Inspector Posts Examination 2012 postponed to 15/9/2012 and 16/9/2012.

OVER RS. 750 CR LYING IN INACTIVE POST OFFICE SAVING ACCOUNTS : GOVERNMENT.

The government today said around Rs 752 crore is lying as unclaimed deposits in more than 2.49 crore inactive savings accounts in post offices.

"Rs 752,44,57,414.03 is the amount lying in all inactive (silent) accounts as on March 31, 2011 in 2,49,59,446 accounts," Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.

West Bengal led the tally of unclaimed deposits with over Rs 107 crore lying in 20.16 lakh accounts, followed by Tamil Nadu (Rs 105.87 crore in 62.72 lakh accounts) and Uttar Pradesh (Rs 68.61 crore in 21.74 lakh accounts).

All India Postmaster Cadre Meeting at Mumbai _ Program schedule of Southern Region, TN circle

Dear Southern Region, Tamilnadu Circle Postmasters,

UNITY IS STRENGTH

                 It is proposed to hold a All India Postmaster Cadre officials Meeting at Mumbai on 01.10.2012 to save the orphaned front runners of department of posts. In the present scenario we are facing so many obstacles to survive in this cadre. As a result All the regions through out the Nation hold a regional level meet at their circles. At last by the virtue of unity and voices from all over the Nation, Now we are in vital situation to conclude everything by forming separate platform and CHQ to raise our JUSTIFIED BASIC demands to the directorate now, and to project our  Justified financial cadre betterment issues before 7th CPC. 

                     So dear Friends From Southern Region, Tamilnadu Circle all the Postmasters are invited to join in this united struggle and to make their presence at Mumbai All India meet on 01.10.12. Willing officers may kindly give their name to Shri Rajaselvam PM Grade II (Gandhinagar S.O 0452-2531207) before 27.08.12 to consolidate the Participants list and to book the collective train tickets well and advance on 29.08.2012 please. Train shall be departing from Madurai Central Junction on 29.09.12 at 1800hrs. Approximate return journey shall be started on 03.10.12 noon from Mumbai. It may reach Madurai around 05.08.12 early morning.

Utilization of Postal Network

Wage Disbursal Scheme under MGNREGS

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was notified in the remaining 274 districts of India from 1^st April, 2008. The Act is now effective in the entire rural areas of the country covering 638 districts and has been renamed “The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)”. The objective of the Act is to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

            

The scheme of disbursement of NREGS wages through post offices is operational in 19 postal Circles of the country (except Delhi, J&K and Tamilnadu Circles). Till 31^st March, 2012, 5.59 crore MGNREGS accounts have been opened in post offices and wages amounting to Rs. 7,860 crore have been disbursed to MGNREGS beneficiaries during 2011-12 through 98,491 post offices across the country.

WHY HBA IS BETTER THAN HOUSE LOAN GRANTED BY PSU BANKS?

IT IS A FACT THAT AFTER IMPLEMENTATION OF SIXTH PAY COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS HOUSE BUILDING ADVANCE (CALLED AS HBA) GRANTED BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO ITS EMPLOYEES LOST ITS CHARM AS IT IS NO LONGER A HOUSE LOAN COMMENSURATE WITH THE PRESENT COST OF CONSTRUCTION.

The very term “pay in pay band” put in the place of “Basic Pay” after 6cpc implementation has made most of the damage as it has reduced the eligible amount of HBA. Alternatively, Pay in Pay band plus Grade pay should have been taken for calculation of eligible amount of HBA, as Pay in pay band + Grade pay form the Basic Pay of an employee after 6CPC for all purposes (For example DA, HRA, NPA etc are calculated only based on pay in pay band + grade pay).

So, it is a common grievance of all Central Government Employees that HBA should be based pay in band and Grade Pay.

OUR NEW DEMAND - 5 PROMOTIONS - ALONGWITH 7TH CPC

5 PROMOTIONS

{ EDITORIAL POSTAL LIFE – AUGUST - 2012}

In 1978, while entering in its Silver Jubilee Year, the NFPTE had organised its P&T Convention at Patna. The demand of “3 Promotions at 10, 20 and 25 years” for P&T employees was coined in that National Convention. This demand was necessitated by the fact that most of the P&T employees were retiring without even getting a single promotion in their long career in those days. The Clerical employees retired without even becoming LSG and the Postmen were retiring without even promoted as Sorting Postman or Head Postman / Mail Overseer Postman, the only hierarchical promotion available at that time. After much negotiations and struggles, ultimately the Government agreed two promotions and introduced TBOP and BCR Promotions on completion of 16 and 26 years. All P&T employees were thereafter ensured of at least two promotions. But the movement had paid some price including major punishments to cadres to win the demand of two promotions.

