering from (a) blindness or low vision, (b) hearing impairment and (c) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy for direct recruitment to civil posts/services under the Central Government.
This Department intends to issue a consolidated instructions regarding grant of age concession to the Persons with Disabilities suffering from (a) blindness or low vision, (b) hearing impairment and (c) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy for direct recruitment to civil posts/services under the Central Government.
2. Before the instructions in the Draft O.M. (copy enclosed) are finalized, all stakeholders, Ministries/Departments are requested to offer their comments/views, if any, in this regard latest by 11th June, 2015 at the e Mail address dire]-dopt@nic.in.
sd/-
(Mukta Goel)
Director(E-I)
G.I., Dept. of Per. & Trg., O.M.F.No.15012/1/2003-Estt.(D), dated….
Subject: Grant of age concession to the Persons with Disabilities suffering from (a) blindness or low vision, (b) hearing impairment and (c) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy for direct recruitment to civil posts/services under the Central Government.
The undersigned is directed to say that the following age concessions have been provided to physically handicapped persons for recruitment under the Central Government:
(i) Provision of ten years concession in upper age limit for Group C and
D posts filled through employment exchanges issued vide
O.M.No.15012/6/77-Estt.(D) dated 28.1.1978;
(ii) Provision of five years’ concession in upper age limit (10 years for SC/ST, 8 years for OBC) for recruitment
to Group ‘A’ and ‘B’ posts otherwise than through Open Competitive
Examination issued vide O.M.No.15012/5/92-Estt. (D) dated 27.7.1995; and
(iii) Provision of ten years concession in upper age limit (15 years for SC/ST, 13 years for OBC) for recruitment
to Group A,B,C and D Civil Posts/Services filled through Open
Competitive Examination issued vide O.M.No.43019/28/86-Estt.(D) dated
1.2.1999.
2. The question of prescribing uniform age-concession for direct recruitment
to all Civil Posts/Services under the Central Government has since been
examined and in supersession of the OMs referred to at (I), (H) and
(iii) above the following has been decided:
(i) Age relaxation of 10 years (15 years for SC/ST and 13 years for OBC candidates) in upper age limit shall be allowed to persons suffering from (a)
blindness or low vision, (b) hearing impairment and (c) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy in case of direct recruitment
to all civil posts/services under the Central Government identified
suitable to be held by persons with such disabilities, subject to the
condition that maximum age of the applicant on the crucial date shall
not exceed 56 years.
(ii) The age concession to the persons with disabilities shall be admissible irrespective of the fact whether the post is reserved for person with disabilities
or not, provided the post is identified suitable for the relevant
category of disability. This provision will not apply to the Civil
Services Examination, in respect of which the List of Services
Identified suitable for Physically Disabled Category along with the
Physical Requirements and Functional Classifications is notified
separately.
(iii) Relaxation of age limit would be permissible to such persons who have a minimum of 40% disability.
(iv) The definitions of above categories of disabilities, for the
purpose of age relaxation, will be same as given in this Department’s
O.M. No. 36035/3/2004-Estt(Reservation) dated 29th December 2005.
(v) If a person with disability is entitled to age concession by virtue of being a Central Government employee, concession to him/her will be admissible
either as a ‘person with disability’ or as a ‘Central Government
employee’ whichever may be more beneficial to him/her. This provision
will not apply to the Civil Services Examination, which is governed by
the Civil Services Examination Rules, published annually.
(vi) Provisions of this O.M. will not be applicable to a post/service
for which other specific provision regarding age relaxation is made by
notification.
3. The Ministries/Departments are advised to ensure invariably that while sending the requisition to the UPSC/SSC and other recruitment agencies for direct recruitment posts by selection, they should clearly mention in the requisition the category of person(s) with disabilities
suitable for the post(s) in question. No change or modification in
identified post(s) for physically disabled persons with respect to an
Examination, intimated after the
Notification of that Examination, shall be acceptable.
