AIAPS -TN URGES THE CIRCLE ADMINISTRATION TO PROMOTE ALL THE PENDING/WITHHELD PROMOTIONS TO HAVE A SWEET 2017 NEW YEAR AHEAD

To,

          The Honorable Chief Postmaster General,

          Tamilnadu Circle,

          Chennai 600002.

Subject: Requesting immediate promotion of the Postmaster cadre officials against whom awarded with censure and completed currency period penalties – reg

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Reference 1: Tamilnadu Circle office letter no to promote the officials   REP/1-1/2008-Rulings Dated at Chennai – 600002 the 01.01.2016.

Reference 2: Recent DOPT order No .22011/4/2007-Estt. (D) Dated at New Delhi the 21^st November 2016 regarding the role of Departmental promotional committee to the effect of penalties on promotion.

Reference 3: This association letter even no AIAPS/(GL)/TNC/ dated at Chennai 600005 the 30.08.2016

Reference 4: STA/2-7/16 dated at Chennai 600002 the 31.05.2016

Reference 5:Directorate letter No. 04-43/2013-SPB-II dated at Dak Bhavan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi the 28.04.2016

Reference 6: PSS Group B promotion directorate letter No.9-14/2016-SPG – Para 5 dated 09.12.2016 at Dak Bhawan

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Respected sir,

          1. Vide Ref 1, REP/1-1/2008-Rulings Dated at Chennai – 600002 the 01.01.2016, Tamilnadu Circle office itself circulated the directorate order no.A-34020/08/2015-DE dated 10.12.2015 to follow the GOI decisions 7 and 10, for the promotions and as well as to appear in the LDCE examination where they had censure and currency period completed punishments.

Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) Public Notice regarding the mandatory requirement of Aadhaar Number in future Railway Recruitments.

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7th Pay Commission: Higher allowances to be delayed as committee gets extension till February 22

New Delhi, Dec 19: Central government employees will have to wait till February next year to get higher allowances under the 7th Pay Commission recommendations. The ‘Committee on Allowances’ has got extension till February 22, 2017 to give its report on higher allowances. The extension given to the ‘Committee on Allowances’ raises eyebrows because the panel in October said the report on higher allowances under the 7th Pay Commission recommendations is ready. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley then formed ‘Committee on Allowances’ for examination of the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission on allowances other than dearness allowance.

Restrictions on cash withdrawals may continue beyond December 30

HIGHLIGHTS

• RBI, Currency printing presses have not been able to keep pace with demand of new notes.
• Banks are not in a position to disburse even current limit of Rs 24,000 per week.
• Finance Secretary had said withdrawal cap would be will be reviewed after December 30.

NEW DELHI: Restrictions on withdrawal of cash from banks and ATMs are likely to continue beyond December 30 as currency printing presses and RBI have not been able to keep pace with the demand of new currency notes.

AIAPS - TAMILNADU WISH YOU ALL VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Announcement of new Passport Rules

• In order to streamline, liberalize and ease the process of issue of passport, the Ministry of External Affairs has taken a number of steps in the realm of passport policy which is expected to benefit the citizens of India applying for a passport. The details of these steps are given below:-
  
  PROOF OF DATE OF BIRTH
• As per the extant statutory provisions of the Passport Rules, 1980, all the applicants born on or after 26/01/1989, in order to get a passport, had to, hitherto, mandatorily submit the Birth Certificate as the proof of Date of Birth (DOB). It has now been decided that all applicants of passports can submit any one of the following documents as the proof of DOB while submitting the passport application:
  

7th CPC – Departmental Anomaly Committee Meeting

Meeting of the Departmental Anomaly Committee to discuss the anomalies arising out of the implementation of the 7th CPC in respect of Defence Civilian Employees

F.No.17(01)/2016-D(Div-I)

Government of India

Ministry of Defence

(Department of Defence)

Sena Bhawan, New Delhi,

Dated: 20 December 2016

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Meeting of the Departmental Anomaly Committee to discuss the anomalies arising out of the implementation of the 7th CPC in respect of Defence Civilian Employees

Criteria to be followed while examining the lapses of authorities exercising judicial or quasi-judicial functions

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ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF POSTAL SUPERVISORS-CWC-MISSION DIRECTORATE-MISSION CONCERNED MINISTRY- WERE HELD AT NEW DELHI FROM 14TH TO 16TH DEC 2016!!!

