INDIA POSTS TO SET UP THIRD AUTOMATED MAIL PROCESSING CENTER IN HYDERABAD

Hyderabad, April 1: India Post will set up the third Automated Mail Processing Centre in Hyderabad in the next few weeks.The Rs 60 crore centre, coming up near the international airport at hamshabad, can sort 30,000 mails every hour. This is expected to reduce time to deliver the mails. The department delivers 1.75 crores of letters, 2.7 lakhs of parcels and 1.9 crore money orders every day. The first two centers are in Delhi and Kolkata.

 

Source : http://www.thehindubusinessline.com

Cabinet likely to approve Central D.A. from January 2013

8% hike likely to be approved on 2.4.2013

Union Cabinet is likely to approve tomorrow a proposal to increase dearness allowance (DA) to 80 per cent from existing 72 per cent benefiting about 50 lakh employees and 30 lakh pensioners of the central government.

"The Union Cabinet may consider the finance ministry proposal to increase the DA by 8 per cent to 80 per cent in its meeting scheduled for tomorrow", a source said.

The hike would be effective from January 1, 2013 and the employees and pensioners would be entitled for arrears, he said.

The government had hiked DA to 72 per cent in September last year, which had come into effect from July 1, 2012.

"It is good that they are increasing DA. We demand that they should merge up to 50 per cent DA with the basic pay as per the practice and set up the seventh pay commission at the earliest", Secretary of Confederation of Central Government Employees, K K N Kutty said.

As per the practice, the DA is merged with basic pay when it breaches the 50 per cent cap. This helps employees get higher allowances as those are paid as proportion of the basic pay.

Source : Indian Express

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Dopt Clarification Orders on Joining Time Rules :

 Dopt has issued some clarifications as in the type of Questions and Answers.

Joining Time Rules 

1. Whether Joining time / Joining Time pay is admissible in case of technical resignation of a Government servant to join another Government organization? 

For appointment to posts under the Central Government on the results of a competitive examination and or interview open to Government servants and others, Central Government employees and permanent/provisionally permanent State Government employees will be entitled to joining time. 

A Government servant shall be treated on duty during the period of joining time and shall be entitled to joining time pay equal to the pay and allowances like DA, HRA, CCA, drawn before relinquishment of charge at the old post. But temporary Central Government employees with less than 3 years of regular continuous service, though entitled to joining time would not be entitled to joining time pay. {Rule 4 (4) of CCS(JT) Rules}

Dopt clarification orders on Honorarium

Honorarium 

I. Upto what amount the Head of Department can grant honorarium? 

The Ministries/Departments can grant honorarium upto Rs.5000/- per annum per employee and the Head of Department can grant honorarium upto Rs.2500/- per annum per employee. O.M. No.1711/9/85-Estt (Allowance) dated 23.12.1985 refers.

2. What are the rates of honorarium for translation work from regional language to English/Hindi and vice versa? 

The rates for translation from regional languages to English/Hindi and vice-versa is Rs.120/- per thousand words of Ordinary Material and Rs.130/- per thousand words of Technical Material (including Codes / Manuals, etc.). This is subject to a maximum of Rs.5000/- per annum in each case, whether recurring or non-recurring. O.M. No.17011/04/2011-Estt.(AL) dated 1.4.2011 refers.

Source : www.persmin.nic.in
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Old Cheque : RBI extends deadline for four more month.

RBI extends deadline for issuance of new format cheques.

RBI asked banks to issue new cheque books only under the new format and gave them time till July-end to withdraw the old format cheques.

All cheques currently with customers in the old format (non-Cheque Truncation System) will continue to be valid for another four months (the earlier deadline was March 31), the apex bank said.

TCS set to bag Rs 1,100-cr contract from India Post

The five-year deal would make TCS accountable for overall implementation of ‘India Post 2012’, an IT automation programme announced by the Department of Posts.

Mumbai, March 24:  

Tata Consultancy Services is close to bagging a Rs 1,100-crore systems integration contract from India Post as part of the latter’s drive to modernise its technology infrastructure, it is reliably learnt.

The five-year deal would make TCS accountable for overall implementation of ‘India Post 2012’, a multi-faceted IT automation programme announced by the Department of Posts (DoP) three years ago.

Consolidated instructions relating to action warranted against Government servants remaining away from duty without - authorisation/grant of leave — Rule position

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