4. These instructions come into effect from the date of their issue.
(Mukta Goel)
Director(E.I)
Source : www.persmin.gov.in
People still trust Postal department : Ravi Shankar Prasad
NEW DELHI: Underscoring the importance of India Post, Telecom
Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today claimed that even Maoists don't
target the postal network for the fear of losing people's support.
"People of the country still trust the postal department. I want to
tell you a very sensitive thing... there is so much of Maoist violence,
but still, the attacks on post is low because they (Maoists) also know
that if they try to attack it, the people will be unhappy with them,"
Prasad said during the launch of a mobile app for India Post.
The Minister suggested that India Post should strive to become the largest player in the e-commerce segment.
"I want that in e-commerce, India Post should become the largest
player and you have to do it... if you take 4 steps, I will take 10
steps with you because I am seeing that in India, e-commerce has got a
very good future," he said.
Prasad assured the staff that not even a single employee would lose his job even as he exhorted them to change with times.
The postal department has established the e-commerce centre at
Safdarjang in New Delhi which will handle e-retailing exclusively. It's
equipped with modern technology and is capable of handling 30,000
parcels per day.
Leading e-commerce players such as Amazon, Paytm, Yepme, Snapdeal and the like are already using services of India Post.
The mobile app for India Post is android-based and includes features
like real-time tracking, post office search and postage calculator.
India Post has over 1.55 lakh post offices, of which more than 1.39 lakh are in rural areas.
Prasad said in a Facebook post, "I am happy to share with you that
India Post collected Rs 500 crore from Cash on Delivery of eCommerce
parcels alone in 2014-15."
The Minister said he met the representatives of eCommerce majors and assured them of the best services from India Post.
Launching of e-commerce centre and
India Post Mobile App at New Delhi
The Union Minister for Communications & Information Technology,
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad addressing at the dedication of the e-Commerce
Centre to the Nation and launch of India Post Mobile App, in New Delhi
on May 11, 2015. The Secretary (Posts), Ms. Kavery Banerjee and other
dignitaries are also seen.
RAJYASABHA QUESTION REGARDING SSA
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF POSTS
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1450
TO BE ANSWERED ON 8TH MAY, 2015
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS FOR GIRL CHILD
1450. SHRI RAJKUMAR DHOOT:
Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:
(a) whether the Ministry proposes to open one crore savings accounts for girl child in Maharashtra and rest of the country;
(b) if so, the details thereof; and
(c) how these accounts will be beneficial to the girl child?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)
(a), (b) & (c) A new Small Savings Scheme called "Sukanya
Samriddhi Account" for the welfare of Girl Child has been launched by
Hon’ble Prime Minister on 22nd January, 2015 in Panipat, Haryana. The
account can be opened in Post Offices as well as in banks. With an aim
to spread awareness and to provide benefit of such a good scheme to more
and more number of girl child, the Department of Posts set target to
open one crore Sukanya Samriddhi Accounts in the country, including
Maharashtra. So far, more than 38 Lakhs accounts have been opened in
different Post Office. The details of the scheme and facilities provided
in these accounts which will be beneficial to the girl child are at
Annexure-I.
ANNEXURE-I
i. ‘Sukanya Samriddhi Account’ is a new Small Savings Scheme for girl child.
ii.
An account can be opened in the name of Girl Child under ‘Sukanya
Samriddhi Account’ (SSA) by Guardian/Natural Guardian. Birth certificate
of the girl child has to be produced. The depositor (parents or
guardian) has to submit his/her identity and address proofs.
iii.
A Guardian can open only one account in the name of one girl child and
maximum two accounts in the name of two different girl children. The
natural or legal guardian can open two or three accounts if twin girls
are born as second birth or triplets are born in the first birth itself.
iv.
An account under SSA can be opened up to the age of 10 years only from
the date of birth. The girl child who had attained the age of 10 years,
one year prior to the commencement of this scheme shall also eligible to
open the SSA.
v. Minimum amount for opening SSA is Rs 1000/- (subsequent deposit should be in multiple of Rs 100/-).
vi.
A minimum of one thousand rupees shall be deposited in a financial year
but the total money deposited in an account on a single occasion or on
multiple occasions shall not exceed Rs 1.5 Lakh in a financial year.
vii.