Dear Postal Supervisors and Postmasters,

All India Association of Postal Supervisors(AIAPS)-CWC - 14th to 16th Dec 2016 held at New Delhi

CWC was held from 14 to 16 December 2016 at New Delhi. Eleven All India Association of Postal Supervisors delegates from U.P, Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu have attended the CWC. 

          All India Vice President Smt.Savithri Venkateshan PM Grade III is preceded the CWC and our General secretary Shri.Manoj Bharadwaj APM have conducted the CWC in enthusiastic manner.

       All the attended delegates had briefly explained about the major 5 problems faced by the Postmaster cadre.

The following major problems faced by the Postmaster cadre were discussed in the CWC:

1. Higher stepped up Grade pay to PM 1/2/3/Sr.PM posts from the anomaly committee w.e.f 1.1.16.

2. Immediate implementation of Postmaster cadre restructure to enhance PM Grade 1/2/3/Sr.PM posts.

3. Immediate stopping of the Negative interpretation of PM cadre recruitment rules and allowing PM cadre officials to appear LDCE as like LSG officers.

4.Immediate amendment of PSS Group B recruitment rules to allot and enhancing PSS Group B posts to PM cadre.

5. All India PM Grade III seniority as per feeder grade seniority not as per the date of joining.

And the following remedial actions were also been discussed. 

    Till now, from the recognized forum none had represented our Postmaster cadre issues above things elaborately. So getting official meeting with the Postal directorate Administration and then to expedite the proceedings further meeting with honorable communication minister were also planned.

    As per the remedial actions derived by the AIAPS delegates, AIAPS team of 11 members had visited directorate on 15th December 2016.

Mission Directorate dated 15.12.2016

      Since we are having the recognized association banner, got the formal appointment with top level administration Member (P) Shri.Ashok Kumar Dash and have discussed about the 5 major problems gist.

  For that meeting, from the administration side Member (P), ADG(establishment), ADG(SPB) have participated and from the recognized association AIAPS staff side all the delegates have participated in that meeting. 

       Detailed memorandum on the 5 major problems faced by the Postmaster cadre officials with the remedial prayers had been submitted by hand to the Honourable Member (P) 

     Member (P) have assured to our recognized association to give the solid reply within the fortnight time

Mission-Ministry dated 16.12.2016

Encouraging usage of Debit Cards among Government employees-instructions regarding

Answer Key : LDCE PS Gr. B examination for the vacancy year 2012-13 to 2016-17 held on 18-12-2016

 ANSWER KEY FOR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 

LDCE for the promotion to the cadre of PS Gr. B for the vacancy year 2012-13 to 2016-17 held on 18-12-2016.

QUESTION BOOKLET SERIES : C

PAPER : I

Question No.	Question	Answer
101	Who was the flag bearer from India in the 2016 Rio Olympics?	A.   Abhinav Bindra
102	What is the India’s rank in the 2016 Global Innovation Index (GII)	B.   66
103	Who has been appointed as the new independent director on the board of India Post Payment Banks(IPPB)?	C.   R.S.Sodhi
104	Bishweshar Nandi, who has been chosen for the 2016 Dronacharya Award, is associated with which sports?	B. Gymnastics
105	India has recently launched Akashvani Maitree channel for the listeners from which of the following neighbouring countries?

AIAPS- CWC at NEW DELHI ON 14,15,16 DECEMBER 2016

Dear Postmasters and beloved supervisors,

            AIAPS - CWC is proposed at New Delhi from 14.12.16 to 16.12.16 to discuss about the following agendas

1. Approving the minutes of 19th All India Conference of AIAPS(GL) held at Hyderabad from 08.09.2015 to 11.09.2015

2. Problems of Postmaster cadre officials.

3. Position of amendments to the constitution of AIAPS(GL) passed during 19th AIC 

4. Adjoining the Postmaster cadre to Supervisory association

5. Regular remittance of quota money to CHQ for smooth running of association.

6. Organisational review regarding position of units and enrolment of new members etc.

7. Any other item with the permission of the chair.

           So Dear Postmasters and beloved supervisors willing officers may kindly be attended this CWC as per their own accommodation and their own leave arrangements. 