The introduction of TBOP and BCR promotions caused the hierarchical promotion of Sorting Postman / Mail Overseer Postman etc irrelevant as most of the Postmen staff attained TBOP and BCR promotion before getting the only regular promotion available. The Department also discontinued constituting the DPC to promote Postmen staff. Similar was the case with the Group ‘D’ staff also, in whose case the promotion to Jamedar Group ‘D’ was discontinued. Even though the Department had subsequently declared unilaterally that the TBOP/BCR is not a promotion but only a scheme of financial upgradation like ACP Scheme, the regular hierarchical  promotional ladder was not restored or updated to ensure regular promotion to Postman and Group ‘D’ cadres. However, the TBOP, BCR ensured two automatic upgradations financially.

Discriminatingly during the same time, the Officialdom did not satisfy itself with the available two or three promotions in its career but went ahead with repeated cadre restructuring schemes to ensure at least five promotions for the cadre of Officers! We see that an IPS Officer entering as SSPOs [Junior Time Scale Officer] in the Postal Department is ensured of five promotions at least in his career as Senior Time Scale, DPS, PMG, Chief PMG, Board Member and Director General. In Departments like Income Tax a Class I officer who enters as  Assistant Commissioner as an IRS Officer goes ahead with the promotions like Deputy Commissioner, Joint Commissioner, Additional Commissioner, Commissioner of Income Tax, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Board Member in CBDT and Chairman of CBDT. This is the case with all departments. The Government never cared for the promotional avenues of Group C and D employees while going on improving the career advancement of top officers.

National Minimum Wages

               Since the local conditions vary widely across the States, it is not feasible to have a uniform minimum wage for the whole country. The concept of National Floor Level Minimum Wage (NFLMW) was mooted on the basis of the recommendations of the National Commission on Rural Labour (NCRL) in 1991 with a view to have a uniform wage structure and to reduce the disparity in minimum wages across the country. Keeping in view the recommendation of NCRL and taking into account the rise in price indices, the NFLMW was initially fixed at Rs.35/- per day in 1996. The same has been revised from time to time and presently it is Rs.115/- w.e.f. 1.4.2011.

              Since NFLMW is a non-statutory measure, all the States/UT Governments have been requested that in none of the scheduled employments, the minimum wages should be less than the NFLMW. At present, there is a proposal to amend the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 to make the NFLMW statutory.

               A statement showing the range of minimum rates of wages for unskilled workers state-wise as available is annexed.

MODEL QUESTION FOR IPO EXAM PAPER II

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Regulation of Courier Companies

The performance of private courier companies has not been the subject of any study by the Department of Posts. 

Department of Posts does not have any regulatory and monitoring mechanism for private courier companies and their services. 

This was stated by Shri Sachin Pilot, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology in response to a written question in Lok Sabha today. 

Source : PIB, August 22, 2012

ALL INDIA POSTMASTERS' MEET - UPDATE

DEAR POSTMASTERs,

AS DECIDED, ALL THE REGIONAL CO ORDINATORS OF MAHARASHTRA CIRCLE ARE REQUESTED TO START THE FUND COLLECTION FROM THE POSTMASTER CADRE OFFICIALS AND CREDIT THE AMOUNT IN THE SBI ACCOUNT NO : 32143498460 AS FUND TRANSFER FOR ALL INDIA POSTMASTER MEET TO BE HELD AT MUMBAI CENTRAL, NEAR TULSIWADI RTO OFFICE,MUMBAI 400 034 AT 11.00 A.M.

THE DELEGATION FEE IS FIXED RS.500/- FOR POSTMASTERS WHO ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE MEET FROM OTHER CIRCLE. THEY SHOULD CONFIRM THE NUMBER OF DELEGATES WHO ARE GOING TO ATTEND THE MEET TO RECEPTION COMMITTEE CO ORDINATOR SHRI GANESH SABLE MOB NO :9867776058.