There is no limit on the number of deposits. The deposits in ‘Sukanya
Samriddhi Account’ can be made in the form of Cash or Demand Draft or
Cheque.
viii.
The interest rate for the financial year 2015-16 under ‘Sukanya
Samriddhi Account’ is 9.2%. The rate of interest is not fixed and will
be notified by the Central Government on financial yearly basis.
ix.
50% (half of the fund) of the accumulated amount in ‘Sukanya Samriddhi
Account’ can be withdrawn for girl’s higher education and marriage after
she attains 18 years of age.
x. ‘Sukanya Samriddhi Account’ can be closed after completion of 21 years.
xi.
If account is not closed after maturity, balance will continue to earn
interest as specified for the scheme from time to time.
xii.
The account can be transferred anywhere in India if the girl shifts to a
place other than city or locality where the account stands.
xiii. Investment in Sukanya Samriddhi Account has been covered under Section 80C of IT Act.
INDIAPOST TO LAUNCH E-COMMERCE CENTRE AT DELHI--- PBI NEWS
E-Commerce Centre of Post to start from Monday ( 11.5.2015)
Considering
the rapid growth of e-commerce business in the country in the recent
past, the Department of Posts, through Delhi Postal Circle has taken up a
project to establish the e-commerce Centre at Safdarjang, New
Delhi-110003.This processing centre will handle exclusively all the
e-commerce business with the state of the art technology driven facility
for quick and smooth operation starting from booking till dispatch from
the centre.
The Centre is equipped with modern technology and newly introduced
conveyor belt where parcels get sorted with the help of conveyor belt.
As a result, the e-Commerce Centre is now capable of handling 30000
parcels/articles per day. The parcels are collected from the e-commerce
customers, processed & dispatched within 24 hours to respective
destination through quickest available flight/train, as the case may be.
The leading e-commerce customers, viz., Amazon, Paytm, Yepme, Snapdeal,
etc are already availing the benefits of fast, reliable and safe
processing of their e-commerce parcels at the newly established
e-commerce Centre at Safdarjang in New Delhi.
The e-commerce Centre at Safdarjang, New Delhi -110003 is to be
dedicated to the Nation by Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Minister of
Communications & Information Technology on 11th May 2015
India Post Mobile App is also launched by the Hon’ble Minister of
Communications & Information Technology on the occasion. .This is an
android based application developed by Centre for Excellence in Postal
Technology (CEPT), Mysore. The application includes features like real
time tracking of accountable articles, Post Office search, Postage
calculator, etc through Mobile Phone.
भारतीय डाक विभाग खोलेगा ई-कॉमर्स सेंटर
नई दिल्ली। भारत में ऑनलाइन शापिंग के बढ़ते रुझान का उठाने के लिए भारतीय डाक विभाग सोमवार से दिल्ली में अपना ई-कामर्स केंद्र शुरू करने जा रही है।
[ शुक्रवार को विभाग द्वारा जारी एक आधिकारिक बयान में कहा गया, ‘हाल के समय में देश में ई-कामर्स क्षेत्र में हुई तेज वृद्धि को देखते हुए डाक विभाग नेदिल्ली डाक सर्किल के जरिये सफदरजंग, नयी दिल्ली में ई-कामर्स परियोजना स्थापित की है।’ यह प्रोसेसिंग केंद्र विशिष्ट रूप से सभी ई-कामर्स कारोबार को देखेगा।
बयान में कहा गया है कि संचार एवं सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी मंत्री रविशंकर प्रसाद 11 मई, 2015 को सफदरजंग में ई-कामर्स केंद्र को राष्ट्र को समर्पित करेंगे।
यह केंद्र प्रतिदिन 30,000 पार्सलों की देखरेख करने में सक्षम होगा। ई-कामर्स ग्राहकों से ये पार्सल जुटाए जाएंगे और इन्हें 24 घंटे में संभावित गंतव्य के लिएभेज दिया जाएगा।
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)