-G/S AIAPS CHQ

CWC notice of AIAPS is furnished below:

AIAPS- CWC at NEW DELHI ON 14,15,16 DECEMBER 2016

Dear Postmasters and beloved supervisors,

            AIAPS - CWC is proposed at New Delhi from 14.12.16 to 16.12.16 to discuss about the following agendas

1. Approving the minutes of 19th All India Conference of AIAPS(GL) held at Hyderabad from 08.09.2015 to 11.09.2015

2. Problems of Postmaster cadre officials.

3. Position of amendments to the constitution of AIAPS(GL) passed during 19th AIC 

4. Adjoining the Postmaster cadre to Supervisory association

5. Regular remittance of quota money to CHQ for smooth running of association.

6. Organisational review regarding position of units and enrolment of new members etc.

7. Any other item with the permission of the chair.

           So Dear Postmasters and beloved supervisors willing officers may kindly be attended this CWC as per their own accommodation and their own leave arrangements. 

-Tamilnadu AIAPS Team

CWC notice of AIAPS is furnished below:

Guidelines on treatment of effect of penalties on promotion — role of Departmental Promotion Committee

Please click here to view the DOPT order

The above order is mentioned to refer in the latest clarifications

7th CPC: Finmin gets 2 months more to issue higher allowances notification

“The October-November month is the scheduled for issuing notification for the Finance Ministry, but the time was extended by 2 months because the cash crunch on account of demonetisation, which is taking time to get normality. Therefor,unless the banks can begin to function with a modicum of efficiency, the government will not issue notification on higher allowances to save demonetisation chaos,” the official said.

From now, no OTP will be required for payments under Rs 2,000

In a move that will make it easier for cab aggregators like Uber and Ola and other online merchants to accept cards, the RBI has relaxed two-factor authentication for online payments below Rs 2,000. 

The RBI's insistence on a second factor authentication (in the form of a one-time password, or OTP) had prompted cab aggregators to tie up with digital wallets like Paytm. While customers can even now pay by card, they need to wait for a text message containing the OTP before concluding the transaction.In future, if they register with the merchant, they can complete the payment by entering a password authenticated by the card network. 

S B Order No.14 / 2016 regarding cash requirements of Post Offices

CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965 - Clarification regarding effect of warning, censure etc on promotion.

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GRANTING OF PROVISIONAL PENSION AT REVISED RATES FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNDER SUSPENSION/DEPARTMENTAL PROCEEDINGS

Withdrawal of Legal Tender from SBNs: RBI cautions against Information received on Unsecured/Unofficial Channels

In the wake of withdrawal of legal tender character from the Specified Bank Notes (SBNs), the Reserve Bank of India has, from time to time, been issuing instructions to the banks which are sent directly to banks through an official mail. These are also placed on the Reserve Bank’s official website (https://www.rbi.org.in).

It has been reported that certain guidelines/instructions purported to be issued by the Reserve Bank are being circulated in the social media by some unscrupulous elements creating confusion in the minds of the public/bank personnel.

Indian Postal Service officer under scanner for fraudulent transactions

HYDERABAD: Indian Postal Service (IPoS) officer K Sudheer Babu reportedly made fraudulent cash exchange transactions at different post offices in Greater Hyderabad, according to investigators, in fresh revelations following raids at post offices.

On interrogating Babu, the senior superintendent of post offices, Hyderabad, CBI sleuths found that in addition to exchanging 36 lakh demonetised currency in a fraudulent manner at Himayatnagar sub-post office, in cahoots with his office assistant G Ravi Teja and Himayatnagar sub-postmaster G Revathi, the IPoS officer had also exchanged lakhs of rupees of demonetised currency at other post offices in his jurisdiction.

Holiday to be observed in Administrative/Operative Offices during the year 2017 - TN Circle

Revised date for holding of PS Gr. B examination is 18-12-2016

PS Group-B Examination scheduled to be held on 04/12/2016 has been postponed

FAQ on Specified Bank Notes – Emergency needs of cash then what I should do?

I have emergency needs of cash (hospitalisation, travel, life saving medicines) then what I should do?

Till the December 15, 2016, specified banknotes of only 500 denomination can be used as under:—

PM Grade Petitioners will do the needful to re-present the case again at Supreme court if not allowed them in the upcoming PSS Group B exams!!!

Dear Postmasters,

           Because of the learned counsel's defects, supreme court case was dismissed against the plea of Postmaster Grade officials to allow them in PSS Group B exams.

            How ever petitioners will represent the case again, with another counsel soon.

Case history:

Hon'ble Madras CAT had given the verdicts favorable to the Postmaster Grade Officials to allow them to appear in PSS Group B during 2012

Hon'ble Madras High Court had given the verdicts favorable to the Department in the appeal suit during 2014.

The Case was again appealed to the Supreme court during the period of 2015, and that was not properly put forth to the supreme court by the learned counsel.

Supreme court order copy is furnished below: